Activating the AI-Ready Enterprise

Overview

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation into enterprise-wide expectation. Across many organisations, however, AI ambition is advancing faster than the operational foundations required to support it at scale. While investment in AI platforms, analytics and automation continues to accelerate, many technology environments remain fragmented, operationally inconsistent, and heavily dependent on manual effort sitting between systems, data and workflows.

For technology leaders, the challenge is no longer simply accessing AI capability. It is whether their existing infrastructure, integration architecture and governance models are capable of operationalising AI reliably across the enterprise.

As organisations continue layering cloud, SaaS, automation and AI technologies onto environments that were never originally designed to operate together seamlessly, execution complexity is becoming one of the largest barriers to measurable outcomes.

This talk show will explore why integration, automation and governance are increasingly becoming the operational backbone of AI readiness, and how organisations are simplifying complexity, improving visibility, and building scalable foundations capable of supporting AI beyond isolated pilots and into real-world enterprise execution.

Discussion points

1. Why AI Ambition Is Outpacing Operational Readiness

2. Integration and Automation as the Foundation for Scalable AI

3. Governance, Visibility and Control Across Hybrid Environments

4. Moving from Experimentation to Measurable Business Outcomes

Agenda

• 2:00 pm Why Integration, Automation and Governance Must Come First(Activating the AI-Ready Enterprise)

Speakers

• Ankur Chakore · Senior Manager - Architecture, nbn Ankur Chakore is a technology and transformation leader with over 20 years of experience delivering complex digital and business transformation programs across the telecommunications and public sectors. He has led major initiatives spanning enterprise platforms, operational transformation, and strategic technology delivery, helping organisations adapt to an increasingly digital world. More recently, Ankur has focused on the practical application of artificial intelligence, exploring how AI can drive innovation, improve productivity, and deliver real business value. Passionate about the intersection of technology, leadership, and innovation, he enjoys sharing insights on the future of telecommunications and the evolving role of AI in shaping the way we work and connect.
• Monique Dignan-smith · Editor, Factor

Partners

• Boomi Boomi, the data activation company, brings data to life by integrating and governing it to power everything from AI to BI. The Boomi Enterprise Platform puts data in motion, uniting data readiness, integration and automation, and agent management in one comprehensive solution. Trusted by more than 30,000 customers and supported by a global network of 800+ partners, Boomi is driving agentic transformation — helping organizations of all sizes move faster, operate smarter, and innovate at scale. Discover more at boomi.com .
• CEnet - Catholic Education Network CEnet is a not-for-profit services company supporting a large collection of Catholic education networks currently connecting school communities across metropolitan, regional and rural NSW, ACT, QLD, TAS and the NT. CEnet’s member dioceses share a common vision for a network and learning architecture suitable for the support of education and evangelisation in the digital age and have put their combined resources behind the development of centralised, managed services to deliver this architecture. CEnet's Purpose To connect and support Australian Catholic schools as they integrate information and communication technologies in the provision of contemporary learning and teaching and evangelisation. CEnet's Key Activity To procure and manage affordable, robust, scalable, standards-based ICT solutions, server and storage infrastructure and application services so as to provide a safe connected online learning environment for Catholic schools. The consortium has harnessed specific telecommunications and application infrastructure and services to deliver an educationally-focused platform under an architecture that has been designed to maximize the benefits of a co-operative joint venture whilst maintaining a high degree of autonomy for individual members.
• nbn Australia
• Brickworks Building Products

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