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Garrett O’Hara is the Principal Technical Consultant at Mimecast having joined in 2015 with the opening of the Sydney office, leading the growth and development of the local team. With over 20 years of experience across development, UI/UX, technology communication, training development and mentoring, Garrett now works to help organisations understand and manage their cyber resilience strategies an...

Sam is a young technology enthusiast who’s found passion in cybersecurity at an early age. He was recruited to work for the Australian government while still in high school. He founded Kasada before turning 20 and has been able to raise USD 7 million at the end of 2019 with CIA backed In-Q-Tel as its latest investor. Kasada provides a solution that helps organisations protect from user account tak...

Adam is an high-energy leader, military veteran, and business executive with practical leadership experience working in diverse and complex environments. As CEO of CyAmast, an Australian founded technology company – specialising in IoT network security solutions, he is steering the company through a dramatic and successful scale-up period. Their technology sits at the intersection of Machine Learn...

Jacqueline Jayne (JJ) currently serves as Security Awareness Advocate for the APAC region for KnowBe4, the world’s most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform. With over 20 years’ experience as a conduit between people and technology, she has mastered the art of communication and influence. Previously, she led a successful cybersecurity education and awareness program that chan...

Mark works for Lockton Companies Australia, the worlds largest privately owned insurance brokerage and risk advisor. Mark is the Head of Lockton’s Australian Cyber & Technology Practice, and works with the Global Cyber and Technology team advising clients on the insurable nature of their associated cyber, privacy and technology risks. His experience encompasses advising small business to ASX t...

Mike Thompson is the CTO and Co-founder of HackHunter. HackHunter protects organisations by detecting and tracking malicious WiFi and WiFi-operated drones. Mike is an IoT expert with an extensive background in Information and Cyber Security. Amongst Mike’s many roles, he has: Worked as a CISO for an Insurance Company Consulted to over 50 organisations, including Telstra, NAB and the Privacy Commis...

Dr. Alana Maurushat is Professor of Cybersecurity and Behaviour at Western Sydney University where she holds a joint position in the School of Computer Science & Mathematics, and in the School of Social Sciences and Criminology, and is Key Researcher with the CRC Smart Satellites. She is currently researching on Payment Diversion Fraud and Ransomware, Tracking Money-Laundering through Bitcoin...

Daniel Graves is currently Chief Technology Officer at Delphix, responsible for strategy technology partnerships including AWS, GCP, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Graves is a software and cloud industry veteran of over 20 years with a diverse background in other functions including technology partnerships, business development, marketing, CTO, sales management, program management, presales, and...

• Experienced Researcher – 20 years experience holding senior positions in research at Channel Nine, Seven Network, News Corp and Fairfax Media. • Held representative roles on the IAB Research and Measurement Councils, working on major industry projects. • Developed multiple market-first research pieces throughout my career; notably the Online Video Research and Mobile Internet Research, the first...

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, RiskIQ, Elias Manousos is a security technology expert and experienced executive with over 20 years of delivering enterprise security solutions. Prior to co-founding RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), an Internet leader in authorization and single sign-on (SSO). At Securant, he was instrumental in pioneering the now c...

Nithin has scaled and led SQR Systems to design and deliver critical secure communications solutions for defence, national security and financial services on a global scale. His patented encryption technology is used in heavily regulated sectors. He is an active contributor and thought leader in some of the world’s leading information security research and development communities and his contribut...

Rinske was awarded Risk Consultant of the Year by RMIA (2017), Outstanding Security Consultant Finalist in the OSPAs (2019) and BPW Business Woman of the Year (2010-2013). She is an internationally leading consultant, speaker and certified Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Information Security & Risk Management trainer. Her firm, Business As Usual (BAU), since 2006, has worked with SMEs as w...

Tanya Janca, also known as ‘SheHacksPurple’, is the founder, security trainer and coach of SheHacksPurple.dev, specialising in software and cloud security. Her obsession with securing software runs deep, from starting her company, to running her own OWASP chapter for 4 years in Ottawa, co-founding a new OWASP chapter in Victoria, and co-founding the OWASP DevSlop open-source and education project....

Christopher Sant is a Cyber Security leader who has been helping secure Australian organisations for the last 15 years. He has held various roles across Penetration testing, Privacy Compliance, Consulting, Security Operations, Risk Management and most recently focusing on Cyber Culture and Awareness. He is very passionate about using clear and simple messaging to make Cyber easily accessible to ev...

Clint started his career in Microsoft level 1 support at the age of 16 in 2003. Since that time he has held helpdesk & server administrator roles with the past 7 years focusing on Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and Incident Response. He believes in continuing education, sharing knowledge with peers and providing mentoring to people interested in starting out in Cyber\, or pursuing goals wit...

David Chou is the SVP, Chief Information Officer for a fully integrated healthcare system in the United States. Previously, Chou advised many different Fortune 500 technology solution companies while also serving as the CIO for an international life science company with 50+ sites throughout Australia, Singapore, and China. Chou has held executive roles with the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Children...

Based in Toronto, Canada, Lee has been in the information security space since 2010. Working and consulting in various industries from financial, manufacturing, national services and government, Lee currently works as: · Director, Adversarial Collaboration with Lares · Co-founder of RedBlack Security – Toronto-based offensive security testing shop Lee also is involved with initiatives such as: · C...

Jen has extensive experience and expertise in Corporate and Commercial Law, and Cyber Security and IT, with a background in Dispute Resolution and Litigation. From a corporate and commercial perspective, Jen has worked on numerous transactions, ranging from restructures to large complex multi-million dollar cross-border M&A deals. She works with businesses at all sizes, ranging from small fami...

Mitchell Parker, CISSP, is the Executive Director of Information Security and Compliance at IU Health. Mitch has done a significant amount of work in researching the effects of cloud and distributed computing, network-based threats, compliance, and privacy and security requirements on connected health devices. Mitch works collaboratively with a number of EMR and biomedical equipment vendors to imp...

Rafael Chiang is a skilled information security strategic leader, having worked in the information security industry for a variety of multinational and global organisations, for more than 20 years’. Dedicated to supporting and sustaining business growth through brand and value protection, Rafael’s specialty is communicating and collaborating at all organisational levels, creating tailored security...

Starting as a teenage hacker in the 1990’s, having been involved in the largest mass hack of the time and setting off an international incident after hacking into a nuclear weapons facility, Greg has over two decades of technical, management, and leadership experience in Information Security. A frequent speaker about bringing leadership, visibility, care, and accountability to the Information Secu...

Melissa Wingard is a senior commercial technology lawyer, with almost 15 years’ experience, assisting software, cybersecurity, and technology companies, across the Asia Pacific region, grow their business and meet strategic aims, whilst managing risk and regulatory compliance. Melissa works as Special Counsel for Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick, a specialist IP firm. She has extensive experience in r...

Matthew is the founder of Ayenem ( www.ayenem.com.au ), a DevSecOps consultancy and founder of DevSecOps Sydney meet up. Matt gets a kick out of rapidly becoming an expert in new and emerging technologies and pushing past the limits. It might be the joy of winning or just seeing people’s face go oohhh that’s impressive that drives him but, either way he gets results quickly and enjoys mentoring an...

Laura was appointed the Head of Information Security role in April 2019 for a large Financial Services organisation that is head quartered in Sydney. She is responsible for Information Security strategy execution. security reviews, assessments, testing and control assurance, detailed design, security architecture and project review in the APAC region. Laura and her team work with the rest of the I...

Tony Vizza has been involved in the information technology and information security fields for more than 25 years. Tony completed a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science from the University of Technology, Sydney, Global Executive MBA from the University of Sydney which included study at Stanford University, The London School of Economics and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is...