Our Speakers

A technology executive with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for bringing data & digital to life whilst keeping the customer experience at the heart of everything.

With 15+ years of driving data & digital strategy, data science & engineering, platforms & technology leadership, Malcolm has unparalleled insight and an enviable track record leading organisations to realise their hidden potential through understanding how data & digital innovation operate most effectively at scale whilst always having a keen eye focused on spotting the technology of tomorrow, today.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.