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20 articles

01

Building Business of AI, Not Just with AI

Building Business of AI, Not Just with AI

The technology problem is largely solved. The models work. The protocols are maturing. What remains is considerably harder: rebuilding enterprise operating mode...

Allan Waddell

4 Apr 2026

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Leadership in the Agentic AI Era: Cutting Through the Hype. Toronto, April 29.

Leadership in the Agentic AI Era: Cutting Through the Hype. Toronto, April 29.

Kablamo is hosting Leadership in the Agentic AI Era: Cutting Through the Hype, an intimate peer-led dinner for executive technology leaders in Toronto on April ...

Allan Waddell

3 Apr 2026

03

What breaks when you apply AI development patterns to a codebase nobody fully understands

What breaks when you apply AI development patterns to a codebase nobody fully understands

The emerging patterns for AI-assisted development are written for teams with clean codebases and good documentation. Most Australian enterprises don't have that...

Allan Waddell

19 Mar 2026

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Non-engineers are in your codebase now. Here's what actually happens.

Non-engineers are in your codebase now. Here's what actually happens.

A major Australian retailer gave marketing and purchasing staff AI access to the codebase. Not to write code. To ask questions. What happened next was not what ...

Allan Waddell

19 Mar 2026

05

Kablamo becomes a Google Cloud Partner

Kablamo becomes a Google Cloud Partner

We're proud to announce our formal Google Cloud partnership, expanding our multi-cloud capability and giving clients access to the full breadth of GCP's AI, dat...

17 Mar 2026

06

Kablamo appoints Laura Fini as Managing Director, Canada

Kablamo appoints Laura Fini as Managing Director, Canada

Laura Fini joins Kablamo as Managing Director for Canada, bringing senior leadership to the company's growing North American practice in the Waterloo region.

9 July 2025

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The Product Owner Decision: The Make-or-Break Factor in Government Tech Projects

The Product Owner Decision: The Make-or-Break Factor in Government Tech Projects

After 20 years building mission-critical technology across Defence, Federal Government, and Emergency Services, one pattern is clear: the Product Owner decision...

Allan Waddell

18 June 2025

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Uncovering AI Needs When Users Don't Know What They Need

Uncovering AI Needs When Users Don't Know What They Need

People cannot ask for what they do not yet understand. In AI strategy work, the gap between possibility and perception is vast, and bridging it requires vision,...

Allan Waddell

6 May 2025

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Kablamo launches dedicated AI practice to meet enterprise demand

Kablamo launches dedicated AI practice to meet enterprise demand

We're formalising what our teams have been doing for years: helping Australian organisations move from AI experimentation to production systems that deliver rea...

15 Apr 2025

10

Wake Up World: OpenAI's Operator Isn't a Tool, It's a Loaded Gun

Wake Up World: OpenAI's Operator Isn't a Tool, It's a Loaded Gun

OpenAI's Operator isn't just a personal assistant. It's an AI with deep access to your digital life. From booking flights to managing emails, it promises conven...

Allan Waddell

5 Mar 2025

11

Kablamo achieves AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status

Kablamo achieves AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status

After years of building cloud-native solutions for Australian enterprises and government, we've reached a new milestone in our AWS partnership.

1 Mar 2025

12

Kablamo recognised at the Good Design Awards for Firestory

Kablamo recognised at the Good Design Awards for Firestory

Firestory has been recognised at the Good Design Awards, Australia's longest-running design awards program, for its approach to making complex bushfire data usa...

12 Nov 2024

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How Satellite Data and AI Can Shield Australia's Wine Industry

How Satellite Data and AI Can Shield Australia's Wine Industry

Australia is the world's 5th largest wine exporter. The Hunter Valley faces a 2.3°C temperature rise over 50 years, escalating bushfire risk. Satellite data and...

Allan Waddell

18 Aug 2023

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Kablamo launches Firestory: Australia's first AI-powered bushfire intelligence platform

Kablamo launches Firestory: Australia's first AI-powered bushfire intelligence platform

Firestory is now live: a cloud-based AI platform that turns the limitless data surrounding a bushfire into a single source of decision-making intelligence for a...

1 July 2022

15

Kablamo expands into Canada

Kablamo expands into Canada

Kablamo launches in Canada, opening in the Waterloo region of Ontario, one of North America's fastest-growing tech hubs, to meet growing demand for cloud-native...

3 Feb 2022

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Kablamo wins AWS Global Public Sector Award for Most Innovative AI and ML Solution

Kablamo wins AWS Global Public Sector Award for Most Innovative AI and ML Solution

We've won the 2021 AWS Global Public Sector Partners Award for Most Innovative AI and ML Solution, recognising our bushfire risk platform built for Victoria's D...

16 June 2021

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Kablamo appoints Andrew McDowell as Geospatial Lead

Kablamo appoints Andrew McDowell as Geospatial Lead

Andrew McDowell joins Kablamo as its first dedicated Geospatial Technology Lead, bringing expertise from Propeller Aero to drive the spatial intelligence work a...

16 Mar 2021

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The Speed Problem Facing Government Tech Innovation

The Speed Problem Facing Government Tech Innovation

"You have to move as slowly as us." A government official's warning captures a systemic problem, and as Australia looks to post-COVID recovery, digital infrastr...

Allan Waddell

28 July 2020

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The Human Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

The Human Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Intelligence without ethics is dangerous. As we approach the intersection of silicon and cognition, Asimov's three laws of robotics need updating, and the techn...

Allan Waddell

11 Sept 2018

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Introducing Kombustion: Kablamo's Open Source AWS Developer Tool

Introducing Kombustion: Kablamo's Open Source AWS Developer Tool

Kablamo releases Kombustion, an open source plugin for AWS CloudFormation that reduces the time and complexity of managing large-scale cloud infrastructure from...

15 Aug 2018