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Demo: AI Agents Are Your New Co-Workers. Watch One on the Job.

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 · 1:15 PM – 1:30 PMLevel 4 - Expo - Demo Area 2a
Rajan Rana

Rajan Rana

Head of AI Enablement and Transformation · Village Roadshow Group

Rana leads the enterprise AI and automation agenda at Village Roadshow Group, spanning Theme Parks, Cinemas, Film Distribution and Corporate. His clearest proof point sits in finance: DIANA, an autonomous duplicate invoice detection agent built with the Accounts Payable team, which removed 60 to 70 percent of manual review effort and returned a 440 percent three-year ROI. It is the template for how the group is approaching autonomous finance more broadly, replacing human review of high-volume, rules-bound transactions with agents that run continuously and escalate only the exceptions. He owns a portfolio of 30-plus AI and automation initiatives across enterprise AI platforms, agentic automation and productivity tooling, with accountability for prioritisation, business case development, governance and delivery. He chairs Village Roadshow's AI working group, which sets the sequencing and investment logic for that portfolio. Rana built Village Roadshow's AI capability from the ground up. That included a 12-week AI literacy program with over 160 contributors and engagement three to five times industry benchmarks, and the guardrails the group now runs on, covering data loss prevention, access control and information classification. He holds a Master of Information Systems.

Shane Kennedy

Shane Kennedy

Sales · BCS, Turnkey, Rev-Trac

Shane helps enterprise technology leaders navigate the vendor landscape, connecting them with trusted technology providers and specialist consulting firms suited to their needs. Based in Melbourne, he works with specialist firms on go-to-market strategy, sales enablement and customer engagement.

The session

About this session

AI agents are no longer auditioning. They are being hired: given a defined role, a manager to report to and one number to deliver.

Across SAP processes, digital co-workers can now take on roles such as comparing supplier quotes, verifying changes to supplier bank details, assembling credit decisions, checking expense claims against policy, confirming delivery dates against live capacity, reconciling accounts at month-end and checking payroll before it is paid.

This session shows one already in production. At Village Roadshow Group, DIANA screens approximately 132,000 supplier invoices a year. It checks every invoice rather than a sample, takes under two seconds for each and flags suspected duplicates before payment. The accounts payable team decides on every flag.

Follow real production runs through DIANA’s working day. See how each invoice is read from SAP and scored, how a suspected duplicate is ranked and supported with evidence, and the moment the decision passes to a person. Every action runs within agreed authority and is logged.

DIANA is one of 45 digital co-workers in a portfolio spanning nine value chains, from Lead to Cash and Source to Pay to Record to Report and Hire to Retire.

What You’ll See:

  • A digital co-worker on the job: DIANA screening real invoices in production, from intake to a flag with the evidence attached.
  • The hand-off: where DIANA stops, what it recommends and what the decision log records when a person makes the call.
  • The wider workforce: a short tour of the 45-role portfolio, and a simple test for choosing your first hire: one workflow, one owner and one number worth moving.

Which role would you hire first? Bring one workflow to the Business Core Solutions booth afterwards.

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