Exchange insights on building trustworthy, production-ready AI systems with IT leaders

Most organisations want access to powerful AI - yet few believe they can realise meaningful returns. Gartner reports that only one in five AI initiatives deliver ROI, and just 1 in 50 achieve transformational impact. While employee appetite for AI is high, low trust in leadership strategy continues to drive fragmented tooling, stalled pilots, and limited business value.

Hosted by your local Google Cloud AI expert and moderated by editor at CIO Australia, this closed-door, open-discussion roundtable brings together senior IT leaders to exchange perspectives on moving beyond experimentation to AI systems that are trustworthy, scalable, and operational.

As agentic AI becomes a top CIO priority and governance grows in importance, the discussion will explore why reasoning, data context, and execution must be designed as a single, integrated capability.

Participants will examine the architectural decisions that separate AI pilots from production reality, and how to build AI that is resilient, accountable, and capable of delivering repeatable, measurable business outcomes - not isolated wins.

Important – attendance criteria: This event is specifically designed for senior IT professionals (Head/Director level or above) from large companies (500+ employees) based in Australia, along with senior representatives from our event partners. Professionals who fall outside these criteria — including those from technology vendors, media, marketing, or consulting firms — are not eligible to attend and may have their registrations declined.

• Exchange insights on building AI systems that scale: Discover how leading teams design AI architectures that handle growing data, users, and complexity - while maintaining performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Discuss moving AI from pilot to production: Explore the practical challenges of operationalising AI, including monitoring, governance, reliability, and organisational readiness, to ensure successful deployment.
• Explore integrating reasoning, data, and execution: Understand how modern AI systems combine decision-making, data retrieval, and actions to deliver consistent, auditable, and effective outcomes.
• Evaluate strategies for trustworthy, accountable AI: Examine approaches to transparency, traceability, risk management, and human oversight that enable responsible AI use at scale.
• Examine what drives measurable business outcomes: Identify how to align AI initiatives with core business objectives, embed them into workflows, and measure impact through meaningful KPIs and ROI.

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