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REQUIREMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS ON THE
PRIVATE SECURITY SECTOR IN A PHASE OF MULTI-REGION CONFLICT
- 📍Level 22, 181 William Street, Melbourne
- 📅Wednesday 18 June 2025
- ⏰5:30pm - 8:30pm AEST
National Security Applications and Advancements in Robotics and AI
Keynote Speaker:
Drone and Satellite Swarm Applications: AI-powered drone and satellite swarms delivering real-time insights for mission-critical applications
Preetham Akula
Founder and CEO, Akula Tech
Akula Tech
Founded in 2022, Akula Tech is an Australian sovereign industry leader in AI-powered space and defence technology. The company is revolutionising satellite systems through AI-powered, software-defined smart satellites that process data directly in orbit, delivering real-time insights for disaster response, security, and environmental monitoring. Its innovations include reconfigurable satellites and autonomous swarming capabilities, enhancing adaptability and mission efficiency. Akula Tech has drastically reduced satellite production timelines from years to months—bringing faster, more responsive solutions to complex global challenges. The company’s vision is to become a billion-dollar enterprise within five to eight years, shaping the future of sovereign space capability.
National & Cyber Security Considerations to Advancements in Robotics and AI
Panel Speakers:
Jeannie Marie Paterson
Professor of Law | Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) - Co-Director | The University of Melbourne
Keith Bulfin
CEO - Dunedin Capital Markets and Monitors Foundation
Sandeep Taileng
Global Speaker I Co-Chair for Information Access and Protection requirements
Bharat Bajaj CISM, CISA, CDPSE
ISACA Melbourne Board Director Certification Director
Daisy Wong
Head of Security Awareness. Medibank | Sponsorship Manager, Australian Women in Security Network
Jeannie Marie Paterson
Professor of Law | Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) - Co-Director | The University of Melbourne
Jeannie’s teaching and research focuses on consumer and data protection law in the context of emerging digital technologies, including issues of fairness, privacy, transparency, security and existential risk in the emergence of AI.
Her current projects centre on digital mental health, generative AI in legal decision-making, and legal responses to deep fake fraud, under the theme of misleading AI.
Jeannie has a track record of consultation and collaboration with government, industry, regulators and community legal centres, as well as being a regular media commentator. She has consulted on legal and regulatory reform to ASEAN, the Banking and Financial Services Royal Commissions, the Productivity Commission, the Australian Law Reform Commission, Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department, Commonwealth Treasury, and ASIC.
Jeannie is an affiliate researcher with the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society, as well as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Jeannie is currently a member of the Commonwealth Government’s temporary AI expert group.
Keith Bulfin
CEO - Dunedin Capital Markets and Monitors Foundation
Keith Bulfin is a former investment banker who transitioned into one of the most dangerous roles imaginable—an undercover agent for the DEA, FBI, and CIA. Over a career spanning more than two decades, Keith has worked with some of the world’s most prominent law enforcement agencies, earning a reputation as one of the leading experts in money laundering and financial crime. Keith’s unique background combines deep financial knowledge with real-world experiences in the fight against global crime. His stories of infiltrating cartels, combating terrorism, and rescuing trafficking victims provide not only entertainment but also critical insights into some of the most pressing issues facing the world today.
Sandeep Taileng
Global Speaker I Co Chair for Information Access and Protection requirements
Bharat Bajaj CISM, CISA, CDPSE
ISACA Melbourne Board Director Certification Director
Bharat is a highly accomplished Technology Risk leader with two decades of experience navigating the complex landscapes of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, and Privacy. He has partnered with three of the “Big Four” Australian banks, spearheading large-scale transformative projects and architecting robust technology risk mitigation strategies that demonstrably safeguard operations, enabling customer objectives. His approach blends deep industry expertise with incisive strategic thinking, consistently delivering tangible business value.
Currently at the forefront of the bank’s adoption of cutting-edge technologies, he is instrumental in the implementation and governance of Machine Learning, Generative AI, and AI Agentic systems. His responsibilities encompass the identification of technology risks and evolving compliance requirements, coupled with the development and implementation of comprehensive guardrails.
Daisy Wong
Head of Security Awareness. Medibank | Sponsorship Manager, Australian Women in Security Network
FURTHER PANEL AND TECHNICAL INSIGHT SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Special Virtual Episodes with ISACA Leaders
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In association with
Sponsored by
- Hear from cybersecurity & ISACA leaders from the United States, Australia & New Zealand
STATE OF CYBER (Part 1)
Maintaining readiness in a complex threat environment
- 📅 Date: Monday 14 April 2025
- ⏰ Time: 1:00pm AEST / 11am AWST
Meet the Speakers
Jamie Norton
ISACA Board Member
Chirag Joshi
Sydney Chapter
Board Member
Abby Zhang
Auckland Chapter
Board Member
Jason Wood
Auckland Chapter former President
Bharat Bajaj
ISACA Melbourne
Board Director
Reshma Devi
Melbourne Chapter Board Member
STATE OF PRIVACY
- 📅 Date: Tuesday 15 April 2025
- ⏰ Time: 9:00am AEST / 7am AWST
Meet the Speakers
Safia Kazi
ISACA HQ
Jo Stewart-Rattray
ISACA Oceania Ambassador
STATE OF TRUST
Security, compliance, and the future of trust
- 📅 Date: Tuesday 15 April 2025
- ⏰ Time: 1:00pm AEST / 11am AWST
Meet the Speakers
Jamie Norton
ISACA Board Member
Jason Wood
Auckland Chapter former President
Reshma Devi
Melbourne Chapter Board Member
Evan Rowse
Vanta
STATE OF CYBER (Part 2)
- 📅 Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025
- ⏰ Time: 1:00pm AEST / 11am AWST
Meet the Speakers
Zeynep Soylu
Sydney Chapter President
Chirag Joshi
Sydney Chapter
Board Member
Abby Zhang
Auckland Chapter
Board Member
Bharat Bajaj
ISACA Melbourne
Board Director
Jason Wood
Auckland Chapter former President
State of Trust - Security, compliance & the future of trust
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- Vanta’s trust management platform takes the manual work out of your security and compliance process and replaces it with continuous automation—whether you’re pursuing your first framework or managing a complex program.
- 📅 Date: Tueaday 15 April 2025
- ⏰ Time: 1:00pm AEST / 11am AWST
Partnering with:
Meet the Speakers
Jamie Norton
ISACA Board Member
Jason Wood
Auckland Chapter former President
Reshma Devi
Melbourne Chapter Board Member
Evan Rowse
Vanta
Jamie Norton
ISACA Board Member
Codee is a seasoned security management professional known for his expertise in merging security and urban design principles to create secure and inviting built environments. Certified in Security Management by ASIS International and holding a Master of Science and First Class Honours degree in security management, Codee is a respected figure in the field.
His extensive experience includes managing crime, counter-terrorism, and cyber risks across government, infrastructure, arts and culture, and commercial sectors. Codee is particularly focussed on built environment strategy, public security, urban design, and security planning. Codee excels in navigating the complex security regulatory environment for corporate entities, state infrastructure projects, and public spaces, guiding projects through the design process from business case through to operations effectively.
- This session will focus on gaining insights in the latest developments and capabilities for establishing and maintaining situational awareness across the maritime domain, with a focus on security, sustainability and space-earth observation.
- 📅 Date: Wednesday 12 March 2025
- ⏰ Time: 7pm AEDT / 4pm AWST
Meet the expert panel:
Thomas Southall
Committee Manager
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARINE AIDS TO NAVIGATION (IALA)
Dr Carl Seubert
Chief Research Officer
SMARTSAT CRC
Clément Galic
CEO & Co-Founder
UNSEENLABS
Kevin Jones
CTO & VP Product
CATALYST (PCI GEOMATICS)
- In today’s security world, there are numerous security solutions that can limit access to company data and IT resources and lock down access. However, when it comes to using AI apps and their back-end models, the answer is not so simple. In this session we take a deep-dive into the challenge that Cisco saw looming on the horizon years ago and has culminated in a brand-new solution called Cisco AI Defence.
- 📅 Date: Monday 24 March 2025
- ⏰ Time: 12:00pm AEDT / 9am AWST
Session sponsor
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Carl Solder
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER - CISCO AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Carl Solder currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Australia & New Zealand (ANZ).
Prior to this role, Carl was Cisco’s Vice President of Engineering for the Enterprise Networking and Cloud Engineering organisation at Cisco HQ in San Jose, California. In this role he was responsible for Technical Strategy for the Enterprise Network and Cloud portfolio. His portfolio included the Catalyst Routing, Switching and Wireless platforms, the Intent Based Networking Software Innovations around Automation, Assurance, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence as well as the Policy, Identity and Segmentation Software
solutions that include Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE).
Through his time at Cisco, Carl has also held various Engineering leadership roles in Cisco HQ San Jose and served as a Distinguished Engineer working on early developments in the area of Mass Scale Data Centre Architectures, OpenFlow and Software Defined
Networking.
With more than 35 years of technical, business and sales leadership experience in the ICT industry, Carl has a diverse ICT background that provides great insight into emerging market transitions.
David Siroky
AI ARCHITECTURE LEAD - CISCO SYSTEMS
David Siroky is the AI Architecture Lead at Cisco Systems, having held various leadership roles across the Asia Pacific. He focuses on solution architecture, collaborating with data scientists to support organizations in delivering their AI projects. His work spans diverse customers in the Asia Pacific & Japan region.
Prior to Cisco, David worked at Dell Technologies and Microsoft in Seattle, contributing to software development projects. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and business, blending technical and strategic expertise.
David is a proud father of a 17-year-old girl, an avid reader, fitness enthusiast, skier and passionate about diversity & STEM.
Chris Cubbage
Director - MYSECURITY MEDIA | MODERATOR
Chris Cubbage is a technology journalist, licensed security professional and certified information systems auditor (CISA).
