A closed-door roundtable for senior Federal Government CIOs and platform leaders, focused on how to unlock modernisation-reducing legacy risk and cost while strengthening delivery, governance and citizen outcomes.

Nicky Bell
General Manager, Data Sourcing
Australian Bureau of Statistics 

TBD
Senior Executive
Publicis Sapient

• Modernise legacy systems with greater speed and confidence: See how AI-assisted tooling and human oversight accelerates understanding and reduces delivery risk

• Build security into modernisation from the start: Improve visibility into systems, dependencies, and technical debt to enable safer change

• Reduce risk in complex legacy environments: Gain clearer insight into architecture and issues that impact compliance and resilience

• Create a stronger foundation for Zero Trust: Better system understanding enables more effective identity, access, and governance strategies

Australian government departments are under increasing pressure to deliver better, more responsive citizen services while improving productivity and maintaining security and resilience.

At the same time, many core systems are approaching or beyond end-of-support, and critical knowledge of these environments is being lost as experienced workforces retire — making change more urgent and more difficult.

Historically, large-scale modernisation programmes have struggled to gain momentum due to complexity, cost and risk. However, new AI-enabled approaches are beginning to change this — improving visibility into legacy systems, accelerating delivery and reducing uncertainty.

Key discussion points: 

• Balancing legacy risk reduction with the urgent need to modernise core platforms and improve service delivery outcomes for citizens

• How AI-enabled approaches are reshaping large-scale transformation by improving visibility, reducing complexity, and accelerating modernisation efforts

• Strengthening data, governance, and delivery foundations to enable secure, scalable, and citizen-centric digital government services

This roundtable brings together CIOs and CTOs to explore how government organisations can modernise platforms, data and delivery approaches in a way that improves citizen outcomes, increases productivity and enables AI at scale.