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Speakers

AusCERT has an unparalleled track-record of hosting the best information security speakers in the world.

Keynote Speakers

Dr Joseph Voros

The Voroscope - Freelance Futurist

Dr Joe is a former theoretical physicist who became a professional futurist, with a brief detour along the way at Netscape Communications back in the Palaeolithic Era of the Interweb. These days he assists people and organisations to think about the future in a disciplined and systematic way to help them prepare for its imminent arrival.

Rachel Tobac

SocialProof Security

Rachel is a hacker and the CEO of SocialProof Security where she helps people and companies keep their data safe by training and pentesting them on social engineering risks. Rachel was also 2nd place winner of DEF CON’s wild spectator sport, the Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest, 3 years in a row.

Troy Hunt

Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt is an Australian security researcher and founder of the data breach notification service, Have I Been Pwned.

Main Program and Tutorial Speakers

Alex Webling

Resilience Outcomes Australia

Alex Webling is the Director and CSO of Resilience Outcomes Australia, a consulting firm that helps business and government meet their strategic challenges in organisational and cyber resilience, security governance, privacy and information security.

Alice Farr

Amazon Web Services

Alice Farr (she/her) is a Solutions Architect Manager at AWS, working with Public Sector customers primarily in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. Alice is a member of the AWS specialists group for Security and Compliance for APJ, helping customers build securely and solve security challenges with AWS.

Andrew Hooley

The University of Queensland

Andrew Hooley has worked in the IT industry for 25 years, predominantly in research and academic institutions.  Andrew is a long-term martial arts practitioner with over 30 years of experience and has achieved a Master Instructor qualification in Taekwondo and Hapkido.

Angelo Friggieri

Accenture

As Managing Director in Accenture’s Cyber Security and National Security divisions, Angelo Friggieri is focused on helping Federal Governments, National Security agencies, and Critical Infrastructure providers harness the latest technologies, and incubate new ideas and solutions to maintain pace with adversaries in order to protect our way of life in Australia and across the Five-Eyes.

Ashwin Ram

Check Point

Ashwin Ram is a seasoned cyber security expert and thought leader with a unique blend of CISO consulting experience and technical know-how.

Ben Caisley

Google Cloud

Ben is the Head of JAPAC Security Sales at Google Cloud, with experience helping organisations improve threat detection, prevention & intelligence capabilities across both hybrid cloud and legacy environments.

Ben Di Marco

WTW

Ben is a technology risk, insurance, data privacy, incident response and dispute resolution expert. He has managed major international cyber breaches and technology disputes working across Australia, Europe and the United States.

Brendan D’Arcy

University of Sydney

My name is Brendan D’Arcy, I am an ex-sailor in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) where I served between 2007 and 2020. During my time I was privileged enough to sever on HMAS Manoora, HMAS Sydney, HMAS Ducheneaux and across several minor war vessels.

Brian Hay

Cultural Cyber Security

Brian Hay has a rare blend of cyber security skills and business attributes. Long considered a Thought Leader in the world of cyber security he learned his craft not from the technical demands of the industry but rather by focusing on the activities of organised crime and cyber criminals and their impact upon victims of crime.

Cheryl Wong

Catch

Introduction coming soon

Chris Gatford

Deloitte

Chris has reviewed countless IT environments and has directed and been responsible for numerous security assessments for a variety of corporations and government departments.

Chris Horsley

Cosive

As one of the co-founders of Cosive in 2015, Chris has worked on many and varied projects with companies and government agencies around cyber threat intelligence (CTI) workflow and tools, CTI sharing communities, SOC operations, and automation.

Cody Meakin

Baidam Solutions

Cody Meakin OAM is a proud Western Arrernte man from the Northern Territory. Following on from his sporting career playing wheelchair rugby for Australia and university study Cody begun his cybersecurity study in 2021.

Colby Prior

Octopus Deploy

Colby Prior is a skilled DevSecOps engineer with extensive experience in security automation, and cloud security. With a passion for creating secure and scalable systems, he has worked with a range of organisations, from startups to large enterprises, to build and maintain secure infrastructure.

Corien Vermaak

Cisco

Corien Vermaak started her career as a technology law specialist within the telecommunication space and soon fell in love with Data Privacy and the legal structures governing Cybercrime.

Craig Rowlands

BUPA

Craig Rowlands is the Director Technology Data at Bupa.

Darren Pauli

Telstra

Darren was an infosec journalist for more than a decade before entering the end user awareness space.

Darryl Shields

ACSC

Introduction coming soon

David Cottingham

Airlock Digital

Introduction coming soon

David Gamer

Splunk

Introduction coming soon