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Conference Topics at a Glance

Technology drives reliability and speed for your organization’s future. AI transforms operations, impacting cost and value. Your leadership is key—guide your team to build skills, trust, and capabilities. Lead the way in meeting challenges and shaping future success.

Cost and Value Optimization

Explore strategies to optimize IT costs while maximizing value. Gain insights from industry experts on balancing expenditure with business outcomes, leveraging innovative technologies and enhancing operational efficiency. Tailored for I&O leaders aiming to drive impactful financial performance.

Hybrid Cloud

Discover how hybrid cloud solutions can transform IT infrastructure by reducing costs and enhancing value. Learn from experts on integrating public and private clouds, optimizing resource allocation and achieving seamless scalability. Ideal for I&O leaders focused on strategic cloud adoption and efficiency.

AI/GenAI/Agentic AI

Uncover the potential of AI, GenAI, and agentic AI in reshaping IT operations. Delve into strategies for leveraging AI to reduce costs and drive value, with insights on automation, predictive analytics and intelligent decision making. Perfect for I&O leaders aiming to harness AI for transformative impact.

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Tuesday, 13 May, 2025

02:00 PM - 02:30 PM AEST

Fireside Chat: Transforming Global Infrastructure and Platform Services to Platform Engineering

Remona Murugan, Head of Technology Platforms, Rio Tinto
Andrew Holcombe, Sr Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
As a global mining company Rio Tinto has a complex business model with over 55,000 employees across 35 countries. Rio’s challenges of supporting the transition to a low-carbon future coupled with global economic headwinds require infrastructure and platform services to meet the conflicting challenges of supporting reliable, cost-effective business operations while enabling rapid innovation. To respond, the Technology Platforms division has adopted a platform engineering operating model. By realigning staff into chapters and creating multi-disciplinary platform teams, they have enabled iterative delivery of infrastructure and platform capability aligned to business value. This has resulted in a greater ability to align technology spend relative to business outcomes, increased velocity for Technology Platform customers, and better planning and management of the skills required to deliver modern technology services. ... Show More Show Less

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