Automation Alliance

You cannot go anywhere at the moment without hearing about ChatGPT and it is certainly taking over the internet at the moment. Join us on this episode where we talk all things ChatGPT and Intelligent Automation. Kudos to Mick Taylor and Stuart Chambers from UiPath and Deon Smit from Nintex for their excellent work and evangelism in showing what is possible. #ChatGPT #IntelligentAutomation

Shaun chats with Stephen Graham (Design Director at STCK), on the intersection of Strategic Design and Intelligent Automation.

Shaun chats with Jacqui Miller (Application Architect at Dimension Data), one of the newest UiPath MVP's and the first female MVP in Africa, on all things UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate.

Shaun chats with Chris Ellis (Director of Presales at Nintex) on Nintex's latest acquisition of RPA leader Kryon.

Shaun has a fireside chat with Anders Jensen, an Automation Teacher & YouTuber, who is doing some amazing things in the automation community.You can connect with Anders on the following social media channels:[YouTube] https://youtube.com/c/andersjensenorg[LinkedIn] https://www.linkedin.com/company/andersjensenorg[Twitter] https://twitter.com/andersjensenorg

We chat with Dennis Parker (Customer Lead at Jigx) about getting stuff done with a new generation of apps for work. That employees love.

We chat with David Kroll (Lead Solutions Engineer, Ashling Partners) on how he used Robotic Process Automation to build out and automate his Fantasy Sports Newsletter.

In this episode we host Greg Miller, Executive Director at Faethm, and we talk about Responsible Automation which is the ability to retain, retrain and redeploy your workforce. With the people that companies need for the future already in their business, automation does not have to result in job loss. We chat about Faethm's reskilling and upskilling Job Corridors which allows companies to get the maximum value out of automation through an equitable transition of their current employees to tomorrow's jobs.

We welcome Stuart Chambers, UiPath Emerging Product Sales Specialist for the Australia New Zealand region, to this episode of the Automation Alliance Podcast where we talk all things Process Mining, Task Mining and Automated Testing. Stuart is a regional thought leader and subject matter expert and advises organisations on how to leverage UiPath's emerging product suite to drive process optimisation, increase automation and unlock value.

Absolutely thrilled to have Katrin Stoecker, Chief Operations Officer at Steadfast Underwriting Agencies join us for this insightful episode discussing their Intelligent Automation journey. We discuss everything from process renewal bots to how they are driving the Citizen Developer agenda. It has been incredibly rewarding to watch the momentous impact that automation is having across Steadfast Underwriting Agencies and the wider Steadfast Group and now you too can listen to their story.

What a pleasure it was to have Thomas Kohlenbach, senior product specialist at Nintex, join us for this episode focussed on achieving process excellence. We discuss how an effective process culture can promote innovation and business agility and how really understanding your processes is the true beginning of automation success. A fantastic episode packed with many relevant use cases and great insight into the process excellence domain.

What an incredible success story we get to discuss on this episode! We hear how Pieter Le Roux, National Shared Services Manager, is driving an automation first mindset at Coates Hire starting with the successful implementation of their Intelligent Accounts Payable solution. Shaun and Pieter discuss how automating the routine across the finance function at Coates Hire has helped to liberate minds and make work matter for their employees.

What a pleasure it was having Graham Penman, Co-founder of jaam Automation in the UK, as a special guest for this episode. We ran through the recent Accenture Tech Vision 2021 themes and discussed how we see these playing out in our respective markets. We looked at the wider automation partner ecosystem and discussed how important players such as Druid Chatbot platform, Re:infer and others are quickly allowing organisations to truly scale their Intelligent Automation initiatives.

Absolutely thrilled to have Guy Kirkwood, Chief Evangelist at UiPath, share his thoughts and predictions for RPA, AI, and automation in 2021. He has an incredibly accurate track record from previous years and it is well worth a listen to ensure you are up to speed with the latest industry predictions. A fantastic episode that all our listeners will benefit from. Enjoy.

Fantastic conversation with Chris Ellis, Director of Pre-Sales at Nintex in Australia. We discuss the company's recent acquisition of K2 and Chris walks us through the various components of the end-to-end Nintex platform and how these recent acquisitions are shaping the vision for the Nintex Platform. We get great insights into the Nintex Process Mapping and Process Collaboration tool Promapp and how customers are pervasively using this tool to rapidly evolve their process automation plans in 2021.

What an episode, what a woman. We hear how Sidney Madison Prescott has forged an incredibly successful career in driving and embedding an automation first mindset at companies like Spotify and BNY Melon. She shares her insights on why starting small can increase your chances of success and what factors can derail the ability to scale.We hear about the imminent release of her latest co-authored book "Robotic Process Automation using UiPath StudioX - A Citizen Developers Guide to Hyperautomation" and how she is shaping the Citizen Developer strategy at Spotify. This is one episode you do not want to miss.

What an episode. What a true transformation story. What an honour to have Luke Kelly, Director of DKG Insurance Brokers, join us to discuss how they embraced intelligent automation just before the initial COVID lockdown in April. We hear how they spearheaded this automation initiative to streamline their debtors, quotes and claims processes that enabled this forward thinking insurance broker to not only survive in 2020 but to thrive beyond what they thought was possible.

The Microsoft Power Platform is an exciting place to be and we were thrilled to have Andrew Coates, Senior Software Engineer and all round Automation Evangelist, from Microsoft Australia give listeners an insight into how people are using the Power Platform to solve real world business challenges today.Shaun and Coatsey cover all of the bases of the platform and discuss things like Power Apps, Power Automate, AI Builder and of course Power Virtual Agents. What a great episode for our listeners.

What an episode. We speak to Kris Watt, Innovation and Automation Manager at RACQ, who tells us about how they are transforming their call centre operations with intelligent automation. We hear how they are driving adoption of unattended automation in their contact centres and how the culture of experimentation has led to the great achievements that Kris has been part of throughout their automation journey.

Absolutely thrilled to have Ruth Santangelo - Associate Director – Digital, Service and Automation at Optus join us on the show to discuss how she is leading the charge at Optus with RPA adoption. Hear how the bots get integrated as part of the team and some innovative ideas on how to get everyone involved in the RPA journey from the beginning.

Fantastic episode with Luke Kelly the Global Services Director at UiPath. We talk about how to evangelise automation, scale up your automation strategy and importantly how to measure and define what ROI looks like. We get insight into the latest and greatest UiPath platform releases including the new ideation platform, Automation Hub, which allows you to take automation ideas into implementation. We talk about Studio X and how citizen developers are driving the robot for every person agenda and a whole bunch more.

Sypht CEO Warren Billington joins Shaun for a fascinating discussion around AI as a service for data capture. They talk all things "dark data", summarise the 2020 ANZ Digital Transformation Survey Results and listeners get to hear about the latest Sypht platform roadmap.

Jason Trent leads the Cloud effort at K2 and we were fortunate to have Jason give us a deep dive into the latest platform release - K2 Nexus. The new platform combines K2's industry-leading process automation with an open, modern cloud integration service to remove the cost and complexity of building point-to-point integrations. But it’s far more than a rebranding and listeners get to hear about some of the significant expansions to the platform, the plans ahead for a new solutions marketplace and there was even time to chat about intelligent case management.

We speak with Pavel Gimelberg, an Intelligent Automation and Agile Evangelist who is well known in the automation community in APAC. Shaun and Pavel share their predictions on Intelligent chatbot trends for 2020 and beyond, conversational AI and they share examples of how they are seeing businesses adapt to COVID-19 and prepare for business continuity in the future with process automation.

Absolutely thrilled to have John Pickering as our special guest on this episode. John is a partner at Deloitte Australia focused on Intelligent & Cognitive Automation and Analytics. We chat about the key findings from the latest Forrester report "COVID-19 Just Made Automation A Boardroom Imperative" and talk about some of the incredible innovations that have been born out of necessity in response to COVID-19 and how Intelligent Automation is helping organisations survive and thrive in the new normal.

Shaun speaks to Jonathan Parsons, Associate Director of Automation & Innovation at The University of Sydney and Operations Director at the AI-Hub. This episode is all about scale and how Jonathan has successfully embraced this challenge at the University. We hear how the AI-Hub enabled the University to better adapt to COVID 19 impacts and how RPA yielding demonstrable ROI in under 6 months has been a key driver in Jonathan’s passion for helping organisations achieve operational efficiency.

We speak to Murray Macdonald, Co-founder and CTO of Just Insurance, and we find out how his love for fixing things eventually led him into trying to fix a broken industry - Insurance. We hear how one book rekindled Murrays ambition to start his own business and how he sees a robot for every person being a game changer for the motor insurance sector. Enjoy.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

We decided to mix this episode up and were lucky to have the NSW UiPath Partner Manager, Ida Montagner, agree to host this episode and turn the questions on our very own Shaun Leisegang. We get the opportunity to hear Shaun's thoughts on a range of topics from Microsoft's recent interest in buying an RPA company to how Shaun is seeing the adoption of "a robot for every person" message across the Australian market. A great episode with some exciting announcements that we share with the listeners.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

Spearheading the automation-first mindset in legal is Luiz de Almeida, CIO at Sine Lawyers. Luiz joins Shaun in this episode to tell us more about the cutting edge innovations that Shine Lawyers are undertaking and how these initiatives are enabling their lawyers to work better, smarter, and more collaboratively.

Shaun was thrilled to have K2 Chief Product Officer, Burley Kawasaki, share his insights on how to truly drive transformation through the redesign of process to improve the customer experience. Join Shaun and Burley for a discussion covering all aspects of intelligent automation including the best customer use cases in the DPA world today.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

On this episode we speak with Terri Mottershead. Terri is a leading voice in the legal industry in Australia and we talk all things legal innovation: from new matter intake, to client onboarding, to hyperautomation and onto where the future of legal is heading.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

What an episode. We were privileged to have UiPath’s Chief Evangelist, Guy Kirkwood, join us for a discussion with Shaun on a range of topics including:how automation will help us solve the retirement crisis, which of Guy’s top 7 predictions for RPA in 2020 have already rung true and what it means for UiPath to have recently been recognised by Everest Group as the Process Mining Leader for 2020. This is an episode you do not want to miss. Enjoy.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

Shaun speaks with Andrew Phillips, Managing Director and Vice President, Australia & New Zealand at UiPath. They look at how Australia stacks up against the rest of the world in terms of RPA, which industries are adopting RPA, they talk through a number of great customer success stories and talk about how UiPath themselves are living their a robot for every person mantra.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

We welcome Jonno King this episode, not only as our special guest on the Automation Alliance, but as our newest team member at rapidMATION. Jonno and I look at how the automation space has evolved since he left K2 (the leading Digital Process Automation platform) almost 4 years ago, and what his initial thoughts are on the "The Future of Work" and the latest Intelligent Automation trends for 2020. Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

This episode welcomes Anthony Scott, leading Industry expert in Intelligent Automation and one of the first to pioneer the way in RPA deployment in Australia. This episode has fantastic insight and opinion from both Shaun and Anthony on the Forrester 2020 Predictions report, a very meaty discussion around scale and lastly they question some of the latest stats being released on the future of attended vs unattended bots deployments.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

Shaun speaks with Holly Anderson, senior director of product marketing at K2 and lifelong Star Wars fan. They look at Gartner’s "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends" for 2020 with specific emphasis on the new buzz word "Hyperautomation". They also discuss digital twins and whether RPA and DPA technologies are the perfect marriage for automation harmony.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com

In our very first episode Shaun Leisegang speaks with Jens Pistorius, RPA Evangelist and founder of Incepto, on his thoughts and predictions in the RPA space in 2020. Shaun and Jens dissect the findings and commentary from various analysts and industry publications relating to intelligent automation with a specific focus on RPA. Tune in for 25 minutes to hear what Jens had to share with us on the future of RPA and the rise of the Intelligent chatbot.Social Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEAMrapidMATIONFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rapidmation/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidmation/Website: www.rapidMATION.com