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Twenty IT leaders look into their crystal balls to predict the technologies and trends that will drive the sector in 2020.

Excluding Huawei from Australia’s 5G roll-out will act as a ‘5G tax’ on citizens and increase the cost of deploying the technology by between $700 million and $2.1 billion, the networking giant said on Wednesday.

5G services will push organisations to rethink the networks next year while communications-platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) adoption is set to rise, according to new report.

Eight more IT leaders look into their crystal balls to predict the technologies and trends that will drive the sector in 2020.

Tech chiefs are influencing rapid change across their organisations. They're at the coalface, driving technology projects that use technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, data analytics, automation and robotics to change the way their organisations operate.

With 2020 just around the corner, a handful of IT leaders dished out some pivotal tech predictions they say will have an impact on the IT and business landscape next year.

​Monash University has appointed Teresa Finlayson as its permanent CIO following a four month-period where she held the role on an interim basis.

Former Macquarie University CIO and current Intersect Australia CEO, Marc Bailey, is leaving his post at the research accelerator in 2020.

Mandy Ross has announced her departure from Tabcorp where she has been the chief information officer for the past three years.

Monash University has appointed Dan Maslin to the newly-created role of created the chief information security officer (CISO).

Had Ned Kelly, our iconic of all bushrangers been alive today, he would have been confounded by corporate Australia’s view of its own invincibility.

CEO turnover across the ASX 200 has hit a three year high of 22 per cent as demand for tech-savvy c-suite execs increases, according to a Robert Half report.

The success rates for projects globally have remained static for years and not in a good way.

CIOs from Australia's leading organisations joined CIO Australia and Dell Technologies for The Connected CIO Dinner, the CIO networking event of 2019 - a night of fine food, networking, experience and sharing of insights and ideas. The theme of the night was ‘Discover Real Transformation and How to create your Digital Future.’ The industry is on the road to transformation - unmistakably many innovators are using emerging technologies such as AI and digital to make ‘transformation real’ and to drive the next wave of human progress.

CSIRO’s Data61 has inked a major research project with cyber security firm, Penten, to build AI-enabled cyber security defence technology, better known as ‘deception’ technology that includes cyber traps and decoys.

Ninety seven per cent of Australian businesses have suffered a data breach in the past 12 months, according to a Carbon Black threat report.

Eighty per cent of Australian CIOs say AI will be critical to IT's ability to master increasing IT complexity, according to a global study of 800 CIOs.

Sydney’s Taronga Zoo and Dubbo’s Western Plains Zoo are gobbling up networking solutions that offer enhanced wireless connectivity and location-based services in a bid to transform the visitor experience.

We’ve reached a fork in the road when it comes to digital transformation. Although scepticism of the concept reigns supreme for many, that doesn’t stop IT decision-makers from voting it their number one priority in 2019.

The federal government has launched AustCyber’s Canberra Cyber Security Innovation Node, aimed at accelerating cyber capability development, innovation and commercialisation across the country.​