CISO Sydney 2023
Speakers

The Hon. Brendan O’Connor
Federal Minister for Skills and Training

The Hon. Victor Dominello
Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government
NSW Government

Stephanie Crowe
First Assistant Director General, Cyber Security Resilience
Australian Cyber Security Centre, Australian Signals Directorate

Keith Howard
CISO
Commonwealth Bank

Wouter Veugelen
Former VP Global Cyber & Information Security
Santos

Maryam Bechtel
CISO
AGL

Varun Acharya
CISO
Healthscope

Frances Bouzo
CISO
Ampol

Bradley Busch
CISO
AUB Group

Doug Hammond
CISO
Uniting

Anna Aquilina
CISO
UTS

Stuart Harrison
General Manager, Cyber Security
nbn

Greg Sawyer
CEO
CAUDIT

Walter Kmet
CEO
Macquarie University Hospital

Vasyl Nair
CEO
Mine Super

Nivedita Newar
Head of Cyber Strategy & Governance
UNSW

Grant Lockwood
CISO
Virtus Health

Daniela Fernandez
Head of Information Security
PayPal Australia

Jo Stewart-Rattray
Chief Security Officer
Silverchain

Charles Sterner
CISO
AARNet

Richard Williams
CIO
MoneyMe

Dave Cowan
CISO
Link Group

Helge Janicke
Research Director
Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre

Carl Celedin
Project Manager
Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre

Gail Coury
CISO
F5

Mazino Onibere
Head of Cyber Security, Risk and Compliance
Regis Aged Care

Ashwani Ram
GM, Cybersecurity, IT Infrastructure and Operations
CA ANZ

Chirag Joshi
Best Selling Author
7 rules to Influence Behaviour and win at Cyber Security Awareness

Faizal Janif
Executive Advisory Board Member
AISA

Shalindra Kulasuriya
Manager, Cyber Threat & Operations
AEMO

Kevin Fleming
Chief Technology Officer
ExperstDirect

Marco Figueroa
Senior Manager, Cyber Security Risk & Compliance
Australian Institute of Company Directors

Jennifer Firbank
Strategy and Influence Principal
Telstra

Nancy Wong
IT Audit Manager
Lion

Nimesh Mohan
Group Threat and Vulnerability Lead
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Australia

Ashwin Pal
Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy Services
RSM Australia

Michael Poezyn
Chief Security Officer
Derivco

Jacquie Young
VP APAC
Semperis

Freddie Ghahremani
Data Strategy & Cloud Senior Development Manager
TAL Australia

Nilay Sangani
Application Security
Alex Teseo
Cyber Security Manager
BetMakers

Edwin Kwan
Head of Security Advisory
Leading Australian Financial Services Organisation

David Sandell
CEO & Managing Director
CI-ISAC

Jason Murrell
Group Executive
AustCyber

Simon Bush
CEO
AIIA

Rob Wiggan
Cyber Security Specialist
Willis Australia
Duncan Burck
MD
MCB Business Partners (Cyber City Collaborator)

Samir Sinha
Co-founder CEO
Global Medics

Amit Chaubey
Cyber Security Advisor
Global Medics

John Morcos
Cyber Security Program Manager

Matthew Flannery
DevSecOps Specialist

Tim Bentley
Regional Director APAC
Abnormal Security

Rowan Macfarlane
Principal Industrial Consultant
Dragos
Phillip Wallace
Business Manager
Macquarie Data Centres

John Dubber
Associate Principal Consultant
Synopsys

Paul Thomas
Senior Solutions Architect, ANZ
Axonius

John Cunningham
Vice President and General Manager APAC
Securiti

Kevin Gosschalk
Founder and CEO
Arkose Labs

Lee Evans
Regional Manager ANZ
Illumio

Lawrence Crowther
Head of Solutions Engineering
Snyk
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Ashley Diffey
Head of Asia-Pacific and Japan
Ping Identity
Anthony Rees
Senior Sales Engineer
Lacework

Gil Geron
Co-Founder
Orca Security

Andrew Duck
CEO
GuardRails

Matt Preswick
APAC Solutions Engineer
Wiz

Sam Hewett
Account Director
Wiz

Scott Hesford
Director of Solutions Engineering, APJ
Beyond Trust

Nathan Smith
Regional Director Security
Splunk
Justin Butterfield
Regional Account Manager
Sonatype
Daniel Keidar
Associate Vice President
Orca Security

Scott van Kalken
Senior Systems Engineer
Orca Security

Peter Johnson
Application Security Engineer
Latitude Financial Services