Andreas is currently a Principal Enterprise Security Architect at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) in Singapore. At
SCB he is responsible for security planning, security services optimisation and development of security architecture
delivery frameworks and governance structures among other activities.
Before this he was a Principal Enterprise Security Architect at
Australia’s national broadband network (nbn), which is a
government owned enterprise, providing critical infrastructure
services to millions of Australians. At nbn Andreas was responsible
for defining nbn’s Security Strategy and technology roadmap across the organisation.
Prior to nbn, Andreas has worked in management and security
consulting for Accenture, Deloitte and HSBC in various roles, lately
purely focussing on delivering Enterprise Security Architecture
artefacts like Security Architecture Frameworks and Security
Models, and Security Technology Roadmaps to name a few. As a
consultant Andreas has served clients in various industries across
Europe, Asia and Australia.
In addition to his work at SCB, Andreas held multiple positions at
the ISACA Melbourne Chapter board and has been an industry
advisor to various organisations, like the Victorian’s Government
Box Hill Institute and the Security Architecture Working Group of the IoT Alliance Australia. Andreas is also actively involved in the
security architecture community and is running monthly workshops for security architects.
Kate is passionate about world changing ideas and is dedicated to building pathways for women to enter tech careers. Kate Kirwin founded She Codes Australia in 2015, providing the neworks, technical skills, and confidence for women to enter tech careers.
Born in regional WA, Kate strongly believes in empowering women from some of Australia’s most remote regions. So far, more than 12,000 women from all over the country have learned to code through She Codes, with more than $2.5 million worth of scholarships given out to women. Kate’s motto in life is always bring the sparkle, which you can see at She Codes events. Kate has more than a decade of experience working in events, coming from a background of charity events, which she uses to craft impactful, powerful events and programs. Kate is a skilled community builder having successfully nurtured communities at Spacecubed and Plus Eight as well as She Codes.
Her achievements have been recognised with the Business News 40 Under 40 Award, a Women in Digital Champion of Change award, and The West Australian’s Rising Star Award. She was recently named as WA's 2024 Young Australian of the Year.
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.
Vannessa Van Beek is an accomplished cyber security leader with deep industry experience. She has experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, embedding robust security into digital transformation. Vannessa's background includes Security Operations, Incident Management, Risk Governance and Solution Design. Vannessa is an advocate for continuous learning and knowledge sharing within the cyber security community seeing this as critical to staying ahead of emerging threats.
She has 20 years of industry experience, coupled with a Law degree, Master of Business Administration, and a post-graduate diploma in Psychology, which guides her understanding of Technology, Risk, Strategy, and Culture. Her professional qualifications include CISM, CIPM and she is a graduate of the Cyber Leadership Institute and a Certified LEGO Serious Play facilitator.
Vannessa was a finalist in the Australian Women in Security Awards Cyber Security Champion and winner of Women in IT WA Most Outstanding Senior Leader in 2022.
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".
Dr. Shihao Yan received his Ph.D degree from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, in 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian National University, a University Research Fellow in Macquarie University, and a Senior Research Associate in UNSW, Sydney, Australia. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Science, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Perth, Australia. His research spans the broad areas of wireless communication and statistical signal processing for communication security, with an emphasize on the privacy (e.g., covertness) and security of wireless networks. He has published 2 book chapters, 87 journal articles (75 in Q1), and 46 conference papers. His total number of citations is over 6,000 and he has 3 Essential Science Indicators (ESI) highly cited articles.
He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and member of AISA. He is currently an Editor of two journals and has been a Guest Editor for 3 special issues. He has been the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Western Australia Chapter since 2024. He was taking on the role of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair of IEEE GlobeCOM Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security in 2018. In addition, he was invited as one of the four Panel Members for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring workshop on Positioning Solutions for Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems in 2017. He has been short-listed as one of the three finalists of AISA Cyber Security Researcher of the Year for 2023.
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.
Chris is the founder of Connection Digital. She has nearly 2 decades experience managing large technology projects, including SAP and Salesforce implementations. Having spent time in corporates, small businesses and not-for-profits, working for organisations such as SAP, EY and Key Assets. Chris is a passionate advocate for the ethical use of technology.
She specialises in delivering technology services tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as not-for-profit organisations, across Australia. As an independent consultant, Chris operates without ties to any software company, ensuring impartial support and advice.
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
Tara Lie is a passionate cyber security GRC professional. With a background in pure mathematics & statistics, Tara brings diverse knowledge and skills to governance and risk management. Her enthusiasm for security in the quantum era and dedication to advocating for quantum-preparedness has led to Tara being recognised as a Finalist at the Australian Women in Security Awards 2024 in the inaugural "Best in Quantum in Cyber Champion" category.
Tara currently works as the Information & Technology Governance Manager at DWER, volunteers her time translating for Italian cyber news blog Red Hot Cyber, and is part of the Cyber Security Industry Advisory Committee for North Metro TAFE.
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.
Currently working as a content creator and researcher at Phriendly Phishing, and co-host of the new podcast Bytes with Bec and Benji - Bec Caldwell brings with her a unique blend of expertise in cyber security, project management, writing and marketing.
After obtaining technical qualifications in cyber security (Cert 4 Cyber Sec, ISC2 CC, TryHackMe Threat Intelligence and more), she continues to whet her appetite for learning by researching and training in a variety of cyber subjects. She combines a growing technical prowess with a rich background in her former life as a writer (stage, screen and corporate) and actor.
Her study of the human condition through her script writing, keen passion for cyber intelligence, AI, and social engineering, with her adaptability, makes her a compelling new voice in the field.
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.
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.
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