Intelligent Automation (IA) helps companies realize the next wave of operational efficiency, support decision making through data analytics and accelerate digital evolution. AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes. Intelligent solutions can emulate human behavior, make decisions and learn from experience. Intelligent Automation and AI enable organizations achieve business and IT process efficiencies through a three-phased strategic approach. The first phase involves assessing the current level of automation maturity to qualify quick wins for implementation. The second phase is used to identify the major business/IT processes focus areas and align them with the Do-Think-Learn service continuum. The final phase includes a roadmap using the crawl, walk and run framework. This session provides an overview of process automation using Robotics and the approach to accelerate automation maturity with enhanced intelligent automation using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Vandana Viswanathan is a strategic business & technology consulting leader with over 20 years of experience providing consulting advisory and program leadership services for fortune 100 clients. Vandana specializes in Digital Strategy, Transformation, Program & Product Management, Intelligent Automation, Agile, Cloud Transformation, Enterprise Architecture and Regulatory Compliance services. Her consulting industry experience spans across Life Sciences, Healthcare, Banking & Financial Services and Insurance. She plays the role of a Market Leader / Digital Transformation Partner for Life Sciences. Vandana has designed Intelligent Automation solutions for large corporate clients. She has pioneered best in class frameworks for validating cloud and COTS systems. She acts as a trusted advisor for several fortune 100 global clients across Life Sciences, Healthcare and Banking & Financial Services.

Though RPA has been around for many years, there are organizations who are still exploring and are still at their early stages (a.k.a Pilot Stage). This session will talk show the audience how they can move past this stage and set up the enterprise RPA within the organization. We will talk about the Key pillars necessary to build up the pipeline, capabilities, and move from Pilot to a fully functional Centre of Excellence

Sean has more than 8 years of experience in the IT Industry and as well experienced in leading and setting up various RPA Automation Models for Logistics, BPO, Petrochemical, Finance, and Insurance. Currently, He is a Solutions architect in Ingram Micro Australia. He has more than 5 years' experience in designing and architecting cost-effective and scalable RPA solutions that create a sustainable competitive advantage, unlock synergies, leverage untapped efficiencies, align RPA for differentiation, and use innovation to increase or create a point of variance.
He has extensive experience in IT service management, application support/development and has been heavily involved in numerous high-valued automation/continuous improvement projects. This is combined with Client Delivery Fundamentals including service management, root cause analysis, requirements analysis and gathering, technical/functional design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, deployment, defect resolution, risk management, and post-mortem activities.
I am experienced across various RPA Tools such as UiPath, Kryon, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism and Power Automate

Digitisation and automation opportunity in Finance is much more than AP and AR.
Future of Finance is a hot topic. Most finance professionals have heard that ‘automation/robotics’ will unlock new opportunities for finance functions to add value, reduce cost and make quicker, better decisions. a recent survey found that over 50% of finance executives feel that they need more information to understand the opportunity and plan for success. The market is also flooded with examples of automating Shared Services functions like Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, but less is spoken about higher end finance tasks that require data manipulation, data wrangling, exception reporting, automated data analytics etc. So much is possible if you know how.
The goal of RPA/automation isn't just to 'process data quicker', it should be (and can be) to ENABLE better finance business partnering through more informed analysis and insights.
Michael will use his deep experience as a Chartered Accountant and Financial Professional coupled with Data Interactive's expertise in fit-for-purpose Automation Platforms, to provide examples of real outcomes that have been delivered, how to structure a finance focused Automation Project for success and 3 key tips to achieving measurable results.

Michael is the CEO of Data Interactive a boutique business advisory firm and his career spans over 20 years servicing large corporates in various consulting roles across audit, tax and business management and more recently Business Process Automation.
Michael investigated the emerging Robotic Process Automation (RPA) industry in 2014-15 and the types of ‘Tech’ (RPA/Intelligent Automation technologies) available and in late 2015 Michael created the Data Interactive Group to help Australian businesses ‘unlock the value of data’ through RPA and Automation Platforms
Today Data Interactive is a boutique Digital Process Automation (DPA) firm providing Process Automation advisory services (Strategy, Readiness, Tool Selection), Implementation and Support as well as ‘Robotics as a Service’ offerings.
Uniquely, Data Interactive is vendor agnostic and an authorised reseller of 13 different Automation technologies and platforms - the broadest breadth of automation tools in Australia. This ensures independent advice on the ‘Best-Fit’ DPA solution is given EVERY time. This vendor agnostic approach, coupled with a business outcomes led consulting approach (ie not technologist led) is a cornerstone of Data Interactive’s attractiveness to clients and ensures project success occurs when business results are delivered, not the new 'tech' implemented.
Data Interactive’s clients include entities such as ASX top 50 corporates, major local governments, $1bn health care provider, major retailers.
Michael’s insight and ‘best fit’ Automation tool perspective has led to invitations to speak at various business conferences/events:

Australian Shared Services Association (ASSA),
Corporate Tax Association (CTA),
Tax Institute of Australia (TIA)
Suncorp Group’s National Sunrise event,
Queensland Local Government Internal Audit conference
Institute of Chartered Accountants CFO series
RPA/Intelligent Automation conference Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne
Insuretech Sydney and Melbourne
Virtual Finance World Summit 2019 and 2020
CPA Australia – Brisbane IT Discussion Group
Finance Strategic Leaders program

Evolving into a digital-first business is becoming increasingly important for organizations to remain resilient and competitive. Our world speaks numbers & in the times of growing digital competition for operational excellence, this statement becomes even more relevant.
The calculation of ROI is the ultimate measure of success, especially when it comes to automation initiatives that directly impact various areas of business continuity – from reduced cash cycle to customer satisfaction level.
It is a prevailing view that calculating ROI in RPA projects is a complicated idea. Let me take you thru a short journey where I will show and discuss how we achieved that in a short span of time

Naveed U Ahmed,Quality & Automation Capability Lead (Head of QA COE),Boral Group of Companies, Australia

RPA in business enables a partnership between robots and human workers, allowing humans to focus on what they can do the best. Once RPA is implemented in an organization, the first questions we come across are what the robot will do and what the human workers do when their tasks are automated? Robots are best at getting the tedious, repetitive, high volume tasks automated with a high efficiency and accuracy level. While the robots take care of the manual tasks, the human workers can stop worrying about the painful mundane activities. The human workers can focus on face-to-face discussions with people to develop strategic solutions to manage the business.

Rajaneesh is a highly seasoned Robotic Process Automation specialist with 14+ years of experience in Software Engineering. Having excellent quality and process oriented mindset, implemented RPA in various projects. Rajaneesh is an UiPath certified advanced RPA Developer and a proud MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the year 2020 announced by RPA giant UiPath.

How to configure simple or complex automations that will not break between different applications versions, the current architecture that most businesses adapt and my view about the best architecture for a better Intelligent automation future.

Software Engineer. Customer Experience, Computer science and RPA Expert applying Robotics Process Automation and AI to improve Organisations Performance and Services.
Digital transformation and Enterprise Architecture passionate.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and several programming languages Expert.
EMEA wide Experience, Deep industry knowledge of customer needs and service providers constraints.

What’s it like to start RPA & reach 350+ bots in less than 3 years. How is it to be the women in RPA side, what’s it like? When the industry itself is so small Switch careers from non-tech to tech, Career Mapping Finance AP Journey, Take the robot out of the Human.

All financial services companies have RPA in their agenda as part of their transformation journey. I would like to share my experience on what are lessons leant by few early adopters while applying RPA to any business process within their company. I applied it to complex business process and would walk audience through what challenges i faced and how I solved them and deployed RPA scripts in production as early adopters.
In this session, I will walk audience through the challenges faced and how to solve common issues in any solution to help deploy RPA scripts in production.

Assisting enterprises in meeting their strategic business needs by applying my deep Technical skills, experience, and professionalism as a Solution Architect encouraging contributions, achievements, teamwork and growth, resulting in customer and partner satisfaction.
Specialties: Ability to visualize technology from the business perspective, and see opportunities where everyone sees challenges or problems
Meticulous, versatile, and technical in-depth Solution Architect with ability to quickly grasp, interpret, and render concepts and innovations to stakeholders in a clear, concise, and understandable way

Intelligent Automation and Agile Evangelist with over 18 years of experience in the field of business process automation. I transform businesses through automation using tools and ideas from 21st century. Constantly pushing the limits is my driver in the business space. I have an ability to create strategic competitive advantages for the companies I am working with. I am using and teaching Agile Practices that helps my clients to rump up their teams performance to its limits and push it further. I am the founder and leader of Robotic Process Automation community in Sydney, Australia.

Universal access to financial services is within reach because of new technologies, transformative business models and ambitious reforms… As early as 2021, such instruments as e-money accounts, along with debit cards and low-cost regular bank accounts, can significantly increase financial access for those who are now excluded.

Mike has over twenty-five years of senior management experience in Australia. He presently works as an Executive Director for Client Engagement Group of the Australian Taxation Office.
Mike is an accomplished leader in organisational transformation through development and implementation of innovative client service, organisational development, business transformation, capability development, knowledge development, change management, compliance management, revenue performance and risk management strategies. He is a Bachelor of Economics graduate from USYD, postgraduate from UNSW in Master of Statistics (foundation of ML and AI) and postgraduate from UCAN in finance and accounting. He is also Certified Practicing Accountant.
Mike has a global network and prolific writer on LinkedIn and tech publications on digital transformation. He is a sought after conference chair and speaker because of his ability to bring unique perspectives from his extensive finance and accounting career, intelligent automation expertise, new economics of digital, organisation developments issues, how to maximize the opportunities from these technologies, and his ability to assist and guide CEOs, CDOs and CFOs in their digital transformation journey.

Code along with us as we use Automation Anywhere as an RPA tool to create a simple notification bot to alert users about the changes in the stock market

Shan is a graduate from Monash University in Melbourne, with 6 years of industry experience, and has worked for multiple global companies to oversee multiple integration and automation projects.
Today, Shan is currently working as a senior consultant for Spectar Group, which is recognized by Gartner a leader in the industry of Robotic Process Automation services offering, based in Melbourne, Australia.

Ketan is a seasoned IT professional with more than 12 years of Industry experience in IT consulting with extensive work in business process automations and digital transformation. He has led large digital and automation programmes with a focus on leveraging digital solutions like Robotic Process Automation, Chatbots, Machine Learning, Power Platform, Azure Services etc. His forte is in helping customers to set up virtual workforce models and architecture while enabling digital processes using cost-effective solutions. Ketan holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering and master's degree in Data Analytics from Bits Pilani (India). He is a TOGAF-certified enterprise architect. He likes to travel, explore places and has extra love for forests. He has lived in multiple countries and cherishes different people, their culture and food.

Working Smarter - Digitalisation in Finance
AI-powered automation is shaking the business across the world, enforcing the shift in how people run their operations to leverage AI-enabled automation. However, AI allows to throw away redundant manual processes that are energy/time-consuming. With AI, people work smarter and get greater output, including and especially in Finance industry. A lot of manual transactions can be automated and done in seconds, hundreds of documents that usually take hours even days to process can be done in minutes, and decision-making process that used to take days can be done in seconds. All because of the use of AI: Machine Learning for data analytics, NLP for text analytics, and Image Recognition for authentication or security. Empowering Finance industry with AI-powered automation, will create better value for everyone on everything.

Christopher Lim is the Co-Founder of Glee Trees Pte. Ltd. He is the “father” of Gleematic, the company’s flagship product, which is Singapore’s first home-grown Cognitive Automation (Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software with Artificial Intelligence). He has been a serial-entrepreneur for almost 15 years with experience managing overseas teams and working with global partners and distributors. He has always wanted to contribute to the community by creating products that can make life easier, and with Gleematic AI – he and his team are bringing ease to community by leveraging cognitive automation to make their business processes easier, faster, and smarter.