The conversation around AI has moved quickly. For enterprise leaders, the question is no longer whether AI matters, but how to make it work across real processes, teams and customer experiences.

It's a question David Kissane, chief technology officer and managing director at Omnia, spends a lot of time on.

More than two decades in technology and cloud

Dave brings more than 25 years' experience across technology consulting, engineering, architecture and technology operations. He has held senior leadership roles at Deloitte, Westpac, Reckitt and Protiviti, a mix that gives him a perspective shaped by both advising complex organisations from the outside and leading transformation from within.

Technology is only part of the answer

Dave's view on AI is straightforward. Strategy, architecture, automation and governance need to work together, with people remaining central to the outcome. A model or a platform on its own does not solve a business problem. It is the combination, applied deliberately to achieve an end goal, that does. Don’t do technology for technology sake, and don’t apply a blanket approach to the use.

That thinking shapes how Omnia approaches AI, data, engineering and transformation: bringing the right expertise and technology partners together around the problem a client actually has, rather than starting from a preferred piece of technology and applying generalists.

More to come

We will be sharing more of Dave's perspective on practical AI transformation in the months ahead.

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