Shaun Leisegang

ADAverse

Welcome to the ADAverse Podcast—your hub for all things Automation, Data, and AI. In each episode, we explore the trends and innovations transforming the business landscape, engaging with industry experts, thought leaders, and visionaries at the forefront of the digital revolution. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just curious about how intelligent technologies are reshaping our world, our in-depth conversations, inspiring stories, and actionable insights will empower you to stay ahead of the curve. Tune in, join the conversation, and be part of the future—right here in the ADAverse.

Author

Shaun Leisegang

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Technology

Podcast website

www.ADAverse.com.au

Latest episode

Jun 1, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 20: The real power of the Microsoft Power Platform 26.11.2020

The Microsoft Power Platform is an exciting place to be and we were thrilled to have Andrew Coates, Senior Software Engineer and all round Automation Evangelist, from Microsoft Australia give listeners an insight into how people are using the Power Platform to solve real world business challenges today. Shaun and Coatsey cover all of the bases of the platform and discuss things like Power Apps, Po...

Episode 19: How automation is transforming contact centres 29.10.2020

What an episode. We speak to Kris Watt, Innovation and Automation Manager at RACQ, who tells us about how they are transforming their call centre operations with intelligent automation. We hear how they are driving adoption of unattended automation in their contact centres and how the culture of experimentation has led to the great achievements that Kris has been part of throughout their automatio...

Episode 18: Automation is all about the people 14.10.2020

Absolutely thrilled to have Ruth Santangelo - Associate Director - Digital, Service and Automation at Optus join us on the show to discuss how she is leading the charge at Optus with RPA adoption. Hear how the bots get integrated as part of the team and some innovative ideas on how to get everyone involved in the RPA journey from the beginning.

Episode 17: Automate, Survive, Thrive. The time is now. 17.09.2020

Fantastic episode with Luke Kelly the Global Services Director at UiPath. We talk about how to evangelise automation, scale up your automation strategy and importantly how to measure and define what ROI looks like. We get insight into the latest and greatest UiPath platform releases including the new ideation platform, Automation Hub, which allows you to take automation ideas into implementation....

Episode 16: AI as a service for data capture and 2020 ANZ Digital Transformation Survey Results 02.09.2020

Sypht CEO Warren Billington joins Shaun for a fascinating discussion around AI as a service for data capture. They talk all things "dark data", summarise the 2020 ANZ Digital Transformation Survey Results and listeners get to hear about the latest Sypht platform roadmap.

Episode 15: Unpacking the K2 Nexus Platform 20.08.2020

Jason Trent leads the Cloud effort at K2 and we were fortunate to have Jason give us a deep dive into the latest platform release - K2 Nexus. The new platform combines K2's industry-leading process automation with an open, modern cloud integration service to remove the cost and complexity of building point-to-point integrations. But it's far more than a rebranding and listeners get to hear about s...

Episode 14: Scaling Intelligent Chatbots and how businesses are adapting to a Post-COVID world 04.08.2020

We speak with Pavel Gimelberg, an Intelligent Automation and Agile Evangelist who is well known in the automation community in APAC. Shaun and Pavel share their predictions on Intelligent chatbot trends for 2020 and beyond, conversational AI and they share examples of how they are seeing businesses adapt to COVID-19 and prepare for business continuity in the future with process automation.

Episode 13: Intelligent Automation > What will the next 6 months hold? 09.07.2020

Absolutely thrilled to have John Pickering as our special guest on this episode. John is a partner at Deloitte Australia focused on Intelligent & Cognitive Automation and Analytics. We chat about the key findings from the latest Forrester report "COVID-19 Just Made Automation A Boardroom Imperative" and talk about some of the incredible innovations that have been born out of necessity in response...

Episode 12: Scaling Automation and Innovation at the University of Sydney 24.06.2020

Shaun speaks to Jonathan Parsons, Associate Director of Automation & Innovation at The University of Sydney and Operations Director at the AI-Hub. This episode is all about scale and how Jonathan has successfully embraced this challenge at the University. We hear how the AI-Hub enabled the University to better adapt to COVID 19 impacts and how RPA yielding demonstrable ROI in under 6 months has be...

Episode 11: Reinventing Insurance > how insuretech is transforming the industry 03.06.2020

We speak to Murray Macdonald, Co-founder and CTO of Just Insurance, and we find out how his love for fixing things eventually led him into trying to fix a broken industry - Insurance. We hear how one book rekindled Murrays ambition to start his own business and how he sees a robot for every person being a game changer for the motor insurance sector. Enjoy. Social Links: Twitter: https://twitter.co...

Episode 10: We interview Shaun and hear about the state of the RPA nation 13.05.2020

We decided to mix this episode up and were lucky to have the NSW UiPath Partner Manager, Ida Montagner, agree to host this episode and turn the questions on our very own Shaun Leisegang. We get the opportunity to hear Shaun's thoughts on a range of topics from Microsoft's recent interest in buying an RPA company to how Shaun is seeing the adoption of "a robot for every person" message across the A...

Episode 9: Transforming client on boarding through intelligent automation 29.04.2020

Spearheading the automation-first mindset in legal is Luiz de Almeida, CIO at Sine Lawyers. Luiz joins Shaun in this episode to tell us more about the cutting edge innovations that Shine Lawyers are undertaking and how these initiatives are enabling their lawyers to work better, smarter, and more collaboratively.

Episode 8: How do you drive digital transformation? 10.04.2020

Shaun was thrilled to have K2 Chief Product Officer, Burley Kawasaki, share his insights on how to truly drive transformation through the redesign of process to improve the customer experience. Join Shaun and Burley for a discussion covering all aspects of intelligent automation including the best customer use cases in the DPA world today. Social Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATION...

Episode 7: Leading the Legal Innovation wave in Australia 19.03.2020

On this episode we speak with Terri Mottershead. Terri is a leading voice in the legal industry in Australia and we talk all things legal innovation: from new matter intake, to client onboarding, to hyperautomation and onto where the future of legal is heading. Social Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATION Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin....

Episode 6: A day in the life of the UiPath Chief Evangelist 10.03.2020

What an episode. We were privileged to have UiPath's Chief Evangelist, Guy Kirkwood, join us for a discussion with Shaun on a range of topics including: how automation will help us solve the retirement crisis, which of Guy's top 7 predictions for RPA in 2020 have already rung true and what it means for UiPath to have recently been recognised by Everest Group as the Process Mining Leader for 2020....

Episode 5: An in depth look into the Australian RPA market 27.02.2020

Shaun speaks with Andrew Phillips, Managing Director and Vice President, Australia & New Zealand at UiPath. They look at how Australia stacks up against the rest of the world in terms of RPA, which industries are adopting RPA, they talk through a number of great customer success stories and talk about how UiPath themselves are living their a robot for every person mantra. Social Links: Twitter: ht...

Episode 4: A relative newbies thoughts on the world of IA 09.02.2020

We welcome Jonno King this episode, not only as our special guest on the Automation Alliance, but as our newest team member at rapidMATION. Jonno and I look at how the automation space has evolved since he left K2 (the leading Digital Process Automation platform) almost 4 years ago, and what his initial thoughts are on the "The Future of Work" and the latest Intelligent Automation trends for 2020....

Episode 3: Intelligent Automation in 2020 > Industry Predictions 26.01.2020

This episode welcomes Anthony Scott, leading Industry expert in Intelligent Automation and one of the first to pioneer the way in RPA deployment in Australia. This episode has fantastic insight and opinion from both Shaun and Anthony on the Forrester 2020 Predictions report, a very meaty discussion around scale and lastly they question some of the latest stats being released on the future of atten...

Episode 2: Intelligent Automation in 2020 > DPA Predictions 19.01.2020

Shaun speaks with Holly Anderson, senior director of product marketing at K2 and lifelong Star Wars fan. They look at Gartner's "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends" for 2020 with specific emphasis on the new buzz word "Hyperautomation". They also discuss digital twins and whether RPA and DPA technologies are the perfect marriage for automation harmony. Social Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TE...

Episode 1: Intelligent Automation in 2020 > RPA Predictions 12.01.2020

In our very first episode Shaun Leisegang speaks with Jens Pistorius, RPA Evangelist and founder of Incepto, on his thoughts and predictions in the RPA space in 2020. Shaun and Jens dissect the findings and commentary from various analysts and industry publications relating to intelligent automation with a specific focus on RPA. Tune in for 25 minutes to hear what Jens had to share with us on the...

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