The iTnews Podcast
Australia’s leading source of enterprise technology news is now in podcast form. Join the editorial team at iTnews.com.au each week as we talk to technology executives from across the sector, digging deep into IT strategy, architecture and delivery. This podcast will be home to several shows, including the CXO Challenge, which profiles the work of top executives and their teams.
Episodes
124 episodes
Vocus | Chief Information Officer | Rob Ison
Our guest this fortnight is Rob Ison, the chief information officer of Vocus. Rob takes us through the telco’s IT strategy, as well as its agile ways of working program. He also discusses infrastructure modernisation and an ongoing simplificati...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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18:08
SYMAL | Chief Information Officer | Trent Dawson
Our guest this week is Trent Dawson, the Chief information officer of Civil construction firm Symal.Trent walks us through the past four years of IT transformation at Symal, which debuted on the ASX at the end of 2024. He a...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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21:02
[SPONSORED] NetSuite MCP unlocks with power of Agentic AI
NetSuite’s MCP connector enables organisations to harness Agentic AI to automate complex processes and improve decision-making. Operating within defined guardrails, Agentic AI manages tasks such as financial reporting while maintaining accounta...
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21:26
Insignia Financial | CTO | Damien O'Donnell
Insignia Financial is consolidating its technology systems following a series of mergers and acquisitions, while also setting itself up to become an AI-enabled organisation.Damien O'Donnell, who stepped into the CTO role at Insignia Fin...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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15:53
Beyond Bank | CIO | Stevie-Ann Dovico
In this episode iTnews speaks with Stevie-Ann Dovico, CIO and Group Executive of Technology at Beyond Bank, about her first year in the role and the technology strategy she’s building to support the organisation’s ambition of becoming Australia...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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16:17
[SPONSORED] Genetec | Community Connect empowers communities to collaborate with local police
Anthony Caruana speaks with Stephan Kaiser, Genetec’s general manager for AutoVu, about Community Connect — a framework that empowers communities to collaborate with police by securely sharing video infrastructure. This initiative is helping ne...
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9:03
DPV Health | Former CIO | Noel Toal
Melbourne-based not-for-profit DPV Health has replaced its annual penetration tests with bimonthly automated attack simulations, aiming to strengthen its vulnerability management through more frequent and proactive threat assessments.Fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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22:09
[SPONSORED] Australian businesses leverage 5G to unlock their full potential
Sponsored by Ericsson — In this episode, we explore how 5G connectivity is transforming the way Australian businesses innovate, compete, and grow. Drawing on insights from Ericsson’s Australia’s Enterprise State of Connectivity 2025<...
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26:42
NT Police Force | Commander of Digital Transformation and Reform | John Atkin
The Northern Territory Police Force has adopted a top-down change management strategy to oversee the delivery of technology and transformation programs, following setbacks during the rollout of its new core policing system.Commander of d...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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26:15
Australian Bureau of Statistics | Rob Walter
This episode is brought to you by Brennan and the 2025 iTnews state of security report. Our first guest this fortnight is Rob Walter, the Director of the Agriculture Statistics Program at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The AB...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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30:58
SA Power Networks | Head of Cyber Security and IT Resilience | Nathan Morelli
Our guest this fortnight is SA Power Networks’ Head of Cyber Security and IT Resilience Nathan Morelli. Our conversation is broad ranging but is anchored in a five-year cyber security strategy prepared and published by the organisation a couple...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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16:04
[SPONSORED CONTENT] Mind the AI innovation gap
Sponsored by Brennan.A recent five-state listening tour of Australian boardrooms revealed a strong interest in artificial intelligence, but few tangible outcomes. Brennan’s Head of Digital Solutions, Steve Anderton, observed that while e...
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19:15
Australian Red Cross | Former CIO | Brett Wilson
The Australian Red Cross is in the final stages of developing a data mesh approach using Microsoft Fabric following an earlier attempt at a more traditional centralised data lake. Now former chief information officer Brett Wilson discusses the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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14:11
ICYMI: NBN Co | Chief Security Officer | Darren Kane
The iTnews Podcast is having a break this fortnight and will return with a new episode shortly. We relive one of our top episodes from 2024 with NBN Co talking security.
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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24:09
CSIRO | CISO | Jamie Rossato
We speak with episode, Jamie Rossato, Chief Information Security Officer at CSIRO. Jamie discusses his initial steps at the agency, core cybersecurity pillars, handling technological transformations, AI's role, and strategic resourcing. He also...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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27:52
MELBOURNE AIRPORT | Head of Cyber Security | Cheuk Wong
Melbourne Airport is building up its cyber detection and response capabilities in order to secure 30 million annual passenger journeys, which are enabled by multiple technology systems.Speaking on the iTnews Podcast, head of cy...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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21:49
PROSPA | Head of Data & Analytics | Jin Foo
Hello and welcome to the iTnews Podcast. This episode is brought to you by Salesforce. Stay tuned to the end to hear from Kevin Doyle, regional vice president of agentforce and data cloud at Salesforce, about the immense interest i...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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38:09
UNISUPER | Senior Manager of Emerging Technology and Efficiency | Matt Bright
Hello and welcome to the iTnews Podcast.Our guest this week is Matt Bright, the senior manager of emerging technology and efficiency at UniSuper.UniSuper is moving into the next stage of its AI journey, exploring its first agent...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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25:02
Optus | CIO | Mark Potter
Hello and welcome to the iTnews Podcast. Our guest this week is Mark Potter, the chief information officer at Optus. Optus has stood up a unified data platform that brings data from across a number of repositories into an Azure...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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19:07
ENDEAVOUR ENERGY | Information Security Manager | Gijo Varghese
Hello and Welcome to a brand new season of the iTnews Podcast. This week's episode is brought to you by Arctic Wolf and the State of Security Report. Stick around until the end to catch insights from Arctic Wolf’s Director of Engineeri...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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30:47
Thales A/NZ CISO | RSAC CISO Boot Camp Co-Chair | Ben Doyle
A boot camp run ahead of CyberCon this week aims to build future CISOs’ peer networks and business communication - skills that could help them make the transition into a security executive role.It’s the second year the RSA Conference CI...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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16:47