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• 20 on 2020 - IT leaders dish out predictions

  Twenty IT leaders look into their crystal balls to predict the technologies and trends that will drive the sector in 2020.

• 8 CIOs reveal top line predictions for 2020

  Tech chiefs are influencing rapid change across their organisations. They're at the coalface, driving technology projects that use technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, data analytics, automation and robotics to change the way their organisations operate.

• Regulator taps Azure to keep roads safe

  The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) is assessing the use of cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) to drive additional insights from the masses of data it accumulates and help it make the best use possible of its resources.

• In pictures: CIO Melbourne roundtable - Building an AI-driven business

  Tech execs gathered at Eureka in Melbourne to discuss how they are taking advantage of artificial intelligence technologies across their wired and wireless networks. The luncheon was sponsored by Juniper and Mist.

• Blackmores ramps up digital efforts for greater insights, efficiencies

  Australian health supplements firm, Blackmores, is deploying a new cloud-based infrastructure to maximise the use of data for business insights and install stronger foundations for future innovation.

• Aussie zoos set to transform CX with souped up networks

  Sydney’s Taronga Zoo and Dubbo’s Western Plains Zoo are gobbling up networking solutions that offer enhanced wireless connectivity and location-based services in a bid to transform the visitor experience.

• Human Rights Commission scoops AI for records management

  The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has become the first government agency to operate wholly in the cloud - and is now using the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically classify records and documents.

• In pictures: CIO roundtable - Building an AI-driven business

  Tech execs gathered at Sydney's Aria restaurant to discuss how artificial intelligence technologies are being used inside their wired and wireless networks. The luncheon was sponsored by Juniper and Mist.

• AI is a ‘used and abused’ word: Juniper boss

  AI is changing the IT game and will fuel the age of self-driving networks, according to Juniper Networks CEO, Rami Rahim.

• Sydney Uni wins $1M for AI-driven heart health program

  Google has awarded $1 million to Sydney University’s Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC) for a translational health program that will use digital tools to prevent heart attacks.

• OnePath continues to invest in and improve AI underwriting engine

  ​One of Australia’s largest life insurers OnePath is continuing to invest in its inhouse AI underwriting engine, making more than 70 enhancements since its official launch in November.

• AFP and Monash apply AI to protect investigators from child exploitation material

  ​The viewing of child exploitation material found on seized mobile phones and computers during abuse investigations takes an incredible toll on police officers.

• 'Vaccine' for machine learning models developed by CSIRO's Data61

  ​Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 have formalised a technique to ‘vaccinate’ machine learning models against adversarial attacks and make them more robust.

• Visa says its AI prevents US$25 Billion in fraud a year

  ​In 1993, Visa became the first payments network to apply neural networks to calculate, in real-time, the ‘riskiness’ of a transaction.

• SAS’s CEO-in-waiting lays out company's AI-driven future

  The CEO-in-waiting of analytics software firm SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has set out the company’s strategy to help clients bring more automation to their data science and AI efforts, at an event in Sydney this morning.