Haydn Cockayne | Technical Projects Lead
Catholic Education Western Australia

Haydn is an experienced IT professional currently leading a team of systems engineers at Catholic Education Western Australia, overseeing technology systems that support over 13,000 staff and 80,000 students across 150 schools. With a background in school IT environments and large-scale systems management, Haydn combines technical depth with a practical understanding of educational operations.

Appearances:

Day 1 @ 16:10

Disruption in education and what it means to the modern print infrastructure

Join our panel of IT experts as they tackle the real-world challenges of modernizing infrastructure - spanning both cloud-native and robust on-prem environments. We’ll discuss the practical realities of shifting to arm64 (and how big a disruption this will be on printing), modernizing the print stack, and rethinking student quotas and cost recovery. Expect a candid conversation on balancing BYOD with privacy, killing off technical debt, and redefining what a "successful deployment" actually looks like today.

The End of Hard Quotas: Why modern IT is replacing strict student quotas with visibility-driven internal reporting and behavioral nudges.
Cloud vs. On-Prem Realities: A candid look at the "must-have" features cloud adopters happily left behind, versus the server capabilities on-prem users still rely on.
Securing BYOD: Practical strategies for balancing user device freedom with the growing demands of data privacy and control.
Redefining Success: How the benchmark for a "successful deployment" has shifted from basic uptime to seamless user experiences and agile provisioning.
Killing Technical Debt: The legacy systems and processes our panel is most excited to eliminate in the next 12 months to make way for arm64.
Network Evolution: A look at how network design and implementation have fundamentally changed over the past five years across hybrid environments.

Matt Coad, Head of Self Hosted Software, Sales & Channel APAC, PaperCut Software

Haydn Cockayne, Technical Projects Lead, Catholic Education Western Australia

Matthew Dalamaras, ICT Systems Administrator, St Josephs College, Toowoomba

last published: 26/May/26 09:35 GMT

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