Strategies and solutions, not sales
Street Smart brings together top IT and business leaders from across Australia and New Zealand to explore how organisations are delivering innovation on their own terms. With real-world case studies and expert panels, the event goes beyond theory to focus on what’s actually working in the market right now.
You’ll hear directly from executives at NBN, NAB, VISY, David Jones, and more, as they unpack how they’re modernising legacy systems, deploying AI for measurable impact, and aligning IT with business outcomes. The agenda is designed to give you practical strategies you can act on immediately, whether you’re leading innovation or enabling it.
Street Smart is also your chance to connect with peers, partners, and technology leaders from Rimini Street, ServiceNow, Redshield and ValueFlow. If you’re looking to cut through vendor noise, make smarter investment decisions, and build momentum within your organisation,
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Speakers
Seth Ravin
Mr. Ravin is a 30-year enterprise software industry veteran who pioneered the independent enterprise software support industry. In 2005, The Enterprise Software Observer named Mr. Ravin one of the 25 next-generation leaders of the enterprise software industry. In 2010, Mr. Ravin was featured in Deal Architect CEO Vinnie Mirchandani’s new book, The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, where he is credited with enacting a visionary, disruptive strategy for dramatically reducing the cost of information technology and ushering in a new era of customer choice.
In September 2005, Mr. Ravin launched Rimini Street, Inc. with a mission to redefine enterprise software support using innovative, next-generation support services delivered at more than a 50 percent savings in fees compared to a software vendor’s annual support program. Rimini Street currently offers support services for Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft and other enterprise software.
Prior to his success launching independent maintenance and support programs, Mr. Ravin was an executive with PeopleSoft, Inc., where he served most recently as vice president of the customer sales division. Earlier in his PeopleSoft career, Mr. Ravin held several senior roles of increasing global responsibility, including corporate director of customer services and programs and corporate manager of upgrades and installations. Mr. Ravin’s PeopleSoft responsibilities included worldwide release support policy; release retirement programs; account management; Y2K software update and readiness program management for thousands of licensees; and development and delivery of special support programs for customers with unique needs. To meet the needs of customers who wanted to run a mature software release for many additional years beyond the official supported life span of a release without mandatory upgrades, Mr. Ravin successfully designed and launched the enterprise software industry’s first specialized extended support programs for Fortune 500, public sector and midmarket organizations.
Joe Locandro
Mr. Locandro serves as EVP & Global CIO. In this role, he is responsible for leading Rimini Street’s global, mission-critical IT business applications and operations team and establishing strategic plans for the company’s current and future capabilities of IT.
Mr. Locandro is a seasoned business technology and transformation leader with over 25 years in senior IT executive roles including CTO, CIO, CDO and Chief Transformation Officer, a career spanning a range of complex industries from airlines, utilities, and manufacturing to building and construction. His extensive background includes working for many global organizations along with providing his expertise to advisory boards for governments, universities, and statutory authorities.
With deep experience leading culturally diverse international environments such as mainland China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, Mr. Locandro champions a culture of collaboration across internal and external stakeholders. Focused on delivering tangible and measurable results, he enjoys identifying business opportunities using a combination of contemporary and emerging technologies, and bringing together people, tools and a shared purpose in realizing the company vision.
Previously, Mr. Locandro served as CIO at Fletcher Building (Australia and New Zealand), Chief Digital & Business Transformation Officer at Austral Energy Market Operator, Vice President of Business Technology Services at Emirates Airlines, CIO of Cathay Pacific Airways and CIO of China Light & Power.
Mr. Locandro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Commerce from University of Melbourne and post-graduate degrees in Marketing from Monash University, and a Strategic Application of Information Technology degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Emmanuelle Hose
Emmanuelle Hose serves as GVP & Regional Manager Oceania. In this role, she leads our full business operations in the region and is responsible for delivering exceptional service to our clients, accelerating our sales growth, and extending our leadership position in the software support market across Oceania.
Ms. Hose is a skilled executive leader with 30 years of experience in IT, and expertise in leading enterprise software sales, service, and development operations across Europe, Middle East, Africa, North America, and Oceania. She is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Immediately prior to her current role, Ms. Hose served as Global Vice President, Industry Solutions and Strategic Sales, where she was responsible for developing and executing the Rimini Street strategy for industry-specific solutions across various markets and regions to drive customer satisfaction, revenue growth, and market differentiation.
Ms. Hose previously led the Rimini Street ANZ team and the Rimini Street EMEA team as GVP & Theatre GM, where she was responsible for leading the business operations and fostering the company’s continued market expansion in the respective regions.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Hose served in executive roles with several global software companies.
Ms. Hose holds a Bachelor of Science degree (2/1) honors (upper division) in information technologies from the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom.
Paul Hill
Barry Deitrich
Fabian Partigliani
Matt Boon
Chad Lurie
Agenda
2:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
2:40 p.m.
3:15 p.m.
3:35 p.m.
3:50 p.m.
Barry Deitrich, ServiceNow
Fabian Partigliani, RedShield
Chad Lurie, ValueFlow
4:20 p.m.
Jason Budding, Cochlear
4:55 p.m.
5:05 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Real leaders. Real strategies. Real stories.
Rimini Street’s Street Series delivers high-value insights into how your peers and industry influencers are accelerating both growth and profitability goals by adopting, applying, and activating existing and emerging technology — smartly.
