Conference

The AI Summit Australia

Organised by Informa ConnectAustraliaConference website

2026

Joao Almeida
GM and Director of Global Business, XENON Systems
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Luke Anderson
Managing Director, AI & Data, Amazon Web Services
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Bryon Baker
Principal Specialist Solution Architect - AI, Red Hat
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Michael Barnes
Chief Analyst, Omdia
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Bree Barsanti
Senior Solutions Engineer, Nintex
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Mahesh Bharadwaj
Global Enterprise Architect, Lenovo Solutions & Service Group
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Paritosh Bhardwaj
Head of Zendesk Practice, Nagarro
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Hamish Cameron
Founder CEO, Accufind
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Anthony Carbines
Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy & Minister for Major Events, Victorian State Government
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Maile Carnegie
Senior Leader Focused on Innovation & Growth
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Lachlan Carty
Director Investment Facilitation, Invest Vic
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Elaine Chan
Director and APAC Head of AI Sales & GTM, NetApp
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Srikanth (Sri) Chandrasekaran
Country Head, IEEE India
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Nick Clare
Head of Partnerships, Market Intelligence & Growth, Victorian Chamber of Commerce & Industry
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Tia Collings
Founder CEO, Enaxiom
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Tristan Cox
Head of AI, ANZ, Workato
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Natalia Crnomarkovic
Chair, Future Law Working Group, Australasian Society for Computers + Law
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Peita Davis
Director, Skills, Education and Research, Business Council of Australia
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Shyeon Delnawaz
CEO & Co-founder, Puralink
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Belinda Dennett
CEO, Data Centres Australia
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Matt Doughty
CEO/Co-Founder, Prefactor
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Simon Dugina
Head of State Government South, Amazon Web Services
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Paula Edwards-Moffat
Founder and Executive Director, Baula
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Chris Fechner
Chief Executive Officer, Digital Transformation Agency
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Dr Simona John von Freyend
Managing Director, PTNG Scientific
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Professor Rahil Garnavi
Director, RAIsE Hub, RMIT University
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Tony Garvey
Wurundjeri Elder
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Tim Gauci
Founder & Director, Design and Diplomacy
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Nadine 'Noodles' Groves
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Natural Velocity
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Emma Haller
Industry Program Manager, The National AI Centre
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Hilary Harrington
Strategic Account Executive, Datadog
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Mike Hepburn
AI Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat
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Jayne Howley
AI Strategy and Assurance Lead, Department of Government Services (VIC)
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Annie Hsu
Senior Major Account Executive - Cloud and AI, Akamai Technologies
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Jay Jenkins
Field CTO, Akamai Cloud Computing
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Pratik Jhaveri
CTO, World Wide Technology
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Himanshi Juneja
Head of Data & Analytics, CBRE
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Sanchit Juneja
Sr. Director-Data & AI, Tripadvisor
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Anu Karunkailaka
Chief Technology Officer, Intrepid Travel
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Mahesh Krishnan
Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Australia Limited
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Phil Laufenberg
Pro Vice-Chancellor (AI) and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, La Trobe University
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Craig Lawton
Principal AI & Data Technologist, AWS
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Ruth Lewis
Chair, IEEE Society
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Su Liew
Principal Policy Offer, AI Strategy and Assurance, Department of Government Services (VIC)
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Dominic Lindsay
Founder CEO, Nexobot
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Nicole Livingstone
CEO, Victorian Institute of Sport
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Qinghua Lu
Acting Research Director, Software and Computational Systems, Data 61 CSIRO
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Aan Mahta
Founder & CEO, Veltora
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Miriam Makki
Global Head of Public Policy, Heidi Health
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Elicia McDonald
CEO & General Partner, AirTree
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Alexander McIntosh
Student, RMIT University
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Kieran McLeod
Founder CEO, Heidi Health
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Prerit Mishra
Domain Director, DHL
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Munir Mohammed
Sr. Product Manager, IEEE Standards Association
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Paul Monks
Director AI, Fujitsu
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Professor Tanya Monro
Chief Defence Scientist, Defence, Science and Technology Group, Australian Department of Defence
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Dan Mons
CTO, Sharon AI
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Will Morgan
General Manager Performance Sport, Victorian Institute of Sport
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Yasminka Nemet
Future Skills Lead, Australia & NZ, Microsoft
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Tom Niven
Co-CEO, LithicBlue
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Joel O'Halloran
Managing Director ANZ, Stack Infrastructure APAC
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Brad Ostermeyer
Executive Director, Investment and Engagement Industry, Trade and Investment Group,, DJSIR
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Anissh Pandey
Director for NVIDIA Cloud Partner
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Charles Penny
Chief Executive Officer, GreenSquareDC
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Corentin Petit
Global Solutions Director, Mistral AI
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Greg Van Rensburg
Director, Sales Engineering, Zendesk
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Mari Robert
Founder, CEO & CTO, InflaMed
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Andrew Rowse
City of Melbourne
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Javed Shaikh
Sr Technical Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies
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Philip Sheu
Senior GPU Product Manager, Supermicro
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Troy Smithells
Enterprise AI, XENON
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Seshnie Taylor
Founder & CEO, Vocare
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Zoe Thompson
Head of Resilience, Thales
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Kane Thorton
Executive Director, Investment and Engagement, CDC Data Centers
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Mitch Tomazic
Partner, Uvance Wayfinders Consulting by Fujitsu
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Vineeth Varughese
Principal Product Marketing Manager, Akamai Technologies
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Andrew Watson
Deputy Commissioner & Chief Data Officer, ATO
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Farahan Wazer
Founder, Occivar
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Rhys Weekley
CTAIO, Australia Post
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Clifford White
Director of Land Network Integration – Army, Australian Department of Defence
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Victor White
Regional Sales Manager, Datadog
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Izzy Whitelock
CEO, AIIA
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Dr Tim Wiley
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT
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Rob Wilson
Founder & CEO, Quaxit
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Professor Sherman Young
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, RMIT University
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Yaoquan Zhu
Senior Product Manager, GoVeda
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Jinan Zou
Sr. AI Technologist, UNSW
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Source: conference program

Last checked 14 November 2026·Source: published conference programs