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AI for Executives and Business Leaders

Turning AI opportunities into measurable business value.
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This workshop equips executives, directors, and senior managers with the practical understanding needed to make informed decisions about AI investment, adoption, risk, and governance.

Participants will explore what AI can realistically achieve, where organisations are seeing measurable value, common implementation pitfalls, and how to build a clear AI roadmap linked to business outcomes.

Delivered as a tailored, organisation-focused program, the workshop combines strategic guidance with real-world implementation insights, helping teams establish robust AI governance practices that drive business value, support sustainable growth, and build stakeholder trust.

What You'll Learn

  • What AI can realistically achieve
  • How to build an AI roadmap
  • How to measure business outcomes
  • Common AI implementation pitfalls
  • How to apply leading AI governance frameworks and standards (ISO/IEC 42001, Australian AI Ethics Principles and more)
  • Practical governance measures your organisation can implement immediately
Workshop members

Key Information

Workshop Topics

Principles of Trustworthy AI
  • Defining Trustworthy AI
  • Ethical AI Frameworks
  • Aligning AI with Business Strategy: Integrating AI initiatives with broader business objectives and strategies
  • Interactive Exercise: Risk Identification
Strategies for AI Deployment
  • AI Project Lifecycle: Key stages in AI deployment
  • Optimising Risk Mitigation Options
  • Interactive Exercise: Risk Mitigation.
Governance of AI Applications
  • Governance Frameworks
  • Ongoing Monitoring and Governance
  • Interactive Exercise: Setting Up an AI Governance Process
Open Discussion and Q&A
  • Discussion of Industry-specific Issues
  • Summarising Key Takeaways
  • Q&A: Bring your organisation's challenges and questions for discussion with our experts.

What's Included?

Expert-Led Learning
Learn from leading industry experts in AI strategy, software assurance, and trusted AI adoption.
Interactive Sessions
Engage in interactive sessions that facilitate collaborative learning and discussion among participants.
Customised Learning Pathways
Build practical AI capability through training shaped to your team’s roles, responsibilities, and current challenges. We tailor the content to support confident, responsible AI adoption.

This program is delivered by KJR

KJR is a founding member of the Queensland AI Hub

KJR is an Australian Software Quality Engineering Consultancy and a leading practitioner in Trusted AI Adoption. Founded on 30 years of experience in quality assurance and verification, we help organisations unlock real business value from AI, ensuring deployments are not only compliant and ethical but also strategically aligned to drive innovation, efficiency, and growth.

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Your Trainers

Troy Vertigan
General Manager
Trusted AI
Dr. Mark Pedersen
KJR CTO
ACS AI in Society Committee Member
Dr. Kelvin Ross
Chairman

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Troy Vertigan

– General Manager Trusted AI

Troy brings more than 25 years of executive and commercial leadership experience across Australia, North America and Europe, specialising in technology-led business growth, AI strategy and enterprise transformation.

 

Throughout his career, Troy has founded, built and scaled businesses across software, SaaS and technology services, holding senior leadership positions including Founder and CEO, Chief Growth Officer, Chief Revenue Officer and ANZ Regional Manager.

 

Prior to joining KJR, Troy founded AI Surge ANZ, an AI strategy and transformation business helping organisations move from experimentation to practical AI adoption. His experience spans AI strategy, governance, risk and readiness assessments, workflow redesign, AI-enabled automation and enterprise deployment, with a focus on delivering measurable business value

 

As General Manager – Trusted AI, Troy is responsible for growing KJR’s national AI Services capability. Working closely with regional leaders and technical specialists, he helps organisations identify valuable AI opportunities, align adoption with business priorities and implement AI responsibly.

 

Troy is passionate about bridging the gap between emerging technologies and practical business outcomes, helping organisations adopt AI with confidence, strong governance and a clear focus on value.

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Mark Pedersen

– CTO

Mark is an IT professional with a passion for digital culture. During the week, he leads his team at KJR through straight-talking solutions to software problems. In his spare time, he can be found crafting soundscapes and audio/visual installations that embrace technology’s propensity for playfulness and expression.


He first honed his aptitude for software innovation and assurance as a postgrad research assistant at the University of Queensland, where he went on to complete a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, focusing on language technology. It was there he befriended KJR founder Kelvin Ross and they bonded over a shared enthusiasm for fine-tuning software and risk mitigation strategies. He’s been with KJR ever since, taking a few years off to teach IT in the Middle East before returning in 2006 to open the Melbourne branch.


As CTO, Mark’s technical knowledge and lateral thinking abilities are counted on to lead critical software projects safely out of the red and into the light. And, as a world-class software risk analyst and advisor, he thrives on the satisfaction of bettering lives with technology that actually works.


Within the broader industry ecosystem, Mark is a member of the ACS AI in Society Committee, helping to shaping responsible AI usage in Australia, and regularly contributes to international discussion on AI Governance and quality assurance.

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Kelvin Ross

– Chairman

Dr Kelvin Ross is an entrepreneur, technologist and researcher with 30 years’ experience in software engineering, safety-critical systems and enterprise IT.

 

He began his career in safety-critical software engineering in defence, working on FA-18 airborne radar systems, before completing a PhD in safety-critical systems engineering and spending several years consulting in defence and transportation systems. He then moved into the commercial sector, founding KJR, a mid-tier IT consultancy specialising in software testing and assurance across e-health, public administration, finance, insurance, retail and telecommunications.

 

Kelvin has contributed to several boards and national committees, including IntelliHQ, a healthcare AI innovation NFP, Chair of the Qld AI Hub, ACS national technical committee for AI Safety. He is an Associate Adjunct Professor at Griffith University’s Institute for Intelligent and Integrated Systems. Over the past two years he has been applying agentic AI tools hands-on across coding, test automation and delivery, and speaks regularly on AI safety, governance and assurance.