Insights from award-winning IT projects, presented by CIOs
2026 Agenda
Tuesday, September 22
Financial crime is becoming increasingly sophisticated, global and technology-enabled. This session will explore the evolving role of the modern CIO in protecting customers, communities and the broader economy.
The session will examine how technology leaders can harness data, emerging technologies and organisational capability to detect threats, build resilience and stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated financial crime.
AI is rapidly changing how legal work is delivered – but building genuine AI capability requires more than deploying new technology.
This session explores how MinterEllison is investing in its people, processes and technology to build AI capability and transform legal delivery. It will look beyond the success stories to examine what has worked, what hasn’t, and the lessons learned along the way.
Every enterprise AI strategy depends on three assumptions that are becoming harder to take for granted: that there will be enough capacity, that infrastructure can adapt fast enough, and that providers can tell you where your data is going.
Tom Sykes, who leads product for Vocus, Australia’s business-focused digital infrastructure provider, unpacks all three, including where Australia’s data corridors are facing undersupply, why a network change can still take weeks, and how to properly stress-test where your data is going.
As enterprises shift from AI pilots to production at scale, CIOs must translate momentum into operating reality – without disrupting core systems, eroding trust, or overextending their organisations. This discussion focuses on how CIOs are applying the priorities, pressures, and patterns shaping the role today to the practical work of scaling AI across the enterprise. Attendees will explore how peers are balancing speed with governance, integrating AI into existing operating models, and ensuring that AI investments deliver durable business value while protecting the stability of the business.
Every enterprise is running an agentic AI pilot. Very few are running one in production. The gap between the two isn’t the model — it’s everything else: data residency, encryption and key ownership, SSO and access control, audit logging, and the security review that has to sign off before day one.
Drawing on his work at Harvey AI, and prior vendors, Rohan will walk through what this looks like in practice across three very different environments: a tier-one bank, a global law firm, and a government agency. Each came with its own non-negotiables — from customer-managed encryption keys to fixed-IP access controls to court-grade confidentiality — and each required a different path to production.
This is a practitioner’s view of the questions every CIO and CISO should be asking their AI vendors before signing off — and what “trust” actually has to mean once a pilot needs to hold up at enterprise scale.
How can AI transform aged care while reducing the burden on frontline staff?
Andrew Dome from Uniting will share how AI and agentic AI are being used to streamline processes, reduce administrative workload, and give frontline teams more time to focus on what matters most – delivering quality care. The session will explore the practical lessons, opportunities and challenges of applying AI in aged care.
As AI adoption accelerates, so do new risks. This session examines how CIOs and CISOs address evolving threats, ensure compliance, and maintain trust with customers and regulators.
Learn how organisations are balancing speed with security in high-stakes environments.
What does it take to merge the technology, people and operations of two major universities — while keeping critical services running?
Vince Condina, inaugural CIO of Adelaide University, will share the technology journey behind Australia’s first new major university in a generation. He will explore the challenges of bringing together two complex IT environments, teams and systems, and building the digital foundations for a new institution.
The session will look at the lessons from this massive transformation — and how technology is now being used to create a simpler, more secure, resilient and AI-enabled university.
Brisbane 2032 is already driving one of Australia’s biggest sporting technology programs with the countdown underway to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
This session goes behind the scenes of the digital infrastructure, platforms and capabilities being built to support athletes, spectators, venues and operations. It will explore the scale, complexity and innovation involved in delivering a secure, connected and seamless Games.
The CIO role is changing rapidly as technology becomes increasingly central to business strategy, innovation and growth.
In this closing keynote, CIO50 Hall of Fame member Dr Angela Coble will explore what the CIO of tomorrow needs to lead effectively in an era defined by AI, accelerating change and rising expectations. She will share perspectives on the capabilities, mindset and leadership required to turn technology into lasting organisational value.
