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GUEST EVENT : Celebrating Women in Innovation, Technology, and Leadership

Rhonda Robati’s journey in ICT didn’t start in a boardroom. Although she didn’t have a degree, her drive and curiosity pushed her to learn, grow, and take every opportunity to advance.

• Snowflake strengthens strategic partnership with Microsoft to deliver OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models directly to customers in Snowflake Cortex AI on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
• Snowflake also launches new native integration enabling thousands of customers to seamlessly leverage Snowflake Cortex Agents within their Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 apps

COMPANY NEWS:  New AI capabilities predict and prevent IT issues, reducing resolution time and costs

Company continues to lead the third-party software support and innovation solutions market, focusing on delivering strategic, operational and financial success for its clients

COMPANY NEWS: Rimini Street, a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support and innovation solutions, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced it has been honoured by clients and the industry with multiple buyer’s choice, service and leadership awards, recognising its commitment to delivering top-quality service and deep value for its clients.

In today's competitive legal landscape, effective marketing is no longer optional for law firms—it's essential for survival and growth. While traditional marketing methods still hold value, modern law firms must adopt a comprehensive approach that combines both conventional and digital strategies to attract and retain clients.

The work of the future will see widespread use of self-organised dynamic teams. This is not a new shift, but on that has been steadily emerging over time, and since change is now occurring at a more rapid pace, organisations are starting to replace older, more hierarchical structures with models that are more fluid and rooted in collaboration and teamwork. In this reality, it is challenging to provide proper conditions needed for effective focus and communication. Acoustic pods are an innovative solution, which can help meet these demands. They ensure essential privacy as well as acoustic comfort to enable project teams to accomplish their objectives effectively.

GUEST OPINION:  Gigamon is recognized for its continuing innovation to meet evolving customer needs amid growing demand for its deep observability pipeline solution

Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for hybrid cloud organisations, has further strengthened its Asia Pacific (APAC) leadership team with the recent appointment of Jill Macmurchy as Chief Customer Officer for APAC. Earlier this year, Craig Bastow stepped into his role as Area Vice President for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Together, these appointments underscore Commvault’s dedication to addressing customer needs with resilient, tailored data protection, security and recovery solutions.

COMPANY NEWS: 

• Snowflake’s Internal Marketplace enables enterprises to easily discover and share data, apps, and now fine-tuned LLMs across teams and business units
• The Snowflake Native App Framework Integration with Snowpark Container Services accelerates developers’ time-to-value for delivering sophisticated AI-powered apps
• Enterprises can now develop, distribute, and monetise AI models to third-parties on Snowflake Marketplace with Secure Model Sharing

In an industry that prides itself on innovation and forward-thinking, it's ironic that the leadership tiers of Information Technology remain strikingly homogeneous. Despite years of discussions and initiatives aimed at promoting diversity, the upper echelons of IT still lack representation from women, people of colour, and other marginalised groups. This disparity isn't just a social issue—it's a business problem that could be stifling innovation and growth.

IBM has expanded its Australia and New Zealand senior leadership team with the appointment of Dane Gambrill as Principal, Security Business Leader.

COMPANY NEWS:  Advent One, a leading provider of managed services across infrastructure, automation, observability, security and cloud, today announced a significant leadership transition as John Twine steps down as CEO after five years of dedicated service. John Twine will assume the role of Non-Executive Director on the Advent One Board, effective immediately.

Indian global IT, consulting and business process services company Wipro has appointed Srini Pallia as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, effective immediately.

Enterprise microsegmentation company, ColorTokens, has announced the appointment of Amol Kulkarni to its Board of Advisors.

Cloud cybersecurity company Cloudflare has appointed 25-year industry veteran Steve Bray as Head of Australia & New Zealand.

Cloud security company Zscaler has appointed industry veteran Andreas Hartl as Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan as part of its strategy to strengthen leadership in the region.

At the recent Splunk .conf23, iTWire took the opportunity to chat with Gary Steele, the recently appointed President and CEO of the company.

This year’s orator is David Tudehope CEO and Co-Founder of Macquarie Technology Group

GUEST EVENT: Each year, TelSoc hosts the Henry Sutton Oration in Melbourne to commemorate the distinguished but scarcely known Victorian scientist, engineer and inventor from Ballarat. Please join us for TelSoc’s Henry Sutton Oration for 2023 on Wednesday, 30 August.

Leveraging insights from CEOs at Deloitte, LJ Hooker Group, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, the Australian Payroll Association and more, ‘The Modern CEO’ offers a practical framework for leadership success in today’s business climate

COMPANY NEWS: Global human capital management (HCM) consultancy, Smart WFM, today announced the launch of company founder and CEO Jarrod McGrath’s second book, The Modern CEO. Leveraging insights from business leaders worldwide, the book offers practical advice on leading, evolving and driving organisational success by adopting a people-centric philosophy.