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2026 WA IT Leadership Summit

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

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Jonas Petersen

Chief Digital Officer, Office of Digital Government
Department of the Premier & Cabinet of WA

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Warren Willis

Chief Transformation & Technology Officer
P&N Group

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Gary Savarino

Field CTO
SailPoint

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Mike Kovacevic

Chief Information Officer
Catholic Education Western Australia

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Shan Moorthy

Chief Technology Officer, APAC
Workday

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Alex Evans

Manager, Customer & Information Services
City of Wanneroo

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Ben D'Lima

Chief Information Officer
City of Gosnells 

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Jacob Curulli

Chief Information Officer
City of Cockburn

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Charmain FitzGerald

Executive General Manager Corporate & Business Transformation
NOPSEMA

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Tim Allison

Chief Financial Officer 
Joyce Corporation

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Kristen Britz

Head of Information Technology & Innovation
Western Australia Return Recycle Renew Limited (WARRRL)

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Seb Pepper

Head of Process Optimisation
Tower Limited (NZ)

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Mary Karborani

Chief Information Officer
Capricorn Society

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Sheavy Kaur

Information Security Specialist
RAAFA WA

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Jason Gonce

VP of Sales, APAC
GBTEC 

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Matt Grayndler

Sales Engineer 
Rubrik

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Anneleen Naidoo

Deputy Director, Innovation
Curtin University

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Warwick Calkin

Executive General Manager Technology & Services
Navitas

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Robert Jordan

Director of Data Strategy & Analytics
Silverchain Group

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Steve Simpson

WA State Manager
Triskele Labs

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Shana Uhlmann

General Manager, Technology
Perth Airport

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Aaron Tighe

State Director, WA 
Macquarie Technology Group

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Slava Drozd

Principal Consultant
Macquarie Cloud Services

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Andrew Arena

IT Manager
CSE Global (Australia & New Zealand)

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Beau Alderson

Client Executive
Schneider Electric

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Joel Preston

Senior Systems Engineer
Veeam

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Steven Humphrys

Enterprise Account Executive
Veeam  

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Ian McMurray

IT & Cyber Security Manager
DDH1 Drilling

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Grace Gatt-Lodding

Head of Strategy & Engagement, Digital Health
South Metropolitan Health Service

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Andy Rhodes

Global Digital Business Leader

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Arnold Wong

Fellow
ACS

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Dr Joe Sweeney

Advisor
IBRS

Principal Partner

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Platinum Partner

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Gold Partners

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Summit Partners

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PERTH | Australia
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