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Frank Fillmann, EVP and general manager, Salesforce ANZ.

Australia’s productivity problem: there’s an AI agent for that

As Australia faces its weakest productivity performance in 60 years, agentic artificial intelligence is set to bring about a fundamental shift in work.

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May

The Salesforce Tower in Sydney’s CBD.

S--- happens: Salesforce Tower suffers sewage leak

Building manager Lendlease must have been secretly relieved people don’t go to the office on Fridays when the foyer filled with sewage.

Gerard Florian group executive of technology at ANZ

ANZ tech boss touts AI agents to lift bankers’ productivity

ANZ is working with Salesforce to roll out AI agents that can help bankers prepare for client meetings, says the bank’s technology chief Gerard Florian

April

It’s expected agentic AI will help businesses tackle some of the top challenges they’re facing,

Businesses turning to agentic AI to grow, scale and ease work pressure

Businesses across Australia and New Zealand are turning to a new generation of artificial intelligence technology to lighten the load.

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Frank Fillmann, EVP and general manager, Salesforce ANZ.

Burnout to breakthrough: AI agents will unlock productivity and growth

A limitless workforce is within reach for Australian businesses, empowering leaders to move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset.

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February

Frank Fillmann is EVP and general manager, Salesforce ANZ.

Digital labour could solve Australia’s productivity challenge

Agentic AI is set to welcome a new horizon for business: the possibility of a digital labour force working alongside humans to streamline operation.

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November 2024

Transurban’s Simon Moorfield says AI is helping keep its roads in better shape, and responsibility for AI is being shared across the company.

Tech chiefs feel the heat of boards’ AI expectations

Fear among board directors and chief executives that they will be left behind in AI use by fleeter footed rivals’ is piling the pressure on tech executives.

Shaneen Marshall, chief of technology and strategy at Zurich Financial.

AI gets real as big business finds its feet

An era of cautious, low-stakes experimentation is rapidly giving way to tangible changes in how some of Australia’s largest operations run.

Kim Krogh Andersen, Telstra’s product and technology chief, says AI will change how it deals with customers, but humans will still be present.

Telstra and ANZ say human call centres will have AI agents

The way companies deal with their customers is going to change in the AI era, two of Australia’s biggest companies say, but humans will still be involved.

Bran Black CEO, BCA at the Financial Review and Salesforce roundtable on Businesses’ great AI challenge

Should regulators have a light touch with AI rules?

Managing AI risks is all about making the most of the human safety net.

Frank Fillmann, General Manager, ANZ, Salesforce

AI produces efficiency dividends for Australian business

Combining the best of artificial intelligence with human experience is creating genuine productivity gains.

February 2024

Marek Rucinski says AI can help identify when an organisation is likely to underpay superannuation.

AI auditors let the ATO find millions in unpaid tax and super

Natural language AI models have helped the ATO find hundreds of millions of liabilities and pinpoint organisations that may not be paying employees enough super.

Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic is trying to establish “guardrails” for AI development.

The AI horrors Husic will head off with ‘guardrails’

Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic is trying to thread the needle with AI rules strong enough to protect society, without killing innovative business.

Telstra CEO Vicki Brady

AI should do what humans can’t, not what we want

The best deployments of AI are helping us discover solutions to big problems and work smarter, without taking the humanity out of creativity or selling junk.

Rowena Westphalen of Salesforce says there are a grwoing number of examples of AI making a material difference inside big companies.

Businesses still at the starting line in AI race

We are starting to see tangible returns from early corporate AI deployments, but there is still room for much more ambition and evolved use in the years ahead, experts say.

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June 2023

Groundbreaking institutes to build generations of job-ready graduates

NSW has launched two new institutes of applied technology that aim to equip graduates with the tools successful careers.

November 2022

saasguru Chief Product Officer Prateek Kataria, Co-founder and COO Atif Saad and Co-founder and CEO Amit Choudhary  at Squarepeg in Sydney November 28, 2022. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer .

The ex-consultants cashing in with a solution to the skills shortage

After finding a solution to the skills shortage in his own business, Amit Choudhary has raised $4 million to build an education platform.

October 2022

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Facing into the wind and choosing kindness: the new CFO approach

Our strength as CFOs is the ability to break down silos, align and empower the teams to unlock synergies.

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September 2022

Organisations depend on technology to fuel growth.

Financial services can cut costs with digital transformation

Organisations need an approach to technology that marries long-term strategic planning and value delivery from day one.

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July 2022

True Alliance saw online sales growth north of 600 per cent for certain brands during lockdowns.

Digital excellence the key to loosening consumers’ purse strings

When lockdowns began in March 2020, global brand distributor True Alliance was perfectly poised to pivot its business to online.

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