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In the latest episode of NAB Digital Next, guest host Alysia Abeyratne – NAB’s Senior Manager for Digital Policy – talks to a true vanguard in the field of Digital ID, Stephen Wilson. Stephen is the co-founder of Lockstep Consulting and a leading international authority on Digital ID, cyber security, and data protection.

This episode explores:
• The importance of language in how we shape and solve problems.
• What a ‘verifiable credential’ is.
• Australia’s game-changing Digital ID Bill and how Australia is leading the way with Digital ID governance through the passing of this legislation in the Senate last month.

Lockstep Consulting website: https://lockstep.com.au
Making Data Better podcast: https://www.makingdatabetter.com/

In the new episode of NAB Digital Next, guest host John Blicq – NAB's Associate Director, Innovation & Partnerships – talks to prominent futurist and author Ross Dawson. They discuss how AI and humans can work side-by-side. Ross explains that by working together, humans can use AI – a tool created by them – to achieve things they couldn’t do alone.
The podcast further explores:
• how AI capabilities and human’s unique competencies have developed;
• the structure for AI & humans;
• AI using multiple agent models;
• how humans + AI can improve decision making and increase human intelligence;
• the future of work – and the importance of acknowledging the challenges and seizing the positive potential.

Listen to the full episode on SoundCloud, Spotify or Apple Podcast.

In the latest episode of NAB Digital Next, host Brad Carr – NAB Executive, Innovation & Partnerships – speaks to Brett Turner, CEO of fintech platform Trovata.

Brett explains how Trovata – a NAB Ventures portfolio company – is enabling businesses to spend more time on what matters most and less time on manual activities and processes. NAB’s Executive for Transaction Banking Product, Jon Adams also joins the conversation to explain how the bank’s new AI-enabled cash management, analytics and forecasting platform this driving improvements for NAB customers.

The trio explore:
• how utilising Trovata could help signal the ‘death of the highlighter’ for Treasury and Finance Managers;
• the criticality of getting the API infrastructure right; and
• the future potential to use innovations such as GenAI to conversationally change variables and run scenario analysis efficiently.

In the latest episode of NAB Digital Next, host Brad Carr – NAB’s Executive for Innovation & Partnerships – brings together leaders in innovative payments system to discuss how the industry is making it safer and easier for customers to make purchases.
Carr speaks with Banked CEO and Founder, Brad Goodall, and NAB Payments Executive, Shane Conway who leads Transaction Banking & Enterprise Payments team.
Goodall shares his journey on how he formed Banked – a payments provider that powers real-time payments for consumers, businesses and banks. He talks about the efficient and safe access to funds for merchants, the opportunity for banks to continue to strengthen their position of trust to customers, to be relevant and adaptive to their evolving needs, whilst ensuring there is choice for the customer.
Conway reflects on the Australian market and shares his perspective on the consumer interest in real time account to account payments. He speaks to the ability for the customer to authenticate via their bank app in a seamless experience, which is especially beneficial in the current environment where fraud and scams are rife.
NAB Digital Next is available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In the latest episode of NAB Digital Next, host Brad Carr speaks with a world leader in Digital ID, Rod Boothby, CEO and Founder of ID Partner.
In this podcast Rod, shares his path to creating ID Partner as a trusted network operator and elaborates on his vision to connect to networks globally for those who want to support their customers with digital verification.
Through a conversation that also touches on the Taylor Swift phenomenon and Jennifer Coolidge’s Super Bowl ad, Rod highlights the importance of demonstrating human realness particularly in a world of increased use in AI/bots and deepfakes. He also raises the need for organisations to understand what business they are really in and the key to adopting Digital ID is giving people the choice in the vehicle they most trust.
NAB Digital Next is available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In the latest episode of NAB Digital Next, Alysia Abeyratne together with Alex Garkavenko speaks with your regular host Brad Carr, about his recent visit to one of the world’s most influential tech and innovation trade shows, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas.

Brad speaks about the enormity of this extraordinary event and shares his top takeaways and insights from witnessing some cutting edge ideas; where maturing products are entering the market now; as well as tech companies showcasing emerging digital trends. Tune in to hear how AI is everywhere and in everything; how the potential dependence on AI requires us to also consider the conditions that power AI; how ‘boring is the new sexy’ and the importance of being innovative in improving resilience and enabling safer experiences; and the maturing of product ideas, which had previously attracted some scepticism.