Canteen Australias pursuit of a greater good through tech [Video]

Cathy O’Sullivan, CIO editor-in-chief for APAC and host of CIO Leadership Live Australia, sat with Raul Caceres, executive director of operations at Canteen Australia to discuss how the non-profit has developed a donor prediction model, creates value from data, and is actively exploring GenAI to help give teens with cancer more access to information.

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Even though he first studied chemical engineering, Raul Caceres always had an interest in computers — databases in particular — and how working in the FMCG sector revealed that data was going to help large multinationals improve operations. “I started doing some work for the United Nations through their online volunteering, and at that time, the concept of online communities was beginning to emerge,” he says. “One project I did then was help bring together an online community of volunteers from all over the world to help a beekeeping enterprise thrive in Sierra Leone. That’s how …