ADAverse
Episodes
Episode 007: From Pilot to Frontier Firm - Westfund's Automation Journey with Maggie Herceg
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ADAverse podcast, Shaun Leisegang is joined by Maggie Herceg, Chief Operating Officer and AI Lead at Westfund Health Insurance,...
Episode 006: PAL Power - How the Paul Ramsay Foundation Built an AI Agent to Search, Analyse & Create with Confidence
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ADAverse podcast, Shaun Leisegang is joined by Paul Akkari, IT Manager at the Paul Ramsay Foundation (PRF), to explore what hap...
Episode 005: Your Data Health Check – From Diagnosis to Transformation
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ADAverse podcast, Shaun Leisegang sits down with Gladwin Mendez, Fractional Chief Data & AI Officer at GEC Prudentia, to un...
Episode 004: Modernising Insurance through Automation, Data and AI
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ADAverse podcast, Shaun Leisegang sits down with Wai-Lum Tang (Head of Information Technology) and Tricia Kopka (Head of Operat...
Episode 003: Protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in the Age of AI
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ADAverse podcast, Shaun Leisegang is joined by Alex Tulintsev, PII Redaction Specialist at ABBYY, to tackle one of the most hig...
Episode 002: The Next Evolution of Automation: From RPA to AI Agents
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this ADAverse podcast episode, Shaun Leisegang and Tony Nudd from UiPath explore the cutting-edge world of AI agents, highlighting the evolution be...
Episode 001: From Automation Alliance to ADAverse: The Evolution of Automation, Data & AI
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode, host Shaun Leisegang sits down with Pieter DeGunst, Managing Director of Tecala, to explore the journey from rapidMATION an...
Episode 37: Exploring the Power of ChatGPT and Intelligent Automation
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You cannot go anywhere at the moment without hearing about ChatGPT and it is certainly taking over the internet at the moment. Join us on this e...
Episode 36: Strategic Design or Intelligent Automation; Where should I start?
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun chats with Stephen Graham (Design Director at STCK), on the intersection of Strategic Design and Intelligent Automation.
Episode 35: Stories from the field: Catch up with a UiPath MVP on all things UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun chats with Jacqui Miller (Application Architect at Dimension Data), one of the newest UiPath MVP's and the first female MVP in Africa, on all th...
Episode 34: Exciting news from the Nintex camp
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun chats with Chris Ellis (Director of Presales at Nintex) on Nintex's latest acquisition of RPA leader Kryon.
Episode 33: Fireside chat with Anders Jensen, an Automation Teacher & YouTuber
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun has a fireside chat with Anders Jensen, an Automation Teacher & YouTuber, who is doing some amazing things in the automation community. You can...
Episode 32: Getting stuff done with a new generation of apps for work. That employees love.
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We chat with Dennis Parker (Customer Lead at Jigx) about getting stuff done with a new generation of apps for work. That employees love.
Episode 31: Building a Fantasy Sports Newsletter with Robotic Process Automation
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We chat with David Kroll (Lead Solutions Engineer, Ashling Partners) on how he used Robotic Process Automation to build out and automate his Fantasy S...
Episode 30: Responsible Automation - Retain, retrain and redeploy your workforce
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we host Greg Miller, Executive Director at Faethm, and we talk about Responsible Automation which is the ability to retain, retrain an...
Episode 29: All things Process Mining, Task Mining and Automated Testing
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Stuart Chambers, UiPath Emerging Product Sales Specialist for the Australia New Zealand region, to this episode of the Automation Alliance ...
Episode 28: The Future of Insurance, today.
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Absolutely thrilled to have Katrin Stoecker, Chief Operations Officer at Steadfast Underwriting Agencies join us for this insightful episode discussin...
Episode 27: How to understand your business processes with Nintex Promapp
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What a pleasure it was to have Thomas Kohlenbach, senior product specialist at Nintex, join us for this episode focussed on achieving process excellen...
Episode 26: Mastering Accounts Payable Automation at Coates Hire
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What an incredible success story we get to discuss on this episode! We hear how Pieter Le Roux, National Shared Services Manager, is driving an automa...
Episode 25: The Automation Alliance Global Network > Meet jaam
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What a pleasure it was having Graham Penman, Co-founder of jaam Automation in the UK, as a special guest for this episode. We ran through the recent A...
Episode 24: Intelligent Automation in 2021 > RPA Predictions
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Absolutely thrilled to have Guy Kirkwood, Chief Evangelist at UiPath, share his thoughts and predictions for RPA, AI, and automation in 2021. He has a...
Episode 23: The vision for the Nintex platform in 2021
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fantastic conversation with Chris Ellis, Director of Pre-Sales at Nintex in Australia. We discuss the company's recent acquisition of K2 and Chris wal...
Episode 22: Driving Intelligent Automation at Spotify & Delivering a Citizen Developers Guide to Hyperautomation
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What an episode, what a woman. We hear how Sidney Madison Prescott has forged an incredibly successful career in driving and embedding an automation f...
Episode 21: Idea > Experiment > Learn > Transform > Repeat
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What an episode. What a true transformation story. What an honour to have Luke Kelly, Director of DKG Insurance Brokers, join us to discuss how they...
Episode 20: The real power of the Microsoft Power Platform
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Microsoft Power Platform is an exciting place to be and we were thrilled to have Andrew Coates, Senior Software Engineer and all round Automation ...
Episode 19: How automation is transforming contact centres
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What an episode. We speak to Kris Watt, Innovation and Automation Manager at RACQ, who tells us about how they are transforming their call centre oper...
Episode 18: Automation is all about the people
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Absolutely thrilled to have Ruth Santangelo - Associate Director - Digital, Service and Automation at Optus join us on the show to discuss how she is ...
Episode 17: Automate, Survive, Thrive. The time is now.
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fantastic episode with Luke Kelly the Global Services Director at UiPath. We talk about how to evangelise automation, scale up your automation strateg...
Episode 16: AI as a service for data capture and 2020 ANZ Digital Transformation Survey Results
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sypht CEO Warren Billington joins Shaun for a fascinating discussion around AI as a service for data capture. They talk all things "dark data", summar...
Episode 15: Unpacking the K2 Nexus Platform
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Trent leads the Cloud effort at K2 and we were fortunate to have Jason give us a deep dive into the latest platform release - K2 Nexus. The new ...
Episode 14: Scaling Intelligent Chatbots and how businesses are adapting to a Post-COVID world
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Pavel Gimelberg, an Intelligent Automation and Agile Evangelist who is well known in the automation community in APAC. Shaun and Pavel s...
Episode 13: Intelligent Automation > What will the next 6 months hold?
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Absolutely thrilled to have John Pickering as our special guest on this episode. John is a partner at Deloitte Australia focused on Intelligent & Cogn...
Episode 12: Scaling Automation and Innovation at the University of Sydney
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun speaks to Jonathan Parsons, Associate Director of Automation & Innovation at The University of Sydney and Operations Director at the AI-Hub. Thi...
Episode 11: Reinventing Insurance > how insuretech is transforming the industry
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to Murray Macdonald, Co-founder and CTO of Just Insurance, and we find out how his love for fixing things eventually led him into trying to f...
Episode 10: We interview Shaun and hear about the state of the RPA nation
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We decided to mix this episode up and were lucky to have the NSW UiPath Partner Manager, Ida Montagner, agree to host this episode and turn the questi...
Episode 9: Transforming client on boarding through intelligent automation
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Spearheading the automation-first mindset in legal is Luiz de Almeida, CIO at Sine Lawyers. Luiz joins Shaun in this episode to tell us more about the...
Episode 8: How do you drive digital transformation?
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun was thrilled to have K2 Chief Product Officer, Burley Kawasaki, share his insights on how to truly drive transformation through the redesign of ...
Episode 7: Leading the Legal Innovation wave in Australia
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we speak with Terri Mottershead. Terri is a leading voice in the legal industry in Australia and we talk all things legal innovation: ...
Episode 6: A day in the life of the UiPath Chief Evangelist
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What an episode. We were privileged to have UiPath's Chief Evangelist, Guy Kirkwood, join us for a discussion with Shaun on a range of topics includin...
Episode 5: An in depth look into the Australian RPA market
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun speaks with Andrew Phillips, Managing Director and Vice President, Australia & New Zealand at UiPath. They look at how Australia stacks up again...
Episode 4: A relative newbies thoughts on the world of IA
09 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Jonno King this episode, not only as our special guest on the Automation Alliance, but as our newest team member at rapidMATION. Jonno and ...
Episode 3: Intelligent Automation in 2020 > Industry Predictions
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode welcomes Anthony Scott, leading Industry expert in Intelligent Automation and one of the first to pioneer the way in RPA deployment in Au...
Episode 2: Intelligent Automation in 2020 > DPA Predictions
19 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun speaks with Holly Anderson, senior director of product marketing at K2 and lifelong Star Wars fan. They look at Gartner's "Top 10 Strategic Tech...
Episode 1: Intelligent Automation in 2020 > RPA Predictions
12 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our very first episode Shaun Leisegang speaks with Jens Pistorius, RPA Evangelist and founder of Incepto, on his thoughts and predictions in the RP...