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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Previous Presenters
Jonas Petersen
Chief Digital Officer, Office of Digital Government
Department of the Premier & Cabinet of WA
Warren Willis
Chief Transformation & Technology Officer
P&N Group
Gary Savarino
Field CTO
SailPoint
Mike Kovacevic
Chief Information Officer
Catholic Education Western Australia
Shan Moorthy
Chief Technology Officer, APAC
Workday
Alex Evans
Manager, Customer & Information Services
City of Wanneroo
Ben D'Lima
Chief Information Officer
City of Gosnells
Jacob Curulli
Chief Information Officer
City of Cockburn
Charmain FitzGerald
Executive General Manager Corporate & Business Transformation
NOPSEMA
Tim Allison
Chief Financial Officer
Joyce Corporation
Kristen Britz
Head of Information Technology & Innovation
Western Australia Return Recycle Renew Limited (WARRRL)
Seb Pepper
Head of Process Optimisation
Tower Limited (NZ)
Mary Karborani
Chief Information Officer
Capricorn Society
Sheavy Kaur
Information Security Specialist
RAAFA WA
Jason Gonce
VP of Sales, APAC
GBTEC
Matt Grayndler
Sales Engineer
Rubrik
Anneleen Naidoo
Deputy Director, Innovation
Curtin University
Warwick Calkin
Executive General Manager Technology & Services
Navitas
Robert Jordan
Director of Data Strategy & Analytics
Silverchain Group
Steve Simpson
WA State Manager
Triskele Labs
Shana Uhlmann
General Manager, Technology
Perth Airport
Aaron Tighe
State Director, WA
Macquarie Technology Group
Slava Drozd
Principal Consultant
Macquarie Cloud Services
Andrew Arena
IT Manager
CSE Global (Australia & New Zealand)
Beau Alderson
Client Executive
Schneider Electric
Joel Preston
Senior Systems Engineer
Veeam
Steven Humphrys
Enterprise Account Executive
Veeam
Ian McMurray
IT & Cyber Security Manager
DDH1 Drilling
Grace Gatt-Lodding
Head of Strategy & Engagement, Digital Health
South Metropolitan Health Service
Andy Rhodes
Global Digital Business Leader
Arnold Wong
Fellow
ACS
Dr Joe Sweeney
Advisor
IBRS
Principal Partner
Platinum Partner
Gold Partners
Summit Partners
