Agenda

AGENDA ANNOUNCED SOON!

8.45am – 8.55am
Welcome
MC Extraordinaire: Adam Spencer, Media Provocateur, Ted Speaker
8.55am – 9.25am
THE CHIEFS: CXO Leaders Panel
Panellists:
9.25am – 9.40am
Keynote Address: Reduce the Risk of AI Investments with AI Defence
David Siroky, Chief Technology Officer - AI, Cisco
9.40am – 10.00am
Keynote Address: Westpac’s AI Journey – From Vision to Value
David Walker, Group Chief Technology Officer, Westpac Group
10.00am – 10.15am
Fireside Chat: Innovation on Your Terms — Rewriting the Rules of IT Value
Joe Locandro, Executive Vice President & Global Chief Information Officer, Rimini Street
10.15am – 10.30am
Fireside Chat: Driving Process Efficiencies and Improving Customer Experience Leveraging AI
Angelo Joseph, Head of ANZ Cloud Engineering, Oracle
Samir Shah, ICT Business Service Executive, Rinnai Australia
10.30am – 11.15am
Morning Tea
11.15am – 11.30am
Keynote Address: Harnessing Agentic AI to Accelerate Productivity and Performance
Jonathan Butow, Head of AI & Innovation, SAS
11.30am – 11.45am
Fireside Chat: Beyond the Buzz: Real AI Lessons, Risks & Lean Solutions
Richard Davies, Regional Lead, ANZ, Airia
Surge Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, Locumate.ai
11.45am – 12.15pm
THE STAND-OUTS: Best Use Cases Panel
Panellists:
12.15pm – 12.30pm
Fireside Chat: Agentic AI in Action — Supercharging Enterprise Agility
Lee Naidoo, Head of Solution Architecture, Outsystems
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm – 2.00pm
THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT WORK PANEL: Scaling Automation Across the Enterprise
2.00pm – 2.15pm
Fireside Chat: AI-Powered Cyber — Protecting Your Organisation from Cyber Attacks in 2025 & Beyond
2.15pm – 2.45pm
THE INNOVATORS: The Next Big Things
Panellists:
2.45pm – 2.50pm
Beach balls, mystery prizes and your chance to win
2.50pm – 3.05pm
Fireside Chat: Unlock Hyper-Productivity & Business Value with AI Agents
David Irecki, Chief Technology Officer, APJ, Boomi & Nikolai Blackie, Principal Architect & Co-Founder, Adaptiv
3.05pm – 3.20pm
Fireside Chat: Empowering the AI-Ready Workforce: Strategies for Scalable Upskilling
Peter Kokkinos,Vice President & Managing Director, Udemy
3.20pm – 3.50pm
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:
3.50pm – 4.10pm
Closing Keynote Address: Guidance, Guardrails and Governance — Redefining Transformation with AI 
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)
4.10pm
Prizes Giveaway, Canapes, Music & Networking!
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