Vocus looks to build out AI team

Vocus is looking to build out its AI team, with the company's chief AI officer seeking to add four founding leaders to the group.

Ben Chan, who joined the company in August and also serves as MD of consumer, took to LinkedIn to share that Vocus' ambition is to "make AI part of how everyone works, every day, and be the company others look to for how it's done".

"This is a whole-of-company transformation, backed by our leadership team and moving with urgency. Fewer, bigger bets, delivered by talented squads in months, not years," he said.

The four roles comprise of GM of AI transformation, tasked with finding Vocus' biggest AI opportunities and redesigning how work gets done; GM of AI tech solutions, who will be responsible for designing, building and running the AI solutions; GM of AI product and program management, asked to turn opportunities into delivered, adopted value; and manager of AI science, who will need to apply deep AI and data science to real-world problems.

Earlier this year, Vocus launched a ducted long-haul fibre route connecting Sydney and Melbourne, created with the aim to close what Vocus said is Australia's growing fibre capacity gap driven by today's AI boom.

The platform aims to entail large-scale investments in thousands of new fibre route kilometres, thousands of new fibre pairs, and hundreds of terabits of capacity built in locations complementary to the land, water, and power requirements of large AI workloads.