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Major General Marcus Thompson was born and raised in country Victoria. On graduation from the Royal Military College in 1988 he was allocated to the Royal Australian Corps of Signals. He served in a variety of command, regimental and Special Operations appointments including; Command of the 3rd...

Rachel Dixon is the Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner at the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC), where she is responsible for the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014, including the Victorian Protective Data Security Standards.In former lives Rachel headed the...

Stephen is Australia's most authoritative voice on digital disruption, strategy, culture and leadership. He is the former Facebook CEO for Australia and New Zealand, where he guided Facebook’s unprecedented rise from quirky Silicon Valley start up to media and technology titan. Working with...

Stephen Brady concluded his Australian Public Service career as Australia’s Ambassador to France. During his 36 years of service he was ambassador to twelve European countries, chief of staff to two Governors-General – including Australia’s first woman - and Senior Adviser to Prime Minister John...

Maria has specialist expertise in policy, politics, professional services and digital transformation. She spent over 25 years working in the professional services sector leading marketing and business development teams. Maria has also been an adviser to Senator the Hon. Arthur Sinodinos AO and was...

Frank Briguglio is a recognised thought leader and authority in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Authentication & Access Control. Throughout his career he has been involved in the design and implementation of identity-centric technologies and the development of identity...

Allan is currently VP Global Partner Success at ForgeRock Inc. As one of the founders of ForgeRock, he has helped build ForgeRock into a multinational Identity Management software vendor with offices on four continents. Having served in multiple positions during its startup, Allan is now...

As Chief Information Officer for the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Sandra leads a team of more than 400 staff and contractors. She is responsible for delivering a significant Information and Communication Technology (ICT) program to improve customer experience and deliver better...

Gus McLachlan recently completed a 37-year career in the Army. He completed his tenure as the leader of Forces Command, the largest unit of The Australian Defence Force and comprising 35,000 people. Prior to that, he had extensive involvement in capability development and modernisation where he was ...

Currently, Garrett is the Head of the Architecture and Innovation Division at DHS, AustraliaGarrett has been a major influencer for key technology-based decisions within DHS; the agencythat is the Australian Government’s focal point for delivering social and health-related services andpayments to...

Kevin O’Leary is a senior IT Security professional with over 20 years of experience working for public institutions, private companies and large multinationals across Asia Pacific and Europe in a variety of management, engineering and advisory roles. He has worked both as a Chief Security Officer...

Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco; a personal data platform that enables people to securely exchange data with the people and organisations they trust. Katryna has been pioneering personal data rights since 2012, when she envisioned a time when personal sovereignty, identity and...

Ken Soh holds concurrent appointments as Group CIO of mainboard listed maritime supply chain company BH Global Corporation Limited since 3 Mar 2014 and as the founding CEO of the group subsidiary cyber security companies Athena Dynamics Pte Ltd and Sasa APAC Pte Ltd.Ken has more than 28 years of...

Named in the top 20 CIOs in Australia in 2018, Rowan is an acknowledged thought leader, innovator and sought after advisor for founders through to Boards. Rowan’s current role sees him responsible for providing strategic leadership as well as the delivery of business-focused technology outcomes...

Adam has extensive experience in financial services and the public sector leading strategic functions across business transformation, strategic procurement, and business development.  Responsible for Digidentity business development in the Australian market, Adam brings a fresh insight to business...

Dr. Amani Ibrahim is a senior lecturer in Cybersecurity at Deakin University who is passionate about engaging with people at different levels on cybersecurity. With over a decade of professional experience; she strives to evangelize cutting-edge technology use while maintaining a strong security...

Julian Fay is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Senetas Corporation Limited. He is also a co-founder of Senetas’s leading high-assurance encryption technology, used to protect government and enterprise network transmitted data in more than 35 countries.Julian’s responsibilities include product...

I am Troy Micallef and I have worked for ASADA for approximately 12 years.I am currently the Deputy CIO of ASADA and I am responsible for the delivery of ICT services within this Agency as well as dealing with External stakeholders.I have completed many major projects for ASADA including changing...

Matt has been in the security industry for the past 18 years in pre-sales, engineering, architecture, design and deployment roles. Currently the Senior Sales Engineer with Netskope in Australia for the southern region focusing on data security in the cloud, web security, and data & cloud...

Julian is Exec Chairman and founder of digi.me which enables the Internet of Me, where the individual is at the centre of their digital life, owning and controlling their own data – see http//digi.me. Initially an aeronautical engineer, Julian founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, specialising in...

Chris Rathborne : CIO Moreland City CouncilChris is an innovative IT professional with 20 years experience in the Digital and Information Technology industry and a track record of combining multiple disciplines and domains including outsourcing, solutions delivery (both applications and...

Al Blake is Chief Technology Officer for Shared Services within the ACT government where he is responsible for delivering the core technology solutions that underpin service delivery in such diverse areas such as education, health, transport and justice.Al has over 25 years in executive IT...

Victoria has been working with payment and identity technologies for over 20 years. She has advised a range of organisations, from start-ups to major banks, on the business implications of emerging payment and identity technologies. She is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Australian Payments ...

CAPTAIN Paul Tortora, USN (retired), is the Director of the United States Naval Academy’s Center for Cyber Security Studies.  He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, majoring in Mathematics, with Masters Degrees from the University of Maryland University College and the U.S. Naval War College.  ...

Prerana Mehta joined AustCyber, Australia’s Cyber Security Growth Network, as Chief of Ecosystem Development in January 2019, charged to promote Australian cyber capability, talent and profile nationally and overseas.  Prior to this role, Prerana was Minister Counsellor and Senior Trade and...

Dr Stefan Hajkowicz is a senior principal scientist working in the field of strategic foresight at CSIRO. Stefan leads the Data61 Insight Team which is a group of researchers and consultants helping organizations navigate digital disruption. Stefan’s research and consulting work helps...

John has over 30 years’ experience in Information Technology and Research areas across a broad range of areas. John has extensive Public Sector, Defence and Intelligence experience including postings into Australian and US Intelligence agencies in integrated Military and Civilian teams.John worked...

Cassandra Meagher is Executive Director, Service Reform at Service Victoria.Service Victoria is the government’s new dedicated customer service agency. It has been established to make transactions quick, simple and easy for Victorians to get things done with government and is helping the way the...

Demos is Director of Sales and Marketing for Outback Imaging, the home of ‘EzeScan’.An Architect by profession, Demos’s carrier has spanned the transition from paper to cad and experienced the business upheaval of digital transformation.At EzeScan, he is passionate about helping his customers...

As VP of CyberArk Engineering, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) at CyberArk, Jeffrey is responsible for working with the various teams at CyberArk to qualify leads, identify business issues and drivers in any particular sales opportunity and manage the opportunity throughout the cycle of sales...

Chip Redden is currently Senior Director, Vertical and Segment Marketing at Ciena Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for providing subject matter expertise and technical marketing for solutions, products and features to global enterprise customers. With over 25 years in the Ethernet and...

Rob is the Managing Director of OneTrust for Australia & New Zealand. OneTrust is the global leader in privacy management and marketing compliance software. More than 2,000 customers, including 200 of the Global 2,000, use OneTrust to comply with data privacy regulations across sectors and...

Eibhlis is the Founder and heads the technical group at MobileDigital.  Eibhlis has stand out design and logic skills, and is recognised as a savvy IT engineer. The idea, innovative design, build and implementation of the patented processes that support MobileDigitals' world leading SNIPER...

Karl Wood is a Senior IT Leader with 14 years of experience across software development, solution architecture and quality assurance within the Finance, Telecommunications, Consulting, Hospitality and Gaming domains. He has been a customer, supplier and consultant across multiple digital...

David G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. He is Global Ambassador for Consult Hyperion (the secure electronic transactions consultancy that he helped to found), Technology Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (the London-based think...

Marcus Vogt is an Identity, Access and Privilege Solutions Consultant with an extensive career in IT. He started off as a systems programmer in an ISP and then joined the dark side as a system administrator to truly appreciate the fun of operations. After a number of years, he worked out that it...

James is a digital commerce innovator and thought leader with a deep passion for driving business success from digital commerce ecosystems.With more than 20 years of experience as a solutions architect. James made his first online sale (a music CD) via an eCommerce system built with open source...

Warren is a business leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience in senior commercial leadership roles across the globe. He specialises in building successful technology organisations to drive rapid growth.Warren was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Sypht in 2018. Sypht uses the latest ...

Amanda Robinson is the Head of Social Innovation at Australian Red Cross and has a keen interest in emerging technology particularly for helping to solve complex social problems and drive humanitarian outcomes at scale. Prior to Australian Red Cross Amanda has held senior roles developing and...

Stephen Wilson is a leading authority on digital identity and electronic authentication. For over 22 years he has helped organisations in government, healthcare and banking establish effective authentication systems and frameworks, providing high calibre advice on strategy, technology...

Paul Shetler is a technologist and entrepreneur with over two decades’ experience working on large scale IT and organisational change projects – spanning the public and private sectors. He has co-founded two start-ups, worked in two others and also been in leadership roles at large suppliers like...