Join your event chair as we kick off an engaging day!

Join your event chair as we kick off an engaging day!

Join your event chair as we kick off an engaging day!

Join your event chair as we kick off an engaging day!

With the vision to forge globally acclaimed 24-hour precincts, fostering an environment where businesses and workforces can thrive, communities flourish and individuals connect in a vibrant, inclusive after-dark experience – the 24 Hour Economy Commission is on a mission.

Delivering a tailored experience to the NSW citizen/customer at any time, any where is key to driving the State’s growth, experience satisfaction and accessibility.

Join this lively talk for a fresh, creative take on innovation, and how to move through red tape to deliver a next-gen experience.

How can we achieve simplification rather than proliferation of technology? And how can we drive IT modernisation within the broader NSW Government to continue to meet the needs of users?

Discover how NSW Premier’s Department is ensuring a strong technology foundation to service multiple NSW Agencies, and building an environment that supports technology innovation, while coordinating projects across the sector for their large user base.

Join us to explore promising initiatives leading into the latter half of 2025, that will continue to build momentum into 2026.

Join us for a deep dive into the revolutionary world of Artificial Intelligence, and the guardrails that allow for its foolproof application.

We’ll look to international best use case examples, domestic and State trends, critical considerations and the opportunities we are seeing for NSW. We’ll deep dive into the complexities of public trust, and the global trends both in the market and regulation, and their causative influence on Australia. Where is Australia, and how can we safely accelerate adoption?

From first understanding the tech and strategising, to governance and how you set up guardrails at the system level to deliver value, and finally the execution and operationalisation – this session will demystify it all!

The 2025 Skills Horizon report saw over 70 Australian and global leaders and executives contribute to map out challenges facing leaders in the immediate future, and the skills leaders need to meet those challenges. It is the first report in an annual series published by Sydney Executive Plus.

No matter the industry or level of seniority, the next 10 years will be the most disorienting in a leader’s career. They could also become the most impactful.

As we enter deeper into this decade, business leaders have five messy shifts to worry about: values, technology, accountability, trust, and energy.

What do skills do we need next? Join us to find out how to engage with the future in productive ways, and the impact of emerging technologies and AI on skills requirements.

Join us as we unravel the progressive strategies underpinning healthcare innovation in NSW.

With the commitment to delivering the best digitally enabled and integrated health system that provides patient‑centred health experiences and quality health outcomes to all NSW citizens, we will unpack the initiatives underlying this ambition - the pioneering Digital Front Door, Health Prototyping Centre, myVirtualCare, the intricacies of delivering virtual care to prisons, and the advancements made by the Single Digital Patient Record

Discover the strategies, challenges, and triumphs that have propelled NSW to a digital forefront of healthcare and service success.

Amith Shetty

E/Clinical Director, Strategy Access and Partnerships, NSW Ministry of Health

Vanessa Janissen

Chief Executive Officer, NSW Health Pathology

Wendy Hoey

Chief Executive Officer, Justice Health NSW

The CIO/CTO responsibilities are ever-changing – now even more so with the rapid progression of AI. The art of navigating multiple technology terrains, keeping up with ever-changing customer digital demands, scaling tech initiatives, and making the right investment decisions amidst competing priorities, are just in the daily stride. Not to mention developing and empowering the technology workforce required to meet future demands and empowering employees to meet digital/ IT business demands.

Unpack the critical inner-workings of our technology leaders – and how they remain committed to leading with a future-oriented mindset to ensure the best tech foundation is in place to underpin the successful delivery of public services.

Join us as we explore how they are preparing for 2026, their immediate investment priorities, and the strategies being applied to ensure their services meet future demands.

Suneetha Bodduluri

Chief Technology Officer, Service NSW

Leanne Chau

Chief Information Officer, Water NSW

David Reeve

Chief Information Officer, University of Technology, Sydney

This session is designed to equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to harness the power of AI for unprecedented growth and efficiency.

Join our experienced panel to unpack Tangible ML/AI Use Cases, and how they have accelerated AI initiatives for greatest impact, and maximised efficiencies in service delivery.

They will spotlight effective guardrails, balancing risk with benefits, and how to advance maturity and capabilities, while navigating assurance, privacy, ethics.

If you want the secrets on how to unlock the path to scale, this is the location to be!

Embark on a future-thinking journey exploring the new half-human workforce – the role of people vs the AI agent.

Join us in a dynamic exploration of deciphering which tasks humans should let go, redefining work into 2025/26 to allow humans to have more meaningful, strategic oversight, and aligning humans and machines to their individual strengths for ultimate collaboration and efficiency.

We’ll debate where to apply technology, what to leave to people, and how to align technology, people and process to hit the sweet spot in operational excellence.

Jody Grima

Chief People Officer, NSW Department of Customer Service

Liza Noonan

Executive Director, Fostering Innovation, Premier’s Department NSW

Mandy Young

Chief Executive Officer, State Insurance Regulatory Authority

Discover how NSW’s infrastructure sector is accelerating the adoption of digital technologies, processes, and systems to enhance productivity, service quality, and social and environmental outcomes across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Join this conversation to explore the NSW Spatial Digital Twin, the Land iQ platform, and the broader Infrastructure Digitalisation Roadmap.

Hear how advanced digital technology is being integrated to allow project information and material to be more easily shared and reused across government, and leveraging best practice for infrastructure data and information management to create a consistent approach to digitalisation capability uplift initiatives.

Tom Gellibrand

Chief Executive Officer, Infrastructure NSW

Narelle Underwood

Surveyor-General & Executive Director, Spatial Services

James Strutt

Director, Strategy, Property and Development NSW, Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure

Join our international guest from Stats NZ for a thought-provoking discussion on the essential elements that enabled connected digital services.

Become privy to their 5 year technology strategy, and how they aim to deliver on their ambitions, as well as the toughest code to crack - getting buy-in from leadership to enable more efficient operations and advanced digital infrastructure.

Join an engaging debate-style session designed to spark lively discussions and encourage audience participation. Led by an expert facilitator, this session will dive deep into the topic at hand, prompting thought-provoking exchanges among peers. You'll have the opportunity to actively contribute your insights, ask questions, and engage in spontaneous discussions with fellow participants, creating a collaborative and insightful experience.

Kristin Bamford

Group Product Director, Service NSW

Trish Oxford

Executive Director, Reform and Innovation, Aboriginal Affairs NSW

Frances Foster- Thorpe

Executive Director, Shaping Futures and Data Insights, The Cabinet Office

Join an engaging debate-style session designed to spark lively discussions and encourage audience participation. Led by an expert facilitator, this session will dive deep into the topic at hand, prompting thought-provoking exchanges among peers. You'll have the opportunity to actively contribute your insights, ask questions, and engage in spontaneous discussions with fellow participants, creating a collaborative and insightful experience.

Join an engaging debate-style session designed to spark lively discussions and encourage audience participation. Led by an expert facilitator, this session will dive deep into the topic at hand, prompting thought-provoking exchanges among peers. You'll have the opportunity to actively contribute your insights, ask questions, and engage in spontaneous discussions with fellow participants, creating a collaborative and insightful experience.

If you want a deep dive into risk, you are in the right place. Walking the fine line of innovation, whilst remaining conscious of risk, continues to remain a learning in progress.

Together with our diverse panel members, we will discuss keys to unlocking opportunities via AI, and deploying effective guardrails whilst remaining conscious of risk.

Are we missing productivity uplift because of risk aversion? Do we need more awareness and training in place to ensure effective and safe use of AI?.

Hear from our panel of industry experts!

Dr Liming Zhu

Research Director, CSIRO’s Data 61

Jeremy Gill

Head of Policy, Committee for Sydney

Kate Carruthers

Former Chief Data and Analytics Officer, UNSW

Alexandra Geddes

Executive Director, Programs and Innovation, NSW Environment Protection Agency

Explore how Test & Buy Innovation empower agencies to adopt innovation procurement, enabling access to tailored and innovative solutions that address community challenges. This session highlights strategies for focusing on the problem, or desired outcome, attracting a wide range of solutions, fostering procurement agility and better outcomes for public service delivery.

Join this pioneering and thought-provoking session to unpack how AI will revolutionise how we communicate. This session will explore the future of health & education with AI, and how it will reinvent research and the industry –and the opportunities AI will create for Australia.

Join our esteemed panel as they unveil their relationship with each of the above C’s, their pivotal importance, and how they have been integrated and leveraged to meet the dynamic expectations of today’s customers, drive growth, and transform interactions into trust.

Paul James

Chief Executive, Department of Internal Affairs NZ

Steve Brady

Managing Director, TAFE NSW

Megan Main

CEO, ACC, NZ

Money & budget – it’s a challenging, and often tight realm to navigate!

How can we treat legacy debt while meeting the technology challenge – how do you make good on both? Then there’s the high storage costs associated with emerging technology – do you pay up or stay behind?

The CIO has the challenge of bringing the frontline narrative to the organisation, then the business narrative. How do you develop an operationally focused business case that talks to the narrative of government – how can you convince government to invest?

Enter this open discussion for brainstorm on creative approaches to talent.

Participate via Slido with your thoughts to be integrated into the conversation with our panel.

We’ll be exploring the essential elements in uplifting digital capability and digital literacy in workforce, where can we further develop our point of difference to attract and retain the best talent, and how we can tap into underutilised skillsets within neurodivergent and first nations peoples.

Join us for a collaborative thinking approach on creative and effective recruitment strategies, and how public sector can work more closely with industry and academia to ensure a strong and relevant skills pipeline.

Hannah Tonkin

Women’s Safety Commissioner, NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Prof. Danielle Logue

Expert Advisory Group Member, Office of Social Impact Investment

Frances Foster- Thorpe

Executive Director, Shaping Futures and Data Insights, The Cabinet Office

Stephen Dametto

Assistant Commissioner, Eastern Command, Australian Federal Police

Peter McKechnie

Deputy Commissioner, Field Operations, NSW Rural Fire Service