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CIO Edge 2027

CIO Edge is Australia’s premier invitation-only IT conference, connecting over 180 top CIOs and IT Leaders to master the playbook for a new era. The event focuses on driving growth with constrained resources, leveraging agentic AI, and empowering tech executives to become chief architects of their enterprises. Attendees benefit from global expertise, peer le…

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31Speakers
0Sponsors
33Sessions
23Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at CIO, in alphabetical order.

Aarti Joshi
Chief Information Officer at Department of Customer Services · Department of Customer Services
Abhik Sengupta
Principal Business Value Advisor at Atlassian · Atlassian
Alan Thorogood
Research and Engagement at MIT CISR · MIT CISR
Andrew Riley
Head of Solutions Architecture at NSW Cisco Australia & New Zealand · Cisco ANZ
Arul Arogyanathan
Chief Information Officer at Village Roadshow (#1 in CIO50 2025) · Village Roadshow
David Hall-Johnston
Field CTO, Asia Pacific & Japan at Dell Technologies · Dell Technologies
David Siroky
AI Chief Technology Officer JAPAC at Cisco APJC · Cisco APJC
David Walker
Former Group Chief Technology Officer at Westpac & DBS and ADAPT Advisor · ADAPT
Don Murphy
Commercial Sales Manager ANZ at AMD · AMD
Dr. Peter Stanski
CTO at V2 AI · V2 AI
Dr. Rose Skandari
Field CTO of AI Solutions at Cisco Systems Australia · Cisco Australia
Felix Fitzpatrick
Head of Observability ANZ at Splunk · Splunk
Gabby Fredkin
Head of Analytics & Insights at ADAPT · ADAPT
Ian Christie
Head of AI & Data at Fujitsu · Fujitsu
Jeremy Hubbard
Chief Technology and Data Officer at Rest · Rest
Jim Berry
CEO & Founder at ADAPT · ADAPT
John Hopping
CTO APAC at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless · Ericsson Enterprise Wireless
Kevin McCabe
Chief Technology Officer at Cognizant · Cognizant
Kurt Wilcox
Director of Professional Services · Rimini Street
Maile Carnegie
Innovation & Growth leader
Matt Boon
Senior Research Director · ADAPT
Matthew Pritchard
Head of Digital Technology, Architecture & Data at SA Power Networks · SA Power Networks

Agenda

Selected from 33 sessions.

  • 07:45 - 08:30

    Registration & Check-In

    Secure your seat in the keynote room for the day.

  • 08:30 - 08:50

    Welcome to the 29th CIO Edge: Business & Operating Models in the Agentic AI Era

    Welcome to ADAPT’s 29th national gathering of Australian CIO and IT leaders from Enterprise and Government - with the cohort responsible for over 1/3 of AU GDP and 10% of the workf…

  • 08:30 - 08:50

    Welcome to the 29th CIO Edge: Business & Operating Models in the Agentic AI Era

    Welcome to ADAPT’s 29th national gathering of Australian CIO and IT leaders from Enterprise and Government - with the cohort responsible for over 1/3 of AU GDP and 10% of the workf…

  • 08:50 - 09:10

    ADAPT Australian Maturity & Performance Insights

    ADAPT’s research team reveal the latest local fact-based insights from over 5000 interactions and 1000 detailed surveys with our region’s top CIOs, CISO, CFOs, CTOs, and digital le…

  • 09:10 - 09:15

    Get an Edge: Making the Most of Your Day

  • 09:15 - 09:35

    Business Models in the Agentic AI Era: How We Will Make Money using AI

    Drawing on MIT CISR research spanning 2,378 companies, this keynote unveils a bold framework predicting how AI, agents, and automation will redefine the ways businesses create, cap…

  • 09:35 - 09:55

    Transforming the Enterprise in a Volatile World

    Alan Thorogood will conduct an armchair interview with Maile Carnegie - sharing leadership lessons from her career at ANZ bank, Google, and Procter & Gamble. - Tips on navigating c…

  • 09:55 - 10:25

    Busting the Myths of AI: What’s Real? What’s Next? What Still Needs Humans?

    AI promises to revolutionise work yet most organisations are still figuring out what that actually means in practice. In this session, Atlassian leaders will cut through the noise …

  • 10:45 - 11:15

    CIO Edge Panel: Redefining the CIO - Driving Business Architecture, Value, and Agility in 2026

    Probing the evolving CIO mandate, exploring strategic leadership in business architecture, foundational readiness for AI ROI, budget mastery in uncertainty, and balancing tech demo…

    Panel
Company intelligence

An audience of 23 companies, parsed from the program.

23 companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
23Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

77% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1342%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • Director / Head of1032%
  • Manager / Lead26%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Advisor / Investor310%
  • Other roles13%

Of 31 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.