AI is everywhere, and it’s bursting with potential. But without context‑rich data, governance, and security, AI fails.
At OpenText Summit Sydney 2026 delegates discovered how to unlock the intelligence within your enterprise data and activate AI with confidence—enabling organisations to innovate, grow, and outpace the competition.
Through visionary keynotes, insightful customer speakers, real‑world use cases, in‑depth breakout sessions, live demos, meet‑ups with experts, a bustling show floor, and peer‑networking opportunities, delegates explored the latest in today’s essential technologies, from content management and cybersecurity to service management, business network, DevOps, experience and analytics. Learn how to harness the power of your data with control, compliance, and choice.
Don't miss out, with OpenText Sydney 2026 On-Demand, you can gain the insights and know‑how to lead confidently and deploy AI responsibly for a limitless digital workforce. Get a clear understanding of how to use your enterprise information to elevate your organisation.
Shape the future of your enterprise with secure information management powered by AI.
Summit Highlights
Welcome and Guest Address
Listen to the opening address by George Harb, Vice President at OpenText for Australia and New Zealand, and guest speaker David Tsui, Canadian Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner to Australia.
OpenText Strategy
Hear from James McGourlay, OpenText Interim CEO, and George Harb, OpenText Vice President for Australia and New Zealand, as they share insights into OpenText’s strategy.
OpenText Roadmap and Innovations
Muhi Majzoub, OpenText EVP, Product & Engineering, presents OpenText’s roadmap and innovation strategy, joined by Kapil Kaul, OpenText Regional Vice President of Solutions Consulting, for a demonstration of OpenText Aviator Studio.
OpenText Roadmap and Innovations - Guest Speaker: Te Puni Kokiri - Ministry of Maori Development
Join guest speaker Richard Foy, Manager of Knowledge Systems at Te Puni Kōkiri – Ministry of Māori Development, in conversation with Muhi Majzoub, OpenText EVP, Product & Engineering, as they discuss the value of OpenText content and discovery solutions.
OpenText Roadmap and Innovations - Cloud and AI
Listen to Muhi Majzoub, OpenText EVP, Product & Engineering, and Shannon Bell, OpenText EVP, Chief Digital Officer and CIO, in an interactive discussion on cloud and AI strategy.
OpenText Trusts OpenText
Learn from Shannon Bell, OpenText EVP, Chief Digital Officer and CIO, as she shares how OpenText’s AI‑driven enterprise strategy unlocked $1B in savings.
Voice of the Customer - IBM
Hear from Todd Cione, OpenText President of Worldwide Sales, and Elaina Chan, Senior Delivery Leader, HRIT Automation and AI, CIO‑BPT at IBM, in a fireside chat on how IBM is helping their entire organisation embrace generative AI, agent technologies, cloud, and workforce science with OpenText solutions.
Women in Technology Lunch Panel Discussion
Rising Stronger: How setbacks become springboards to success
Transforming career setbacks, failures, and professional obstacles into catalysts for growth, resilience, and unexpected opportunities at work and life.
What if your biggest career failure was your best career move? In an industry that celebrates big wins, technological innovations and flawless execution, we rarely talk about the detours, dead ends, and spectacular crashes that shaped our success.
Listen to the panel of industry peers - real people who found that these moments of falling became their moments of flight.
Panelists:
Stephen McNulty - SVP Asia Pacific OpenText,
Shannon Bell - EVP, CDO and CIO OpenText,
Milo Wilkinson - International Behavioural Scientist,
Kate McCowage - AUSTRAC,
Caroline Wishart - Fonterra
1. Customer spotlight: Real HR transformation at Evolution Mining
Learn how Evolution Mining revolutionised its People & Culture function. Facing challenges with manual records and fragmented data, the team implemented a wholesale digital transformation using cloud SaaS content management integrated with SAP SuccessFactors and digital signatures.
2. Keynote: Building the limitless resilient, digital workforce
Explore roadmap innovations for OpenText™ Content Cloud powers the limitless enterprise with secure, AI-powered content management and enterprise-grade compliance.
3. Smarter archiving, smarter insights – Turning legacy information into intelligence
Highly regulated industries such as Financial Services and Government organisations need a secure, AI-ready way to manage growing volumes of sensitive and legacy data.
4. Customer spotlight: AUSTRAC’s information governance journey
Discover how AUSTRAC, Australia’s financial intelligence unit and AML/CTF regulator leverages OpenText™ Content Management (Extended ECM) to balance complex security requirements with operational agility.
5. The intersection of information governance, compliance, risk, cybersecurity and AI
Explore how organisations can manage their compliance burdens by leveraging OpenText’s IRAP-assessed Cloud, Core Data Discovery Risk Insights (CDDRI) and AI-powered solutions for compliant records capture and records management.
Experience: Power Smart, Scalable Customer Experiences in Uncertain times Part 1
In today’s volatile economy, creating engaging customer experiences—with fewer resources—is what sets leaders apart. Join us to explore our strategic roadmap and see live demos of our AI-led, cloud-native CXaaS portfolio in action.
Experience: Power Smart, Scalable Customer Experiences in Uncertain times Part 2
Learn how OpenText™ Experience Cloud unifies content, communication, and media—boosting agility, accelerating time to value, and empowering lean teams. From GenAI-assisted content creation to seamless integration with your key business systems, discover how OpenText Experience Cloud sets a new standard for modern, scalable, and intelligent customer engagement.
1. The Next Chapter for Content Manager: AI, Integration and Intelligent Governance Part 1
As the enterprise records management platform of choice for Australian government and education, OpenText™ Content Manager continues to set the benchmark for secure, compliant, and scalable information governance. This session will provide an exclusive look at exciting updates to the Content Manager roadmap and development plans for the year ahead, showcasing how innovation continues to evolve around customer needs.
2. The Next Chapter for Content Manager: AI, Integration and Intelligent Governance Part 2
Key areas of discussion include in-place management for Microsoft 365, AI-driven classification and discovery, and the latest enhancements across the Secure Content Management suite.
3. Customer panel: National Gallery of Australia and City of Greater Geelong
From Records to Results: Building an AI-Ready Information Foundation
1. From chaos to clarity: unifying data, identity, and access with OpenText
Sensitive content is growing faster than our ability to govern it, and this gap is where risk lives. Manual oversight and siloed tools leave organisations blind to who has access, what’s exposed, and whether it aligns with corporate policy and compliance requirements. Why does this matter? Because threats and auditors go straight to the data.
2. Customer Spotlight: Te Puni Kokiri - Ministry of Maori Development
Data Security Posture Management using OpenText Core Data Discovery and Risk Insights (CDDRI)
3. Customer panel by WyldLynx and University of Sydney
The Side of Cybersecurity No One Talks About - What May Robertson learned managing data risk at the University of Sydney
1. The Agent Era: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Secure Software Delivery
Every escaped defect costs trust. Some cost millions. Audit fatigue, tool sprawl, and broken release cycles have long been treated as the cost of doing business. It’s time to rewrite that equation.
2. Customer fireside chat: ANZ Bank
Turning Enterprise Investment into Real Outcomes with PPM
1. Avoid Frankenapps! Build smarter OSM solutions
Part 1: Self-Service Experience
2. Avoid Frankenapps! Build smarter OSM solutions
Part 2: Incident Prevention and Agentic AssetOps
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