CIO Day | Singapore

Name: CIO Day | Singapore
Start: 2025-04-23T22:30:00.000Z
End: 2025-04-23T23:30:00.000Z
Location: Sydney, Australia, Sydney, Australia

Navigating Digital Transformation: Strategic Leadership in a Hyper-Connected World

Thursday 24 April 2025

Sydney, Australia

Hosted by Factor

2 attendees
8 hours

Overview

In this event, explore the pivotal role CIOs play in leading digital transformation across industries. As organizations accelerate their digital agendas, CIOs must balance innovation, cybersecurity, and operational efficiency to drive business outcomes. This event delves into the strategies that empower IT leaders to foster agility, manage complexity, and align technology with long-term business goals.

What we will cover

Customer Experience Exploring strategies to elevate customer interactions, personalisation, and engagement, ensuring competitive differentiation and loyalty.
Operational Productivity Investigating ways to streamline processes and optimise internal operations, reducing inefficiencies and improving overall output.
Enterprise Agility Focusing on building agility and resilience into business operations to quickly respond to market shifts, disruptions, and emerging opportunities.
Digital Acceleration Exploring how to accelerate digital transformation efforts to drive growth and adapt to new market demands.
Cybersecurity Priority Emphasising proactive approaches to cybersecurity, integrating security measures into projects from inception to minimise risk.
AI Automation Examining how automation and AI are enhancing decision-making, reducing manual tasks, and improving business outcomes.
Data Analytics Exploring how data-driven insights can guide strategic decisions and improve business outcomes across departments.
ESG Goals Investigating how CIOs can support organisational sustainability efforts, aligning IT with environmental and social governance (ESG) metrics.
Talent Development Addressing the challenge of upskilling IT teams and attracting digital talent, focusing on leadership in a tech-driven world.
C-Suite Collaboration Exploring the evolving role of CIOs as strategic partners within the executive team, driving cross-functional collaboration and innovation.
Cybersecurity Investments Discussing the increasing need for investments in cybersecurity to protect against evolving threats and secure sensitive business data.
AI Optimisation Exploring AI's role in optimising business processes, from predictive analytics to automating routine workflows.

Speakers

Robert Lupone · Chief Information Officer, Lovisa
Anna George · Head of Tranformation, Link Group
Noeline Anandaras · Head Of Engineering - Customer, Digital And Integration Platform, Cover-More
Steve Katsilis · General Manager of Supply Chain and Information Technology, Barbeques Galore
Melissa Ellul · Chief Information Officer, Woods Bagot
Kathleen McGuire · Head of IT Transformation Group Infrastructure, QBE
Peter Orlowski · Chief Information Officer, Transdev
Mike Chatt · Chief Technology Officer, Toll Group
Andrew Turner · Group General Manager Technology, EVT
Valdim Mustafa · Head of Technology: Sending Services, Australia Post
Sneha Kadam · Head of Technology Transformation, Zurich Insurance
Mahesh Thiyagarajan · Head of Cloud Platform Engineering, Iress Ltd.
Lee Challoner-miles · General Manager of Information Technology, Commonwealth Bank
Sidney Wong · Head of Architecture and Planning, BAI Communications
Kylie Schabel · General Manager, Infrastructure, Cloud and Workplace, Insignia Financial
Linda Craven · Chief Digital & Information Officer, Defence Bank
David Barry · General Manager of Risk and Compliance, Customer and Operations, Allianz Australia LTD
Mark Drasutis · General Manager of Digital and Enterprise Technology, ASX
Martin Lin · Head of Cloud and ICT, City of Port Phillip
Dean Kastelic · Director of Architecture, Bapcor
Aidan Byrne · Head of Applications, Allianz Technology
Brett Wilson · Chief Information Officer, Australian Red Cross
Andrew Khoo · Chief Engineer, Commonwealth Bank
Hani Arab · Chief Information Officer, Seymour Whyte Hani Arab is a seasoned technology executive with over 25 years of experience in construction, asset management and media. Currently leading Seymour Whyte’s technology function, Hani is transforming its ICT services to enhance operational efficiency and support the delivery of strategic outcomes. His work includes transforming the cultural mindset and the perception of how technology can enable and empower their workforce. With a deep understanding of business and technology, Hani is passionate about using a human-centered approach to solve business challenges.
Eitan Schleissner · Chief Information Officer, Nick Scali
Rosario Grasso · Head of Cloud Infrastructure & Operations, Moonee Valley City Council
Belinda Nation · Head of Architecture, Optus
Devesh Maheshwari · General Manager of IT, Lendi
Anna Zantuck · General Manager of Strategy, Data & Architecture, Insignia Financial
Sandy Aitken · Director Technology Transformation Tabcorp, IT Advisory Services
Andrew Atkin · General Manager of IT ANZ, PVH Bands Australia
Tyson Jansen · Chief Information Officer, Burbank
Steve Mason · Head of Enterprise Operations Transformation, National Australia Bank
Jade Knox · Group General Manager - IT, Crown Resorts
George Gorman · Chief Information Officer, ZIP Co.
Scott Mcmillan · Chief Digital Officer, Optus
Marc Blair · Head of Group Information Management, Pepper Group Services (Australia) Pty ltd
Alison Bourke · General Manager of Information Technology, TPG Telecom
Michael Donath · Chief Digital Officer, Team Global Express
Paul Napier · Head of Digital Technology, Souther Cross Austereo
Daniel Nicholson · Head of Architecture, Coles Group
Sally Lau · Head of cloud capability, ANZ
David Calvo · Chief Information Officer, Northern Health
Joe Razavi · Head of IT Operations, Chemist Warehouse

Partners

Boomi Boomi aims to make the world a better place by connecting everyone to everything, anywhere. The pioneer of cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and now a category-leading, global software as a service (SaaS) company, Boomi touts the largest customer base among integration platform vendors and a worldwide network of approximately 800 partners – including Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, SAP, and Snowflake. Global organisations turn to Boomi’s award-winning platform to discover, manage, and orchestrate data, while connecting applications, processes, and people for better, faster outcomes. For more information, visit http://www.boomi.com.
Appian Corporation
Ping Identity
Kinetic IT
Nitro
Splunk Splunk is helping to build a safer and more resilient digital world by equipping customers with the unified security and observability platform they need to keep their organization securely up and running — no matter what digital disruptions come their way.
Thoughtworks
TPG Telecom TPG Telecom is one of Australia’s largest telecommunication companies and operates a number of leading mobile and internet brands including Vodafone, TPG, iiNet, Internode, Lebara, AAPT and felix. As a full-service telecommunications provider, TPG Telecom provides mobile, internet, business and fixed network solutions. We serve consumers, small and medium businesses, government, corporate enterprises and wholesale customers offering a comprehensive portfolio of fixed and mobile products in the Australian telecommunications market. We operate a leading mobile network with over 5,600 sites covering more than 23 million Australians, and Australia’s second-largest fixed voice and data network, with more than 27,000km of inter-capital and metropolitan fibre networks as well as international transit capacity, and a 5G mobile network that is currently being rolled out. TPG Telecom is an ASX-listed company, employing more than 3,000 people offering a flexible, diverse and inclusive workplace. At TPG Telecom, we are committed to connecting Australia for the better.
Box
HCL Technologies
Lenovo Lenovo is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of ‘New IT’ technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services. This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub at https://news.lenovo.com/. To learn more about our career opportunities, visit our careers page at http://jobs.lenovo.com/.
Smartsheet
BMC Software From core to cloud to edge, BMC continues to build on a 40-year heritage of shaping digital transformation for organizations around the world. We deliver the software and services innovations that help over 10,000 global customers, including 84% of the Forbes Global 100, thrive in their ongoing evolution to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise—a state in which intelligent, integrated, value-creating functions operate with minimal human involvement across every facet of the organization and its ecosystem. We are proud to have earned recognition as an ITSM Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for seven years running, as well as being named overall leader in the EMA Radar Report for Workload Automation for five years in a row and top of the charts in EMA’s recent AIOps Radar report. Our future-focused portfolio helps drive business success with AI-enabled solutions for automation, optimization, performance, security, and service management, covering everything from mainframe to multi-cloud. BMC’s open, scalable, modular technologies help ensure that our customers can run and reinvent their businesses for growth and competitive edge while optimizing cost, performance, and security. For more information about BMC, please visit www.bmc.com.
SAP Australia SAP is one of the world’s leading producers of software for the management of business processes, developing solutions that facilitate effective data processing and information flow across organisations. At SAP, our purpose is to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. Our promise is to innovate to help our customers run at their best. SAP is committed to helping every customer become a best-run business. We engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality, and spread opportunity across borders and cultures. Together, with our customers and partners, we can transform industries, grow economies, lift up societies, and sustain our environment.
Snow Software Snow Software is changing the way organizations understand and manage their technology consumption. Our technology intelligence platform provides comprehensive visibility and contextual insight across software, SaaS, hardware and cloud. With Snow, IT leaders can effectively optimize resources, enhance performance and enable operational agility in a hybrid world.
Rimini Street
Brennan Brennan is an Australian-owned systems integrator that has grown since being founded in 1997 to become the largest privately owned local player in the market. Headquartered in Sydney with offices across Australia and in India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines to provide 24/7 services to its customers. Serving more than 1,400 business, enterprise, and government customers, the privately owned company continues to expand its services to meet customer needs. In line with this, the company has made seven strategic acquisitions and has established a new division, Brennan Digital to support customers in their digital transformation journey.