The iTnews Podcast

Hansen Yuncken is using 3D modelling software to ‘walk’ customers through the sequencing of their construction projects, improving transparency and explainability of risks such as time delays. In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, Rexine Jones - who is both CFO and CIO of Hansen Yuncken - discusses the company’s use of Autodesk’s BIM 360 software. She also details the lived experience and...

NEW EPISODE Suncorp Group has set a target to exit owned or leased data centres by early 2024, with 90 percent of workloads destined for public cloud and 10 percent for a hybrid cloud environment hosted “in close proximity” to its chosen public cloud infrastructure. That ambition is to run largely in the cloud, with applications either virtualised or containerised, with few exceptions.

New episodes coming soon! Australian start-up Humanitix re-invests 100 percent of the profits from event ticket fees into education projects for disadvantaged kids. The start-up had to transition its operations online when the pandemic hit, and has since expanded from its ticketing core into helping hard-hit event organisers run virtual events and - when borders reopen - safer in-person events.

New epissodes coming soon! Cyber security has rocketed to the top of corporate risk registries in recent years. But few board members attain their place due to any deep subject matter expertise.  In this week's CXO Challenge, we speak to Roger Sharp the founder of North Ridge Partners, and the chair of several large listed companies in the finance and travel sector in Australia. Sharp talks a...

We'll be back with new episodes soon! Original Description: Travel insurer Cover-More Group cut 15 percent of its enterprise application portfolio as part of a global consolation of its IT operations at the height of the pandemic. The ASX-listed company – which operates in 22 countries – juggled the project, which is ongoing, while putting out spot fires during one of the most tumultuous peri...

We'll be back with a new episode soon! Original description: Deakin University has spent the past 18 months modernising its approach to software delivery, adopting standard CI/CD tooling and removing manual effort in order to get code into production faster. In this week’s CXO Challenge on the iTnews podcast, director of software engineering Aaron Whitehand shares the university’s modernisati...

We'll return with new episodes soon! Auswide Bank’s chief transformation officer Rebecca Stephens describes the multi-faceted transformation she was brought in to lead and run at the start of this year.

We'll be back with new episodes soon. For now we flash back to our discussion with Zip Co's former director of security and IT, Peter Robinson. Original Description: When Zip’s director of security and IT Peter Robinson joined the company two-and-a-half years ago, he was its only security staffer.  The company - ASX-listed and a major player in the ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) boom - has...

We'll be back with more interviews from Australia's technology leaders soon! BPAY Group is making headway with its goal to bring innovation to Australia’s payment system through its developer portal, and by expanding its global reach and cloud-based approach.   In this week’s CXO Challenge on the iTnews podcast, BPAY Group chief information officer Angela Donohoe shares how the e-payment...

We'll be back with more interviews from Australia's technology leaders soon! Bendigo and Adelaide Bank will put more than 700 staff through a new cloud workforce training program before the end of this year as its public cloud migration starts to heat up. In this week’s iTnews podcast, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank chief information officer Andrew Cresp discusses the bank's new cloud gu...

We'll be back with new episodes soon! Cancer Council NSW has established a 'single view of customer' across all of the systems it uses to raise funds as part of an ongoing effort to become fully digital and cloud first. In this week's podcast, chief information officer Frances Waterford discusses the council’s IT structure, as well as the ‘single view of customer’ project and o...

Bunnings has assembled an internal team of 700 people across five technology-oriented domains in less than four years, shifting from an almost completely outsourced operating model in the process. In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, the architect of that shift, Chief Information Officer Leah Balter, discusses the progression and maturation of the digital, technology, data, architecture a...

AMP Bank hollowed out its core banking system and refactored up to 40 percent of the remaining code to prepare the system for a new life hosted in AWS. In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, Group Executive Sean O’Malley details the bank’s path to core transformation, as well as progress in meeting other pillars of its technology strategy.

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In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, Flybuys (Loyalty Pacific) Head of Digital Katie James provides a status update on Flybuys’ digital transformation, including its cloud migration and future application modernisation efforts. In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, Flybuys (Loyalty Pacific) Head of Digital Katie James provides a status update on Flybuys’ digital transformation, in...

We'll be back very soon with new episodes! For now, enjoy our 2021 discussion with Jospeh Vartuli, CTO at CreditorWatch.

We'll return with new episodes very soon! If you missed out on the State of IT report in 2021, see how we graded the states and territories here .

Westpac’s BT is modernising its Panorama financial planning platform by migrating it to run in the cloud, which should also make the platform easier to separate from the group if it is divested as planned. In this week’s episode of the iTnews podcast, Richard Holmes, CIO of Westpac’s specialist business division - the division set up to divest non-core banking assets - discusses the challenges of...

Essential Energy is using drone-captured imagery and software to create “intelligent” three-dimensional models of its substations that engineers can interact with and plan upgrade works remotely.  In this week’s episode of the iTnews podcast, Substation Design Manager Jason Streatfeild discusses the work of his team of engineers and drawing officers that manage all aspects of design for nearly 400...

Origin Energy is training its digital focus on the delivery of new features and ‘hero’ experiences for customers, having laid considerable foundations over the past few years. In this week’s episode of the iTnews podcast, Chief Digital & Growth Officer Rod van Onselen discusses his dual remit, Origin’s digital strategy, and where the company is focusing its current efforts.

CBA is treating its investment in no-code machine learning platform maker H2O.ai as a turning point that will enable anyone in the group to stand up an “incredibly predictive model literally at the touch of a button”. In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, CBA’s Chief Decision Scientist, Dan Jermyn, discusses the bank’s AI “democratisation” efforts and mindset, as well as some of the key cu...

In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, Group Executive Technology Gerard Florian reflects on over five years helming the bank’s technology function, and specifically the role and importance of strategic alignment to its present status within the bank. He also provides an update on ANZ's cloud journey, and discussed the halo effect of ANZ Plus.

We'll return with new episodes very soon! Australia Post is nearing the finish line for what was once billed as the ‘largest telecommunications transformation in the country’, and is now setting its sights on smart operations powered by connected devices. In this week’s episode of the iTnews podcast, Australia Post’s head of technology for network and infrastructure engineering Shane Hazim pr...

MyState Limited is forging ahead with a “significant program” of digital and technology works that is attached to a broader growth strategy the ASX-listed financial group is pursuing through to the end of FY25. In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, MyState’s general manager of Technology, Operations and Product, Paul Moss, discusses the evolution of technology strategy and architecture in...