Australia's AI Opportunity | Executive Think Tank

Overview

Building AI Infrastructure for Trust, Scale and Resilience

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, the question is no longer if they’ll scale — but where and how that scaling happens. The new frontier of AI requires re-engineering the very backbone of digital operations: data centres and infrastructure.

This roundtable brings together technology, compliance, and infrastructure leaders to explore how evolving technologies, regulatory frameworks, cost efficiency, and risk need to be considered when making decisions about your AI Infrastructure. Participants will unpack how to balance performance, compliance, and total cost of ownership in the race to operationalise AI.

As AI becomes both a strategic asset and a regulated liability, organisations must ask:

How do we ensure our AI workloads reside in compliant, sovereign, and cost-efficient environments?

What are the new risks across the AI supply chain?

How can infrastructure strategy drive ROI, resilience, and innovation in the AI economy?

What we will cover

• From Risk to Advantage How evolving sovereignty laws and public expectations are shaping board-level data and AI strategy
• Trust as Currency The link between sovereign data practices, brand equity, and sustainable customer relationships
• Innovation Under Control Enabling generative AI, predictive analytics, and digital transformation without sacrificing governance or jurisdiction
• National Resilience and Competitive Edge Why collaboration across government, industry, and partners is essential to future-proof enterprise growth

Agenda

• 5:30 pm Delegate arrival Registration(Executive Dinner)
• 6:00 pm Welcome Drinks & Refreshments(Executive Dinner)
• 6:15 pm Opening Remarks(Executive Dinner)
• 6:30 pm Interactive Discussions(Executive Dinner)
• 7:45 pm Closing remarks(Executive Dinner)
• 7:50 pm Networking Drinks and End of Session(Executive Dinner)

Partners

• Macquarie Data Centres
• Dell Technologies Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.

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