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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.​

Tenar has spent the last 18 years working in sales, running her own company consulting to corporate Australia around Workplace Wellness / Employee Experience and now she finds herself back over on the dark side as an employee, part of a well oiled machine – and loving it! As a Senior Manager of the ADAPT Advisory team, Tenar runs the team that fulfils over 60 private advisory events each year across Asia Pacific. Tenar build genuine relationships quickly and easily, loves connecting people, finding out how to solve a problem and then delivering.

At Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Ryan Brosnahan is responsible for driving the Group’s digital transformation program, a key enabler of the bank’s strategy. He is privileged to lead a talented team across the bank’s digital, data, payments, and technology functions.

With more than 20 years of international experience in the financial services industry in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, Ryan has led complex growth and transformation change initiatives across multiple functions and businesses in financial services.

Ryan is passionate about harnessing the power of technology to improve the way we live and work, driving improvements in customer experience, business operations, and performance.

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.

Richard Oldham is the Technical Director for Australia & New Zealand at Kore.ai.

Through his 25+ year career, Richard’s extensive experience in developing and positioning a broad portfolio of solutions allows him to speak to technical and business stakeholders to find the right technology fit for an enterprise’s requirements.

Responsibilities during his career includes working with clients on technology strategy and business development, partner business development as well as technology enablement and software development.

Over the last 7 years, Richard’s focus has been within the Conversational AI industry and he’s passionate about the opportunity and efficiencies that AI can bring to our region.

Michelle was VP & Chief Privacy Officer at Cisco as well as McAfee, where she raised awareness and create tools to promote privacy, quality, respect, trust, and asset-level possibilities for data. As a visionary in the field of privacy and the IT industry, she brings together multifaceted approaches that provide real privacy protections to drive business value. A licensed attorney, Michelle led security and privacy initiatives, ranging from regulatory compliance, privacy engineering, advocacy and education efforts, and litigation. She is the co-author of ‘The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value.’

Adam Dinneen brings more than 15 years of experience working in business and technology roles. Throughout his career, he has excelled in digital product development, technical presales, and leading projects that generated business and customer value using a broad range of technologies and delivery methods.

With a passion for delivering great digital experiences that meet the product vision, business objectives and user needs, Adam is skilled at collaborating with business, design and development teams, as well as building strong stakeholder and customer relationships.

As the Chief Evangelist, Joshua Burkhow helps analysts, managers and executives see the value of analytics in just about every aspect of their day-to-day decision making. He balances being both an expert and a practical solutions- oriented user and loves to highlight how automation and productivity can be a basis for delivering amazing outcomes. Joshua’s passion, excitement and raging optimism for analytics and data science have propelled his career from day one and allowed him to see practitioners of all levels change the world for the better.

Prior to joining Alteryx, Joshua held a variety of engineering and analyst roles, leading up to being a Global Solution Architect Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Joshua spent more than five years in the United States Marine Corps, ultimately holding the rank of Sergeant.