Australian Cyber Conference 2021 - Melbourne | Australian Information Security Association (AISA) | 14 November 2021 | Virtual Event

The Australian Information Security Association (AISA) is the premier industry body for information security professionals in Australia. As a nationally recognised not-for-profit organisation, AISA champions the development of a robust information security sector by building the capacity of professionals in Australia and advancing the cyber security and safety of the Australian public, as well as businesses and government.

2021 Speakers

CONFERENCE HOST:

Juanita Phillips
Journalist for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Gus Balbontin
Executive Director and CTO of Lonely Planet

Adam Spencer
Academy Awards and AFL Grand Finals

Paula Januszkiewicz
CEO and Founder of CQURE Inc.

Steve Wozniak
Founder, Apple Computer Inc

Chelsea Pottenger
The Gidget Foundation

Andy Penn
CEO and Managing Director of Telstra

James Clapper AO
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

Jacqui Laustau
Founder and the Executive Director of the Australian Women in Security Network

Berin Lautenbach
Chief Information Security Officer – AsiaPac, Telstra

Yash Prakash
Chief Strategy Officer of Saviynt

Catherine Ball
CEO of Women Who Drone

Fatemah Beydoun
Founding team member of Secure Code Warrior

Pieter Danhieux
CEO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior

Kaiti Delaney
Principal at Ten Eleven Ventures

Jayde Lovell
Head of Marketing & Communications for CyRise

Adam McCarthy
CEO of ParaFlare

Kirstin McIntosh
Head of Partnerships for CyRise,

Stephen Smith
Chairman of archTIS

Aaron Williams
CEO and co-founder of Mindstar

Casey Ellis
Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Bugcrowd

Ricki Burke
Founder of CyberSec People

Tim Watts MP
Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security and Communications, and the federal Member for Gellibrand

ON DEMAND SPEAKERS:

Kirsty Alsop
Economics BSc

Karen Bentley
CEO of WESNET

Dave Bradshaw
Enterprise Security Architect

Julian Fay
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Senetas Corporation Limited

Aaron Fenwick
Director in PwC’s Cybersecurity and Digital Trust Team

Jackson Mills
Worked at large Australian ASX200 businesses such as Qantas Airways and Genworth Insurance

Ashwin Ram
Cyber Security Evangelist at Check Point Software Technologies

Saeed Tasbihsazan
Founder of the Telstra Cloud Guild

Sonali Chaudhuri
Cyber Security, Technology Risk, and Regulatory thought leader

Narayana Madineni
Senior developer and Master Inventor for IBM Global Security Kit

Ronald Michael
Senior Application Security Sales Engineer with the Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Liam O’Shannessy
Director at Assurance

Natasha Roberts
Senior Consultant with Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd

Noushin Shabab
Global Research & Analysis Team

Sarah Lugay
Bachelor of Advanced Science in Physics

Nicola Nicol
Cybersecurity and Technology Risk

Bianca Wirth
Deputy CISO at Tabcorp

Holly Wright
Product Owner and Software Engineer for IBM QRadar Flows

Steven Coochin
Tech Evangelist

Arni Hardarson
Head of Assurance at the largest listed cyber security company in Australia (Pure Security)

Timothy Kirk
CEO and Founder of SureCity Networks

Jonathan Lim
Australian lawyer, cyber security analyst, and policy commentator

Dilip Samji
Director of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics for DRC Australia

Kenny Singh
Customer Success area at Microsoft

Jason Smart
Director within PwC’s Cybersecurity

David Soldani
Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Gursimran Tiwana
Founder and CEO of Rabbon

Cameron Whittfield
Partner at PwC Australia

Glenn Murray
CTO of Sapien Cyber

Paul Nevin
Co-founded Cybermerc

Troy McCann
Founder and CEO of Moonshot

EJ Wise
Principal at Wise Law in Melbourne

Susie Jones
CEO of Cynch Security

Claire Reeler
GRC work

Sandro Bucchianeri
Chief Security Officer, NBA

Sai Ranjan
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Dale Stephens
Board of Directors of the Woomera Manual

Gavin van Niekerk
Enterprise Cyber Security, Solution Architecture, Cloud Computing

Connor Morley
TCrunch

Robert Marazzato
I.T. and Cyber Security SME, and CISSP

Ryan Jones
Mimecast and Check Point

Jasper Chik
Managing the Infoblox Solution Architecture

Michael Williams
Head of Gilbert + Tobin’s Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity team

Tracie Thompson
CEO of HackHunter

Scott Ainslie
PhD graduate research with Melbourne University

James Young
Splunk as a Global Security Strategist

Malcolm Crompton
Managing Director of IIS Partners

Vaughan Shanks
CEO of Cydarm Technologies

David Thorp
Manage Compliance

Edward Phelps
Secure Konnect Cybersecurity

Allen Baranov
GRC space at CyberCX

Andrew Logue
Systems Engineer

Jared Hayward
Software Engineer for IBM Security

Vlado Vajdic
Solution engineer at Attivo Networks

Arshad Noor
Port Authority of NY/NJ

Tim Nedyalkov
Information Technology and Cyber Security

Brian Hay
CCS Cultural Cyber Security Executive Director

Blair Crawford
Biometrics and digital identity specialist

Stephen Wilson
Principal Consultant

Tanvi Bali
DevSecOps Strategist

Jacqueline Jayne
Security Awareness Advocate for the APAC

Denny Wan
Open Group FAIR

Victor Akkari
Chief Information Security Officer at Cochlear Limited

Jorell Magtibay
Senior Consultant for NAB’s Threat Intelligence

Simon Scaife
Regional Sales Manager with the Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Daniel Ehrenreich
Consultant and lecturer acting at Secure Communications

Ben Doyle
Information security executive

Ben King
Regional Chief Security Officer at Okta for APAC

Pas Apicella
Principal Solution Engineer APJ at Snyk

Benjamin Di Marco
Willis Towers Watson

Anthony Mather
Technical Director and Cloud & Infrastructure Practice Manager at Quorum

Nitesh Patel
Principal at Gilchrist Connell

James Tin
Senior Director of Global Security Solutions at Shape Security

Roger Grimes
Author of 11 books

Camille Singleton
Analyst at IBM

Frank Briguglio
Identity, Credentialing and Access Management (ICAM)

Joseph Carson
Author of Privileged Account Management for dummies and Cybersecurity for dummies

David Ormrod
Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia

Shain Singh
Cloud/5G Security Architect

Gandhi Muruganantham
Security Operations, Security Architecture

Peter Deans
Chief Risk Officer of Bank of Queensland

Jonathan Oliver
TrendMicro

Chris Hilton
Senior Support Engineer

Craig Horne
Managing Director at Informational Risk

Asaf Dori
University of Sydney Business School

Brian Odian
Director of Asia Pacific Global Compliance & Risk Services Consulting at Viking Cloud

Anu Kukar
Cyber Ecosystem & GRC ExecutiveAnu

Samuel Shanthan
Information Security, Cyber Security, Operational Risk and Business Continuity

David Fairman
Netskope as the CSO for APAC

David Rudduck
Insane Technologies

Annelies Moens
Managing Director at Privcore

Amy Ormrod
Cyber Consulting Director

Arjen Lentz
CISO at Catalyst IT Australia

Abbas Kudrati
Lead Chief Cybersecurity Advisor

Paresh Kerai
Technical Manager at Sapien Cyber

Tracy Tam
Telecommunications Engineering from Monash University

Annette Peploe
Cyber Security Student

Ralf Huuck
Founder, LOGILICA

Pouya Ghotbi
Associate Director of the Cybersecurity program at St. Bonaventure University New York

2021 Sponsors

• Netwrix
• Zerofox
• Sophos
• EMT
• Mandiant
• Virsec
• One Login
• FireEye
• Helpsystems
• Qualys
• Bsi
• Manage Engine
• Akamai
• Aust Cyber
• DarkTrace
• Thycotic
• Centrify
• Last Pass
• Secure Code Warrior
• Microsoft
• Korda Mentha
• Axonius
• Trustwave
• Synopsys
• BeyondTrust
• Snyk
• Saviynt
• Recorded Future
• Huntsman
• Rapid7
• InfoTrust
• Mimecast
• Okta
• Thales
• CSC
• Skillfield