Plenary

Summit Keynote: The Future of Innovation

Join Stephen McNulty, OpenText Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific, who will describe the forces shaping Business 2030—enterprise reinvention, human-centric work, new rules for corporate accountability and new requirements for digital technologies—and how businesses can seize the opportunities ahead by building their information advantage. Stephen will also introduce the combined capabilities of Micro Focus and OpenText to help customers gain an information advantage and accelerate their digital transformation. 
    
In his keynote, OpenText Senior Vice President of Private Cloud, Product Management & Strategy, Stephen Ludlow, will reveal the latest innovations in OpenText Cloud Editions and what’s ahead on the Project Titanium roadmap. With our customer’s needs at the centre, Stephen will share insights into how we are making the future of information management AI-led, security-enabled, and cloud ready. With the notion of continuous integrations at the centre of how we help customers elevate their mission critical workloads, you’ll see how AI is bringing information and automation together to help enable customers to be smarter with OpenText.

Business 2030 – Reinvention and success
Hear from a distinguished panel of Australian industry leaders who are partnering with OpenText to accelerate their business digitalization and transformation. They’ll tell us how they’re setting the stage for the next decade and beyond with what they’re building today.  

  • Executive from Australian Government Agency for Transport (Sydney)
  • Julie Wynn, Deputy CIO, Knowledge and Information Products, AUSTRAC  (Sydney)
  • Grant Pattison, Head of IT Delivery, Team Global Express (Melbourne)
  • Paul Gilders, Senior Manager Operations, Enterprise Testing Service,  Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (Melbourne)

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Work Smarter Central Lightning Talks sessions

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Smarter Applications 

Meet today's speed requirements and deliver high-quality applications at scale -- from strategy to release -- using value stream management, DevOps, and AI/ML.

Lightning Talks:


Unleash Performance Engineering in a world of chaos with LoadRunner. 
+ Use case by Accenture (Sydney)


Changing the game with AI-infused test automation using the UFT family. 
+ Use case by Accenture (Sydney)


Stop waiting, wasting and wondering with the new OpenText ValueEdge Platform. 
+ Use case by Accenture (Sydney)

Smarter IT Operations

Optimise digital operations and IT service management by adopting a unified, AI-based, composable solution that frees resources and improves performance while taming cloud costs.

Lightning Talks:


FinOps: Tame your public cloud costs and get more value. 
+ Use case by EoraTech


Fully automated, engaging, and money saving service management experience. 
+ Use case by EoraTech


Boost IT Operations productivity with AIOps and automation - on and off-cloud. 
+ Use case by EoraTech

Smarter Security

Stop threat in their tracks. Protect, detect, and recover from advanced threats. Evolve at the speed of change with security analytics for hybrid environments.

Lightning Talks:


Secure your Software Supply chain and build business trust. 
+ Use case by WyldLynx


Minimising the attack surface through Secure, Adaptive Access Management. 
+ Use case by WyldLynx


Reduce Inefficiencies, Carbon Footprint, and Energy Use through Privacy-Enabling Technologies. 
+ Use case by WyldLynx

Smarter Modernisation

Build on already-made IT investments and continuously adapt and innovate your portfolio of applications to support the rapidly evolving business environment. 

Lightning Talks:


Migrating mainframe workloads to cloud. Drivers, the opportunities and risk mitigation strategies. 
+ Use case by TCS (Sydney) | Accenture (Melbourne)


DevOps for Mainframe Applications. 
+ Use case by TCS (Sydney) | Accenture (Melbourne)



  

Smarter Analytics

Gain actionable data insights using AI and ML analytics in real time, in place or in flight across any data type. Maintain performance and scale for accurate, predictive insights and governance. 

Lightning Talks:


Operationalizing Machine Learning with Vertica. 


AI Driven ECM Content Advisor by Magellan.  


Fact extraction from unstructured text using IDOL. 

    

Smarter Business Network

Simplify business ecosystem connectivity to transform and future proof your supply chain integration – scalable, insightful, with full compliance.

Lightning Talks: 


Comply and thrive, stay ahead of the incoming e-invoicing tsunami. 


Adapt to survive, how cloud B2B integration unlocks the true power of your supply chain. 


Module Suite as digital transformation enabler and accelerator for OT Extended ECM by Answer Modules.

Smarter Information

Master human-centric work, eliminate silos and minimise information risk by boosting productivity with content, insights and automation.

Lightning Talks: 


The Future of Work is Here: Unlock Strategies to Work Smarter with OT Content Cloud. 


Stop information chaos with Extended ECM. 


Do more with less: Boost efficiency with OT Intelligent Capture. 

  

Smarter Experiences

Gain happy users for life by transforming relationships and powering digital interactions for customers, partners, employees across the digital journey.

Lightning Talks: 


Create Communication-Centric Experiences that Unlock Customer and Employee Loyalty. 


Unify your digital, on-the-glass, experiences for next level personalisation. 


Achieving full Information Lifecycle Management by integrating Microsoft, OpenText and SAP by Chrome Consulting.

Discover the Information Advantage sessions

11:00am-11:05am Welcome to unlocking the information advantage
George Harb, Sales VP, Australia & New Zealand | OpenText

11:05am-11:30am Cyber Security, Risk and Information Security in the cloud
Gaurav Arora, Principal Solutions Architect | AWS
With the growing adoption of cloud services, businesses face new cybersecurity, risk, and information security challenges. This session provides key insights and best practices to strengthen your cloud security posture, enabling your organization to succeed in the cloud era, safeguard crucial data and assets, and foster a security-conscious culture.

11:30am-12:00pm Why information governance is good for the IT budget 
Debbie Cutts, Manager, Enterprise Information Management – Digital & Technology | Synergy (Sydney) 
Duncan Hayes, Managing Director, Atturra ECM (Sydney)
Ian Poulton, Director, Solutions Consulting | OpenText (Melbourne)
In this panel session, we will share insights on the practical ways in which organisations can achieve cost savings in their IT budgets, by decreasing hardware, storage and maintenance costs while increasing the value and governance of information.

12:00pm-12:30pm Application retirement to the Cloud  
Grant Pattison, Head of IT Delivery | Team Global Express (Melbourne)
Burke Kelly, Principal Solutions Consultant | OpenText 
Discover how OpenText InfoArchive has helped customers stay compliant to everchanging regulatory, security, privacy and data sovereignty requirements, while decommissioning dozens of legacy applications and complex data, to accelerate their cloud migration initiatives.  Explore upcoming innovations and learn about new cloud options to simplify management of ongoing archival costs. 

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch at Work Smarter Central

1:30pm-2:00pm Making the business case for moving to the cloud  (Sydney)
Tim Abbott, Acting Group Executive, digiTEC | icare 
Tim Morris, Sales Director, Government & Territories | OpenText
In this session, Tim will share insights into their journey to the cloud,  including how to make the business case to justify the move to the cloud, as well as the challenges and roadblocks encountered. He will share their learnings and how iCare NSW successfully overcame these challenges to deliver a successful cloud transformation project.

1:30pm-2:00pm Information Protection & Risk Mitigation (Melbourne)
Sripurna Das, Head of Enterprise Data and Content  | Origin Energy  
Ian Poulton, Director, Solutions Consulting | OpenText 

2:00pm-2:30pm Modernise your information management in the cloud 
Malcolm Holden, Head of Solutions & Technology | Google Cloud ANZ (Sydney)
Alistair Hunter, Strategic Partnerships Engineering Lead | Google Cloud (Melbourne)
Andrew Ormesher, Lead Solutions Consultant | OpenText
Burke Kelly, Principal Solutions Consultant | OpenText 
Deploying Enterprise Information Management (EIM) in the cloud as a turnkey managed service can quickly improve the time to value on information management investments, improve supplier and customer collaboration and create opportunities for resource reallocation.

2:30pm-3:00pm Unlock all your data's full strategic potential with OpenText AI and Analytics 
Jack Shi, APJ Regional Leader, Vertica | OpenText 
Learn how OpenText Analytics and AI can enable your organizations to understand all your data quickly and automatically to predict insights that drive positive business outcomes.

3:00pm-3:30pm Creating Customers for Life with Intelligent & Connected Experiences. 
Brett Dashwood, Senior Account Executive | OpenText 
How can organisations deliver a "Total Experience" to customers? During this session, you'll learn about the key elements of a Total Experience strategy to acquire new customers and keep them for life, while retaining the talent your company requires. By correctly combining digital and information solutions that integrate customer and employee experiences, as well as operational efficiency into a cohesive business strategy, you will drive growth and profitability, deliver a competitive differentiator for your brand, and make Total Experience your superpower.
 
3:30pm-5:00pm Networking Cocktails and Work Smarter Central Grand Draw
Meet, network and learn form fellow summit delegates at the networking cocktails. Take advantage of the invaluable opportunities to expand your success inspirations in-person.

Content Manager Forum sessions

11:00am-11:30am Forum Keynote:  Thriving as an IM Practitioner in the Future
Anne Cornish, MRIM, CEO - RIMPA
This keynote is focused on preparing information management (IM) professionals to succeed in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. It will explore key skills that are essential for IM practitioners to thrive in the future, such as data analysis, project management, cybersecurity, and marketing and communication. They session will also cover emerging trends that are likely to shape the future of IM practices, such as artificial intelligence and through real-world examples, attendees will gain a better understanding of how to adapt and innovate in order to remain competitive and successful as IM practitioners in the future.

11:30am-12:00pm Government Trends for 2023 and Predictions for Information Management
Brandon Voight, ANZ Information Management & Governance Leader | OpenText
A look at the current trends in Government both globally and locally, and how these trends will impact our approaches to Information Management in 2023 and beyond.

12:00pm-12:30pm Government Case Study: Managing Immigration at Scale for the Future
Aaron Brody, Lead Solution Consultant, Professional Services | OpenText
Hear about the modernisation journey of content management at a large government agency, who has one of the largest CM deployments in the world.

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch at Work Smarter Central

1:30pm-1:50pm OpenText Content Manager 23.3 Release Highlights
Abdullah Noman, Senior Presales, Information Management & Governance | OpenText
Overview of new and enhanced functionality included in Content Manager 23.3

1:50pm - 2:05pm Case Study Presentation 
Nigel Carruthers-Taylor, Executive Director & Principal | iCognition

2:05pm - 2:30pm Thinking Outside the EDRMS
Abdullah Noman, Senior Presales, Information Management & Governance | OpenText
Discover how a decentralized records management model in the workplace can be achieved in line with Data Privacy, Data Security and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) mandates using File Analysis Suite and Content Manager.

2:30pm-2:45pm Case Study Presentation  (Sydney)
Colin Anderson, Head of Channels and Partners | Kapish   (Sydney)

2:45pm-3:05pm Data Protection, The Last Line of Defence for the Digital World! 
Hosam Al-Majdoob, Data Protector Business Development Manager, MEA & APJ | OpenText 
Sonu Singh, Data Protection Senior Solution Architect, APJ | OpenText 
Society, Business, Commerce and even our traditional view on data protection has been severely disrupted during recent years.
Adopting the right data protection strategy is a must, to not just building a resilient enterprise, but also addressing new business level concerns.
Be ready with the right tools for the new digital era!

3:05pm-3:15pm Closing Message 
Brandon Voight, ANZ Information Management & Governance Leader | OpenText

3:15pm-5:00pm Networking Cocktails and Work Smarter Central Grand Draw
Meet and learn from the Content Management community at the networking cocktails. Take advantage of the invaluable opportunities to expand your success inspirations in-person.