Federal Forum Agenda
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
9:15 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
9:25 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.
Opening Keynote - From Ambition to Action: Accelerating Australia's Digital Government Agenda
Sian Senior, Senior Director, Federal Government
Simon Grice, Senior Director of Innovation
Dr Andrej Danko, VP and GM of Product Management, Public Sector AI Industry Products & Platform
Neal Mason, Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Secretary
10:05 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion - Leading the Shift: How Government Executives Are Delivering in a Time of Change
Matthew Hay, Chief Information Officer & First Assistant Secretary Digital Delivery Services
Rachael Sandel, Group Chief Information Officer, IT
Simon Bush, Senior Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy
Neal Mason, Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Secretary
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Expo Theatre 3 - Transforming business and service delivery at scale
Anne-Marie Lowe, CEO
Jeremiah Fergus, Director of Defence
Ujwal Kaushik, Director, Applications Engineering
11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Expo Theatre 4 - AI that works for government: Starting small, scaling with confidence
Matt Dodd, Snr Principal Outbound Product Manager
Paul Van Nistelrooij, Director, Outbound Product Management
11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Expo Theatre 1 - Mission ready: How DISR is building the modern APS
Simone Boulding, Senior Executive
William Sheer, CEO
11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Expo Theatre 2 - The next era of ERP in Federal Government
Pete Andrew, Group Vice President, Australia and New Zealand
12:20 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Expo Theatre 2 - The hardest part of cyber security isn’t detection, it’s taking action
Lou Fiorello, GVP & GM, Risk & Security
12:20 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Expo Theatre 3 - Nobody calls Uber to ask where their car is: slashing costs by radically rethinking government service delivery
Cameron Adams, Sr Mgr, CRM Solution Consulting
Graeme Turner, CRM Senior Advisory Solution Consultant
12:20 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Expo Theatre 1 - Improving employee access to HR and IT services at AMSA in just 8 weeks
Debbie Litherland, Director of HR Policy, Performance and Wellbeing
Kylie Howlett, Principal Consultant, OCM Advisory
Phillip Gauke, Practice Manager - Federal Government & Defence
12:20 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Expo Theatre 4 - Productivity and governance in autonomous IT and agentic workflows
Sian Senior, Senior Director, Federal Government
Christian Herring, CTO, Federal, Defence and Intelligence
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Expo Theatre 1 - Unlocking productivity at scale across the APS
Kyla Wilson, Senior Solution Sales Executive - Core Business
Kate Bourke, Advisory Solution Consultant
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Expo Theatre 3- The enterprise service management horizon: readiness, strategy, and the staircase to enterprise velocity
Julie Wynn, Deputy Chief Information Officer
Sam Gounder, Chief Information Officer
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Expo Theatre 4 - Modernising public services: Global federal insights on citizen engagement, inter-agency collaboration, and responsible AI
Jarrett Booz, Digital Transformation Lead, ServiceNow Business Group
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Closing Keynote - The Margin Between Good and Great with Cate Campbell and John Eales
Cate Campbell OAM, Olympic Gold Medalist and one of Australia’s most decorated swimmers
John Eales AM, Former Wallabies Captain, Rugby World Cup winner, Business Leader
Katrina Read, Senior Director, Inspire Value
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.