"Automation anxiety stems from a deeper fear of not being able to fulfil your purpose."

"The ability to recover IT systems quickly has become one of the most important concerns for businesses in New Zealand."

"Before A/NZ businesses dive deeper into SaaS in search of the great business outcomes it can provide, they would do well to ask certain questions."

"There’s no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to implementing RPA."

"Ultimately, the hardest reality for companies to grasp is that a successful POC engagement may not actually result in a successful new product."

"I believe that inclusion and diversity is the single biggest challenge facing our industry."

"Improvements in AI will allow for greater visual representations of data during virtual meetings."

"The transformation begins by empowering employees to access a deep pool of data."

“ASPI seems to have an unhealthy fixation on our company that has crossed the threshold of independent fact-based thinking to become the “go to” organisation for all things anti-China.”

"Machine learning and artificial intelligence can be used to find context in the tons of data that flow in and out of customer-facing organisations every day."

"Regardless of how the workforce changes, automation, data and algorithms will complement rather than replace human employees."

"With greater reliance on AI and machine learning comes human hesitation about the trustworthiness of model-driven recommendations."

"If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that the role of the CIO is always changing, and that it won’t stop changing anytime soon."

"There is clearly a need to rethink how electricity consumption information is exchanged."

"Australian organisations need to ensure that their key IT architectures are adaptable."

"To remain competitive, businesses must think of good data management as a team sport."

"When data is siloed and hard to share it can have a devastating effect on the health of a business."

"It is very important to have a mechanism to collect information and data that provides a view of project success based on characteristics."

"APIs can make it possible for companies to build rich and accurate profiles of their customers by aggregating data about them from multiple computer systems."

"About 44% of Australian businesses use six or more solutions to try to manage fragmented data sources and repositories."

"Organisations around the world have learnt at a cost that while agile DevOps methodologies can result in improved outcomes within teams and projects, they have a propensity to fail miserably."

"Mobile computing, artificial intelligence and the cloud are collectively redefining the relationships between companies and customers."

"Adopting innovative planning models and tools makes it possible for enterprises to respond flexibly and quickly to changing market conditions."

Australian businesses have been forecast to spend almost $5.6 billion on public cloud services in 2019.