Finance functions across government are under pressure to move beyond compliance and reporting towards insight-driven decision support. This session explores how finance leaders are evolving their role to provide real-time visibility, predictive insights and stronger accountability in an increasingly constrained fiscal environment. The discussion will focus on how integrated data, automation and analytics can help finance teams support policy priorities, manage risk and enable more informed decisions across the organisation.​

As governments look to scale AI and digital innovation, the strength of their underlying platforms has become mission-critical. This session explores the foundational capabilities required to support secure, resilient and scalable innovation, including integration, extensibility and cloud-based architectures. The discussion will focus on how technology leaders are addressing legacy complexity and building platforms that can support future policy and service demands.

Across the Federal Government, AI is already being used to automate document processing, support decision-making, and improve service delivery. But where we’re seeing the biggest untapped opportunity… is in finance. Because finance sits at the centre of every decision — every policy, every program, every dollar. This session will walk through how AI powers finance through your day through:

• AI powered insights
• Automating manual operational work
• Real time data to achieve better decision making

• Repeatable patterns we’re observing across programs that are progressing well
• Governance, sequencing, and capability uplift that makes the difference
• Business ownership vs IT ownership (and how to land it)
• Mistakes to avoid

Discuss key topics with experts on how to deliver results through modernisation

Discuss key topics with experts on how to deliver results through technology: business processes, data management, AI, cloud ERP, Sovereign cloud.

• Discover out of the box Data Products - providing the mission critical datasets required for analytical and AI use cases.
• Generate insights using out of the box intelligent applications
• Combine SAP and non-SAP Data for AI Use Cases using Zero Copy

Public sector organisations are under intense pressure to do more with less, while maintaining service quality and public trust. This session explores how modernising core systems can support efficiency, standardisation and cost control without introducing unnecessary risk or disruption. The focus is on practical pathways for modernisation, the cost of inaction, and how finance leaders can support sustainable, long-term efficiency.

Hear how and why the Department of Health stabilised shared services operations to position the organisation for future digital and process improvements through process excellence.