RISK & CONTROLS | CYBER SECURITY | INTELLIGENCE & COUNTER INTELLIGENCE | ELECTRONICS | ANALYTICS | TECHNICAL DESIGN
Presents
2026 SERIES
ADVANCEMENTS & APPLICATIONS FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION & HIGH SECURITY ENVIRONMENTS
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SERIES & session Sponsors 2026
2026 Series Speakers
Speakers are listed in alphabetical order by surname.
Sathya Balakrishnan
Cloud & Cyber Security Advisor
Ben Beard
Director
MITHRAL SECURITY
Stephen Beaumont AM
Non-Executive Director/Chair
CI-ISAC
Harry Brown
Cybersecurity Consultant
PHRONESIS SECURITY
Tony Campbell
Principal - Security Consulting & Advisory
KINETIC IT
Richard Cook
Senior Consultant, Service Integration
KINETIC IT
Vlado Damjanovski
Managing Director
VIDI LABS
Dr Malcolm Davis
Senior Analyst
ASPI
George Dionisopoulos
CEO and Co-Founder
GRC4
Daniel Ehrenreich
ICS-OT-IIoT Cyber Security Consultant | Certified Lead Auditor
Dr Daniel Floreani
CEO
CYBEROPS
Kate Hampson
Security Consultant | Resilience, Security & Risk
ARUP
Frazer Holmes
NZ Security Lead - Technical Director
WSP
Mark Jarratt
Director (Southern Region)
INDUSTRY RISK
Brendan Laidler
General Manager
SENSYS GROUP
Aaron Lincoln
National Business Development Manager
DAVCOR
Nicola Lockhart
Lecturer - Counter Terrorism, Security & Intelligence Deputy Lead
SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH GROUP
Codee Ludbey
Co-Founder and Managing Director
CORE42
Luke Percy-Dove
Founder and Director
MATRYX CONSULTING
Alastair Russel
Head of Estimating
BOON EDAM AUSTRALIA
Dr Mahendra Samarawickrama
Director- AI Safety, Governance and Policies
CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE AI
Carl Seubert
Chief Research Officer
SMARTSAT CRC
Gary Shaw
General Manger
RUSWIN
Dr Aditya Sood
VP of Security Enginerring & AI Strategy Engineering
ARYAKA
Thomas Southall
Committee Manager
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARINE AIDS TO NAVIGATION (IALA)
Sandeep Taileng
Global Speaker I Co-Chair for Information Access and Protection requirements
Murray Thompson
Senior Consultant – Defence and Federal Government
KINETIC IT
Professor Yiannis Ventikos
Dean of Engineering
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Daisy Wong
Head of Security Awareness. Banking Sector | Sponsorship Manager
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN SECURITY NETWORK
Chris Zammit
General Manager - Security, Technology & Risk
NATIONWIDE CORPORATE SERVICES
More speakers to be announced soon
2026 Speakers
Ben Beard
Director - MITHRAL SECURITY
Tony Campbell
Senior Consultant – Defence and Federal Government at Kinetic IT
Richard Cook
Senior Consultant, Service Integration at Kinetic IT
George Dionisopoulos
CEO and Co-Founder of GRC4
Nicola Lockhart
Counter Terrorism, Security & Intelligence Deputy Lead - Security and Intelligence Research Group
Nicola Lockhart
Nicola Lockhart
Counter Terrorism, Security & Intelligence Deputy Lead - Security and Intelligence Research Group
Nicola Lockhart
NEXT EPISODE will be announced soon
NATIONAL partners
INDUSTRY knowledge partner
- 📅 Date: Wednesday 23 July 2025
- ⏰ Time: 1pm AEST / 11am AWST
Integrating vulnerability response into service delivery
- Critical infrastructure providers across federal, state, and defence sectors face increasing pressure to modernise their operations securely and consistently. This webinar explores how an enterprise-wide approach to cyber security and service management enables better outcomes by aligning data, standardising processes, and integrating vulnerability response. Attendees will gain insights from real-world use cases, and learn practical strategies to drive secure digital transformation at scale.
- By attending, you will
- Discover how to align your cyber security and service management strategies to strengthen operational resilience and compliance.
- Learn from real-world examples and practical use cases relevant to critical infrastructure and defence sectors.
- Gain actionable insights and strategies to securely modernise operations and manage vulnerabilities at scale.
- Don’t wait for a cyber incident to happen—prepare now by registering for this exclusive event.
Meet the expert panel:
Dan Spada
Principal – Service Integration
Kinetic IT
Tony Campbell
Principal - Security Consulting & Advisory. KINETIC IT
Murray Thompson
Senior Consultant – Defence and Federal Government
Kinetic IT
Richard Cook
Senior Consultant, Service Integration
Kinetic IT
Chris Cubbage
Moderator
MySecurity Media
Dan Spada
Principal – Service Integration
Kinetic IT
Tony Campbell
Principal - Security Consulting & Advisory. KINETIC IT
Murray Thompson
Senior Consultant – Defence and Federal Government
Kinetic IT
Richard Cook
Senior Consultant, Service Integration
Kinetic IT
Chris Cubbage
Moderator
MySecurity Media
more speakers to be announced
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.
INSIGHT SESSION - ORGANISED CRIME & TECHNOLOGY
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.
PANEL SESSION
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
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. Banking Sector | 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.
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
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.
Ben Beard
Director - MITHRAL SECURITY
Tony Campbell
Principal - Security Consulting & Advisory.
KINETIC IT
Richard Cook
Senior Consultant, Service Integration,
Kinetic IT
Sandeep Taileng
Global Speaker I Co-Chair for Information Access and Protection requirements
Murray Thompson
Senior Consultant – Defence and Federal Government, Kinetic IT
Daisy Wong
Head of Security Awareness. Banking Sector | Sponsorship Manager, Australian Women in Security Network
George Dionisopoulos
CEO and Co-Founder of GRC4
Nicola Lockhart
Lecturer - Counter Terrorism, Security & Intelligence Deputy Lead - Security and Intelligence Research Group
Evan Rowse
GRC Subject Matter Expert, Vanta
Chris Zammit
General Manager - Security, Technology & Risk, Nationwide Corporate Services
Sandeep Taileng
Global Speaker I Co-Chair for Information Access and Protection requirements
Murray Thompson
Senior Consultant – Defence and Federal Government, Kinetic IT
Carl Seubert
Chief Research Officer, SMARTSAT CRC
Dr Aditya Sood
VP of Security Enginerring & AI Strategy Engineering, Aryaka
Thomas Southall
Committee Manager for the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation (IALA)
- 📅 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).
