In the first of a two part series, CIO's associate editor David Binning talks to Deloitte's analytics and cognitive leader Alan Marshall about why Australia is falling behind many other countries in our deployment of AI technologies.

He chats to the University of Technology Sydney's associate dean, research strategy and management, Michael Blumenstein, about the hive of AI activity across startups and projects servicing enterprises and government agencies, and Newcrest Mining's chief information officer, Gavin Wood, about how the company is panning for digital gold. MinterEllison's chief digital officer, Gary Adler, also discusses how AI is shaking up the legal sector.