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GUEST OPINION by Peter Graves, Area Vice President ANZ, UiPath: “AI won’t take your job. It’s somebody using AI who will.” This powerful statement from leading economist Richard E. Baldwin cuts to the heart of a growing reality; workplaces are being reshaped by the balance between machines and humans. Leaders must now focus on determining which tasks are best suited for automation and which require human creativity, strategic thinking and relationship-building.

The Centre of Excellence in Singapore will develop building technologies using AI to help customers drive their decarbonisation efforts across sectors in Southeast Asia

This holiday season, CX leaders will be busy charting a course for 2025.

Independent report from Motorola Solutions reveals retail workers’ desires for enhanced safety and security measures to help keep them safer at work

New research shows Australian retail workers feel unsafe and are considering quitting coming into holiday shopping season, fearing hostile customers and retail crime.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has declared a skills crisis in Australia and warned that a “staggering” 95% of the Australian workforce needs reskilling, as technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence, are poised to profoundly reshape their roles.

Global cloud provider in experience orchestration Genesys has announced a new Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services(AWS) it says will to help organisations create exceptional experiences through deeper coordination of technologies and intelligent, automated solutions.

The volume of electric vehicle battery pack shipments will reach 30 million globally in 2027; from just 10 million in 2022, according to a new research report.

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has named Matt Hicks as its new president and chief executive officer, succeeding Paul Cormier who will serve as chairman.

National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) - an independent, federally funded not-for-profit working to decarbonise Australia’s energy sector - has launched a national LETs Pitch program to identify, support and raise the profile of the Australia’s best and brightest' cleantech businesses.

Thirty-four percent of 500 recently surveyed Australian and New Zealand businesses operating in a range of industries, still don’t have a climate strategy, and of those that do, 60% have not seen significant reductions in emissions levels, according to a new report from Deloitte Access Economics commissioned by Google Cloud.

While medium sized enterprises are typically slow to invest in operational improvements, they have much to gain from embracing new generation financial software

GUEST OPINION by Claudia Pirko, ANZ Regional Vice President, BlackLine: Too large to pivot on a sixpence, too small to drop big bucks on products and processes to help their operations run more smoothly and cost effectively…many mid-sized Australian businesses are behind the eight ball, when it comes to spending money on solutions that increase efficiency internally.

While some technologies followed expected growth patterns, the reality of a global pandemic has resulted in unprecedented technology acceleration that has fundamentally changed how we live and work, according to a report from professional services firm Deloitte Austraia..

GUEST OPINION by Peter O’Connor, Vice President Sales Asia Pacific, Snowflake:  Keen to find ways to stay a step ahead of their competitors, growing numbers of organisations are embarking on new data science projects. Properly designed and implemented, such projects can provide valuable insights into everything from market sentiment and mood to the performance of manufacturing facilities and supply chains.

GUEST OPINION by Priyanka Roy, product consultant, ManageEngine:  Growing populations, cybersecurity concerns, staffing shortages and rising healthcare costs have been putting pressure on healthcare systems around the world. Faced with the combination of increasing demand for services and constrained resources, medical professionals are turning to new technologies to help ease the pressure.

GUEST OPINION by Brendan Maree, Vice President Asia Pacific at 8x8: As Australia emerges from its COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, businesses are coming to terms with how they will need to operate under ‘new normal’ conditions.

Optus and the Australian National University (ANU) are working together to develop a national system designed to detect bushfires early and put them out within minutes.

Two-thirds of banking executives believe that new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning will continue to have the greatest impact on the global banking sector in the next five years, according to a new report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for banking software company Temenos.

Australia’s healthcare system must quickly incorporate technologies including remote consulting, wearable monitors and full digitisation if it is to meet the challenges of the coming decade, an investigation by the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) has found.

Australian banks are at risk of losing US$3 billion in payments revenue by 2025 due to the growth of digital payments and competition from non-banks, according to a new research report.

Telecommunications service provider Next Telecom has ramped up its business with the acquisition of four Melbourne-based telcos - Next Business Telecommunications, Business Class Telecom, Nextalk and WireNetworks.