Another amazing industry event, bringing together a diverse mix of solutions and partners that can assist. JuiceIT exceeded my expectations – it was well organised and felt like a seamless experience from beginning to end. There were a range of vendors in a great set up location and people with extensive knowledge and experience!
Anastasia Jasinski – Senior Project Manager, SA Health
Through engaging tradeshow experiences and targeted breakout sessions, you’ll connect directly with the innovators and vendors to explore solutions across the full technology stack, and uncover strategies to accelerate both business and technology outcomes.
Technology delivers its greatest impact when everything works together. From AI and automation to cloud, cyber and data, every advancement builds momentum across your business. The challenge for today’s technology leaders is not just adopting new advancements, but harnessing the full potential of their current IT environments while evolving them to meet tomorrow’s demands.
To turn momentum into measurable outcomes, the entire ecosystem must move together, with data, platforms, security and people each adapting in sync with every new technology advancement. This is The Tech Effect: a layered, interconnected force that, when orchestrated well, becomes a competitive advantage.
What is The Tech Effect? A connected approach where:
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Dr Dianne McGrath is one of Australia’s leading experts in strategy and innovation, known for helping organisations turn bold visions into actionable outcomes.
Her sessions focus on best-practice approaches for navigating change, inspiring teams to innovate, and building systems that perform under pressure. At JuiceIT, Dianne will challenge what is thought impossible and inspire you to innovate, perform and lead change.
To turn quiet mayhem into team alignment, agree on the signals that matter most before the storm hits.
Dr Dianne McGrath – Keynote speaker
Dr Dianne McGrath is one of Australia’s leading experts in strategy and innovation, known for helping organisations turn bold visions into actionable outcomes. With a PhD in Environmental Engineering and multiple degrees in sustainability, environmental management, marketing and education, she brings a rare combination of technical expertise, strategic insight and real-world experience.
Her life and career are defined by bold choices that defy convention. From being shortlisted for the Mars One mission to crewing the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, Dianne blends expertise and adventure to show what’s possible.
Dianne has worked with all levels of government and industry on initiatives spanning food systems, energy, and circular economy solutions, leading projects that deliver measurable impact and operational performance.
Her sessions focus on best-practice approaches for navigating change, inspiring teams to innovate, and building systems that perform under pressure. At JuiceIT, Dianne will challenge what is thought impossible and inspire you to innovate, perform and lead change.
This interactive tabletop session puts the audience in the driver’s seat of an AI-enabled cyber incident. Audience participants will navigate five key decision points as a modern, realistic attack unfolds. After each decision point, we reveal consequences and unpack the best response, including why the other options fail in real organisations. The session is designed to give you practical decision-making advice under pressure, and finishes with clear, actionable takeaways on reducing the attacker’s window of opportunity through governance, visibility and SOC-ready runbooks. Expect high energy, rapid learning and a memorable story that shifts AI security from hype into practical action.
This session is a fast-paced, story‑led tour of Vibe Coding at the edge. We will explore agentic building in your terminal with Claude Code and examine the emerging world of do‑anything personal assistants from OpenClaw. You will hear our real‑life experiences where agents delivered value at lightning speed, along with insights into the challenges we encountered along the way.
We will show how it has never been easier to start automating your own life, before outlining the core capabilities you need to translate agents into enterprise reality. These include the people skills, operating processes and platform patterns that make adoption safe, repeatable and scalable. You’ll see first-hand the gap between “it is magic on my laptop” and production‑grade polish. Vibe Code your life, not your enterprise.
This session explores how organisations are rethinking workload placement through a hybrid-by-design lens, balancing sovereignty, security, latency, cost and cloud economics while also factoring in AI workload demands and rising VMware licensing pressures. Using a practical decision framework, it examines when to modernise to containers and managed services versus alternative virtualisation platforms, and includes a live demo of Azure Local connected to Azure Public Cloud via Azure Arc to show what “right workload, right location” looks like in practice.
IT and business leaders, technical specialists and decision-makers looking for practical insights, real-world use cases and what’s coming next.
To keep the experience relevant and valuable for attendees, the event is best suited to professionals currently working within end-user organisations. As such, it’s not intended for students, job seekers or representatives from competing organisations and service providers.
Yes. JuiceIT is a complimentary event, but places are limited.
Complimentary catering is provided throughout the day including morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea, so you can stay focused and make the most of the experience.
If you need internal approval to attend, we’ve got you covered. You can download our “justify your attendance” letter to help outline the value of attending JuiceIT to your manager.
JuiceIT is a primarily in-person experience, designed to maximise connection, conversation and hands-on learning. While select sessions may be recorded and shared digitally after the event, live virtual attendance is not typically available.
Just yourself (and your curiosity!). Your registration confirmation is helpful but not essential.
If you’d like to share the experience, feel free to bring along your IT leader or a colleague who’d benefit from attending. JuiceIT is a great opportunity to align on ideas and take practical insights back to your organisation.
Absolutely. Dedicated breaks and informal sessions will be available throughout the day to connect with peers and partners.
For venue details, directions, parking information and public transport options for the MCEC, visit the MCEC website.
