Enterprise Transformation:
Re-Imagining Process, People, Strategy & Operations with a Digital Core
Australia’s #1 Event for Transformation & Operational Leaders 21 Years Running!
13th - 15th October 2025
| Sydney, Australia
Organisations are increasingly challenged by a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business landscape.
As transformation and change leaders, your imperative goes beyond guiding your enterprise through an
ongoing transformation – you are now driving a complete, comprehensive reimagining of process, people and technology.
With 40 + sessions and 50 + speakers from Australia and New Zealand’s leading organisations, you will not want to miss the OPEX Week: Business Transformation Summit 2025! This is your unparalleled opportunity to learn everything you need to meet these challenges head-on and upscale your technology adoption, upskill your workforce and uplift your transformation program to successfully inspire and lead your enterprise through this unprecedented scale of change.
At OPEX Week 2025, get the insight you need to get your business transformation balance right by building
lasting, people-centric approaches to technology driven transformation – reimagine and transform the way
your business works to be future ready.
ongoing transformation – you are now driving a complete, comprehensive reimagining of process, people and technology.
With 40 + sessions and 50 + speakers from Australia and New Zealand’s leading organisations, you will not want to miss the OPEX Week: Business Transformation Summit 2025! This is your unparalleled opportunity to learn everything you need to meet these challenges head-on and upscale your technology adoption, upskill your workforce and uplift your transformation program to successfully inspire and lead your enterprise through this unprecedented scale of change.
At OPEX Week 2025, get the insight you need to get your business transformation balance right by building
lasting, people-centric approaches to technology driven transformation – reimagine and transform the way
your business works to be future ready.
Empower Your Transformation Journey:
2024 OPEX Week's Visionary Speakers Included:
Tim Hogarth
Chief Technology Officer
ANZ
Demi Stefanova
Chief Executive Officer
Quickstep Group
Gerold Laue
Regional Lead APAC, Value Engineering
Celonis
Tighe Wall
Chief Transformation Officer
Contact Energy Ltd
Ian Nicholls
Chief Executive Officer
Explic8
Michelle Lue-Reid
Chief Transformation Officer
IP Firm
Dr Anat Hassner
Chief People and Strategy Officer
Uniting
Jonathan Redfern
Executive, Control and Process Management
National Australia Bank
Mykhaylo Golovnya
Senior Advisory Data Scientist
Minitab
Penny Bell
Strategic Projects (Former CTO, Coates)
Balmoral Australia
Darren Cockerell
Head of Solutions Consulting ANZ
SS&C Blue Prism
Nikhil Kulkarni
Head of Finance Transformation
Foxtel Group
Bhavesh Vaghela
Chief Marketing Officer
ActiveOps
Sanjay Singh
Head of Operational Excellence & Compliance
Toll Group
Sarah Wood
Head of Agile & Continuous Improvement
Zurich Insurance
Ravi Ramachandran
Principal- Global Process Centre of Excellence
Telstra
Prakul Babhoota
Global Head of Business Transformation
OFX
Shani Kugenthiran
Digital Advertising Strategy & Product Director
Paramount
Christopher Howard
Chief Operating Officer
Eco Outdoor Group
Sheree Lacy-Goehring
Process and Journey Optimisation Centre of Excellence Lead
One NZ
Mark Dagworthy
Head of Transformation, Lending Services
NAB
Skye Nicholls
General Manager, Operations & Transformation
Canon Australia
Karl Beerenbrock
Head of Transformation, Continuous Improvement & Experience
TPG Telecom
Mitchell Palmer
Chief Operating Officer
Aussie Industries
David Johnson
Head of Global, Business Transformation
IFM Investors
Nina Tavener
Head of Operational Excellence
FleetPartners
Zoe Chadwick
Director Navy Transformation
Department of Defence
Martin Fletcher
GM Customer Process Transformation
Bupa
Yelitza Guerra
Global Head of Operations
Rhino-Rack
Anthony Rizzo
Head of Transformation Risk
Allianz Australia
Tim Roberts
Process Excellence Lead
HSBC
Su Jella
Top 25 Analytics Leader, Vice President
Women’s Tennis Foundation
Sam Stark
Head of Data Science and Analytics
Endeavour Group
Caroline Ferris
Head of Core Banking Transformation
Bank of Sydney
Niraj Naidu
Head of Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, Chief Architect
SmartPay
Matt Duniam
Enterprise Architect
NSW Department of Customer Service
Eric Cheng
Enterprise Architect
Komatsu
Rashmi Dixit Sharma
Head of People, Culture and Transformation
Forward Ability Support
Nicola Hutton
Head of People and Culture
Cauldron Ferm
Erin Cullen
Head of Operations
Hawke's Brewing Co.
Alicia Bezkhmelnitsyn - Gordon
Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
Stake
Nina Muhleisen
Founder
Three6
Michael Vullings
Managing Director
CTG Strategy
5 Core Discussions at OPEX Week 2025
In 2025 OPEX Week: Business Transformation Summit will provide world-class case studies, discussions, insights and solutions to 5 critical issues that transformation leaders must tackle.
Business Transformation to Enterprise Re-Invention:
What it takes to drive a paradigm shift to deliver structural change required.
Digital First to Digital Core:
Harnessing AI, Automation, Data, Analytics to drive game-changing
operational transformation
Process Improvement to Process Re-Imagined:
An end-to-end approach to process analysis,
intelligence, optimization, and excellence.
Develop a future-ready workforce:
Recruiting, upskilling, and designing effective people strategies
that will enable transformation to succeed.
Navigate change at scale:
Shifting from the traditional “change management” to the innovative
approach of “change inspiration”.
Become an OPEX Week Sponsor
Join us at OPEX Week 2025, the premier event for operational excellence and business transformation leaders. As a sponsor or exhibitor, you’ll gain direct access to key decision-makers and industry innovators looking for solutions to drive their transformation initiatives. Showcase your products, elevate your brand, and create meaningful connections with leaders eager to explore new technologies, strategies, and best practices. Don’t miss this opportunity to position your company at the forefront of business excellence.
Exclusive Experiences ONLY at OPEX Week 2025
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OPEX Week Big Ideas Stage
Chief Transformation Officer Boardroom
Interactive Discussion Groups
Business Transformation Demonstration Drive
Exhibition Area
OPEX Party
Accelerator Pavilion
Pioneers Pavilion
Multiple Content Tracks
Quick Fire Q&A Sessions & Dedicated Community Connection
Pre-Conference Workshop Day
Bringing back the Chief Transformation Officer Boardroom for 2025!
Building on the immense popularity of the CTO Boardroom track in 2024, which brought together industry leaders and changemakers, 2025 promises even more ground-breaking insights and game-changing strategies from the most influential voices in business transformation. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn directly from the C-Suite leaders shaping the future!
150+ Transformation Leaders at OPEX Week 2024
Over 150 transformation leaders attended OPEX Week 2024...
Will you join them in 2025 to drive game-changing ROI across your enterprise?
Who you will meet at OPEX Week 2025
OPEX Week: Business Transformation Summit 2025 is designed for Transformation Executives, Operations and Business Leaders, Continuous Improvement Leaders who own critical process in their organisations are challenges to find new ways of solving problems and building capabilities
Transformation Executives |
Chief Transformation Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Heads of Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Intelligent Automation, AI Data & Analytics are invited to join the conference for best peer-lead insights and innovation on key levers of transformation |
Strategy
Executives
Executives
If you head up Strategic Planning, Strategy & Operations or EPMO in your organization, the conference is designed for you to map out your transformation blueprint and learn how to cascade that across the wider company and teams.
Business Operations Leaders
If you are leading the business, customer or technology operations team (large and small), this conference will help you identify key trends in the future of technology, process and workforce that are the most relevant to your transformation journey
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2025 Partners:
Lead Partner
Event Partners
Event Partners
Lead Partner
Since 2011, Celonis has helped thousands of the world’s largest and most esteemed companies yield immediate cash impact, radically improve customer experience, and reduce carbon emissions. Its Process Intelligence platform uses industry-leading process mining technology and AI to present companies wit...
Event Partners
Minitab helps customers around the world leverage the power of data analysis to gain insights and make a significant impact on their organizations. For over 50 years, Minitab has helped companies and institutions to identify trends, solve problems, and discover valuable insights in data by delivering...
Event Partners
GBTEC is one of the global leaders for cloud-native Process Management and Process Automation Software, recognised by the leading analysts Gartner, Forrester, and Everest. The BPM giant has been shaping the market for 20 years and keeps raising the bar in terms of functionality, usability, and perform...
