11-12 March 2027
Rydges Resort
Hunter Valley
A more sophisticated way to network with the enterprise leaders at the heart of AI transformation.
100+ handpicked enterprise leaders: each delegate is researched to ensure relevance and personally invited.
Primary titles: Head of AI, Chief Data Officer (CDO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Head of Digital Transformation, Chief Product Officer (CPO)
Organisations: Australia’s largest enterprise brands within financial services, retail, healthcare, government, telecommunications, resources, and professional services
Two distraction-free days, where the right people are in the room and every touchpoint is engineered for genuine connection.
11-12 March 2027
Rydges Resort, Hunter Valley
AI & MarTech Collective
#AILeadersSymposium
The pressure is real. Australia’s emerging AI leaders are being asked to move faster, upskill quicker, prove returns sooner, and govern more carefully, all at once; in a market moving quicker than any in recent history, against regulation still being written and boards that want proof, not pilots.
Leadership in times of transformation and turbulence is not about knowing what the future will be, it’s about understanding what you want your future to be and navigating your way there. This is not another event that will promise all the answers with little return, but you will be fortified with the right questions to ask, built from shared experience with your peers.
Introducing Ashton Media’s AI Leaders Symposium, an event that’s refreshingly different. Invitation-only, capped in size, and held under Chatham House Rule. A sophisticated environment where the conversations go deeper, the relationships are real, and there’s not a single exhibition booth in sight.
Set in the Hunter Valley, the two-day Symposium format removes everyone from the daily grind entirely. No distractions or slipping back to the office, just two days of honest, peer-to-peer discussion where AI, analytics, data, information, privacy, risk and technology leaders define the AI adoption and operating model that’s right for them.
Every AI leader is being asked to prove what their investment is actually worth. You'll get into how to measure value, defend the investment to a sceptical board, and work out where the economics are heading once vendor pricing stops being subsidised.
AI is changing what a job actually is, not just how many exist. You'll leave with a sharper view of what capability to build, which tasks inside a role are changing, and what it takes to build AI literacy across a workforce.
AI-ready use cases are only as strong as their data foundations, and those foundations rarely win board funding. Explore who really owns your infrastructure, and whether data sovereignty is a compliance afterthought or something you've genuinely built resilience around.
There's no template for the right operating model, only where you’re truly at in your own adoption journey; get concrete on how to make your most cautious business voices to say yes, and what trust requires once AI is customer facing.
Contact Centre Symposium 2026 platinum partner
“We at Google decided to partner with Ashton Media for this event because of the exposure it gives us to the right stakeholders and leading brands in the market. The relationships that we create at these events and the experiences that we share with the delegates are invaluable.”
Jonny Burgess, Gemini Enterprise CX AI Specialist
