keynote speakers

FLUENT Media founder Belinda Heggen is one of Australia’s most experienced and well-respected media and presentation trainers and an in-demand corporate MC.

With more than 25 years’ experience as a journalist and news presenter across TV, radio and print, and as a media strategist and advisor to senior politicians, she specialises in developing confident and inspiring leaders who seek to build their profile and elevate their business brand through strategic communication.

Robbie is the leader of the Cyber Security and Digital Identity portfolios at Curtin University, based in Perth, Western Australia.  He is in charge of developing and implementing strategies, executing operations, and delivering digital transformation programs in these areas. 

His goal is to ensure cyber resilience within Curtin and ensure that its stakeholders have access to the right information from any location and device. He has years of experience in technology and cyber security roles in the public and higher education sectors, where he has built cyber-resilient capabilities and solutions.

Robbie is one of the few and growing number of certified CISOs in Australia, who can provide unique and innovative solutions to the ever-growing cyber security challenges. He uses transparency, trust, collaboration, and partnerships to enable business operations and organisational strategies in a cyber-resilient and risk-informed way.

Matt Berry is a field technologist at Abnormal Security and in the privileged position of analysing, detonating and cataloguing the latest attacks arriving by email. With over 20 years in IT, Matt's various roles cover both technical sales as well as operational support, working for leading tech vendors as well as service providers, IT resellers and consumers of IT.

Prior to Abnormal, Matt worked for Palo Alto Networks as APAC channel engineer covering Palo's cloud security and SASE solution. Matt also spent time at VMware as lead pre-sales engineer for both their SD-WAN and SDN data centre solution. While at VMware Matt also served at field-CTO in the networking and security business unit, presenting at many large events and conferences. Matt co-authored VMWare's SD-WAN book - "SD-WAN 1:1 The What, Why and How". 

Shana Uhlmann (she/her) is the IT Director at Tattarang and Chief Information Security Officer for Tattarang and the Minderoo Foundation. Prior to this she was Assistant Director-General Cyber Defence Capability at the Australian Cyber Security Centre, responsible for delivery of a variety of cyber defence capabilities under both CESAR and REDSPICE programs. Shana brings nearly 20 years Government experience in cyber operations and capability development, including time spent in UK as a technology and tradecraft liaison. In these roles, Shana was noted for successfully delivering outcomes against a breadth of key Government investment programs spanning network engineering, cloud infrastructure, key management and active cyber defence capabilities. Shana is passionate about the future of identity and data and asking the right questions to articulate threat and drive cyber investment dollars further. She combines this passion with her past experiences to craft pragmatic cyber security approaches to modern business challenges.

John Uhlmann (he/him) is a Security Research Engineer at Elastic where he works on the Elastic Endpoint (EDR) Windows agent. His research into detecting modern in-memory malware threats has been presented at Black Hat Asia and BSides Canberra. Prior to this he did similar work at the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

Bradley Anstis is a cyber security specialist at Cisco covering the APJC region.  He works with partners to help them build relevant and successful security services and to ensure they are making best use of the current technologies available to them to maximize protection for their organisations and customers.  Based in Sydney he has been in the security industry for over 20 years covering predominantly email and web security during that time, recently expanding into vulnerability management, incident management and XDR areas.  

Bradley brings a diverse range of skills from product management, running security research teams, defining strategic direction, pre-sales, and sales.  His career has seen him based in the US and well as the UK and working with partners, customers, and other vendors across the world.  He has presented at many major security conferences globally and has been frequently interviewed in media

  Craig Morris is the Director for OT Cybersecurity at KPMG with extensive experience in OT Cybersecurity within Australia and internationally (EMEA, US, Asia) in critical infrastructure.  

Prior to consulting, Craig was the CISO for North Oil Company in Qatar, as well as global roles in Maersk Oil and Gas, and RasGas where he was involved with Executive engagement, IT/OT & IIoT cybersecurity strategies, architecture,  operations, digital transformation, incident response and crisis management.

Farrell has worked for 18+ years in cybersecurity, online brand protection, technology, and innovation. Currently serving as the Global Head of Solutions for Avertro, an Australian cybersecurity organisation, empowering people to make data-driven decisions about their cyber resilience and AI safety with their CyberHQ® suite of SaaS platforms. Elevating security/AI leaders and teams to where they deserve to be: the heroes in the story.

Additionally, in the spirit of giving back to the community, he also leads the Singapore and Western Australian chapters of Cyber Risk Meetup - an international meetup group for Cyber, Risk, InfoSec, and AI professionals.

Security advisor with 20 years experience in building and delivering cybersecurity consulting services to Australian government and industry clients. The majority of my advisory work has been in the areas of

governance, risk and compliance areas, with significant experience in the government context. Active member of the cybersecurity community, with advisory roles to schools, universities, and author of 30+ unique presentations to Australian and international security conferences and events.

Malcolm had a career in the RNZAF before joining GSCB as the Director of Information Systems Security where he developed and managed the national information security programme for New Zealand. He has held Technical Director roles at CES Communications Ltd, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, and Kode-1. He has also held a number of Chief Security Officer roles in the telecommunications field, including Telecom NZ, NBN Co, and Huawei Australia. 

As a consultant he has undertaken security architecture training and cinsultancey contracts in the UK, Norway, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and the Gulf region.

Malcolm has represented Australia and New Zealand in cybersecurity forums internationally, has participated in the ISO and Open Group standards bodies, and has held board roles in both AISA and the SABSA Institute. 

As a part time academic, Malcolm developed and lectured in the Post Graduate Diploma in Forensics and Security at Canterbury University in New Zealand and is now an adjunct Professor at Deakin University Cyber Security Resilience and Trust Institute in Melbourne.  Malcolm was instrumental in developing and launching the vocational Certificate IV in Cybersecurity throughout Australia.  He has published research in the cybersecurity field, and is the author of numerous online cybersecurity and programming courses published through Linkedin Learning and Offsec.