AI SUMMIT VIC 2019

Fostering increased business growth through AI

adoption and deployment

24th October 2019, MAIA Docklands, Melbourne

ED SANTOW BORA ARSLAN STEPHEN JOSLIN YANDONG FAN

Human Rights Commissioner Chief Information Officer Chief Architect
Chief Analytics Officer
CANCER COUNCIL VICTORIA PUBLIC TRANSPORT VICTORIA
AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS IAG
COMMISSION

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WHO WILL BE ATTENDING: KEY TOPICS:

- Establish an effective AI strategy and align this with
- Chief Information Officer your business to create new revenue streams
- Chief Technology Officer - Optimise AI performance through new and revised
data architecture
- Heads of Data Science
- Unravel AI ethics to ensure sustainable and
- Heads of IT/ICT/ Technology responsible AI adoption and deployment
- Heads of Business Intelligence - Safeguard your organisation with AI risk mitigation
tools to proactively combat external threats
- Head of Transformations
- Accelerate your AI journey by transforming your
internal digital culture and skills set

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8:30 Registration, coffee & networking
9:00 Welcome remarks from the MC
DELEGATE SPOTLIGHT
9:10
How do you effectively leverage AI as a means of driving
business revenue?
MORNING PANEL
9:30 Exploring how your organisation is enabling AI as the
next frontier of business innovation and growth
Reaping the benefits of an AI strategy and overcoming the
challenges when adopting and scaling AI
Extracting the maximum value from data analytics and
actioning this into your AI-driven business initiatives
Exploring diverse range of AI technologies and investing in
platforms that maximise opportunities and optimise
efficiency
1. Bora Arslan, Chief Analytics Officer, IAG
2. Stephen Joslin , Chief Information Officer, Cancer Council
Victoria
3. Cinnamon Pollard, CX & Digital Transformation Lead,
Worksafe Victoria
10:10  SPEED NETWORKING
10.30 Morning tea & networking
11:00  AI Ethics Panel: Exploring the moral and ethical
landscape associated with AI and ML assets
Balancing the ever-increasing need for AI technology &
human activity to ensure best practices
Ensuring transparency and accountability for AI decision
making tools
Staying in control of complex intelligent systems and
implementing strategies to minimise human error
Minimising AI bias and discrimination - exploring human 
rights impacts of AI and ML
1. Ed Santow, Human Rights Commissioner, Australian
Human Rights Commission
2. Ania Karzek , Manager Strategy and Performance,
Department of Child Protection, SA
3. Christopher Bergmeir, Research fellow in Applied Machine
Learning, Lecturer Data Science, Monash University
11.50 Establishing an enterprise-wide AI strategy to optimise
business processes and service delivery
Seamlessly integrating AI initiatives with your current
business models to reduce expenditure and improve
service delivery
Building an AI strategic road-map to ensure long-term
investment and ROI for your business
Measuring your organisation against an AI maturity model
to proactively manage challenges with potential growth
Vivek Pande, Enterprise Architect Lead AI, AGL Energy
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EVENT AGENDA
Thursday 24th October, 2019
12:20Lunch & networking 
12.50 Round Table Discussions (Suggested Topics):
Roundtable 1: Optimising AI performance through
revised data sets
Roundtable 2: Investing in the right AI technology for
long-term ROI
Roundtable 3: Growing AI & ML capabilities to unlock in-
house value
Roundtable 4:  Deploying AI to improve customer
interaction
1.30  AI Data Panel: Implementing strategies to ensure your
data is prepared for optimised AI integration and
performance
Evaluating your current data architecture and transforming
this to align with your AI initiatives
Building a strong data and AI governance framework to
enable transparency and enhance performance
Deriving insights from large volumes of data and
transforming this into actionable plans for improved
investments and decision making
1. Yandong Fan, Chief Architect, Public Transport Victoria
2. Tim Sparks, Head of Advanced Analytics Enablement, NAB
3. Anurag Soin, Director Data Science Institutional Banking,
ANZ
4. Roger Rooney, Director and Senior Project Manager, ACT
Government
2.00 Developing a secure AI strategy to ensure threat
protection and information security across AI and digital
platforms
Addressing the security challenges associated with AI and
ML integration and developing a risk mitigation plan
Evaluating your current digital and AI security architecture
Enabling AI risk mitigation tools to ensure your business is
ready for external threats
Jeetendra Bhadrwaj, Senior Enterprise Architect, Toyota
Motor Corporation
2.30 Afternoon Tea & Networking
3.00 AI Lightning Round - Selected speakers will share for 10
mins about their AI projects and lessons learned.
1. Public Transport Victoria Case Study - Data analytics for
real-time passenger information
Yandong Fan, Chief Architect, Public Transport Victoria
2.Improving customer interactions by merging your current
service delivery with complex intelligent systems
Russell Riding, Automation Team Leader, Melbourne Water
3. Australian Unity Case Study - Emotion and Sentiment
Analysis using NLP
Ambrish Kinariwala, Robotics Process and Cognitive
Automation Capability Lead, Australian Unity
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 EVENT AGENDA
Thursday 24th October 2019

3.45 International Keynote

4.15 Closing remarks from MC and Networking Drinks

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