A place to collaborate, discover, and build what matters most.
Let’s tackle what’s holding you back
Optus FutureNow gives leadership teams space to step away from business-as-usual. It's where you open conversations, challenge assumptions, and tackle what's holding your business back.
Move your team can move forward with clarity supported by expert facilitators, emerging technology, and practical tools.
What is Optus FutureNow?
Optus FutureNow is a hands-on innovation environment for leaders, strategists, and change-makers. It’s not about presentations or ideas for their own sake. It’s about uncovering what matters, navigating ambiguity, and making confident decisions that lead to progress.
Key features include:
- Interactive workshops that uncover key challenges and priorities.
- Agile frameworks, product expertise, and human-led facilitation.
- Strategic and solution-focused sessions that help teams design real outcomes.
- Access to Optus’ emerging technologies and technical experts.
- Onsite demos, tours, and immersive discovery experiences.
How FutureNow helps teams unpack problems and plan what’s next
FutureNow helps teams shift from conversation to action. Each session’s shaped around your business challenges. You’ll dig into what’s getting in the way, focus your team, and leave knowing what to do next.
“Optus FutureNow is where teams open conversations, challenge what’s holding them back, and walk away with practical next steps. We focus on what matters and build the momentum to move.”
— Optus Enterprise
Why choose Optus for Enterprise
Accelerating business outcomes together.
Challenge discovery labs
Collaborate and tell your story. These sessions help surface pain points, spot the roadblocks, and prioritise the problems that really need solving.
Vision and positioning workshops
Define what you want to be famous for. Step back from the day-to-day and focus on where you're going. Align around shared goals, explore what customers really need, and tell a compelling story that drives action.
Prototyping and possibility exploration
Discover what’s possible by experimenting with emerging technology and real-world use cases. Test new ideas quickly, without wasting time or budget, and choose the ideas worth scaling.
Immersive collaboration experiences
Go deeper with design sprints and co-creation workshops. These sessions unite teams to build momentum, test solutions, and leave with decisions confirmed and next steps in motion.
Meet your facilitator
Derek Tinworth, Optus FutureNow Lead
As the Lead of Optus FutureNow, Derek brings energy, optimism, and outcomes to every session. He guides teams through complex problems with confidence and focus with a background in product delivery, coaching, and business agility.
Derek knows how to ask the right questions, read the room, and create space for open conversations. He helps leaders get comfortable with the uncomfortable, and avoids running workshops for the sake of it.
His goal is simple: make sure every team leaves with momentum and a real plan.
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Book a session with Optus FutureNow
Book a complimentary FutureNow session and bring your biggest business challenges to the table. We’ll tackle them together and help you walk out with ideas, direction, and your next steps locked in.
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