Queensland businesses are entering a new phase of rapid AI-driven transformation. As AI tools become smarter and increasingly autonomous, it provides vast opportunities for productivity gains and radical transformation. AI is reshaping business processes and products, redefining roles and the nature of work – ultimately changing how firms create value for customers and compete in a rapidly changing environment.
Join emerging technology experts and business leaders at the forefront of AI adoption. They’ll unpack what it takes to build organisations that don’t just use AI, but compete with it to innovate, differentiate and grow.
Due to high demand, we have exhausted the allocated places. Register your interest by joining the waitlist.
Date: Tuesday 23 June 2026
Time: 5:30–8pm
Location: Customs House, 399 Queen Street, Brisbane QLD 4000
Register by: Monday 15 June 2026
What we'll explore
- Unlocking new opportunities as AI embeds across core operations and customer experiences - accelerating innovation and creating new value.
- How business models are evolving with AI, opening fresh pathways to deliver and capture value.
- What responsible, scalable AI looks like and the governance considerations leaders must address.
A panel of business leaders will share real world examples of how they’re using AI today to reinvent customer service, streamline workflows and launch entirely new offerings. Their stories will highlight what’s possible right now and what it takes to lead in a rapidly shifting competitive landscape.
You'll hear global perspectives from our presenters and how these learnings can shape the future of Queensland and Australia’s health landscape.
Speakers
Associate Professor Frederik von Briel
Associate Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, UQ Business School
Frederik is an Associate Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at UQ Business School and co-lead of the Emerging Technology Research Hub . His research examines how major changes in the business environment — such as technological advances, crises, regulatory shifts and evolving industry conditions — shape opportunities, strategic choices and outcomes for organisations of all sizes. Frederik is particularly interested in how organisations create and capture value when they embrace and leverage external change rather than simply respond to it. His research is closely connected to practice and generates evidence-based insights that help entrepreneurs, managers and policymakers better understand uncertainty and change, and turn them into opportunities for innovation and growth.
Associate Professor Ida Asad Someh
Associate Professor, Business Information Systems, UQ Business School
Dr Ida Asadi Someh is an Associate Professor in the Business Information Systems discipline at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia, and a research affiliate at the Centre for Information Systems Research (CISR), MIT Sloan School of Management, US. Her research focuses on organizational and societal impact of data, analytics and artificial intelligence. She completed her PhD in 2015 at The University of Melbourne and was awarded the best PhD thesis in Melbourne School of Engineering, and the Vice Chancellor’s PhD Prize at The University of Melbourne. Ida teaches business analytics in undergraduate and postgraduate information systems programs. She previously has taught databases and data warehousing to both computing and information systems students.
Lucy Whitty
Customer and Partner Director APAC, Collibra
Lucy Whitty is Area Vice President, APAC at Collibra, leading regional go-to-market strategy and enterprise sales across the Asia-Pacific market. With several years of experience in enterprise technology, she brings deep expertise in data governance and AI adoption, helping organisations build the trusted data foundations required for AI-ready enterprise. Lucy's career at Collibra has spanned senior leadership roles, reflecting a consistent track record of driving value through strong customer and partner relationships across the region. She holds an MBA from UNSW/AGSM and is an Olympic silver medallist.
Wayne Custodio
Founding Partner, AI IN Motion
Wayne Custodio is a business leader, strategist and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience helping organisations across government, private enterprise and the not‑for‑profit sector navigate growth, disruption and innovation. A former Partner at Deloitte in Strategy and AI Advisory, he worked with senior leaders to modernise operations and unlock value through practical, responsible AI adoption. Wayne is the Founder of AI IN Motion and the creator of Chatter Buddy, a personalised AI companion designed to reduce loneliness and improve wellbeing, and previously co‑founded GLASS, an award‑winning strategy consultancy recognised for its high‑performance culture and impact. He has completed executive education at Harvard Business School and holds an MBA specialising in Entrepreneurship, alongside a Bachelor of Technology. Wayne brings a global, people‑first perspective to innovation, combining strategic insight with a track record of turning ideas into real‑world outcomes.
Bonnie McCoy
General Manager - Business Advisory & Member Services, Business Chamber Queensland
Bonnie McCoy is General Manager, Business Advisory and Membership at Business Chamber Queensland, where she leads services that support businesses across the state to navigate growth, workforce challenges, digital transformation and an increasingly complex operating environment. With close to a decade of experience in strategy, analytics and business transformation, she has worked across industries including financial services, retail, health and hospitality, helping organisations leverage data, technology and customer insights to improve performance and drive sustainable growth. Bonnie holds a Master of Business Analytics and is a proud University of Queensland alum. She is passionate about helping Queensland businesses harness innovation and AI to build capability, productivity and long-term competitiveness.
Anthony Sarris
Director, HQengine
Anthony Sarris is a digital and AI transformation leader with more than 30 years' experience delivering large-scale ERP and enterprise transformations across government and tier-one organisations in Australia and the Asia Pacific. He currently leads a major SAP S/4HANA transformation within a large Queensland Government department — one of the state's most significant digital core modernisations, recognised as the Best Run SAP S/4HANA Implementation in Asia Pacific.
Across a career spanning SAP Ariba, Orica, NAB, Westpac, HP, MLC, Healthscope, and projects across various Australian government agencies and the Department of Defence, Anthony has delivered 29 successful ERP solution implementations and championed the practical adoption of AI — from generative AI to agentic AI — to drive productivity and smarter decision-making. He has been instrumental in architecting and delivering HQengine.ai, an Australian platform bringing Agentic AI-powered automation to e-invoicing, source-to-pay and spend analytics. Anthony is a passionate advocate for human-centric transformation, where technology and people advance together to deliver business outcomes.