Brett Cowan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Payroll Standard®, an innovation designed to take the complexity out of Modern Awards and Enterprise Agreements. With more than a decade in payroll transformation, Brett has seen how confusing and inconsistent interpretations create compliance risk and undermine employee trust.

Payroll Standard® delivers a single source of truth for Award and Agreement rules, and its AI assistant PAY-i brings those rules to life—answering questions in plain language, guiding managers in real time, and reducing the burden on HR teams.

Energy Queensland is applying Payroll Standard® and PAY-i at an enterprise level to support the rollout of its new enterprise agreement. This application is embedding compliance across the organisation while easing change management for leaders, managers, and employees.

At TechFest, Brett joins Brad Montgomery, GM Human Resources at Energy Queensland, to share how payroll intelligence can transform compliance from a liability into an enabler of workforce engagement and organisational change.