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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

David Jorm

x15 Ventures

David has been working in the tech industry for 24 years, with the last 12 of those focused on cyber security. He has worked on open source security, vulnerability research and exploit development, penetration testing, DevSecOps, and cyber security education.

David Rudduck

Solis Security

Introduction coming soon

Dean Luxton

Splunk

Dean is a Sales Engineer based out of Brisbane Australia with over 5 years of security operations experience, specialising in detection engineering.

Dr James Carlopio

Cultural Cyber Security

Dr. Carlopio has worked on cultural and technology transformation projects for numerous Australian, European and US-based organisations.

Dr Mark Carey-Smith

AusCERT

Mark is a highly experienced cyber security professional with a wide variety of skills and knowledge. Mark has 21 years industry experience across multiple sectors.

Dushyant Sattiraju

Deakin University

He holds two master’s degrees in Information Security and Business Information Systems. Over the past 10+ years at Deakin University, Dushyant was has worked in various areas in the field of ICT including Application development, Business Analytics and Security.

Edward Farrell

Mercury Information Security Systems

Edward Farrell is a security consultant with over 13 years’ experience in cyber security and 18 years’ experience in the IT industry.

Fernando Diaz

Virustotal

Fernando is a Software Engineer at VirusTotal. His experience involves analysis of banking trojans, development of automated binary analysis solutions. He also teaches binary instrumentation at UMA’s Malware Intelligence MSc.

Fernando Serto

Cloudflare

Fernando is the Chief Technologist and Evangelist for Asia Pacific, Japan and China at Cloudflare, and has been in the IT industry for almost two decades, starting his early career as a developer, transitioning to Infrastructure roles in Server, Application and Networking space in both Operations and Professional Services, with a focus on Security.

Gary Gaskell

Infosec Services

Gary has been a pure play cyber security specialist since 1993. This career has been built on a masters degree by research in the security field and extensive experience across government and large enterprises.

Gavin Brown

Cyberbit

Gavin Brown is a Cyber Technical Trainer at Cyberbit, the provider of the world’s most advanced Cyber Range.

Georg Lippold

Mastercard

Dr. Georg Lippold is a principal engineer on the Cryptographic Architecture and Engineering team and part of Mastercard’s Emerging Corporate Security Solutions program.

Helen Todd

The University of Queensland

Helen Todd is a provisionally registered psychologist. She holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science with First Class Honours and is currently completing a Master of Professional Psychology at Edith Cowan University.

Hinne Hettema

The University of Queensland / Mainfreight

Hinne is an experienced security leader who coaches organizations in developing and deploying internal security capabilities. He is focused exclusively on defense and defensive options.

Ivano Bongiovanni

The University of Queensland

Ivano is a researcher, consultant, author, and speaker whose work focuses on the managerial and business implications of Cybersecurity.

Jack Reis

Baidam Solutions

Jack Reis, Co-Founder, and Group CEO of Baidam Solutions, leads a prominent IT company that is shaking up the tech industry.

Jade Koay

Australian Signals Directorate

Jade Koay is currently the Administrator of the Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP), a key assurance program within the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).

James Young

Splunk

As a member of the Global Technical Security Strategist team at Splunk, James brings more than 25 years cyber security experience across cyber security engineering, architecture and consulting roles.

Jamie Gillespie

APNIC

Jamie Gillespie is a Senior Internet Security Specialist at APNIC, providing security training, outreach, and development of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), network operators, and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across 56 economies in the Asia Pacific region.

Jamie Zajac

Recorded Future

Introduction coming soon