Inside the Infrastructure Powering Australia’s Financial Systems
Step inside the infrastructure powering Australia’s financial system.
Sydney, Macquarie Park, Australia
Hosted by Factor
- 100 attendees
- 50 hours
Overview
This is not a vendor pitch or a marketing showcase. It is a closed-door tour of one of Sydney’s critical data centre facilities, designed for senior banking and financial services technology leaders responsible for protecting customer data, ensuring regulatory compliance and enabling real-time digital banking.
AI-driven fraud detection, open banking, real-time payments and digital customer platforms are driving unprecedented compute demand. At the same time, regulatory scrutiny, cyber risk and resilience expectations are intensifying.
This session provides a first-hand view of the infrastructure decisions that will define the next decade of financial services performance, stability and competitive advantage.
Limited seats. Senior peers only.
What we will cover
- What CPS 230 actually changes for platform architecture Banks are moving from policy-level resilience to evidence-driven architecture requirements across core systems and suppliers.
- Segregation, containment, and exit paths in hybrid estates How institutions are designing against shared-failure domains and building credible exit strategies from critical vendors.
- Recoverability as the new baseline KPI Uptime is assumed — regulators and boards now care about restore, continuity, and tested recovery under failure scenarios.
- The irreversible infrastructure bets being made now The next 18 months will define vendor dependency, cloud posture, and resilience maturity for years.
Agenda
- See What’s Powering Real-Time Banking & AI(Tour 1) Walk the floor. Understand density, cooling, redundancy and connectivity realities supporting core banking platforms, payments infrastructure, trading systems and AI-driven risk analytics. Separate marketing claims from operational fact.
- Understand Capacity, Latency & Resilience(Tour 1) Financial services cannot tolerate downtime. Explore how infrastructure design impacts transaction latency, disaster recovery posture and business continuity across critical banking systems.
- Strengthen Sovereign & Regulatory Posture(Tour 1) Learn how leading operators address APRA-aligned resilience requirements, cyber hardening, physical security and sovereign hosting considerations critical to regulated institutions.
- Decode the Investment Signals(Tour 1) Billions are flowing into Australian data centres. Where is hyperscale landing? How are financial institutions influencing site selection and redundancy models? What does this signal about future enterprise capacity?
- Decode the Investment Landscape(Tour 1) Billions are flowing into Australian data centres. Where is hyperscale expanding? How is healthcare demand influencing design standards? What does this signal about future digital health capacity?
- Connect with Serious Financial Infrastructure Leaders(Tour 1) Curated for CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects and senior infrastructure decision-makers across banking and financial services. High-signal discussion. No vendor noise.
- See What’s Powering Real-Time Banking & AI(Tour 2) Walk the floor. Understand density, cooling, redundancy and connectivity realities supporting core banking platforms, payments infrastructure, trading systems and AI-driven risk analytics. Separate marketing claims from operational fact.
- Understand Capacity, Latency & Resilience(Tour 2) Financial services cannot tolerate downtime. Explore how infrastructure design impacts transaction latency, disaster recovery posture and business continuity across critical banking systems.
- Strengthen Sovereign & Regulatory Posture(Tour 2) Learn how leading operators address APRA-aligned resilience requirements, cyber hardening, physical security and sovereign hosting considerations critical to regulated institutions.
- Prepare for AI & Digital Banking Expansion(Tour 2) As banks scale fraud detection, customer analytics, automation and generative AI use cases, infrastructure density and power requirements are evolving. Understand what this means for long-term architecture and hybrid cloud strategy.
- Decode the Investment Signals(Tour 2) Billions are flowing into Australian data centres. Where is hyperscale landing? How are financial institutions influencing site selection and redundancy models? What does this signal about future enterprise capacity?
- Connect with Serious Financial Infrastructure Leaders(Tour 2) Curated for CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects and senior infrastructure decision-makers across banking and financial services. High-signal discussion. No vendor noise.
- See What’s Powering Real-Time Banking & AI(Tour 3) Walk the floor. Understand density, cooling, redundancy and connectivity realities supporting core banking platforms, payments infrastructure, trading systems and AI-driven risk analytics. Separate marketing claims from operational fact.
- Understand Capacity, Latency & Resilience(Tour 3) Financial services cannot tolerate downtime. Explore how infrastructure design impacts transaction latency, disaster recovery posture and business continuity across critical banking systems.
- Strengthen Sovereign & Regulatory Posture(Tour 3) Learn how leading operators address APRA-aligned resilience requirements, cyber hardening, physical security and sovereign hosting considerations critical to regulated institutions.
- Prepare for AI & Digital Banking Expansion(Tour 3) As banks scale fraud detection, customer analytics, automation and generative AI use cases, infrastructure density and power requirements are evolving. Understand what this means for long-term architecture and hybrid cloud strategy.
- Decode the Investment Signals(Tour 3) Billions are flowing into Australian data centres. Where is hyperscale landing? How are financial institutions influencing site selection and redundancy models? What does this signal about future enterprise capacity?
- Connect with Serious Financial Infrastructure Leaders(Tour 3) Curated for CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects and senior infrastructure decision-makers across banking and financial services. High-signal discussion. No vendor noise.
Partners
- Macquarie Data Centres We’re your experts in seriously secure, sovereign and compliant data centres. Our AI and cloud data centres are trusted by the world’s biggest hyperscalers, Global Fortune 500 companies and 42% of the Australian Federal Government. All our campuses are Certified Strategic by the Australian Federal Government and supported by 270+ Government-cleared engineers. We're designed to meet your needs today, and into the future. As Australia's most experienced data centre provider, we have been successfully building and operating data centres for over 25 years and hold the nation's longest running track record for Uptime and Operational Excellence. We can tailor a design for your needs today and accommodate your growth for tomorrow. Owned by the ASX200 Macquarie Technology Group.
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