Gartner Symposium kicked off in the Gold Coast today, with a packed program of sessions ranging from AI in Customer Service to Cloud-delivery of security services, from disruption in Financial Services to the shifting ecosystems in Utilities.

Employees have long been valued as an organisation’s greatest asset. Nowadays, with greater enterprise mobility, they’re also considered an enterprise’s greatest risk. When it comes to your cyber security strategy, it isn’t just the technology landscape that needs to be managed, it’s also how your people use their devices.

Plug in your headphones (or earbuds if you prefer) and strap on your seatbelt. The noise around trends in technology such as AR and VR, IoT, artificial intelligence, and robotics is fast becoming a deafening crescendo. The arrival of 5G promises a super-fast ride to a low-latency world where transformational and immersive technologies become an everyday reality in businesses everywhere.

After hearing the amazing  Kurt Fearnley speak at the end of day 1 - wow! What an incredible athlete and inspirational speaker - day 2 of Telstra Vantage continues with a thought-provoking keynote talk by  Kamal Sarma on corporate and leadership resilience to go beyond surviving and onto thriving.

Telstra Vantage 2019 in Melbourne kicked off in earnest Wednesday 4 September with a keynote from Andy Penn Telstra CEO, highlighting the innovation being made possible by the combination of AI, IoT and Cloud, and of course, 5G next generation mobile network.