Masterclass Agenda
Tuesday 8 Sept 2026
12:00 Redefining business in the agentic AI era: From strategy to scalable impact
AI is entering a new phase, from experimentation to enterprise-scale execution. In this practical masterclass, Mahesh Krishnan, CTO at Fujitsu will moderate a fireside conversation Fujitsu’s Head of Data and AI, Ian Christie, and Ashok Govindaraju, Partner at Fujitsu’s consulting arm, Uvance Wayfinders, on how organisations can redesign business processes for the agentic AI era, connect trusted data and AI platforms with scalable infrastructure, and identify where measurable value can be created across cost, productivity, service delivery and sustainability, while ensuring data sovereignty, cyber resilience and trust are built in from the outset. The session will outline a practical pathway for moving from AI ambition to operational impact.
- Understand why AI transformation must start with business process and operating model design, not technology alone.
- Explore how agentic AI, trusted data and edge capability can reshape service delivery and operational performance in secure, resilient environments.
- See how a full-stack approach can help reduce complexity, cost and compute pressure while strengthening data sovereignty and cyber resilience.
- Identify practical next steps to validate, prioritise and scale AI use cases with confidence.
Speakers:
Ian Christie, Head of AI & Data, Fujitsu
Ashok Govindaraju, Partner, Uvance Wayfinders
Moderator: Mahesh Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu
13:30 Session Close
15:00 Speed, Scale and Certainty in a Sustainable way: How Victoria is positioning itself to be a leading hub for data centre investment
Speed to market, scale and certainty is what data centre operators and organisations adopting AI are looking for when they are making investment decisions — but equally important is that this investment occurs in a sustainable way to ensure that community needs are also being met. In this fireside chat hosted by Invest Victoria, hear how a coordinated approach between government, industry, and community is strengthening Victoria’s position as a leading data centre hub in Asia-Pacific.
Hosted by Invest Victoria
Invest Victoria is the Victorian State Government's investment promotion agency.
This organisation is focused on attracting and facilitating investment that contributes to economic growth across the state.
Invest Victoria is the investment gateway to not only the Australian market but also the dynamic Asia-Pacific region. On behalf of the Victorian Government, Invest Victoria plays a pivotal role in fostering long-term prosperity for Victoria by:
- attracting and supporting new foreign direct investment, domestic investment and re-investment
- enhancing the state’s business investment environment
- developing whole-of-government capabilities and governance in investment attraction
- coordinating the state’s investment pipeline
- leading a whole-of-government investment committee to streamline opportunities.
17:00 Session Close
07:30 Real-Time AI: Ultra-low Latency Edge Inferencing Without the Cloud Egress Tax
As enterprise AI transitions from training to real-time production, centralized clouds are hitting a wall. High latency degrades user experience, while unpredictable egress fees act as an escalating tax on data-intensive inference and RAG pipelines. To deliver responsive, agentic AI at scale, engineering leaders must shift execution out of centralized data centers and deploy high-density compute directly where users interact.
In this executive masterclass, Akamai Cloud breaks down the production architecture required to scale high-performance AI workloads with complete cost predictability. Technical leaders will walk away with a practical blueprint for combining distributed edge compute, zero-egress data transfer, and edge-native security to achieve single-digit millisecond response times without sacrificing governance or budget.
Speakers:
Jay Jenkins, Field CTO, Akamai Cloud Computing
Vineeth Varughese, Principal Product Marketing Manager
Yaoquan Zhu, Senior Product Manager, GoVeda
08:35 Session Close
