Factory Fireside

In the very first episode of Fireside VisTalk, Oli and Gus — Frontend and Power BI Delivery Engineers at Insight Factory — break down the dashboard that earned Gus a spot as a finalist in the Power BI Global Dashboard Championship. Gus walks us through every layer of his submission: the data preparation approach, design thinking process, his enterprise-style colour palette strategy, and the custom...

🔥 Welcome to Agent Talk — a brand new series from Factory Fireside where our young engineers in the trenches building enterprise-scale agentic solutions break down what's really happening in AI. In this debut episode, Kahn Nguyen, Neil Mazunder, and Harry Nguyen dive deep into the AI developments that actually mattered in 2025 — and what turned out to be just noise. What we cover: → Is Opus 4.5 +...

In this episode of Factory Fireside, I sit down with Dr. Sanjay Mazumdar — a pioneer who was building neural networks in the early 1990s before the internet even existed, and who has since shaped Australia's approach to AI, data, and national security. Sanjay's journey spans developing the world's first mobile wallet at Motorola (in 1999!), leading the Data to Decisions CRC that spawned companies...

In this episode of Factory Fireside, Peter Inge sits down with Dr. Don Perugini, a pioneer in AI and agentic systems with over 20 years of real-world experience spanning defence, enterprise, healthcare, and startups. Together, they cut through the hype to explore what agents actually are, why most enterprise pilots stall, and what it really takes to move from experimentation to production impact....

South Australia’s first Chief Data Officer, Peter Worthington, joins us for an honest conversation about the state of Data & AI and why many organisations are getting it wrong. In this episode, we unpack: Why AI pilots fail (and the real reason isn’t technology) How to know if your organisation is actually ready for AI The danger of chasing shiny tools and “AI FOMO” Why we hold AI to a higher...

In this episode of Factory Fireside , Peter Inge , Co-founder & CEO of insightfactory.ai , sits down with Nicola Dorling , Group CIO at Downer Group and ranked #2 CIO in CIO Magazine 2024 . Together, they explore how enterprise technology leadership is being redefined in the era of Data & AI from scaling programs that actually deliver value, to killing Proof-of-Concepts early, to building...

In this fireside, we explain how data and AI programs can work most effectively with enterprise architects in large organisations, cutting through the tension that often exists between the two. We highlight that while data and AI teams are driven by speed and experimentation, enterprise architects are too often perceived as rigid gatekeepers. Done poorly, EA slows everything down with excessive co...