2026 WA IT Leadership Summit
20th & 21st October
Westin Perth
In today’s evolving work environment, technology leaders must harness innovation while celebrating human capability to create meaningful value with purpose and integrity. Human agency empowers us as builders and change-makers, driving progress through engagement. As technology advances, we must focus on safety, trust, risk, efficiency, and cost that shape our work and connections.
Embedding with the theme – Forward Motion – Empowering the Future with Tech and Heart, presenters will share their progress and real-world insights, while exploring what’s next. The program will highlight how diverse sectors are leveraging technology alongside human agency to create lasting impact across organisations, customers, workforces, and the broader ecosystem. These discussions aim to help attendees develop their own strategies and roadmaps for navigating the technology landscape beyond 2026.
Key Topics
- CIOs as builders, creators, and change-makers – finding a balance between new technology and human agency to create meaningful change
- Delivering transformative technology – the human touch
- Aligning strategy, skills and technology for sustainable growth
- Trust, risk, and governance – managing digital risk, ensuring compliance, and building resilient, trustworthy systems
- A data-fuelled business – gaining insights, improving decision-making, growing the business and people, and enhancing customer experiences
- AI project lessons learnt and case studies – human-centred principles, progress and challenges
- Bridging IT and OT – strategies for integration and operational excellence
- Cyber security in focus – navigating cyber threats and future-ready strategies
- The future of work – delivering digital employee experience, and enabling productivity
- Leveraging technology and human intervention to address community challenges – create lasting value for communities
- Looking ahead – building cross-industry collaboration, inspiring future leaders and contributing to a wider ecosystem
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Featured Presenters
Peter Boni
General Manager, Technology
AFG
Kylee Hetherington
CIO
WesCEF
Sameera Bandara
CIO
Programmed
Shana Uhlmann
General Manager, Technology
Perth Airport
Tim Allison
CFO
Joyce Corporation
Ben D'Lima
Chief Information Officer
City of Gosnells
Brian Hunt
SVP, Global Sales Engineering
Druva
Arnold Wong
Co-Founder & Treasurer
Software Australia
Heather Wolyniec
Chief Transformation Officer
MSWA
Ashley Baker
CIO
RAC WA
Billy Martin
CIO
HIF
Chris Chapman
CIO
Perth Radiological Clinic
David Beer
General Manager - Member Connect
HBF
James Wakefield
EGM, Digital Technology & Services
Mineral Resources Limited
Simon Rivers
Principal Consultant
Diversus
Simon Cohen
Founder
Cohesis
Matt Grayndler
Senior Sales Manager
Rubrik
Andreas Havliza
Business Process Improvement Lead
Horizon Power
Thomas Kohlenbach
Principal Consultant
GBTEC
Anthony Spiteri
Director, Product Management APJ
Veeam
Rebecca Lee
Director, Regional Services Division
Legal Aid WA
Michael Malone
AI Delivery & Governance Lead
Rmkble
Steve Anderton
Head of Customer Solutions
Brennan
Graham Hett
Pre-Sales Engineer - Enterprise - AU
Arctic Wolf
Paul Glass
Group Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
Omnia Global
Chris Hunt
Account Executive, Commercial & Upmarket for WA/SA
Zoom
Armin Adineh
Head of Information Technology
MercyCare
Mahmoud Safwat
Enterprise Business Development Manager
Schneider Electric
Dr Joe Sweeney
Advisor
IBRS
Gold Partners
Summit Partners
