ABOUT MINDFIELDS AUTOMATION SUMMIT 2022! 

Mindfields Automation Summit is our exclusive annual conference featuring keynotes and panel discussions with Hyperautomation leaders from top-tier organisations.

This year, the summit was held at The Ritz Carlton in Perth and featured an impressive line-up of speakers from leading organisations including CBH Group, Faethm, Future Fit Consulting, Komatsu, Lifeline Australia, Pernod Ricard Winemakers St. John of God Health Care and Water Corporation.

The theme of the Summit was Responsible Automation and Digital Transformation – The Pandemic and Beyond. The event focused on informing the business community about the emerging trends in Automation to help them become more resilient and future-ready.

Key topics discussed:

  • Responsible Automation on Healthcare – By Andrew Foot, Automation Anywhere and Daniel Kennedy, St. John of God Health Care
  • ESG and Responsible Automation – By Andrew Rosson, UiPath and Lisa Yewers, Monadelphous
  • Responsible Automation in Mining – By Eric Cheng, Komatsu and Raj Iyer, Water Corporation
  • Future of Work and Responsible Automation – By Samantha Clarke, Pernod Ricard Winemakers
  • Responsible Automation in Not for Profit Organisations – By Peter Witt, Lifeline Australia and John Deeb, Workato
  • Impact of Responsible Automation on the Economy, Post Pandemic – By Daniel Kennedy, St. John of God Health Care, Gordon Huke, Future Fit Consulting and Mary Karborani, CBH Group. Session moderated by Paul Smith, Australian Financial Review.

For more information on Mindfields Automation Summit (MAS) 2022, you can watch the event recording, download the presentations, session videos and the photos.

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Welcome and opening remarks by Mohit Sharma, Founder and Exec Chairman, Mindfields

Keynote address by Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC, Minister for ICT and Innovation and Medical Research Government of Western Australia

Defining Responsible Automation and its framework by Mohit Sharma

Session 1- Responsible Automation in Healthcare : Daniel Kennedy, St John of God Health Care

Session 2- Responsible Automation in Healthcare : Fireside Chat with Andrew Foot, Automation Anywhere and Daniel Kennedy, St John of God Health Care

Session 3- ESG and Responsible Automation :  Andrew Rosson, UiPath 

Session 4- ESG and Responsible Automation : Fireside Chat with Andrew Rosson, UiPath and Lisa Yewers, Monadelphous

Session 5-Responsible Automation in Mining Service : Presentation by Eric Cheng, Komatsu

Session 6-Responsible Automation in Utilities : Presentation by Raj Iyer, Watercorp

Session 7 - Future of Work and Responsible Automation : Presentation by Samantha Clarke, Pernod Ricard Winemakers

Session 8 - Responsible Automation in Not for Profit Organisations : Fireside Chat with Peter Witt, Lifeline Australia and John Deeb, Workato

Panel Discussion - Impact of Responsible Automation on the Economy, Post Pandemic by Paul Smith, Daniel Kennedy, Gordon Huke, Mary Karoborani

Views on Responsible Automation Dr. Leanne Ward

Vote of Thanks and Concluding Remarks by Mohit Sharma

Speakers

Hon Stephen Dawson MLC

Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and ICT; Medical Research; Volunteering
× Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and ICT; Medical Research; Volunteering Member for Mining and Pastoral Region

Daniel Kennedy

Intelligent Automation Services Manager, St John of God Health Care
× Daniel is the Intelligent Automation Services Manager for St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) Inc, one of Australia’s largest Private Hospital Groups. After initially implementing RPA and automating ~24,000 hours per annum of manual effort in 2018, Daniel has led the development of process digitisation using e-form, workflow and OCR technologies in conjunction with RPA. He and his hybrid team of developers and digital workers perform an increasingly large proportion of key Finance processes for SJGHC. Daniel is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Dr. Leanne Ward

Doctorate in Business Leadership (Ethical Use of AI); Partner,Kearney
× Leanne (Lee) Ward is a Partner with Kearney, a global management consulting company, where she focuses on working with Federal Government clients in Digital Transformation and ESG. Previously she was an IBM Partner responsible for Cognitive Process Transformation working with customers to deploy cognitive solutions include business process re-engineering and services, machine learning and AI, data analytics and insights, IoT, blockchain and talent and transformation.

Eric Cheng

Digital Solutions Architect at Komatsu
× As a Digital Solutions Architect, Eric Cheng leads a team responsible for creating and evolving Komatsu’s digital vision. Eric has over 15 years of experience across multiple domains including cloud computing, hyperautomation, modern workplaces, and application security. More recently, Eric has established an automation capability within Komatsu to unlock productivity across business operations and to improve the employee experience. Eric is passionate about fostering a culture of innovation and believes the key to successful digital transformation is about finding the right balance between People, Processes, and Technology.

Gordon Huke BSc (Hons.) FCA

Managing Director & Finance Subject Matter Expert at Future Fit Consulting
× Gordon is an experienced Management Consultant and Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of finance and consulting experience, specializing in technology enabled transformation. His experience comes from having led Finance teams and over 10 years in a Big 4 consulting firm where he was responsible for leading the Finance Consulting and Intelligent Automation practice for Western Australia. As the Head of Financial Performance at UWA Gordon is working with the CFO and other Executives to address the University’s financial sustainability challenges. He has recently stood up an automation program to help address capacity shortages in the finance function.

Lisa Yewers

Corporate Productivity & Innovation Manager at Monadelphous
× Corporate Productivity & Innovation Manager at Monadelphous

Mary Karborani

Head of Business Systems at CBH Group
× Mary is leading Automation at CBH Group for the last 3 years.  She is proactive, driven, and highly accomplished IT leader recognised for strategic ingenuity and insight in technical operations, business processes, and leadership. She have extensive experience in leading and achieving business transformation, process optimisation, change objectives, and capability development goals.

Mohit Sharma

Founder & Executive Chairman, Mindfields
× Mohit has over 20 years of experience working in Strategy, Corporate Finance, and Risk Management Solutions for Deloitte, PwC, and EY. Mohit has authored and published one of the first and most comprehensive research on Robotics and Process Automation. Mohit provides advisory services to leading global financial and non-financial organization in US, Australia, Middle East, UK, and India on their journey for Automation and Artificial Intelligence. Mohit loves cricket and food, in that order.  Mindfields has done more than 35 RPA live projects and have the most number of BOTs in live in production. Mindfields clients includes ANZ, Equifax, CIBC, Suncorp, ING, Rabo,Sensis to name a few.

Paul Smith

Technology, Media and Telecommunications Editor at Australian Financial Review
× Technology, Media and Telecommunications Editor at Australian Financial Review

Peter Witt

National Manager-Data and Supporter Services at Lifeline Australia
× With over 25 years’ experience in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Migration, Peter has worked on long term contracts at organisations where he has managed, designed and delivered software development projects. He enjoys connecting organisations with the information that is hidden within their data.

Raj Iyer

Continuous Improvement Manager, Water Corporation
× Raj is a business transformation leader with 14+ years program, operational and strategic improvement experience with a proven record of delivering significant business value in resource & utility sector. He hold degree in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering and is an accredited Six Sigma Black Belt with proven track record of driving leading edge process & technology improvements across the enterprise value chain. He has successfully scoped, led and managed ‘breakthrough’ transformational projects/programs to deliver measurable and sustainable results for the Business.

Samantha Clarke

Regional Human Resources Manager - Strategy, Data & Insights at Pernod Ricard Winemakers
× An experienced HR and L&D professional with over 20 years experience in various industries with genuine passion for leading, influencing and developing high performing teams and individuals to achieve organisational objectives.

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Faethm
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Our Diamond Sponsor

workato

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Agenda

Welcome and opening remarks by Mohit Sharma, Founder and Exec Chairman, Mindfields
1:00 pm -1:15 pm
Keynote address by Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC, Minister for ICT and Innovation and Medical Research Government of Western Australia
1:15 pm - 1:35 pm
Vote of Thanks by Mohit Sharma
1.35 pm – 1.40 pm
Session 1- Responsible Automation in Healthcare : Presentation and Fireside Chat with Andrew Foot, Automation Anywhere and Daniel Kennedy, St John of God Health Care
1:40 pm -2:10 pm
Session 2- ESG and Responsible Automation : Presentation and Fireside Chat with Andrew Rosson, UiPath and Lisa Yewers, Monadelphous
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm
Session 3-Responsible Automation in Mining Service : Presentation by Eric Cheng, Komatsu
2:40 pm - 2:55 pm
Session 3-Responsible Automation in Utilities : Presentation by Raj Iyer, Watercorp
2:55 pm - 3:10 pm
Session 4 - Future of Work and Responsible Automation : Presentation by Samantha Clarke, Pernod Ricard Winemakers
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm
Session 5 - Responsible Automation in Not for Profit Organisations : Fireside Chat with Peter Witt, Lifeline Australia and John Deeb, Workato
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Panel Discussion - Impact of Responsible Automation on the Economy, Post Pandemic by Gordon Huke, Future Fit Consulting; Harpreet Singh Khalsa, ECU; Mary Karborani, CBH Group. Session moderated by Paul Smith, Australian Financial Review
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Concluding Remarks & Vote of Thanks by Mohit Sharma
4:15 pm - 4:20 pm
Location - The Ritz Carlton, 1 Barrack St, Perth WA 6000, Australia