Conference Day One
Wednesday 15 June 2016
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08:15 | Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the chair
Brenda Aynsley, Immediate Past President, Australian Computer Society
CREATING AN AGILE CULTURE TO KEEP PACE WITH A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING SECTOR
09:00 | OPENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Developing an inclusive and innovative culture to keep pace with a fast-changing technology landscape
- How do you build an effective workplace culture that empowers, inspires and encourages your team?
- Using an inclusive culture to attract and retain greater diversity within your team and organisation
- How to harness the power of diverse-thinking to foster innovation and secure competitive advantages
Hilda Clune, Chief Information Officer, PwC
09:30 | Enabling the digital transformation by building an agile framework, process and culture
- How to achieve a digitally-driven and agile approach to software and technology capability in a highly-regulated environment
- Identifying new opportunities to increase innovation and incorporate agile ways of working
- Analysing and implementing an agile process that fits your unique needs
Mandy Ross, Chief Information Officer, Tatts Group
10:00 | CASE-STUDY: Reshaping business to increase agility, collaboration and productivity across the organisation
- What changes when you bring and develop an agile culture across your organisation?
- Identifying new opportunities to increase innovation and incorporate agile ways of working - managing risk and sharing in reward.
- Through the looking glass - a case study with a lens on collaboration, mobile and productivity tools helping to reshape the way law is practised
Rebecca Grant, Executive Director, icourts
10:30 | Morning tea
BUILDING AND REFINING THE SKILLS TO ENABLE CHANGE AND SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP
11:00 | Cultivate and sustain high-performing teams of tech leaders to access excellent outcomes
- Strategies to effectively manage, balance and satisfy matrix teams across organisation to encourage high-performance
- Developing teams that rapidly respond to business needs and deliver results
- Communicating effectively and constantly to all levels of the organisation
Sarah Adam-Gedge, Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Avanade Australia
11:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Developing the skills, capabilities and technology to drive cultural change and advance your career
- How to influence change as a leader – communicate and promote your vision, consensus-build and conflict-manage
- Gaining a competitive advantage by identifying what skills to advance in a disruptive sector
- Which technologies and strategies can be used to help enable positive cultural change across the workforce?
Panel Moderator:
Brenda Aynsley, Immediate Past President, Australian Computer Society
Panellists:
Karin Geraghty, Chief Information Officer, SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Gavin Wood, Chief Information Officer, Newcrest Mining
Anna Reed-Stephenson, Head of IT - Corporate and New Energy, AGL Energy
Paul Cholakos, Executive General Manager, Technical Services, Oil Search
12.10 | CASE-STUDY: Building effective networks to leverage benefits for business and personal advancement
- Strategies to develop and maintain effective, strong and authentic networks for career progression
- How to use your networks strategically to access information, earn promotions and generate opportunity
- Building a professional network across the start-up community to access thought leadership and innovative ideas
- How ANZ is forging partnerships with third parties, like fintech Honcho, to improve customer and staff experience
Felicia Trewin, Head of Strategy and Business Optimisation, ANZ
12:40 | Networking Lunch
ADVANCING YOUR CAREER IN THE WAKE OF CHANGING JOB ROLES AND THE EVOLVING WORKPLACE
13:40 | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: How to optimise opportunity, overcome challenges and reach the top in the tech sector
- Personal reflection on leadership journey – challenges faced and the opportunities seized and maximised
- How to influence and shape defining moments to advance careers
- The key advice for aspiring female leaders to succeed in the ICT sector
Renee Gamble, Country Manager Australia and New Zealand - Google for Work, Google
14.10 | Responding effectively to the changing demands of Information, Communication and Technology profession
- Changing landscape of this sector
- Adapting to the evolving role of ICT professionals
- Strategies for success
Surabhi Jain, Senior Data Governance Manager, HSBC Australia
14:40 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Using mobilisation, apps and other strategies to competently manage a work /life balance and increasing demands
- Identifying mobilisation, apps and other technologies to help manage a work/life balance
- Operational techniques required for effective blending of work demands with life priorities
- Successful strategies to manage stress and mounting demands
Panel Moderator:
Brenda Aynsley, Immediate Past President, Australian Computer Society
Panellists:
Angela Goodsir, Chief Technology and Systems Operations Officer, Multi Channel Network
Jayne Opperman, General Manager Business Integration, Group Technology, Westpac Group
Felicia Trewin, Head of Strategy and Business Optimisation, ANZ
Suzy Nicoletti, Head of Online Sales, Twitter Australia
15:20 | Afternoon tea
FACILITATING FEMALE CAREER PROGRESSION IN A MALE DOMINATED SECTOR
15:50 | Mentoring the next generation of women – why it’s important to you
- How to encourage young women into the profession by shifting perceptions of the career path and promoting its exciting opportunities
- Why is it your responsibility to support other women’s progression, and what benefits will this offer you?
- Optimising and supporting young talent by becoming a mentor
- How to be an effective mentor and provide valuable support
Anastasia Cammaroto, Chief Information Officer, BT Financial Group
16:20 | PANEL DISCUSSION: How to successfully navigate a dynamic, changing and male-dominated environment to facilitate career progression
- What options are available to support your professional progression - sponsorship, mentorship, friendship?
- How do you identify and approach a suitable mentor or sponsor?
- Developing awareness of your own and others unconscious bias and successfully overcoming its barriers
- Proactively putting yourself forward for the next promotion and not waiting to be noticed
Panel Moderator:
Brenda Aynsley, Immediate Past President, Australian Computer Society
Panellists:
Claire Howlett, Chief Information Officer, Department of Environment
Alexis Rouch, IT Director, AMP
Kathleen Mackay, General Manager, IT Project Delivery, Boral
Carol-Ann Gough, Executive General Manager, Customer Technology, Suncorp Group
17:00 | Closing remarks from the Chair
17:10 | Close of Day One and networking drinks
18:30 | Official event dinner