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ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series

Featuring Australian industry leaders sharing their technical expertise and insights on the latest disruption, innovations and step change solutions that are changing the Australian tech sector

Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and technical insights

The Industry Insights series has been a highly valued feature of the ACS event calendar for a number of years, previously featuring well known Australian technology leaders such as Michael Malone, Richard White and Sarah Adam-Gedge. With insights drawn from a diverse range of industries and sectors, these events have already provided many thousands of Australian tech professionals with a glimpse of what it takes to be a leader in today's technology environment.

The COVID-19 crisis is requiring individuals and organisations to rapidly adapt and evolve, and ACS remains committed to providing our members with premium events and top-quality content via our Industry Insights Leaders Series online events, that will enable them to continue their professional development and ready themselves to help drive the economic recovery post COVID-19. The series focuses on the technical advice, experiences, and insights that only leading tech professionals can provide, and which will prove to be a vital step towards a successful technology career.

 

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Past Events

 

ACS Industry Insights | Michael Malone

ACS CEO, Andrew Johnson has an in-depth conversation with a genuine pioneer of the internet in Australia, Michael Malone in the first episode of the Industry Insights series.

ACS Industry Insights | Karen Borg

Karen Borg, CEO of Jobs for NSW reflects on her experience in international leadership and business transformation for mature and emerging markets in our second episode of Industry Insights.

ACS Industry Insights | Robert Hillard

Robert Hillard has contributed to ICT for more than 25 years. Now Managing Partner of Consulting at Deloitte Australia, an organisation of more that 2,500 professionals.

ACS Industry Insights | Caroline Buchanan

ACS Millennial Ambassador, Caroline Buchanan - Olympian, world-champion BMX rider, social media influencer and digital producer discusses embracing cutting-edge technology.

 

ACS Industry Insights | Richard White

Learn from Richard White's experience building a global software firm and category leader within the logistics industry which has a market capitalisation of $3 billion.

ACS Industry Insights | Peter James

Gain insights from Peter James' executive and board experience across emerging tech, digital disruption, ecommerce and media with a focus on building high performance, customer-focused teams.

ACS Industry Insights | Sarah Adam-Gedge

Watch and learn as Sarah Adam-Gedge, Managing Director of Avanade Australia shares insights on building a knowledge economy and the underlying drivers of a great customer experience.

ACS Industry Insights | John Banks

Watch and learn as John Banks, Business Unit Director at Micro Focus, shares industry insights on executing organisational services at high velocity in a continuously trending ICT market.

 

ACS Industry Insights | Simon Moorfield

Hear Simon Moorfield, Executive General Manager Information Systems and Technology at AGL share industry insights on digital strategy, the future of tech firms and why diversity brings perspective.

ACS Industry Insights | Kumar Parakala

Learn from Kumar Parakala, Global Digital Leader at GHD. Kumar’s team consults on digital strategy and transformation, smart technology services, cybersecurity and risk and data and analytics.

ACS Industry Insights | Ajay Bhatia

Learn from Ajay Bhatia, Managing Director of Consumer Business at Carsales.com. How his team is strengthening their market position with advances in data science and artificial intelligence.

ACS Industry Insights | Michael Priddis

Learn from Mike Priddis, the CEO and founder of Faethm, a fast-growth scale up SaaS AI platform that is the world's data source for the Evolution of Work.

 

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Sam Mostyn

30th Apr 2020 - Sam Mostyn is a non-executive director and sustainability adviser, with a long history of sports governance.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Stevan Premutico

7th May 2020 - One of Australia’s leading tech entrepreneurs, in the middle of the GFC Stevan conceptualised Dimmi on the back of a napkin and went on to revolutionise the Aussie restaurant industry.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Matt Pancino

14th May 2020 - Former CTO of CBA Matt Pancino will be discussing the state of play of the financial sector and its use of cloud technologies.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Rod van Onselen

21st May 2020 - Rod is the Chief Transformation & Digital Officer at Origin Energy who is responsible for transforming Origin into a global leader in digital energy retailing.

 

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Steve Vamos

4th Jun 2020 - Steve is the CEO of ASX-listed tech giant Xero, where he leads the business’s growth and performance.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Adam Schuck

18th Jun 2020 - Hear from Canva's Director of Engineering Adam Schuck as he uncovers lessons learned and shares actionable insights on how best to work in a distributed team.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Bob Hennessy

25th Jun 2020 - CIO Bob Hennessy will cover how Lendlease is focused on leveraging emerging technologies to unlock value for their customers, industry, environment and community.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Philip Argy, Edward Mandla

2nd Jul 2020 - Philip Argy, Consulting Principal at Keypoint Law and Edward Mandla, General Manager, Mandlason Search will discuss the role of the startup ecosystem in Australia’s recovery post COVID-19.

 

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Wayne Baskin

9th Jul 2020 - Wayne Baskin, Chief Technology Officer, Booktopia will present the journey of a $130 million online business, using data and focusing on customers.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Sarah McCullough

16th Jul 2020 - Essential Energy's Chief Information Officer Sarah McCullough shares her mentorship methods, experience in cyber security and vision of the ICT Industry.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | David Thodey

23rd Jul 2020 - David Thodey will explain how to create innovation as a way of behaving within a large corporation laying bare the positives and negatives of the process from idea to product.

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Mikaela Jade

30th Jul 2020 - Mikaela Jade, Founder of Indigital, will share her insights on how to provide a meaningful pathway for Indigenous people into the digital economy and how to move the needle on diversity.

 

ACS Industry Insights Leaders Series | Ajay Bhatia

24th Sep 2020 - Ajay Bhatia, Managing Director, Carsales Australia, will expand on his learnings on how businesses can foster innovation through effective management in a time of disruption.

ACS Industry Insights | Dan Chesterman

Hear from Dan Chesterman, CIO, ASX as he provides insights about shaping the economy through digital transformation from his experiences with building and transforming teams.

ACS Industry Insights | Looking to the future with Smart Cities

Hear from our panel of experts as they discuss what is required to create a smart city and place.

ACS Industry Insights | Ethics in AI and what this means for the future of innovation

Join our panel of experts as they discuss the importance of correct governance and ethics in AI.

 

 

People to Data and Everything in Between

Join us for a fireside chat with Craig Penfold, CTO, Rome2Rio, discussing how to lead a culture of innovation with data.

Rethinking Technical Leadership to Drive the Digital Transformation Excellence

Angela Coble will be joined by Dr Ian Oppermann, to share insights from world-first research into the leadership requirements of the future.

Finding the commercial value of your data

Jonathan Rubensztein, CEO & Managing Director, Infomedia will deep dive into commercialisation of data while sharing his experience from Infomedia.

Checking the pulse of your company through digital transformation

John Taylor, CIO, Medhealth Group, will be joined by ACS VIC Chair Jo Dalvean to dive into the evolution of work culture and effective leadership through adversity and change.

 

 

Data sharing in trusted frameworks

The Hon. Victor Dominello, MP and Dr Ian Opperman, NSW Chief Data Scientist and ACS President discuss and highlight the collaborative work being pioneered through the Data Sharing Frameworks series.

EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO OPTIMISE TECHNOLOGY

Chris Venter, CTO, REA Group, taking a deep dive into improved ways of working. With organisations forced to rapidly prioritise digital enablement, how can you optimise its success for your people

The Risk of Authenticity and Trust with Remote Working

Join us in the upcoming Industry Insights Leaders Series event as we feature Daniel Pludek, CTO, Kip McGrath Education Centres. Daniel will be sharing his insights about understanding risk, cyber security.