Marek Kowalkiewicz is a LinkedIn Top Voice and one of Thinkers360's Top 100 Global AI Thought Leaders. He is the author of The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions, winner of the 2024 Australian Business Book Award (Technology). As Professor and Chair in Digital Economy at QUT Business School, Marek brings both research depth and real-world experience, having led global innovation teams in Silicon Valley, founded SAP's Machine Learning Lab in Singapore, and held research roles at Microsoft Research Asia. His work helps leaders navigate AI's business implications. 

Gemma Lipovski is Head of Data and Projects at NTI, where she leads strategic projects, data science, AI governance and enterprise transformation initiatives. With more than 15 years’ experience leading data science, business intelligence and data teams, Gemma has built her career at the intersection of analytics, technology, strategy and people leadership. She is passionate about the responsible adoption of data and AI, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies can transform businesses while strengthening, rather than diminishing, company culture. Gemma is especially interested in AI governance, change adoption and ensuring innovation is implemented with purpose, trust and practical value.

Natalie Manopavan is a Product Owner and experienced technology leader with over a decade of delivering IT initiatives across the Insurance industry. She has led cross-functional teams, shaped product strategy, and translated complex business problems into real solutions. Natalie is currently building experience in AI through hands-on delivery within Claims, with a focus on how emerging technologies can drive change across people, software delivery practices, governance, and operations. She is a strong believer in progress over perfection and believes GenAI can deliver real value even in highly regulated environments.

Lara Meyers is a Business Architect, BPM and Transformation leader whose career has spanned process architecture, governance, improvement, operating model design, and process mining across complex organisations. Active in the BPM profession since the 1990s, Lara has worked alongside leading practitioners and thought leaders across Australia, Germany, and the United States, bringing a blend of international perspective and practical transformation experience. Her work focuses on connecting strategy, process, and execution to deliver sustainable business outcomes and organisational transformation. Lara holds a Master of Business (Quality and Process Management) from QUT and is due to complete a Master of Business Psychology at The University of Queensland this year. Lara is passionate about bridging the gap between strategy and execution, using process and capability as a lens to improve organisational performance, decision-making, and customer outcomes.

Strategic Advisor, Business Transformation Management, SAP 

Joy is an SAP Cloud solution evangelist focused on Business Transformation Management. Joy utilises 28 years of industry expertise to help customers to create exceptional outcomes and extract value from their investments in technology. 

Tim Johnson has been with Suncorp for over 20 years and led operational teams and large technology programs for most of that time including a short stint as the Insurance CFO. For the past 5 years, he has lead the Group Intelligent Solutions Delivery Team supporting business teams across the enterprise to automate and augment processes and decisions. Prior to Suncorp and a few years consulting, Tim spent 14 years in the Australian Army as a Combat Engineering Officer. Tim graduated from the Australian Defence Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science and later in his career completed his MBA through Deakin. 

Dr Nick van Beest is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO, leading the Trustworthy Processes team in Brisbane, Australia. His research experience covers artificial intelligence, business processes and supply chain compliance, process mining and optimisation. He has over 15 years of experience in runtime verification and digital compliance, and is a co-inventor on key international patents in the field. He is currently working on automated runtime monitoring, verification and adaptation of business processes, particularly focusing on compliance methods and certification of AI-dependent workflows, by developing technology for verification and early intervention of AI agents and services to ensure continuous and provable correctness.  

Suhayb Mir is an AI graduate at the Department of Transport and Main Roads, building the AI lifecycle management framework, incorporating both governance and technical skills. He has a passion for writing papers on ethical areas of new technology, written extensively about autonomous vehicle life-and-death based algorithms, sourcing restrictions of LLMs, and in his newest paper: the hidden ethical fallacies of generative AI.

Professor Michael Rosemann is the Director of QUT’s Centre for Future Enterprise and a Professor for Information Systems. His main area of research is Business Process Management, an area where he contributed globally with a BPM maturity model, process innovation patterns, a rapid process redesign method and, most recently, a new Process Canvas.

Professor Moe Thandar Wynn is a leading scholar in data and process science and a Professor of Information Technology at Queensland University of Technology. She is co‑director of the QUT Centre for Data Science and leads the Process Science Discipline within the School of Information Systems. With more than 20 years of interdisciplinary research experience across healthcare, logistics, government, and agrifood supply chains, she has produced over 180 publications and accrued 10,000+ citations, shaping the fields of business process management, data mining, and process mining. She is co‑founder and chair of the Asia‑Pacific Process Intelligence (APPI) Network, fostering collaboration among researchers, industry, and policymakers to advance process intelligence and AI‑enabled decision‑making in the region. Her leadership roles include serving as vice‑chair of the IEEE Taskforce on Process Mining (2020–2024) and as a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2023–2025). In 2024, she received the Queensland Women in Technology Research Excellence Award.