
Melbourne CIO Community
Inner Circle
6 March 2024 | The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne
6 March 2024
The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne
Collaborate with your peers
Join Melbourne's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Managing Ongoing AI Expectations with Business Stakeholders
Ensuring Effective and Secure Deployment of AI
Defining your Long-Term AI Ambition
Melbourne CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Tracey Evans
Seek Limited
Former CIO - APAC

Matt Mueller
Iluka Resources Limited
CIO and Group Risk Manager

Martha O'Sullivan
VMCH
CIO
Agenda
6 March 2024
16:30 - 17:30 Executive Networking Reception
17:30 - 18:45 Discussion Topics
Managing Business Expectations Around AI — Controlling the Narrative

Kurt Hansen
CEO
Tesserent Group

Saeed Tasbihsazan
CTO Enterprise, Government & Financial Services
Telstra Corporation

Serge Ambrose
APAC Digital Technology Head
MMG Limited

Jamie Rossato
Chief Information Security Officer
Lion Co

Daisy Wong
Security Culture and Awareness Lead
Flybuys

Alex Serrano
Leader – Information Security, Pacific
Marsh Australia

Tara Dharnikota
Head of Information Security Management
PEXA
Business leaders have high expectations about AI and other emerging technologies that CIOs and CISOs must manage. As such, technology and cybersecurity leaders must have robust strategies in place to not only manage these technologies, but also communicate their benefits and risks. Executives across the organisation all have their own thoughts and priorities around what the technology should be used for, but how do you as a leader keep control of this narrative to ensure effective and secure deployment to drive digital business success?
As C-level and board expectations continue to rise around emerging technologies, coupled with minimal increased budgets and resources, what are the key levers CIOs and CISOs are using to grow partnerships, better align with the business on these powerful technologies, and mitigate risks?
Join your peers to discuss how CIOs and CISOs can create messaging that truly resonates with stakeholders on these emerging technologies.
Topic 1: Managing Ongoing AI Expectations with Business Stakeholders
- What’s the current direction your organisation is taking on Generative AI? Are other departments aligning with IT’s direction or are they taking another route?
- How are you communicating the benefits and risks to the board as the technology continues to iterate? What are the most effective use cases to share?
- How are you ensuring responsible AI adoption and journey planning outside of IT? Do you have a governance plan in place or are you governing as you go?
Topic 2: Deciding your AI Ambition
- How are you cutting through AI complexities to define your long-term AI ambition for the organisation? Who is involved in setting this north star?
- What measures are you putting in place to secure data sets and mitigate the risk of sophisticated attacks that exploit these technologies?
- What will the overall implication on the workforce be with your strategy? Do you see AI as an enhancement or a replacement for the workforce?
18:45 - 19:15 Networking Break
19:15 - 20:30 Summary Discussion & Dinner
20:30 - 21:30 Social Hour
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