Agenda

AGENDA ANNOUNCED SOON!

8.45 – 8.55am
Welcome
MC Extraordinaire: Adam Spencer, Media Provocateur, Math Genius, TED Speaker, Author
8.55am – 9.25am
THE CHIEFS: CXO Leaders Panel
  • The Ultimate Disruptor – how top Chiefs are determining their AI strategies, and reaping the rewards
  • The Criteria – how to extract value from data to leverage AI-powered business opportunities
  • The Agile Mind – the must-have qualities of innovative CXOs to ‘keep up’ in an AI World
  • The 4th Industrial Revolution – educating and upskilling a future AI workforce
Panellists:
  • Tim Hogarth, Chief Technology Officer, ANZ Bank
  • Christina Igasto, Chief Digital Officer, Service NSW
  • Jeremy Hubbard, Chief Data and Technology Officer, Rest
  • Brett Wilson, Chief Information Officer, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • Adin Alihodzic, Group General Manager - Data & Analytics, MA Financial Group
9.25am – 9.45am
Keynote Address: Westpac’s AI Journey — From Vision to Value
David Walker, Group Chief Technology Officer, Westpac Group
9.45am – 10.00am
Fireside Chat: Innovation on Your Terms — Rewriting the Rules of IT Value
Jagdeep Singh, Chief Technology Officer, Rimini Street
10.00am – 10.15am
Fireside Chat: AI… What Everyone Should Be Talking About, But Very Few People Are!
Richard Davies, Regional Lead ANZ, Airia & Craig Templeton,Chief Technology Officer, Reece Group
10.15am – 10.30am
Fireside Chat: Artificial Intelligence — Turning Risk Management into Strategic Value
Chelsea Gordon, Legal Lead - AI Advisory Team, MinterEllison and Leonie Valentine, Chair, AOMedia, former Chief AI Officer at Regional AI Network & former Managing Director Google Melbourne, former EGM Australia Post & former Director Marketing, Telstra
10.30am – 11.15am
Morning Tea
11.15am – 11.40am
Fireside Chat: Leveraging AI in Film – How Dell & KMM Supercharged Furiosa
Yan Chen, Chief Executive Officer, Aurora AI, Studio Architect, Kennedy Miller Mitchell (KMM) & Michael Cole, Director, Dell Technologies
11.40am – 12.15pm
THE STAND-OUTS: Best Use Cases Panel
  • Agentic AI and Synthetic Data – the latest trends and success stories to draw inspiration from
  • Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff – the criteria for choosing an LLM
  • The Culture Imperative – top strategies to create a culture of innovation to embrace AI’s opportunities
  • 2030 – the key innovations that are shaping the next wave of Gen AI and LLMs in the enterprise
Panellists:
  • Nirvana Luckraj, Chief Medical Officer, Healthdirect
  • Brendan Hopper, Chief Information Officer for Technology, Commonwealth Bank
  • Bijal Sejpal, Chief Operating Officer Technology, Bupa
  • Lee Hickin, Executive Director, National AI Centre
  • Thuy Lam, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Blackbook.AI
12.15pm – 12.30pm
Fireside Chat: AI, Data Security, and the Decisions That Define Trust
Cory Hawkvelt, Chief Product & Technology Officer, NexGen Cloud & Joe Hassell, Senior Director- APJC, WEKA
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm – 2.00pm
THE ACCELERATORS: The Data Readiness Panel
  • Igniting Data Governance – tactics to embed responsible data practices and foster trust as AI adoption expands
  • Rethinking Retention for AI – smarter ways to manage data lifecycles while staying compliant, auditable, and AI-ready
  • Activating the AI Workforce – equipping teams to harness Gen AI—and motivating those outside the AI loop
  • Lead by Example – why respect for data governance and accepting accountability needs to come from the top
Panellists:
  • Joanna Gurry, Executive Data Platforms, National Australia Bank
  • Pooyan Asgari, Chief Data Officer, Domain
  • Imma Chippendale, Senior Strategic Advisor, Data, ACCC
  • Dan McMahon, Executive Director – APAC Client Solutions & GTM, Avanade Australia
2.00pm – 2.15pm
Fireside Chat: The Agentic Edge – Automation, AI, and the Future of Work
Chris Ellis, APAC Solutions Engineering Director, Nintex
2.15pm – 2.30pm
Fireside Chat: AI vs AI – Battling Fraud in the Age of Intelligent Threats
James Roberts, General Manager, Group Fraud Management Services, Commonwealth Bank
2.30pm – 2.35pm
Beach balls, mystery prizes and your chance to win
2.35pm – 2.50pm
Fireside Chat: Charting the Map to 2026: Turning AI Disruption into Agentic ROI
Peter Graves, Area Vice President, Australia & New Zealand, UiPath
2.50pm – 3.05pm
Fireside Chat: Searching for Success: How Elastic, Google Cloud & SCA scaled the LiSTNR Experience
Jeremy Pell, Country Manager - AVP, Elastic & Matt Carpenter, Head of Customer Engineering, Telecommunications & Financial Services, Google Cloud ANZ
3.05pm – 3.55pm
INDUSTRY VOICE: Audience Questions Answered
Pose your burning questions on the future of AI on the registration form, and have them answered live from the industry experts in this dynamic Q&A session
Panellists:
  • Artak Amirbekyan, Chief Data Officer, EBOS Group
  • Daniel Apps, Head of Solution Architecture, ResetData
  • Chaitanya Kuber, Chief Technology Officer, Airtasker
  • Álvaro Colon, Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Wisr
4.00pm
Prizes Giveaway, Canapes, Music & Networking!
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