The iTnews Podcast

UNICEF Australia used digital transformation as the catalyst to change the way it raises funds to improve the lives of children, moving from four big appeals a year to an “always-on” fundraising approach. In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, chief operating officer Sarah Grattan unpacks UNICEF Australia’s IT and digital structure and strategy, as well as a continuing transformation effort...

In this week’s episode of the iTnews Podcast, NAB Chief Technology Officer Steve Day details shifts in strategic thinking around the bank’s highly-publicised cloud journey, which has been running at scale since 2017. He also reveals NAB is undertaking the first major revision of its technology strategy since 2018.

Season 2 coming soon! In this week's episode of the iTnews Podcast, we have CBA’s chief digital officer Fredrik Lindström and CIO for technology for the bank’s retail division and distinguished engineer Brendan Hopper. You’ll hear about CBA’s transformation of its software engineering practices, team and culture.  We also talk about what digital looks like beyond apps and online services, and...

Season 2 is coming soon! Woolworths anticipates a greater degree of cross-collaboration, partnership and embedding of skills between its WooliesX and Group IT functions in coming years, as digital technology is worked even deeper into the company’s core operations. In this week's CXO Challenge on the iTnews podcast, Woolworths’ chief digital technology officer (CDTO) Nick Eshkenazi provides a...

On the show this week, we have Samir Shah, he is the ICT Business Services Manager from Rinnai Australia. You might know Rinnai because of its hot water, heating, and cooling systems.  What you may not know is they also have manufacturing operations in Australia, and they’ve been undergoing a multi-year transformation of their ERP and reporting systems, which Samir will now walk us through.

Transurban has a growing range of successful examples of data analytics, particularly around road safety or optimising traffic flow. It also has a growing number of digital twins that it is using on road tunnel projects to manage ventilation and understand the causes of congestion. Together, these underscore a multi-year effort to build internal capability and systems around analytics and data use...

On the show this week, we have Westpac Group Chief Technology Officer David Walker talking about the bank’s ongoing transformation agenda, its transformation roadmaps and guiding principles. David also talks us through Westpac’s efforts to adopt an evolutionary architecture and evergreen technologies as a way to transform the backend and set foundations for faster changes on the frontend.

In this week's episode of the iTnews Podcast, we have CBA’s chief digital officer Fredrik Lindström and CIO for technology for the bank’s retail division and distinguished engineer Brendan Hopper. You’ll hear about CBA’s transformation of its software engineering practices, team and culture.  We also talk about what digital looks like beyond apps and online services, and where CBA’s thinking...

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 provides an in-depth view of the four streams of...

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 guild with Amazon Web Services, dubbed Unleash.

On the show this week we have two guests from global education provider Navitas: Charlsey Pearce, who is Head of Marketing Services for Navitas’ Australasian and University Partnerships Division, and Richard Eason, Head of Technology and Systems in Global Sales & Marketing. Navitas is building on some technology foundations to - in their words - redefine the educational journey for domestic an...

A deep dive with CDO Rob Hale on the state of open banking in Australia.

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 about the need to take an ho...

This week on the iTnews podcast we speak with CreditorWatch CTO Joseph Vartuli as part of our ongoing CXO Challenge series.

This week on iTnews CXO Challenge Rugby Australia's Head of Analytics, Cathal Garvey, discusses strategy, data architecture along with new and emerging use cases for data analytics.

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.

PwC Australia is looking to reach the “next horizon” of its ongoing digital and data transformation under the gaze and drive of a new-look technology leadership team. In this week’s CXO Challenge on the iTnews podcast, CDIO Jacqui Visch discusses her new role and remit at the firm, what the next transformation “horizon” looks like, and opportunities to leverage the global PwC ‘network’ to drive ch...