Agenda

AGENDA ANNOUNCED SOON!

9.00am – 9.05am
Welcome
MC Extraordinaire: Adam Spencer, Math Genius, TED Speaker, Author
9.05am – 9.45am
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:
  • Daniel Evans, Chief Information Officer, Rio Tinto
  • Jelena Nikolic, Chief Digital Officer, Department of Sport, Racing, Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  • Rob Wilson, Group Chief Technology Officer, Bank of Queensland (BOQ)
  • Anuj Anand, Chief Information Officer, Ausenco
  • Matt Neubauer, Chief Information Officer, Morgans Financial
9.45am - 10.05am
Keynote Address: Guidance, Guardrails and Governance — Redefining Transformation with AI 
Leonie Valentine, CEO & Co-founder, CX Guardian AI (former Chief AI Officer at Regional AI Network & former Managing Director Google Melbourne, former EGM Australia Post & former Director Marketing,Telstra)
10.05am - 10.20am
Fireside Chat: Unlocking Efficiency in the AI-Driven Era
Chris Ellis, Director, Solution Engineering, Nintex
10.20am – 10.35am
Fireside Chat: Unlock Hyper-Productivity & Business Value with AI Agents
David Irecki, Chief Technology Officer, APJ, Boomi & Nikolai Blackie, Principal Architect & Co-Founder, Adaptiv
10.35am - 11.15am
Morning Tea
11.15am - 11.30am
Keynote Address: Navigating the Era of AI Agents and Automated Decision-Making
Stefan Hajkowicz, Chief Research Consultant, CSIRO
11.30am - 11.45am
Fireside Chat: Breaking the Innovation Bottleneck: Accelerating Enterprise Agility with AI and Low-Code
Lee Naidoo, Head Solution Architecture, OutSystems
11.45am – 12.15pm
THE CYBER CREW: AI + Security Panel
  • AI-Powered Cyber – the latest on how machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) is detecting data breaches
  • AI vs. AI – the tactics used by attackers to compromise AI models and the countermeasures to mitigate these risks
  • Security & GenAI – how future-ready organisations are contending with automated content generation
  • Responsible AI – the ethical fundamentals and risk frameworks to applying AI to customer data
Panellists:
  • Sanja Marais, Chief Technology and Security Officer, Aspen Medical
  • Mikhail Lopushanski, former CISO, People First Bank
  • Ashley Diffey, Vice President ANZ, Ping Identity
12.15pm – 12.30pm
Fireside Chat: Lessons Learned – Key Findings from Fed Gov’s GenAI Trial
Chris Fechner, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Transformation Agency
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm – 2.15pm
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:
  • Feiselia Tan,General Manager Data & AI Solutions, Telstra
  • Olivier Salvado, Professor of AI, Queensland University of Technology
  • Thuy Lam, CEO & Founder, Blackbook.AI
2.15pm – 2.45pm
THE INNOVATORS: The Next Big Things
  • The inspirational start-ups and cutting-edge breakthroughs in AI
  • The Perfect Pitch – what large enterprises can learn from start-ups to get the Board ‘on board’
  • Off the Blocks – how to identify the business functions that would benefit the most from AI
  • AI @ Scale – how to manage rapid growth and kickstart scaling AI
Panellists:
  • Emma McCudden, Head of Innovation, Suncorp Group
  • Cori Stewart, Founder & CEO, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub
  • Conor O’Neill, Head of Data Science, Compare the Market
  • Richard Davies,Regional Lead ANZ, Airia
2.45 – 3.00pm
Fireside Chat: How AI is Revolutionising CX for Travel – A Flight Centre Case Study
Adrian Lopez Villa, Head of AI - Corporate, Flight Centre Travel Group (Greece)
3.00pm – 3.30pm
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.
  • Jakob Højgaard, Chief Information Officer, LMG
  • Matt Keays, Chief Information Officer, Michael Hill
  • Andrew Burnet, Chief Technology Officer, Queensland University of Technology
3.30pm
Prizes Giveaway, Canapes, Music & Networking!
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