19th CIO Leaders Australia Summit 2024 | Focus Network | 4 September 2024 | Crown Conference Centre, Crown Promenade, Crown Melbourne, 8 Whiteman Street, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia

The theme for this year’s summit revolves around “Driving Next Generation Digital Business with AI” this message will be conveyed by a distinguished assembly of thought leaders through keynote addresses, panel discussions, interactive workshops, and focused roundtable conversations.

Attendees will have the opportunity to tailor their own agendas, allowing them to optimise their time away from the office by participating in sessions most pertinent to their specific business needs.

Additionally, the networking opportunities available throughout the event will enable senior IT executives to engage directly with a carefully curated group of technology vendors through pre arranged business meetings. These vendors will be showcased throughout the day, providing valuable assistance to leading security executives modernisation initiatives. These engagements ensure that businesses remain at the forefront of adopting new technologies, aligning their investment strategies with their overarching business goals.

Why you should attend:
• We invite only the leading international and local experts to provide sessions on site, this allows for attendees to be taught by front-line executives that compress years of meaningful experience into a systematic, well organised learning program.
• Keeping in line with the main goal of the event in achieving new relationships, we provide a huge amount of networking opportunities for attendees through breakfast, luncheons, cocktails and informal introductions.
• Allowing both buyers and sellers the opportunity to engage with one another onsite in a series of prearranged business meetings. These provide both parties a great opportunity to build new relationships by interacting face to face.
• Being able to experience different sessions is what makes this event unique; whether you are looking to attend an interactive workshop, roundtable, 1-1 meeting or panel discussion.
• Interacting face-to-face is still one of the most effective ways to do business. During lunch hour you will have the opportunity to do just that in a very relaxed atmosphere.
• The summit is personalised for you, this means that what is important to your business is important to us. We create personalised itineraries around sessions you want to attend, allowing for your time to be spent wisely while out of the office.

2024 Speakers

Dr Alan D. Thompson
World expert in AI, AI Augmentation

Frank De Sa
Chief Information Officer, Just Group

Idris Shamsi
Chief Information Officer, RACV

Richa Sharma
Head of Technology, GSK

Steven Bonnici
CIO - Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Ford Motor Company

Anna Clive
Former CIO, Aussie Broadband

Callum Nelson
Chief Information Security Officer, EBOS Group

Sinan Erbay
Chief Information Officer, RMIT

Alan Sharvin
Chief Information Officer, Tabcorp

Ed Tollinton
Chief information Officer, Nando’s

Tracey Evans
Chief Technology Officer, Virtus Health

Sanja Marais
Chief Technology and Security Officer, Aspen Medical

Nigel Hedges
Chief Information Security Officer, Chemist warehouse

Chris Goldsmid
Acting Assistant Commissioner, Australian Federal Police Cybercrime Operations

Lukasz Gogolkiewicz
Head of Cyber Security, Accent Group

Karl Neubauer
Chief Information Officer, Global Retail Brands

Stephen Bennett
Group CISO, Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd

Jamie Rossato
Former CISO, Lion

Joel Deutscher
Executive General Manager, Technology & Innovation, Planit

Bharath Kumar
Head of Marketing & Customer Experience, Zoho Creator

Eddie Torres
Enterprise Account Executive, Delinea

Alex Edwards
COO, Planit

Darren Cockerell
Head of Solution Consulting, Australia and New Zealand, Blue Prism

Steve Baker
Regional Director, Rubrik

Scott Hesford
Senior Director, Solutions Engineering, APJ, BeyondTrust

Matt Preswick
Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Wiz

Daniel Moloney
Solutions Engineering Lead APAC, Wiz

Joshua Goodman
Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Abnormal Security

Caroline Soo
Vice President, Customer Success, APAC & Japan, KnowBe4

Tyron McGurgan
Chief Executive Officer, Focus Network

Andrew Milroy
VP and Head of Research, Focus Network

Ross O’Brien
Principal Advisor, Focus Network

David Gee
Principal Advisor, Focus Network

Anthony Caruana
CEO, Media-Wize

2024 Partners

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• BeyondTrust
• Wiz

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Mimecast
• Rubrik

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Abnormal
• Delinea
• Global Storage
• Kiteworks
• Planit an NRI Company
• ZOHO
• KnowBe4

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Blackberry Cybersecurity
• SS&C Blueprism
• PingIdentity
• SentinelOne
• OneStep Group
• ARMIS
• BAIDAM
• Vectra
• Brandsec