Sydney - SMBiT Professionals June Meeting

When
11 Jun 2024
19:00 - 21:00
Location
The Union Hotel, 271 Pacific Highway, North Sydney

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SMBiT Professionals

Sydney Chapter

Next meeting

Tuesday

11 June 2024

SMBiT Professionals Sydney Chapter meets on the second Tuesday of the month

Dinner

6:00pm-7:00pm

Main Event

7:00pm-9:00pm

Stay a while afterwards and have a drink and a chat

Location

The Union Hotel

271 Pacific Highway
North Sydney
https://www.unionhotel.com.au/

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Exploring Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape

Michael Vardavas / Zac Cochrane

SMBs in the IT sector face a host of challenges. Rapid technological advancements, cybersecurity threats, and regulatory demands create a complex landscape. Cybersecurity is a major concern. SMBs must defend against sophisticated cyberattacks, requiring significant investment in security measures and employee training. Adopting emerging technologies like AI, cloud computing, and IoT is another hurdle. Limited budgets and resources often impede seamless integration and innovation. Join us to learn how to turn these challenges into opportunities for your business and your clients.

Dell Technologies is a Gold sponsor of SMBiT Professionals

Outsourcing

Peter Ward, Dijital Team

Over the last 10+ years, it has been popular to outsource well-defined manual processes to trained specialists in countries with lower cost bases.

Over the last couple of years, there have been some interesting trends:

Labour costs in the traditional outsource countries (Philippines, Sri Lanka, India etc) have materially increased;
The onset of Artificial Intelligence and business process automation / robotic process automation solutions has organisations automating these well defined processes for significantly less than what it would cost to outsource.

How is this impacting the IT outsourcing industry and how will the outsourcing industry ‘evolve’ to deliver new value propositions?

Round table discussion

Open forum ...

Scott will be interviewing David Wales.

Scott giving quick overview of new AICD cyber security recommendations for small businesses and NFP

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