Overview Join us at the Oracle AI Applications Forum - a premier, complimentary event hosted with our partners Deloitte and KPMG .
Discover how Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications , embedded with the latest agentic AI innovations , are empowering and redefining the way Finance and HR lead - driving agility , enabling smarter decisions , and creating breakthrough experiences for employees and customers.
Gain firsthand insights into how these innovations drive operational excellence, enable faster reactions to market changes, and improve engagement with customers and employees.Explore the Oracle AI Advantage
Unpack Oracle’s latest AI strategy and vision for Fusion Applications See how Agentic AI is transforming productivity, decision-making, and innovation Hear real-world Fusion success stories from industry peers Gain actionable strategies from Oracle and leading technology experts
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Agenda Accelerate Success with AI in Oracle Applications Wayne Goodall
Vice President of Cloud Applications Development JAPAC, Oracle
The AI revolution is here, and it’s completely changing the world of business and technology. Hear how the AI embedded in Oracle Applications is fundamentally transforming existing workflows and business processes to accelerate your success. Discover how new AI capabilities can support your employees and customers in new ways that were simply impossible before. From generative AI to AI Agents and the Oracle AI Agent Studio, Oracle Applications are poised to help you harness the AI revolution and unlock new opportunities.
Elevating Performance through Continuous Improvement Sam Hannan
Senior Manager - Oracle Data & Analytics, Deloitte Alison Tweedale
Chief Information Officer, Nova Systems
Continuous improvement enters a new era as AI redefines what’s possible for finance and HR teams. In this panel discussion, hear from Deloitte and a guest speaker as they share how they are driving transformation through process improvement, expanding their roadmap and harnessing cutting-edge AI capabilities. Gain fresh strategies and actionable ideas to unlock new levels of performance and lead your organisation into the AI-driven future.
Cloud Ledger to AI, Getting the Most out of Finance Steve Pratley
Partner, Finance Transformation Consulting, KPMG Kwesi Nicholas
Divisional Director, Macquarie Group
In this fireside chat, hear from Kwesi Nicholas, Divisional Director at Macquarie Group, on their Ledger to AI transformation. This discussion will explore the journey from foundational finance transformation to AI adoption, the lessons learnt and the real agentic AI reshaping how finance works.
Dedicated Content Streams Finance Stream: Transform Planning to Performance with Oracle EPM’s AI Advantage Muthu Ranganathan
Senior Director - EPM Product Management, Oracle Danish Kumar Hotta
Senior Manager, Record to Report, ResMed Hear how Oracle Cloud EPM addressed all your needs in financial and operational planning, financial close, and reporting processes. Gain insights into driving productivity gains and business value from AI and GenAI within the context of EPM.
HR Stream: AI Agents and Innovations for the New Era of HR Rachel Kerr
HCM Practice Lead, Oracle Lena Toma
Product Owner – HR Systems, Invocare Georgi Ferris
HCM Cloud Applications Manager, eHealth NSW The way we define, deliver, and experience work is changing fast. For those in HR, this is your moment, leading transformation in a time when digital and human capabilities are increasingly integrated. The rise of Agentic AI is not a distant promise, it’s here, and it’s reshaping what’s possible. Learn where we are innovating across the Oracle Cloud HCM suite to help you shape a future-ready workforce. Be the first to hear about new solutions that will amplify the impact of every individual.
Dedicated Content Streams Finance Stream: Future of Finance - The CFO Agenda for Elevating Finance Steve Pratley
Partner, Finance Transformation Consulting, KPMG The promises of digitised finance are very real: reduced costs, faster reporting, sharper insights, empowered teams, and a stronger competitive advantage. True transformation demands a multidimensional approach built on five foundational competencies that keep finance agile and ahead of disruption. Join KPMG as they explore how forward-thinking CFOs are embracing digital innovation and the power of AI to unlock agility, strengthen performance, and elevate finance from a support function to a strategic powerhouse.
HR Stream: Developing the Workforce of Tomorrow: Strategies for Accelerating Skills and Growth Phil Sutton
National Oracle HCM Lead Partner, Deloitte Caoimhe Mulhall
Head of Technology - Corporate Systems, The Lottery Corporation Building a workforce equipped for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities requires a new approach to talent development. In this session, Deloitte will explore how unifying learning, skill development, and career growth into a personalised experience empowers employees to reach their full potential. Hear first-hand success-stories on how to close critical skills gaps, drive agility across your organisation, and lay the foundations for sustained business growth in a rapidly changing world.
Unlocking the Future: See How AI Is Transforming Analytic Applications Matt Garibaldi
Head of Product Strategy, Oracle
Artificial intelligence is redefining analytic applications, going far beyond mere automation or incremental improvements. AI now empowers organisations to take smarter, more strategic actions, reshaping how analytic applications are built, used, and integrated across the enterprise. Join us as we share our vision for AI-driven analytics and reveal how intelligent AI agents can accelerate the creation of data models, dashboards, and reports. Discover how personalised, conversational agents can help users ask more insightful questions, automate complex actions, and enable organisations to harness more data for better decision-making.
Vision for Humanity: The Power of Partnership Rob Kerekovic
Global Finance Director, The Fred Hollows Foundation
Join us for an inspiring session that celebrates the power of purpose-driven innovation. Discover how The Fred Hollows Foundation is creating a world where everyone can see. Through the power of data, technology, and human compassion, learn how the Fred Hollows Foundation is looking to partner with Oracle to transform eye health programs, empower communities, and help to end avoidable blindness, one person, one story, one restored vision at a time.
Networking at the AI Engagement Zone Featured speakers Wayne Goodall Vice President of Cloud Applications Development JAPACOracle
Wayne is a seasoned management accountant with a broad background in Oracle, encompassing various business domains such as Support, Consulting, Presales, Applications Architecture, and Development. His professional journey has spanned across Europe, the US, and JAPAC regions, accumulating a wealth of 23 years of industry acumen, predominantly centred around EBS and Fusion (ERP). Notably, 20 of these years were dedicated to his impactful contributions at Oracle Corporation.
Alison Tweedale Chief Information Officer,Nova Systems
Alison is a seasoned professional with more than 25 years’ experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams. An innovator, specialising in leading organisations to achieve business profitability, efficiencies, cohesion and growth, Alison has led transformation and PMO teams for companies of 20,000+ employees, 1000 employees and all sizes in between. Alison is dedicated to delivering high quality quantifiable business outcomes and finding solutions during periods of growth, consolidation and transformation.
Alison’s career has been forged with a balance of emerging technologies, management of capital projects, understanding the ‘people’ impact and navigating significant large infrastructure focussed roles.
Rob Kerekovic Global Finance Director,The Fred Hollows Foundation
Rob Kerekovic is an accomplished finance leader with over 25 years of progressive experience across diverse industries. Currently serving as Global Finance Director at The Fred Hollows Foundation, Rob drives strategic financial management for one of Australia’s most respected non-profit organisations focused on global eye health.
Rob’s career has spanned senior roles across a number of Top 50 ASX and Fortune 500 companies , where he has demonstrated expertise in governance, risk management, and digital transformation initiatives.
Rob is based in Sydney, Australia, and is passionate about leveraging financial strategy to create social impact. Outside of core responsibilities, Rob has entrepreneurial interests, including ventures such as Nova Vino, an importer and distributor of fine wines.
Phil Sutton National Oracle HCM Lead Partner,Deloitte
Phil is the National Partner for Oracle Cloud HCM who has spent 20+ years working in Leadership, Project Delivery, Account Management, and hands-on consulting and BAU roles. Phil’s effective leadership in Oracle Cloud HCM comes from a strong project delivery and business acumen and an unwavering focus on customer success through collaboration and effective communication. He has a proven track record delivering exceptional results though a balance of strong customer relationships and an inclusive and engaging leadership style.
Steve Pratley Partner, Finance Transformation Consulting,KPMG
Steve is an accomplished implementation focused business transformation partner with extensive large scale transformation experience and a wealth of expertise managing complex stakeholder environments.
He specialises in designing and implementing tangible and sustainable large scale transformation solutions for businesses spanning both public and private enterprise.
Prior to KPMG, Steve was the Managing Director of Finance and Head of Transformation for a major Australian bank's largest media, digital and advertising conglomerate which consisted of over 95 companies. In this capacity, he was responsible for the 150+ head central finance function.
Kwesi Nicholas Divisional Director,Macquarie Group
Kwesi is a Finance Transformation leader with 19 years experience at Macquarie Group – having worked in a variety of roles over that time covering projects (focusing on large-scale digital/system implementations), operational excellence, strategy, data and communications. Kwesi is based in Sydney, Australia and is currently focused on AI-led transformation in Macquarie’s Financial Management, People & Engagement Group.
Muthu Ranganathan Senior Director - EPM Product Management,Oracle
Muthu is driving new product innovations with a focus in the Connected Planning and Intelligent Performance Management (AI) solutions within Fusion EPM Cloud and contributing to the overall EPM and ERP product strategy at Oracle.
Muthu has 30+ years’ experience across enterprise software working for companies such as Ramco, Hyperion, SAP and now at Oracle, and prior to that worked in Office of Corporate finance/ FP &A and Treasury at Pepsi, Ford & Arvind. His experience spans across product management, strategy, business development and delivery roles.
Additionally, he is a Mentor, Blogger and Volunteer in Product Management and Startup Communities.
He is a Chartered Accountant and Management Accountant by educational qualification.
Caoimhe Mulhall Head of Technology - Corporate Systems,The Lottery Corporation
Caoimhe Mulhall is the Head of Technology - Corporate Systems at The Lottery Corporation, she's been in her role there for the last four years which involved a demerger from Tabcorp and the implementation of Orace Fusion.
With a career spanning 25 years in technology across various industries both internationally and here in Australia, Caoimhe is passionate about leveraging technology to solve real-world business challenges and add value. She is also dedicated to being a trusted business partner, delivering innovative solutions that enable the business to achieve its strategic goals.
When not at work she is kept equally busy with 4 teenage kids and one very spoilt rescue dog, Harley.
Matt Garibaldi Head of Product StrategyOracle
Matt is responsible for driving the global strategy, growth, and customers’ success across Oracle’s Fusion Analytics product portfolio. He is dedicated to improving the overall analytics experience for our cloud application clients, addressing today’s data challenges, and driving innovation to ensure sustainable success in the future.
Rachel Kerr HCM Practice LeadOracle
Rachel is the National Account Director for HCM at Oracle ANZ. With over 20 years in HR Technology, she is passionate about the innovation that we bring in the HR space. As an ex-CTO innovating in the space of HR, she sees beyond the sale and is excited by the solution Oracle can deliver to business, the adoption process and the reimagining of organisations people strategy.
Danish Kumar Hotta Senior Manager, Record to ReportResMed
Danish Kumar Hotta is an accomplished Finance Performance Management IT leader with over 20 years of experience delivering transformative finance solutions across global organizations. Currently serving as Senior Manager, Record to Report at ResMed, Danish specializes in finance automation, cloud transformation, and business process optimization. His expertise spans strategic planning, project and program management, DevSecOps, and the implementation of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for finance.
Throughout his career, Danish has led large-scale finance transformation projects, including regulatory and management reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and enterprise reporting across Global Industries such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Worley, DBS Bank and Credit Suisse, Singapore. He is recognized for his ability to drive innovation, manage diverse teams, and deliver high-impact solutions in complex environments. His achievements include numerous industry awards for excellence in finance technology and finance transformations, including CEO Excellence award and Engineer of the year finalist 2024 at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Lena Toma Product Owner – HR SystemsInvocare
Lena Toma is an experienced HR technology leader with a strong focus on delivering innovative solutions that enhance employee experience and operational efficiency. As Product Owner for HR Systems, she drives strategic initiatives including HCM migrations, integrations, and manager self-service enablement. Lena is passionate about aligning technology with business needs, ensuring seamless adoption and measurable impact across diverse teams. With a background in HR operations and system optimisation, she brings a unique blend of technical expertise and people-centric thinking to every project.
Sam Hannan Senior Manager - Oracle Data & AnalyticsDeloitte
Sam leads the Deloitte Oracle Data & Analytics team within Perth and has over a decade of experience delivering transformative enterprise analytics and data solutions for clients. Sam also leads our Fusion Data Intelligence capability within Australia, working with global clients across sectors to unlock strategic value from their Fusion data and drive actionable decision-making.
Georgi Ferris HCM Cloud Applications ManagereHealth NSW
Georgi Ferris is the HCM Cloud Applications Manager at eHealth NSW, specialising in workforce technology and digital transformation initiatives. A seasoned Human Resources professional, Georgi translates strategic HR objectives into practical, technology-driven solutions.
She brings depth of expertise in HR operations, service delivery, and change management, aligned with a passion for designing HR technology that are effective, simple, and commercially efficient. Her current focus is on healthcare workforce strategies and stakeholder engagement, through innovative technology solutions to enhance the employee experience and operational efficiency.
Mark Jones Journalist and Mindset StrategistModerator
A highly acclaimed speaker, facilitator and business leader, he helps people tell their story to make an impact. Mark is a former technology editor at the Financial Review, Silicon Valley journalist and Australian entrepreneur.
He co-founded ImpactInstitute, an award-winning professional services firm and proud B Corp. which offers storytelling, impact advisory and event services. He also co-founded a pioneering event, Social Impact Summit, to foster long-term, sustained positive social change.
A curious learner, Mark has interviewed hundreds of CMOs on The CMO Show podcast for nearly a decade.
Mark is a Certified Speaking Professional and serves on the National Board of Professional Speakers Australia.