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• CTO, tech director job up for grabs

  Sympli is on the lookout for a CTO, responsible for the platform architecture and security of the Sympli platform and the ISMS, regulatory compliance obligations and data governance.

• Data Republic seeking CTO

  ​Data Republic, the company behind a governance platform for data sharing within and between organisations, is seeking a new chief technology officer.

• Tennis Australia appoints first CTO

  Tennis Australia has appointed its first-ever CTO, naming Bunnings product and tech division head, Ben Fitzgerald, to the newly created role.

• 4 senior IT posts up for grabs from healthcare to financial services

  In the wake of Hamish Cameron’s departure as the inaugural CIO of the Department for Child Protection (DCP), the South Australian government's DCP is seeking its second CIO.

• CTO wanted for Scottish Pacific Business Finance

  Scottish Pacific Business Finance is on the lookout for a NSW-based CTO to oversee and develop the company’s technology platform and strategy.

• The interim CTO for startups: Kostas Vlassis

  Being passionate about supporting fast growing start-ups and building high-performance agile teams, keeps Kostas Vlassis from taking a permanent position within a large enterprise organisation.

• Most senior tech execs dealt with a security breach in last year

  The majority of CIOs, CTOs and CISOs said their organisations suffered a cybersecurity breach in the past 12 months, with 41 per cent breached between three to five times.

• Most CIOs have CEO ambitions, survey finds

  ​Almost nine out of every ten CIOs in Australia have ambitions to become the CEO or managing director of their company, a survey by recruiter Robert Half has found.

• Why CIO tenures in Australia are getting shorter

  ​The typical chief information officer tenure, or so goes the noughties C-Suite folklore, works to a five year cycle...

• AMP appoints data scientist to cyber team to meet ‘audacious’ target

  Last year, AMP’s cyber team took a “fairly audacious target” to the board: bring down the number of cyber security vulnerabilities across the company by ten to 15 per cent every month.

• Stephen Haddad new CTO at Austereo

  Southern Cross Austereo’s head of technology Stephen Haddad has been promoted to chief technology officer following a restructure which has seen the company’s regional and metropolitan business units merged.

• Banking royal commission has ‘amped up’ AMP’s appetite for AI

  ​The findings of the banking royal commission against AMP have heightened the appetite within the company for artificial intelligence and machine learning, says its chief technology officer Chris Bell.

• Adopting AI: The Big 5 factors holding back Aussie businesses

  Rolling out AI at scale across a company is far easier said than done. And despite the lofty ambitions, very few businesses locally have taken AI beyond the experimental stage.

• Advice for CIOs on getting started with AI

  ​Despite the huge amounts of hype surrounding artificial intelligence – AI – the technologies the term includes undoubtedly present a huge opportunity for enterprises across all industries. But what is the best way to get started?

• Some advice for the old me from NAB’s CTOO Patrick Wright

  ​In National Australia Bank’s latest marketing campaign, people are asked to consider the question: “What do you know now, that you wish you’d known 15 years ago?”