Agenda

The ever expanding CIO remit! Juggling legacy and technical debt, balancing budgets and stakeholders, aligning to business objectives, retaining, attracting and upskilling talent, managing trust and risk, reducing complexity, creating value, serving customers, architecting digital services, emerging tech, improving digital savviness and data driven, leading change… the list goes on.

Now we also face increasing global uncertainty, inflation and local economic headwinds. The modern CIO must lead and ensure resurces by communicating the enablement value of Technology.

Can anyone do all this in one? How can you fulfil this role? And can the CIO ensure margin resilience through technology?

CIO Edge will tackle this head on with our day’s agenda focused on codifying lessons learned to bring practical ideas to empower our local technology and business leaders to become the CIO that today’s world demands.

ADAPT’s Research and Advisory service of fact-based insights are based upon 15,000 interactions and over 1,000 detailed surveys of our region’s digital and IT leaders – more than any other advisory firm in our region. Matt reveals the core findings distilled from your aggregated pre-event surveys and those of your executive CFO and LOB peers to show your common aims, investments and funding plans as well as common challenges and barriers to delivery.

Time is probably our most precious and non-renewable resource – so how do the CIOs of top performing companies spend their time? Peter will present a new MIT CISR study analysing how CIOs spend the time in four different time buckets. Later in the afternoon all attendees will workshop these results with Peter to compare rest of world, community and your own time management.

As Chair of CISR at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Peter’s work centred on the role, value, and governance of digitisation in enterprises and he consults several of Australia’s and the world’s leading CIOs, ExCos and Boards. Peter was ranked by Ziff Davis as the 24th most influential person in IT and the highest ranking academic. MIT CISR undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from digital.

Justin is Group CIO of our 6th largest ASX-listed organisation, the $64B powerhouse Macquarie Group, with over 17,000 staff in 33 markets.

Having served 15 years at Barclays, leading to a role as Asia Pacific CIO for their investment bank in Singapore & Global Head of Tech Ops, Justin joined Macquarie in 2016 and has overseen 6 years of transformation and change. His commitment to delivering on the capabilities of his team, now sees them driving innovative data-driven solutions to better serve the evolving needs of the Group’s workforce and clients. What has he learned on his journey so far?

In this closed door session, Justin will be interviewed by MIT’s Peter Weill, who has also been consulting Macquarie Group during their transformation.

Research from the Future Forum, a consortium led by Slack, tells us that inflexible return-to-office policies are hammering employee experience scores. How do we build camaraderie and connection in this new environment to attract and retain talent while delivering what both employees and executives want?

We used to think of the office as the centre of work; digital tools augmented the office. Now, it’s the reverse: Digital is your HQ, it’s where information flows more transparently, where you find people, resources, and the information you need. Companies who are investing not just in new tools but also in change management — these are the innovators and they are scoring higher when it comes to productivity.

But success at work is no longer just about how much works gets done, it’s now also measured on issues like inclusiveness, belonging and flexibility. How can your technology stack flex so that offices go from the organising force for everything to being one of many tools in your toolkit in battle to attract and retain talent?

Join technology evangelist for Slack, Derek Laney and General Manager of Software Development at carsales.com.au, Huw Fowles for an engaging presentation of the latest research and lessons learned.

As companies continue to modernise their IT, a hidden peril is undermining their efforts: technical debt – the off-balance-sheet accumulation of all the tech remediation work needed in the future. It’s like dark matter: you know it exists, you can infer its impact, but you can’t see or measure it.

It hinders growth with product delays, hidden risks, spiralling costs, and even engineers leaving in frustration being common symptoms.
As technical debt continues to rise in the majority of organisations and modernisation programs often fail to reduce it, Australia has emerged as one of the ‘perfect storms’ of technology debt, sinking billions of dollars into combatting the challenge.

Join this session as Rob explores how to create a common, dollar-value understanding of technology debt, manage lifetime costs, and regain delivery velocity and time to market. He will also showcase a new score that allows companies to benchmark their technology debt position versus hundreds of global peers.

The race to ‘digital-first’ business models across the enterprise landscape presents challenges for all CIOs. Analysts predict that by 2024, 70% of all tech and services spending will shift to as-a-service and outcomes-centric models. For today’s CIOs, understanding and navigating the barriers to modernisation is more important than ever before.

Join leaders from DXC Technology’s Enterprise Applications Practices as they discuss how to identify the ‘red flags’ in the journey to modernisation. Learn from customer case studies and find out how you can overcome the top 4 barriers that commonly undermine successful applications

ESG metrics are quickly becoming competitive factors for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) organisations, as customers, employees and investors are including ESG when making supply chain buying decisions, career choices and even evaluating cultural fit.

Employees today have a higher expectation regarding company culture and employee experience when making career decisions. For many businesses, this shift comes at a time when they are looking to make more relevant contributions to operational agility and business success for growth, scale and advance on new market opportunities. It’s becoming increasingly critical to know where organisations stand on ESG and importantly how they rate against the competition.

Join Damian Leach, Workday’s CTO for APJ, as he shares his insights and views on how companies are meeting this challenge with the right data and technologies.