Digital transformation and AI maturity in WHS hosted by proteqt Connect.
This interactive breakfast session is designed to create space for meaningful exchange between senior leaders within the HSEQ sector.
To shed some light on the topic of Digital transformation and AI maturity in WHS, proteqt has invited PKG Safety Innovation Managing Director, Cam Stevens to present the findings of PKG Safety Innovation's recent senior safety leaders survey at 20 Australian energy utilities to benchmark digital transformation and AI maturity within WHS.
The findings reveal an industry with clear executive ambition but uneven foundations: over 70% of organisations remain in pilot mode for AI, fragmented WHS tech stacks and data quality issues are the norm, and AI experimentation is widespread but success favours simpler use cases.
Website: events.humanitix.com/digital-transformation-and-ai-maturity-in-whs
Date: Thursday 21 May - 7:30 to 9am AEST
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Post-event reflections and key takeaways
On Thursday 21 May, our Founder and CEO Cam Stevens joined Dani Easterbrook and the proteqt team in Melbourne for an intimate senior leader breakfast on digital transformation and AI maturity in WHS.
The room brought together a cross-section of senior safety leaders from manufacturing, healthcare, renewable energy, utilities, and several other sectors.
The most striking observation from the morning was the consistency of AI experience around the table. Every participant could speak without hesitation about their work with the technology — whether that was computer vision, large language model interaction, in-house tool development, or formal partnerships with leading AI labs, including one organisation participating in a frontier program.
This was a notable shift from similar events we’ve run in the past, where rooms tended to split between safety professionals who had experimented with AI and those who hadn’t. The industry is maturing. Even senior practitioners approaching retirement are actively experimenting and finding meaningful value in the technology.
The session worked through findings from our PKG Safety Innovation™ Benchmark Report on AI maturity across 20 Australian energy utilities, with discussion across the current state of adoption, ethics and governance considerations, and where the technology is likely to go next.
A genuine thank you to Dani Easterbrook and the proteqt team for curating an event with the right people, the right format, and the right level of conversation.
Interested in hosting a session like this?
If you’d like to coordinate a similar session — either in-house with your senior team, or as a vendor partner looking to host a collaborative event facilitated by Cam Stevens or the PKG team — we’d be glad to have the conversation.
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