The CIO Australia Show
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The CIO Australia Show: What the go with Web 3.0?
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's been much talk lately about the so-called Web 3.0 sparking debate as to whether it is indeed the future of digital communications (Facebook's ...
Checking the pulse of digital health in Australia
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Organisations in the public and private sectors were faced with a once-in-a-century crisis, with CIOs and their teams thrust into the front line, deli...
How to be a CIO50 Australia winner in 2022
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year again, with nominations now open for the CIO50 awards both in Australia and in New Zealand. The program is now in its 7th ye...
Is your AI talking back?
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month this was a good deal of excitement – probably mixed with horror for some – following ‘revelations’ in the tech and indeed m...
Why do A/NZ enterprises still suck at AI?
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re coming up to almost two years since the first episode of The CIO Show, which was a two part series discussing how Australian organisations wer...
The CIO Australia Show: Lessons learned a year on from Nine’s ransomware nightmare
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been just over a year since Australian media giant Nine was rocked by a major ransomware attack pushing its head of IT and the company’s firs...
The CIO Australia Show: Has the DTA had its day?
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Digital Transformation Agency, or DTA, was established back in 2016 with an ambitious charter to steer the Australian public service towards being...
The CIO Australia Show: Managing AI in the public sector
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As anyone who follows the Australian CIO50 would know, former Revenue NSW CIO Kathleen Mackay topped the list in 2021 largely for her work in applying...
CIO50 Australia 2021: Wrap up
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On November 18, the achievements of 50 of Australia’s leading technology and digital executives were celebrated at the Sydney launch of the CIO50 aw...
Helping Australian CIOs become better leaders
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the key CIO trends we’ve seen throughout the pandemic is that tech leaders have now come to be seen as business leaders in ways we’ve not s...
How Lendlease is laying new digital foundations for a post-COVID world
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The property and construction sectors have been among the hardest hit throughout the pandemic, with lockdowns challenging operations at work sites and...
Will your COVID-19 transformation stick?
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Was COVID-19 really been as transformative as many people – especially vendors – suggest? Or has it been more like a scramble, still demanding a p...
The CIO Australia Show: What does ‘best practice’ mean for tech leaders in 2021?
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The term ‘best practice’ is certainly one of the most misused in business and technology circles today. At times, one wonders whether it’s almos...
The CIO Show: What's your disaster recovery and business continuity plan today?
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this land of ‘droughts and flooding rains’, terrifying bushfires, earthquakes and now ever more emboldened cyber villains exploiting the pandem...
The CIO Australia Show: The new world of digitised, data-led manufacturing
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Manufacturing has typically been well behind the pack when it comes to digital transformation. As result, its ability to innovate and cut costs has be...
The CIO Australia Show: How to avoid cloud ‘bill shock’
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s now become almost a cliché to state cloud computing isn’t always the cheapest option compared with on premise or some hybrid configuration. ...
The CIO Australia Show: Where do CISOs sit in today’s organisations?
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s more treacherous cyber security environment, organisations with the biggest targets on their heads can’t afford not to employ a dedicat...
The CIO Australia Show: Big Brother in the enterprise
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a great deal of discussion lately about the potential for technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and others to rev...
The CIO Australia Show: Tracking the growth of agtech in 2021
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite being one of Australia’s backbone industries, agriculture isn’t typically associated with digital innovation. Yet there are incredible ch...
The CIO Australia Show: MSP hacks for strategic success
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Managed service providers are an important element of many organisations’ digital efforts, especially for those with limited staff and other resourc...
The CIO Show: Australia’s accidental techies
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tech sector has plenty of people who never set out to work in the industry, let alone ascend to senior roles. Yet through some twist of fate or ch...
The CIO Show: How APIs are transforming Australian enterprises
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
APIs have been around for a long time, but over the past few years they have become an increasingly indispensable tool for CIOs and organisations of a...
Sydney Local Health District’s Richard Taggart on the tech behind its COVID-19 vaccination centre
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just months ago, Australia seemed to have the COVID-19 pandemic control. The population was getting back to work and life began to seem like it had re...
The CIO Show: How IT's response to COVID changed education forever
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The education sector has been amongst the hardest hit by the pandemic, with lessons, lectures and whole degrees disrupted, put on hold or abandoned. M...
The CIO Show: What it takes to win the CIO50 in 2021
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year again, with nominations open for both the Australian and New Zealand ‘2021’ CIO50 lists this coming Wednesday, June 23. T...
The CIO Show: AI and ethics - Separating 'principles' and 'bits'
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With great power comes great responsibility, and there are few technologies driving today’s fast evolving digital landscape as powerful as artificia...
The CIO Show: Have you gone 'all-in' with the cloud?
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout 2020 and into 2021, we’ve heard of more and more organisations in Australia deciding to migrate all data, systems and workloads into the ...
The CIO Show: Why 'women in IT'still doesn't compute in Australia
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we revisit several of the key themes that came out of our first discussion about women in tech on The CIO Show last year, broadening...
The CIO Show: Exit interviews with Australian tech chiefs
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to four senior technology executives who have just left their CIO roles. They reflect on the successes they had, their missteps, what they lea...
The CIO Show: NSW Police's CIO Gordon Dunsford on digital crime fighting
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon Dunsford, CIO at NSW Police is without a doubt one of the most fascinating tech leaders around. After becoming the agency’s first ever CIO ...
The CIO Show: C-suite face-off
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Depending on who you ask, it's probably safe to say that over the years that chief information officers and other c-level execs have had somewhat of a...
The CIO Show: Finding Australia's top talent in 2021
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a perennial question for CIOs as they seek to hire and build the best teams: to what extent should experience be valued over qualifications, or...
The CIO Show: Edge computing has arrived
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edge computing as a concept has been around a long time. But now it would seem it’s entering the mainstream as an important, viable technology to im...
The CIO Show: The Australian media's digitisation drama
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The media industry today is barely recognisable from even 10 years ago, let alone at the start of the 21st century. The effects of digital disruption...
The CIO Show: CIO confessions
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If one of the 20th century's greatest sportspeople can admit to failure, then why can't our tech execs? We ask three highly experienced tech chiefs ab...
The CIO Show: Is email dead?
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fact email is still around despite the array of superior collaboration platforms available for little or even no cost, is testament to its powerfu...
The CIO Show: Is your team 'culture' letting you down?
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Culture is a word that was barely if ever bandied about amongst tech leaders and their teams even five or so years ago, despite its addition to the br...
The CIO Show: Australian tech execs on the attraction of not-for-profits
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The not-for-profit sector had it as hard as any market during the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally under resourced – financially, technically ...
The CIO Show: Is open source really cheaper in Australia?
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Open source has been a perennial hot topic for well over 20 years, ever since the Linux penguin sought to befriend everyone from the enterprise, SMEs ...
The CIO Show: Is 'monolithic ERP' dead in Australia?
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, big ERP vendors and systems became synonymous with the highest levels of cost and complexity for CIOs. But as...
Agile in Australia: Are you fast or fake?
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The technology sector is notorious for its ability to constantly create new buzzwords and the word “agile” is no exception. Meaning to have quic...
The CIO Show: Digitising financial services
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They say every organisation is a technology company these days, and this is especially the case for businesses in the financial services sector. In th...
The CIO Show: Is ‘hybrid cloud’ now passe?
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to two CIOs who’ve been right at the coalface of helping organisations manage large scale transitions to the cloud as to why...
The CIO Show: How SD-WAN is charting the future of smarter communications
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CIO Show, we talk to tech leaders and analysts about the fast-evolving SD-WAN space, the role it played in helping organisation...
The CIO Show: Top predictions from Australian tech execs for 2021 and dud tips from 2019
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this the first episode of The CIO Show for this year, we talk to two leading analysts and one of last year’s top performers in the CIO50 about wh...
The CIO Show: How automation helped Australian tech execs during a crazy 2020
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode of The CIO Show for 2020 is on automation. It’s a fast-growing area, accelerated by COVID-19 as CIOs have sought ways to mai...
The CIO Show: Vertical series – Digitising government in Australia
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia's public sector is in the process of a wide-ranging digital transformation which is changing how people, communities and businesses engage w...
The CIO Show: Quantum computing for dummies
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is a world leader in quantum computing, attracting interest from the biggest tech companies in the world, the best academics and researchers...
The CIO Show: Natural language processing is getting louder
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we’re circling back to one of the key themes to emerge from our debut two-part episode on AI, being natural language processing. We ...
The CIO Show: CIO50 wrap up
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of The CIO Show, we catch up with the technology executives who took the top 3 positions in the 2020 CIO50 list. Now in it's 5t...
The CIO Show: What happened to blockchain?
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain reached an almost fever pitch of hype back in 2017, before falling into a deep trough of disillusionment. Apart from its role in supporting...
The CIO Show: Vertical series - Digitising healthcare
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The CIO Show, we kick off our monthly verticals series looking at the healthcare sector and how its digital transformation journey ...
The CIO Show: Aussie innovation
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For years many of us have been hearing a constant whinge, really, that the Australian technology sector isn’t getting the love it needs, whether fro...
The CIO Show: Getting security right in the cloud
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The move to cloud computing has been creating a new cyber security landscape for several years. Now with the increased complexity of hybrid cloud ...
The CIO Show: IoT really is a thing now
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CIO Show we dive into the fast-expanding universe that is the internet of things, featuring two Australian CIOs spearheading am...
The CIO Show: Outsourcing 2.0, beyond ‘your mess for less’
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to COVID, outsourcing is well and truly back on the table.
The CIO Show: Navigating the skills shortage
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ‘The CIO Show’ we look at the latest report to drop analysing Australia’s tech skills workforce, showing that while there are...
The CIO Show: Biz-managed IT, coming out from the shadows
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we get into the vexed topic of Shadow IT. Much of the discussion has focussed on the cyber and other risks associated with staff brin...
The CIO Show: Raising the customer experience
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s become the holy grail of tech, improving the customer experience. In this episode, we hear from respected authorities at the coalface of this...
The CIO Show: How much are you worth?
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ‘The CIO Show’ we take a look at the latest data out on IT salaries in Australia, and the discuss current the trends in this mo...
The CIO Show: Is the cloud really cheaper?
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an assumption that has been allowed to grow unchecked for some time, however the jury is officially still out on whether public cloud infrastru...
The CIO Show: Women in IT, part 2
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this the second of our two-part episode on ‘Women in IT’ we delve a little deeper into what sexual discrimination looks like, and continuing th...
The CIO Show: Women in IT, part 1
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of ‘The CIO Show’ is the first of our two-part programme on Women in IT, where we tackles the questions of how many women are current...
The CIO Show: How to win in the CIO50 and why it matters
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CIO Show we talk to CIO50 alumni Real Pet Food Company group CIO Ursula Phillips and Sydney Water CIO George Hunt about what th...
Vendor relationships: The good, the bad and the ugly
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We all know too well the many high-profile stories of big tech projects failing to deliver for the client, going way over budget and over time or both...
The CIO Show: Tech chiefs on the challenges - and opportunities - brought by COVID-19
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some CIOs in industries most exposed to COVID-19 have not only managed, but thrived as the pandemic has allowed them make the case more strongly for d...
The CIO Show: Artificial intelligence in Australia, Part 2
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of our two-part episode on AI, CIO associate editor, David Binning speaks with the 'David Attenborough of AI', Gartner VP Whit Andrews a...
The CIO Show: Artificial intelligence in Australia, Part 1
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of a two part series, CIO's associate editor David Binning talks to Deloitte's analytics and cognitive leader Alan Marshall about why Aus...