Agenda
AGENDA ANNOUNCED SOON!
8.45 - 8.55am
Welcome
MC Extraordinaire: Adam Spencer, Media Provocateur, Ted Speaker
8.55am - 9.15am
Keynote Address:
David Walker, Group Chief Technology Officer, Westpac Group
9.15am - 9.30am
Keynote Address: Cisco
9.30am – 10.00am
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:
- Michelle Fitzgerald, Group Chief Digital Officer, St Vincent's Health Australia
- Matthias Hansen, Group Chief Technology Officer, Domino's Pizza Enterprises
- Priyanka Paranagama, Chief Technology Officer & EGM, AI Transformation, Suncorp Group
- Adam Carthew, Chief Information Officer, Service Victoria
10.00am – 10.15am
Fireside Chat: Rimini Street
10.15am - 11.00am
Morning Tea
11.00am - 11.15am
Keynote Address: SAS
11.15am - 11.30am
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 & former Managing Director Google Melbourne, former EGM Australia Post & former Director Marketing,Telstra)
11.30am - 11.45am
Fireside Chat: AIRIA
11.45am – 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:
- Martin Granell, Domain Lead - Generative AI, Commonwealth Bank (CBA)
- Antony Ugoni, Chief Data Scientist, HCF
- Amanda Fleming, Chief Digital and Transformation Officer, Viva Energy Australia
12.15pm – 12.30pm
Fireside Chat: Outsystems
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm – 1.50pm
Fireside Chat: AI-Powered Cyber - Protecting Your Organisation from Cyber Attacks in 2025 & Beyond
- Dr Greg Adamson, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Transport Victoria
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Shannon Jurkovic, Chief Information Security Officer, Australian Retirement Trust
1.50pm – 2.20pm
THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT WORK PANEL: Scaling Automation Across the Enterprise
- The AI, Machine Learning, LLMs and Computer Vision that are enhancing Robotic Process Automation and enabling intelligent decision-making at scale
- Innovation with Automation – how leading organisations are moving to enterprise-wide automation using Process Mining, Task Mining, and Automation Hub
- Scalable and Secure – best practice for managing AI-powered automations across hybrid IT environments
- The Next Wave – how GenAI, autonomous agents, and hyper automation will reshape enterprise strategy over the next 3 - 5 years
- Annie South, Executive, Data and Artificial Intelligence Management,Telstra
- Maruf Hossain, Vice President of Data Science & AI, Home Loans & Intelligent Automation, ANZ
- Craig Rowlands, General Manager Enterprise Data, Australian Unity
2.20pm – 2.35pm
Fireside Chat: Lessons Learned – Key Findings from Fed Gov’s GenAI Trial
Chris Fechner, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Transformation Agency
2.35pm – 3.05pm
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:
- Su Jella, Director Data & Insights,Tennis Australia
- Douglas English, Founder & CTO, Culture AMP
- Eloise Leaver, Executive, National AI Centre
3.05pm – 4.00pm
THE VOICE: Peer-to-Peer Interactive
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in an interactive discussion with your peers! Submit your pressing topic on the registration form, and the key issues will be discussed by our leaders panel AND the industry leaders attending. Engage, share, network and leave with fresh insights to apply in your organisation.
Panellists:
- Noel Toal, CIO, DPV Health
- Andre Bertrand, CISO, Transurban
- Sinan Erbay, CIO, RMIT University
- Simon Bush, CEO, AIIA
4.00pm
Prizes Giveaway, Canapes, Music & Networking!