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As the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Ramez Katf has responsibility for the Enterprise Solutions and Technology Group. The CIO provides leadership and strategic direction on technology in the ATO and ensures the delivery of technology services to support ATO staff. The CIO also makes sure that...

Mel Bennett has over 20 years’ experience in public administration working in the Australian Customs Service, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Department of Home Affairs. Mel is currently the A/g First Assistant Secretary of the Identity and Biometrics Division.  The...

Randall Brugeaud was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the DTA on 1 July 2018.Randall has spent more than 30 years working in a range of public and private sector roles, with a focus on transformation.His public sector experience has spanned large, medium and small organisations. Randall’s...

As an experienced leader, Cassandra translates ideas into strategies and delivers them. She is currently Executive Director, Policy and Regulation at Service Victoria, in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet leading the creation of Victoria’s identity policy and regulatory...

Radi Kovacevic is currently the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Home Affairs. Radi has responsibility for Home Affairs technology, operations, delivery and architectural direction to transform ICT foundations in partnership across the Department. Previously, Radi headed up the...

Kathryn Green is an Executive MBA qualified and technically certified career professional with a passion for delivering great business solutions while consistently striving for an exceptional customer experience. Kathryn is currently the Director of Digital Technology, CIO & CISO at...

Mr. Gayan Benedict is the Chief Information Officer of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Gayan is responsible for the Bank?s technology planning, delivery, operations, information security and Innovation Lab. Prior to being appointed as the RBA?s CIO, Gayan held senior Technology Leadership positions...

Lesley Honeyman joined the Department of Customer Service in January 2019 as the Director Operations.  In this role she is responsible for several functions which include intelligence, incident response, capability development, infrastructure security and vulnerability scanning.  Together with her...

Toby is a trusted public servant and leader with a proven history of building strong capabilities aligned to tomorrows challenges. He has led large, diverse and geographically dispersed teams of over 140 security professionals to protect, detect and respond to cyber challenges. He is a people...

Michael Pezzullo was appointed Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs on 20 December 2017. He was previously Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. From February 2013, Mr Pezzullo was Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service...

Steve has been CIO of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, now in the Department of Health, for the past 6 years. He has led a revival of the department’s digital transformation capabilities which has resulted in numerous IT industry awards for innovative projects. He and his team ...

As the National Manager Operational Science and Technology, Dr Simon Walsh leads a critical operational support portfolio that amalgamates the AFP?s forensic and enterprise and operational technology capabilities. Simon works across government and industry sectors and represents as the AFP?s chief...

Dr Tobias Feakin is Australia?s inaugural Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology. He commenced as Ambassador for Cyber Affairs in January 2017, before having his mandate expanded to reflect the central role that technology issues have in geopolitics. He leads Australia?s Whole of...

Kayelle Drinkwater leads the Data Policy Branch in the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources. In this Chief Data Officer type role, she oversees data strategy, governance and management, spatial data policy, location services and reporting. Kayelle also has a special interest in...

Dr. Ian Oppermann is the NSW Government’s Chief Data Scientist working within the Department of Customer Service. He is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).  Ian has nearly 30 years’ experience in the ICT sector and, has led organizations with more than 300...

Sam Grunhard is head of the Critical Infrastructure Security Division, Department of Home Affairs. In this role he coordinates Australia’s response to threats to critical infrastructure, leads industry engagement on critical infrastructure resilience, and implements Australia’s critical...

Leanne is the Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Information Officer at AUSTRAC, and leads the Analytics, Innovation, Development, Information and Infrastructure teams. Her remit is to ensure that advanced analytics and customer service capability is in place to enable AUSTRAC to innovate, working...

Rachel Dixon is the Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner at the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner.  Before becoming a regulator she was, variously, a federal public servant, an executive at a banking and insurance group, chief operating officer of several video streaming...

Adam Carthew is the Chief Information Officer at Service Victoria. Service Victoria is transforming the way public sector agencies interact with citizens by creating new digital channels to make it faster and easier to get things done with government. Adam is an experienced IT professional with...

Professor Monica Whitty is the Director of the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security (IFCYBER), where she also holds a Professorship in Human Factors in Cyber Security. Her work, in particular, examines the human factors in cyber security. Professor Whitty has led many large interdisciplinary projects...

Bridget Brill took up the position of Executive Director, Australian Passports Office, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in October 2019.   Ms Brill is responsible for end to end passport services including: Operations across a national network involving approximately 650...

Amanda Ianna has worked in the Public Sector for 28 years and was appointed Registrar of the NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages in 2014. Amanda’s extensive background in Civil Registration and Identity Security has driven significant changes to the way the Registry records life events...

Since January 2019, Commander Goldsmid has been responsible for Cybercrime Operations, the area mandated to enhance AFP cyber capabilities and investigate cybercrimes against the Commonwealth government, critical infrastructure, systems of national significance and those impacting the whole of...

Charles McHardie is the Deputy CEO of the Transformation Projects Groups for Services Australia. He is responsible for major projects across Services Australia  with core responsibility for significant investment in transformation programmes for Centrelink, Health, Aged Care, Veterans and myGov...

Oakley Kwon is a well-respected and dynamic executive leader, digital innovator and actress having won numerous awards throughout her career for her work in legislative policy reform, digital innovation and acting. She is one of this year’s winners of the Equity Ensemble Award for Outstanding...

Patricia works to make security everyone?s business, in order to keep critical infrastructure and services safe from and resilient to cyber threats. She?s especially interested in fostering a cyber risk aware culture, quantitative cyber risk analysis using FAIR, and using Open Source Intelligence...

Jonathon Thorpe was appointed General Manager for Digital Identity and myGov in February 2021, after acting in the role from June 2020.  Jonathon is also Senior Responsible Officer for Digital Identity, working towards providing safer, simpler, and more convenient access to online services as part...

Mr Karl Hanmore was appointed to the role of First Assistant Director-General Cyber Security Services (CSS) at the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) at the Australian Signals Directorate in January 2019.His role is responsible for leading the CSS Division of the ACSC providing...