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You can’t win every battle, so what does “success” actually look like when the threats keep moving and the best defence still fails? At CISO Sydney, across discussions, panels, and posts I’ve shared recently, one thought struck me. "Cyber security is about change management." At its core, cyber ...
Why Cyber Governance Breaks Down at the Last Mile
Cybersecurity has matured to the point where most organisations know what “good” looks like. Frameworks are in place, ...
AI in Healthcare and Pharmacy: Why Governance, Not Technology, Breaks First
As AI adoption accelerates across healthcare, the most significant risks are not technical. They are organizational. In ...
Building the AI Flywheel and the Data Architecture Behind It with Steven Mellare
In this interview, Steven Mellare shares his insights with Vanessa Jalleh to unpack how organisations can move beyond ...
Speaker Spotlight: Erum Manzoor
Erum Manzoor, Senior Vice President at Citi addresses balancing automation with human oversight at AI Risk and ...
Speaker Spotlight: Bipin Chadha
Bipin Chadha, Senior Vice President Data Scientist at CSAA explores the Future of Agentic AI in the Financial Services ...
Speaker Spotlight: Leonard Hawkes
Leonard Hawkes, Software Engineer at JP Morgan Chase explores unmasking bias involved with AI in the financial services ...
AI, Cloud, and the Business of Resilience: Insights from IT Leaders
As AI accelerates from experimentation to enterprise scale, IT leaders across industries – from CIOs, CTOs, to Heads of ...
6 big ideas in Cloud & Infrastructure that IT Leaders need to be thinking about
As organisations push deeper into AI-driven business models, IT leaders are creating business value while walking the ...
How CISOs Can Make Security Matter to the Business
For today’s CISOs, security only works when it is embedded into how the business operates. Ahead of CISO Financial ...
Building Teams That Work Well Together: In Conversation with Andrew Spiegelman, Service NSW
This interview dives into how organisations can build data and AI teams that truly work together. Vanessa Jalleh from ...
The New CDAO Mandate: Turning Data and AI into Real Business Outcomes
Not long ago, the conversation around data leadership centred on platforms, pipelines, and dashboards. Today, the ...
Is AI the Trojan Horse for Data Governance?
AI is everywhere—and data governance finally has its spotlight. This is our moment to turn attention into influence. ...
Australia's AI Blueprint: A Strategic Power Play
This article examines Australia’s National AI Plan, assessing its opportunities, gaps, and global positioning. It ...
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Our CDAO portfolio is becoming ‘CDAIO’ as the data and AI landscape evolves
We’re introducing a new name for our data and AI portfolio, reflecting AI’s prominence within our agenda and its increasing effect on leadership roles. Our CDAO events will be renamed CDAIO (Chief Data & AI Officer), rolling out gradually from October this year through 2027. This is a natural ...
Trust Is the New KPI: Why AI Governance Has Become a Growth Strategy
For the last two years, the conversation around artificial intelligence has been dominated by speed. How quickly can organisations deploy AI? How many use cases can they launch? How much productivity can they unlock? In 2026, however, the conversation is changing. As AI adoption accelerates across ...
From Idea to Impact: How the Contact Energy team is Turning AI Ambition into Real-World Outcomes
As energy providers navigate growing complexity - data and AI are becoming critical drivers of transformation. At Contact Energy, this is both strategic and practical, with an existing track record of strategic AI projects deployed in production, they are also focussed on with mobilising team ...
Malaysia’s AI Ambition Has a Data Problem
Malaysian government's ambitions around becoming an “AI Nation” by 2030 continue to gain traction, while investments into data centres, cloud infrastructure, and hyperscale computing are reshaping the digital economy. Malaysia’s AI momentum is impossible to ignore. Organisations across the country ...
From Idea to Impact: How the Contact Energy team is Turning AI Ambition into Real-World Outcomes
As energy providers navigate growing complexity - data and AI are becoming critical drivers of transformation. At Contact Energy, this is both strategic and practical, with an existing track record of strategic AI projects deployed in production, they are also focussed on with mobilising team ...
Reports
Transforming Data Delivery for AI Readiness, Australia & Singapore - Quest
Exploring data delivery differences, operational maturity and the capacity cost of one-off delivery across Australia and Singapore As enterprises continue to build maturity in their data capabilities, organisations face challenges concerning how to structure operations, allocate resources, and ...
Sprawling Towards Exposure
Investigating Cloud Permission Risks for CISOs in Southeast Asia Cloud environments now handle the majority of enterprise workloads, but this shift has introduced a critical vulnerability: excessive permissions. As organisations adopt multi-cloud infrastructure at speed, many are accumulating ...
The Rise of Logical Data Management - An O'Reilly Book (Compliments of Denodo)
An Essential Data Strategy for Transforming Your Business in the Age of AI O’Reilly’s The Rise of Logical Data Management, by Christopher Gardner, explains what’s necessary to enable true self-service data access and 24/7 AI-ready data. This comprehensive guide explains how logical data management ...
ThoughtSpot's "9 Data and AI Trends for 2026"
Data and analytics leaders are navigating one of the most transformative periods the industry has ever seen. As AI accelerates innovation and executive expectations intensify, organisations must modernise their capabilities while managing legacy systems, workforce concerns, and growing trust, ...
The Rise of Logical Data Management - An O'Reilly Book (Compliments of Denodo)
An Essential Data Strategy for Transforming Your Business in the Age of AI O’Reilly’s The Rise of Logical Data Management, by Christopher Gardner, explains what’s necessary to enable true self-service data access and 24/7 AI-ready data. This comprehensive guide explains how logical data management ...
Podcasts
Australia’s Award-Winning Jalpa Bhavsar: Leveraging Transferable Skills to Break into Cyber
Jalpa Bhavsar shares insights on how to leverage soft skills and build technical knowledge to pursue a successful career in cybersecurity In this episode of the Business of Infosec podcast, host Michelle Ribeiro is joined by mentor, speaker, podcaster and award-winning Cybersecurity Professional, ...
The Must-Dos for a Highly Capable Cyber Team
Transformation Executive Deepa Bradley and Let’sWeCan Co-Founder Daniel Shore talk about building highly capable cyber teams In this week’s episode of the Business of Infosec podcast, host Michelle Ribeiro is joined by Transformation Executive Deepa Bradley and Let’sWeCan Co-Founder Daniel Shore. ...
Former CISO Rob Wiggan Debunks Cyber Insurance Myths
Rob Wiggan shares insights on career change and how to adopt a winning cyber insurance approach In this week’s episode of the Business of Infosec podcast, host Michelle Ribeiro is joined by Rob Wiggan, a former CISO and accomplished IT professional with more than 25 years of industry experience. ...
Australia’s Award-Winning Jay Hira: Key to Zero Trust Success is Strategy, Not Tools
Jay Hira shares insights on Zero Trust imperative, collaboration, and diversity and inclusion in cybersecurity In this week’s episode of the Business of Infosec podcast, host Michelle Ribeiro is joined by award-winning Cybersecurity Strategist, Jay Hira. Together they walk through Jay’s computer ...
Former CISO Rob Wiggan Debunks Cyber Insurance Myths
Rob Wiggan shares insights on career change and how to adopt a winning cyber insurance approach In this week’s episode of the Business of Infosec podcast, host Michelle Ribeiro is joined by Rob Wiggan, a former CISO and accomplished IT professional with more than 25 years of industry experience. ...
Videos
The AI Criticality Index: Measuring AI Dependence
Corinium’s Vanessa Jalleh spoke to Grant Case about the concept of the AI Criticality Index (ACI) and why organisations need a new way to measure the true impact, dependency, and risk of AI. As AI adoption accelerates, the conversation explores how leaders can move beyond surface-level metrics to ...
Data Governance That Delivers: Focus, Value, Impact: Insights from Lucy Bailey
Lucy Bailey, a data governance leader, shares insights on how data governance delivers focus, value, and impact . In this insightful interview, Corinium's Vanessa Jalleh sat down with Lucy Bailey to explore the evolving role of Data Governance in modern organisations. Lucy shares her perspective on ...
Speaker Spotlight: Erum Manzoor
Erum Manzoor, Senior Vice President at Citi addresses balancing automation with human oversight at AI Risk and Compliance Online. To watch Erum's uncut participation from AI Risk and Compliance Online: Press Here. Topics covered in this conversation include: How will the EU AI Act & U.S. ...
Speaker Spotlight: Bipin Chadha
Bipin Chadha, Senior Vice President Data Scientist at CSAA explores the Future of Agentic AI in the Financial Services industry. To watch Bipin's uncut presentation from Agentic AI in Financial Services Online 2025: Press Here. Topics covered in this conversation include: How are autonomous AI ...
Speaker Spotlight: Erum Manzoor
Erum Manzoor, Senior Vice President at Citi addresses balancing automation with human oversight at AI Risk and Compliance Online. To watch Erum's uncut participation from AI Risk and Compliance Online: Press Here. Topics covered in this conversation include: How will the EU AI Act & U.S. ...
