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Keynote Speakers
Adam Spencer
MC
A lifelong numbers nerd Adam flitted with a law degree and a PhD in pure Maths before winning, of all things, a stand up comedy competition run by Triple J radio entitled “raw comedy”. This national search for as yet undiscovered talent continues today but as Adam explains “I entered in its very first year […]
READ BIOJulie Inman Grant
eSafety Commissioner
Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online. Julie has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors, and spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe. […]
READ BIOKana Shinoda
CODE BLUE
Kana Shinoda is a well known persona in the security field, she is the founder of Code Blue, and has also been working for APWG as an Asian Region Liaison and a conference manager for years. She used to run Black Hat Japan. Kana founded Code Blue with the purpose of introducing excellent-but-unknown researchers to […]
READ BIOLukasz Gogolkiewicz
SEEK
Lukasz Gogolkiewicz Head of Corporate Security at SEEK Lukasz is a high proficient security professional, previously responsible for the technical direction and leadership for one of the worlds largest technical security consultancies. Now, he heads up Corporate Security at SEEK. In this role he is responsible for ensuring the protection of sensitive information across a […]
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Adam Rosen
Stealthbits
Adam is VP of Product Strategy at Stealthbits. Stealthbits Technologies, Inc. is a customer-driven cybersecurity software company ...
READ BIOAleksandr Kolchanov
Independent Infosec Professional
Aleksandr Kolchanov is an independent security researcher and consultant. He is an former penetration tester at a bank in Russia. He ...
READ BIOAlex Penrose
Jollyfrogs
Alex Penrose has over a decade of cyber security experience and has worked for large multinational companies and government. When time ...
READ BIOAlex Webling
Resilience Outcomes Australia
Alex Webling is the Director of Resilience Outcomes Australia, a consultancy helping business and government meet their strategic ...
READ BIOAndras Iklody
CIRCL.LU
Andras Iklody is a software developer working for CIRCL and has been the main developer of the Malware Information Sharing Platform ...
READ BIOAnthony Caruana
Media-Wize
Anthony Caruana, CEO & Co-founder, Media- Wize. Anthony Caruana is a well-known writer, presenter, facilitator, journalist and ...
READ BIOAnthony Corso
Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner: OVIC
Anthony Corso is the Assistant Commissioner for Information Security within the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner ...
READ BIOAyman Sagy
CyberCX
Ayman is a senior security consultant at Sense of Security, a CyberCX company. He has been working in the IT industry since 2004 and ...
READ BIOBarry McMahon
LogMeIn
Barry is a senior manager at LogMeIn and is responsible for evangelising the Identity and Access management division internationally, ...
READ BIOBen Di Marco
Willis Towers Watson
Ben is a data privacy, incident response and cyber insurance expert with over 13 years of experience practicing as a solicitor in both ...
READ BIOBianca Wirth
KPMG
Bianca Wirth has over 20 years’ experience in IT and security and she has consulted to over 100 companies from a diverse range of ...
READ BIOBill Hagestad
Independent Infosec Professional
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Hagestad II is an internationally recognized & respected authority on the People’s Republic of China’s use ...
READ BIOBilly Hunter
UWA
Billy is the Cyber Security Operations Manager at The University of Western Australia. Prior to this role, he has had 13 years cyber ...
READ BIOBrian Hay
Cultural Cyber Security | Cybercation
Brian Hay APM has a rare blend of cyber security skills and business attributes. Long considered a Thought Leader in the world of Cyber ...
READ BIOBrian Kelly
EDUCAUSE
Brian Kelly has been an active member of The EDUCAUSE Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) since 2009, serving on the ...
READ BIOChris Gatford
Hacktive.io
Chris Gatford is the Founder and Director of Hacktive.io in Sydney, Australia and performs penetration tests for organisations all ...
READ BIOChristian Studer
CIRCL.LU
Christian Studer joined CIRCL in 2017 after he graduated with a Masters in Computer Science. During his master thesis at CIRCL he ...
READ BIOColby Prior
AusCERT
Colby Prior is the Infrastructure Engineer for AusCERT. He has a background in DevOps and managing infrastructure. Colby has a strong ...
READ BIODamian Skeeles
Proofpoint
Damian Skeeles, CISSP is a Cyber Security Expert with over 20 years experience in Networking, Email Security, SIEM, Cloud Security and ...
READ BIODani Goland
Net Alpha Financial Systems
At the age of 20, Dani Goland founded his own boutique company for innovative software and hardware solutions. He is a certified AWS ...
READ BIODarren Hopkins
McGrathNicol
Darren is a Partner at McGrathNicol in the Technology & Cyber team who specialises in advising businesses on both proactive and ...
READ BIODave Lewis
Duo Security
Dave Lewis is the Global Advisory CISO of Duo Security. Lewis has 25 years of experience in IT security operations and management, ...
READ BIODavid Jorm
Commonwealth Bank Of Australia
David has worked in the technology industry 20 years, in security for 10 years, and managing technical security teams for 7 years. This ...
READ BIODavid Rudduck
Insane Technologies
For 20 years, David and his team at Insane Technologies have been working to protect and support their small to mid-sized business ...
READ BIODr Mark Carey-Smith
Independent Infosec Professional
Mark has been an information security professional for approximately 20 years. He has worked in operational and architectural infosec ...
READ BIODr Mike Cohen
Velocidex
Dr. Michael Cohen has over 20 years of experience in applying and developing novel incident response and digital forensics tools and ...
READ BIODr Sam Small
Zerofox
Dr. Sam Small serves as the Chief Security Officer of ZeroFOX, helping its customers implement world class social-media protection ...
READ BIOEdward Farrell
Mercury Iss
Edward Farrell is a security consultant with 10 years experience in cyber security and 15 years in technology. As the director of one ...
READ BIOEric Pinkerton
Trustwave
Eric has been breaking things just to fix them again since he was five, at 20, he spent his summer evenings working the door in a ...
READ BIOFatih Ozavci
NAB
Fatih Ozavci is a multidisciplinary security engineer and researcher with two decades of experience on offensive and defensive security ...
READ BIOFederal Agent Bethany Fuller
Australian Federal Police
Bethany joined the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in 2013 and has worked in a diverse range of portfolios including Aviation, ...
READ BIOGarrett O’Hara
Mimecast
Garrett O’Hara is the Principal Technical Consultant at Mimecast having joined in 2015 with the opening of the Sydney office, leading ...
READ BIOGary Gaskell
Infosec Services
Gary has been a pure play cyber security specialist since 1993. This career has been built in part on a masters degree by research in ...
READ BIOGeoff Thonon
AusCERT
Although at ease either behind code, policy documents, working an incident, or writing a process flow diagram, being provided the ...
READ BIOGoran Mitrovic
UWA
Goran is a Cyber Security Operations Specialist (Cyber Transformation Product Owner) at The University of Western Australia. Prior to ...
READ BIOHinne Hettema
Ports of Auckland
Hinne Hettema is the tactical security operations leader at Ports of Auckland. His strengths are in SOC enablement, intelligence and ...
READ BIOJames Ley
Ivanti
James has worked in end user computing for in excess of 15 years, focusing on managing and securing the user workspace. Through ...
READ BIOJay Banerji
CyberCX
Jay is a Senior Investigator in the CyberCX DFIR team. His experience includes a range of incidents, including large and complex ...
READ BIOJohn Bambenek
Bambenek Consulting, Ltd.
John Bambenek is President of Bambenek Consulting, LTD, a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a handler ...
READ BIOJon-Peter (JP) Haywood
Heritage Bank
As Information Security Manager of Australia’s largest mutual bank JP’s passion for cyber security pays off, not only for his ...
READ BIOKevin Ripa
SANS Institute
Kevin currently serves as president of The Grayson Group of Companies, which consists of Computer Evidence Recovery, Pro Data Recovery ...
READ BIOKushal Shah
Fortinet
Kushal is a Senior Security Researcher @ Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs. Research Areas: Fuzzing, Zero Day Discovery in *-wares, Libraries, ...
READ BIOLaurencia Dimelow
Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner: OVIC
Laurencia Dimelow is an experienced Information Security Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in the government ...
READ BIOLaurie Joyce
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Laurie is the Head of Security Compliance at the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the security ...
READ BIOLeon Fouche
BDO
Leon is an experienced ICT professional specialising in cyber security, cloud and technology risk advisory services. He has more than ...
READ BIOLewis Molloy
Tessian
Lewis is an experienced Sales professional from Tessian, helping to lead their expansion in the APAC region. With prior experience at ...
READ BIOMandy Turner
The University of Queensland Australia
Mandy is a firm believer that diversity in all its forms should be encouraged to promote innovation and find solutions to challenges ...
READ BIOMarc Rogers
OKTA
Marc Rogers is the Executive Director of Cybersecurity at Okta. With a career that spans more than twenty years, he has been hacking ...
READ BIOMark Krischer
Cisco
Mark has over 20 years of experience across Mobility and Security technologies, and joined Cisco in 2001 through the Radiata ...
READ BIOMartin Dart
WA Department of Health
Martin Dart has 22 years of experience across multiple technology domains including cybersecurity, healthcare, intelligence operations, ...
READ BIOMaty Siman
Checkmarx
Maty Siman, CTO and founder of Checkmarx, is a technology expert, possessing nearly 15 years of experience in software development, IT ...
READ BIOMichael Hamm
CIRCL.LU
Michael Hamm has worked for more than 10 years as Ingenieur-Security in the field of classical Computer and Network Security (Firewall, ...
READ BIOMichael Marriott
Digital Shadows
Michael Marriott is a Senior Strategy and Research Analyst at Digital Shadows, which he joined in late 2014. Michael has a passion for ...
READ BIOMickey Perre
Elastic
Mickey Perre is a Security Specialist working at Elastic with a long and varied background in Cyber and IT. Before joining private ...
READ BIOMike Holm
AusCERT
Mike is the Senior Manager at AusCERT; which is a leading Cyber Emergency Response Team for Australia and provides information security ...
READ BIOMike Pilkington
SANS Institute
Mike has been an instructor for the SANS Institute since 2008. He currently teaches Windows Forensics In-Depth(FOR500) and Advanced ...
READ BIOMohsan Farid
Ledger Ops
Mohsan has ran the gamut in the security space: from penetration testing for Rapid7 as a consultant, penetration testing for numerous ...
READ BIOMurray Goldschmidt
Sense Of Security
Murray Goldschmidt is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Sense of Security, Australia’s leading pure-play Cyber ...
READ BIONeal Wise
CyberCX
Neal Wise has been involved in the Australian security community since emigrating from the United States in 1998. Starting with the ...
READ BIONegar Shabab
Microsoft
Negar is a security researcher from Microsoft. She has worked in different offensive and defensive roles in cyber security over the ...
READ BIONick Ellsmore
Trustwave
Nick Ellsmore has started, built, merged, acquired and sold multiple cyber-security businesses. Now Director, CPS (Pacific) at ...
READ BIONick Forster
The Missing Link
Nick is a Security Architect with a background in specialist counter-intelligence operations and was previously part of the management ...
READ BIONick Klein
CyberCX
Nick leads the Digital Forensics & Incident Response practice (DFIR) at CyberCX. His team helps clients respond to data breaches ...
READ BIONoushin Shabab
Kaspersky
Noushin is a senior security researcher at Kaspersky’s GReAT team specialising in reverse engineering and targeted attack ...
READ BIOPhillip Jenkinson
Baidam Solutions
Baidam Solutions is an Information Security and Technical solutions firm serving both State and Federal Government and Private ...
READ BIOPrateek Gianchandani
Xen1thlabs
Prateek Gianchandani is currently working as a Security Researcher at xen1thLabs. His current focus is Mobile and Browser Security. He ...
READ BIORonald Michael
Synopsys
Ronald is a Senior Applications Engineer with the Synopsys Software Integrity Group (SIG). Within this role, Ronald engages with ...
READ BIOShane Wescott
Ivanti
Shane Wescott started in IT in 1986, when Super Mini Computers ruled the world and 300MB drives were built like washing machines. He ...
READ BIOSimon Conant
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42
Simon is a Principal Researcher in Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat research group. He draws upon a quarter-century of international ...
READ BIOSimon Stahn
Adrenalan
Simon Stahn is a consultant covering information, identity and business intent. He brings a security and privacy lens to organisations ...
READ BIOStefanie Luhrs
Barry.Nilsson.
Stefanie Luhrs is a solicitor specialising in cyber claims. She has managed both small and large scale incidents for domestic and ...
READ BIOTroy Defty
Following nearly 8 years in red teaming, Troy decided to gain a different perspective on security by flipping the proverbial coin, and ...
READ BIOVirginia Calegare
Virgin Australia (RightSec)
Virtual CISO at Virgin Australia (RightSec) Formally educated in international conflict, counter-terrorism, intelligence, cyber ...
READ BIOWillem Mouton
CyberCX
Willem Mouton is a Principle Security Consultant at Sense of Security, a CyberCX company. Willem is an industry veteran with decades of ...
READ BIOYenni Tim
UNSW Australia
Dr Yenni Tim is a Senior Lecturer at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is a strong advocate for high impact ...
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