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Watch On-Demand: Lessons from the Post Office Scandal – and What It Means for the AI Era

Missed the live session? The full webinar is now available to stream - offering vital lessons from one of history’s biggest technology-driven scandals, and a clear blueprint for avoiding similar failures in today’s AI-powered world.
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The UK Post Office scandal now seared into public consciousness via recent media coverage exposed a chain of systemic failures: defective code, unauthorised system access, ignored evidence, and failed governance that ruined lives.

Want a closer look at what we covered? Access the full presentation deck to revisit the key insights, data points, and recommendations shared by our experts.

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What happens when governance fails — and technology goes unquestioned?

> Over 900 prosecutions
> Nearly 1,000 people wrongfully convicted, imprisoned, and bankrupted
> Compensation now exceeds £663m, paid to more than 4,300 claimants 
> Total allocation set at £1.8 billion
> At least 13 individuals took their own lives
> £132 million in legal fees

We’ll explore how Second Sight UK uncovered the failures across flawed code and defects, unauthorised remote access, and lack of governance – and how independent assurance and embedded quality engineering could have surfaced the issues early, and how the same principles must now be applied to algorithms, data, and autonomous decision systems.

A compelling call for leaders to rethink how they design, test, and trust critical systems — from financial software to generative AI — before the next scandal unfolds.

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What You'll Learn:

Drawing on insights from the public inquiry, Planit’s expertise in Quality Engineering and Risk Intelligence, and Second Sight UK’s investigative experience, this session explores how to prevent a ‘Horizon-style collapse’ – especially in the age of AI.

You’ll gain powerful insights into:

  • How poor system quality, weak governance, and broken incentives led to one of the world’s largest miscarriages of justice.

  • The warning signs every executive should recognise — and why early intervention matters.

  • The essential role of independent quality assurance, internal audit, and whistleblowing pathways.

  • How to build resilient systems, risk frameworks, and a culture that puts truth and transparency first.

  • Practical steps to safeguard your organisation from its own “Horizon moment.”

This is more than a case study — it’s a wake-up call for leaders responsible for technology, governance, and risk. Learn how to turn lessons into lasting prevention, with real-world strategies that combine Planit’s Quality Engineering expertise and Second Sight’s investigative insight.

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Director, ANZ

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General Manager, Central/NZ

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]]> Watch On-Demand: The State of Quality 2025 https://www.planit.com/discover-the-state-of-quality-webinar/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:21:36 +0000 https://www.planit.com/?p=9294
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Watch On-Demand: The State of Quality 2025

Missed the Live Webinar? Watch the State of Quality 2025 recording anytime. Explore the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping quality engineering across ANZ – now available to stream at your convenience.
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Download the Full Global Quality Index 2025/26 Report

The 2025/26 Global Quality Index, in partnership with UiPath, captures a pivotal moment where AI, automation, and smarter skills are reshaping the future of delivery. Backed by the voices of global quality leaders, it’s your complete guide to delivering smarter, faster and more customer-focused outcomes in an AI age.
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The live session may be over, but the insights are just as valuable. Watch our on-demand webinar to discover what’s driving quality outcomes in leading organisations, how they are adapting their quality engineering practices, and what the findings from our latest research mean for the year ahead.

Hear from our experts as they unpack the key findings, share industry perspectives, and highlight the shifts shaping quality engineering in 2025/26 and beyond.

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What you'll learn

  • The strategic importance of QE as a driver of customer experience and digital transformation.

  • The biggest challenges holding teams back, from unclear requirements to skill shortages and collaboration barriers.

  • How AI and automation are reshaping quality delivery, with most leaders now using or planning to use AI in testing and QE.

  • The skills and practices that define high-performing quality teams.

Drawing on our extensive research, we’ll share key findings on AI adoption, emerging skills and future investment plans, giving you a clearer picture of where Quality Engineering is heading next.

Key Takeaways:

  • Discover where QE creates measurable business value.

  • Learn what top performers do differently to achieve “excellent” software quality.

  • See how organisations are harnessing AI and automation.

  • Identify the skills that will define the next generation of quality engineers.

Your hosts:

Phil Johnson

General Manager - Practices & Industries

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]]> ***Event Concluded*** Cost-Effective QE: AI’s Role and Insights from our Global Survey https://www.planit.com/australia-cost-effective-quality-event-series/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:32:07 +0000 https://www.planit.com/?p=7235
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***Event Concluded*** Cost-Effective QE: AI’s Role and Insights from our Global Survey

***Event concluded - no longer accepting registrations *** Uncover the future of cost-effective quality at our exclusive breakfast event where Planit’s industry leaders will reveal how AI is revolutionising QE —guided by insights from our Global Quality Index Survey. Join us to lead the way in cost-effective quality engineering. We will be visiting Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth & Adelaide in March 2025, so hurry to save your seat today!
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"In a world where budgets are tightening and quality demands are rising, how do you deliver exceptional software affordably?"

***Event concluded – no longer accepting registrations***

Uncover the future of cost-effective quality at our exclusive Australian breakfast event series where Planit’s industry leaders will reveal how AI is critical to Next-Gen Quality Engineering (QE)—powered by insights from our Global Quality Index Survey. This survey reveals the practices and technologies that top organisations are using to achieve world-class quality, affordably.

Held across Australia, this jam-packed event includes two impactful sessions:
  1. Strategic Session: Learn innovative strategies to streamline processes, reduce costs, and maintain high-quality standards, including the adoption of quality AI.
  2. Practical Session: Discover how AI can be applied to enhance test delivery across the lifecycle. Gain an understanding of the current state of AI in test delivery and learn actionable steps for adopting AI to improve your testing processes.
Join us as we unlock the power of AI to reduce costs and enhance quality. Breakfast and morning tea are included to ensure you’re fuelled and ready for a morning full of insights.
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Agenda:

8:30 – 9:00 AM Breakfast & Registration
9:00 – 9:45 AM Strategic Session: Cost-Effective Quality Engineering: AI’s Role and Insights from Our Global Survey
9:45 – 10:00 AM Morning Tea Break
10:00 – 10:45 AM Practical Session: Getting the most out of AI for Testing
10:45 AM Event Concludes

Location Details:

MELBOURNE

Tuesday March 11, 2025

InterContinental Hotel, 495 Collins Street, Melbourne

BRISBANE *Event Postponed to due cyclone*

New Date To Be Confirmed

W Brisbane Hotel, 81 North Quay, Brisbane

SYDNEY

Thursday March 13, 2025
Hilton Hotel, 488 George Street, Sydney

PERTH

Tuesday March 18, 2025
QT Hotel, 133 Murray Street, Perth

ADELAIDE

Thursday March 20, 2025
Adelaide Marriott Hotel, 141 King William Street, Adelaide

Presenters:

Joel Deutscher

Executive General Manager of Technology & Innovation

Joel is a seasoned technology leader with 24 years of industry experience. In his role, he leads the global team of practice leads, drives innovation initiatives, and oversees product development. With a deep understanding of technology, including AI, and its impact on customer experience and business value, Joel has been instrumental in driving digital transformation and thought leadership in the industry.

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Jarrod Plant

Customer Solutions Director

Jarrod Plant is a seasoned professional with 20 years of experience in software testing consulting. He has a technical background, with experience in both Automation & Performance testing, that is balanced by his experience in customer solutions driving a value-focused delivery. Driven by his passion for the potential of Artificial Intelligence, Jarrod currently serves as the product owner of Planit’s Quality Engineering-centric Generative AI platform.

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]]> On-Demand Webinar Series: Mastering Digital Quality https://www.planit.com/mastering-digital-quality-webinar-series/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:18:00 +0000 https://www.planit.com/?p=8564
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On-Demand Webinar Series: Mastering Digital Quality

Join us in this carefully curated series that empowers IT professionals to navigate the evolving technological landscape and enhance the quality of software delivery. Each webinar delves into a key pillar of quality excellence, equipping you with actionable strategies and insights to master digital quality. Don't miss out on this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve. Register now and take your software delivery to the next level.
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It seems like every week there is a headline about changes to the technological landscape and its impact on industries and organisations. But what does this mean for customer experience? What new risks emerge? And how can you harness these changes to drive efficiency, collaboration, and maintain continuous quality in your business?

This series has been carefully curated to empower IT professionals with the vision, advice and strategies required to improve the quality of software and the way it is delivered amidst the constantly evolving tech landscape.

Each on-demand webinar dives into a key pillar of quality excellence to set you on track to master digital quality. Watch one or watch them and listen to the latest insights and recommendations on security testing, test automation, quality engineering, performance and resilience engineering and the impact of AI on QE.   

  1. Protecting Your Business in the Age of New Technologies
  2. The State of Modern Automation
  3. The Future of Quality Engineering: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
  4. Performance and Resilience Engineering in the Era of Complex Hybrid Architectures
  5. Revolutionising Quality with Generative AI

Presenters:

Ferdinand Hagethorn

Practice Director Security Services, Planit

Ferdinand is responsible for establishing and leading Planit's cybersecurity practice, which has rapidly grown to provide security testing, penetration testing, and DevSecOps services for our global client-base. He is a seasoned cybersecurity and information security expert with over 25 years of experience in engineering, architecture, and security that has provided business-driven design and implementation, migration planning, testing and execution at the highest levels to over 800 projects in seven countries throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. Prior to moving to Wellington and joining Planit in 2015, he held senior security roles in consulting, IT, and energy sectors.

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David McGregor

Associate Practice Director, Automation Engineering, Planit

David McGregor is Associate Practice Director for Automation Engineering at Planit. With more than 16 years of DevOps and software engineering experience, he is an experienced leader that is responsible for building our global engineering capability. He also champions and role-models strong values and people initiatives for our next generation of engineers, actively building team culture and facilitating team member performance, learning, career development, safety, and well-being. Prior to joining Planit in 2019, he was a practice lead at Cognizant, a Lead Engineer at Odecee, and before that Principal QA Specialist at SEEK. He has also held senior IT roles at financial organisations such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Macquarie Bank.

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Dr Tafline Ramos

Practice Director, Quality Engineering and Assurance, Planit

Tafline is responsible for driving best quality practices across Planit, including its thousands of consultants and hundreds of clients worldwide. Tafline holds a PhD in software testing and is a regular feature in software engineering, technology, and quality engineering conferences. She has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and is an international standards leader, developing software engineering standards with ISO and IEEE.

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Phil Johnson

Practice Director, Performance Engineering, Planit

An expert in application performance and continuous testing, Phil leads the performance engineering practice at Planit to help our clients engineer speed with quality into their systems. With over 20 years experience in scaling applications, Phil has worked in both Planit UK and ANZ since 2015 and is now based in Perth. Prior to joining Planit, he headed up performance engineering/testing at the Royal Mail Group and the NHS at CSC (DXC) UK.

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Kedar Kulkarni

Regional Practice Director, Performance Engineering, Planit

Kedar is a dedicated professional with more than 17 years' experience in performance engineering, observability and technical consulting roles. He is passionate about embedding performance and other non-functional aspects into development life cycles. Currently working as a Regional Practice Director for Performance Engineering at Planit, he manages the local practice in Victoria and is responsible for delivery across multiple customer engagements, technical pre-sales, developing customised solutions or frameworks and people management. Previously he worked at Elastic as a Consultant, helping customers with their search and observability requirements and achieving the full potential of their Elastic stack and solutions. He has also worked for large consulting organisations such as IBM and Capgemini managing performance testing of mission critical applications.

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Joel Deutscher

Executive General Manager of Technology & Innovation, Planit

Joel is a seasoned technology leader with 24 years of industry experience. In his role, he leads the global team of practice leads, drives innovation initiatives, and oversees product development. With a deep understanding of technology, including AI, and its impact on customer experience and business value, Joel has been instrumental in driving digital transformation and thought leadership in the industry.

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]]> On-Demand Webinar: “How do you choose between Quality, Cost or Customer Experience?” https://www.planit.com/quality-cost-or-cx-webinar/ Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:44:00 +0000 https://www.planit.com/?p=7492
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On-Demand Webinar: “How do you choose between Quality, Cost or Customer Experience?”

Embark on a journey of discovery with this not-to-be-missed webinar. This is not just an event, but a journey that promises to reshape your perspective on the critical balance between quality, cost, and customer experience. You won’t be disappointed.
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Imagine standing at a crossroads. One path leads to Quality, another to Cost, and the third to Customer Experience. Which one do you choose?

Our webinar, “How to Choose – Quality, Cost or Customer Experience” will illuminate this very conundrum. This is not just an event, but a journey into the heart of decision-making.

Here’s what you will gain from watching this on-demand webinar:

  • A New Perspective: Unravel the mysteries of balancing quality, cost, and customer experience with insights from industry experts.
  • The Roadmap to Success: Equip yourself with practical strategies to steer through the challenges of release cycles, budget limitations, and time constraints.
  • Quality – The North Star: Learn how making quality your guiding principle can heighten customer experience without escalating costs.
  • The Growth Trajectory: Understand how to fuel sustainable growth and carve out a competitive edge in your industry.

Presenters:

Joel Deutscher

Executive General Manager of Technology & Innovation

Joel is a seasoned technology leader with 24 years of industry experience. In his role, he leads the global team of practice leads, drives innovation initiatives, and oversees product development. With a deep understanding of technology, including AI, and its impact on customer experience and business value, Joel has been instrumental in driving digital transformation and thought leadership in the industry.

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Jason Bargent

Chief Revenue Officer

As an executive leadership coach and Chief Revenue Officer at Planit Testing, Jason helps boards, executives, and leadership teams to think differently. He puts people and business challenges first, and draws on his global experience in the USA, Asia, Oceania, and the UK. He has worked for leading technology and consulting firms, such as IBM, Oracle, Teradata, and Salesforce, and knows how to use technology and innovation to deliver real value.

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