Past Speakers

Claudine Ogilvie is the Chief Information Officer for Jetstar and Non Executive Director with Youi Insurance. She has a deep understanding of strategy, risk, technology and innovation; and expertise in governance, transformation, marketing and Asia markets. Prior to Jetstar Claudine was CIO for Ridley Corporation; she managed KPMG’s Consumer and Industrial Markets business. She also held product management, sales operations and marketing roles for International SOS (Australia, NZ, PNG and Pacific Islands), British Petroleum (BP Australia) and Unipath (France).

Claudine is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Claudine is an alumni of the Australia-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Program Kuala Lumpur, and an Asialink Leaders Program alumni (Melbourne University). She has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia (B.Bus) and a Diploma of Business Management from the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce Reims, France (Dip.Mgnt).

Dayle joined Telstra in July 2021 with nearly 30 years’ experience in the technology industry. She has held notable executive leadership roles in technology at companies such as NAB and AGL. Today Dayle leads Telstra’s Data & AI function.

Outside of Telstra, Dayle is a non-executive director at Beyond Blue, Australia’s most well-known and trusted mental health organisation, and a member of the IT Advisory Committee at Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Dayle has long championed diversity in STEM across industry and age group boundaries, both through her own work and with global organisations aimed at encouraging women and girls to participate in STEM such as Robogals and Girl Geek Academy.

Dayle’s work has been recognised with multiple industry and professional awards, including being named in the CIO50 list of the best CIOs in Australia, the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, and being awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to information technology and to women. 

Michael Pride is a seasoned professional with two decades of experience in cyber security sales. He currently is the Senior Sales Director, APAC at Protegrity, he has demonstrated expertise in navigating the intricacies of the Asia-Pacific region. With a decade-long track record leading sales teams, Michael has successfully driven growth and fostered client relationships in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the broader Asia-Pacific market. His commitment to excellence and extensive industry knowledge position him as a trusted leader in the field.

Chase Ginther has spent his career working on a wide variety of machine learning projects and is particularly passionate about MLOps and ML platforms fueled by his early days in ad-tech. Prior to joining Snowflake, he was the engineering manager leading Deloitte’s AI Center of Excellence platform engineering team. He was Snowflake’s first customer facing architect in AI/ML in North America and has helped build the organization to a global team of 15+. He now serves as a technical leader of that team as well as a key resource defining the product roadmap and vision of AI/ML overall for Snowflake.

Michael is an experienced business leader with a strong technical foundation in statistical AI systems. He began his career with a PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics, eventually moving into institutional asset management and quantitative research (Blackrock, Fidelity, AXA). Later, transitioning to the development of AI systems for institutional investment programmes, while continuing to teach Masters courses in quantitative techniques and analysis at LSE and Imperial College.

Richard Fleming is the leader of our Asia-Pacific Advanced Analytics practice. He is also a leader in our Transformation and Change practice.

He has more than 25 years of management consulting experience, advising business leaders on their biggest opportunities and challenges. He has supported clients with business transformation across strategy, customer experience, performance improvement, M&A, operating model design, digital, data and technology. His work is increasingly to support clients transform their businesses with digital, data and technology.

He has deep experience working with financial services clients in banking, insurance, wealth management and payments. Richard has also worked across industries including retail, consumer products, telecommunications, medtech and manufacturing.

He has applied his strategy consulting expertise globally, having served clients in the North America, Australia, the United Kingdom, and across Asia.

Prior to joining us in 2001, Richard worked for two other global consulting firms with a focus on technology.

He earned an MBA from Australian Graduate School of Management and a BA with Honors in physics from Oxford University.

Alois is Chief Technology Strategist of Dynatrace. He is fanatic about monitoring, DevOps and application performance. He spent most of his professional career in building monitoring tools and speeding up applications. He is a regular conference speaker, blogger, book author and Sushi maniac.

Focused on customer success through driving the right outcomes in the right way. Lenka has been participating in and co-leading digital transformations across various industries for over ten years, leveraging lean, agile and HCD (Human Centred Design) ways of working. She is focused on data-driven business value solutions and helping customers accelerate their business intelligence and effectiveness. Having played on both sides of the field – as a customer and as a consultant, Lenka deeply appreciates the needs and context during unique digital transformation journeys.

The JV brings together Quantium’s global leading expertise in data analytics and AI with Telstra’s advanced network and technology services. Our goal at QT is to unleash the full potential of data and AI for our clients. Teaming up with Telstra Purple, Telstra Enterprise, and our exceptional partners, we aim to redefine the landscape of technology, AI, and digital transformation.

Prior to joining QT, Steven was a Partner at KPMG Australia, where he was lead Partner for the economic and policy advisory practice mainly focused on the Infrastructure, Government, and Healthcare sectors – working nationally and internationally.

Steven also held a number of leadership roles in the Consulting Division, along with client leadership roles across various Government and Infrastructure client groups.

With over 18 years of experience in consulting, he combines analytics, strategy, and stakeholder engagement to support the delivery of better outcomes for clients and the community.

Steven is based in Sydney but works across Australia and internationally.

Heidi Badgery is the Managing Director of Alteryx in ANZ, and is responsible for company strategy, business activities and operations in the region.

Under Heidi’s leadership and extensive experience in enterprise software business development, as well as passion for customer centric technology, Heidi is zealous to accelerate Alteryx’s growth strategy and empower more organizations to use their data to make decisions at pace and scale, to achieve business outcomes.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, Heidi has worked in the United States and across Asia Pacific, building businesses and accelerating organizational performance in software, SaaS and consulting services. Prior to joining Alteryx, Heidi led Adobe’s Professional Services Go To Market team across Asia Pacific, with a focus on ensuring Adobe’s customers realize their digital ambition and achieve measurable business outcomes through their digital transformation. Heidi has also spent 13 years with Symantec, leading the Company’s global accounts, the Norton business in Greater China and developing new strategic services offerings for the global business. Leaving Symantec, Heidi worked with CEB then Gartner to create and deliver strategic service offerings focused on areas of leadership and driving organizational performance.

Heidi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Marketing and is undertaking her Doctorate in Business.

Brett Dunsmore is an AI Growth Strategist at Dell Technologies. Having prior experience at IBM and then supporting life sciences research at the University of Queensland, Brett has developed a unique perspective on leveraging technology to drive business success.

During his time at the University of Queensland, Brett played a vital role in enabling researchers to manage both large and complex datasets for computational outcomes and deliver data workflows for collaboration, integrity, and archival requirements. This experience, combined with his corporate IT expertise, allowed him to strike a delicate balance between meeting corporate responsibilities and fostering innovation through the adoption of emerging technologies.

Having joined Dell Technologies in 2017, Brett has been a proponent, across verticals, to helping clients enrich and enhance their business objectives through the adoption of best-of-breed technologies in a fit-for-purpose manner to achieve optimal returns on their investments.

Anthone Withers is the Chief Revenue Officer at Closed Ai. With more than two decades of experience driving digital transformation initiatives for industry giants, he has a proven track record of leveraging emerging technologies to transform businesses and boost productivity.

Ant’s unique blend of strategic vision and hands-on technical expertise positions him to recognise opportunities and maximise their potential. His leadership style aligns capabilities with a compelling vision, enabling him to disrupt industries and deliver step-change growth. Whether building global practices from the ground up or guiding startups through rapid scaling, Withers is a proven leader who not only leverages technology but also illuminates its strategic potential to transform businesses.

Kieran Hagan is the Data and AI Segment Leader for Australia and New Zealand. Kieran is an experienced technical professional in the information technology industry and has worked the past 18 years with IBM Information Management software. He represents IBM’s best in class offerings in Al and Data platforms, including our flagship capabilities in watsonx. These innovations meet generative AI demand while also being fundamental to every client’s cloud and digital transformation. Kieran believes passionately in the ability of information to make a difference to clients and is a keen evangelist for unlocking data potential. 

Richie leads IBM’s Generative AI Practice where he advises IBM clients on the adoption of Generative AI, the business and technology architectures for transformation, new enterprise strategies, platform business models, digital products and services and modernisation initiatives. He has previously led IBM’s Enterprise Strategy Practice, IBM iX and IBM’s partnership with Apple in Asia Pacific.

As a strategy consultant, he has 19 years experience implementing transformational digital business solutions working in multiple industry sectors across Asia Pacific and Europe.

Richie advises clients on how to design businesses for the digital age and create digital platforms to deliver exceptional customer and employee experiences.

Today, Richie is an advisor to multiple Australian government departments and a contributor to government digital taskforces, including the NSW Government’s AI Taskforce.

Having a broadening and diverse experience in both classic strategic individual sales to sales management, to organisational transformation and leadership development, coupled with industry ownership.

By way of working across the diverse markets, cultures, and partnerships of APAC, along with influencing and aligning across global teams, my skillsets for strategy, measurements, and driving high growth have stretched me to be “constantly uncomfortable”.

Building teams, enhancing performance as one, and figuring out, how to drive customer satisfaction, is something that is difficult and rewarding in enterprise software.

In today’s market and global regulation, companies and governments are competing alike to improve. My aspiration is to enhance the productivity of organisations and enable extra-ordinary value creation to the citizen, consumers, producers, and really, people’s lives.

Damian Stephenson is an expert in Bain’s Financial Services and Enterprise Technology practices.

He joined Bain Australia in 2007 and spent six years in the Chicago office.

Damian specializes in technology-led performance improvement and transformation, particularly in financial services (insurers and retail banks).

In addition to client work, Damian is heavily involved in recruiting and people development and leads associate consultant recruiting for all Australian offices.

Prior to Bain, Damian worked in a variety of roles in financial services and IT. He spent three years working at a large Australian full service retail bank, ran his own technology consulting business and worked in sales for a technology start-up.

Damian studied Business Information Technology as a Co-Op Scholar at The University of New South Wales and completed his MBA at Kellogg.

Pascal Gautheron leads Bain’s Enterprise Technology practice in Asia-Pacific. He is also a member of Bain’s Financial Services practices. He has 20 years of experience shaping the largest technology-enabled banking transformations across Asia Pacific.

In his role at Bain, Pascal supports large organizations in designing and delivering results from technology-centric business transformations. His areas of focus include digital and core systems transformations, next generation technology architectures, agile at scale and IT strategy.

Prior to Bain, Pascal was a managing director within a global consulting and systems integration firm for nearly 20 years, most recently as the Banking Industry Lead for Australia. During this time, he supported the design, establishment and review of Australia’s big four banks’ core, digital or technology transformations and some of Asia Pacific’s largest banking transformations.

Before this, he held a number of positions in the firm’s digital venture, strategy consulting and industry consulting practices, where he supported the firm’s investments in new digital ventures, managed relationships with the firm’s largest clients and led the development of emerging technology-based offerings. Pascal presented on banking and technology across a number of professional forums in China, Japan, Singapore and Australia.

Pascal began his career as an engineer in Stuttgart, Paris and Sydney working in the automotive industry with Mercedes Benz and in the defense industry with Thales.

Pascal holds an MBA from the Groupe HEC in France and a Bachelors of Operation Management and Engineering Physics from Miami University in USA.

A global leader in advanced data and analytics and AI, I help drive the expansion of Bain & Company’s advanced analytics capabilities in Australia and Asia Pacific, taking Bain’s strategic investments in digital transformation, intelligent automation, analytics and AI to the next level. Work in ensuring the integration of Bain’s global analytic platforms and solutions throughout our work with the world’s most innovative and forward-thinking clients.

I am a leading analytics and AI expert with over 25 years’ experience in building and leading advanced data and analytics teams and delivering tech-enabled digital transformation business initiatives for Fortune 100 enterprises in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. James has spent his career helping clients rapidly identify and capture value and actionable insights from disparate and fragmented data.

Data platforms, Machine Learning and Privacy. A systems thinker with deep mathematical expertise and an inventive streak.

I’ve conceived, pitched, negotiated and delivered major data analytics projects to corporate and government clients, and driven the creation of new technology programs. I understand how to create value through data analytics, and have the technical skills to distinguish real technical capability from marketing hyperbole. I’ve enjoyed building and working with highly capable data science teams.

I have a strong and broad technical background, including including algorithm design and implementation, machine learning, data wrangling, big data tool chains, data security, cryptography and privacy. I have experience in various full software development lifecycle methodologies, with a strong preference for agile, both as an engineer and as a project manager. I code proficiently in C/C++ and Python, and have experience in numerous other languages (e.g. Java, Objective-C).

My leadership capability has been demonstrated through success as CEO a Ambiata, leading a variety of programs at Data61, and head of the major research group (70+ staff) in Canon Information Systems Research Australia, including line management of research managers and senior research leaders. I have delivered significant results in complex environments, including cultural diversity and high technological complexity. I have also contributed to many product enhancements in the fields of data analysis, printing, photography, and other industrial applications and have 12+ granted US patents, and around 10 pending.

Multi-year strategic and operative experience in digital transformation and operations in cloud-based business models at large and mid-sized corporations, public-sector

Implementation of large end-to-end data-driven products, including architecture and processes with business and technology cross-functional, cross-geographic teams

Implementation of cloud solutions for financial, risk and ESG solutions

6 years as McKinsey Digital consultant with focus on digital transformation in finance and online business-models

Jim founded ADAPT with a vision to help Australia thrive commercially, now and for the future.  To enable that, Jim leads ADAPT’s mission to connect, inform and equip our local business and tech leaders.

Leading the development of ADAPTs agenda’s and content strategy whilst also advising executive leadership teams from global technology service providers, Jim is uniquely experienced to be the voice of the end-user, the customer and the vendor.

Bringing his deep knowledge of the local market, Jim regularly presents “Know your Customer” webinars and guides the world’s largest vendors with their G-T-M and content strategies.

Through entrepreneurial product development and a servant leader mentality with his team and clients, ADAPT grows annually with clearly differentiated value for all stakeholders.

Gabby’s primary role is managing ADAPT’s overall strategy for Data Analytics. He has extensive experience in using data to identify trends in technology that help shape Australian organisations. Utilising modern Data Science techniques, he provides ADAPT and their customers with confidence in the accuracy and validity of the information used for ADAPT’s Research, Advisory, and Events.​

With a passion for creating stories with data, Gabby is consistently rated as one of the top speakers at ADAPT Events. In round table discussions, he specialises in using statistics to initiate thought-provoking discussions. Gabby is effective in translating information into insights, enabling ADAPT’s customers to become more data-driven.​

Gabby’s primary areas of expertise are: ​

• Advanced AI and ML practices, including AI ethics.​
• Building models to benchmark and predict IT performance.​
• End-user behaviour and human-centred design.​
• Cross-functional team design and value, such as DevSecOps.​

Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. He says his primary areas of interest are the potential of technology to transform the way organisations operate, the change management obstacles executives encounter in realising this potential and the tactics and techniques leaders have deployed to overcome these difficulties.

Peter now takes on multiple roles within ADAPT including the moderation of private events and roundtables, interviewing business executives about the strategies they are pursuing and assisting with the structuring of our delegate surveys and the interrogation and analysis of ADAPT’s treasure trove of end-user and C-level data

Byron is a highly experienced technology and business journalist, editor, corporate writer, and event producer.

Prior to joining Adapt, he was the editor-in-chief at CIO Australia and associate editor at CSO Australia. He also created and led the well-known CIO50 awards program in Australia and The CIO Show podcast.

Byron creates valuable insights for our community of senior technology and business professionals that help them reach their organisational and professional goals. He has a passion for uncovering stories about the careers and personal philosophies of Australia’s top technology and digital executives.

When he is not working, Byron enjoys hot yoga, swimming, running, and spending time with his family.