The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), is Australia’s top ICT industry representative body and advocacy group with over 400 member organisations totalling more than 40,000 employees and almost 20 billion dollars in annual Australian revenue.

The AIIA Financial Services Network partners with leading technology companies in the financial services sector to deliver regular seminars/networking events and thought leadership papers examining emerging trends at the cutting edge of the industry. The breakfast seminar program features representatives from across the ICT industry and senior executives from financial services.

Polaris will be present at::

• AIIA Banking & Financial Service forum with Michael Harte, CIO, CBA - 1/05/2013 - "Innovation by design"- The Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney

The internet, the cloud, and SAAS, PAAS has driven costs for starting a new large scale business from millions down to less than a hundred thousand dollars. In order to respond, financial institutions, by necessity have had to respond by creating open innovation models, as well as looking at business model innovation led by design thinking.

At the next AIIA Banking & Financial Services Forum Michael Ossipoff, Director Capability and Innovation, Telstra will interview Michael Harte, CIO, CBA and recently voted ITnews CIO of the year to explore:Best practice models used presently in Australia and around the world,Business case required for each of those models, How financial services institutions can re-organise to embrace these new models.

link: http://www.aiia.com.au/events/event_details.asp?id=309622&group=

• NSW Financial Services Briefing Series, Sydney - 26/06/2013

Polaris is a Gold Sponsor at the event and will share the dais with other eminent industry leaders and experts at the breakfast panel discussion.

AIIA homepage - http://www.aiia.com.au/

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