An executive forum for Australian senior leaders
Building an AI-Ready Organisation
Thursday, October 22, 2026 | 8:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: InterContinental The Rialto
495 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Most organisations have an AI strategy. Very few are ready to scale it. This forum is for the senior leaders doing both jobs at once - building the leadership conditions for AI to take hold, and the operational systems for it to compound.
Meet our sponsor
Apparatus Quo
Apparatus Quo is Asana’s ANZ Partner of the Year for FY25 and FY26. The team helps mid-market and enterprise organisations turn complex work into coordinated action, enabling AI to scale across the organisation rather than remain siloed at the individual level.
ABOUT
AI is working. That's the problem.
Your tools are faster. Your people are more productive. Your organisation is exactly the same as it was two years ago. The gains from AI are real - they're just not reaching the organisation. They stop at the individual. That gap, between what AI can do and what organisations are actually built to do with it, is where most transformation efforts quietly die.
Asana has a front-row seat to this, and we're not immune to it.
We work with some of the world's most operationally dense organisations. We're also going through our own AI transformation, which means we know exactly how hard this is from the inside. This morning isn't about what AI can do. It's about the organisational and leadership conditions that determine whether it compounds or stalls - and what the small number of organisations actually getting this right are doing differently.
You'll hear from one of the world’s leading neuroscientists on how leadership itself has to change, from Asana's Head of Product flying in from San Francisco on what agentic organisations look like in practice, and from an Australian executive who's been in the middle of it. Every session opens for Q&A - bring the question you haven't found a good answer to yet.
The neuroscience of leading in an AI-saturated world
Why attention has become one of the most valuable competitive advantages in modern business - and what the research tells us about the leadership shifts required at the top.
What 1,000 Australian executives reveal about the AI Execution Gap
94% of Australian organisations are using AI. Most executives think it's going well. Their employees disagree. Only 22% qualify as true AI executors. This session unpacks what separates them - and what the ones succeeding have actually changed.
What an agentic organisation actually looks like
Not the vision. The operating model - the workflows, decision structures, and systems that make AI compound across teams rather than sit alongside them.
Leading transformation from the inside
A senior Australian executive, unfiltered, on what it really takes - the calls that mattered, the things that didn't work, and what they know now that they didn't at the start.
Most organisations don't have an AI problem. They have an organisational design problem that AI just made visible.