Program Agenda – 2021

Day 1 – 30 November

TIME	SESSION
9:00am – 9:10am	Welcome Professor Hind Benbya, Head of IS & Business Analytics, Deakin University Professor Mike Ewing, Executive Dean, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University
9:10am – 9:20am	Opening Senator the Hon Jane Hume, Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services, & the Digital Economy
9:20am – 10:20am	Industry panel AI-driven future & work skills Stefan Harrer, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Health CRC How AI transforms the workforce and what to expect: the rise of new-collar jobs Kristine Dery, Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management, Centre for Information Systems Research (CISR) Clyde Fernandez, Regional Vice President, Platform & Revenue Cloud, Salesforce Moderator: Professor Hind Benbya, Head of IS & Business Analytics, Deakin University
10:20am – 10.45am	NETWORKING BREAK
10:45am – 11:45 am	Session 1 Future of AI and Intelligent Automation Nicci Rossouw, CEO and founder, Exaptec Robotics and AI - insights of where we are today and what we need to do going forward Sami Makelainen, Head of Strategic Foresight, Telstra Mindful Automation Chair: Professor Rens Scheepers, DISBA, Deakin University
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Session 2 AI in Health Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry, Chief Executive Officer, MaxKelsen After billions in investment why is there still little AI in Healthcare? A discussion of risk, regulations and deployment of AI in real world healthcare settings Dr Leonard Hoon, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, A2I2, Artificial Intelligence Human Factors Applied AI in Health Associate Professor Sandeep Reddy, Director, MBA (Healthcare Management), School of Medicine, Deakin University Implementation of AI in Healthcare-The Translational Chasm Chair: Associate Professor Lemai Nguyen, DISBA, Deakin University
1:00pm – 1:30pm	LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK
1:30pm – 2:10pm	Session 3 AI and empowerment Simon Johnston, Artificial Intelligence Leader, AI Strategy & AI Economics Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) AWS Democratization of AI through services & AI innovation Ruby Wolff, COO, Aramex Australia & New Zealand Be more Human, how AI empowers us to enhance CX Chair: Dr Emilia Bellucci, Director of Teaching, DISBA, Deakin University
2:15pm – 2:45pm	Session 4 Innovating with AI Scott Thomson, Head of Innovation Customer Engineering at Google AI for innovation Dr Nicholas Nicoloudis, Senior Director, Innovation Technology & Strategy (APJ), SAP TinyML on the Enterprise Chair: Associate Professor Lubna Alam, DISBA, Deakin University
2:45pm – 3:00pm	NETWORKING BREAK
3:00pm – 4:00pm	Session 5 Responsible AI Chris Howard, AI/ML Technical Leader, AWS Asia Pacific and Japan Governing Artificial Intelligence Through Organic Intelligence Professor M@ Kuperholz, Chief Data Scientist, PwC Australia Responsible AI Steve Nouri, AI and Data Science, ACS Ethical and Responsible AI Chair: Dr Craig Parker, DISBA, Deakin University
4:00pm – 4:50pm	Keynote Academic (International) Professor Tom Davenport President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics AI and the Future of Work Now Chair: Professor Hind Benbya, Head of DISBA, Deakin University
4:50pm	Closing Professor Hind Benbya, Head of DISBA, Deakin University

Day 2 – 1 December

TIME	SESSION
9:00am – 9:10am	Welcome Professor Hind Benbya, Head of IS & Business Analytics, Deakin University Professor Amanda Pyman, Dean, Deakin Business School, Deakin University Opening The Hon. Jaala Pulford, Minister for Employment, Innovation, Medical Research, and the Digital Economy. Minister for Small Business and Resources
9:15am – 9:45am	Keynote Industry Glen Rabie, CEO YellowFin Are you future-fit for the rise of the Augmented Business User? Chair: Associate Professor William Yeoh, DISBA, Deakin University
9:45am – 11:00am	Industry panel AI-enabled digital twins Julian Watts, Director, Engineering & Asset Management, KPMG Australia Applied AI: Leveraging Digital Twins to predict workforce requirements? John Blicq, Founder & Director, Innovation Matters Ashok Mysore, Vice President & Regional Head – Delivery & Operations, Infosys Limited Australia & New Zealand Dan Sutherland, Principal, Artificial Intelligence Strategic Growth Offering - Solution Centre Lead, Deloitte Consulting The use of digital twins in transport networks (road, rail, and air) Speaker & Moderator: Professor Hind Benbya, Head of, DISBA, Deakin University
11:00am – 11:30am	NETWORKING BREAK
11:30am – 12:30pm	Session 1 AI in Heavy Industry Karthik Venkatasubramanian, Global VP, Data Strategy and Development, Oracle Using AI and ML to accelerate capital project planning and delivery Manoj Shivanna, Regional Leader (AUS & NZ) Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), GHD Digital AI-assisted Asset Condition Assessments for asset-intensive industries Jonathan Chang, CEO, Silverpond Managing your physical assets and processes with AI Chair: Associate Professor Bardo Fraunholz, DISBA, Deakin University
12:30pm – 1:30pm	LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Roundtable Scalable and mature AI for future Professor Phil Bolton, Partner and AI Leader, Deloitte Australia Dr Catherine Lopes, Director, OpsDo Analytics Sveta Freidman, Director of Data Analytics & Science, Carsales Oleg Kravets, Global Head of Data and Analytics, TTC Daniel Hatfield, Data Virtualisation and Transformation Leader, Denodo Moderator: Associate Professor Lubna Alam, DISBA, Deakin University
2:30pm – 3:00pm	NETWORKING BREAK
3:00pm – 4:00pm	Academic session 1 AI - Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Automation Associate Professor Truyen Tran, Applied AI Institute (A2I2), Deakin University AI for Accelerating Drug Discovery Quan Vu, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, Deakin University Understanding service attributes of robot hotels: A sentiment analysis of customer online reviews Dr Anwar Ulhaq, Deputy Leader of Machine Vision and Digital Health Research, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University Artificial Creativity: A catalyst for Entertainment and Gaming Industry Chair: Dr Toomas Tamm, DISBA, Deakin University
4:00pm – 5:15pm	Academic session 2 AI – Applications and Management Professor Uri Gal, Professor of Business Information Systems, Director of Doctoral Studies, The University of Sydney Business School Towards Theoretical Rigour in Ethical Analysis: The Case of Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Dr. Ida Asadi UQ, Business Information Systems, The University of Queensland, Research Affiliate, MIT Sloan Center for information Systems Research Building an Artificial Intelligence Explanation Capability Associate Professor Lemai Nguyen, Dr. Dilal Saundage, Dr. Leanne Ngo, Deakin Business Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University User Experience and Satisfaction with Artificial Intelligence: A student survey Dr Kaberi Naznin, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, School of Software and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology Humanoid Educational Service Robots in Primary Classrooms: Design-based Strategies for Pre-implementation Planning Chair: Van-Hau Trieu, DISBA, Deakin University
5:15pm	Closing remarks & thanks Associate Professor Lubna Alam, DISBA, Deakin University