🎤 Join us for a special panel discussion exploring one of the biggest questions facing organisations today: who is responsible for successful AI adoption?
Most organisations have moved beyond experimentation. Employees are already using AI. New tools are arriving faster than policies can be written. Business leaders are investing, IT teams are governing, and employees are finding their own ways to work with AI.
So who's responsible for making sure AI delivers real value?
Is it leadership? IT? Innovation teams? Project managers? Change managers? Or the people using it every day?
In this session, we'll bring together leaders from enterprise, consulting, strategy and organisational transformation to explore what responsible AI adoption really looks like in practice. Through candid discussion and real-world experiences, we'll unpack the challenges organisations are facing as they move from isolated AI initiatives to organisation-wide adoption.
What We'll Cover
⚡ Who should own AI adoption within an organisation
🏗️ Balancing innovation, governance and business agility
🧠 Responsible AI beyond policies and compliance frameworks
👥 Education, change management and building AI-ready organisations
🚀 Why some AI initiatives gain traction while others struggle
📊 Measuring adoption, value and meaningful business outcomes
🔍 Managing shadow AI, risk and employee-led innovation
💡 Practical lessons from organisations already on the journey
Meet the Panel
Misha Fazen
Group Manager - Systems, Performance & Data Analytics, Whitehaven
Sharing lessons from leading AI capability uplift, governance and enterprise adoption initiatives within a large organisation.
Sean Dendle
Cloud Specialist & Managing Director, Cymax
Bringing insights from working with organisations across industries as they navigate AI opportunities, risks and implementation challenges.
Matt Pontel
Director of Applied AI, Velrada
Providing perspectives from helping organisations design, implement and scale AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
Moderated by
Kim Brian
Modern Applications Architect & Regional Practice Lead, Velrada
Kim works with organisations across Australia to design and deliver AI, Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft technology solutions. Drawing on real-world enterprise experience, Kim will guide the discussion and challenge the panel to answer a simple question:
When AI adoption succeeds or fails, who's ultimately responsible?
