Exclusive executive roundtable and lunch
The trust mandate: Navigating the AI acceleration gap and enterprise trust
By invite only
Event details
Wednesday, 9 September
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
SO/ Auckland Hotel,
67 Customs Street East,
Auckland 1010
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About the event
We are entering the era of the AI acceleration gap. This is the disparity between the hyper exponential leap in AI capability and the practical reality of how quickly organisations can safely adopt it. For enterprise leadership, the challenge is twofold: accelerating delivery speed while maintaining an independent source of truth in a non-deterministic environment.
Join Assurity Consulting and guest Dawie Olivier (Chief Information and Transformation Officer, FirstCape) for an intimate, closed-door evening of peer-level dialogue. Together with our partners at DataMasque, we will explore how to transition from traditional software lifecycles to agentic orchestration without sacrificing the data governance, ethics, or compliance that protect your enterprise.
Why request an invitation?
As AI fundamentally changes how software is designed, delivered, and modernised, traditional validation lifecycles are being completely rewritten. This roundtable bypasses the generic AI hype to focus directly on the strategic safeguards and architectural risks that enterprise leaders must manage.
Key discussion pillars:
- Architects of intent: Why requirements and design must be more accurate than ever to prevent automated systemic risk before code is generated.
- Governing shadow IT 2.0: Addressing the risk of business users building niche applications via vibe coding, ensuring the quality gap does not extend across the entire enterprise.
- Unlocking safe data access: Discovering how to safely leverage high value sensitive data, including customer records and call transcripts, for AI testing, fine tuning, and model evaluation without regulatory exposure or privacy breaches.
Speakers and host
Guest: Dawie Olivier
Dawie is a seasoned transformation leader with a career dedicated to navigating complex digital shifts across various large scale organisations. Having held senior leadership roles at Westpac and now FirstCape, Dawie brings a wealth of experience in balancing technological acceleration with organisational resilience and stakeholder trust.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, 9 September
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Waitemata Private Dining Room, SO/ Auckland Hotel,
67 Customs Street East, Auckland 1010
Why Assurity and DataMasque?
Assurity’s deep expertise in quality engineering and AI-enabled testing, combined with DataMasque’s advanced data masking technology, provides a single, powerful solution. Together, we help you build and test software faster – without compromising on security or compliance.
Accelerate delivery cycles
Our integrated solution provides your teams with on-demand access to safe, realistic, production-like datasets. This eliminates the persistent delays caused by data provisioning, empowering your teams to build, test, and innovate faster than ever before.
Ensure compliance at every stage
In today’s highly regulated environments, protecting sensitive information is non-negotiable. Our partnership uses advanced data masking to create privacy-compliant test data, reducing the risk of breaches and ensuring you meet your security obligations at every stage.
Test smarter with superior data
Better data leads to better testing. We provide high-fidelity datasets that accurately mirror your production environment to enhance test coverage and accuracy. This allows your teams to find issues earlier and unlocks the full potential of advanced and AI-driven testing.
Trusted in complex environments
This solution is already delivering significant value for major New Zealand organisations, including Inland Revenue, where we provide assurance across their most critical platforms.
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