Tech in Gov Conference at a Glance

Your front-row seat to the future of government technology

Tech in Gov 2026 features a curated, multi-track conference designed to tackle the most pressing ICT challenges facing government today.

From national cyber security to emerging technologies like quantum and AI, the conference brings together public sector leaders and industry experts to share insights on policy, strategy and implementation across two impactful days.

What to expect

Hear from 150 speakers representing all levels of government, explore real-world case studies, and join expert-led panels and roundtables designed for open discussion and peer learning. All stages are free to attend with your pass.

2025 Speakers

Fay Flevaras
Chief Digital Information Officer
Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

David Larrimore
Former Chief Technology Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Stephanie Crowe
Head Australian Cyber Security Centre
Australian Signals Directorate

Garrett McDonald
General Manager of Cyber Security
Services Australia
Paul Robards
Chief Data Integration Officer
Department of Defence

Lucy Poole
General Manager, Strategy, Planning and Performance Division
Digital Transformation Agency
Jihad Dib
Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government
NSW Government

Daryl Pereira
Director & Head of Office of the CISO, APJ
Google Cloud
Rebecca Ostergaard
Chief Digital Officer
CSIRO

Jon Lau
Director, CISO Office
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Government of Singapore
Lorraine Finlay
Human Rights Commissioner
Australian Human Rights Commission

Mike Webb
CIO
Parliament of Australia
Kylie De Courteney
Managing Director
NSW Telco Authority

Jamie Norton
Chief Information Security Officer
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Jennifer Bardsley
Assistant Secretary, Corporate and Case Systems Branch ICT Division, Technology and Major Capability Group
Department of Home Affairs

Kate Barnes
Executive Director Customer and Digital Experience
Solar Victoria
Hamish Hansford
Deputy Secretary Cyber and Infrastructure Security
Department of Home Affairs

Kate Lucas
Chief Analytics Officer, Executive Director
Victorian Department of Health
Tim Neal
Assistant Secretary - Commonwealth Security Policy Branch
Department of Home Affairs

Olga Vasilyeva
Director of Data Analytics
Australian Skills Quality Authority
Brooke Anderson
Chief Information Officer
National Archives of Australia

Jayden Cooke
Technical Director
Australian Signals Directorate
Martin Loughton
Deputy Chief Information Officer (a/g)
Federal Court of Australia

Dominique Barker
Chief Information Officer
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Rocky Scopelliti
Director, Emerging Technologies & Research
Optus

Toby Walsh
Chief Scientist, UNSW AI Institute
UNSW Sydney
Tammy Braybrook
Senior Director, Data Capability and Analytics
Australian Maritime Safety Authority

James Kay
Assistant Director-General, Standards, Technical Advice, and Research
Australian Signals Directorate
Paul Hubbard
Co-Head of AI CoLab
Department of Finance

Catherine Roberts
Senior Director, AI & LegalTech, APAC & Middle East
Thomson Reuters
Sue Keay
Chair
Robotics Australia Group

Adam Nettheim
Chief Customer Officer
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation
Hailie Ryzak
Director Strategy & Corporate Services
Blue Mountains Council

Tony Hutton
Application Manager Business Analytics and Intelligence
NSW Health
Zoe Jay Hawkins
Co-Founder and Deputy Executive Director
Tech Policy Design Institute

Brett Wilson
Chief Information Officer
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Daniel Roelink
Director Digital NSW
NSW Department of Customer Service

Laura Calo Woolcott
IT Learning Development Officer
Ballina Shire Council
Josh Griggs
CEO
Australian Computer Society

Andrew Spiegelman
Head of Data and Analytics
Service NSW
Rina Soetanto
Director, Data Science Centre of Excellence
National Disability Insurance Agency

Hannah Harding
Director – Data Analytics and Translation
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Nikhil Patinge
Director – WoVG Digital Integration Services
Department of Government Services

Mike Dudarenok
Chief Information and Digital Officer
NSW Education Standards Authority
Karen Ko
Chief Digital Officer
Revenue NSW

Daniel Anastasio
Head of Knox, Services & Support
Samsung
Anna Aquilina
Chief Information Security Officer
University of Technology Sydney

Travis Hodgson
Chief Operating Officer
Healthdirect Australia
Jade Carson
CIO
National Gallery Of Australia

Brooke Wanstall
Senior Data Analyst
Department of Trade, Employment and Training
Frank den Hartog
Research Chair in Critical Infrastructure
University of Canberra

Philip Wagner
Former Senior Cyber Security Advisor
Australian Government
Savithri Munasinghe
Senior Manager, Technology Risk and Governance
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation

Shane Worthington
Chief Digital Officer
Australian Skills Quality Authority
Tasleem Ullah
ICT Program Manager
Campbelltown City Council

Peter John
Chief Information Officer
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council
Dimitrios Salampasis
Associate Professor, Emerging Technologies and FinTech | FinTech Capability Lead
Swinburne University of Technology

Kathryn Jepsen
Executive Manager Identity and Physical Security
NBN Co
John Deeb
Field CTO - APAC
Workato

Maria Martins
Senior Solution Architect
OutSystems
Julian Adler
Chief Information Officer
Bayside City Council

Nilram Azadpeyma
Customer Engineer, Machine Learning
Google Cloud
Antoine Acklin
Chief Information Officer
Whitehorse City Council

Rajiv Shah
Fellow
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Scott Newman
Enterprise Solutions Architect
Devonport City Council

Joseph Yeung
CEO
Portable Long Service Authority
Jo Pearce
Distributed Cloud Sales Lead, Australia and New Zealand
Google Cloud

Chris Hockings
Chief Technology Officer (Cyber Security)
IBM Asia Pacific
David Hollingworth
Senior Journalist
Cyber Daily

David Griffiths
CISO
Northern Beaches Council
Matt Waite
Director of Solution Engineering
Tanium

Mitchell Burger
Chief Insights Officer
Healthdirect Australia
Nicholas Renotte
Head of AI Developer Advocacy
IBM

Ajmer 'AJ' Singh
VP of Field Product Management
NinjaOne
Dean Plant
Principal Sales Engineer
Armis

Paul Evans
Senior Manager, IT Security, Technology Division
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation
Kim Vernon
Senior Manager in Curriculum
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)

Henry McNally
Principal Account Executive
SurePact
Lisa Dobson
Practice Leader, Crisis Communications
Google Cloud

Jeffrey Griffith
Deputy CEO
Devonport City Council
Jamie Swaker
Service Director, SIAM
Kinetic IT

Cameron Kahler
Public Sector Director ANZ
Workato
Anthony Canning
Chief Information Security Officer
AUCyber

Michal Chorev
Trustworthy AI Lead
IBM
Adam Makarucha
Client Engineering Market Leader
IBM

Narita Néron
Service Delivery Manager
Kinetic IT
Md Sumon Shahriar
Senior Project Manager and Machine Learning Team Lead-Specialist Capabilities Unit
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Ian Godsell
Technical Sales Leader - Data, AI and Automation
IBM
Raaj Rayat
Investor
AirTree Ventures

Julie Ayre
Research Fellow
University of Sydney
Chris Griffith
Technology Journalist
ChannelNews Australia

Abu Barkat Ullah
Associate Professor in Cyber Security
University of Canberra
Michelle Pisano
Director of Analytics
Australian Digital Health Agency

Martin Cooperwaite
Co-founder and Director
Kiandra
Holly Badior
A/g Director, Digital Atlas of Australia Delivery
Geoscience Australia

Wigna Winston Fernando
Head of Cyber Security
City of Darebin
Leighton Freene
Group Executive - Federal, Defence & Emergency Services / Chief Security Officer – DISP
Kinetic IT

Karen Gallagher
General Manager Strategy and CX
Healthdirect Australia
Evan Connell
IT and Infrustructure Manager
New Madinah College

Clementine Mak
Consumer Advisor
Northern Sydney Local Health District
Jules Zanetti
Cyber Security Practice Lead
SOCO

Anthony Dona
Senior Director
Digital Science
Lisa Dethridge
Senior Researcher
RMIT University

Paul Oppong
Senior PPM Consultant
Sensei
Peter Soulsby
Head of Cyber Security
Brennan

Meysam Arvan
Senior Analytical Team Lead
Healthdirect Australia
Stephen Maguire
Chief Executive Officer & Principal Consultant
Sparx Services

Hayden Parsons
Technical Solutions Consultant
ManageEngine
Ryan Darby
Vision Consultant and AI Lead
Sensei

Tommy Thompson
APAC Solutions Engineer
Nozomi Networks
Cemal Dikmen
Chief Technology and Security Officer
SS8 Networks

Awais Malik
Director, Solutions Consulting
Orbus Software
Tony Brewer
Principal Security Architect
DXC

Kamran Shafi
Manager, Data Analytics and AI
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Ben Thurgood
Head of Customer Engineering, Public Sector
Google Cloud

Terry Roach
VP of DTO Research and Innovation
Orbus Software
Kirsty Linehan
Chief Advisor Public Sector
Oracle

Eban Escott
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
WorkingMouse and Codebots
Gianluca Cairo
Vice President, Operations and Strategy, Public Sector
Dayforce

Jim Freeman
Chief Technology Officer
Kyndryl
Mac McIntosh
Senior Manager Solutions Engineering
Splunk x Hyperion 3

Matthew Watts
ANZ Enterprise Business Manager
Logitech
E-Yang Tang
VP Security, Resiliency & Network
Kyndryl

Hafiz Sheikh Adnan Ahmed
Lead Assessor & Advisor, Information Security & AI Governance
DNV Business Assurance
Bruno Watt
Managing Director/Chief Architect
Hypermedia Tech

Matthew Bennett
Co-Founder and Director of Solutions & Innovation
Hyperion3
David Allott
Field CISO, APJ
Veeam

Jon Lang
CEO
Lumify Group
Petr Adamek
CEO
Canberra Innovation Network

Andrew Mackenzie
Practice Lead - Modern Work, Security and Compliance
Professional Advantage
Shadman Ali
Government & Enterprise Lead
Eftsure

Ben Hancock
Manager - Customer Service Automation
NiCE
Tim Hill
Project Sale Director
ATEN ANZ

Erin Glenn
Director Of Product Management
Belkin
Miikka Sainio
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
SSH Communications Security

David Shields
Head of ANZ Government Consulting & CSO, Mandiant
Google Cloud
Graeme Burton
Product Specialist - ANZ
neat

Raj Singh
Enterprise Sales Leader - Targeted Segments
Schneider Electric
Abbas Kudrati
Professor of Practice
Latrobe University

Thao Dang
VP for Enterprise Modernisation, Platforms and Cloud, APAC
Thoughtworks
Mikel Lindsaar
CEO
StoreConnect

Jarrod Kinchington
RVP ANZ Region
Smartsheet
Bhaskar Pilla
Chief Product officer
Saartha

Brendan Halloran
EL2 Senior Technical Advisor, Location Insights
Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Raymond Schippers
Lead Technologist, Global
Check Point

Shriram Krishnan
Senior Vice President - APAC & EMEA
ACCELQ
Mau Te'o
Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics
University of New England

Bharat Bedi
Vice President Asia Pacific & Japan
SolarWinds
Ben Berghauser
Principal Advisor
Geospatial Solutions – Digital Atlas of Australia

Ben Mudie
Principal Security Engineer
Tenable
Chris Brand
Director, Executive Engagement
Axon

Martin Lazarevic
General Manager
TrueVault
Scott Obara
Founder & CEO
Traceably

Loris Minassian
CEO
CyberStash
Hanan Asghar
Founder & CEO
Synoptix AI

Matt wood
Sales Director, Digistor
Quantum
Mohamed Hani ElMasry
Founder & CEO
SentiVue

Seb Phillips
Sales Manager - Federal Govt & Defence
UiPath

7 CONFERENCE THEMES

Cyber Security

AI & Automation

Service Delivery & Improvement

Quantum

Gov eCommerce

Critical Infrastructure, Networks & Cloud

Gov Data & Analytics

The conference was perfectly organized to the final detail. I really enjoyed the sessions, the exhibition and interacting with the attendees. As a speaker, the onboarding process and the overall management was handled in the most professional manner.

Dimitrios Salampasis, Director, Master of Financial Technologies and Lecturer of FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology

The conversations and networking was great. The quality of the presentations was outstanding and the positive energy of our sector was inspiring.

Grant Lamont, Head of Identity Solutions, Australia Post

Good range of speakers and excellent cross government representation in audience

Amanda Cattermole PSM, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency

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Tech in Gov Conference at a Glance

2025 Speakers

7 CONFERENCE THEMES

Dimitrios Salampasis, Director, Master of Financial Technologies and Lecturer of FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology

Grant Lamont, Head of Identity Solutions, Australia Post

Amanda Cattermole PSM, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency

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