Who’s Who Interviews

In an industry hardly known for bleeding-edge innovation or digital-first design, Integrity Life is a welcome anomaly for the tech-forward. Proudly pitching itself as the industry’s foremost disruptor, Integrity Life, founded in 2012, is among Australia’s first cloud-native, legacy-free life...

Blue Zebra proudly touts itself as a plucky, digital-native ‘insurtech’ readily snapping up market share from Australia’s lumbering insurance behemoths. However, its lineage has deep roots in the world of the incumbents, enhanced through the rich experience and insights of...

While by far Australia’s biggest life insurer, TAL has a well-earned reputation as a nimble and ever-willing innovator. The life giant has offered up a constant stream of ‘industry firsts’ – from its AI-backed claims quality assurance tool, the Wunderwriter,...

As the Director of Business Improvement and Technology, Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer for the SA DHS, Dr. Shikha Sharma has been driving digital transformation, data collaboration and technology evolution across the state.

Nathan Morelli knows the importance of staying vigilant as the Head of Cyber Security at South Australia Power Network, the state’s sole electricity distributor and leader in the Energy industry.

Sean O’Malley, Group Executive at AMP Bank, is ready to get back to talking about the future – a future where digital paves the way, is customer-centric, and technology transformation sends shockwaves through the industry.

As the Executive General Manager for Innovation and Technology at South Australia Power Networks, the state’s sole electricity distributor and energy industry leader for Australia’s most future-ready power grids, Chris Ford is at the forefront of the energy sector’s digitalisation...

Grae Meyers-Gleaves is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Hollard, Australia’s 5th largest insurer (following its acquisition of CommInsure) and underwriter to many popular retail insurance products. But no growth comes without pain, as Hollard deals with an influx of...

As the state insurer and workplace standards setter, WorkSafe Victoria is driven by a clear mandate: to reduce workplace harm, and to improve outcomes when workers are injured. For WorkSafe, the push to digitalise is not simply a matter of...

[Australia’s] engineering talent is world-class – which may come as a surprise to some people… and [that includes] senior engineering leaders and thinkers who really want to challenge traditional approaches. In the lead-up to his featured keynote at FST’s 2022...

“The pendulum has perhaps swung too far to the risk-averse or ‘conservative’ end of the spectrum, potentially stifling [government] agencies’ capacity to flourish through innovation.” A veteran of the WA Government’s technology ecosystem, Christian Rasmussen has been a constant and...

As governments become proverbial data hothouses (not just capturing but also generating their own high-value data assets), public interest in this information treasure trove inevitably increases. The role and remit of independent information regulators is therefore critical to maintaining citizens’...

We need to stop looking at digital technology as a tool to make care quicker and more efficient and instead shift our thinking to see it as a quality improvement tool. Dr Clair Sullivan has been the driving force of...

Not every government program that gets developed needs a formal plan and a budget at the outset. Often good ideas emerge, and good people discover how to progress them, using discretionary effort.  As Head of Industry Advancement, Lawrence plays a...

Hyper-personalisation is that sweet spot where customer expectations and products meet price and service. Fiona Bounias has established herself as one of the foremost change advocates for a sector that had once seemed stuck in a kind of comfortable inertia....