Absolutely thrilled to have John Pickering as our special guest on this episode. John is a partner at Deloitte Australia focused on Intelligent & Cognitive Automation and Analytics. We chat about the key findings from the latest Forrester report “COVID-19 Just Made Automation A Boardroom Imperative” and talk about some of the incredible innovations that have been born out of necessity in response to COVID-19 and how Intelligent Automation is helping organisations survive and thrive in the new normal.

Shaun speaks to Jonathan Parsons, Associate Director of Automation & Innovation at The University of Sydney and Operations Director at the AI-Hub. This episode is all about scale and how Jonathan has successfully embraced this challenge at the University. We hear how the AI-Hub enabled the University to better adapt to COVID 19 impacts and how RPA yielding demonstrable ROI in under 6 months has been a key driver in Jonathan’s passion for helping organisations achieve operational efficiency.

We speak to Murray Macdonald, Co-founder and CTO of Just Insurance, and we find out how his love for fixing things eventually led him into trying to fix a broken industry – Insurance. We hear how one book rekindled Murrays ambition to start his own business and how he sees a robot for every person being a game changer for the motor insurance sector. Enjoy.

We decided to mix this episode up and were lucky to have the NSW UiPath Partner Manager, Ida Montagner, agree to host this episode and turn the questions on our very own Shaun Leisegang. We get the opportunity to hear Shaun’s thoughts on a range of topics from Microsoft’s recent interest in buying an RPA company to how Shaun is seeing the adoption of “a robot for every person” message across the Australian market. A great episode with some exciting announcements that we share with the listeners.

Spearheading the automation-first mindset in legal is Luiz de Almeida, CIO at Sine Lawyers. Luiz joins Shaun in this episode to tell us more about the cutting edge innovations that Shine Lawyers are undertaking and how these initiatives are enabling their lawyers to work better, smarter, and more collaboratively.

Shaun speaks with Andrew Phillips, Managing Director and Vice President, Australia & New Zealand at UiPath. They look at how Australia stacks up against the rest of the world in terms of RPA, which industries are adopting RPA, they talk through a number of great customer success stories and talk about how UiPath themselves are living their a robot for every person mantra.

Shaun speaks with Holly Anderson, senior director of product marketing at K2 and lifelong Star Wars fan. They look at Gartner’s “Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends” for 2020 with specific emphasis on the new buzz word “Hyperautomation”. They also discuss digital twins and whether RPA and DPA technologies are the perfect marriage for automation harmony.