Past Speakers Include

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.

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.’

As Chief Technology Officer for Salesforce Australian and New Zealand, Gayan leads regional efforts in security, engineering and architecture engagement with Salesforce product engineering, industry and key customer accounts. Gayan is co-founder of Salesforce’s global Architecture Guild and is an Industry Research Fellow at MIT’s Center of Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Gayan was the CIO of the Reserve Bank of Australia where he oversaw the digital transformation of the Bank’s federal government core banking services, delivery of Australia’s real-time national payment infrastructure (NPP), and uplifting the Bank’s cyber operations. Prior to the RBA, Gayan was the head of technology strategy and enterprise architecture for Westpac and director of customer data architecture for Oracle Asia Pacific. Gayan chairs Standards Australia’s governance working group for blockchain standards (IT-041) and is a member of the ISO Committee TC/307 on blockchain standards.

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. 

With 20+ years’ experience in leading marketing & communications teams in the B2B technology sector, I have led high-performing marketing & sales development teams for Tier 1 technology brands including FullStory, Dynatrace, PagerDuty, Okta, Salesforce, Infor, Intel Security, McAfee, EMC, VMWare, IBM and Gartner.

As an award-winning, customer-focused professional, my roles have focused on pipeline generation, differentiated brand awareness & thought-leadership creation across all channels (direct, partner, social & digital).

You can count on a curious, technology-obsessed, passionate, people-focused, results-driven & inspiring leader with a strong work ethic & great sense of fun!

Glenn Carmichael is responsible for the Design strategy at Telstra Purple, a tech consultancy that delivers digital transformation for Australian and global businesses. He is an optimistic futurist who is passionate about understanding how technology will impact people’s work and lives, and how we can play a role in shaping, building and helping them to adopt it.

Glenn believes designing with a human-centered approach creates technology solutions that deliver better outcomes. Creating tools that people want to use, that make the cutting edge natural to engage with, and helping all people embrace and adopt these tools by designing with accessibility and inclusion in mind from the outset.

He’s passionate and invested in the next generation of designers, teaching at General Assembly for the past 5 years and regularly guest speaking at UTS and RMIT to interaction design students.

Tim Hope is a seasoned leader and CTO executive at Versent with a passion for enterprise transformation. Over his 20-year career, Tim has engaged with the financial services industry, public sector and corporations to support their adoption of emerging technologies. Tim leads the Versent Solution and Advisory capability ensuring that Versent’s offerings deliver connect with the evolving market to drive customer outcomes and growth for Versent. Tim has been an integral part of Versent’s journey, guiding the born-in-the-cloud consultancy through remarkable growth since its inception.

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.

Amanda Pitcher is a Principal Consultant in strategy, innovation, and design at Telstra Purple, working collaboratively with clients – and their staff and customers – to drive experience innovation.

While working at Telstra Purple Amanda has led innovation and transformation projects for clients from a diverse range of verticals – from the Australian Defence Forces to the Big Four banks, national enterprise organisations, state police forces, and social housing providers. 95% of products and services launched every year will fail, and Amanda’s passion is ensuring that the products and services our clients launch are in the 5% success category.  

Leading Pathfindr, Australia’s leading AI consultancy, and prior to that led Accenture’s Generative AI Technology team for ANZ. Previously a long career in innovation, cloud, SaaS, analytics for industry, startup and major consulting. Dawid has worked with Australia’s most renowned brands on their innovation agenda before starting Pathfindr to make this skillset available to the Australian market. 

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.

George Harb is responsible for driving growth of OpenText in the ANZ region. In addition to leading the business in the ANZ region, as an experienced B2B integration and software business leader, he has been spearheading the Business Network unit for OpenText within the Asia-Pacific region. In both roles he works with customers and partners to help them derive value from OpenText’s offerings and solve business challenges. Having joined in 2016, George has held a number of senior sales leadership roles at OpenText. As an internationally experienced business executive, he has spent significant time residing overseas and working with customers across Asia and Southern Africa, his appointment at OpenText bringing him back home to Australia. With over 20 years of experience in Technology, B2B integration and Software (On and Off Cloud) sales leadership, he has a proven track record in accelerating growth, delivering improvements in operational efficiency and raising customer satisfaction. George’s expertise lies in helping companies transform in a digital first world.

As Lead Solutions Consultant for Digital Experience Solutions at OpenText, Luke Horan is helping government and enterprise organisations develop and transform the way they communicate, interact and brand themselves with their customers and citizens. 
 
Luke has held a number of roles globally throughout his career, across diverse industry sectors and technology landscapes (Mainframe through to SaaS). This has allowed him to understand the business, technical and personal challenges that customers face. Luke is passionate about problem solving and challenging with a different mindset. He has been with OpenText for 13 years, transitioning from Professional Services into Solutions (presales) Consulting where he continues to help customers understand and realise the true value that OpenText solutions provide. 

As Director of Strategic Research at ADAPT Matt Boon, is responsible for directing and developing ADAPTs research content and positions. In his role at ADAPT Boon advises C-Suite executives across the end-user and technology provider landscape. Boon is also responsible for bringing together groups of C-Suite leaders to discuss and prepare for the myriad of challenges and opportunities they face.

ADAPT host’s numerous industry leading IT focused events annually and Boon is responsible for hosting, chairing and delivering ADAPT independent content and positions to help attendees make informed IT decisions.

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.