AI Down Under
I interview AI experts in Australia.
Episodes
Her Team Built an AI Brain ($2.1M Per Week) | Anneliese Urquhart (CPO & AI Lead, Think & Grow)
Anneliese says many businesses that use AI to change how they operate are outpacing their peers on revenue growth by more than 2x, and the difference has almost nothing to do with the technology underneath. Her team just finished a live segmentation model for a med tech business that generates $2.1 million a week, new revenue and revenue saved combined.Anneliese is Chief Product Officer and AI Pra
He Builds AI Agents For $15B Revenue Companies | JC Gosselin (Enterprise AI & Tech @ Terem)
Most companies buy a pile of AI licences, watch usage peak in week 3, and by month 6 nothing has actually changed.Jean-Christophe (JC) Gosselin is Principal of Enterprise AI and Technology at Terem, an Australian tech consultancy. He has spent his career shipping data and machine learning inside large organisations, including loyalty and freight analytics in aviation, and these days running agenti
The AI CEO Who Backed Startups Worth $3.5B+ | Michael Batko (CEO, Hourglass AI Consulting Services)
Most companies build AI backwards. They start with agents, the agents break, and they think AI "doesn't work". Michael Batko is the co-founder and CEO of Hourglass AI consulting services, a Sydney and Melbourne AI implementation firm that makes Australian companies AI native. Before this he ran Startmate, Australia's most active startup accelerator, for 8 years. He raised $50M and backed 230 start
Evgueni Iakhontov - Partner, Revity (AI Consultancy)
Australia is 2 to 3 years behind other countries when it comes to adopting AI at scale.That assessment comes from Evgueni Iakhontov, a Partner at Revity, a Melbourne-based technology consultancy helping organisations turn AI from experimentation into practical business value.Evgueni has more than 20 years of experience leading technology teams and delivering large-scale transformation programs acr
Joff Outlaw - Managing Director (Australia), MakerTech
His team's tool for New Zealand's Department of Conservation turned 1,000s of hours of paperwork into minutes. The uncomfortable part is what he sees everywhere else. Clients keep bringing him AI ideas, and often when you pull back the process underneath is completely broken. AI is a logic beast, and it chokes on messy human workflows.Joff Outlaw is Managing Director for Australia at MakerTech, a
Simon Kriss - CEO, Sovereign Australia AI
Simon Kriss is building Australia's own AI. His argument is simple. Every model Australian businesses and governments use today is rented from overseas, and somebody else holds the off switch.Simon spent more than 35 years in the corporate world, held the chief AI officer role, and has keynoted at the UN in Geneva. He mentors boards and executives on AI adoption, and he is now CEO of Sovereign Aus
Dr Brian Lowe - Chief AI Officer in Australia
Brian Lowe has held the title of Chief AI Officer—one of the few in Australia to do so—and brings a clear message for business leaders concerned they are falling behind on AI: you are not missing out. In fact, up to 95% of AI initiatives never reach production, and much of what is presented as progress is often little more than hype.Brian began his career with a PhD in Information Systems and has
AI Engineer @ $3B Software Firm
He builds AI for a living, and he says most businesses asking for AI don't need it. They need automation.Edward Budiman is an AI engineer at NiCE, where he does client facing AI implementation. Before that he was an AI and automation engineer, and before that he studied data science.0:00 Who he is and how he got into AI0:44 The build that saved a hundred people hundreds of hours2:15 He custom buil
Head of AI @ $2B Finance Firm
His AI agents do the analyst's work at a $2B finance firm. Deal research that took analysts three weeks now takes a coffee break.Ivan Wong has a PhD in microbiology. He now runs data and AI at LVP, a $2B Sydney private equity firm, where he built the entire AI capability himself as one of their first tech hires.0:00 A PhD in microbiology, then NASA, then AI1:03 How good is the thing he built, real
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