Conference Day Two

Conference Day Two

Thursday 16 June 2016

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8:30 | Welcome coffee


8:50 | Opening remarks from the Chair

Judy Hurditch, Managing Director, Intermedium


HARMONISE ICT AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMANTION WITH BUSINESS STRATEGY


9:00 | OPENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Aligning ICT mission, vision and strategy with business direction to maximise outcomes

Karen has enjoyed an extensive international career, having held the role of Chief Information Officer for Microsoft in the USA, Eaton, BHP Billiton and Honeywell

  • Exploring her own personal leadership challenges and how Karen overcame the obstacles to reach the top
  • Ensuring ICT seamlessly harmonises with overarching business strategy
  • Engaging and working alongside board, executives and non-ICT professionals to confirm ICT vision is incorporated into business outlook, potential issues are identified early, and outcomes are maximised

Karen Lay-Brew, Vice President, Australian Business Software Industry Association


9:30 | Aligning digital innovation strategy with customer expectations to ensure exceptional service delivery

  • Ensuring ICT strategy and digital innovation have strong customer focus
  • How to shape ICT strategy to bring service innovation and enhanced end-user experience
  • Examining the Department of the Environment’s recent digital innovation project

Claire Howlett, Chief Information Officer, Department of Environment


10:00 |  PANEL DISCUSSION: Delivering enriched customer experience with digital transformation, innovation and strategy

  • How can you use the customer to accelerate innovation across your organisation?
  • How to develop new and improved products and services to generate high value for customers, improve margins, manage shareholder expectations and uphold competitive advantage?
  • Using mobile technology to build better platforms to enhance customer experience

Panel Moderator:
Judy Hurditch,
Managing Director, Intermedium

Panellists:
Penny Webb-Smart,
Executive Director, Service Reform, NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation
Mark Sheppard,
Chief Digital Officer, GE Australia and New Zealand
Daryl Babus,
Head of Digital Strategy and Planning, Westpac Group
Angela Ryan, General Manager IT, Forever New Clothing
Janelle McGuinness, Head of Digital & Emerging Channels, ING DIRECT


10:40 | Morning tea


PREPARING FOR DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND INCREASING COMPETITION


11:10 | Leveraging big data to gain significant business intelligence for future positioning

  • Identifying, interpreting and unlocking the business opportunities collected from data to harness its commercial advantages
  • Increasing productivity and profitability by integrating monitoring tools
  • Optimise and promote predictive analytics capabilities across organisation
  • Understanding the importance of predicting data

Maria Milosavljevic, National Manager Innovation & Technology, Chief Information Officer, AUSTRAC


11:40 | CASE-STUDY: Harnessing valuable, productive and cost-effective technology to deliver innovative business outcomes for clients

  • Identifying recent technologies including artificial intelligence applications that improve efficiencies in the legal sector
  • Influencing stakeholders and ensuring that new technologies align with organisational direction
  • Taking advantage of the most cost-effective new technologies that deliver greatest return on investment and enable new business models

Beth PattersonChief Legal & Technology Services Officer, Allens


12:10 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Upholding market share when transforming markets or technologies generate unprecedented industry change

  • Identifying the component maintaining your position in the market, and understanding whether this could be compromised
  • Predicting and anticipating future threats for your organisation’s competitiveness
  • What preparations need to be incorporated into corporate strategy to safeguard your future?
  • How do you continue remaining relevant in an era of continuous change?

Panel Moderator:
Judy Hurditch
Managing Director, Intermedium

Panellists:
Tiziana Bianco
Global Head of Innovation LabsCommonwealth Bank
Kelvin McGrath
Chief Information Officer, Asciano
Fiona Rankin
Director, Information Management & Technology ServicesUniversity of Wollongong
Brenda Frisk
Head of Learning Technologies, Open Universities Australia


12:50 | Networking lunch


ENHANCING ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE, PRODUCTIVITY AND SECURITY


13:50 | CASE STUDY: Managing a global infrastructure overhaul with minimal disruption

  • How are Baker’s Delight shifting to new providers and implementing new networks with minimal disturbance to business operations
  • What are the challenges that have been faced and how have they been overcome?
  • Ensuring long-term investments into infrastructure will service future needs

Joanne Stubbs, Chief Information Officer, Bakers Delight Holdings


14:20 | PANEL DISCUSSION: How do you strengthen cyber security in light of a rapidly changing and increasingly connected world?

  • Are cloud technologies really more secure?
  • How do you change employee complacency regarding security risks?
  • How do you manage increased system risk due to more devices, the internet of things and other factors impacting vulnerability?
  • Setting up safe monitoring for Internet of Things devices

Panel Moderator:
Judy Hurditch
Managing Director, Intermedium

Panellists:
Clive WhincupChief Information Officer, Woolworths
Elena Sitnikova
Critical Infrastructure Protection, Research Leader, Australian Centre for Cyber Security
Sarah Adam-Gedge, Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Avanade Australia


15:05 | Afternoon tea and networking


15:35 | CRYSTAL BALL PANEL DISCUSSION:

  • How is the ICT sector and technology evolving, and what opportunities will emerge as a response?
  • What are the current technologies that are an enabler for business?
  • Identifying and preparing for future trends and disruptive technologies

Panel Moderator:
Judy Hurditch
Managing Director, Intermedium

Panellists:
Fiona RankinDirector, Information Management & Technology Services, University of Wollongong
Anna Reed-Stephenson
Head of IT – Corporate and New Energy, AGL Energy
Susan Monkley, Chief Information Officer, Department of Education and Training
Tim Thurman, Chief Information Officer, Australian Security Exchange


16:15 | Closing remarks from the Chair and drawing of lucky door prize


16:25 | End of Day Two and close of the conference


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Reference: 
Women in Tech 2016