Dr. Kim Oosthuizen

As Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Kim supports customer and partner enablement with AI innovation opportunities across process and usability to enable an intelligent enterprise. She has over 20 years of experience spanning South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Australia; she has held various operations, the centre of excellence and technology roles during her career, helping her develop a well-rounded understanding of the end-to-end business processes. Kim is passionate about evolving businesses digitally using intelligent applications. She leverages her business, technical, and financial acumen to assist customers in building organisations for the future. Kim is an expert in the application of Artificial Intelligence in business. She holds both MBA and PhD degrees from Stellenbosch Business School. Her research has led to multiple academic publications exploring the integration of Artificial Intelligence into business. Kim founded and is leading the SAP partner AI Council of Australia. The council focuses on unlocking opportunities and possibilities for the responsible adoption, operation, and scaling of AI across Australian industries. Kim has presented at multiple events, including DigitalNSW, SAP User group, and Partner Kick-off sessions and participated in the SAP ANZ best-run podcast. She also shares her AI in business knowledge through guest lecturing at universities across South Africa, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia.