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CIO50 2019 – Meet the Judges
With the fourth annual CIO50 now in full swing and nominations open until August 12, it’s time to meet our esteemed judges.
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NAB gives Aussie tech sector $2 billion ‘shot-in-the-arm’
NAB has earmarked $2 billion over five years in a bid to help emerging technology companies build and grow their businesses.
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Clarence Yap takes IT helm of AHPRA
Clarence Yap, group CIO of Smartgroup, has started a new position as CIO (interim) at AHPRA (Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency).
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Facebook launches Libra, industry takes note
After much speculation, Facebook has officially revealed it will venture into the crypto and blockchain world, launching a cryptocurrency called Libra next year.
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Jobs up for grabs: MTIA seeks CIO for newly created role
The Major Transport Infrastructure Authority (MTIA) is seeking an experienced chief information officer for a newly created position within the Office of the Director-General.
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NSW Budget: Govt dishes $100m for Digital Restart Fund
The NSW government has earmarked $100 million over the next two years for a ‘Digital Restart Fund’ that it says will help fuel digital transformation across whole-of-government.
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Barossa winery uncorks ‘Australian first’ embedded microchip to fight counterfeits
Barossa wine estate, Seppeltsfield, is installing new anti-counterfeit technology in a bid to boost authenticity, trigger customer engagement and help curb the counterfeit problem plaguing the luxury wine industry.
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AI firm takes ‘Quantium’ leap in hyperconverged data space
Over three years into the role and Quantium IT director, Craig Taylor, says he hasn’t got comfortable - and that’s a good thing considering the state of flux and constant change in the IT industry. In particular, the data science and AI realm that Taylor lives and breathes.
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Hunter Water trials IoT, analytics to protect assets
Hunter Water is set to use the power of IoT technology mixed with advanced analytics in a bid to protect the integrity of the water infrastructure.
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Analysts react to Salesforce Tableau grab
In what will be the largest acquisition in Salesforce history, “the move is not a big surprise,” according to Forrester VP and principal analyst Liz Herbert, speaking about the US $15.7 billion acquisition of analytics platform vendor Tableau.
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Trajan beefs up network to meet global demand
Biotech research and development firm, Trajan Scientific and Medical, has embarked on what head of IT, James Orgill, says is a major “reinvention of the network”.
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Samsung connects STEM students to Vivid
Samsung Electronics Australia, in partnership with Social Ventures Australia (SVA), has hosted STEM students from a remote South Australian town to travel to Sydney, many for the first time, to witness the Vivid festival.
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Privacy advocate speaks out against AFP’s raid on press
Privacy advocate, Paul Bischoff, has hit back at the AFP, calling its raid on ABC’s offices and a journalist's home “especially troubling." He said journalists need to beef up cyber security measures.
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Luxury Escapes seeks CDO, Hilltops Council wants CIO
Travel outfit, Luxury Escapes, in on the hunt for a CDO to help drive international expansion plans, while Hilltops Council is seeking a CIO to help drive organisational change.
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Govt dishes out $8.5m for cyber security realm
The Federal Government has earmarked $8.5 million in funding for the country’s cyber security sector in a bid to “grow and create new jobs,” according to Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews.
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Bale crowned EnergyAustralia CIO
Latitude Financial Services’ CIO Julie Bale has been named EnergyAustralia CIO, replacing Anne Weatherston who'd been in the role since 2015.
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UBank’s Hubbard joins Rest as innovation tech leader
UBank CIO Jeremey Hubbard has been named Rest’s group executive, innovation and transformation.
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NAB hatches global online portal to foster fintech and bank ties
National Australia Bank (NAB), in concert with Bank Leumi of Israel and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), has launched a global online portal that fosters innovation and collaboration between fintechs and the three banks.
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Tennis Australia appoints first CTO
Tennis Australia has appointed its first-ever CTO, naming Bunnings product and tech division head, Ben Fitzgerald, to the newly created role.
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Pivotal CIO sees big promise for IT industry with open banking initiative
Pivotal's newly-appointed CIO of APJ, Shaun Norris, said Australia’s open banking initiative - set to take effect July 2019 - will not only bring competition and innovation to financial services but will also boost the ICT sector.
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Ramsay charts ‘sophisticated’ new tech journey: inaugural report
Ramsay Australia is embarking on a “new era of technological sophistication,” organised around three themes: doctor connectedness, improving patient experience, and supporting business performance, according to CIO John Sutherland.
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4 senior IT posts up for grabs from healthcare to financial services
In the wake of Hamish Cameron’s departure as the inaugural CIO of the Department for Child Protection (DCP), the South Australian government's DCP is seeking its second CIO.
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Judo Bank aims to ‘outmanoeuvre’ large banks
Judo Bank co-founder and CIO, Alex Twigg, will tell you he doesn’t do digital transformation - instead he does digital.
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ACCC slams Kogan for ‘misleading conduct’
The ACCC is taking popular online retailer, Kogan, to Federal Court for alleged price hiking before discounting.
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Bill Le Blanc resigns SA Health, joins ElectraNet
After eleven years driving transformation at SA Health, executive director and CIO Bill Le Blanc is shifting gears, taking on the head of technology role at ElectraNet in South Australia. He starts the new role July 15.
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Global biometrics institute urges responsible use of technology
The international Biometrics Institute is calling on all law enforcement agencies, border management and governments to use existing good practices to ensure responsible use of biometrics.
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Updated: Jenny Beresford leaves Gartner, joins Laureate International Universities as digital chief
Gartner and IT veteran Jenny Beresford has clinched the chief digital officer job at Laureate Education, a move that sees her moving back into the c-suite.
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Dell EMC opens 5 ‘AI experience zones’ across APAC
Dell EMC, in concert with Intel, has opened five ’AI experience zone’ facilities across Asia Pacific and Japan that aim to showcase the business benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.
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CTO wanted for Scottish Pacific Business Finance
Scottish Pacific Business Finance is on the lookout for a NSW-based CTO to oversee and develop the company’s technology platform and strategy.
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The 7 Aussie projects that ‘made the grade’ in IDC’s Smart Cities awards
Seven Australian ‘smart city’ projects from across the nation - including ones from Launceston to Newcastle to Cairns - have been shortlisted as finalists in the annual 2019 IDC Asia Pacific Smart Cities Awards.
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Local tech chiefs moving at snail’s pace towards digital business progress: Gartner
While 30 per cent of organisations in Australia and New Zealand are starting to scale and get value from digital investments, the remaining 70 per cent are “falling behind in rethinking business models,” according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Agenda.
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What Labor’s promise to invest in digital skills means for CIOs
If successful in this weekend’s Federal Election, Labor has pledged to allocate 5,000 fee-free digital and ICT TAFE spots in a bid to provide Australians with the training they need for the jobs of the future.
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RSL LifeCare hunts CIO
RSL LifeCare is on the lookout for an experienced CIO to help drive innovation across the company.
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Most senior tech execs dealt with a security breach in last year
The majority of CIOs, CTOs and CISOs said their organisations suffered a cybersecurity breach in the past 12 months, with 41 per cent breached between three to five times.
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Updated: Rob Binskin joins Baptistcare, Martin McManus new Kennards Hire GM
Former HammondCare CIO, Rob Binskin, has joined BaptistCare NSW looking after business engagement, program delivery and change management. Meanwhile, Martin McManus - formerly CIO of DP World Australia - has been appointed general manager of IT for Kennards Hire, the tool and plant hire firm.
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Australian Military Bank takes stock of ‘digital journey’ one year on
Australian Military Bank (AMB) is seeing “significant operational benefits and cost efficiencies” after implementing a comprehensive digital banking solution 12 months ago, according to CEO John Ford.
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IP Australia’s CDO on mission to ‘reimagine digital experience’
IP Australia chief digital officer (CDO), Damian Giuffre, isn’t worried his job title could become obsolete by 2022.
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Woolworths digs deeper into data analytics
Woolworths Group is deploying advanced data and visual analytics across multiple group businesses covering functions including merchandising, finance, supply chain, store operations and people operations.
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UNSW’s ‘Future Minds Lab’ investigates science behind innovation
UNSW Sydney has hatched what it says is a groundbreaking ‘Future Minds Lab’ that will study the fundamental brain science and psychology behind innovation.
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Perez leaves Inghams, joins HammondCare
After more than a year as Inghams Group CIO, Jose Perez has left the top tech job and joined HammondCare, which operates in the growing health and aged care sector.
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Kogan rolls out marketplace to boost CX
Two years after going public on the ASX, online retailer Kogan.com has ramped up expansion plans and launched Kogan Marketplace, where businesses and consumers have access to more than 100,000 products.
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WA Health ramps up digital journey to improve healthcare services
The Western Australian Department of Health (WA Health) has inked a $123 million deal with Atos in a bid to transition and digitise its ICT systems with a mix of cloud services and platforms that will improve the provision of healthcare services.
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Uni of Melbourne gets cozy with ‘bots’ to help staff, students
University of Melbourne is using the power of robotic process automation (RPA) in a bid to automate manual tasks and help ease the burden on staff stuck doing repetitive jobs.
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Less talk, more action: STEMM leader urges
Homeward Bound co-founder, Fabian Dattner, said the absence of women in leadership roles globally is having dire consequences for the future of the planet.
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Manheim adds new ‘layers of insight’ in automotive market
Automotive auction house, Manheim, is giving customers software intelligence that it says will provide much-needed information, insights and forecasting abilities.
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Coles goes on ‘digital network’ shopping spree
Coles is set to digitise its stores with the rollout of a high-speed network across 2400 stores, supply chain and corporate sites in a bid to drive efficiencies.
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Perceptions of ‘unfair barriers’ to career profession persist: Hays
Sixty three per cent of Australian professionals believe their career progression has been limited - at one or more points - because of their sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, gender or a disability, according to a Hays report.
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Nine’s operations chief is on a ‘kubernetes’ high
As head of infrastructure and operations at Nine Publishing, Rob Hill said he’s right in the action of keeping some of Australia’s biggest websites up and running - SMH, AFR, and TheAge - to name a few.
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