Rob Valk, Engineering CTO at Deloitte Australia, explores the future of software engineering for AI-fuelled enterprises
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Rob Valk, Engineering CTO at Deloitte Australia, explores the future of software engineering for AI-fuelled enterprises
In the crowded world of AI hype, Rob Valk has an unusual vantage point. As Principal and Engineering CTO at Deloitte Australia, he focuses his expertise on navigating the gap between what AI promises and what businesses can actually use.
His background – 16 years in IT consulting and six years in education IT – taught him something valuable: technology only matters if it genuinely improves people’ s lives.
That perspective now shapes how he thinks about AI transformation – and he’ s noticed something unexpected about where companies struggle most.
“ I’ m having a lot fewer technical conversations about AI because the biggest questions that our clients have are around adoption, around safety, compliance and data privacy,” he explains.
This shift in conversation indicates something important: that the hard problems in Enterprise AI aren’ t about making the technology work, but about making it work within the complex reality of modern business.
Charting AI’ s rapid growth in capability and reliability The current state of AI is both impressive and transformative.
4 January 2026