Private Event Series
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Date: Thursday, 26th June 2025
Time: 12pm – 2:30pm (AEST)
Synopsis and overview of the session
In 2025, automation is no longer viewed as a collection of tools but as a foundational capability that powers adaptability, scale, and business resilience. Enterprise leaders are increasingly shifting from isolated process automation toward agentic orchestration—a next-generation approach that blends AI, data, and coordination logic to automate decisions and actions across systems, teams, and customer touchpoints.
Agentic orchestration enables enterprises to move beyond static workflows by introducing goal-driven, context-aware systems capable of adjusting in real time, coordinating interdependent tasks, and aligning with broader business objectives. This model supports both synchronous and asynchronous operations, seamlessly bridging human input, system triggers, and AI-generated decisions.
For CIOs and CTOs, this evolution presents a path to consolidate legacy automation efforts, reduce integration overhead, improve observability, and prepare the organisation for more autonomous and intelligent operations—without compromising governance or control.
This session will provide a strategic lens into how agentic orchestration is transforming enterprise architecture, what it means for the future of operational agility, and how to build a scalable, secure, and value-driven automation strategy.
Key Discussion Points
- Agentic Workflows: Shift to goal-driven orchestration, enabling real-time decisions.
- Scalable Automation: Streamline architecture, support real-time processes.
- Performance & Resilience: Design for high throughput, leverage distributed architecture.
- AI Autonomy: Integrate human oversight, respect boundaries.
- Governance: Implement controls, manage AI responsibly.
- Business Value: Link automation to outcomes, enable collaboration.
Presenter
TBC
Moderator
Anthony Caruana, Principal Advisor, Focus Network
Anthony Caruana has worked for almost every major masthead in the Australian IT press with his work appearing around the world. As an experienced IT professional – having worked as the lead IT executive in several businesses, he brings a unique insight to his reporting. He is the CEO of Media-Wize and continues to also work as a freelance writer for corporate clients. He is also a regular presenter on radio and television, as well as at events and webinars.
His work has covered the Australian and Asian markets. He writes about enterprise and consumer technology, information security, customer advocacy and the channel.
He also has an extensive career in IT having started his career as a trainer before becoming a business analyst and eventually rising into senior management positions.
His social media profiles are
https://twitter.com/Anthony_Caruana
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-caruana-australia/
About Orkes
Scale your distributed applications, modernise your workflows for durability, and protect against software failures and downtimes with Orkes, the leading orchestration platform for developers. Orkes Cloud provides fully managed & security hardened clusters offering full compatibility with:
- Open Source Conductor with enterprise features added.
- Write workflows as code, build task workers, integrate other applications with open source SDKs.
- Scale to the billions, debug in minutes, observe everything.
- Build durable execution flows driven by events.
- Seamlessly weave in Large Language Models, Prompt Templates and Vector Database Integrations into your business workflows.
- Integrate and optimise human actions into your workflows.
Website: www.orkes.io
Andrew Milroy, VP and Head of Research, Focus Network
Andrew Milroy leads the research and advisory business at Focus Network. His work involves empowering organisations to make decisions more effectively with data-driven insights — derived from Focus Network’s communities.
He is a well-known and respected thought leader and speaker in the APAC region. With more than two decades of leadership experience in the technology sector, Andrew has worked with clients in a variety of tech domains including cybersecurity, IoT, supply chain automation, eCommerce, fintech, cloud computing, AI, and customer experience — and EHS and HR management.
He was recently an adjunct lecturer at ESSEC Business School, Asia Pacific where he taught technology and cybersecurity strategy to Masters students.
Andrew has held regional leadership roles — predominantly based in Singapore — with Frost & Sullivan and Ovum (now Omdia). Prior to working in Singapore, Andrew gained invaluable technology knowledge and experience while working in Europe and the United States.
Andrew is frequently invited to speak, chair and moderate at major technology events. He has also been quoted on global broadcast media, including BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia.
Andrew has a BSc from Newcastle University (UK), an MA from Middlesex University (UK) and an MBA from MGSM (Australia). He also a qualified teacher of English as a foreign language.
Agenda at a glance
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Registration & networking
4.00 pm – 4.05pm – Welcome address
4.05 pm – 5.15pm – 3 course lunch served4.05 pm – 4.45pm – Embracing disruption in the financial services industry: A Privacy versus Security conundrum – Amanda Chan, BlackBerry
4.45 pm – 5.15pm – Demo
5.15pm – 5.45pm – Discussion
5.45 pm – 6pm – Closing remarks
