Agenda

9.00 - 9.05am
Welcome
MC Extraordinaire: Adam Spencer, Media Provocateur, Math Geek
9.05 - 9.20am
Keynote Address: AI: Our Co-Pilot in a Complex World
Stela Solar, Director, National Artificial Intelligence Centre, CSIRO
9.20 - 9.35am
Fireside Chat with ...
Aruna Kolluru, Chief Technologist, Artificial Intelligence, Dell Technologies
9:35 - 10:15am
THE CHIEFS: CXO Leaders Panel
  • Chief Information Officer, Chief Data Scientist or Chief Analtyics Officer: who will own the AI agenda?
  • Measure AI's Success: a board's perspective
  • Future Ready: what are the jobs that do not exist yet?
  • What's Next: How global events will accelerate AI adoption; and which emerging technologies will transform the world's economy by 2025?
Panellists:
  • John Sutherland, Chief Information Officer, HammondCare
  • Annie South, Chief Data & AI Officer, Telstra
  • Angela Donohoe, Group Chief Information Officer, NSW Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade
  • Tim Hogarth, Chief Technology Officer, ANZ
  • David Siroky, General Manager AI, Data Analytics & HPC, Asia Pacific & Japan, Dell Technologies
10:15 - 10:30am
Fireside Chat with ...
The Hon Victor Dominello, Minister for Digital & Minister for Customer Service, NSW Government
10:30 - 11.00am
Morning Tea
11:00 - 11.01am
1 minute silence for Remembrance Day
11:01 - 11.15am
Keynote Address: Path to Scaled AI Operation – Business Alignment and Cost Efficiency
Pooyan Asgari, Chief Data Officer, Domain Group
11:15 - 11.30am
Fireside Chat with ...
Heidi Badgery, Managing Director, Alteryx ANZ and Justin Cunneen, Manager Analytics Engineering, IAG
11.30 - 12.15pm
THE STAND-OUTS: Best Use Cases Panel
  • Phenomenal case-studies and success stories to draw inspiration from
  • How AI, ML and other emerging tech is opening new competitive opportunities and revenue streams
  • What tech should CXOs invest in to progress their AI journey?
  • How to measure success: the metrics that matter in the digital age
  • 2030: the next wave of AI and how CXOs can navigate the new dawn of digital transformation
Panellists:
  • Nick Dean, Head of Technology Strategy & Transformation, Westpac
  • Sharmila Tsourdalakis, Chief Innovation, Marketing & Technology Officer, Stockland
  • Mel Faeghy, Director Digital Services, Service NSW
  • Natalie Piucco, CTO Office, Google Cloud Engineering, APAC
12.15 - 12.30pm
Keynote Address: The Era of Modern Work
Cameron Pitt, Partner, Consulting, Deloitte
12.30 - 12.45pm
Fireside Chat with ...
Luke McCormack, Head of APJ, Unqork
12.45 - 2.00pm
Lunch
2.00 - 2.15pm
Fireside Chat with...
Ed Knott, Area Vice President, Docusign ANZ and Tim Roberts, Executive Manager Digitisation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
2.15 - 3.00pm
THE CHANGE MAKERS: The Future of Work Panel
  • The standout companies that are embracing the future of work, today!
  • How will future hybrid workforces shift CIO priorities?
  • How AI and emerging tech will maintain mental wellness in the workforce, while driving optimal productivity
  • From the front lines: the skills required to support the emergence of AI in the workforce
  • The next wave: how the metaverse will impact the future workforce
Panellists:
  • Nicole Reid, Chief People Officer, Xero
  • Patricia Haueiss, Chief Metaverse Officer, Web3Academy
  • Probir Dutt, Automation Evangelist, IAG
  • Brendan Hopper, Chief Information Officer, Technology, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  • James Kershaw, ANZ Chief Architect, Juniper Networks
3:00 - 3.15pm
Fireside Chat with ...
Adam Spencer and Richard Heeley, Chief Information Officer, Macquarie Bank (BFS) and Katrina Troughton, Managing Director, IBM Australia and New Zealand
3.15 - 3.45pm
Afternoon Tea
3:45 - 4.00pm
Keynote Address: Becoming an AI First Organisation
Dan Jermyn, Chief Decision Scientist, Commonwealth Bank
4.00 - 4.45pm
THE BRAINS TRUST: The Ethical Panel
  • The ethical implications of AI and why we need to get the 'means to an end' right, now!
  • Why uncovering bias and 'techno chauvinism' is critical to enabling success
  • Answering the big questions on autonomy, intent, privacy, safety, security, surveillance, trust and regulation!
  • The buck stops with. ... the key stakeholders who need to sit at the 'ethics in AI' table
  • Ethics Agenda 2.0: how to future-proof a unique code of conduct that ties back to your organisation's value
Panellists:
  • Prof. Kim Weatherall, Professor of Law, The University of Sydney; Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making and Society
  • Aurelie Jacquet, Chair Artificial Intelligence Standards, Standards Australia; and Lead, Artificial Intelligence at Scale Think Tank, National AI Centre, Data 61
  • Joanna Gurry, Executive Director Data, National Australia Bank
  • Vahid Behbood, Principal Data Scientist, Domain
  • Jim Edwards, AI and IOT Lead, Director Data and AI, Avanade
Moderator: Adam Spencer
4.45 - 6:30pm
Networking Drinks & Canapes