PRACTICE LEAD – BUSINESS ANALYSIS | DATACOM
Lakshmi Muthaiah
Lakshmi is an experienced business analysis leader with a strong track record of leading teams and enabling organisations across Australia and New Zealand. She specialises in driving AI-enabled analysis at Datacom, where she is focused on embedding AI into analysis practices and delivery lifecycles. Lakshmi works with customers across sectors including government and financial services, helping them adopt AI-driven ways of working to improve efficiency, standardise outputs, and reduce delivery risk.
Presentation: AI in Business Analysis – How to embed AI into real BA workflows to drive speed, consistency and value
AI is rapidly reshaping how organisations deliver change but where does it truly fit within Business Analysis?
In this session, Lakshmi will take you beyond the hype and into real-world application. Drawing on hands-on experience implementing AI in analysis across teams and industries, she will demonstrate how AI can be embedded into everyday BA workflows to drive faster outcomes, improve consistency, and reduce delivery risk.
You’ll learn how organisations are moving from experimentation to execution using AI to transform workshop inputs and existing documentation into structured outputs such as epics, user stories, test cases, and reports, while maintaining critical human validation.
This session will also explore what works and what doesn’t. From identifying the right use cases to integrating AI into existing delivery lifecycles, Lakshmi will share practical insights on enabling adoption at scale without disrupting established processes.
Whether you ARE just starting your AI journey or looking to operationalise it within your teams, you’ll walk away with a clear, actionable approach to embedding AI into analysis so you can spend less time documenting and more time driving meaningful insights and business value.