We welcome Stuart Chambers, UiPath Emerging Product Sales Specialist for the Australia New Zealand region, to this episode of the Automation Alliance Podcast where we talk all things Process Mining, Task Mining and Automated Testing. Stuart is a regional thought leader and subject matter expert and advises organisations on how to leverage UiPath's emerging product suite to drive process optimisation, increase automation and unlock value.

Absolutely thrilled to have Katrin Stoecker, Chief Operations Officer at Steadfast Underwriting Agencies join us for this insightful episode discussing their Intelligent Automation journey. We discuss everything from process renewal bots to how they are driving the Citizen Developer agenda. It has been incredibly rewarding to watch the momentous impact that automation is having across Steadfast Underwriting Agencies and the wider Steadfast Group and now you too can listen to their story.

What a pleasure it was to have Thomas Kohlenbach, senior product specialist at Nintex, join us for this episode focussed on achieving process excellence. We discuss how an effective process culture can promote innovation and business agility and how really understanding your processes is the true beginning of automation success. A fantastic episode packed with many relevant use cases and great insight into the process excellence domain.

What an incredible success story we get to discuss on this episode! We hear how Pieter Le Roux, National Shared Services Manager, is driving an automation first mindset at Coates Hire starting with the successful implementation of their Intelligent Accounts Payable solution.

Shaun and Pieter discuss how automating the routine across the finance function at Coates Hire has helped to liberate minds and make work matter for their employees.

What a pleasure it was having Graham Penman, Co-founder of jaam Automation in the UK, as a special guest for this episode. We ran through the recent Accenture Tech Vision 2021 themes and discussed how we see these playing out in our respective markets. We looked at the wider automation partner ecosystem and discussed how important players such as Druid Chatbot platform, Re:infer and others are quickly allowing organisations to truly scale their Intelligent Automation initiatives.

Absolutely thrilled to have Guy Kirkwood, Chief Evangelist at UiPath, share his thoughts and predictions for RPA, AI, and automation in 2021. He has an incredibly accurate track record from previous years and it is well worth a listen to ensure you are up to speed with the latest industry predictions. A fantastic episode that all our listeners will benefit from. Enjoy.

Fantastic conversation with Chris Ellis, Director of Pre-Sales at Nintex in Australia. We discuss the company's recent acquisition of K2 and Chris walks us through the various components of the end-to-end Nintex platform and how these recent acquisitions are shaping the vision for the Nintex Platform. We get great insights into the Nintex Process Mapping and Process Collaboration tool Promapp and how customers are pervasively using this tool to rapidly evolve their process automation plans in 2021.

What an episode, what a woman. We hear how Sidney Madison Prescott has forged an incredibly successful career in driving and embedding an automation first mindset at companies like Spotify and BNY Melon. She shares her insights on why starting small can increase your chances of success and what factors can derail the ability to scale.

We hear about the imminent release of her latest co-authored book "Robotic Process Automation using UiPath StudioX - A Citizen Developers Guide to Hyperautomation" and how she is shaping the Citizen Developer strategy at Spotify. This is one episode you do not want to miss.

What an episode. What a true transformation story.

What an honour to have Luke Kelly, Director of DKG Insurance Brokers, join us to discuss how they embraced intelligent automation just before the initial COVID lockdown in April. We hear how they spearheaded this automation initiative to streamline their debtors, quotes and claims processes that enabled this forward thinking insurance broker to not only survive in 2020 but to thrive beyond what they thought was possible.

The Microsoft Power Platform is an exciting place to be and we were thrilled to have Andrew Coates, Senior Software Engineer and all round Automation Evangelist, from Microsoft Australia give listeners an insight into how people are using the Power Platform to solve real world business challenges today.

Shaun and Coatsey cover all of the bases of the platform and discuss things like Power Apps, Power Automate, AI Builder and of course Power Virtual Agents. What a great episode for our listeners.