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Sean Duca Vice President and Regional Chief Security Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan Palo Alto Networks Sean is vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks. In this role, Sean spearheads the development of thought leadership, threat intelligence and security best practices for the cybersecurity community and business executives. With more t...

Laura is a criminologist specialising in cyber safety. She has worked in NAB’s Enterprise Security team for seven years, and previously worked in Personal, and Institutional Banking. Laura leads NAB’s Security Advisory & Awareness team, which works with NAB’s employees, customers, and the community to empower them to keep themselves safe online and in the physical world. Laura has a Bachelor o...

Dustin Brewer, CISM, CSX-P, CDPSE, CEH, is ISACA’s Senior Director, Emerging Technology and Innovation, a role in which he explores and produces content for the ISACA® community on the utilisation benefits and possible threats to current infrastructure posed by emerging technologies. He has 20 years of experience in the IT field, beginning with networks, programming and hardware specialisation. He...

With an MBA and Law education, Ramsés is a +22 year security professional with deep expertise in the Risk Management and Governance areas. Ramsés is now    International Chief Technology Officer with CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business, where he defines the vision and mission, purpose and promise of the division. He has recently been Strategist & Evangelist for the office of the CTO with...

Sam Crowther is the founder of Kasada, a cybersecurity company with a mission to restore trust in the Internet. Sam’s passion in the security industry began as a high school student when he worked with the team at Australia’s Signals Intelligence Agency. From there, he moved to a red team role at Macquarie Group, an experience that inspired him to start his own company. With funding from leading U...

Jenai Marinkovic, vCTO/CISO, Tiro Security; Technology & Information Security Consultant, Beyond; member, ISACA Emerging Trends Working Group Jenai Marinkovic is a multidisciplinary technologist and strategist with 20 years of experience in architecting, building and securing systems at scale. She has designed and operated in real-time over the top streaming ecosystems that power live sports,...

Rainer has a long history in applications, data and enabling data driven decision amassed through years of experience in the data warehousing, business intelligence and information management. This has been at many levels, including strategy, project management, solution design, deployment, review and application support. At Alex Solutions, Rainer brings this knowledge to the data management arena...

Kyla is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education, an NGO that sustains international partnerships with school districts, corporations including Facebook and IBM, and educational platforms like Discovery Education, all in efforts to increase awareness and fluency in privacy and cybersecurity. Through these efforts, Kyla has worked with teams across Apple, Fac...

Serial Entrepreneur Wallon Walusayi is the Co-Founder & CEO of 3Data Analytics, a 3D platform for Operations & Security. 3Data Analytics provided the first commercially available cloud-based XR platform 3Data Cloud and is now working with Large Enterprise & Aerospace/Defense companies. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Wallon worked as a Data Analyst with Nike and in the Front office of...

Neil is a Cyber Security Consultant at Kaspersky with over 20 years’ experience.  He delivers large complex technology programs within industrial, airports, aviation and buildings technology sectors across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe and Middle East.  His passion for innovation and digital transformation has helped customers across the globe drive result oriented business transformation...

BLAIR CRAWFORD Founder and  Managing Director, Daltrey   Blair Crawford is a biometrics and identity management specialist with extensive experience  helping  global  organisations  solve their most pressing cyber security, risk and compliance challenges. Leveraging this wealth of experience, he recently established Daltrey – a unique security solution that delivers biometrics as a service for wor...

Rachael Greaves is a records and information management thought leader,  who  designed the Castlepoint command and control product. Rachael has consulted on large-scale records, security and audit projects in government and regulated industries with complex integrated environments, and developed Castlepoint in response to the tension seen in organisations between compliance, usability, sustainabil...

Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith  is the Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice at the University of New South Wales. In her role as  Women in STEM Ambassador , Lisa is responsible for increasing the participation of women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) studies and careers across Australia. She is an award-winning astrophysicis...

Jo Stewart-Rattray CISM CGEIT CISA CRISC CP Director, BRM Advisory ISACA member Adelaide business leader and information security veteran, Jo Stewart-Rattray, has been recognised for her tireless work educating and mentoring future generations of IT professionals and breaking down gender barriers in the IT industry, taking out Highly Commended in the Australian Women in Security Network’s 2020 Awa...

Kris has an extensive experience both running his own businesses as well as a successful corporate career across Asia, Europe, North America and then in Australia. Kris has started and run businesses successfully as well as cases of learnings from his adventures. He also has corporate career including internal transformations as well as leading customer engagements and sales for small to large mul...

As Managing Director for BlackBerry’s Spark Division, Jason Duerden is responsible for building and executing the business in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). In this region, he drives strategy, operations and growth of BlackBerry’s next-generation platform, BlackBerry Spark. Jason brings over 10 years of leadership and business management and technology acumen experience to BlackBerry with domain...

Mandy is a firm believer that diversity in all its forms should be encouraged to promote innovation and find solutions to challenges facing the world. She herself has had a diverse career ranging from musician, artist, fraud investigator, risk assessor, trainer and analyst. She is currently the Manager of The University of Queensland Cyber Security Operation Centre, and prior to that was a Senior...

Gus began his security journey almost 20 years ago by hacking schools library system to remove fines and had against his name. After he realised he could compromise and manipulate computer systems he continued his journey, albeit illicitly. He was later recruited directly out of high school by the Special Investigating Unit, a government agency, and thus began his professional career. Since then h...

Chris Pogue is the Head of Nuix Partner Connect, the global ecosystem of more than 150 partners representing 74 different countries. He is also a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, The International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. Over his 25-year career, Chris has led multiple professional security an...

Ben has an extensive background in cloud security and enterprise software, with over twenty years in enterprise software; primarily in Security and Compliance. Starting his technical career building data centers as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Ben then secured data centers for Fortune 500 customers at McAfee. Learning common security challenges from customers, Ben moved into product man...

Director of Cybersecurity TPRM, UpGuard, Tulin is a strategic thinker and cyber risk management specialist with experience in public and private sectors. Tulin has held senior positions with Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, Optiver and Deloitte. Amongst Tulin’s career she has successfully started up and led a cybersecurity practice at a boutique consultancy and is now leading the TPRM team at UpGuard g...

Dave is an accomplished executive with a strong affinity for technology and keen business sense for the application of emerging solutions. He has a proven talent for identifying core business needs and translating into outcomes. Prior to joining Haventec Dave spent ~20 years at Accenture where he occupied a number of geographic leadership, account leadership and delivery leadership roles including...

Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security. Prior to founding Obsidian, he co-founded Carbon Black and most recently served as the company’s Chief Security Strategist. As the company’s original CTO, he led efforts to create the powerful capabilities that helped define the next-generation endpoint security space. Prior to Carbon Black, Ben was an NSA computer scientist, and later worked...

My passion for cyber-security stems from my interest in mystery novels and crime shows since the age of 8. Somehow, I enjoyed the process of unravelling the unidentified. Being an ardent leaner, I explored my interest in computer science and being a consistent school topper, I was fortunate enough to secure the Vice-Chancellor scholarship at Western Sydney University. As an addition to my degree,...

Todd is a 33-year-old entrepreneur who started computer programming when he was 7 years of age. He earned a scholarship in 2004, and graduated with honours in 2006. He started an onsite computer repair business, to pay for fuel during University, and has since had a slew of start-ups that have been successful. Todd is currently focused on a new cybersecurity business called Dull. With new technolo...