In this episode of the ADAverse podcast, Shaun Leisegang sits down with Wai-Lum Tang (Head of Information Technology) and Tricia Kopka (Head of Operations and Process Improvement) from IQumulate , one of Australia and New Zealand's leading premium funders. Together, they unpack how IQumulate is accelerating growth and operational excellence by embracing automation, cloud-first architecture, and a culture of continuous improvement. From overcoming manual processes and legacy systems to building a...
Jul 10, 2025•36 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode of the ADAverse podcast, Shaun Leisegang is joined by Alex Tulintsev , PII Redaction Specialist at ABBYY , to tackle one of the most high-stakes challenges facing modern organisations: protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Card Information (PCI) in an AI-driven world. With global fines now hitting $50 million or 30% of turnover for privacy breaches, safeguarding sensitive data isn’t just IT’s problem—it’s a board-level concern. Shaun and Alex break down...
May 26, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this ADAverse podcast episode, Shaun Leisegang and Tony Nudd from UiPath explore the cutting-edge world of AI agents, highlighting the evolution beyond standard RPA tools. The conversation covers technical essentials like trust management, orchestration frameworks, and real-world implementation scenarios. Gain valuable insights from industry case studies, learn to spot tasks ideally suited to AI agent automation, and uncover practical next steps to seamlessly introduce intelligent automation ...
Mar 14, 2025•37 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this inaugural episode, host Shaun Leisegang sits down with Pieter DeGunst , Managing Director of Tecala , to explore the journey from rapidMATION and the Automation Alliance to the birth of ADAverse. Join us as we discuss: 🔹 The evolution of automation and AI in business 🔹 Why data is the fuel that powers AI 🔹 The critical role of automation, data, and AI in modern organisations 🔹 How ADAverse is building a community for thought leaders and innovators Plus, Pieter steps into the Hot Seat...
Feb 28, 2025•17 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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
Jan 24, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Shaun chats with Stephen Graham (Design Director at STCK), on the intersection of Strategic Design and Intelligent Automation.
Nov 08, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 36
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.
Jul 08, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Shaun chats with Chris Ellis (Director of Presales at Nintex) on Nintex's latest acquisition of RPA leader Kryon.
Apr 11, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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
Mar 02, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 33
We chat with Dennis Parker (Customer Lead at Jigx) about getting stuff done with a new generation of apps for work. That employees love.
Feb 16, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 32
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.
Dec 16, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 31
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 tomorr...
Sep 15, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 30
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.
Aug 02, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 29
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.
Jun 18, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 28
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.
May 26, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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.
Mar 25, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 26
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.
Mar 15, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 25
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.
Feb 26, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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 20...
Feb 11, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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"...
Jan 27, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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.
Dec 10, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 21
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.
Nov 26, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 20
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.
Oct 29, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 19
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.
Oct 14, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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 ...
Sep 17, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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.
Sep 02, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 16
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 a...
Aug 20, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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.
Aug 04, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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 ne...
Jul 09, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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.
Jun 24, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 12
