AI Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems Summit - Day 2
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Opening Remarks — ANZ AI & Infrastructure State of Play 2026
Chair's opening remarks — data-led benchmark of AI deployment and infrastructure maturity across ANZ enterprises in 2026.
9:10 am - 9:40 am
Keynote | The infrastructure redesign imperative: When your platform can’t support what the business is asking AI to do
Kritika Joon -
Emerging Technologies and Innovation,
icare NSW
AI ambition is outpacing infrastructure reality in most ANZ enterprises. This keynote maps where the platform gaps are actually sitting — compute, data pipelines, integration, observability and what the organisations that are scaling have done differently at the infrastructure layer.
9:40 am - 10:10 am
MLOps at enterprise scale — what broke when we went from 3 models to 30
Sourav Bose -
Head, Enterprise AI Office,
University of New south Wales
The jump from a handful of models to an enterprise-wide portfolio exposes every gap in your MLOps practice — versioning, monitoring, retraining pipelines, access governance and incident response. This is the honest post-mortem from a team that hit every one of those gaps and rebuilt their platform around them
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Speed Networking - Power Rounds: Find Your Three Most Important Conversations Before The Day 1 Ends
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Morning break + exhibition
11:10 am - 11:40 am
Building internal AI literacy that sticks: what works beyond a one-day training module
Kay Barry -
AI Implementation Lead - Risk and Compliance,
QBE Insurance
One workshop and a LinkedIn Learning subscription isn't an AI literacy programme. This session breaks down what ANZ organisations are doing differently to build genuine AI capability across the business — from the frontline to the executive floor — and what the programmes that failed had in common.
