1 April, 2026 | Hilton, Sydney

Data Driven Operating Models & Industrialising AI

Name: Data and AI Edge
Start: 2025-05-27T07:30
End: 2025-05-27T17:30
Location: Fullerton

Join 150+ Executive Leaders of Data & AI at ADAPT’s annual DATA & AI Edge, Australia’s leading event for organisations representing more than 40% of the nation’s GDP.

Many organisations remain stuck in early AI maturity stages, failing to realise tangible business value. Scaling AI depends on solving foundational issues: fragmented data, poor governance, and low data trust. Strong integration, AI ready data, and ethical AI frameworks are the backbone of future-ready data strategies.

One of Australia’s foremost AI and data conferences Data culture, policy and emerging AI strategy underpins all potential modernisation, requiring urgent and immediate focus.

Join the nation’s Chief Information Officers, Chief Data Officers, and the country’s leading AI and Information leaders driving data, analytics, AI, and integration strategy. An AI leadership conference like none other.

Our Speakers

Harness the collective intelligence of the world’s foremost thought leaders to learn best practices and be inspired.

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Connecting the Region’s
Top Chief Data Officers

Data & AI Edge is an invitation-only data & AI conference that brings together technology executives from the region’s most influential Enterprise and Government organisations, including:

Why You Should Be Here

ANZ Market Trends Global & Local Experts Network with Peers Fast-track Introductions

Stay Ahead of ANZ Market Trends

Keep up with the latest market research and benchmarking data in fields such as AI, cyber security, data analytics, digital transformation and more.

Insights from Global Experts & Technologists

Hear the strategies and methodologies being applied by industry innovators who are actively leading teams, delivering enterprise-wide transformation and driving value.

Harness the Wisdom of Your Peers

Learn from the experience of your peers in cross-industry roundtable discussions and networking events to inspire new ways of thinking and share ideas.

Connect with Key Technology Providers

Forge important relationships and explore the capabilities and expertise of our vendors to support your strategic initiatives.

Debating Critical Themes

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Netflix & Salesforce: a Data & Analytics Visionary!

Shankar Vedaraman was Netflix’s Data & Analytics lead from 2011-2019, while subscribers and revenues grew 11x. Now VP Data Intelligence at Salesforce, managing Data & Analytics across all domains for Salesforce. Interviewed and in person all day!

Mastering Data Governance

Data is the critical asset for modernisation, automation, and transformation – to enable agility, growth and value. But your Data strategy and Governance capabilities must match current and future needs.

AI Integration: From Experimentation to Production

With impatience to get value from AI – companies must make strategic use case choices around AI’s impact on talent, operating models, data infrastructure, change management, and compliance.

Enabling the AI Centre of Excellence & Operating Model

People, Process, Culture – everything is changing with AI. Data readiness, delivering value, modern metrics, scaling capabilities. The only way is with an executive supported, centrally led, CoE execution model.

Zero Copy Architecture: where we are and what's next?

Managing fragmented data is highly complex and costly – compounded by volume, variety and velocity. What scalable information and data architectures are the steps to secure, data-driven success? Could ZCA be the way? Why move the data if you don’t need?

Culture Transformation & Mindset Change

After the heavy lift, our C-suite and Board must embed data culture and tech-enabled collaboration. Imagine automated decision rights, platform mindsets, digital partnering and ecosystem strategies. What does the Chief Data Officer need to foresee to reduce the complexity? How to create the frameworks today?

This is my go to conference in the year for though leadership on data and AI. Head of Integration and Automation Development at Allens

Once again a great selection of speakers at Data & AI Edge. The topics are thoughtfully chosen with a good mix of research driven and practical insights. The organisation of the event was impeccable. It's the best event in the Data calendar every year. Head of Data at The Benevolent Society

A well oiled machine at Data & AI Edge. Everything flows perfectly and it always provides a valuable source of information and networking. Head of Technology (Data and Security) at Johnson & Johnson

ADAPT events deliver the most relevant and in depth content in Data and AI Head of Data Platforms at Zurich Financial Services Australia

The way that Data & AI Edge was structured and run was a winner. It enabled a good mixture of thought leaders, researched outputs and good vendors. Principal HR Data Governance at Rio Tinto

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Location

Fullerton Sydney

1 Martin Street, Sydney 2000
New South Wales, Australia

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ADAPT

ADAPT exists to help Australia and New Zealand thrive commercially, now and for future generations.

Since 2011, we have enabled this by connecting and equipping executives with the knowledge, relationships, inspiration and tools they need to gain advantage. With a deep understanding of modern business challenges, ADAPT deliver unique local research and advisory.

Our mission is to be the trusted source to connect, inform and equip our local community of business and tech leaders to make better decisions, faster.

To be ADAPT is to Rise Above.

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