Powering Smarter Decisions with AI and Digital Twins

The evolving role of software engineering in a world dominated by AI and cloud-native technologies is pushing both education and enterprise architecture into new territory according to Asif Gill, Head of Discipline Software Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney(UTS). UTS focuses on applied innovation, preparing students and professionals for an AI-augmented future through modernised curricula and real-world research. Human-machine collaboration is at the heart of this evolution, with a strong emphasis on maintaining human reasoning in the loop. While generative AI can boost productivity, it cannot yet replace the human capacity for decision-making in unfamiliar contexts. The goal is to integrate AI agents thoughtfully into workflows, ensuring accountability and traceability across the development lifecycle.

As enterprise IT becomes more decentralised, hybrid and federated architectures are increasingly necessary. With 25% of organisations repatriating workloads due to concerns around cost and control, there is a growing demand for strategic workload placement…