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Kate Carruthers helps leaders find the signal in the noise of AI, data and cyber. She is practical and straight-talking, and she cares about getting good ideas out of theory and into the daily work of real organisations.

Email to book Kate: helene@platinumspeakers.com.au

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Conversations that leave your people with something practical to action at work.

The AI Adoption Gap: Why Investment Is Not Yet Paying Off
Kate likes AI, and she has put it into production, so this is not a talk from a sceptic. Spending is rising, but the value is not keeping pace. The problem is not the technology. It is how we adopt it. Kate shares what she has seen separate the initiatives that deliver from the ones that stall, and how to run AI as a portfolio, redesign the work and measure results where they count.

AI Governance for the Real World
Good governance is not a brake on innovation. It is how an organisation says yes safely. Kate talks about policy, risk, human oversight and transparency in plain terms, and about how to make the safe path the easy path, so your teams can try new things without anyone losing control.

Agentic AI: Assurance, Security and Control
The risk is not only what a model says. It is what the system is allowed to do afterwards. As AI agents start acting inside business systems, boards need plain answers. What can it access? Who can stop it? Has anyone tested that? Kate draws on her cyber and data governance experience to help leaders ask the right questions early.

Data, Sovereignty and Agency
Sovereignty is not isolation. It is having enough agency to stay a participant rather than merely a customer. Kate explores what data governance, privacy and cyber security mean for Australian organisations as AI becomes part of how they run, and where the real choices sit.

Digital Transformation and Innovation
New technology does not transform anything on its own. People do, when the change is well led and the work is redesigned around it. Kate brings real-world experience, her teaching at the Australian Graduate School of Management and a close eye on emerging trends, so your leaders leave with a clear view of what to do next.

Email to book Kate: helene@platinumspeakers.com.au