Speakers
Miranda Kovacik, Domain Lead, Employee Experience at ANZ
Miranda Kovacik is an IT Executive with over 25 years of technology experience, including seventeen years in Global Service Delivery focused on cultural change, team building, revenue growth, cost control and improving service levels. Miranda has
extensive experience in Global Program Management and a proven track record of delivering significant projects/programs incorporating multi vendors with successful results.
Extensive and proven delivery with appropriate governance and discipline has provided solutions aligned with business objectives based around industry best practice and associated frameworks. Key strengths are team building, excellent interpersonal and communication skills proven in a global environment combined with extensive operational and strategic experience.
Anna Leibel, Chief Information Officer at Unisuper and Founder of 110% Consulting
Anna Leibel is an experienced executive and corporate advisor, renowned for her ability to blend strategy development and transformational change across technology, business practices and growth culture. Anna's cross-industry career spans
more than two decades in transformation programs, management consulting and technology start-ups.
Anna joined UniSuper as Chief Information Officer in March 2017 to create a strategy for the $66 billion fund to achieve the strategic goal of differentiating on service. The new IT strategy prioritises the customer experience, modernising the way that we bring value to our customers, which includes introducing new technologies, the time that it takes for us to deliver new products and services and also keeping information secure and safe. Anna has previously held senior consulting and general management roles with PwC, Telstra and NAB.
Anna is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and attended MIT Executive Summer School in the USA on the Digital Economy. Motivated by bringing out the best in others, this year Anna is participating in Monash Business School's group mentoring program.
Associate Professor Leonie Ellis, University of Tasmania
Leonie Ellis holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Computing and a PhD from the University of Tasmania. Her PhD was in the area of Technology Based Change. She worked with Tasmania Police while implementing major technology base change in
their organisation. She completed her PhD in 2009.
Associate Professor Ellis is currently the Associate Professor Curriculum Innovation and Technology and the Deputy Head of Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching. Leonie has 9 PhD completions and is currently supervising 6 students researching in the technology space. Leonie's research interests relate to the use of qualitative research methodologies in the areas of eHealth and Knowledge Management. Her passion is innovation in Learning and Teaching and how technology can support better learning outcomes.
She was the Academic Coordinator for the Bachelor of Information Systems that is delivered at Shanghai Oceans University. It is in this role that Leonie and her team have received the VC Award for Excellence in Teaching.
She is an innovator in the Learning and Teaching space and has published 5 papers specifically looking at using ePortfolios to support group work by individualising group mark s. Leonie has previously worked on a successful OLTC grant in 2009 "Re-conceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education for the twenty first century".
