MC Extraordinaire: Adam Spencer,
Math Genius, TED Speaker, Author
9:10am - 9:30am
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 and MD at leading companies inc. Google, Aus Post & Telstra)
9:30am - 9:45am
Fireside Chat with...an Industry CXO
9.45am – 10.15am
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
Rebecca Stephens, Chief Transformation Officer, Auswide Bank
Rob Wilson, Group Chief Technology Officer, Bank of Queensland (BOQ)
10.15am – 10.30am
Keynote Address
10.30am - 11.15am
Morning Tea
11.00am - 11.15am
Fireside chat with...an industry CXO
11.15am - 11.30am
Keynote Address
Stefan Hajkowicz, Chief Research
Consultant, CSIRO
11.30am - 11.45am
Keynote...an Industry CXO
11.45am – 12.30pm
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:
Olivier Salvado, Professor of AI, Queensland University of Technology
Jelena Nikolic, Chief Digital Officer, Department of Sport, Racing, Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Damian Fitzgibbon, Executive Enterprise Digital Platforms, NAB
Thuy Lam, CEO & Founder, Blackbook.AI
12.30pm – 12.45pm
Fireside chat with...an industry CXO
12.45pm – 1.45pm
Lunch
1.45pm – 2.00pm
Fireside Chat: When the Pilot Fails – Lessons Learned
Chris Fechner, Chief Executive Officer,
Digital Transformation Agency
2.00pm – 2.30pm
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
Chris Malcolm, Chief Data Officer, P&N Bank
Mikhail Lopushanski, CISO, People First Bank
2.30 – 2.45pm
Fireside Chat
Adrian Lopez Villa, Head of AI - Corporate, Flight Centre Travel Group (Greece)
2.45pm – 3.15pm
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
Nathan Bines, Executive Director Data and AI, Queensland Customer and Digital Group
Conor O’Neill, Head of Data Science, Compare the Market
3.15pm – 3.45pm
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
Simon Bush, Chief Executive Officer, AIIA
Andrew Burnet, Chief Technology Officer, Queensland University of Technology