Two A380s, 59 tonnes of equipment, 100,000 fans and a reported $10-15 million government commitment. I went down the rabbit hole of what it actually takes to bring an NFL game to Melbourne, and ended up thinking less about the football and more about market entry, customer acquisition, trust, and what happens after the game is over.
A year ago, I argued that Salesforce Data Cloud didn’t need to replace Snowflake or Databricks to matter. A year later, with Data 360 and Headless 360, I’m more interested in what happens when AI agents need to understand and act across increasingly distributed enterprise architectures. The real challenge may no longer be simply connecting systems, but giving agents enough trusted context to make the right decision.
The UI might be shrinking. But AI still needs data, permissions, integrations and business logic underneath it. Perhaps we’ve been looking at the wrong layer….
I was listening to The Diary of a CEO podcast this morning on my dog walk, where Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google…
Today is 23 February, 2026. On this day in 1997, Dolly the sheep was announced to the world. She had actually been created earlier at…
What my son’s question about my beard reminded me about first principles and bad process Yesterday my son asked me a question while I was…
I am a British expat who came to Australia with England as my team. Somewhere along the way, I became an unexpected Wallabies fan. Fifteen…
Can anyone build an app with AI? I decided to find out. From a creative kids’ story app for my son to a LinkedIn coaching tool and a daily Salesforce news digest, here’s what I learned about building real apps without being a developer, using Gemini, Vercel, Supabase, and a lot of curiosity.
Introduction Salesforce delivery has entered a new era.Not through a flashy demo, but through a structural shift: teams are now being measured by outcomes, not…
Australia is facing a productivity crisis, and part of the problem lies in a federation model designed in 1901 that no longer fits the nation we have become. Duplication across states in IT, housing, and approvals is costing us billions every year. We would never accept this level of overhead in business, why should we in government?