{"id":496723,"date":"2026-02-22T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496723\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:07:29","slug":"qantas-changes-its-tech-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496723\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas changes its tech leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Qantas has named the former boss of its regional arm to lead technology, AI and transformation across the group.<\/p>\n

\"Qantas<\/p>\n

The appointment was announced internally at the airline back in December and reported briefly at the time,<\/a> but drew more significant attention overnight as the airline progressed with a head office restructure that included job cuts.<\/p>\n

Qantas\u2019 new technology leader is Rachel Yangoyan, with her official title being chief technology, AI and transformation officer.<\/p>\n

According to the airline\u2019s website<\/a>, Yangoyan \u201chas accountability for the group’s IT and technology, AI strategy, data and analytics, and enterprise technology-driven transformation programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has been with Qantas for almost 23 years, most recently as the chief executive of QantasLink.<\/p>\n

Yangoyan replaces group CIO of two years Andrew Walduck, whose LinkedIn profile shows he finished up at the airline this month.<\/p>\n

Walduck previously spent time at Latitude Financial Services, although is probably best known for his stint at Australia Post, where he held CIO, CDO and innovation executive roles.<\/p>\n

While Yangoyan has overarching responsibility for AI, it\u2019s understood that the airline group will separately appoint a group chief AI officer to lead implementation and scaling of AI across the organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qantas has named the former boss of its regional arm to lead technology, AI and transformation across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-496723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}