Fivetran Executive Roundtable Series · Australia and New Zealand

AI is only as good as the data beneath it.

A closed-door dinner series for the senior leaders responsible for making enterprise data trusted, governed and ready for AI. Five cities, twelve seats at each table, one conversation that matters.

Register your interest About the series
CITIES
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland, Wellington
FORMAT
Closed-door roundtable dinner, 12 seats
TIMING
6:00pm to 9:00pm, dates to be confirmed
COST
Complimentary, by invitation

The series

The conversation behind every AI roadmap.

Every board now wants an answer on AI. The honest answer, in most enterprises, starts with the data: whether it moves reliably, whether it can be trusted, and whether it is structured for systems that reason and act rather than dashboards that report.

This series brings together the people who own that problem. Chief data officers, heads of data and analytics, data platform and engineering leaders, and the CIOs and CTOs accountable for what AI is actually built on. Over a three-course dinner, under Chatham House rules, the table works through what AI-ready data really demands: of architecture, of governance, and of the teams asked to deliver it.

On the table

Six threads. The table decides where to pull.

A frame rather than an agenda. Each dinner opens with a short provocation, then follows the room. These are the questions data leaders across the region keep returning to.

01

What "AI-ready" actually means

Beyond the slideware: the concrete properties of data that agents and models can safely consume. Freshness, completeness, lineage, semantics, and who signs off on each.

02

Agents as the new data consumer

Dashboards tolerate ambiguity, autonomous systems do not. What changes in governance and context when the analyst querying your warehouse is a machine.

03

The build-versus-buy line on pipelines

Where engineering time genuinely creates advantage, and where maintaining bespoke connectors quietly burns the capacity your AI programme needs.

04

Consolidating the stack

Ingestion, transformation and semantics are converging under fewer vendors. What consolidation solves, what it risks, and how to keep the architecture open.

05

Warehouse, lake, lakehouse economics

Compute bills are now a board conversation. Centralise or federate, and how peers are containing cost without throttling the teams that need the data.

06

Proving data trust upwards

The metrics that convince a CEO or a regulator that the data under an AI decision can be defended. What peers actually measure and report.

Five cities

One series. Five tables.

Each dinner seats twelve senior data leaders, hosted at a leading private dining venue in each city. Dates and venues are being finalised now, register your interest and the team will confirm details for your city directly.

SydneyDate to be confirmedPrivate dining, CBD venueRegister interest MelbourneDate to be confirmedPrivate dining, CBD venueRegister interest BrisbaneDate to be confirmedPrivate dining, CBD venueRegister interest AucklandDate to be confirmedPrivate dining, CBD venueRegister interest WellingtonDate to be confirmedPrivate dining, CBD venueRegister interest

The experience

Dinner first. Peers only.

These are working dinners in the best sense: a private room, a well-chosen menu served across the evening, and a table small enough that everyone contributes. Attendance is curated so the person across from you runs a data function of comparable scale and complexity to your own.

Chatham House rules apply throughout. Take the ideas, leave the attribution.

The details

Logistics at a glance.

DATES
To be confirmed

Four to five dinners across the series. Registrants are notified as each city is locked in.

SCHEDULE
6:00pm to 9:00pm

Arrival drinks from 6:00pm, seated dinner and discussion, close by 9:00pm.

VENUES
Private dining rooms

A leading venue in each city: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland and Wellington.

FORMAT
Closed-door roundtable

Moderated peer discussion under Chatham House rules, steered by the room.

ATTENDANCE
12 senior data leaders

CDOs, CIOs, CTOs, heads of data and analytics, and data platform leaders.

COST
Complimentary

By invitation. Dinner and drinks are hosted by Fivetran and Innovatus Media.

The next generation of enterprise AI will be defined by the quality and trustworthiness of the underlying data.

George Fraser, CEO and Co-Founder, Fivetran

Hosted and produced by

The people behind the table.

Fivetran

Fivetran is the data foundation for AI: the automated platform for moving data out of, into and across cloud data platforms, with hundreds of managed connectors trusted by data teams worldwide. Together with dbt Labs, Fivetran is building the open data infrastructure that makes enterprise AI trustworthy, from ingestion and transformation to the governed context agents need to reason and act.

Innovatus Media

Innovatus Media produces closed-door executive roundtables, dinners and think tanks for C-suite and senior technology leaders across ANZ, EMEA, North America and Asia. Every table is curated by hand, every conversation is peer-to-peer, and every event is designed so the people in the room get more out of it than the people hosting it.

Register

Request your seat.

Each table is limited to twelve senior data leaders. Register your interest below and the team will be in touch to confirm your place as dates are locked in.

  • Choose your city, the team confirms dates directly
  • Complimentary three-course dinner and drinks
  • Chatham House rules throughout, peer discussion only

Questions before you commit?

Happy to help with anything: who else is at the table, timing for your city, or whether the series is the right fit for a colleague. The team reads everything.

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