While managing the rising costs of non-strategic legacy applications and technologies, organisations are struggling with the need to modernise their ERP and technology platforms. Enterprise software providers have long imposed their agendas and timelines for transformation, at great financial and operational expense. What are the risks, how can business leaders recognise them, and what are the alternatives? Dennis Remmer, Senior Director for Technology Support at Rimini Street in the Asia/Pacific region, will present key takeaways and discuss how large organisations are overcoming these challenges to successfully implement digital transformation.

Around 1.5 million people across Australia are studying at a tertiary institution. Our universities store a great deal of data about every student, some of it quite personal, particularly if it’s related to an issue such as financial hardship. For the University of Sunshine Coast, how this data is treated needs to be considered very carefully when the university is deciding which digital products and services to build and deploy across its campuses.

Join Sit-Down’s moderator and Omer Yezdani, chief data officer at the University of Sunshine Coast as they discuss how the university approaches ethical questions when deploying AI and other automation technologies.

They will discuss:

• The key questions that the data analytics team asks when deploying technologies that will be used by thousands of students.
• The times when Yezdani and his team can automate interactions between the university and students but choose not to because it’s not the right thing to do.
• Why everyone working with these technologies has a responsibility to ask questions about their ethical impacts.
• How the university decides the actions and processes that are safe to automate, and which ones still require manual intervention.

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In today's digital age, organisations are facing unprecedented challenges in managing and protecting their data across multiple clouds and platforms. Traditional backup and recovery solutions are no longer enough to keep up with the pace and complexity of modern infrastructure.

Join us for a dynamic session on how Rubrik is revolutionising data security and protection for multi-cloud environments. Learn about our innovative technology that enables sensitive data discovery, threat hunting, instant recovery, ransomware resilience, and more. Hear from our experts on how Rubrik can help you streamline your operations, reduce costs, and improve your security posture. Discover why Rubrik has been recognised as a leader in the Data security space and how we are on a mission to secure the world’s data and help you achieve ultimate confidence in cyber recovery.

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In recent years, pizza retail giant, Domino’s, has spent tens of millions of dollars to beef up its digital capabilities. Clearly, as the organisation creates more digital products for its customers, there needs to be a corresponding investment in securing the IT infrastructure that supports these innovations.

Join Stephen Bennett, chief information security officer at Domino’s as he discusses how automation has helped the pizza retailer gain the efficiencies it needs to deal with threats and improve its cyber posture.

He will discuss:

• The automation technologies that Domino’s uses to reduce the time its cyber specialists spend on mundane operational tasks and enable a focus on higher value activities.
• His thoughts on striking a balance between what should be automated and what needs to be left in the hands of humans.
• The role automation is playing to help the organisation deal with the cyber skills shortage in Australia and increase staff retention.

Digital transformation is accelerating sharing and transfer of sensitive content to third parties across all industry sectors. Nearly all of this data is regulated and protected by governmental and industry standards. In addition to a cyber-threat landscape that is growing in complexity and maliciousness, maturity of governance and security tracking and controls directly translates into risk. This presentation explores key findings from a new cross-industry global survey focused on third-party sensitive content communications and spells out key takeaways that will help attendees improve their risk posture as it relates to compliance and security.

Gallagher Bassett is the largest third-party insurance claims administrator in Australia – it manages claims on behalf of insurers, brokers, government bodies and self-insured organisations. In recent times, automation technologies have been used by the organisation to streamline activities such as the processing of invoices and workers compensation claims. As their automation capability has matured, the organisation is now using the data generated from these processes to create new products, benchmark the supply chain, improve outcomes and increase revenue.

· Adapting to cyber security challenges 

· Managing personnel risks

· Implementing an all-hazards security approach to protect critical assets

When airline Virgin Australia came out of administration in late 2020 following a difficult year due to COVID lockdowns, its IT team needed to grow and mature rapidly to enable relaunching and transforming the airline while overcoming a decade of under investment in technology. This has meant that a significantly expanded tech team has been retooled to deploy new technologies and delivery capabilities.

Join Sit-Down’s director of research and production, Shahida Sweeney as she chats to David Hogarth, chief information officer at Virgin Australia about how a more diverse team has helped the airline grow and transform over the past two-and-a-half years.

This will discuss:

• How Virgin has moved from an organisation that underinvested in technology to one that is now halfway through a major digital transformation program.
• The ways in which Virgin has attracted a diverse workforce which has rapidly grown (40% of permanent technology staff are women).

Why the majority of all transformation projects across the airline are technology-related and the projects that are at the heart of this change (fixing tech debt across data centres, deploying network infrastructure and physical security, a digital ecosystem that includes a new mobile app, loyalty and baggage systems to reduce customer stress, a new ERP system, as well as a website)

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No organisation is immune to cybercrime. How you do communicate the message across the enterprise? And why does cyber-security start from the top down? Join this fireside chat for insights from the front-line.

· Assessing the potential of network and data breaches

·Investing in a forward-thinking cyber-security strategy

· Staying vigilant to threats in a fast-changing environment

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In a slowing global economy, CISOs are being asked by their boards to use already tight budgets to reduce the risk of their organisations falling victim to damaging cyber-attacks. As enterprises move more and more applications and services to the cloud, investments need to be made to secure this infrastructure. This is why cloud security is essential to ensure data that is sitting in the cloud is being adequately protected.

Join Aqua Security’s Stuart Gomez and Madhul Sachdeva at this month’s Sit-Down as they discuss how cloud security enables organisations to rapidly deploy services in the cloud while ensuring compliance with local regulations to help drive growth. They will talk about how cloud security can help enterprises cut costs and increase revenue through automation; while reducing risk, exposure and downtime.

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For CIOs, finding technologies that will provide efficiencies and cost savings that will help their organisations deal with an uncertain global macroeconomic environment is getting harder. There is a bevy of solutions available in the market that promise to take the load off teams by automating key business processes.

Join David Irecki, Director, Solution Consulting – APJ at Boomi as he shares insights, using case study examples, that illustrate how integration and automation can help achieve what every CIO cares about: security, operational excellence, innovation, and shareholder value.

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