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Kieran Habojan

Head of Sales, Sharon AI

Richard Hawkes

Senior Manager, DevSecOps, ASX

Jason Sandery

Head of Cloud Services, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Roberto Calero

Cloud Operations Manager, Blackwoods

Event Recap

Resilience, Sovereignty and Open Infrastructure in Sydney

Sydney’s CTOs, CIOs and infrastructure leaders spent the day at Doltone House Darling Island on hybrid cloud, AI workloads and how to stay resilient as technology and regulation shift.

Sharon AI’s Head of Sales, Kieran Habojan, joined leaders from ASX, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Blackwoods on the panel on resilient infrastructure in the age of digital sovereignty. Thank you to Forefront and everyone who met with Sharon AI and World Wide Technology on the day.

Cloud & IT Infrastructure Summit NSW 2026

  • Doltone House Darling Island, Sydney
  • 24 September 2026
  • Doltone House Darling Island, Sydney
  • 24 September 2026
Playbook

The New Rules of Transformation

An infrastructure leader’s playbook for the AI Factory era.

The playbook behind the conversations at Forefront in Sydney. Co-authored by World Wide Technology and Sharon AI. Inside: a three-trigger framework for deciding where AI workloads should run, the AI Factory reference architecture validated in production, and the sequence of decisions that moves AI from pilot to production.
Workload placement. Sovereign AI. AI Factory architecture.
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Event Wrap Up

Three Takeaways From Sydney

What a day with Sydney’s enterprise and infrastructure leaders made clear on the floor.

Sovereignty Shifts to Control

Data residency is now standard across most providers. The real conversation has moved to auditability and operational continuity, how much control organisations retain if a provider issue arises.

Flexibility Beats Platform Choice

The biggest AI regret isn't picking the wrong platform, it's failing to build pivot options between external and traditional infrastructure and skipping alignment on what business value AI is meant to deliver.

Governance Must Go Probabilistic

Quarterly governance cycles can't match AI's weekly evolution. Organisations need risk-tiered controls, auditable evidence before production, and financial resilience planning for unpredictable usage spikes.

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The Cloud & IT Infrastructure Summit NSW 2026 is organised by Forefront. Sharon AI and World Wide Technology are sponsors of the event. Any follow up meeting or resource request is managed by Sharon AI.