Randi Levin is an innovative and transformational business and technology executive with proven experience in government, the private sector domestically and internationally, consulting and many other industries.   She is a flexible and highly experienced leader with emphasis in strategic planning, transformation, transparency and efficiency initiatives and leading edge thinking as well as implementation.  She is a results-oriented business manager with outstanding interpersonal skills.

Randi has spent 30+ years in Information Technology, as a CIO, Applications, Infrastructure and consulting capacities.  She spent 5+ years as the CTO for the City of Los Angeles, overseeing a staff of over 800, partnering with 43 city divisions aiding in the transformation from paper to digital, from old processes to new, and implementing new technologies.  Randi has served as CIO for Cast & Crew and Forest Lawn, and VP of Worldwide Corporate Systems for NBC Universal and the Walt Disney Company, as well as numerous other organizations, primarily in Southern California.

Randi was the first Public and Private sector CTO or CIO to implement Google Applications – Gmail for the enterprise in 2008.  Her extensive partnership with Google provided the city many benefits beyond just a new email system and began the city’s digital transformation.

Randi has lived in the Los Angeles area for approximately 25 years and has two grown children. Randi graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration with a Management Information Systems degree from the University of Arizona.

Cameron Stone is Group Chief Information Officer of Virgin Australia, the leading airline of Australia. Cameron joined Virgin Australia in 2013 and as CIO carries the responsibility for leading Technology across the Group, which includes TigerAir, VA Regional Air, Cargo and Velocity Frequent Flyer.

Prior to joining Virgin Australia, Cameron was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Aurizon, Australia’s largest rail freight operator. He was also Head of Legal, Australia and New Zealand for Lexmark Australia after holding Senior Technology roles at Suncorp, Bank of Queensland and Queensland Health.

Cameron holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Business Law from the University of Southern Queensland, an Associate Diploma in Civil Engineering from Queensland University of Technology and a Diploma of Business in Frontline Management from the Australian Institute of Management.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outdoors paddle boarding and hiking with his wife. They take every chance they get to travel internationally and pursue adventures hand in hand. Cameron loves Texas BBQ and is on a lifelong quest to cook the perfect brisket.

As Chief Information Officer, Sami is responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable and performance-enhancing technology services across Bupa. Having joined Bupa more than 12 years ago, Sami has held a number of technical and senior leadership roles across various Information Services teams, where he has driven significant performance and service improvements for the business, our customers and our people. Since becoming CIO in February 2016, Sami has led the transformation of Information Services to become more customer-focused, agile, collaborative and efficient, which has improved the colleague and customer experience as reflected by significant improvements in employee and colleague Net Promoter Scores. Sami was recently recognised externally for his track record as a transformational leader making a significant business impact, when he was placed in the Top 3 CIOs in Australia, as judged by CIO50. In addition to more than 30 years of information technology experience at a variety of industries spanning multiple continents, Sami’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Quality Management.

Tanya is a Business Transformation Executive with a demonstrated ability to develop new business ideas and successfully implement them across a business. She is a leader who is enthusiastic about driving change and organisational growth. Having been in senior roles for over twenty years, she has experience working with Board Directors, Executive teams and regulators, to drive change across industries including Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, Technology, Retail and Property, Federal Government and Utilities. Tanya is currently the Chief Transformation Officer at Alinta Energy, overseeing an enterprise wide transformation to scale up the business to meet ambitious growth targets whilst also meeting evolving regulatory requirements and intense market competition. Prior to Alinta, Tanya developed the digital and data strategy for Austrade as their Chief Digital Officer.   Tanya holds an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), is a graduate of the Company Directors course, Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and is a member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET).

Kshira Saagar (Shee-Rah Sa-Ga) has been with the Analytics/Decision Sciences industry for almost a decade now having worked across Americas, Asia, Europe and more importantly Australia. The bulk of his work has been focussed on developing solutions for the Data Science and Analytics problem spaces of the Retail, Telecom and Insurance marketing departments at some of the leading Fortune 100 clients. In his other roles, he has also enabled decision making through data for clients from the Media, Healthcare, Aviation, Logistics and FMCG organisations. Kshira believes in making data everyone’s job at an organisation and not have it just as a specialty role.

In his current role at Global Fashion Group (the parent company of THE ICONIC), as the Director of Analytics and Data Science, he’s responsible for enabling data driven smart-decision making across 14 different countries within the fashion e-commerce space. Previously at Datalicious & prior to that at Fairfax, he was responsible for institutionalising data-driven analytics across the company’s core competencies and building new-age analytical products for the organisation.

I started my career as a developer, moved into data as my area of specialty and then found myself as a project manager and ultimately a leader. I’ve worked mainly in Australia but also had a 3-year stint in Asia. These experiences have developed me so that I am most effective in an environment with a focus on continuous improvement and get excited by leading teams through wholesale transformation.

As Head of IT, I have full responsibility for corporate IT for Channel 7 and Pacific Magazines, Australia wide. This includes a team of 40 people that are distributed across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The team supports a user base of approximately 3500 across 13 sites. The role manages teams that have responsibility for ensuring operational stability, providing end user support and managing the delivery of projects for the business.

David Hackshall is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Cochlear Ltd, a leader in cochlea implant technology that supports over 500,000 people with hearing loss around the world. Since commencing his role in July 2015, David has overseen the organisation’s global IT capability with a focus on innovating technology to further improve the Cochlear recipient’s journey. Based in Sydney, David operates in a global capacity with operations throughout Asia, Europe and the US. Under David’s supervision the Cochlear technology function has undertaken a material restructure whilst delivering a number of customer facing and internal cornerstone applications. David was also recently selected by his peers to be included in the top 10 CIOs across Australia and New Zealand. David has over 20 years’ of experience in driving technological transformation spanning differing industry sectors. He has worked in some of Australia’s leading companies including logistics, financial services and now medical devices. David holds both a Master of Information Technology Management and MBA from Macquarie University.