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As leader of Fivecast, Brenton is responsible for driving innovation in the security industry through the application of world leading data science techniques to the field of open-source intelligence (OSINT). Brenton was formerly CTO of the Data To Decisions CRC, a $100 million collaborative research initiative to address data analysis challenges facing Australia’s national security agencies. This...

Liam RYAN is the CEO of GM Risk Group, a Intelligence Solutions and High Risk Consultancy firm with its Head Office in Australia and entities in both The US and Netherlands. He  has 15 + years industry experience ranging from operational surveillance, close personal protection and logistics in high risk and conflict zones around the globe, to executive security and risk management, corporate advis...

Helen Hamilton-James has over 28 years of experience providing assurance and advisory services to clients across many sectors in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the UK. Having started her career as a graduate in Deloitte’s London office, Helen moved to Sydney in 1997 as part of a global development program. Since becoming Partner in 2004, Helen has held multiple leadership roles including Office M...

Stephen is a proven sales and business leader with over 15 years’ experience in cloud-based IT. He has led high growth businesses in both North America and ANZ from small to enterprise software organisations His passion and ability to recruit, motivate and lead extraordinary teams is the key to consistently exceeding business goals. His leadership style is a transparent and consultative approach t...

Mike Johnson joined Fastly as Chief Information Security Officer in 2019 and has more than 20 years’ experience in the security industry having previously been CISO at Lyft and at Salesforce for nine years where his leadership was instrumental in building and growing the company’s detection and response organisation. At Fastly, Mike is focused on supporting the company’s mission to build a more tr...

Mark Guntrip leads cybersecurity strategy at Menlo Security. He brings over twenty years experience in the enterprise security market where, through a range of roles including engineering, product management and product marketing. He has a proven track record of building success in new markets as well as promoting growth within more established areas. Prior to Menlo Security, Guntrip held various...

Rosie Anderson has worked in tech recruitment since 2002, and cyber security recruitment for over 7 years. After having a second baby right at the start of the pandemic, she decided to leave a stable career in recruitment and joined a start up recruitment business in Manchester, called Honeypot Digital at the beginning of 2021. Rosie prides herself on being open and transparent, which sometimes me...

ALTON JOHNSON Founder & Principal Security Consultant Alton Johnson is the Founder and Principal Security Consultant for Vonahi Security. Prior to Vonahi Security, Alton worked at several large and small cybersecurity consulting firms as a Principal Security Consultant. Throughout his professional career, he has performed hundreds of security assessments for organizations ranging from small bu...

Thomas Kinsella is the Co-founder and COO of Tines, a no-code automation platform for security teams. Before Tines, Thomas led security teams in companies like Deloitte, eBay, and DocuSign. As COO, Thomas is responsible for customer success, professional services, and more. Thomas has a degree in Management Science and Information Systems Studies from Trinity College in Dublin.

Dave is an accomplished executive with a strong affinity for technology and a keen business sense for the application of emerging solutions. He has a proven talent for identifying core business needs and translating them 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 i...

Elliot Dellys (PCI QSA, CISSP, CISM, CIS LA) is the founder and Chief Realist (CEO) of Phronesis Security, Australia’s first B Corp certified cyber security consultancy, with a mission to do ‘cyber security for good’. Previously, Elliot worked for the Australian Signals Directorate and a global managed service provider, where he led the Strategic Consulting division across the Europe, Middle East...

Shishir Singh is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the BlackBerry Cybersecurity business. A seasoned senior executive, Shishir brings 15+ years of cybersecurity leadership. With his wealth of experience and expertise, Shishir works across the entire organization to set a clear vision roadmap for our next-generation cybersecurity products and services. He engages with ou...

Chrystal Taylor is a dedicated technologist with nearly a decade of experience and has built her career by leveraging curiosity to solve problems, no matter the size, industry, or client. Whether tinkering with the family computer, or inflicting general destruction in MS-DOS Tank Wars, Chrystal has always been a geek. Chrystal is a SolarWinds deployment veteran who’s built a successful IT career b...

Remy is a blue team cyber security expert with a decade of experience in Federal Government, Private Sector, Law Enforcement, and the Military. He holds a Diploma in Networking, and a Diploma in Systems Administration. He is a GIAC certified security leader, ISO 27001 lead auditor, and IRAP assessor #194. Remy has been awarded a commendation for his cyber training programs, commanded the first Arm...

Torsten George is currently a cyber security evangelist at  Absolute Software , which helps organizations establish resilient security controls on endpoints. He also serves as strategic advisory board member at vulnerability risk management software vendor, NopSec. He is an internationally recognized IT security expert, author, and speaker. Torsten has been part of the global IT security community...

Edgard Capdevielle is President, CEO and co-founder of operational tech and IoT firm Nozomi Networks. Edgard brings an extensive background in successfully managing and expanding markets for both start-ups and established technology companies to his role as CEO. Previously he was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Imperva, where he led teams that made the company’s web and data...

Born in Sydney, Australia, and having lived in the United States for the past 12 years, Matt Johnston has had an international career as an entrepreneur and founder, creating and leading companies in verticals including service, manufacturing, distribution and direct to consumer. Johnston’s early career was in Security Risk Management and Investigation, working as a Security Consultant and other r...

Lena joined MongoDB in March 2019, with more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience. Before joining MongoDB, she was the Global Chief Information Security Officer for the international fintech company, Tradeweb, where she was responsible for all aspects of cybersecurity. She also served as CIO and Chief Security Officer for the New York Power Authority, the largest state power organization in t...

Sean is the 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 than 20 years of experience in the IT and security industry, he acts as a trusted advisor to organisations across the regi...

Dan Woods is the Global Head of Intelligence at F5 . Prior to F5, Dan spent more than 20 years with local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence organizations including the FBI as a special agent and the CIA as a cyber operations officer. See also: I’m a former CIA cyber-operations officer who studies bot traffic. Here’s why it’s plausible that more than 80% of Twitter’s accounts are...

Nathan Wenzler is the Chief Security Strategist at Tenable, the Cyber Exposure company. Nathan has over two decades of experience designing, implementing and managing both technical and non-technical security solutions for IT and information security organizations. He has helped government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies alike build new information security programs from scratch, as well as im...

Dane’s first business adventure was at aged 18 where he developed and sold digital information products from his home, via online stores. This experience gave Dane a taste for business and pursued a career in sales. After several years in the recruitment and pharmaceutical sectors, Dane relocated to Australia and entered the cybersecurity industry with an early cloud provider called MessageLabs. D...

Dr. Arun Vishwanath studies the “people problem” of cybersecurity. His research focuses on improving individual, organizational, and national resilience to cyber attacks by focusing on the weakest links in cyber security—Internet users. His particular interest is in understanding why people fall prey to social engineering attacks that come in through email and social media, and on ways we can harn...

Alastair has spent the last 20 years working in Cyber Security and Risk Management. He is a passionate believer that security solutions should enable a business to take advantage of all the benefits of the digital world, while not putting the organisation’s data or productivity at risk. From working within start-ups to established vendors Alastair has the knowledge to launch and grow markets for t...

Sarah Sloan is the Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy for Australia and New Zealand at Palo Alto Networks. She advises the company’s leadership on a range of cyber and technology policy/regulatory issues, builds strategic relationships across all tiers of government and acts as a trusted private sector adviser to governments in the region. Prior to her role with Palo Alto Networks, Sar...