Leaders Roundtable: The AI Execution Gap: How FSI Leaders are Fixing the Data Foundations

Financial services organisations in Australia want to operationalise AI, but execution challenges remain. Legacy data environments are difficult to modernise, architectures remain siloed, governance models were not designed for AI workloads, and regulatory expectations from bodies such as APRA and evolving privacy reforms continue to add complexity across the stack. As a result, most deployments remain concentrated in internal productivity use cases, with slower progress in customer-facing and revenue-generating applications.

Ecosystm research highlights the structural gap:   

• Only 22% of FSI leaders express confidence in their data strategy
• 67% cite governance and compliance as a key barrier
• 57% are still working through how to make data reliably accessible for AI use

Addressing this requires a shift in how data is organised and governed, enabling it to be accessed consistently, used safely across structured and unstructured sources, and connected into AI workflows without creating additional fragmentation. It requires a foundation where data is AI-ready by design, not retrofitted through layers of integration and exception handling.

Join us for a candid, off-the-record Ecosystm Leaders Roundtable, where senior peers and regional technology experts work through the real constraints shaping AI adoption today and the decisions that matter next.

The discussion will cover:

• Best practice lens. Global and regional perspectives on how financial institutions are evolving data strategy, governance, and AI operating models
• Operating model gaps. Where alignment between business, technology, and risk breaks down, and what is improving execution at leadership level
• Regulatory trade-offs. How institutions are managing regulatory scrutiny while maintaining delivery velocity in AI adoption
• Ecosystem decisions. The factors shaping high-stakes build vs. buy vs. partner choices in a rapidly evolving AI ecosystem
• Value realisation shift. How data investment is being reframed from infrastructure spend to a driver of revenue and margin growth

Plus: Attendees receive a standing invitation to a complimentary, tailored data strategy session with the Snowflake x Accenture FSI leadership team.