Bendigo and Adelaide Bank will put more than 700 staff through a new cloud workforce training program before the end of this year as its public cloud migration starts to heat up.

In this week’s iTnews podcast, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank chief information officer Andrew Cresp discusses the bank's new cloud guild with Amazon Web Services, dubbed Unleash.

On the show this week we have two guests from global education provider Navitas: Charlsey Pearce, who is Head of Marketing Services for Navitas’ Australasian and University Partnerships Division, and Richard Eason, Head of Technology and Systems in Global Sales & Marketing.

Navitas is building on some technology foundations to - in their words - redefine the educational journey for domestic and international students in Australia with increased tailoring and personalisation. 

A deep dive with CDO Rob Hale on the state of open banking in Australia.

Cyber security has rocketed to the top of corporate risk registries in recent years. But few board members attain their place due to any deep subject matter expertise. 

In this week's CXO Challenge, we speak to Roger Sharp the founder of North Ridge Partners, and the chair of several large listed companies in the finance and travel sector in Australia. Sharp talks about the need to take an holistic approach to the subject. 

We also discuss the challenge generally for directors to stay on top of the topic of technology driven transformation in an age of rapid digital acceleration.

This week on the iTnews podcast we speak with CreditorWatch CTO Joseph Vartuli as part of our ongoing CXO Challenge series.

This week on iTnews CXO Challenge Rugby Australia's Head of Analytics, Cathal Garvey, discusses strategy, data architecture along with new and emerging use cases for data analytics.

Australian start-up Humanitix re-invests 100 percent of the profits from event ticket fees into education projects for disadvantaged kids.

The start-up had to transition its operations online when the pandemic hit, and has since expanded from its ticketing core into helping hard-hit event organisers run virtual events and - when borders reopen - safer in-person events.

PwC Australia is looking to reach the “next horizon” of its ongoing digital and data transformation under the gaze and drive of a new-look technology leadership team.

In this week’s CXO Challenge on the iTnews podcast, CDIO Jacqui Visch discusses her new role and remit at the firm, what the next transformation “horizon” looks like, and opportunities to leverage the global PwC ‘network’ to drive change in the local operations.

She also tackles technology leadership approaches, from care for tech teams to fostering an environment that allows people to constructively challenge ideas and canvas alternate approaches.

TPG Telecom is taking a five-to-10 year view of its technology landscape and investments as it digitally transforms after forming from the combination of TPG and Vodafone last year.

In this week's CXO Challenge on the iTnews podcast, group chief digital and information officer Rob James discusses TPG Telecom’s merger and transformation into a digital telco, and provides his own take on approaching transformational strategy and initiatives.