Sitecore City Tour Sydney

Save the date: Tuesday 25th February

Join digital experience leaders, innovators, and Sitecore experts for a day of insights and networking at Sitecore City Tour Sydney

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
140 George St, The Rocks

Sydney

Microsoft logo
Sydney skyline

Why attend?

As customer expectations evolve, digital experiences are undergoing a seismic shift. Organisations now face the challenge of delivering seamless, personalised and dynamic experiences at scale and speed in real-time. This requires a departure from traditional, one-size-fits-all approaches in favour of more agile, AI-powered solutions.

Discover how Sitecore empowers brands to deliver personalised, seamless customer experiences. This event will showcase the possibilities of AI-powered solutions, giving you practical tools to elevate customer interactions and drive growth.


Highlights:

  • AI & personalisation: Learn how AI is reshaping digital experiences with Sitecore

  • Real-world success stories from MECCA and other leading brands

  • Actionable insights on brand, AI, content management, and personalisation

Time

Session Description

11:45am-12:50pm

Registration and Networking Lunch

12:50pm-1:00pm

Welcome - Joey Lim, APJ President 

1:00pm-1:25pm

The Power to Build for Measurable Impact –

Dave O'Flanagan, CEO, Sitecore

Join Sitecore's CEO Dave O'Flanagan as he explores the future of work for marketing and how Sitecore’s vision for content and experience will redefine marketing’s measurable impact.

1:25pm-1:55pm

The AI created by Marketers for Marketers - Mick Wingert, Sitecore

Introducing Sitecore Stream, transform your content-experience lifecycle with AI workflows, generative copilots, and brand-aware AI to work smarter, more strategically, and securely across your Sitecore solutions. This is the future of marketing, and we’ll show you how it works and highlight the huge productivity gains it can bring for your teams.

1:55pm-2:15pm

Ticket to XM Cloud: Travel Money Group’s journey to a scalable new platform - Zoe Jeffrey, Head of Customer (Marketing & Technology), Travel Money Group, Paul Regan, Director, Deloitte Digital

Learn how Travel Money Group has delivered a refreshed brand experience and multi-region enabled platform built on Sitecore XM Cloud that supports globetrotters wherever life takes them.

2:15pm-2:40pm

Marketing in the Era of AI

Explore AI’s impact on marketing with Microsoft. Discover how AI copilots can increase marketing ROI, enable non-technical employees to generate marketing outputs, and provide real-time data for optimal budget allocation.

Learn how generative AI copilots can streamline campaign creation, review processes, and real-time performance tracking. Witness firsthand the transformative power of AI in marketing!

2:40pm-3:00pm

From Tactics to Strategy: Redefining the Marketer’s Role -

Lisa Reed, Digital Director, Frasers Property Australia, Jon Holcombe, General Manager, Switch,


Frasers Property Australia faced a complex challenge; managing diverse business units with unique audience needs, translating strong offline brand equity into digital channels, and enabling their marketing team to shift from day-to-day execution to strategic leadership. However, legacy systems and fragmented platforms created inefficiencies, slowing content delivery and limiting impact.

By streamlining operations and consolidating platforms, Frasers Property Australia transformed their digital approach - boosting efficiency, reducing churn, and fostering trust in its brand. Discover how they achieved:

- 40% increase in form submissions through a seamless, user-centric digital experience

- A content team operating 3x faster, accelerating speed-to-market

- An empowered and happier marketing team, moving from execution to strategic leadership

Join us to discover how Frasers Property turned digital challenges into strategic opportunities, driving engagement, efficiency, and long-term brand strength.

3:00pm-3:20pm

Networking Break

3:20pm-3:40pm

Unlocking speed & efficiency with an AI-ready, composable martech stack - Alison Sainsbury, Senior Director, Digital Experiences, Sitecore

In 2025, customer expectations have soared due to AI advancements in marketing. Marketers now navigate complex platforms with generative AI to boost speed and effectiveness, but the pressure is immense. Our research highlights a significant "readiness gap" between companies' expectations for digital experiences and their actual readiness to implement AI tools. Sitecore's marketing department recently bridged this gap by transitioning to a composable martech stack with XM Cloud. Join this session for insights on closing readiness gaps and crafting a digital strategy that fuels growth and exceeds expectations.

3:40pm-4:10pm

How to see around corners – leading with an AI first mindset - Amanda Johnstone, Founding CEO @ Transhuman

Award-winning Australian technology CEO, inventor, and international AI expert Amanda Johnstone will equip you with the insights to outsmart your competitors and ensure your brand is future-ready with an AI-first mindset.

4:10pm-4:35pm

Expert Panel

Re-inventing human experience for the AI era

Daniel Riddell - MECCA Brands

Amanda Johnstone - Transhuman

Jon Holcombe - Switch

Eric Orton - AKQA

Brett de Niese - Aceik

4:35pm - 4:55pm

MECCA

Keeping Customers at the Heart of digital transformation - Daniel Riddell, Head of Engineering, MECCA Brands

Discover how Mecca’s laser-focused customer approach transformed their omnichannel experience, bringing the best of their in-store magic online, along with key insights.

4:55pm-5:25pm

Customer Fireside Discussion

Dave O'Flanagan - CEO, Sitecore

Robbie Attard​ - Information Technology Manager, NHP ​

Callam Porch​ - General Manager – Digital, Design & Innovation, Australian Retirement Trust (ART)

James Macfarlane - CTO, Racing Victoria

Daniel McQuillan​ - Digital Director, Experience Gold Coast

Brad Howarth - Moderator

5:25pm-5:30pm

Closing Remarks

5:30pm-6:30pm

Happy Hour and Networking - brought to you by Codehouse!

About Sitecore
Sitecore is a global leader in digital experience software, trusted by visionary brands like L’Oréal, Microsoft, and United Airlines to power their content lifecycle from content strategy to digital experience delivery. Our composable platform gives marketers and technologists the power to build together at global scale – harnessing content, data, personalization, and AI – to manage digital assets, create engaging content, understand customer intent, and deliver standout experiences across all touchpoints. Discover more at sitecore.com.

Meet our Speakers

Amanda Johnstone Transhuman

Amanda Johnstone

Founding CEO

Transhuman

Dave O'Flanagan

CEO

Sitecore

Zoe Jeffrey

Head of Customer (Marketing & Technology)

Travel Money Group

Lisa Reed

Digital Director

Frasers Property Australia

Callam Porch

Callam Porch

General Manager – Digital, Design & Innovation

Australian Retirement Trust (ART)

James Macfarlane

CTO

Racing Victoria

Dan Riddell

Daniel Riddell

Head of Engineering

MECCA Brands

Brad Howarth

Lagrange Communications

Joey Lim

President, APAC and Japan

Sitecore

Alison Sainsbury - Digital Experience Senior Director

Alison Sainsbury

Senior Director, Digital Experience

Sitecore

Mick Wingert

Director, Solution Engineering, APJ

Sitecore

Jon Holcombe

General Manager

Switch

Paul Regan,

Director

Deloitte Digital

Eric Orton

Executive Technology Director

AKQA

Brett de Niese

CEO

Aceik

Gary Buckmaster

Senior Account Technology Strategist

Microsoft