Oracle Customer Advisory Council
Thursday 14 August 2025 | 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, Executive Boardroom
61-101 Phillip St
Sydney NSW 2000
A Council for positive change
Amid economic and budgetary headwinds, changing regulations, cyber threats, the ongoing march of data and AI, and the perennial challenge of talent shortages, the Customer Advisory Council serves as a guiding body-providing collaborative solutions to navigate these complex challenges and drive technological advancement in the digital landscape.
The councils explore issues such as:
- How business leaders can deliver the level of innovation required to stay competitive in a cost-constrained environment
- The importance of shifting the conversation at leadership and boardroom from "How much?" to business value-driven investment decisions
- Ways organisations can learn from each other to change internal cultures that hinder the full potential of technology adoption
- How can Oracle-and the technology industry in general-do a better job of enabling organisations and leaders to deliver on executive KPIs?
Council Agenda on 14 August 2025
Redefining Leadership: Empowering CIOs as Architects of Business Influence
Turning Digital Transformation into Executive Impact
Recent Council discussions highlight a clear trend: as boards navigate technological disruption, escalating cyber risks, and shifting regulations, CIOs are emerging as pivotal drivers of innovation and business strategy.
Yet, many still face challenges in gaining meaningful board access and demonstrating how technology investments drive business value.
This by-invitation breakfast is designed to foster candid dialogue and deliver actionable strategies, enabling CIOs to amplify their influence and lead with impact in 2025 and beyond.
Discussions will cover:
- Real-world insights on how transformation initiatives succeed at the executive and board levels
- Practical ways to align AI, cybersecurity, and cloud investments with CEO priorities
- Peer perspectives on elevating conversations from execution to strategic leadership
- The evolving role of technology partners as trusted business advisors
Meet your hosts
Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle
Garrett Ilg is responsible for Oracle’s business across Japan and Asia Pacific.
His team helps customers and partners use and drive value from our applications, cloud infrastructure, and autonomous technologies to transform their business. His management principle is based on leadership at all levels. He believes everyone is a leader in what they do, and when leaders come together as a team, great things happen.
Garrett believes that diverse and inclusive environments are imperative to Oracle’s success. Diversity sets the stage to grow innovation, drive productivity, develop resilience, and champion creativity. He enjoys supporting people early in their careers as they bring unlimited ideas, energy, and ambition to every engagement. This extends into a focus on lifelong learning to drive both personal and career growth.
Before joining Oracle, Garrett lived in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, and the US, holding executive positions at Adobe, SAP, BEA Systems, and Reuters. He also speaks Japanese and cofounded a bilingual preschool in Tokyo.
Australia and New Zealand,
Oracle
Stephen Bovis is responsible for Oracle’s overall business in Australia and New Zealand and ensuring it delivers on its values of trust, customer success, innovation, and equality for its customers, partners, and communities across the region.
Stephen has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry across a wide range of roles, functions, and marketing segments. Most recently, he was at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he was vice president and managing director of the South Pacific region.
Prior to that, he was based in Singapore leading HP’s Enterprise Group sales account management team for Asia Pacific, whose portfolio included hardware, services, and software.
Strategic Research & Executive Engagement,
ADAPT
As Director of Strategic Research at Adapt, Matt is responsible for directing and developing research content and advising C-Suite executives across the end-user and technology provider landscape. His technology domain expertise extends across the Data Centre and Personal Technologies landscape with a keen focus on CIO priorities, business outcomes and go-to-market strategies. Previously Matt led a global business unit in Gartner contributing to high double-digit growth with a people and business first mindset.
Join us at the Oracle Customer Advisory Council.
Oracle is committed to promoting a corporate culture that is centered on integrity, accountability, and ethical business conduct. By accepting the complimentary event invitation (valued at $80 per person), you represent that your acceptance of the event invitation and associated gifts and/or benefits to you are: (1) permissible under your employer’s internal policies; (2) permissible under the laws of your home country and any other law relevant to your employer; and (3) known to and approved by your employer’s management. Oracle reserves the right to limit attendance accordingly and pursuant to Oracle policy.