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Aamer Charania

Capital One

Aamer Charania

Director, Machine Learning, Capital One

Aamer is a creative leader with consistent success driving vision, strategy and development of AI and machine learning solutions in diverse industry domains including Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology, Telecom, and Airlines. Passion for delivering technical solutions that generate the most business value. Leads cross-functionally, effectively bridging the gap between technology and business, while stimulating collaboration and creativity. Builds and empowers high performance teams, attracting and developing top talent. Awarded over ten patents. Research and graduate education at MIT. Keeping up with the latest in AI via continuous learning and sought after certifications.

Aamer Mushtaq

Snowflake

Aamer Mushtaq

Manager, Sales Engineering, Snowflake

Aaron Tobin

IBM Observability

Aaron Tobin

Product Manager, IBM Observability

Aashish Pathak

AUSIEX

Aashish Pathak

Senior Manager, Information Security, AUSIEX

I am a technically-sophisticated professional with comprehensive experience in ISMS program strategy & direction to delivery mapping of services like vulnerability management, cybersecurity, intellectual data property protection, disaster recovery management, SIEM/SOAR delivery, network security, and endpoint risk management.

My professional experience includes diligently monitoring my employer’s environment for security threats and then creating and implementing measures to address said threats. With a proven track record of delivering ISMS and working across the cybersecurity landscape, I perform security infrastructure design/remodelling across a range of security services such as technologies related to ASD-8 control solutions, SIEM systems, governance and risk management. My expertise also lies in identity and access management (IAM), penetration testing/red-teaming, privacy protection, GRC review/audit assessment, and incident handling to ensure security, performance, operability, and scalability.

Abbas Kudrati

Deakin University

Abbas Kudrati

Executive Advisory Board for Cyber Security, Deakin University

I have always enjoyed superhero characters and warrior movies and believed in the quote; “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”, so becoming a Cyber Security Professional was a natural career choice to make. Twenty plus years on and I am still passionate about what I do and enjoy going to work every day.

I am particularly proud of my involvement in spearheading a “Green Field” approach for cybersecurity, uplifting the culture change and executing a risk-based KPI-driven information security programme in my previous four organisations. It gives me a great deal of satisfaction to know I have delivered a lasting impact on the organisation cyberculture that ultimately helps them in achieving better regulatory compliance and gaining customer trust.

My strengths include being able to see both the big picture and all the smaller associated risks to the business which has enabled me to consistently improve the cyber posture of the organisation within the given time and scope requirements.

In terms of making a difference with what I do – I enjoy networking and helping our customers organizations achieve sustainable excellence by securing their data and manage risk while taking advantage of the opportunities presented by today’s intelligent cloud, intelligent edge world.

Abdulla Al Attas

PLUS Malaysia

Abdulla Al Attas

Head of Cyber Security , PLUS Malaysia

Abdulla is a seasoned information security professional with more than 14 years of working experience as a consultant and end-user. He is currently the head of cybersecurity in PLUS Malaysia Berhad to ensure the digital transformation built with security in mind. This will be considered Abdulla’s fourth digital information security transformation that he is involved in.

Abdulla’s recent experience involved being part of the digital information security transformation covering both strategy & operating model formation covering all aspects of the information security domain. Additionally, he led the deployment/building of the digital information security transformation focused on the cyber defence domain (e.g. SOC, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response).

Abdulla’s earlier career in information security focused on building Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) for UN member countries under the guidance of ITU. He and his team have built CSIRT foundation capabilities aligned with the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) guideline that cover technology, process and upskilling people.

Abdullah Biary

United Cooperative Assurance (Saudi Arabia)

Abdullah Biary

CISO, United Cooperative Assurance (Saudi Arabia)

Abdullah Muhammad

BUPA

Abdullah Muhammad

Continuous Security Improvement Manager, BUPA

Abdullah is a passionate technology security leader who enjoys leading by influence across vertical and horizontal organisational dimensions to drive change wavelets for impactful business and security outcomes. Over the course of his 15+ years' experience, Abdullah has served in a range of roles in start-ups and large corporates including TPG Telecomm, Telstra and iSelect. Abdullah currently works for Bupa Asia Pacific as Continuous Security Improvement Manager, where he drives security uplift initiatives across Technologies, People and Processes.

Abdullah has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Cyber Security with a focus on Business Operations at La Trobe University. As a lifelong learner, Abdullah has secured a number of industry certifications including CISSP, CISM, PMP, PSM, TOGAF.

Abdullah is most passionate about developing synergistic partnerships between Business, Technology and Security teams to drive the most effective risk-driven cyber resilience capability. Data Protection, Zero Trust and Cloud Security are Abdullah's key areas of focus and interest

Abhi Mehta

Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (Queensland)

Abhi Mehta

Data Solutions Architect / Advisor, Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (Queensland)

Abhishek Mathur

H2O.ai

Abhishek Mathur

Head of MLOps & AI Governance Solutions, H2O.ai

Abid Adam

Axiata

Abid Adam

Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Axiata

Abid Adam is the Axiata Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer (GCRCO), responsible for providing strategic direction, implementation, oversight and guidance for Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Enterprise Risk Management, and Compliance/Ethics across the South East Asia region. Before joining Axiata, Abid has led Cyber security function and implemented transformational programmes for a large multi-national financial services organisation spanning across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Advisory to the Boards, and the CXO suite on Cyber and Privacy related matters.

Abid Adam serves at the World Economic Forum Digital Asean initiative and is a member of leading Global institutions such as ISC2 and ISACA. He was also a chapter representative for the Information Security Forum (ISF), the ISF is the world’s leading authority on cyber, information security and risk management comprising many of the world’s leading organisations featured on the Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 lists. Furthermore, he also currently serves on customer advisory boards and community forums of leading organisations.

He currently holds BSC Computer Science degree, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, MBCI and numerous other leading international accreditations.

Abigail Bradshaw

Australian Cyber Security Centre

Abigail Bradshaw

Head, Australian Cyber Security Centre

Ms Abigail Bradshaw was appointed the Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) in March 2020, and is responsible for leading the Australian Government’s operational advice and assistance to improve cyber security for Australians and Australian entities.

Ms Bradshaw has held key National Security roles where she has lead whole of government operations, as well as policy and international roles, focussing on advancing Australia’s national security agenda domestically and offshore.

Ms Bradshaw has held key appointments within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C), as the Deputy Coordinator of the National Bushfire Recovery Agency and the head of the National Security Division, providing advice and coordinating proposals to the Prime Minister and the National Security Committee (NSC) on key national security issues.

Ms Bradshaw has also held senior roles in the Department of Home Affairs, leading offshore resources covering Europe and Sub Saharan Africa, and as the Department’s inaugural Chief Risk Officer. Prior to this, she was the Deputy Commander of Maritime Border Command during the height of the people smuggling trade.

Ms Bradshaw began her career in the Royal Australian Navy and was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross in 2005. She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Asian Studies.

Abood Ali Alzahim

Saudi Human Rights Commission (KSA)

Abood Ali Alzahim

Chief Data Officer, Saudi Human Rights Commission (KSA)

Adam Chee

National University of Singapore

Adam Chee

Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, National University of Singapore

Currently serving as Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Dr. Adam CHEE has more than 20 years of health informatics, digital health, innovation, technologies and business experience. Prior to joining the National University of Singapore, he was the Director of BinaryHealthCare, spearheading many significant and notable projects across Asia Pacific and Middle East through the provision of digital health transformation expertise to both health(care) and solution providers via consulting assignments, executive coaching, training, leadership and speaking engagements.

His unique background also includes working in business, market development and product management with established organization including AGFA Heathcare, CrimsonLogic; innovative startups and leading the Health IT and Medical Imaging practice within Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific. He ‘earned his stripes’ as an industry pioneer, implementing and managing clinical information solutions during his tenure with Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) and have since worked across the healthcare ecosystem, including the primary care sector, private and public tertiary hospitals, research institutes, government health agencies and NGOs across the globe. He had also worked in the areas of IT technical, system and technology management during the earlier part of his career.

Adam serves on several relevant committees including (but not limited to):

  • Chair, Health Level Seven (HL7) Singapore
  • Founding Co-Chair, HL7 Korea-Singapore Research & Innovation Alliance (HKSRIA)
  • Chair, Technical Committee for Health Informatics, Singapore Standards Council

A firm believer of lifelong learning, Adam is a "Specialized Generalist" with a Doctor of Industrial Technology (Health Informatics), Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Health and Master of Science (Applied Computing).

A recognized Subject Matter Expert, Adam serves as an Expert (Digital Health) with WHO and holds faculty positions with institutes of higher learning in the region, including a Visiting Professorship with Taipei Medical University, has published three books, numerous articles and frequently advises + speaks at international conferences (including HIMSS, Harvard etc.). Adam also holds the following professional fellowships;

  • FRSPH – Fellow of Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH)
  • FHIMSS – Fellow of Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS)
  • FACHI – Fellow of Australasia College of Health Informatics (ACHI)

Adam’s detailed profile is available at www.BinaryHealthCare.com/Adam

Adam Ciperski

ThoughSpot

Adam Ciperski

VP Customer Success, North America, ThoughSpot

Adam Fox

MassMututal

Adam Fox

Head of Data, MassMututal

Adam Gould

ANZx at ANZ

Adam Gould

Head of Data Enablement, ANZx at ANZ

Adam Hallyburton

SEEK

Adam Hallyburton

Security Project Manager, SEEK

Adam Hallyburton is a program management SME and leader, with a background in IT operations and support with career spanning 25+ years across many different types of diverse industries.
Adam has worked across small to large scale programs and projects in complicated and multi levelled stakeholder environments and provided effective solutions and change for global companies.
Some of Adam’s passions outside of work lie in music collection, avid sports lover and partial to good food and wine.

Adela Macarie

Westpac

Adela Macarie

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Group Treasury, Westpac

Adele Jones

Nedbank (South Africa)

Adele Jones

Lead Architect: Information Security & Blockchain, Nedbank (South Africa)

Adele Jones has over 14 years of hands on information security experience. This includes building security mechanisms into some of the most well-known South African retail and business internet banking sites to participating in red and blue team exercises to map and validate possible attack path vectors. Adele also assisted in formalising the security architecture design function at one of SA leading banks.

Since joining the SAFBC in 2016 as the leading technical Blockchain representative for Nedbank, Adele has immersed herself into the technical blockchain community. She has been closely involved in the development of the new versions of Hyperledger Fabric (IBM’s blockchain solution that is open-sourced), Project Indy (an blockchain project for identity) and developments like Zero-Knowledge proof which addresses privacy issues on blockchain implementations.

Adele Marshall

Fletcher NZ Distribution (PlaceMakers / Mico)

Adele Marshall

Head of Data & Analytics, Fletcher NZ Distribution (PlaceMakers / Mico)

Adele Marshall is a senior leader within the Fletcher NZ Distribution division, where she is responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to build comprehensive data and analytical capability across the organisation, covering data governance, quality, infrastructure, people and process. Adele has specialised in the Data, Analytics, and AI specialty over the last 25 years in both Consulting and In-house roles covering a variety of industries.  She has led multiple green fields, and capability improvement programmes for organisations of all sizes and budgets.  She enjoys mentoring others and sharing her knowledge, to help others get started on their data utilisation journey in the best way possible. 

 

Adenike Cosgrove

Proofpoint

Adenike Cosgrove

Cybersecurity Strategy, International, Proofpoint

Adenike Cosgrove is the Cybersecurity Strategist for international markets at Proofpoint, where she drives product marketing strategy across European and Asia Pacific markets. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management, data privacy, and compliance.

Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research and Canalys, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.

Ms. Cosgrove is a regular speaker at key conferences including the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in the US and Japan, the Fortune Brainstorm conferences, the Evanta CIO Executive Summit, it-sa Germany, ISMS Spain and Hacking Human Nature live. Ms. Cosgrove’s subject matter expertise has also been featured in Business Reporter, Computer Business Review, Computing, Forbes, Intelligent CISO, SC Magazine UK, The Telegraph, GovInfo, and iTWire.

Recently recognised as one of the UK’s Most Inspiring Women in Cyber 2020, Ms. Cosgrove was also named a finalist at the Computing Security Excellence Awards 2020 in the Security Woman of the Year category.

Ms. Cosgrove holds a Masters of Research, Telecommunications from UCL (University College London) and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Engineering from the University of Hull.

Adi Tobias

Uber

Adi Tobias

Head of Customer Experience Strategy & Operations Sub Saharan Africa, Uber

In her career spanning over 14 years, three continents, and multiple industries, Adi has demonstrated her drive and commitment towards customer-centered change. With her rich experience in top-tier Financial Services, Market Research, and now Technology firms, Adi has used her background in marketing strategy to champion insights-driven communication, leveraging her broad skill set in customer experience and service design. Adi is currently the Head of Customer Experience at Uber. l where she and her team are committed to delivering superior experiences through transformative CX strategy, culture, and best practice.

Adrian McGill

Adrian McGill

Fivetran

Adrian McGill

Adrian McGill

Lead Solution Architect, Fivetran

Adrian works as the Lead Solution Architect for Fivetran in EMEA. He has been working in the Data & Analytics field for 15 years both in industry and as a consultant.

He has a passion for working with organisations to ensure they are drawing real value from the data they hold within their business. He is a huge supporter of implementing data literacy programs to ensure that non-technical audiences can understand and harness the data available to them.

Adrian Theuma

BankVic

Adrian Theuma

Head of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, BankVic

Adriana Flores

Qlik México

Adriana Flores

Directora General, Qlik México

29 años en la industria de la tecnología de información desarrollando amplia experiencia en áreas comercial, de producto, canales y marketing para sectores Corporativo, Gobierno, PyME y Retail.

Sumamente interesada en el desarrollo y crecimiento de la mujer en el mundo corporativo apoyando mediante mentoring y coaching.

Agate Ponder-Sutton

Ministry of Education of New Zealand

Agate Ponder-Sutton

Chief Data Scientist, Ministry of Education of New Zealand

As Chief Data Scientist for the Ministry of Education, Agate drives the Ministry’s improvements in data utilisation and machine learning. Her work translates directly to better, more informed decision-making and targeted problem-solving. She is passionate about supporting better data understanding. Agate has built her professional career practicing and teaching data science, building teams, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), and swords. Agate is an award winning speaker who delivers creative solutions, clear explanations, stakeholder engagement, and leadership. 

Agnieszka Lecka

Standard Chartered Bank

Agnieszka Lecka

Strategy and Planning Senior Manager, Standard Chartered Bank

Agnieszka has been cybersecurity management consultant for almost a decade, currently in the role of Strategy & Planning Senior Manager for Cyber Security Services at a major APAC bank, previously serving clients as part of a global consulting firm in Poland, Germany, Austria and New Zealand.

Agnieszka specializes in cyber functions' deep dive maturity, compliance and regulatory readiness assessments, especially in financial institutions. Her favourite part about the job is actually helping CISOs through definition of strategic roadmaps and aligning the tools, the teams and processes to support these.

While her work revolves mainly about structuring and optimising CISO functions, she also pursues her interests in OSINT and social engineering.

Agus Sudjianto

Wells Fargo

Agus Sudjianto

Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk, Wells Fargo

Agus Sudjianto is an executive vice president, head of Model Risk, and a member of Management Committee at Wells Fargo, where he is responsible for enterprise model risk management. Prior to his current position, Agus was the modeling and analytics director and chief model risk officer at Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom.

Before joining Lloyds, he was an executive and head of Quantitative Risk at Bank of America. Prior to his career in banking, he was a product design manager in the Powertrain Division of Ford Motor Company. Agus holds several U.S. patents in both finance and engineering.

He has published numerous technical papers and is a co-author of Design and Modeling for Computer Experiments. His technical expertise and interests include quantitative risk, particularly credit risk modeling, machine learning, and computational statistics. He holds masters and doctorate degrees in engineering and management from Wayne State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Agustina Villamide

Dott

Agustina Villamide

Legal Counsel Privacy & Data Protection Officer, Dott

Ajit Sancheti

CrowdStrike

Ajit Sancheti

Vice President, Identity Protection, CrowdStrike

Ajit Sancheti is VP of Identity Protection at CrowdStrike. Previously, he was Co-Founder of Preempt and has over 20 years of experience in IT security and executive leadership. He also co-founded Mu Dynamics (acquired by Spirent Communications), which developed security testing solutions for networking infrastructure. Before Mu Dynamics, Ajit was an integral member of the team that developed the industry’s first Intrusion Detection and Prevention system at OneSecure (acquired by NetScreen/Juniper). Ajit received his M.S. in Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his MBA from INSEAD, France.

Al Silipigni

City National Bank

Al Silipigni

SVP Operational Risk & Fraud, City National Bank

Alan Barbosa

Grupo Pro Security

Alan Barbosa

Chief Technology, Product & Data Officer, Grupo Pro Security

Professional engaged in transforming organizations to be agile, innovative and provide superior and digitally enabled experiences and results for B2B and B2C customers. Strategic and agnostic mindset, with functional knowledge in digital transformation, technologies, big data in the cloud and on-premises, machine learning and IoT working in various segments of the economy, facilitating strategy formulation as well as agile execution. A high-energy, data-driven leader to maximize results, with proven success in achieving high margin revenue growth, prudent cost management and a passion for building and leadership high performance teams.

Alan Raubenheimer

Data Horizons

Alan Raubenheimer

Managing Director, Data Horizons

I am passionate about Data - understanding, protecting it and deriving full value from effective management, governance and use.
I have been involved in all spheres of Information Technology - Analysis, Development, Architecture, Project Management and Leadership - over my career.
I am passionate about technology and helping companies leverage the most value from their data assets.
I focus is on assisting organisations understand and develop programs for Data and Information Governance and Data Privacy, including all aspects of planning, education, development of frameworks, policies, processes and practical implementation.
I also look to help them get the most out of understanding their Customers better and making better decisions by using advanced AI technologies to guide their customer engagements.

Alan Sharvin

Reece Group

Alan Sharvin

Head of Digital, Reece Group

Albert Suryadi

Mirvac

Albert Suryadi

General Manager, Data Science, Mirvac

Albert is a proven leader in enabling advanced analytics and data science capability in blue chip organisations. Bringing more than a decade of experience in solving complex business problems through data analytics. Possessing strong mathematical/quantitative knowledge to deliver production grade data science solutions. Recognised as the leader of the Analytics CoP (Community of Practice) that empowers and motivate others beyond the status quo.

 

He currently leads the Data Science department for Mirvac which includes the integrated breadth from Engineering Science to Decision Science. Day-to-day, he partners with various different teams, such as construction, residential, commercial, office, design, marketing and many others, to achieve their business strategy through data and quantitative solutions. It aims towards a modern data ecosystem that is fast, friendly and flexible with fast speed-to-value for everyone at Mirvac.

Alberto Jimenez

IBM

Alberto Jimenez

VP of Product Management for IBM Business Automation, IBM

Alberto is responsible for product management and strategy of IBM’s Business Automation portfolio. With a specialty in the financial services sector, he has been in the software product management and strategy space for almost 20 years holding various roles ranging from product leader for Watson Commerce, director of product management for Cloud Platform, and more. Alberto is well regarded in the industry with almost two decades of experience in helping clients deliver technology to mission-critical business applications.

Alec Berkley

BundleB2B

Alec Berkley

Co-Founder & Director of Business Development, BundleB2B

Alejandro Correa Bahnsen, PhD

RappiBank

Alejandro Correa Bahnsen, PhD

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, RappiBank

Dr. Alejandro Correa Bahnsen is the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at RappiBank. With a passion for machine learning, he considers himself a technology evangelist of data science. He has more than a decade of experience applying the use and development of Artificial Intelligence to real-world issues such as cybersecurity, risk management, and marketing.

Alejandro is also an Adjunct Professor in the Industrial Engineering department of Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, where he teaches Deep Learning and Applied Data Science classes for the undergraduate and masters programs. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition from Luxembourg University. 

 

Alejandro Treviño

H2O.ai

Alejandro Treviño

AI Business & Sales Manager, Spanish LATAM, H2O.ai

Alejandro Treviño es un Coach de Negocios certificado por International Coaching Community, ha desarrollado estrategias de negocio, tecnología y colaborado con más de 300 empresas en países como Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Republica Dominicana, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica, El Caribe y Estados Unidos. Tiene más de 20 años manejando equipos comerciales y de negocios en más de 22 países. Actualmente es Ejecutivo Comercial de Spanish Latam para H2O.ai.



 

Alex Adams

ATO

Alex Adams

CISO & Deputy Commissioner, Service Operations, ATO

Technology (EST) group, and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).  Alex is accountable for delivering IT services to the ATO that drive contemporary staff and client experiences.  Service Operations works collaboratively with Service Provider Partners to deliver IT Services in a Multi-Vendor Environment, ensuring the delivery of IT Services not only meet the current needs of the ATO and the community, but are also constantly evolving and transforming to meet the needs of the community into the future. 

As the CISO, Alex is responsible for coordinating information security at a strategic level. The role facilitates communication between cyber security and business functions as well as overseeing the application of information security controls and security risk management processes within the ATO. The role is responsible for providing strategic level guidance for the agency security program and ensuring compliance with national policy, standards, regulation and legislation.

Alex’s career spans 25 years across Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and before joining the ATO he held various IT Executive roles in the Financial Services, Entertainment / Digital, Manufacturing sectors, as well as Consulting and Professional Services organisations. Alex has an exceptional track record of leading large IT groups and delivering transformation programs by successfully aligning IT to business and customer strategies.

Alex Gay

SenseOn

Alex Gay

Senior Account Executive, SenseOn

Before moving into the cyber security industry, Alex spent 10 years as a British Army Officer in a range of roles that included working within the UK’s specialist military units, an appointment as Director of Risk and Security for East and Southern Africa, and as International Security, Policy and Operations Manager for East Africa at UK MoD. His extensive experience of risk management gained from his background in military and government aligned closely with SenseOn's mission to supercharge security teams and reduce risk and stress for security leaders.

Alex Jenkins

WA Data Science and Innovation Hub

Alex Jenkins

Director, WA Data Science and Innovation Hub

Alex Jenkins is an experienced technology leader and Director of the WA Data Science Innovation Hub (WADSIH), based at Curtin University. He has more than 15 years of experience working in the technology space implementing and advocating for data science and analytics solutions. Previously Mr Jenkins used his expertise to build data science capabilities for mining technology businesses. He has worked with leading organisations including ABB, BHP and St John of God Healthcare defining big data, supply chain modelling and data science solutions and is a passionate advocate of collaborations between the education sector, government, and industry to encourage the next generation of data scientists.

Alex Ji

New Aim

Alex Ji

Chief Information Officer, New Aim

Alex brings more than a decade's experience in data, information technology and machine learning to Australian ecommerce enabler New Aim. A proven leader in emerging technologies and digital transformation, Alex joined New Aim as Chief Information Officer in 2021.

Alex was previously Head of Enterprise Data Science at NAB, leading a team of 40 data analysts delivering machine learning and artificial intelligence models of automated capability across core business units.

Prior to NAB, Alex built the data science function and team from zero at Vocus Group, designing the roadmap and defining best practice. He has also worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Sportsbet, helping build its first large-scale data analytics platform on AWS.

Alex has a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons) specialising in computer software engineering and artificial intelligence from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focusing on information sciences and engineering from The Australian National University in Canberra.

Alex Maund

INX Software

Alex Maund

Head of Data, INX Software

 

 

 

Alex Poor

Pinnacle

Alex Poor

Chief Data Officer, Pinnacle

Alex has led management and use of big data sets across the public sector for more than ten years. Spanning all tiers of the health sector (hospitals, regional services, primary and community care) as well as Education, Alex is passionate about connecting data and making it available for positive change. An M.Phil thesis in 2016 looked in detail at interoperability in the Primary care sector, whilst a recently completed doctoral thesis featured the design and build of a distributed app proposed as a technical solution for 'data sovereignty'.

Alexandra Craggs

Corinium Global Intelligence

Alexandra Craggs

Conference Director, Corinium Global Intelligence

I am a Conference Director at Corinium Intelligence and RE·WORK where I'm responsible for researching, designing and managing high-level events for the tech industry.

I love bringing experts together to network, share experiences and learn about the latest industry advances, and being part of the conversations that will reshape our world.

I am passionate about supporting women in tech and am dedicated to giving women in industry a platform to showcase their work, and a place to network and grow.

Alexandra Gillon-Livesey

JP Morgan

Alexandra Gillon-Livesey

Head of Strategic Partnerships, Chief Data & Analytics Office, JP Morgan

Alexandra Rice

Santander

Alexandra Rice

Head of Data Management, Product & Strategy, Santander

Alexandra is the Head of Data Management, Product and Strategy for Santander UK. The ambition in this role has been to combine her Commercial knowledge with the best practice principles of data management to create a value-focused approach to the bank’s data transformation. 

Previously Alexandra was the Head of Data and Change for Santander’s Corporate and Commercial Bank. She made the leap into Data after more than a decade running Corporate Banking Sales and Account Management teams for three different banks.

Prior to that, Alexandra was a management consultant. She began in the external market focusing on optimising productivity in the manufacturing sector. She later moved in-house, focusing on a range of change initiatives across the various business units within Barclays UK.

Alexandre Pieyre

IQ-EQ

Alexandre Pieyre

Group Head of Information Security, IQ-EQ

Alice Fitch

Whola

Alice Fitch

Founder, Whola

Alice White

Atlassian

Alice White

Security Training Manager, Atlassian

Alice is currently a Perth Chapter Lead for the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) and the Security Training Manager for Atlassian. Previously, Alice was part of the Commonwealth Bank Group’s Cyber team performing roles focused on cyber governance, risk, compliance, awareness, outreach and strategy. She focuses on delivering creative business improvements through IT solutions and user-friendly ‘tech translation’ training. Her projects have included managing the development, UAT and roll out of a safety and risk app for mobile technicians, to delivering integrated management system solutions for multiple facilities and remote sites. Alice successfully navigated a career transition in to Cyber nearly 4 years ago and now wears less hi-viz than in her previous life in Health, Safety, Quality & Environment roles.

Alison Murphy

Legend

Alison Murphy

Head of Digital Transformation, Legend

An experienced digital leader, Alison Murphy is Head of Digital Transformation at Legend Corporation where she has led the Implementation of Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and CPQ, Mulesoft API driven integration platform, Akeneo Product information management platform and multiple fully B2B enabled eCommerce websites on Magento 2.  Alison is also accountable for all new system implementations as well as legacy platforms and the incumbent SAP ERP.

Alison O’Hare

Mimecast

Alison O’Hare

Senior Technical Director, Mimecast

Alison O’Hare is the Senior Technical Director at Mimecast, based in the Melbourne office.
Alison leads a team who’s ultimate responsibility is working with customers to achieve Cyber Resilience, and ensure customer satisfaction. Alison has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry across roles in cyber security and network engineering roles, including 13 years at Mimecast in a variety of leadership positions. Prior to being appointed as Technical Director at Mimecast, Alison was part of the Global Education Team, focusing on technical writing and customer training. Alison started her career at Mimecast as Service Delivery Director, working from the Boston office. With customer experience at the core of Mimecast values, Alison is determined to different than the rest as an IT vendor, approach customer engagements with a personality and be proactive and honest in all engagements.

Alla K. Woodson

GE Healthcare

Alla K. Woodson

General Manager - Services, Life Care Solutions, GE Healthcare

Alla is a Senior Commercial and Operations Executive with over 20 years of experience in leading P&Ls and customer-facing operations in banking, financial services, and manufacturing sectors. Alla has a successful track record of enabling businesses to compete in changing markets through focus on customer outcomes, process reengineering, and digital transformation. Customer advocate and change leader, she is known for building high-performing teams, leading global initiatives, driving profitable growth, and turnarounds.

 

Alla currently serves as Service GM – Life Care Solutions (LCS), a division of GE Healthcare, a leading medical technology company with $17B in revenue from its operations across 160+ countries. The company’s LCS busines focuses on delivering Respiratory, Maternal, Infant, and Acute Care, Patient Monitoring, Anesthesia, Diagnostic Cardiology, and related digital solutions to hospitals and clinics around the world. In her role, Alla leads a team charged with defining and executing the strategy to drive growth, productivity, and customer experience across LCS’s $400m global service P&L. 

 

In addition to her “day job”, Alla serves as a mentor for Chicago Innovation’s Women’s Co-Op and is an Advisory Board Member for Pluie, an Illinois based start-up producing world’s first and only UV-C self-sanitizing baby changing table.

 

Most recently, as GM - Global Customer Experience, Alla led GE Healthcare’s team focused on improving Supply Chain quality and reliability. The team was able to substantially improve On-Time Delivery, On-Time Installation, and delivered quality across multiple the globe by delivering actionable customer analytics & insights and driving LEAN mindset through standard work and disciplined, data-driven cross-functional problem solving.  

 

A native of Moscow, Russia, Alla first came to the United States as a high school exchange student, later earning her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, and Marketing from Bethel University in McKenzie, TN. She continued her education in GE Corporate University and as an Executive Scholar at Kellogg Business School. Alla lives in Chicago with her husband and college sweetheart Zak, their two kids, Sophia (15) & Ian (6), and their dog Copper.

Allan Canales Hernandez

Wavin Group

Allan Canales Hernandez

Global Shared Services Director & Financial Process Design, Wavin Group

Post graduated Business Administrator specialized in Finance & Accounting and Professional
Management, successful at driving change, project & transition management, financial controlling,
accounting operations and general management advising multinational corporations with an
experience of more than 20 years, based in different locations mainly in Latin America and Europe.
 
 

Allison Martinez

Chevron Phillips

Allison Martinez

Chief Information Officer, Chevron Phillips

Alok Sahoo

Singapore Telecommunications

Alok Sahoo

Director (Data & Platform Management), Singapore Telecommunications

Alok is a Data & Technology thought leader with 20+ years’ progressive experience across CIO/CDO/COO functions primarily in BFSI, Telecom & Consulting domain. He has transformed complex business processes and programs across business segments and market footprints. As a collaborative and consultative leader, he managed change, process and technology framework standardization, enterprise data governance, implementation, operational risk framework, data service delivery and business/technology operation management in the primarily in the GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) domain.

Alvina Goh

GovTech

Alvina Goh

Director of Artificial Intelligence Platforms, DSAID, GovTech

Dr. Alvina Goh is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Platforms department, under GovTech’s Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Division. She leads the team that oversees Whole of Government Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

Alwyn Thomas

Financial Times

Alwyn Thomas

Head of Data Strategy, Financial Times

Amanda Green

Laminex Australia

Amanda Green

Head of Digital, Laminex Australia

Amanda is one of Australia’s top eCommerce talents having made the Top 50 list four times. She has a Master’s degree in eCommerce and a digital career spanning 20 years and multiple countries. Having successfully developed eCommerce for Nike in Europe, and revolutionised the eCommerce business for Nike in Australia, she also led L’Oréal Australia in their Digital Transformation for eCommerce. Now at Laminex, she is leading the evolution of their B2B eCommerce and Digital Operations.

Amirudin Abdul Wahab

CyberSecurity Malaysia

Amirudin Abdul Wahab

CEO, CyberSecurity Malaysia

Dato’ Ts. Dr. Haji Amirudin Abdul Wahab (“Dato’ Dr. Amir”) is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CyberSecurity Malaysia, the agency that monitors e-sovereignty of the country. He has approximately 30 years of ICT working experience in the telecom and IT sector in the Government as well as in the semi-government and private sectors.

During Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amir’s leadership as CEO, Cybersecurity Malaysia (CSM) managed to contribute to Malaysia’s achievement in attaining top 10 ranking in the world, at International Telecom Union (ITU) Global Cyber Security Index studies and became first Malaysian to chair World Trustmark Alliance (2014-2015). Besides that, during his leadership, CSM was awarded as Best Cyber Security Innovation Award 2015 recipient by FireEye Global and won Champion Prizes at the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) for 2 consecutive years (2016 & 2017) and also most recently in year 2020 as a winner of WSIS Prizes 2020 Category 5 at World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) 2020: “Building Confidence and Security in the use of ICTs. He was also selected to receive an ASEAN Award as the Outstanding Chief Information/Security Officer in conjunction with the 10th ASEAN CIO| CSO Summit and Awards 2014 held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 2 December 2014. On 2nd May 2018, he has been registered in Malaysia Board of Technologist as Professional Technologist which has allowed him to use abbreviation “Ts” before his name.

During his leadership, Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amir also spearheaded various national and international Cyber security platforms such as serving as the cyber security co-chair in the Cybersecurity working Group for Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) since 2015, as Permanent Secretariat to Organisation of Islamic Conference Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC- CERT) since 2013, Deputy Chair to Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (AP-CERT) for 2015 -2019 and current chair to AP-CERT since 2019 till now. Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amir is a Canadian-based POLCYB (The Society of The Policing of Cyberspace) Non-Executive Board of Directors for year 2015 to 2018. He used to serve as an OIC Task Force Member on ICT and Cyber Security and currently a Fellow at Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM) and Fellow of Academy of Sciences Malaysia. He was also appointed as Vice-Chair of OIC Science and Technology Committee and Executive Committee Member of Annual Coordination Meeting of OIC Institutions (ACMOI) during the Thematic Committee on Science, Technology and Information Technology meeting which was held in conjunction with Inaugural Annual Coordination Meeting of OIC Institutions on 7 December 2015 at Jeddah, Arab Saudi. He was also ratified by APEC ECSG on 27 February 2016 as an Expert Members for the 2nd APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance (ECBA) Expert Council (2016-2018) in which he was one of its Deputy Chairman. Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amir was also appointed as Advisory Board Member of The Economist Intelligence Unit on Asia Smart City Program 2016. Most recently, in January 2021, Dato’ Dr Amir has been appointed as Microsoft Council Member and CyberEdBoard Member.

Nationally, Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amirudin is a currently the Chairman of National ICT Standard Committee (ISCG) since Mar 2010 till current. He is also a Chairman of Board of Governance Global Accredited Cyber Security Education or Global ACE Scheme for Malaysia Chapter since 2018 and past Head of Secretariat to the National IT Council NITC chaired by YAB PM from 2010-2012. He is currently a Board Member of Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) IT Sdn Bhd since 2016 and used to sit as a Board member to Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDeC) and MyNIC Berhad during 2011-2012 period, in addition to as Computer Industry Association of Malaysia (PIKOM) Council or Board Member from 2014-2015. Most recently, he has been appointed as AKPK Board of Director and Member of AKPK Audit Committee for 2020 to 2022 session.


Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amir holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering (ITEE), University of Queensland, Australia. Dato’ Ts. Dr Amir also holds two Master degrees, a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Duqubue, Iowa, USA, a Masters in Information Technology from National University of Malaysia (UKM) and a Bachelor of Science Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Academically, Dato’ Ts Dr. Amir is an Adjunct Professor at the International Islamic University of Malaysia (UIAM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) and Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) Malaysia, University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM, KL) and was one at Kolej Poly-Tech Mara. Currently he also serves as a Board of Studies Member of the Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), University Malaya (UM), Universiti Kebangsaaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

A calculated risk-taker with deep technical industry knowledge, Dato’ Ts. Dr. Haji Amirudin had built a strong reputation for developing effective and unique strategies and incubating new models and designs. He maintains a well-deserved national and international reputation in his field where he had been invited as keynote speakers and panellist in various local and international conferences and featured regularly in the various local TV, Radio, newspapers, magazines and online medias. He was conferred the Dato 'Paduka Mahkota Perak (D.P.M.P) by His Royal Highness the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, who brought him the title Dato' on 5 November 2016.

Amit Chaubey

AISA Sydney Branch

Amit Chaubey

Cyber Ambassador, NSW Cyber Hub, Investment NSW & Chair, AISA Sydney Branch

A seasoned Technology & Cybersecurity risk professional spanning a career of over 20+ years across the Asia Pacific, with an extensive experience of managing IT & cyber risk into the Financial Industry, Technology services and Critical Infrastructure, accredited by Australian Computer Society (ACS) as Certified Cyber Professional (CP) and holds CRISC, ITIL, ISO27001 Auditor certification. A member of multiple Executive Advisory Board, Deputy Chair for AISA (Australian Information Security Association) Sydney committee, Cyber Ambassador for AustCyber NSW Innovation Node & Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Amit Prasad

Nolan Transportation

Amit Prasad

Chief Data Science Officer, Nolan Transportation

Amit Prasad is the Chief Data Science Officer for TI Holding Company, the parent company of Transportation Insight (TI) and the Nolan Transportation Group (NTG).

Amit leads the company’s new Supply Chain, Data Science and Innovation group, which focuses on the advancement of innovative predictive and prescriptive supply chain solutions and data-driven insights to customers across all three businesses in the TI Holdco portfolio: brokerage (NTG), managed transportation, and parcel. The group is also responsible for introducing, prototyping, piloting and developing advanced operational solutions from concept to final products for internal and external applications.

 

He first came to TI Holdco in March 2021 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy for NTG. Prior to that, Amit served as Vice President, Supply Chain & Data Science for Coyote Logistics, where he built and oversaw the company’s supply chain engineering, AI and machine learning applications, consulting services and other research and innovation initiatives. He has also served as Manager, Global Supply Chain for Hewlett-Packard and as Software Engineer, Science for Manhattan Associates Inc. responsible for designing, developing and implementing advanced algorithmic solutions for supply chain software.

 

Amit studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India. He later attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned his master’s in supply chain management.

Ana Gomes

Vallourec

Ana Gomes

Head of Data Science and Analytics, Vallourec



 

 



 

Anand Chinnachamy

Okta

Anand Chinnachamy

Senior Solution Architect , Okta

Andre Arroyo Ruiz

Mercê do Bairro

Andre Arroyo Ruiz

Partner - Data and Decision Sciences, Mercê do Bairro

Decision Sciences executive and hands-on senior specialist.

Passionate about data, strategy, learning, cognitive sciences, solving problems and developing people.

My background as a management consultant and as a finance manager, and my experience in both big corporations and start-ups, allow me to ensure we make the best contributions for the business.

As a generalist, I like to analyse problems borrowing knowledge from different domains, and bring new perspectives to discussions.

 

 



 

Andre Easom

Sportsbet

Andre Easom

Head of Data Science, Sportsbet

Andrea Stefanucci

JP Morgan Chase

Andrea Stefanucci

Head of Product Management, Artificial Intelligence, JP Morgan Chase

Andrea Wecke

Eastern Health

Andrea Wecke

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Eastern Health

Andrea is employed at Eastern Health, in Melbourne and was recently appointed to the role of the Chief Data and Analytics Officer and Program Director of Information Integrity.  She is qualified Health Information Manager and completed a Masters in Health Services Management and Graduate Diploma in Computing.  Andrea has held various positions within the health industry across the public and private health sector. Over this time she has been actively entrenched in the changing landscape of health information management, the most significant being the ongoing transformation of health services through adoption of digitisation and use of data and analytics.

Andreas Krause

SAP EMEA South

Andreas Krause

VP, Business Technology Platform Customer Advisory, SAP EMEA South

Andreas brings over 18 years of experience in designing data architectures, business intelligence solutions, management information systems, and data governance concepts. In various roles in reinsurance, insurance and asset management, he has influenced the business strategies to optimally use data assets for maximizing business outcomes, detecting cost savings potential and identifying new areas of engagement.

Liaising with top management in formulating targets for optimally aligning business, data and technology activities, he translates strategic objectives into functional and technical requirements for data management concepts and information systems. Proficient as team manager, Andreas has expert know-how in designing reporting and data warehouse architectures and in defining operational concepts for running a reporting and data management department.

Over the years, Andreas has gained expert knowledge in building bridges and mediation across business functions like underwriting, accounting, controlling, reserving and risk management to achieve standardized representations of KPI and business terms.

Having not only worked in cross-cultural teams for over 20 years, but also having lived abroad for three years, Andreas is well adapted to working an international environment, he has excellent communication, presentation, and conflict solving skills and strong analytical capabilities.

Andres de la O. Jimenez

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Andres de la O. Jimenez

MarTech Data Head MIDAM, Anheuser-Busch InBev

With +9 years of experience helping brands with go-to-market digital strategies and craft large scale solutions, my expertise includes Digital Strategy & Marketing, Product Management, Data & BI, e-Commerce, Design and Software Development.

Andrew Abel

Origin Energy

Andrew Abel

Security Strategy, Architecture, Zero Trust, Enterprise Risk & Identity Strategy, Origin Energy

Senior leader, certified in Togaf, SABSA & Zero Trust (Forrester ZTX Strategist) and currently studying a Master of Cyber Security Governance. Strong passion for strategy and blending business, security, and technical strategies together to enable the business with a focus on identity and information protection to identify enterprise risk and help drive mitigation solutions. 

Andrew Aho

InterSystems

Andrew Aho

Regional Director of Data Platforms, Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia, InterSystems

Andrew Aho is Regional Director of Data Platforms in Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia for InterSystems, an innovative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve their most critical information challenges.

 

Aho has more than 20 years’ sales and executive management experience in the technology industry. At InterSystems he works with healthcare, medtech and financial services organisations to develop innovative solutions which leverage data, interoperability, analytics, AI and automation technologies to improve service delivery and performance.

 

In his previous role, as Country Sales Manager for InterSystems in Australia and New Zealand, Aho was responsible for the success of customers deploying the InterSystems TrakCare healthcare information system and the IRIS for Health data plarform. He holds an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Andrew Aoukar

PwC Australia

Andrew Aoukar

Senior Manager, PwC Australia

Andrew is a management consultant at PwC Australia specialising in marketplaces and e-commerce. He has over 12 years combined industry and consulting experience across a broad range of industries including retail, consumer markets and telco. 

Prior to joining PwC Andrew held several leadership roles for marketplace operators and software vendors including Gumtree Australia.

Andrew Bourne

Zoho Corporation

Andrew Bourne

Regional Manager, Africa, Zoho Corporation

Andrew is Zoho's Regional Manager for the Africa region and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

He has more than 15 years of experience in Sales and Marketing, and has been extensively researching, testing and implementing various business technologies.

He is very passionate about Zoho and has exceptional insight into the business and marketing world.

Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, tennis, golf and wakeboarding.

Fun fact: Andrew is a former professional athlete and represented South Africa in the sport of Wakeboarding for many years.

Andrew Kay

Illumio

Andrew Kay

Senior Systems Engineer, South Pacific, Illumio

Andrew Kay has over 15 years’ experience in security and quality assurance working with organisations across Asia Pacific to strengthen their resilience to cyber threats. 

Having worked with major industry players like Micro Focus and HPE, Andrew now represents Illumio South Pacific as he marries his knowledge of technology and industry to design and implement solutions that prevent attackers' lateral movement, protect high-value assets and achieve compliance goals.

Andrew Macready

Woodside Energy

Andrew Macready

Cybersecurity Operations Manager, Woodside Energy

Passionate about :
• keeping the bad guys out
• developing the next generation of good guys & girls
• cricket (except during the Ashes)

Andrew Morgan

La Trobe University

Andrew Morgan

CISO, La Trobe University

Andrew Morgan is the first ever Chief Information Security Officer at La Trobe University, a role created that reflects the increasing importance of cyber security in all sectors, including the Higher Education sector.

 

Andrew has had a very diverse career.  He started his career in Law Enforcement long before cyber security was a thing.  He was a Detective in a number of areas such as the Drug Squad and the former National Crime Authority, investigating complex and organised trans-national crime.  Since leaving policing, he has had roles as a corporate regulator with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, as an investigator and internal audit specialist with two of Australia’s big banks.

 

Andrew then spent a decade or so in forensic consulting with Deloitte and a other consulting forms where he specialised in investigation, risk management and regulatory change before moving into more technical roles as a computer forensics specialist.  He finished his consulting roles as a Partner in the Melbourne practice of BDO, specialising in all elements of forensic work.

 

He then spent about 6 years at nbn, establishing their forensics and security investigations capability and then moving through a number of security risk and cyber security operations roles and finally leading the Cyber Security Operations Centre, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing teams.

 

He has been at La Trobe University since October 2021.

 

Andrew Toth

Forwood Safety

Andrew Toth

SecOps / DevOps Lead , Forwood Safety

AWS Solution Architect and Security Specialist with extensive experience in designing and implementing mission critical systems. Over a decade of experience in highly regulated industries such as wagering, banking and cryptocurrencies, working with highly sensitive and fast paced data environments.

Andrew Wan

The Smith Family

Andrew Wan

CISO, The Smith Family

Andrew is an innovative industry veteran in security. He is a respected thought leader within government & private sectors with experience gained delivering many industry and security firsts at the CISO and director level for a number of years. A proven track record that includes building and growing multimillion dollar businesses and is a member on a number of boards and think tanks. Andrew is a change agent safeguarding companies by managing risk, making strategic investments, crisis management and ensuring reasonable security practices.

Engagement and setting up key working relationships, strategy and policy with other states, federal government, local councils, law enforcement and internationally with partners in Cyber Security, crisis management, pandemic exercises and threat intelligence.

Experience in critical infrastructure, telecommunications, government, law enforcement, health, aviation, banking and finance, logistics, FMCG, education, retail, hospitality.

For a number of years was acknowledged as the author of a significant number of threat advisories shared in law enforcement and government within Australia, and counterparts.

Andrew Woodward

Edith Cowan University and Acting Director, ECU Security Research Institute

Andrew Woodward

Executive Dean, School of Science, Edith Cowan University and Acting Director, ECU Security Research Institute

I am currently the Executive Dean of the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, a role I commenced in January of 2016. I have previously held leadership roles such as Head of School, Course Coordinator and chaired various committees.

In my leadership role at ECU, I have a strong commitment to quality teaching, engaged research and a focus on expanding international partnerships. I believe strongly in ECUs values, particularly those of integrity and respect. I am a strong supporter of gender equality, and I actively support projects which aim to increase inclusivity in the STEM subjects. I also support this goal through my role on the Athena SWAN steering committee at ECU.

My research has been focused on cyber security for the last 15 years, focusing initially on wireless network security, expanding to digital forensics and then to cyber security policy and risk management. Concurrently, I have consulted to industry and government on a range of cyber security related projects, and am regularly invited to speak on cyber security at National and International Conferences and Events.

I hold the degrees of Bachelor of Science (Hons), Doctor of Philosophy and the Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Teaching. I am also a certified professional member of the Australian Computer Society MACS(CP).

André Barata

CITI

André Barata

Data Governance Lead Brazil | Vice President, CITI

Especialista, entusiasta, pesquisador e apaixonado pelo tema Governança e Cultura de Dados. André soma mais de 10 anos trabalhando e liderando projetos de Governança e Cultura de Dados, construiu sua carreira em uma das maiores consultorias do mundo (Big-4) gerando valor para seus clientes por meio de implantação e transformação da governança e cultura de dados. Atualmente é líder de Governança de Dados para um dos maiores bancos do mundo, sendo o responsável pelo programa de implantação e transformação da cultura data-driven da organização no Brasil com escala Global. Expert em Governança e Gestão de Dados, possuí mestrado em sistema de informação pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP) na área de Governança de Dados e graduação também em Sistemas de informação pela USP. André possuí MBA em Gestão empresarial pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) e conta com uma extensa lista de publicações de artigos sobre a disciplina Governança de Dados. Com um extenso currículo de atuação em diversos setores e clientes nacionais e globais, todos com foco na implantação de um programa de governança de dados, mudança da cultura da organização e geração de valor por meio dos dados. Apaixonado e entusiasta do tema, busca por trazer inovação continua no assunto, disseminando e democratizando o conhecimento em Governança e Cultura de Dados para toda a comunidade.

André Vieira Gomes

Banco Sofisa S/A

André Vieira Gomes

Chief Data Officer, Banco Sofisa S/A

Data and analytics for decision-making.
Developing the Analytics transformation blueprint in the financial services industry.

The career has been developed with to make use data and analytics for decision-making.
Experience establishing a Data Analytics function within a large-scale and small-scale organisations.
Proven experience working across complex business problems, providing Machine learning, and advanced analytical solutions with the CoE team.
Effective communication and strong engagement skills able to work with a range of executive level stakeholders.

Nine years as a manager, focused in credit strategies with solid background and strong results through people management, developing credit risk scores through machine learning, data analysis, portfolio management, automatic credit and collection decisions, risk assesment, MIS, analytical skills, building and tracking goals and KPI’s.

More than 15 years of experience working in Credit Analytics Office, Credit Monitoring, Credit Policies and Procedures, Credit Portfolio Management.

Experience with SQL, SAS Enterprise, SAS Miner, R, Tableau, Python, BI, Statistic Modeling, Stata, Agile and Project management.

 

 



 

Angela Maniscalco

erwin Inc.

Angela Maniscalco

Enterprise Sales Executive, APJ, erwin Inc.

Angi Alfred

Health Infrastructure

Angi Alfred

Principal Project Manager - ICT , Health Infrastructure

Angi Alfred a qualified and experienced accounting technologist with years of transformation experience and rich problem-solving skills , I have encountered many challenges within the technology space and the world moved towards digitising particularly most recently within healthcare - my approach includes the end-to-end architectural view and eliminating the roadblocks, Process optimisation and technology enhancement. It's without a doubt that an innovative mindset has helped in clearing the path for me and creates the path for a far better & improved governed protocols using technology and the digitisation of healthcare practices - while the challengers continue to present themselves and are many,  I have every desire and belief that we can collectively overcome them .

 

I spend my time outside of work with family, friends and my two sons and love to travel and enjoy fine dining . 

Anil Kumar

Fraedom

Anil Kumar

Data Architect, Fraedom

Ankit Patel

Humana

Ankit Patel

BISO, Primary Care Organization, Humana

Ann Babuji

New Zealand Network for Women in Security (NZNWS)

Ann Babuji

Ambassador, New Zealand Network for Women in Security (NZNWS)

Ann Babuji volunteers as an ambassador to the New Zealand Network for Women in Security (NZNWS) to support their initiatives in the advancement of women and marginalised genders in all areas of security. Ann is an ITIL certified IT Engineer who started her career in 2007 as an Analyst Programmer with a US-based IT firm back in India. She moved to Qatar in 2009 and worked as a System Analyst with Postal Corporation. Later she worked as Web Developer with a Canadian College and this is where she found and developed her passion for security. Ann moved to Aotearoa in 2020 to refine herself and completed a Master of Engineer Practice (MEP) from Victoria University in Wellington, specializing in cybersecurity. Ann has experience in supporting diverse clients in cross-cultural environments which strengthened her ability to communicate effectively and meet customer requirements. During this new normal era, her journey to master’s and finding a career in cybersecurity was a challenge. Today Ann works as a Senior Information Security Specialist with the Ministry of Justice and she loves to inspire young women who are on their journey into cybersecurity.

Anna Baecklund

Anna Baecklund

ICA Gruppen

Anna Baecklund

Anna Baecklund

Head of Data Science, ICA Gruppen

Data Scientist Leader, multilingual, seeking to drive impact and build a world class data science team. A skilled communicator capable of explaining complex issues with clarity to diverse audiences. Interested in growing data talent while creating an inclusive environment and developing scalable processes to make data accessible across organizations, especially to non-technical stakeholders. Responsible for leading innovation using data science including the development of new insights, advanced modelling techniques, and AI capabilities.

Anna Campbell

People and Transformation Expert

Anna Campbell

, People and Transformation Expert

Anna Felländer

Anna Felländer

AI Sustainability Centre

Anna Felländer

Anna Felländer

Founder & President, AI Sustainability Centre

Anna Gibaeva

Mars

Anna Gibaeva

Business Strategy & Advanced Analytics Lead, Mars

Anna Rohrbach

UC Berkeley

Anna Rohrbach

Research Scientist, UC Berkeley

Anna Spyker

Decoded Health

Anna Spyker

Data Engineer, Decoded Health

Anna Spyker is a Data Engineer at Decoded Health, focused on delivering a Clinical Hyperautomation Platform. Driven by the possibility of what your health data can do for you, she has a pivotal role in building systems to collect and standardise data, converting it into meaningful information.

Anna-Lisa Miller

Spectris

Anna-Lisa Miller

Group CISO, Spectris

Anthony Berman

Anthony Berman

Technology and Automation Manager,

Anthony is an accredited professional engineer with broad experience in the application of technologies, focusing on automation, control and telecommunications. His roles have covered a broad spectrum of industries including construction, telco, energy, marine, intelligent transport systems, and smart building technologies. Anthony recognises the significant threat to critical infrastructure and corporate networks posed by cyber intrusions and has experienced the danger and disruption caused by an incursion.

Anthony Dayrit

IHiS (Integrated Health Information Systems)

Anthony Dayrit

Assistant Director - Technical Information Security Officer, IHiS (Integrated Health Information Systems)

Anthony Dayrit

(ISC)2 Singapore Chapter

Anthony Dayrit

TISO, Assistant Director, IHiS (Integrated Health Information Systems) & Director, Volunteer Outreach, (ISC)2 Singapore Chapter

Anthony Lim

The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + International Studies

Anthony Lim

Director, The Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + International Studies

Anthony is a pioneer and veteran in cybersecurity and governance in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region, with over 25 years’ professional experience, as consultant, advocate, instructor, auditor and business leader. His current interests include application security, cloud security, GRC (governance, risk management & compliance), policy & audit, smart cities and operational technology.

He has held key inaugural Asia Pacific cybersecurity business leadership roles, IBM, CA and Check Point, was regional principal consultant at Fortinet and project CISO at NCS.

Anthony is a long-time well-known speaker and content provider for many business, industry, government and academic conferences, workshops, committees, executive roundtables and media (print, broadcast, internet), and has been interviewed often on national news.  He is for several years a judge at national and regional industry awards.

He was a co-developer of an acclaimed international cloud security professional certification, a guest and adjunct content developer and instructor at some universities (Master’s and adult professional & executive programs), professional training institutes and certification programs in the region. He is an ISO-27001 lead auditor and life alumni member of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.                          

Anthony Sepci

KPMG

Anthony Sepci

Partner - Risk Analytics , KPMG

Mr. Sepci has 26 years of experience serving the financial services industry. He is a member of the KPMG Advisory Practice and is based in Los Angeles. Mr. Sepci serves clients across the financial services industry. Areas of focus include risk analytics, credit risk operations, capital management & planning, enterprise risk management, model risk management, valuation opinions (including MSRs), due diligence/mergers & acquisitions, and strategic consulting. Mr. Sepci has done extensive work in the credit industries of residential mortgages, commercial real estate, corporate loans, credit cards, prime & subprime auto, and student loans including related capital markets activities for these respective asset classes.

Anthony Spence

Boots UK

Anthony Spence

Head of Management Information & Reporting, Boots UK

Antonio Rancan

Cloudflare

Antonio Rancan

SASE Solutions Architect - A/NZ, Cloudflare

I am a Sydney based Solutions Architect at Cloudflare looking after the APAC region. Specialising in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), I enable customers to secure and modernise their corporate networks through the adoption of Cloudflare’s solutions.

In my previous role, I provided technology consulting leadership in IT infrastructure, network and security projects. Customers ranged from SMEs to large enterprises across a wide range of industries. My consultative approach helps address customer needs from requirements validation through to solution implementation.

Areas of expertise include: application delivery and performance, cloud, web security, infrastructure automation, enterprise networking and SD-WAN.

Having also been on the customer side, my extensive experience has given me a unique perspective on the challenges organisations face when it comes to modernising their corporate network.

Ari Kaplan

Datarobot

Ari Kaplan

Director of AI Evangelism & Strategy, Datarobot

Ari Kaplan is a leading figure in data science, sports analytics, and business leadership. Created and lead the Chicago Cubs analytics department ; IBM Watson “Data Science Celebrity” ; President of the investigation into the fate of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, profiled at https://tinyurl.com/y7hje6qe ; President Emeritus of the Independent Oracle Users Group.

Named by Sports Illustrated as “Top Ten MLB General Manager Candidate”, he received the California Institute of Technology’s “Alumni of the Decade” distinction for pioneering analytical methods. Crain's Chicago Business recognized Kaplan's work in business by including him in their "40 Under 40" list.

Extensive experience in big data with focus in delivering marketing analytics, pricing, and revenue results. Team builder with highly effective communication, motivational and management skills. Kaplan has led consulting practices and teams of up to 200, and has grown portfolios from start to $30M annually. He was President of the Independent Oracle Users Group overseeing 22,000+ members and 200 staff / volunteers for the world’s largest business software company. He has a proven track record successfully running several high-profile organizations and practices, as well as implementing many highly visible and large-scale projects for Fortune 500 companies on-time and under-budget.

Kaplan’s thought leadership includes co-authoring five best-selling books on analytics, databases, and baseball. The History Channel made a documentary on one of Kaplan’s analytical investigations. He has also been profiled on CNN, “This Week in Baseball” and the Today Show. His work has been mentioned in a wide range of media including Time, Newsweek, CIO Magazine, Associated Press, the LA Times, the New York Times, MSNBC, and the BBC.

Ariel Egber

Iress

Ariel Egber

Lead Cloud Security Architect, Iress

Ariel is a CISSP multi-disciplined cyber security professional with 25 years of experience in the IT industry, covering enterprise security architecture, solution design, cloud computing, mobility and digital. He has worked in the Telecommunications, Finance, Mining and Energy sectors in Australia and Israel. Chairman Award in 2020 for innovation in Energy Australia & Passionate about blockchain.

Ariel Lumbroso

Delinea

Ariel Lumbroso

Senior Solutions Consultant, Delinea

Ariel Lumbroso is the lead engineer for Delinea and is based in Sydney.
Ariel has over 15 years of experience working with Enterprise customers in APAC and EMEA.
Prior to joining Delinea, Ariel has served as a lead consultant for an application security vendor and has a rich background in DevOps and IT architecture.
Ariel holds an MBA and a BA in computer science.

Arjun Xavier

Royal Australian Air Force

Arjun Xavier

Staff Officer Cybersecurity and Cyberworthiness, Royal Australian Air Force

Arjun Xavier is the executive Cybersecurity and Cyberworthiness Lead in the Headquarters of the Royal Australian Air Force.

Having started his IT career building, repairing and troubleshooting iPods and iMacs for Apple; Arjun quickly leveraged his technical prowess to graduate as an Electronics Engineer from RMIT University to achieve his goal of commissioning as an Officer in the Air Force. Now he assures the cyber security posture of the nation's military aviation networks and multi-billion dollar 5th generation aircraft.

Arjun's 12 year career with the Air Force has taken him across the world to represent Australia as a liaison to the Middle East and protecting Australia's borders both physically and from cyber-attack. Arjun has led the Air Force's ICT certification team, reviewing and advising on security architecture, vulnerability management and governance for hundreds of Defence networks and providing feedback to shape the Australian Cyber Security Centre's (ACSC) Information Security Manual (ISM). He has also commanded the Air Force's cyber engineering team; whom are responsible for capability development of the Air Force's cyber training, simulation and mission systems used for defensive cyber operations.

Arjun currently leads, develops and issues the policy and strategy to manage Cyberworthiness across Air Force. This role focuses on embedding cyber resilience and sustainment strategies across a capabilities lifecycle to mitigate the increasing threats against Australia's Defence sector.

Arjun holds numerous industry and academic qualifications, such as the CISSP, Australian Signals Directorate IRAP, SABSA, numerous SANS qualifications and more. He is a Charted Engineer and has achieved the Masters of Business Administration from UniSA and is currently completing his second Masters in Cyber Security - Incident Response at UNSW.

Armin Kech

Middle East Broadcasting Center (UAE)

Armin Kech

Head: Data Governance, Middle East Broadcasting Center (UAE)

Arnie Bhattacharya

Infomedia

Arnie Bhattacharya

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Infomedia

Arnie is a senior executive with extensive data & analytics experience, focussed on transforming data into business value, and drive data-related business change to uncover latent potential of corporate data assets. A key part of his mandate is to commercialise Data-as-a-Service (via a Data Fabric / Data Hub) offering and monetise Infomedia’s data & analytics assets. Coupled with experience covering the full scope of financial, performance & information management responsibility, including data & analytics, digital strategies and implementations, Arnie has developed capability in a range of industries including banking, insurance, telecommunication and manufacturing in complex, diverse and highly competitive business environments.

As the head of data & analytics products at Infomedia, Arnie is responsible for defining the strategic product roadmap, validating product fit, assessing global market needs, overseeing design of products and development, executing on product business plans, whilst overseeing the commercial success. He also leads customer and business partner engagements, whilst driving the innovation agenda and GTM approaches.

Arnie is recognised for successfully driving business solutions with a focus on Information and Data Management, Business Intelligence Systems and the delivery of Information Architecture across client’s projects in various industries. He is extensively involved with creation of Business-aligned Technology strategies, Process definition, re-engineering & improvement, Solution design, Enterprise Data Architecture, Metadata management, and a raft of other associated disciplines.

 

Arnold Wong

ACS

Arnold Wong

Fellow and National Treasurer, ACS

Arnold Wong is a passionate champion for delivering excellent customer service.

He has enjoyed a long and successful professional career in the ever evolving ICT Services Industry for over 30 years and has developed extensive Strategic Leadership, General Management, Customer Service and Business Development skills within a variety of business industries including Technology, Education, Healthcare and Resources in public and private sectors across Australia, Asia, Europe and United States.

Currently a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, he serves as National Treasurer on the Management Committee (Board). He is also a GAICD and has served on numerous Community and Professional Boards.

Prior to joining Infor Global Solutions as its Director for Strategy & Transformation in Asia Pacific, Arnold served in a number of senior executive positions at the Western Australian Government, including CIO at the Department of the Attorney General (DotAG), where he led the completion of the ICT/AV implementation for the $20M Cathedral and Treasury Precinct Project consisting of the State Administrative Tribunal and the new Supreme Court (Civil) and DotAG's Office at the David Malcolm Justice Centre, a state of the art 33 Stories Office Tower in Perth's CBD.

As Director of Landgate International at the Land Information Authority of WA, he was responsible for the agency's International business program, a position which draws heavily on interpersonal and inter-cultural skills and experience. 

Between 1996 and 2003, in his role as the Senior Director of Customer Support Operations at Oracle Support Services Asia Pacific Division, Arnold had responsibilities for Operations and Services Delivery for the Customer Support organisation across Asia Pacific. 

Arnold’s wide knowledge and experience in a number of ICT fields, allied with his seasoned presentation skills, ensures he is frequently invited to present at prestigious international ICT conferences.

Arthur Van Der Merwe

Australian Payments Network

Arthur Van Der Merwe

Information Security & Industry Compliance Manager, Australian Payments Network

Arthur is the Security and Industry Compliance Manager at the Payments Self Regulator, Australian Payments Network, while performing PhD research on Security and Theoretical Cryptography with the University of New England. Arthur is a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), AsiaCrypt, IEEE and the Australian Information Security Association (AISA). He is an active member of ISO Standards, serving on the technical committees for Financial Services, security, and cryptography (TC68/SC2/WG13 and TC68/SC2/WG11)
Additionally, he is Serving on Standards Australia, Technical committee IT-005, Financial Transaction Systems maintaining the AS2805 suite of Standards.
He is also an active member of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI-SSC), serving on the Technical Advisory Board, and participating in industry standards development for the following:
- PIN assessment working group (PCI-PIN),
- Software Security Standards Working Group (S3)
- Mobile payment security standards (SPoC, CPoC),
- Payment terminal security standards (PCI-PTS)
- Payment HSM security standards (PCI-HSM)

Arun Shastry

Berkshire Hathaway

Arun Shastry

VP, Data Analytics, Berkshire Hathaway

Arvee Manaog

EG Australia

Arvee Manaog

Head of Enterprise Systems, Data & Information Management and Integration, EG Australia

Arya Eskamani

Visa

Arya Eskamani

Director - Global Data Science, Visa

Arya Eskamani is a Director of Global Data Science at Visa, and is responsible for applying data science and AI solutions to analyze and grow Cross-Border revenue in the Latin-America region. He has over ten years of experience developing and managing data science teams across multiple industries including healthcare, food-service logistics, hospitality and now financial services. Arya also is Co-Founder of HD Data Science, a small but growing online assessment platform for data science, analytics and engineering talent assessment. Arya received his Bachelors in Business Economics from the University of Central Florida and his Masters of Science in Economics from Florida Atlantic University.

Asaf Ahmad

ISACA Sydney Chapter

Asaf Ahmad

President, ISACA Sydney Chapter

Asaf, is a Government CISO with managerial leadership experience in private and public sectors and active involvement in industry.
As CISO of Fire & Rescue NSW, Asaf managed the move to a fully virtualised environment, developed and tested the disaster recovery (DR), high availability backup, enabled remote access to web applications and Intranet utilising VPN technology, BYOD and working form remote, multi-factor authentication, moved to Office 365 email in the cloud, implemented ISO 27001 information security management system and certification, able to host Ministry of emergency records management system, developed and tested incident management and change management process making production systems secure and reliable and a leader in the emergency sector.
Asaf represent Fire and Rescue NSW as member of the NSW Cyber security steering working group, advising on developing NSW cyber security strategy and cyber security policy and incident response guidelines.
Asaf has simultaneously held volunteer Directorship at ISACA Sydney chapter organising professional development events in IT Governance and management, cyber security management, risk, audit, for its 1000 plus members and CIO’s, COO’s, CFO, CRO’s and board members.
Worked in a large Oil & Gas design and engineering company in systems engineering and management group managing large multidisciplinary IT projects involving mathematical modelling, cost-benefits studies, IT systems design and development, and operational IT and IoT project.
For the past 15 years as a government CISO, Mr Asaf has delivered ICT cyber security programs and control systems that supported and enable Fire and Rescue NSW adopt cutting edge technologies showing a way forward to other government and public sector agencies.
Today, as CISO at Fire and Rescue NSW, and Vice President ISACA Sydney chapter. He is currently building a new IT Governance and management style that brings together the whole of IT and key business stakeholders and partners together to conceptualise, develop and implement a cyber security architecture that takes the organisation and partners to the new normal.
Key industry roles that have allowed me to play a key role in domain:

  • Member, NSW Cyber security steering Group
  • Director, Vice President ISACA Sydney chapter
  • Member, NSW Information classification group
  • Member, NSW Operational IT and IoT security

Asanga Wanigatunga

Snyk

Asanga Wanigatunga

ANZ Country Manager, Snyk

Asanga Wanigatunga is the Regional Vice President for the ANZ region at Snyk based out of Sydney. He leads the ANZ region and is responsible for growing Snyk’s business including establishing key routes to market. Snyk has seen significant growth in the ANZ region and in this role, Asanga will further spearhead the adoption of Snyk’s Cloud Native Application Security platform by ensuring that enterprises of all sizes are able to secure their application development processes.

Asanga’s most recent prior positions were serving as the Vice President for Cloud & Service Providers for the APJ region for Veeam Software for 3.5 years where he build up the business in the region across all key markets. Prior to that he served as the director for end-user computing cloud services for APJ at VMware where he spent the last three years developing the end-user computing cloud ecosystem across the region with service providers and telecommunications companies. He successfully grew this line of business at a rate of more than 130 percent year-on-year and was instrumental in constructing cloud-led multi-million dollar competitive bids with system integrators and system outsourcers (SISOs) and mobile operators in the region. His tenures at VMware lasted seven years and prior to that, he was a technology specialist for endpoint management at Symantec.

Asanga holds a Bachelors of Computer Science.

Ash Nair

QBE Insurance

Ash Nair

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, QBE Insurance

Ashish Bhatnagar

HSBC

Ashish Bhatnagar

Chief Data Officer, Americas , HSBC

Ashok Kumar

Voya Financial

Ashok Kumar

Vice President of Enterprise Data Management, Voya Financial

Ashok is Vice President of Enterprise Data Management at Voya Financial. His responsibilities include master data, metadata management and data governance tooling. Prior to joining Voya, Ashok was the head of Data Standards and Architecture at Citigroup as part of the Chief Data office. Before that Ashok was at Goldman, Sachs and managed various technology teams including teams responsible for reference data for securities, derivatives and accounts.

Ashuraj Sirohi

Citizens Bank

Ashuraj Sirohi

Head of Model Risk Governance, Citizens Bank

Ashwani Ram

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

Ashwani Ram

GM, Cybersecurity, IT Infrastructure and Operations, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

I have over 27-years’ experience in providing secure industry best practice IT solutions to organisations, I am still as excited and motivated by the latest innovations and developments in the field as I was when I started. I’m sure it’s this passion in IT and its related security technology and controls, that gives me the ability to inspire others to see and embrace the potential of new systems, technology and approaches.

Always seeking innovation and improvements, I’m also a visionary and a hands-on leader with the skills, experience and insight to elevate any application, computing platform infrastructure or data operation to the cloud (IaaS, PaaS or SaaS) or hybrid cloud solutions accompanied with relevant secure systems design, feasibility and cost benefit analysis. I have a strong track-record of bringing complex LAN/WAN infrastructure, Cyber Security, VoIP, SAN, virtualisation, ERP, CRM, Warehouse Management Systems, Cloud and ecommerce projects to completion.

I bring to my team a calm, focused and analytical management approach. I engage in open enquiry with issues and seek the best solution for value I can find. My well-developed communication skills enable me to present technical information to a broad range of audiences at the level they can understand and engage with.

Reliable, experienced, technically expert and strategic, I gain the respect through a combination of agile technical mind, robust project and enterprise risk management approach and clear, inclusive communication.

Associate Professor Grant Hamilton

Queensland University of Technology

Associate Professor Grant Hamilton

Faculty of Science, School of Biology & Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology

Atul Agarwal

British American Tobacco

Atul Agarwal

Global Data Products Leader, British American Tobacco

Ausma Bernot

Griffith University

Ausma Bernot

PhD Candidate, Griffith University

Ausma Bernot is a final year PhD Candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. She has seven years of work experience with forensic science and research organisations across the globe, in particular China, where she had the chance to gain insights on how technologies are governed at provincial and national levels. Ausma's doctoral thesis looks at China's implementation of big data technologies from the perspectives of policy implementation and technological affordances. 

She has also recently completed a research position at a Griffith University project "Governing in the Digital Age: Use of Data for Better Policies and Public Services" that compared the strategies of governance with big data in Australia and Indonesia. 

Austin Chamberlain

Defence Technology Agency

Austin Chamberlain

Scientist - Cyber Security, Defence Technology Agency

Austin Chamberlain has been working in the IT industry for 25 years, starting in systems engineering in Unix and Linux and then moving into internet services and applications. He has been a cybersecurity specialist for ten years, in operational, academic and military roles. He served in the British Army Reserve, first as a logistics officer and then as a technical staff officer in the Joint Forces Cyber Group. Since moving to New Zealand Austin has worked as a cybersecurity researcher for the New Zealand Defence Force.

Austin holds an MSc in Information Security from University College London and has completed several cybersecurity certifications.

Badr Lemkgente

CIH Bank

Badr Lemkgente

Chief Strategy, Customer and Data Officer , CIH Bank

Badr is leading the bank's operating model transformation toward a higher standardization allowing scale of operations. He put in place a new team aiming to create a more agile, data centric and customer centric organization.

On the data scope, Badr has led the development of analytics and data capabilities. These capabilities support business decisions, sales, marketing and customer services operations.

As an example, they have allowed the company to increase its digital customer acquisition by 30%.  They also enabled to deliver a 360 customer view for front, middle and back offices.

To get to these results and more, Badr has led a transformation plan orchestrated around three axes:

- Technology: Building a data and analytics stack around a private cloud datalake

- Business: Creating a unified and centralized data base with business data marts built on top

- Organization: Defining and putting in place a data governance involving IT, Data Office, Business Entities and HR

Bahia Sarlie

Absa (South Africa)

Bahia Sarlie

Group Leadership Development Lead, Absa (South Africa)

Bart Pietruszka

HSBC (UAE)

Bart Pietruszka

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, HSBC (UAE)

Bart Watson

Toll Global Express

Bart Watson

Head of BI & Data, Toll Global Express

As Head of BI & Data at Global Express, Bart leads a team of analysts and data engineers responsible for the development and operationalistion of analytics solutions.

For more than a decade Bart has applied his skills as a statistician across a diverse set of industries. Leading teams to deliver solutions that address a range of business problems, including customer retention, demand forecasting, credit scoring, financial crime detection, cost compliance monitoring, workers compensation insurance, recovery and common law litigation and industry statistics collection and estimation.

Bart has also taught Analytics Practice seminar series as a sessional lecturer at several institutions including Melbourne Business School and Deakin University.

Bazara Barry

Cyber Security NSW

Bazara Barry

Principal Advisor, Cyber Security NSW

Bazara is a principal advisor with Cyber Security NSW, which is the whole of NSW Government cyber security function. He brings a decade of leadership experience in cyber security management, security policy architecture, governance frameworks, and risk assurance. He has advised businesses in various industries such as financial services, health care, education and not-for-profit. Bazara has contributed significantly to the cyber security body of knowledge with 30+ peer-reviewed, internationally published articles, and has won several Best Paper awards

Beatriz Aiex

Nubank

Beatriz Aiex

Business Analytics Director, Nubank

I am a data lover and people's person motivated. I believe, combining technology and behavioral innovation is king for human evolution. With more than 10 years of experience working with data structuring and analysis to drive business decision on the financial sector, I am always looking for opportunities to apply analytical intelligence to find solutions to core problems on businesses. I like to learn how new technologies can improve my work. I'm a bridge to connect teams to get optimal results using their strengths. I am a goal oriented person and I am persistent and patient to achieve them.

In the last 5 years, I managed high skilled multicultural teams to develop and deploy credit solutions. We have built innovative financial solutions using Big Data and Machine Learning techniques. I look forward to continuing digital innovation and tackle new Fintech challenges.

Ben Henshall

Denodo

Ben Henshall

Regional Vice President & General Manager - Australia & New Zealand, Denodo

Ben is the Regional Vice President & General Manager - Australia & New Zealand at Denodo. He is responsible for developing and accelerating Denodo’s growth in both the Australian and New Zealand markets. Ben brings to his role outstanding track record in open platform software and big data integration with extensive experience across the region at Red Hat, BEA Systems and Oracle.

Ben Taylor

DataRobot

Ben Taylor

Chief AI Evangelist, DataRobot

Ben Taylor is a leading thought leader around AI with over 16 years of machine learning experience. After studying chemical engineering, Taylor joined Intel and Micronand worked in their photolithography, process control, and yield prediction groups. Pursuing his love for high-performance computing (HPC) and predictive modeling,Taylor joined an artificial intelligence hedge fund (AIQ) as their HPC/AI expert and built out models using a 600 GPU cluster to predict stock movements based on the news. Taylor then joined a young HR startup called HireVue. Taylor built out their data science group, filed 7 patents, and helped to launch HireVue's AI insights product using video/audio from candidate interviews. That work allowed Taylor's team of PhD physicists to help pioneer anti-bias mitigation strategies for AI. In 2017 Taylor co-founded Zeff.ai with David Gonzalez to pursue deep learning for image, audio, video, and text for the enterprise.

 

Benedict Sulaiman

Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Indonesia

Benedict Sulaiman

Vice President – Information Technology , Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Indonesia

Benjamin Corll

Coats

Benjamin Corll

VP Cyber Security and Data Protection, Coats

Benjamin Di Marco

Willis Towers Watson

Benjamin Di Marco

Cyber & Technology Risk Specialist, Willis Towers Watson

Ben is a technology risk, insurance, legal, privacy, incident response and dispute resolution expert. He has 15 years of experience as an admitted solicitor and has managed over 300 cyber breaches working across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He regularly delivers training to national and international cyber security and risk management bodies and guest lectures on topics including information system security, privacy and technology law, insurance law and the cyber exposure landscape.

Ben leads Willis Towers Watson’s cyber and technology risk practice in Australia and New Zealand providing services to clients across insurance, analytics, risk advisory and strategic planning. His work focuses on helping clients to understand their data security exposure, and tailoring resiliency and support solutions to match their needs. His recent experience includes advising clients on cyber security risk identification and governance strategies, managing complex data breach liability claims, drafting manuscript cyber insurance wordings, helping organisations develop action plans for key technology risks, facilitating cyber tabletop exercises, assisting clients to strengthen approaches to data privacy, delivering executive risk training and coordinating complex insurance placements. Ben is also the national Governance and Cyber Risk lead at the Australian Society of Computers and Law and a member of the Queensland Law Society data and privacy law committee.

Benny Yehezkel

SQream

Benny Yehezkel

CRO, SQream

With over 20 years of global business leadership, Benny is responsible for SQream’s global sales and business growth. Prior to joining SQream, he served in various executive positions in startups and matured and listed Hi-Tech companies such as RadCloud, a cloud and security company; MyPensya, a cloud fintech platform; Quantum Telecom, a cloud-based cellular platform; and ECtel, revenue assurance and fraud detection analytics company. Benny holds a degree in Computer Science from the Technion and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Bernard Wilson

Cashrewards

Bernard Wilson

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Cashrewards

Bernard Wilson was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cashrewards in July 2020.
Bernard has over seven years’ experience leveraging data assets and marketing
technology to drive competitive advantage for businesses through marketing and digital
transformation, loyalty proposition optimisation, and data and media commercialisation. 
Prior to joining Cashrewards, Bernard was an executive at Quantium, a leading data
science and artificial intelligence company, heading Quantium’s Open Banking and
FinTech business. 

Bernard has also held senior management positions at Myer and Woolworths. At Myer,
Bernard led Australia’s third most popular loyalty program [1] , Myer ONE, as General
Manager, Loyalty, Data, Marketplace and Media. Previously, Bernard was General
Manager, General Manager, Customer Data, Media &amp; Commercialisation at WooliesX
where he was responsible for overseeing the commercial and partnerships division of the
loyalty program, customer data and analytics and the targeted media business units.
Bernard was also a Vice President at Investment Bank Credit Suisse, and a lawyer at King
&amp; Wood Mallesons.

Bernard holds a Bachelor of Arts / Law (First Class Honours) from Sydney University and is
a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Betty Thai

Accent Group

Betty Thai

Head of Data & Analytics, Accent Group

Betty is an accomplished professional with over 15 years of broad cross functional experience in technology delivery, consumer analysis, Business Intelligence and data analytics. She takes pride as a result-oriented leader with hands on experience in helping organisations shape business strategies and achieve operational goals through enablement of analytics capabilities and solutions.

She is passionate about nurturing, motivating and growing technical teams with inquisitive mindset to drive and create data obsessed organisation. 

 

Beverley Paratchek

Suncorp Group

Beverley Paratchek

Principal, Data Governance, Suncorp Group

Beverley is passionate about connecting data management to strategic outcomes and helping organisations execute their vision using transformational leadership. Beverley has dedicated 20+ years of her career connecting business and technology to their data assets, and leveraging data using safe, simple and strategic approaches. 

Originally from Canada, Beverley has held roles across the data and analytics value chain in consulting and financial services prior to her current role as Principal, Data Governance at Suncorp.

Bianca Welgemoed

Momentum

Bianca Welgemoed

Client Experience Insights Manager, Momentum

Bijoy Majumdar

Tabcorp

Bijoy Majumdar

Enterprise Data Architect – Strategy & Architecture, Tabcorp

Bijoy Majumdar, an Enterprise Data Architect at Tabcorp based in Australia, drives the data governance & architecture practice across the organisation. He has spear headed some of the disruptive innovations like BI Cloud transformations, Fraud detection with Enterprise knowledge graph & Data science tech. He was instrumental in enabling the Data privacy office in NAB.

A Seasoned IT leader with an extensive track record in building technology & IP led business, leveraging 20+ years of professional experience involving Enterprise architecture, Data Analytics, AI, BPM helping banking & entertainment organisations rapidly evolving in the digital landscape. A Patent holder, he has published and presented Thought Leadership in leading journals and conferences - ICSOC, ICWS, SOPOSE, Web Services Journal, Springer.

Bill Hoggarth

Simprints

Bill Hoggarth

Head of Partnerships, Growth and Innovation, Simprints

Bill is an inspirational motivator, with deep domain knowledge in Partnerships, AI, Data and Analytics, and general business leadership.

He has been based in South Africa for more than 25 years, prior to which he lived and worked in Europe, the UK and The Middle East. As well as his extensive business experience spanning global software vendors, SA-listed IT Service providers and his own entrepreneurial pursuits, Bill has worked with NGOs, Trusts, NPOs and Social Enterprises since the early 2000s.

Bill graduated in 1983 from Exeter University in England with a BSc in Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, and lists his hobbies as his family, travel, the African bush and sports.

Specialties: Leadership. AI. Data and Analytics. Partnerships.

Bjorn Hertzberg

Björn Hertzberg

H&M Group

Bjorn Hertzberg

Björn Hertzberg

Head of Data Science, H&M Group

Bjørn Porup Thomasen

Bjørn Porup Thomasen

Administrations- og Servicestyrelsen

Bjørn Porup Thomasen

Bjørn Porup Thomasen

Chief Data Officer, Administrations- og Servicestyrelsen

Boris Hajduk

Tokopedia

Boris Hajduk

CISO, Tokopedia

Boris Hajduk is CISO at Tokopedia, where the security team is responsible for securing 1% of Indonesia's GDP and more than 100m monthly active users. Prior to Tokopedia, he held several CISO positions where he built, led and matured global cybersecurity programs and teams for high-growth companies in industries ranging from e-commerce to banking and social networks across ASEAN, Russia, LATAM, UAE, Australia, France and Germany. Boris helped 3 global companies prepare for their IPOs, including a unicorn and a decacorn.

Brad Seadler

KeyCorp

Brad Seadler

Senior Director of Model Validation, KeyCorp

Bradley (Brad) Seadler is a Director of Model Validation at KeyBank, where his team is responsible for the oversight of areas of models, and the adoption of AI/ML, in the fraud, consumer life-cycle, and market risk domains.

Brad Starr

Informatica

Brad Starr

PreSales Director, Informatica

Bradley Busch

Tyro Payments

Bradley Busch

CISO, Tyro Payments

I deliver enterprise innovation in high compliance environments.
I'm an investor, CISO and CTO with experience in Cyber Security, Agile, DevOps, Digital, Cloud, Machine Learning, IT Governance, Risk Management and Service Management.
Key achievements include: growing a great portfolio of companies including PEXA, XM Cyber, Haventec, RedEye, RecordPoint and Stocard. ITIL V3 Expert and CISA certified. Regular presenter and keynote conference speaker on Cyber, Service Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance. Chairman of the Board at itSMF Australia and non-executive director at Shire Christian School.

Bradley Flemming

Fivetran

Bradley Flemming

Senior Sales Engineer, Fivetran

Bradley Flemming is a Senior Sales Engineer at Fivetran with around 30 years of IT experience, 20 of which have been in the data integration and data management domains working with companies such as Liaison Technologies (now OpenText) Talend and Attunity (now Qlik) prior to joining HVR and then Fivetran.

Bramley Maetsa

Sasol (South Africa)

Bramley Maetsa

Head: Delivery Enablement, Sasol (South Africa)

Bramley Maetsa is an Electrical Engineer, speaker and DevOps lead at Sasol. He is currently leading several innovation projects within Sasol's Digital Transformation Programme. One of his recent roles involves building DevOps capability. In this role he provides IT Delivery Teams with self-service capabilities to support delivery of their solutions.

In the past Bramley served as a Managing Executive responsible for building Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Business Unit. ECM business Unit had over 30 professionals with core focus on SharePoint, Office 365, SAP integration, and Open Text suite of products. Internationally, he ran an IT consultancy based in the USA, North Carolina. He ran multi-national teams comprising of Solution Designers based in South Africa, developers based in the USA and quality engineers based in India.

He has over 16 years of IT experience with 7 years in leadership and strategic positions. His work experience covers a wide range of industries including: Defence, Mining, Banking, Healthcare, Oil and gas, and Public sector.

Bramley is passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, IT and business strategy. He is currently studying MBA at Henley Business School. 

Bree Dorant

Rio Tinto

Bree Dorant

Data Visualisation Lead, Rio Tinto

I am the Data Visualisation Lead at Rio Tinto, Global Procurement where I create useful, engaging and easy-to-use data visualisation solutions. I have also run a post graduate module for Curtin University on Data Viz & Business Intelligence.

I am passionate about teaching people to build modern-looking solutions through combining user experience design, psychology of visual perception and technical skills in SQL, Tableau, Power BI and more. 

Brendan Laws

Rapid7

Brendan Laws

Director, Solutions Architect, Asia Pacific & Japan, Rapid7

Brett Chase

Collibra

Brett Chase

Senior Manager, Sales Engineering, APAC, Collibra

Brett Chase is the APAC Head of Sales Engineering at Collibra and has over 30 years experience in
Information Technology. The last 20 years specialising in data, from data management, eDiscovery
and compliance, to now leading Collibra’s Sales Engineering team creating solutions for the latest
Data Intelligence challenges. Brett focuses his time with customers and prospects to ensure that
Collibra’s solutions meet the business challenges of today and the future.

Brett Winterford

Okta

Brett Winterford

Regional CISO, Okta

Brett Winterford is the Regional CISO at Okta. He advises policy makers, business leaders and fellow security professionals on evolving threats and opportunities to improve their security posture.Prior to Okta, Brett held senior leadership roles in the security teams at Symantec and Commonwealth Bank..He’s best known for his work as a security journalist. In 2020, he was the founding editor of the Srsly Risky Biz newsletter, a companion to the Risky Business podcast, providing the cybersecurity, policy, defense and intelligence communities with a weekly brief of the news that shapes cyber policy.

Prior to working as a security practitioner, Brett was the editor-in-chief of ITnews Australia and has contributed extensively to ZDNet, the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Brian Ferris

Loyalty New Zealand

Brian Ferris

C3O - Chief Data, Analytics & Technology Officer, Loyalty New Zealand

Brian has worked in Information Technology for over 18 years and has extensive experience leading data and analytics teams while managing projects and building solutions in a global environment.   

He returned to New Zealand in January after working at Nike as their EMEA Data and Analytics Director, based in Amsterdam. Brian spent the last three and a half years building and leading the team’s capability; migrating the business to the cloud and building an advanced analytics function to deliver value to the business.

He joined the Loyalty NZ team as Chief Data and Analytics Officer where he is championing a high performing agile culture and reinventing Loyalty D&A with new platforms and advanced analytics.

His specialties include data and analytics architecture and platforms; loyalty and membership analytics; leading data and analytics teams in multi-national environments; cloud migration and getting value out of data science investments.

Brian Lynch

Brian Lynch

TD

Brian Lynch

Brian Lynch

Senior Manager - Customer Acquisition Analytics, TD

Brian Zerafa

Netskope

Brian Zerafa

Regional Director, Netskope

Brian Zerafa is a Regional Director at Netskope, and passionate about working with organisations to help them reduce their Cyber Security Risks. Having started out in technical roles, developing client-facing applications and consulting into organisations both in Australia and across Asia, Brian has 25+ years of experience from engagement across the spectrum of Large Enterprise through to SMB, on IT Transformation, Cloud Security and Data Protection programs. In his current capacity at Netskope, Brian and his field sales team engage businesses across all verticals within New Zealand and the southern states of Australia around modernisation of their Security Service Edge.

Bryan Brook

dataxchange

Bryan Brook

Data Management and Governance Specialist, dataxchange

Bunchhoan Vann

Dai-ichi Life Insurance (Cambodia) PLC

Bunchhoan Vann

CISO, Dai-ichi Life Insurance (Cambodia) PLC

Bunchhoan has more than 10 years’ experience in IT leadership across the Retail, Insurance, and Manufacturing industries. He is a self-sufficient and self-distinguished leader with a fast-growing career. Highly analytical, he has great technology and market knowledge, with extensive experience in building startups for big companies. Currently, he holds the position of Head of Information Technology (CISO) at Dai Ichi Life Insurance Cambodia and was previously with Aprati, Prudential, and Total.

Camilla Dojicsar

CTC

Camilla Dojicsar

Gerente Executiva de Tecnologia & Informação, CTC

Graduada em engenharia de Produção, pós graduada em gerenciamento de projetos, e mestrando engenharia mecânica com ênfase em tecnologias inovadoras na FEI, Camilla construiu uma carreira internacional orientada para transformação de processos, ativos e tecnologias, ocupando diversas posições de liderança entre elas Head 4.0 Smart Manufacturing para BASF na América do Sul, Gerente Global de Engenharia & Manutenção na BASF Alemanha, Head de Tecnologia & Transformação do Agronegócio na Citrosuco, e hoje, está como Gerente Executiva de Tecnologia & Informação do CTC, com o desafio de impulsionar projetos estratégicos e inovadores que eleve, ainda mais, o conceito de Data Driven na companhia.



 

Carl Gold

Migo

Carl Gold

Senior Data Science Manager, Migo

Carmelo Iaria

The AI Academy

Carmelo Iaria

Founder & CEO, The AI Academy



 

 



 

Caroline Reyes

Intermex

Caroline Reyes

Director of Information Security, Intermex

Cassidy Kruger

CUA Health

Cassidy Kruger

Data Analytics Manager, CUA Health

Cassidy Kruger is the Data and Analytics Manager for the private health insurer, CUA Health. As an accomplished data professional, Cassidy has more than 8 years’ experience specialising in data science, strategy, and advanced analytics. With a proven ability for developing modern data-driven solutions across numerous industries, Cassidy’s leadership and strategic advice is highly regarded amongst his peers. Finalising his Master of Data Science at the University of Queensland, Cassidy is a passionate mentor and a coach for other data professionals.

Catherine Buhler

EnergyAustralia

Catherine Buhler

CISO, EnergyAustralia

Catherine is an experienced CISO who delivers security programs that ensure appropriate controls and processes are implemented to protect and defend the enterprise. She works closely with business leaders to ensure they understand their security risks and the business implications of their risk treatment decisions. Catherine has a demonstrated ability to collaborate across all levels to champion new ideas, gain buy-in and build consensus.

Catherine King

Business of Data | Corinium

Catherine King

Director, Business of Data | Corinium

Catherine works passionately to provide senior executives with the hottest content and insights in the areas of Digital, Data, Analytics, Information, Business Development & Innovation. She hosts and moderates Corinium's largest events as well the Business of Data Podcast. 

She has a wealth of experience directing and designing Conferences, Bespoke Roundtables, Online events and more! Catherine is especially passionate about diversity, inclusion and accessibility work - and is an active ally and advocate for female and BAME leaders.

Qualified in Public Speaking, Catherine constantly works to help others with presentation and speaking skills. She can be found hosting 200+ attendee conferences through to interviewing thought-leaders for podcast interviews

Cecily Rawlinson

WA AustCyber Innovation Hub

Cecily Rawlinson

Director, WA AustCyber Innovation Hub

Cecily Rawlinson was appointed in July 2021 as Director of the WA AustCyber Innovation Hub.
Cecily is a human-centred design practitioner and is passionate about using design thinking to unlock the creative potential of stakeholders and unlikely innovators. She led the CIVICUS team that facilitated the co-design and establishment of 7 regional innovation hubs around the world, launching the Innovation for Change network in 2015. Working with Innovation for Change allowed Cecily to hone her innovation skills and to witness firsthand the global demand for cyber security awareness and training.
Prior to joining CIVICUS, Cecily began her career at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and also worked at DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance.
Cecily holds a Masters in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia.

Celine Xu

Celine Xu

H&M Group

Celine Xu

Celine Xu

Lead Data Scientist, Data Science Competence Lead, H&M Group

Cetin Karakus

BP Trading & Shipping Technology

Cetin Karakus

Global Head of Quantitative & Analytical Solutions, BP Trading & Shipping Technology

Cetin Karakus has over two decades of experience in designing and leading the development of large scale, data intensive business systems. Currently, he has been leading several technology teams to build a comprehensive, cutting-edge big data analytics platform for global energy markets.

He has extensive experience in design and development of complex derivatives pricing and risk management systems gained through his work in leading global investment banks and commodity trading houses.

Cetin has a degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and has a wide range of intellectual interests that keep him occupied if he is not busy with creative and very demanding aspects of designing complex software systems.

He enjoys writing technical articles to share his insights on the interesting technical problems he has come across.

Chad Madaffari

Water Corporation

Chad Madaffari

Manager, Cyber Security Strategy Architecture & Security, Water Corporation

Cyber security and technology professional with extensive experience in enterprise environments, leading high-performance teams in managing cyber risk through delivering initiatives and operational services that improve effectiveness and efficiency of controls.

Chai Chin Loon

Government Technology Agency of Singapore

Chai Chin Loon

Senior Director of the Cyber Security Group (CSG) and Government Chief Information Security Officer (GCISO), Government Technology Agency of Singapore

Chin Loon is currently the Senior Director of the Cyber Security Group (CSG) and
Government Chief Information Security Officer (GCISO) in GovTech. CSG secures
Government info-communications technology and smart systems (ICT&SS), develop
the public sector’s resilience, and partner the cybersecurity ecosystem against cyber
threats to the Government. The group serves as the Centre of Excellence to provide
cybersecurity governance supported by consulting practice in addition to resilient
monitoring of security events with robust incident response capabilities. He also
oversees the Chief Information Security Officers deployed to all government
ministries of Singapore.

He has over 27 years of experience in the technology industry after retiring from the
Singapore Navy.

Charles Gillman

Superchoice

Charles Gillman

CISO, Superchoice

My 15 years of experience includes security consulting, ethical hacking, cybercrime research, security architecture, security operations and security leadership; as well as a role as a part-time lecturer in the Masters of Information Security course at one of Australia's top universities.

I have also led and built Information Security teams at two of Australia's big four banks, before moving to senior roles in the Cloud & Managed Services space.

My diverse experience has given me the technical understanding of the current threats faced by organisations as well as the knowledge on how to uplift the security posture of the organisation in a pragmatic way to address those threats.

Charles Sterner

AARNet

Charles Sterner

CISO, AARNet

Charles recently joined AARNet as its Chief Information Security Officer, looking over AARNet’s cyber security strategy. His role will oversee the development of AARNet’s Cyber Security Services, along with managing the security of AARNet’s network infrastructure and IT assets. Prior to joining AARNet, Charles was the Global Director for Palo Alto Network’s SOC Strategy, where he worked across Information Security, Product Management, and R&D to ensure full adoption of security capabilities within the SOCs of some of Palo Alto’s largest global customers. Prior to that, Charles headed HP’s Global Cyber Defense Center, one of the world’s largest SOCs and among other roles led the ground zero formation of Sony PlayStation’s Cyber Intelligence and Defense Center as a response to the PlayStation Network breach of 2011. Charles also served in the US Navy, where he specialized in Aviation Warfare, and later Cyber Intelligence.

Charlotte Wood

Cyber Security NSW

Charlotte Wood

Director, Policy and Awareness, Cyber Security NSW

Chene Maartens

BMW (South Africa)

Chene Maartens

IT Service Continuity Management, BMW (South Africa)

Cheryl Jones

Mirakl

Cheryl Jones

Senior Solutions Consultant, Mirakl

Cheryl Jones is an omnichannel and marketplace specialist with over 12 years spanning from Retail (B-2-C); commercial (B-2-B); payments, automation, retail and, of course the wonderful world of Marketplace. Cheryl brings a wealth of lived experience from a range of lenses and the passion to see her partnerships thrive. This unique view has seen her clients, both past and present, such as Tradesquare; Bunnings; The Victorian Government; Changi Airport Group and ABB India see the success of their foray and growth into the digital landscape.

Chikonga Maimbo

Bank Australia

Chikonga Maimbo

Manager Information Security, Bank Australia

Chikonga Maimbo is a professional with over 14 years’ experience in information security that includes technical hands on and management experience. Chikonga has broad experience across a range of information security domains, experience gained across client-facing roles and internal roles. Chikonga has a passion for structure and a methodical approach to managing information security while trying to maintain the right balance given budget and financial constraints

Chikonga holds a Masters Degree in Information and Computer Sciences, a Post Graduate Diploma in Information and Computer Sciences, an Honours Degree in Computer Science. In addition he holds CISSP and CISSM certifications.

Chirag Joshi

7 Rules to Influence Behaviour and Win at Cyber Security Awareness

Chirag Joshi

Best-Selling Author, 7 Rules to Influence Behaviour and Win at Cyber Security Awareness

Chirag has extensive experience building and managing cyber security, risk management, and compliance programs in multiple countries across various industries. He is the author of the bestselling book - 7 Rules to Influence Behaviour and Win at Cyber Security Awareness, which has been purchased in several countries around the world. Chirag is passionate about creating a safe world online for commerce, communication, and entertainment. This vision has led him to become a sought-after speaker on a wide range of topics including cyber threat landscape, emerging technologies, cloud computing and security awareness. He has presented at numerous leading conferences and forums. He is currently a Director for the ISACA Sydney chapter and leads cyber security for a major financial services organisation in Australia. Chirag’s academic qualifications include Master’s degree in Telecommunications Management and Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. He holds multiple certifications including CISA, CISM, CRISC and CDPSE.

Chris Butler

HSBC UK

Chris Butler

Chief Data Officer, HSBC UK

Chris Chapman

Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers

Chris Chapman

Manager: Data & Analytics, Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers

Chris has over 20 years of experience in Technology, Data and Innovation, spanning a number of roles in the UK and Australia.

He leads data and analytics at Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers and has managed data and digital teams supporting a number of Wesfarmers businesses.

Chris Collins

Air New Zealand

Chris Collins

Data Governance Principal, Air New Zealand

Chris leads enterprise Data Governance capabilities at Air New Zealand where he is responsible for creating and executing data management and governance strategy.

Chris is an accomplished analytics professional with technical background and over 20 years of experience in data management, business intelligence, data science and analytics. With a diverse industry experience including financial services, media, NGOs, and telecommunications, he provides a pragmatic blend of value optimisation against risk management. 

Chris is also the co-founder and chair for a charitable trust that seeks to reduce suicide through peer support and technology.

Current areas of personal focus include reducing barriers for military and emergency services personnel to enter into data, IT and analytics roles.

Chris Dean

Nomad Foods

Chris Dean

Global Head of Data & Analytics, Nomad Foods

Chris Fisher

Vectra AI

Chris Fisher

Director Security Engineering, Asia Pacific & Japan, Vectra AI

As a leader for the APJ Business Chris’s key responsibility is to ensure that our customers have the security foundation to embrace new technology and lines of business, allowing them to digitally transform whilst reducing business risk and improving their security posture. Chris has over 15 Years of Cyber security experience from practitioner through to strategic advisor for large organizations. He has a vast experience in SCADA environments working in the mining and energy sectors for a number of years.  Recently Chris has been helping customers transition to cloud environments securely. Chris has also worked with organizations on end to end security strategies to ensure that cyber security is an enabler for the business thus allowing them to take on new innovated services without the risk of compromise.

Chris Moschovitis

“Privacy, Regulations, and Cybersecurity: The Essential Planning Guide” (US)

Chris Moschovitis

Author, “Privacy, Regulations, and Cybersecurity: The Essential Planning Guide” (US)

Born and raised in Athens, Greece, Chris moved to the United States in 1979. Here, he studied Physics, Computer Science, and Mathematics, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from State University of New York College at Brockport in 1983.

Following his move to New York City in 1985, Chris was appointed Director of Academic Computing at Pratt Institute, and in 1987 was recruited by the O’Connor Group for the position of Vice President of Information Technology.

In 1989 Chris started his own company — the Technology Management Group — focused on providing independent Strategic Consulting, Information Technology and Cybersecurity managed services. The firm further expanded its offerings in 2004 by investing in emedia – a prominent, award winning, and internationally acclaimed interactive software development firm – forming tmg‐emedia. Today, tmg‐emedia is one of the premier independent consulting firms in the country.

Over its history, tmg‐emedia has had the privilege of working with several prestigious clients in various across industry sectors, and the non‐profit world. A few examples include Allegaert Berger & Vogel, American Association of Advertising Agencies, The Atlantic Group, Bayer, Consumer Reports, Harvard Business Publishing, Highline Data, International Creative Management, Kapitus, Keller ISD, Kellogg, Kress Foundation, LaSalle Academy, Lenox Financial Advisors, National Institutes of Health, Oxford University, Charles Pratt & Company, Roosevelt Institute, Slate, Spire Capital, Summit Business Media, Time Out North America, Tonix Pharma, Ultramar, and Wind Point.

Chris is certified in Cybersecurity (CSX, CISM), Enterprise IT governance (CGEIT), Data Privacy Solutions Engineering (CDPSE), and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). He is a member of several organizations including ISACA, IAPP, and ISSA. Chrisʹ book ʺCybersecurity Program Development for Business: The Essential Planning Guideʺ was published to critical acclaim by Wiley in 2018.

His second book ʺPrivacy, Regulations, and Cybersecurity: The Essential Planning Guideʺ will be published by Wiley in 2021. Additionally, Chris is the co‐author of the critically acclaimed “History of the Internet: 1843 to the Present” as well as a contributor to the “Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History” and the “Encyclopedia of New Media.”

Chris is an active speaker and writer, and delivers workshops on a variety of topics, including Cyber Security, Privacy, Information Technology Strategy, Governance and Execution, and Digital and Business Transformation. Chris is particularly sought after by private industry, academic institutions and nonprofits for his ability to explain complex IT and cybersecurity topics in a plain, easily understood, and actionable language. He is a member of The State University of New York, College at Brockport Foundation Board, as well as a founding board member of One In Tech, an ISACA foundation promoting gender parity, equal access, and education in technology and cybersecurity

As the Chairman and CEO of tmg‐emedia, he continues to lead the firm’s consulting practice focusing on strategy, governance, privacy, IT value creation and cybersecurity value preservation.

Chris O’Connell

BITanium Consulting

Chris O’Connell

Managing Director, BITanium Consulting

Chris has extensive experience in the analysis, design and construction of high-performance data platforms and you’ll find his fingerprints on some of South Africa’s largest and most complex Business Intelligence environments across banking, insurance, telecommunications, FMCG, mining and manufacturing.

Establishing BITanium Consulting in 2009 with longtime business partner, Douglas Clarke, Chris has built one of the leading software and services consultancies in the Business Intelligence market focused on data virtualisation, modern data lakes, data management and governance, and the newly emerging data fabric and data mesh disciplines.

While Chris is a pragmatist, he is happiest when exploring how to unlock the power of data for clients through the application of new technology, new models and new thinking.

Chris Partsafas

Abnormal Security

Chris Partsafas

Senior Enterprise Account Manager A/NZ, Abnormal Security

With over 14 years’ experience in leading cyber security organisations, Chris has been responsible for delivering growth in large established companies as well as with new brands entering the Australian and New Zealand markets, helping them capture new business and deliver value to their clients. Prior to Abnormal Security, Chris spent three and half years at FireEye/Mandiant helping clients with Incident Response investigations, seeing firsthand the impact that can be caused from one bad email getting through to an employee. Chris has extensive experience in email security solutions having previously helped launch Proofpoint into the A/NZ market and working with MessageLabs through the acquisition into Symantec.

Chris Saxby

Aurecon

Chris Saxby

Brand, Marketing & Communications Business Partner, Aurecon

Chris has 20 years of experience purposely focusing on being a generalist marketing and communications practitioner but unintentionally specialising in the professional services industry.

Starting out as a journalist, he moved into public relations and corporate communications before taking on broader business development and marketing roles in the engineering, legal and advisory sectors.  Keeping the professional services sector engaging and exciting and applying non-traditional marketing and communications techniques more familiar with the business to consumer sector is what Chris is passionate about.

As part of international engineering, design, and advisory company Aurecon’s Brand Marketing & Communications Leadership Team, he is looking to the future of infrastructure and interpreting what this means through multi-channel content, thought leadership and key messaging for clients.

Chris helps to interpret the complex issues affecting the aviation, transport and water sectors, presenting solutions that foster innovation, engage the communities in which Aurecon works and promoting the human-centric understanding of its clients and their customers, allowing them to be future ready.

He is currently in the final year an MBA majoring in Marketing and is researching the learnings that can be shared between B2B and B2C marketers.  He encourages collaboration between the two sectors to achieve more engaging, data driven and creative outcomes. 

Chris Thomas

ExtraHop

Chris Thomas

Senior Security Advisor, APJ, ExtraHop

Chris has over 20 years of experience in the Cybersecurity industry with roles in frontline incident response, technical sales engineering, and professional services including architecture and implementation consulting. As an Incident Response consultant Chris actively utilized Network Forensics and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools to perform investigations into ransomware and APT based intrusions.

In ExtraHop as a Senior Security Advisor , Chris helps customers and partners across the region realise the benefits of visibility, detection, and response provided by the ExtraHop Reveal(x) platform.

Christelle Young

L'Oréal ANZ

Christelle Young

Chief Strategy & Analytics Officer, L'Oréal ANZ

Christie Wilson

UniSuper

Christie Wilson

Cyber Resilience Manager, UniSuper

Christie is the Cyber Resilience Manager at UniSuper, where she helps employees understand cyber security threats, and how to take the right steps to protect themselves.

Christie brings a business lens to technical challenges by giving employees simple, easy to understand advice on cyber safety for work and home, as well as up-to date information on the latest cyber security threats and how to respond.

Christie is a senior IT leader with over 25 years’ experience in both the vendor and corporate IT roles.
Before moving into cyber security four years ago, Christie’s IT career spanned roles in sales, service delivery and management, vendor governance and management, and IT governance risk & compliance.

Christie has a BA in English Literature and Sociology, and a Graduate Diploma in Social Science, from the University of Tasmania.

Christina Schack

Christina Schack

Vontobel

Christina Schack

Christina Schack

Head of Data Operations & Strategy, Vontobel

Christina Schack is the Head of Data Operations and Strategy at Bank Vontobel AG, where she is in charge for managing data governance and data architecture. Christina brings more than 19 years of experience in the financial services industry and has worked for companies such as GAM, Bank Julius Baer and Reuters/Refinitiv. She gained a deep knowledge in data management and governance, process optimization and data architecture. Beside of the operational aspects she is also looking after proper change management as a key factor for business progress and growth.

Christoph Strizik CISO

Christoph Strizik

Origin Energy

Christoph Strizik CISO

Christoph Strizik

CISO, Origin Energy

Christoph is an experienced leader with a proven track record for building and transforming Security and Risk management capabilities for large and complex organisations. This includes all aspects of Security such as Cyber (Information, IT, OT, IoT) as well as people and physical security and crisis management.

Christoph has worked for top tier technology, financial services, energy, and consulting organisations in APAC, Europe and the US. He currently works as CISO / CSO for Origin Energy in Australia where he has built a diverse, inclusive and highly engaged team.

Christoph believes that digitisation and moving to the cloud represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for businesses to transform, but also to uplift security culture and capability as part of this process. This shift is needed to equip organisations with the mindset and skills to leverage new technologies safely and responsibly to meet ever-increasing stakeholder expectations.

Christoph’s approach is grounded on building trust with stakeholders through a relentless focus on business enablement, pragmatic security advice and delivering on commitments.
He is a recognised leader in Cyber Security and part of the Prime Minister’s initiated Australian – US cyber security dialogue.

Christoph represents the energy industry and Origin in cyber discussions and panels with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), global AWS CISO Advisory Council and the Australian / NZ CISO Lens forum.

Christoph maintains a strong network with global thought leaders and business executives that he consults with and draws inspiration from.

Christoph is accredited and an affiliate member with the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds a Master of Business degree and several risk, security, technical and management-related accreditations.

In his free time, he enjoys sports and outdoor activities with his family and continuous learning.

Christopher Lek

Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Christopher Lek

Director, Cyber Security, Centre for IT Services, Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Christos Syngelakis

Motor Oil

Christos Syngelakis

Group Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer, Motor Oil

Chung Sang Hao

Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)

Chung Sang Hao

Deputy Director (AI Governance), Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)

Chung Sang Hao leads the AI governance team that develops and supports AI ethics and governance initiatives in Singapore to build trust in AI and enable its adoption. These initiatives include voluntary guidance to industry on responsible development and deployment of AI, research programmes to study legal, policy and trust issues from commercial deployment of AI, as well as international collaboration and partnership on AI governance.

Claire Macfarlane

Alteryx

Claire Macfarlane

Senior Sales Engineer, Alteryx

Claire MacFarlane is a Senior Sales Engineer at Alteryx. She joined Alteryx via the acquisition of Hyper Anna in 2021 and has over 9 years of experience in analytics consulting at EY. At Hyper Anna she worked closely with flagship Microsoft and IAG to assist them to embed automated analytics within their organisations.

Claire Tusler

VCCP

Claire Tusler

Chief Data Officer, VCCP

Clancy Birrell

Griffith University

Clancy Birrell

Manager, Advanced Analytics, Griffith University

Clancy Birrell has 19+ years’ experience in Advanced Analytics, including Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Statistics, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Visualization and Strategic Analytics.

He slings code daily including data mining (some form of SQL), machine learning and analytical tasks as well as manage a team of Data Scientists and Data Engineer colleagues.

In his current role he is also responsible for analytical team strategy, solution design, analytics advocacy + data product development and delivery.

In his spare time he occasionally freelances on small data science or analytical projects. “I really love what I do and enjoy the art of problem solving, no 2 days are the same and the richness of data today is a boon for finding ways to help solve business problems with advanced analytics.”

Claudia Natanson

Accuweather & UK Cyber Security Council

Claudia Natanson

CISO & Chairwoman, Accuweather & UK Cyber Security Council

Claus Tepper

Absa (South Africa)

Claus Tepper

Deputy CISO, Absa (South Africa)

Clay Jones

Capgemini Australia

Clay Jones

Senior Director, Supply Chain & Operations Management, Capgemini Australia

Clay is a Senior Director within the Consumer and Industrial sector for Capgemini Australia leading business development in Supply Chain and Operations. He is a supply chain and operations professional with 30 years of global experience in industry, consulting, IT and strategy across sectors. He has a masters of management in finance and operations management and holds multiple professional certifications from the Association for Supply Chain Management.

Clay is passionate about helping organisations transform their supply chains to manage risk and create a sustainable future through market leading technology, automation and industry best practice.

Clive Seymour

Aurizon

Clive Seymour

Chief Analytics Officer, Aurizon

Colin James

Fletcher Building

Colin James

GM Cybersecurity (CISO), Fletcher Building

Experienced CSO with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications and Entertainment industry. Skilled in Operations and Incident Management, ISO 27001, Strategic Planning, and Threat Intelligence. Strong military and protective services professional.

Colleen Chen

Dataiku

Colleen Chen

Solution Engineer, Dataiku

Prior to joining Dataiku, Colleen led policy development and industry engagement for the Defence Artificial Intelligence Centre within the Australian Department of Defence. In a career spanning government agencies, policy advocacy and academia, Colleen has served as Secretary of the IEEE working group for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, and is the founder of a prominent Australian employment law advocacy association. She has been a delegate to global forums including the International Labor Organisation in Geneva, the OECD Forum in Paris and the IEEE Standards Association in Berlin.

Colleen Pratts

Quanex Building Products Corporation

Colleen Pratts

Director of Cybersecurity, Governance and Services, Quanex Building Products Corporation

Colleen Pratts is the Director of IT Security, GRC and ITSM for Quanex Building Products, a worldwide leader of component manufacturing in the building products industry. She has 20 plus years of experience as an accomplished and results-driven technology leader. Her expertise in building and leading effective strategies allows for delivery of groundbreaking advancements for enterprise organizations.

Connie Munyai

Absa Group

Connie Munyai

Head Data Protection, Corporate and Investment Banking, Absa Group

Data Governance manager, responsible for assisting in creating Group Data Management Standards/Operating Standards, facilitate the implementation and measure the maturity of data capabilities using various matrix. Experienced Assistant Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the financial industry. Skilled in Data Quality, Metadata Management, Governance, Analytical Skills, Data Management functions, Data Stewardship, and SAS/SQL. Strong professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Information Technology/ Information Systems from University of Johannesburg.

Conor Jensen

DataIKU

Conor Jensen

VP - Data Science, DataIKU

Corbin Murakami

Liferay Commerce

Corbin Murakami

Director of Product Management, Liferay Commerce

Corbin Murakami is the Director of Product Management with the Liferay Commerce team. Corbin has been working on the Liferay platform for over 6 years and is responsible for overseeing the vision and strategy for Liferay Commerce. He works to understand the needs and challenges of the market to ensure the product roadmap is tailored to help B2B organisations improve customer experiences and automate critical business processes.

Corne Mare

Fortinet

Corne Mare

CISO, Fortinet

Corne has more than 15 years experience in network security and delivering cyber-resilient solutions. He has a focus on hybrid cloud environments and artificial intelligence to ensure organisations are enabled while also safeguarding their data and applications.

In his role as a CISO, Corne acts as the evangelist for Fortinet activities across Australia and the advanced technology that underpins its success. His role is to provide leadership and strategy for technical, pre-sales and support initiatives. He works closely with partners and customers to understand their business drivers and risk posture and to reduce their risk to an acceptable level.

Craig Rosewarne

Wolfpack Information Risk

Craig Rosewarne

Managing Director, Wolfpack Information Risk

Craig Rosewarne is the MD of Wolfpack Information Risk - a South African firm established in 2011 that provides information risk & cybersecurity services to governments & organisations. He has 20+ years management experience in the fields of information risk & cybersecurity. He is a frequent speaker & trainer at local & international events. He founded Alert Africa in 2015 to provide free awareness resources and  assistance to victims of cybercrime or harassment. Craig provides regular opinion pieces via TV, radio and print/online media, including IAEA, Carte Blanch, SABC, Metro FM, You, and the Sunday Times, just to name a few. He is proudly South African and an even prouder husband and father to three healthy “cubs”.

Crispin Wright

IAG New Zealand

Crispin Wright

Security Architect, IAG New Zealand

Currently part of our Cyber Security and Risk team at IAG, working primarily with Microsoft Azure, delivering consumable architectures that align with our enterprise direction, giving achievable ways forward for projects, while minimising risk to our information and environments.
I am also using my Agile experience to work with our team on ways of working to incorporate DevSecOps practices at IAG.

I am also glad to keep working at a technical level that enables me to contribute to incident response.

Curran Raclin

National Hockey League (NHL)

Curran Raclin

Global Vice President of Fan Engagement & Analytics, National Hockey League (NHL)

Curtis Simpson

Armis

Curtis Simpson

CISO, Armis

As the CISO at Armis, Simpson is responsible for ensuring that the Armis product continues to maintain its high standard and vigilant focus on platform and customer security and privacy. Prior to Armis, he was the CISO at Sysco, a Fortune 54 corporation. As Vice President and Global CISO at Sysco, Curtis directed a portfolio of innovative and effective, business-focused security and compliance programs responsible for reducing security risks faced by a global organization.

Cyril Voisin

Microsoft

Cyril Voisin

EMEA Leader: Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft

Cyril advises C-level executives from leading public & private sector organizations in France, Belgium, Italy, Middle East, Africa, on strategic security, risk, and business change issues and opportunities with digital transformation. To fulfil his mission, he works mostly with Chief Information Officers and Chief Information Security Officers of strategic organizations as well as Partners and international Microsoft teams.

Cyrus Facciano

X is Y

Cyrus Facciano

Director, X is Y

Cyrus Facciano is an innovator, entrepreneur and problem solver with almost 30 years of experience working across industries and geographies. He specialises in Data & Analytics operating models; linking the practice with the business and making the work more meaningful and impactful on both sides. He has advised 100’s of organisations on how to build effective D&A teams and helps D&A leaders become more strategic and relevant to the wider business. 

Daisy Wong

Flybuys

Daisy Wong

Security Culture & Awareness Lead, Flybuys

Daisy Wong is an experienced cyber security professional with over 10 years combined experience across the IT and financial industries. Daisy currently works at Flybuys (Loyalty Pacific) as their Security Culture and Awareness Lead. Using her marketing, behavioural studies and project management skills, she is passionate about building Flybuys security culture and keeping 8+ million active members safe.

Damien Manuel

Deakin University

Damien Manuel

Director, Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre, Deakin University

Damien Manuel is an Adjunct Professor of Deakin's Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation and is the Chairperson of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA), a not-for profit organisation which aims to improve Cyber Security in Australia at a Government, Industry and Community level.

Damien is currently on CompTIA’s Executive Advisory Committee in the USA, the Victorian Ombudsman’s Audit and Risk Committee, the board of RSA Australia, the chair of Standards Australia’s development committee for cyber security and privacy, the advisory board of the Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC), the Audit and Risk Committee for ACF and helps mentor entrepreneurs through CyRise, Australia’s only cyber security startup accelerator.

Daminda Kumara

Wesfarmers Industrial Safety

Daminda Kumara

Head of Cyber Security & Risk, Wesfarmers Industrial Safety

Daminda Kumara is an experienced cybersecurity leader who now works as the Head of Cybersecurity and Risk for Wesfarmers Industrial Safety. With more than 20 years of experience in information technology , he has worked with global organisations across manufacturing, supply chain, construction and safety industries to help operate and implement mission-critical technology services. In the current role of his capacity, he is driving cybersecurity strategy, operation and risk management through innovation for five leading Australian companies under Wesfarmers banner.

Dan Gooden

AirTasker

Dan Gooden

Chief Data Officer, AirTasker

Dan Harms

OneTrust GRC

Dan Harms

Consulting Manager, OneTrust GRC

Dan Harms serves as a Consulting Manager for OneTrust GRC– a purpose-built software designed to operationalize integrated risk management. In his role, Harms advises companies throughout their risk management implementations to establish processes to support operations and align with their enterprise objectives, including adopting industry best practices and adhering to requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG and more). Harms works with clients to realize the extent of their risk exposure, helping clients to map their digital infrastructure, assess risks, combat threats, monitor ongoing performance, and document evidence throughout the risk lifecycle.

Dan Pass

Perenna

Dan Pass

Chief Technology Officer, Perenna

Daniel Garbuglio

H2O.ai

Daniel Garbuglio

VP América Latina, H2O.ai

Daniel Garbuglio é o vice-presidente da América Latina da H2O.ai e tem mais de 20 anos de experiência no desenvolvimento de negócios na América Latina, ajudando clientes a encontrarem soluções inovadoras que influenciam em suas transformações digitais. Antes de entrar para o time da H2O.ai, Daniel trabalhou para empresas como Microsoft, McKinsey, EY, SAP, Oracle, ADP e Tableau. Daniel possui um MBA da Northwestern University e diversos cursos de extensão envolvendo estratégia e desenvolvimento de negócios. 



 

 



 

Daniel Garcia Gil

Schneider Electric

Daniel Garcia Gil

Healthcare Solution Architect, Schneider Electric

Daniel is the national Healthcare Solution Architect, supporting customers in identifying areas of improvement and optimization from the idea generation phase to the completion of the design and proof of concept phase.

Daniel has over 12 years of experience in the IT, Data Management and Systems Engineering fields and held several high-profile positions in both Research & Development, Innovation and Engineering sectors in Europe and Australia. 

During the last 8 years at Schneider Electric Australia, Daniel has been actively involved in various major Technology Integration Projects within the Healthcare sector nationwide. Across these projects, Daniel has been involved in the design, proof of concept and commissioning of multi-system integration platforms across clinical and facility scopes, including the identification of customer needs, definition of use cases and technology mapping.

Daniel Gargiulo

AcumenBI

Daniel Gargiulo

Practice Lead, AcumenBI

Daniel Keidar

Orca Security

Daniel Keidar

Vice President, Orca Security

Daniel has 25+ years’ experience as strategic Solution Architects manager, consultant in IP networking, Network Security and Security as a Service (SECaaS). Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the Cybersecurity and Telecommunications industries. Daniel has vast experience in Global Support Services and Customer Success. With so many years of working closely with global leading enterprises, telcos and small businesses, Daniel is passionate about looking after customers, forming partnerships, and creating business value to customers through best of breed Cybersecurity solutions.

Daniel Martins

Alelo Brasil

Daniel Martins

Data Analytics Superintendent, Alelo Brasil

Professional that has considerable experience and High Expertise in Predictive analytical/ Machine Learning projects for a range of different areas like banking, retail and telecommunication. In addition, I've participated in the Implementation of solutions for Risk, Fraud Prevention, Pricing, Insurance, Customer retention and Big Data Analytics. Beyond this activities, sporadically works as pre-sales conducting speeches, presentations and PoC(Proof of Concept) for clients from various markets segments.Currently my focus is to guide SAP customers on their Digital Transformation journey, describing possibilities throughout Machine Learning Applications and solutions.

 

 



 

Daniel Pinto

OneTrust

Daniel Pinto

Senior Sales Engineer, OneTrust

Profesional con más de 20 años en TI, Master en Gestión de la Información por Universidad de Montpellier/Francia, certificado en Privacidad de Datos por IAPP CIPP/E y CIPM. 



 

Daniela Fernandez

PayPal Australia

Daniela Fernandez

Head of Information Security, PayPal Australia

With over 15 years' experience in Information Technology, Daniela Fernandez is a cyber security and analytics leader, who values integrity, diversity of thought, continuous learning, sense of achievement and ensuring a healthy work/life integration.

Through the years she has gained knowledge in different domains including fraud detection, cyber security, risk management and analytics. Currently Daniela is the Head of Information Security at PayPal Australia. In the past, she worked as Director Cyber Risk and Strategy at Deloitte and in multiple roles at CBA, the last being as Executive Manager, Business Information Security Officer. With her technical skills and experience, Daniela is committed to break stereotypes, promote diversity in cyber security and empower talented women in technology.

Danilo Diovanni

Denodo

Danilo Diovanni

Diretor Comercial, Denodo

Danilo Diovanni é Diretor Comercial na Denodo, responsável pelo desenvolvimento de novos negócios no Brasil. Com formação em Marketing e MBA em Gestão Empresarial pela FGV, Danilo possui mais de 20 anos de experiência no setor de tecnologia, atuando em grandes empresas como IBM, SAS, Tableau e FICO, além da Mathematic Computer Tutor, onde compôs o time comercial por dois anos em Sydney, Austrália.

Danilo Lazaro

Snowflake

Danilo Lazaro

Sales Director, Snowflake

Danilo Lazaro é Sales Director da Snowflake, responsável por desenvolver as operações no Brasil em data cloud platform, data cloud marketplace, data warehouse, apoiando clientes em suas tomadas de decisões. Com mais de 17 anos de experiência em soluções de IT, desenvolveu sua carreira nas empresas Snowflake, New Relic, HP e Dassault Systemes apoiando clientes em seus projetos de transformação digital.



 

 



 

Danny Connelly

Zscaler

Danny Connelly

CISO, AMS and Public Sector, Zscaler

Danny has 20 years of cyber security experience split between offensive computing as an ethical hacker and defending some of our most important networks used in COVID response. As a highly regarded thought leader and trusted cyber security advisor, Danny provided guidance and formulated strategies to combat emerging threats for various agencies across the federal government.
Prior to joining Zscaler, Danny was the Associate CISO, Operations Branch Chief for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During his 11 year tenure at CDC, Danny was responsible for implementing operational capabilities to support Incident Response, Forensics, Cyber Threat Intel and Insider Threat functions. He has designed, implemented and optimized enterprise cyber security capabilities to effectively detect, prevent and respond to emerging cyber security threats. Danny is proud to have led CDC defenders on the front lines to survive some of the most sophisticated threats over the last decade

Dany Leclerc

Okta

Dany Leclerc

Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Daryl Elliott Green

an incredible story of bravery, courage, and resilience

Daryl Elliott Green

TWICE SHOT in the line of duty, an incredible story of bravery, courage, and resilience

In May 2000, Daryl Elliott Green and two fellow officers were on a routine job when they were ambushed by a man wielding a gun. He shot Daryl twice in the face and shoulder. Despite critical injuries, Daryl responded by drawing his firearm and searching for the shooter while trying to protect his colleagues and local residences coming to their assistance.

For his actions that night, Daryl was presented with a Valour Award, Queensland Police's highest bravery accolade. But on a personal level and while undergoing painful facial reconstruction surgeries, he struggled with debilitating depression and chronic PTSD. Yet while he didn't know it at the time, he was on the precipice of a remarkable journey of healing and introspection.

Supported by loved ones and professionals, Daryl found an inner strength he didn't know he had. Eventually, he returned to work and went on to achieve significant goals, including becoming a firearms instructor to overcome his fear of guns.

Today, Daryl empowers others through TWICE SHOT, his motivational speaking business. His story is one so harrowing it will keep you on the edge of your seat and demonstrate how you can claw your way back, no matter your circumstances.

Dave Blakey

Snapt

Dave Blakey

CEO, Snapt

Dave Blakey

Snapt

Dave Blakey

CEO, Snapt

Dave Cowan

Link Group

Dave Cowan

CISO, Link Group

Dave has 24 years’ experience in the IT/Information Security/Cybersecurity industry and has worked in Australia, New Zealand and the UK for leading international companies.

Dave joined Link Group in 2013 and is now the Chief Information Security Officer responsible for protecting the personal records and financial assets for over 100 million individuals across the globe. Dave is responsible for the strategy, leadership and continuous improvement of the global Information Security control framework at Link Group, ensuring the people, processes and technology are all operating effectively to mitigate the risk of security incidents and fraud impacting the wider ecosystem.

Dave Lewis

Dave Lewis

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Dave has 30 years of industry experience. He has extensive experience in IT security operations and management. Dave is a Global Advisory CISO for Cisco. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest & podcast as well as the host of DuoTV and the Plaintext podcast. He is currently a member of the board of directors for BSides Las Vegas. Previously he served on the board of directors for (ISC)2 as well as being a founder of BSides Toronto. Dave has been a DEF CON speaker operations goon for over 12 years. As well, he serves on the advisory board for Sector Security Conference and CFP review for 44CON. He is currently working towards his graduate degree at Harvard. Dave has written columns for Forbes, CSO Online, Huffington Post, The Daily Swig and others. For fun he is a curator of small mammals (his kids) plays bass guitar, likes to grill, is part owner of a whisky distillery and a soccer team. 

Dave Lewis

Duo Security at Cisco

Dave Lewis

Global Advisory CISO, Duo Security at Cisco

Lewis has 25 years of experience in IT security operations and management, including a decade dealing with critical infrastructure security. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest and co-host of the Liquidmatrix podcast as well as host of the Plaintext and Murder Board podcasts. Lewis serves on the advisory boards for several firms. He writes columns for Daily Swig, Forbes and several other publications.

David Akka

SQream

David Akka

SVP EMEA, SQream

David Bunker

David Bunker

Strategy Consultant and Director,

David Bunker is a highly resilient, connected, and insightful director, executive manager and business leader, with expert capability in applied innovation, digital strategy and technology driven industry and business transformation. Relating his experience over the last 35 years in operational, strategic management and high technology consultancy roles across the public and private sector in health, education, finance, mining, and telecommunications industries, David’s attention is now focused on Translational Research – bridging the gap between what we know, and how we practice in healthcare. He is acknowledged as a leader in Community Advocacy, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence and Genomics adoption at state and national levels, and he has a commitment to health and social outcomes and values-based business transformation.

David Chantler

Queensland Treasury Corporation

David Chantler

Director of Information Security and Technology Risk, Queensland Treasury Corporation

David Chantler is the Head of Information Security for Queensland Treasury Corporation. His information security and operational risk management expertise has been built across a 20+ year career providing solutions for the finance industry. With a background in development, infrastructure, and ITSM service delivery, he has led a range of in-house ICT teams, delivered many and varied ICT projects, and now operates in an outsourced ICT environment. David is a highly experienced ICT executive, with expertise in planning, delivery, operations and governance, and stakeholder and vendor management. His current focus includes delivering QTC’s Cyber Risk Management Plan

David Coleman

Rapid7

David Coleman

Lead Solution Architect, Rapid7

David Coleman has spent more than 20 years in IT, and for more than a decade specialising in cyber security in both Global and Regional, across global systems integrator, cyber security consulting, telecommunications, managed security services organisations and IT Operations. Now leading Rapid7’s solution engineering team in Australia and New Zealand, David enjoys working with organisations in examining how maturing cyber security can assist organisations.

David Geber

AUB Group

David Geber

Chief Information Security Officer, AUB Group

David is a passionate and skilled cyber security executive with over 30 years of experience successfully running technology, cyber security, risk and compliance functions. David enjoys leading organisations through their ongoing cyber journey with expertise in developing and implementing cyber security strategies for Fortune 100 and ASX companies. In his current role as a Chief Information Security Officer, he is responsible for all aspects of cyber and sees success where cyber is pervasive throughout an organisation and is regarded as a business enabler. David holds a Masters of Business from Charles Sturt University, is CISM certified and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

David Jorm

x15ventures

David Jorm

Head of Security, x15ventures

David has worked in the tech industry for over 20 years, with over 10 years focusing on security. He has previously been a software engineer, technical writer, and aviation meteorologist. He has spoken at most major infosec conferences and teaches security at UNSW. He is currently the head of security for x15 ventures, a fintech venture scaler.

David Kerner

Denodo

David Kerner

Regional Vice President, Denodo

David Keyes

IBM

David Keyes

Global Sales Leader - Business Automation Software, IBM

David has spent the majority of his professional life at IBM, holding several roles with increasing responsibilities. He started with a sales territory and expanded his influence to regional, national, and global roles. During his time at IBM, he has launched new business units, led 3-acquisitions, shaped markets, expanded partnerships, and built successful teams and relationships along the way. For the last 15 years, he has held management positions, starting with a product lead and growing into the WW global sales leader for a single offering. Also, David ran a $200MM business in APAC, through the turbulent recession, and various sales and partner leadership positions across North America.

David Leake

Rathbone Brothers

David Leake

Head of Data, Rathbone Brothers

David Maunsell

Haventec

David Maunsell

CEO, Haventec

Dave is an accomplished executive with a strong affinity for technology and keen business sense for the application of emerging solutions. He has a proven talent for identifying core business needs and translating into outcomes.

Prior to joining Haventec Dave spent ~20 years at Accenture where he occupied a number of geographic leadership, account leadership and delivery leadership roles including Managing Director for Accenture Digital (AU and NZ), Inclusion and Diversity Lead (AU), Capital Markets Lead (AU) as well as Client Leadership roles for a number of Accenture’s Financial Services clients.

Prior to joining Accenture Dave spent five years at the Australian Stock exchange in a number of roles including the Internet and Information Security Lead.

David Puente

Arca Continental

David Puente

Director de Analítica Avanzada & Business Intelligence, Arca Continental

MBA David Puente, 12 años de experiencia en la industria de Bebidas con trayectoria en BI, Pricing, Brand Management, Estrategia Comercial y Ciencia de Datos, actualmente Director de Analítica en Arca Continental (Chief Data Officer) como responsable de las áreas de las áreas de gobierno de datos, business intelligence y ciencia de datos. Responsable del despliegue de la estrategia de datos a lo largo de la compañía, siendo esta la 3ra embotelladora de Coca-Cola más grande del mundo.

 

David Rusli

David Rusli

Publicis Media

David Rusli

David Rusli

Chief Strategy & Data Officer, Publicis Media

A strategist at heart, David is responsible for leading a team that bridges people and data, creativity and advanced analytics in order to create meaningful experiences across paid, owned and earned touchpoints.

He is focused in distilling complex brand problems in simple terms and providing an equally simple and meaningful solution. He believes in looking beyond the numbers and putting the audience at the heart of everything, creating strategies that are loved by people and brands.

David has worked across various categories and brands in a few countries. Prior to this role, as the Global Strategy Lead on Microsoft based in New York, he designed the global planning system for Microsoft as well as the launches of Surface and Xbox One X amongst many.

David Sheildlower

Turner Construction Company

David Sheildlower

VP & Chief Information & Privacy Officer, Turner Construction Company

David Spirk

U.S. Department of Defense

David Spirk

Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Defense

David Spirk was named the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Data Officer (CDO) on June 22, 2020. David is responsible for strengthening data management across the DoD and accelerating the transition to a data-centric culture. Additionally he oversees key enablers including the data governance process, data standards and policies, and the promotion of data acumen across the DoD workforce. David also oversees implementation of the DoD Data Strategy.

Previously David was the United States Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) first-generation Chief Data Officer since August 2018, a role in which he is responsible for the creation of a data-driven decision-making culture while leading the integration of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/automation across the US Special Forces enterprise.

 

David Teague

BBC

David Teague

Head of Data, BBC

David Wallace-Lemmon

ANZ

David Wallace-Lemmon

Head of Business/Data Governance and Controls - Digital and Australia Transformation, ANZ

With 20 years’ experience working in Information Technology, Telecommunications and Finance Dave has a passion for developing thought leadership through data driven decisions and the use of emerging technologies. From early beginnings in a Tech Start up Dave saw the importance of congruency between Technology, Quality Data Management, Risk Management and Business Operations. Dave has worked directly on design, and support of Data and IP Infrastructure for Large Enterprise and Government Agencies and rolled out a number of Large Data and Digital Transformation Programs, one of which received an Australian Business Award in Technology for Finance.

 

David Wang

National Transport Insurance

David Wang

Data Science Lead, National Transport Insurance

David West

NAB

David West

Head of Cyber Defence, NAB

Daymon Nin

Whānau Tahi Ltd

Daymon Nin

CIO, Whānau Tahi Ltd

Daymon is a member of the executive team at Whānau Tahi, and leads the design and implementation of systems for Iwi, Urban Māori, and other indigenous groups internationally. He brings culturally involved design thinking for technology, people, and practices, as well as expertise in Maori Data Sovereignty and Governance practice. He has advised organisations and indigenous groups in Australia, USA, South-East Asia, Africa, and the UK. Daymon’s background has also included scaled ERP system implementations, solution architecture, outcome measurement, and organization change. Daymon has also been recognised for his work in the advancement of Māori Enterprise.

   

Deborah Haworth

Penguin Random House UK

Deborah Haworth

CISO, Penguin Random House UK

Deepa Amrat-Bradley

Deepa Amrat-Bradley

Cyber Security Strategy and Programs Specialist,

Deepa Bradley specialised as a Transformation and Business Turnaround Director for 15 years before entering the cyber space. Originally from England, she has worked with clients in the United States, India, Middle East and most recently Australia.

Joining SEEK in January 2021, Deepa heads up Cyber Security Strategy and Portfolio Governance within the team. She leads and facilitates dialogue between subject matter experts, technical teams & the business to continue to deliver collaborative and fit for purpose outcomes. Deepa’s team facilitate the review and design of the Security Strategy, Operational Plan and Reporting framework for security and build up project management capability to enable a complex and growing portfolio of work. Deepa is the recipient of several awards for her work of the years, and most recently recipient of the AM Cham Global Leadership Program Scholarship 2022. With a wide range of program management and leadership credentials gained over the years, she looks forward to the journey of continuous learning and growth.

Delwyn Armstrong

Waitematā District Health Board

Delwyn Armstrong

Head of Analytics, Waitematā District Health Board

Delwyn Armstrong is the Head of Analytics at the Institute for Innovation and Improvement at Waitemata DHB and holds a Masters in Public Health. She has a passion for improving access to patient information for clinicians; fostering data-driven, clinician-led healthcare improvement. She has led the DHB-wide implementation of Qlik Sense at Waitemata, and the development of a northern regional real-time data store and integrated dashboard to support the regional COVID-19 response. Through her previous experience managing Waitemata’s Health Intelligence Team and various analyst and project management roles across all three Auckland DHBs, she has developed an end-to-end understanding of information systems.

Dennis Mackey

State Street Global Advisors

Dennis Mackey

MD, Head of Business Process Management, Reference Data & Data Governance, State Street Global Advisors

Deon George

IBM

Deon George

Principal Data Science & Data Governance Leader, IBM

Deon George loves exploiting technology to make life easier and more enjoyable. He has been working in or with the IT industry for more than 30 years.

For most of Deon’s 20+ year career at IBM, he has been selling IBM’s Storage Software offerings and understands the criticality of data to every organisation, large or small. He has helped clients with strategies to modernise their storage infrastructure and protect the data from any data loss, including the ability to bring it back in an efficient manner, if there is a disaster, all to reduce impacts to the business and their clients.

In 2022, Deon joined IBM’s Data and AI team, to help clients leverage that data, simply, easily and quickly, wherever it is, to gain new business insights, or even to just be innovative.

Outside of IBM, Deon is a busy being both a husband and a dad. He tries to find time to improve his skills as a student pilot, dabbles a little bit in programming and when he can, he enjoys time around a campfire, talking about anything that comes up.

Derek Schraader

Deloitte

Derek Schraader

Director: Analytics & Cloud, Deloitte

Dhivian Govender

recoveriescorp

Dhivian Govender

Chief Data, Analytics and Strategy Officer, recoveriescorp

Dhivian has more than 20 years of experience across multiple industries in both Australia and New Zealand, with a varied background in data science, marketing, advanced analytics, strategic planning, process simplification and change management. Dhivian has a passion for building high performing teams; utilising technology and implementing a culture of data driven decision-making to optimise customer experience alongside commercial viability.

As recoveriescorp’s Chief Data,Analytics & Strategy Officer, Dhivian oversees the overall customer contact strategy (design and execution) with a particular focus on customer centricity by creating a seamless omni-channel customer experience, customer insight, data analytics and data science functions to inform strategy and the reporting and data visualisation functions.

Diane Schmidt

London Stock Exchange Group

Diane Schmidt

Global Director and Head, Data Governance & Business Process, London Stock Exchange Group

Diane Schmidt has more than 25 years of experience in data management with a proven record of successes in developing governance, operations, technology, analytics, and transformation programs.

Prior to joining London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in June 2018, Diane held a Managing Director role with a data management and architecture consultancy, a Director role at the Department of Treasury Office of Financial Research, and the role of Chief Data Officer at Freddie Mac. In her current role as Global Director and Head Data Governance and Business Process, Diane is responsible for the implementation of an enterprise data policy and standards framework, business data processes and associated tools to transform and improve LSEG’s functions and behaviors in support of a mature, data driven culture.

Diane has a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences with a focus on Information Quality, a MS in Information Management and is an active member of numerous data management industry forums.

Diego Jahn

Grupo Antofagasta Minerals & LATAM Airlines

Diego Jahn

Former Chief Analytics & Data Officer, Grupo Antofagasta Minerals & LATAM Airlines

Industrial Engineer and MBA, with more than 12 years of experience in the design and implementation of strategic projects and broad knowledge in AI & Data.
Achieving results through analysis and development of action plans. Ability to mobilise work teams to achieve challenging objectives . High analytical capacity, proactivity and strategic vision.




 

Diego Lürssen

CMI Corporación Multi Inversiones

Diego Lürssen

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, CMI Corporación Multi Inversiones

Líder de equipos de datos y analíticas multidisciplinarios enfocados en la creación de valor al negocio, con experiencia en empresas multinacionales financieras, farmacéuticas, textiles, manufactura, energía, real state y consumo masivo en diversos puestos estratégicos en datos, comercial y operación.

Desarrollo, implementación y liderazgo de los capítulos de Data Management, Data Governace, arquitectura e ingeniería de datos e ingeniería de ML, datos maestros, referenciales y metada data, despliegues de analítica descriptiva, analítica predictiva, IoT, IoE y IoB, impulsando la transformación de organizaciones construyendo cultura basada en Datos.

Diego Oppenheimer

DataRobot

Diego Oppenheimer

Executive Vice President, MLOps, DataRobot

Diego Oppenheimer is the EVP of MLOps at DataRobot, and previously was co-founder and CEO of Algorithmia, the enterprise MLOps platform, where he helped organizations scale and achieve their full potential through machine learning.  After acquisition by DataRobot, he continues his drive for getting ML models into production faster and more cost-effectively with enterprise-grade security and governance. He brings his passion for data from his time at Microsoft where he shipped Microsoft’s most used data analysis products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server, and Power BI. Diego holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Diego Vallarino, PhD

Coface

Diego Vallarino, PhD

Global Head of Data Sourcing, Group Information Services, Coface

+6 years at C-Level positions at Multinational Companies, +10 years as Data Professional (REAL Hands-On in R, Python & SQL) working with high volume of data (at industry and academia), +18 years Consulting at public and private sector,
He worked within multicultural and multidisciplinary project teams (LatAm, US, EU) to achieve relevant goals. Passionate about PreSales and consultative selling of complex data solutions.
His areas of expertise are Advance Data Analytics, Information Economics, Cliometrics and Public Policies.

DISTINCTIONS:
- “Global Top 100 Data Visionaries 2020” https://www.business-of-data.com/reports/2020-global-top-100-innovators-in-data-analytics-report
- Global One Equifax Award 2018
- Board Member – UTEC Engineering & Tech University (Perú, since 2020)
- Full-Academic at the National Academy of Economics (since 2014).
- Member of The International Cliometrics Society (since 2020)
- Member of the South American Network of Applied Economics (since 2009).
- Regular columnist at Forbes Magazine (México) and El País (Uruguay) newspaper.
- Author of the book "Innovation from the South” (2005). Published +10 research papers at congresses/seminars.

COMPUTING KNOWLEDGE:
Machine Learning/Analytics: MS Azure ML (MS MOOC), SAS Enterprise Miner (AAEM 53), SPSS, SPSS Modeler.
Lenguajes: Python (MS MOOC), R (MOOC).
Data Management: SQL (MOOC), Oracle, Impala, Hive
Visualización: Tableau, MS PowerBI, Spotfire.




 

Dimitri Sirota

BigID

Dimitri Sirota

CEO and Co-Founder, BigID

Dimitri Sirota is the CEO and Co-Founder of one of the first enterprise privacy management platforms, BigID, and a privacy and identity expert. He is an established serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor and strategist, and previously founded two enterprise software companies focused on security (eTunnels) and API management (Layer 7 Technologies), which was sold to CA Technologies in 2013. 

Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos

Barclays CTO

Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos

Lead Data Scientist, Applied R&D, Barclays CTO

Dimitrios is the lead data scientist in Barclays’ Applied Research and Development team of the CTO. For the last four years he has been productionising machine learning solutions for a variety of different business use cases: card fraud detection, recommendation engines, credit card delinquency predictions, customer sentiment analysis, compliance and investment bank markets. Moreover, Dimitrios is building cost effective GPU hardware solutions for machine learning projects, that deal with petabytes of data, across the entire bank and he is developing the next generation state-of-the-art AI models (using Deep Neural Networks) for card fraud and bond pricing prediction. In parallel, he is also actively involved in the cloud based technologies, that will be implemented in the near future by Barclays, and he is following very closely the recent developments around Quantum Computing and Quantum AI. Finally, he is actively benchmarking 3rd party hardware and software solutions around AI and has been representing Barclays in various discussion panels and forums. Dimitrios completed a Ph.D. on the development of predictive algorithms for Black Hole astrophysics and Quantum Gravity detection.

Dimple Thakkar

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Dimple Thakkar

Executive Director-Global Head of Digital Engineering-Consumer Bank, JP Morgan Chase & Co

Ms. Thakkar has reigned the financial services technology and analytics arena for over 20 years including Deposits, Credit and Lending , Treasury and Payments, Investments - Asset and wealth management -both fixed income and equities on the financial side and leading large-scale teams on the healthcare side. She has led teams within Innovative Technology and complex Product strategies for these areas and has helped organizations, both big and small,excel in implementing large transformations through Innovation and Data Analytics Mgmt., building 'best in class' teams and formulating and implementing complex technology and product strategies , creating new products and shaping large scale team and program governance with minimal risk.Her passion lies in SIMPLIFYING most complicated processes or products , INNOVATING for clients,helping teams GROW and EXCEL, and TRACKING utilizing KPIs and other matrices. She is a firm believer in TRUST and ETHICS aka 'Doing the Right Thing' for an Organization and clients.

Divya Dayalamurthy

Arc Infrastructure

Divya Dayalamurthy

Cyber Security Lead, Arc Infrastructure

After completing a Master of Computer and Network Security in 2011, Divya has had a diverse career across information technology services and financial and insurance services, including roles with Dimension Data, BankWest and HBF Health Insurance. Divya has been recognised at the Women in Technology WA awards as a nominee for the ‘20 in 20’ initiative in 2018. She is now the Cybersecurity Lead at Arc Infrastructure, a transport infrastructure owner and access provider based in WA. Divya is responsible to establish the cyber security team and drive the maturity level of cyber security for IT and OT for Arc Infrastructure . This involved defining a strategy and roadmap on how Arc Infrastructure would get to the cybersecurity maturity against NIST framework.

Doug Hammond

UnitingCare

Doug Hammond

CISO, UnitingCare

I have over 25 years of experience in various Technology roles, most of these with a Risk Management and Information Security focus. Being in the Information Security field has enabled me to work in a wide range of industries including aviation, financial services, telecommunications, Federal Government and now in Healthcare.

Dr Adam Chee

National University of Singapore

Dr Adam Chee

Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore

Currently serving as Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Dr. Adam CHEE has more than 20 years of health informatics, digital health, innovation, technologies and business experience. Prior to joining the National University of Singapore, he was the Director of BinaryHealthCare, spearheading many significant and notable projects across Asia Pacific and Middle East through the provision of digital health transformation expertise to both health(care) and solution providers via consulting assignments, executive coaching, training, leadership and speaking engagements.

His unique background also includes working in business, market development and product management with established organization including AGFA Heathcare, CrimsonLogic; innovative startups and leading the Health IT and Medical Imaging practice within Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific. He ‘earned his stripes’ as an industry pioneer, implementing and managing clinical information solutions during his tenure with Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) and have since worked across the healthcare ecosystem, including the primary care sector, private and public tertiary hospitals, research institutes, government health agencies and NGOs across the globe. He had also worked in the areas of IT technical, system and technology management during the earlier part of his career.

Adam serves on several relevant committees including (but not limited to):

  • Chair, Health Level Seven (HL7) Singapore
  • Founding Co-Chair, HL7 Korea-Singapore Research & Innovation Alliance (HKSRIA)
  • Chair, Technical Committee for Health Informatics, Singapore Standards Council

A firm believer of lifelong learning, Adam is a "Specialized Generalist" with a Doctor of Industrial Technology (Health Informatics), Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Health and Master of Science (Applied Computing).

A recognized Subject Matter Expert, Adam serves as an Expert (Digital Health) with WHO and holds faculty positions with institutes of higher learning in the region, including a Visiting Professorship with Taipei Medical University, has published three books, numerous articles and frequently advises + speaks at international conferences (including HIMSS, Harvard etc.). Adam also holds the following professional fellowships;

  • FRSPH – Fellow of Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH)
  • FHIMSS – Fellow of Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS)
  • FACHI – Fellow of Australasia College of Health Informatics (ACHI)

Adam’s detailed profile is available at www.BinaryHealthCare.com/Adam

Dr Ali Soofastaei

Vale

Dr Ali Soofastaei

AI Program Leader, Vale

Dr. Ali Soofastaei leads innovative industrial projects in artificial intelligence (AI) applications to improve safety, productivity, and energy efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and has an in-depth understanding of energy management (EM) and equipment maintenance solutions (EMS). The extensive research he conducted on AI and value engineering (VE) methods while completing his Master of Engineering also provided him with expertise in applying advanced analytics in EM and EMS. Dr. Soofastaei completed his Ph.D. at The University of Queensland (UQ) in the field of AI applications in mining engineering, where he led a revolution in the use of deep learning (DL) and AI methods to increase energy efficiency, reduce operation and maintenance costs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in surface mines. In addition, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, he has provided practical guidance to undergraduate and postgraduate students in mechanical and mining engineering and information technology.

 In the past 15 years, he has conducted various research studies in academic and industrial environments. As a result, he has acquired in-depth knowledge of energy efficiency opportunities (EEO), VE, and advanced analytics. He is an expert in using DL and AI methods in data analysis to develop predictive, optimization, and decision-making models of complex systems. Dr. Soofastaei has been involved in industrial research and development projects in several industries, including oil and gas (Royal Dutch Shell); steel (Danieli); and mining (BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, and Vale). His extensive practical experience in the industry has equipped him to work with complex industrial problems in highly technical and multi-disciplinary teams.

 Dr. Soofastaei has more than ten years of academic experience as an Assistant Professor and leader of global research activities. His research and development projects have been published in international journals and keynote presentations; He has presented his practical achievements at conferences in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

 Dr Soofastaei has founded Soofastaei-Publications, Soofastaei-Educations, and Soofastaei-Businesses institutes focusing on digital transformation and advanced analytics to provide not only the required materials and references for the 4.0 industrial digital revolution but also train the new generation of specialists and industrial managers who are interested in studying and working in the field of advanced applied analytics and AI.

Dr David R Hardoon

Aboitiz Data Innovation

Dr David R Hardoon

Chief Data & Innovation Officer, Aboitiz Group and Managing Director, Aboitiz Data Innovation

Concurrently David is an external advisor to Singapore's Corrupt Investigation Practices Bureau
(CPIB) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) and to Singapore's Central
Provident Fund Board (CPF) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Data Science).

Prior to his current roles, David was Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) first appointed
Chief Data Officer and Head of Data Analytics Group reporting to the agency Deputy Managing
Director for Financial Supervision and subsequently Special Advisor (Artificial Intelligence)
reporting to Deputy Managing Director for Markets and Development. In these roles he led the
development of the AI strategy both for MAS and Singapore’s financial sector as well as driving
efforts in promoting open cross-border data flows.

David holds a PhD in Computer Science in the field of Machine Learning from the University of
Southampton and graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with First Class Honors
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

David R. Hardoon, PhD
Chief Data and AI Officer at Union Bank of the Philippines
Chief Data Officer at UnionDigital
Chief Data and Innovation Officer at Aboitiz Group
Managing Director at Aboitiz Data Innovation

Jamie Gabriel

Dr Jamie Gabriel

Cancer Institute NSW

Jamie Gabriel

Dr Jamie Gabriel

Chief Data Officer, Cancer Institute NSW

Jamie Gabriel is the Chief Data Officer in the NSW Cancer Institute. He is responsible for overseeing the the security, use, and integrity of all data assets in the Institute, and driving the Institute's Data Strategy. Prior to his role in the Cancer Institute, Jamie worked for many years in the University sector, often working on software and analytics projects, as well as lecturing. Jamie has extensive experience in the architecture and deployment of scalable enterprise data science environments and has a knack for building passionate data science teams. In his spare time he loves writing clean code and generally trying to keep up with the ever changing world of data science.

Dr Jonathan Cohen

Taylor Fry

Dr Jonathan Cohen

Principal, Taylor Fry

Jonathan Cohen is a Principal at Taylor Fry, leading multi-stakeholder projects for government and corporate clients. He focuses on evaluating and optimising interventions and designing, developing and implementing analytics and machine learning solutions. Jonathan regularly manages large analytics projects involving extensive stakeholder engagement, comprehensive project planning, and consensus-building.

 

Dr Jonathan Gray

Anchoram

Dr Jonathan Gray

Lead Partner for Enterprise Data and Information Management, Anchoram

Jon is Anchoram’s Lead Partner for Enterprise Data and Information Management. Jon brings to Anchoram more than 30 years of computing experience in industry and academia, both in Australia and the UK. In recent years, Jon has worked with many clients in government agencies, assisting them on their data management improvement journey.

Jon has worked for large ICT corporations such as Motorola and Telstra, and he has held academic appointments at several universities, including the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. Since moving to Canberra in 2006, Jon’s career includes: research leader for National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA); CEO & Founder of Performance Assurance; CEO & Chief Data Scientist of Catapult BI. Jon joined Anchoram Consulting in March 2022 as the Lead Partner for Enterprise Data and Information Management.

Jon completed his formal education in the UK with a PhD in Computer Science (Sheffield, 1991). Jon has published widely in many fields of software engineering, information systems, and computer science, and he is a frequent speaker at Australian and International conferences.

Jon is very active in DAMA Australia, where he is a frequent contributor to DAMA events, and an ardent advocate of data literacy and training.

Dr Karolyn Kerr, Data Manager, IHC New Zealand Incorporated

Dr Karolyn Kerr

IHC New Zealand Incorporated

Dr Karolyn Kerr, Data Manager, IHC New Zealand Incorporated

Dr Karolyn Kerr

Data Manager, IHC New Zealand Incorporated

Karolyn Kerr (PhD, MInstD, RGON) is director and owner of Illuminare. Illuminare provides data management, data governance and data quality strategic planning services to a range of clients, including government and private organisations, and is currently working with IHC Group. Having begun her career as a nurse, training in New Zealand and the UK and specialised in Coronary Care nursing and research, Karolyn then studied Health Informatics. After completing a Masters in telehealth, Karolyn twice worked at the Ministry of Health in the digital health team. Here she completed a PhD in data quality, developing a national strategy for data quality for the health sector. Karolyn is a previous Chair of Health Informatics New Zealand. Having a position on the Board of Accuro Health Insurance and membership with the Institute of Directors, Karolyn is well versed in organisational governance, strategic planning and business risk assessment.

Dr Khaled Alhazmi

KACST (KSA)

Dr Khaled Alhazmi

Director: National Center for Robotics & IoT Technology, KACST (KSA)

Dr Khaled Alqahtani

General Authority of Statistics (KSA)

Dr Khaled Alqahtani

Chief Data Officer, General Authority of Statistics (KSA)

Dr Omer Yezdani

Australian Catholic University

Dr Omer Yezdani

Director (Chief Data Officer), Australian Catholic University

Omer Yezdani is a strategic advisor, and principal data governance and analytics lead at a major Australian university with over 20 years experience in public, private, NFP and government sectors. Omer works in large and complex organisations to unlock the potential of data and information through a strategic approach to harnessing the value of data as a strategic asset. Beginning his career in a major ASX listed technology firm, Omer work on client solutions in communications technology, before moving into national policy and programs with the Australian Government. For the last eight years, Omer has been working in the Australian higher education sector, in Australia’s leading digital university, and currently with one of the worlds’ largest Catholic universities.

Dr Rachel Anne Carter

The Geneva Association

Dr Rachel Anne Carter

Director, The Geneva Association

Dr Rachna Dhand

Rio Tinto

Dr Rachna Dhand

Manager: Data Science & Analytics, Rio Tinto

Dr Rebecca Wynn

Click Solutions Group (USA)

Dr Rebecca Wynn

SVP: Global Cyber Security & Strategy Officer, Click Solutions Group (USA)

Dr Robert Whetsel

U.S Food and Drug Administration

Dr Robert Whetsel

Associate Director, U.S Food and Drug Administration

Dr. Whetsel has served almost 30 years in the US federal government. In his terminal assignment, last assignment before retirement, he joined the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) as a Senior Technical Executive. Prior to moving to the FDA, he spent several years in the Department of Defense (DoD) in various technical leadership roles.

In his last position with the DoD, Dr. Whetsel served as the Chief Technical Advisor for 4th Estate Network Optimization and Defense Enclave Services. It was his technical vision that guided one the largest network and service consolidation projects in the history of the US. federal government. Robert is considered a thought leader in digital transformation and innovation. More importantly, his technical insights into data science continues to achieve astounding and innovative results for complex cross-agency initiatives.

Dr. Whetsel is a recipient of the Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology from MIT Sloan School of Management. In addition, he hold a Masters of Computer Science in Artificial Intelligence and a Doctor of Computer Science in Big Data Analytics.

Dr Sophia Frentz

Westfarmers

Dr Sophia Frentz

Data Product Owner – Advantage, Westfarmers

Dr Sophia Frentz (they/them) is the Data Platform Product Owner at OnePass (Wesfarmers). They are passionate about data in all its forms, and believe that everyone has the ability to understand even the most complex data concepts. They have a PhD in Genetics, was one of Out for Australia’s 30 under 30 in 2020, and are currently a Non-Executive Director for Out for Australia. Sophia thinks deeply about the intersections between science, technology, and society, and particularly the ethical implications of how we collect, use, and share data commercially. You can usually find them watching British murder shows and talking about their latest Fun Fact, currently how magenta isn’t a real colour.

Dr Sue Keay

Queensland AI Hub

Dr Sue Keay

Chief Executive Officer, Queensland AI Hub

Dr Sue Keay is the Queensland AI Hub’s first Chief Executive Officer. Dr Keay, with a distinguished career journey focused on disruptive technologies, joined the Hub from her previous position as Research Director for Cyber-Physical Systems at CSIRO’s Data61. Among many achievements, she has been responsible for setting up the world’s first robotic vision research centre and led the development of Australia’s first Robotics roadmap, outlining how robotics and automation will impact on every sector of the Australian economy.

Dr Keay was formerly the Chief Operating Officer for the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision and has an MBA from The University of Queensland Business School. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and chairs the Board of Robotics Australia Group, and serves on the Boards of the CRC for Optimising Resource Extraction and Women in Robotics. Dr Keay completed her PhD in Earth Sciences at The Australian National University in 1998 and is recognised as a Superstar of STEM and one of Queensland’s most influential people.

 

Dr Keay is a well-known industry mentor and contributor to the wider STEM ecosystem.

Dr. Abdullah H. Sahyoun

APCO Worldwide (UAE)

Dr. Abdullah H. Sahyoun

Head: AI & Digital Transformation, APCO Worldwide (UAE)

Dr. Bryan Tan

CARRO

Dr. Bryan Tan

Chief Data Scientist, CARRO

Dr. Durrel Ramrathan

MultiChoice Group

Dr. Durrel Ramrathan

Senior Manager: Operational Performance, Quality Analytics & Ml, CX Mentor, MultiChoice Group

Durrel is a senior Analytics & AI Leader - holding a PhD in Leadership, with multiple published works in the Information Technology domain. He is also an Accredited Customer Experience Mentor, focused on creating and enabling solutions that redefine the customer experience itself as well as how it is measured. His experience includes developing and leading multiple AI teams at large global organizations - currently at Multichoice and previously at IBM. This has positioned him at the forefront of some of the most innovative and experimental technologies in business.

Dr. Geraldine Wong

GXS

Dr. Geraldine Wong

Chief Data Officer, GXS

Dr. Pooyan Asgari

Domain

Dr. Pooyan Asgari

Chief Data Officer, Domain

Pooyan oversees Data, Analytics, BI and AI for the group. Pooyan has over 15 years’ experience in the Business Intelligence, Data Science and Machine Learning fields. Pooyan’s team is dedicated to providing seamless access to data and analytics across the business and supports teams to solve their complex problems with the help of data. Pooyan’s team also actively provides cutting edge AI and BI solutions to internal and external stakeholders.

Before joining Domain in 2014, Pooyan was Director of Analytical Products for HLA Global, working with a number of high-profile health care organisations such as Cancer Council of Australia and centre of disease control (CDC) in the United States to build cutting edge AI solutions for the medical sector.

Pooyan has a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Tehran Azad University, a Master in Information Technology from Macquarie University and PhD in machine learning and natural language processing (IT) from the University of Sydney.

Dr. Ram Singh

Performics

Dr. Ram Singh

Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Analytics & Technology, Performics

Dr. Singh has extensive experience leading C-Suite marketing, analytics, and data sciences positions at Fortune 500 companies. His global experience in Marketing, Analytics, Operations, Acquisition, Branding, and Consulting, is nationally recognized for its impact on performance, and for driving innovation targeted at revenue / brand / customer / ROI growth, product adoption, conversions, and channel optimization.

Industries: Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, Education, Information Technology, Computer Software, CPG, Telecom, and Hospitality

Brands: Almost every well-loved, well-recognized, top Global and US brand in the industries listed above

Expertise: Digital Marketing, Analytics & Technology, Media & Advertising, Data Sciences & Artificial Intelligence, Innovation & Insights, Omni-Channel Marketing, Lead Generation, Acquisition, and Retention.

Dragan Vladicic

Okta

Dragan Vladicic

Director, Solutions Engineers, Okta

Dune Sookloll

Horizon Power

Dune Sookloll

Cyber and Information Security Officer, Horizon Power

Duné Sookloll is Horizon Power's Cyber and Information Security Officer and is responsible for enterprise-wide cyber and information security. She is tasked with implementing and maturing cyber security programs and controls for Information and Operational Technology. Duné and her team work to enable Horizon Power to meet business objectives while maintaining the security basics of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Duné is passionate about creating an environment of shared responsibility and empowering women in STEM.

Duné holds a Bachelor in Counter Terrorism, Security, and Intelligence majoring in Politics and International Relations. She is a postgraduate alumni in Cyber Security at Edith Cowan University.

Dávid Havas

MOL Group

Dávid Havas

Head of Data & Analytics, MOL Group

Dév Rishi Sahani

Nissan Motor Corporation

Dév Rishi Sahani

Global Head of Customer Experience Data & Analytics, Nissan Motor Corporation

Eddy Farhat

Zand (UAE)

Eddy Farhat

Chief Data Officer, Zand (UAE)

Edson Augusto Giesel

Renault

Edson Augusto Giesel

LATAM Chief Data Officer, Renault

Technology and people, matchup that surely works!

20 years of experience in the automotive industry. 10 years as an automation engineer, implanting and improving the operation of Renault Latin America plants. 10 years of IS/IT experience, managing a regional team focused on operational excellence and projects delivery for Industrial perimeter.

Currently, leading the Industrial digital transformation for Renault-Nissan Group in Latin America, co-working with french and japanese corporate teams.

 

 



 

Eesh Kharbanda

Openpay

Eesh Kharbanda

Head of Information Security, Openpay

Eesh is an experienced information security professional with more than 20 years of leadership and management experience in various disciplines of security. His specialisations include strategizing the security program and managing security risks by developing security frameworks and capabilities using NIST, ISO27001/2, PCI-DSS and GDPR and running successful security awareness programs. A firm believer in simplifying complex situations, Eesh has helped many organisations elevate their security posture.

Elaine Muir

IAG

Elaine Muir

Manager, Cybersecurity Education & Awareness, IAG

Developing integrated strategies that maximise the impact of security education and awareness, through traditional and digital activities are what inspires me every day.

With 20 years’ experience, I’ve developed a deep knowledge of customer and human behaviours and how to drive sustainable change that builds upon previous knowledge and learned behaviours.

I’ve led teams through strategic change and restructuring, embedding a culture of high standards and inspiring a will to succeed. Having managed the total marketing remit across traditional marketing channels to digital campaign and website development, in addition to event management, PR and communications, I focus on building strategically aligned marketing functions that add tangible value to organisational performance. Resolutely commercial, I speak and lead in terms of business outcomes, providing the clarity of focus needed to turn marketing investment into business value.

With a passion for technology and deep knowledge of the industry, globally, my strength lies in my ability to be a conduit between the worlds of Security and everyday actions, translating the benefits of security controls to deliver clear messaging in a way that aligns with both employee and business needs and wants. I’m passionate about innovation and embrace new ways of working in business.

Eleisha Hawkins

Stats NZ

Eleisha Hawkins

General Manager Data System Strategy and Capability, Stats NZ

Elin Allison

Elin Allison

Telia

Elin Allison

Elin Allison

Head of New Product & Strategy - Data Insights, Division X, Telia

Elisa Koch

AFL – Australia Football League

Elisa Koch

Head of Data, AFL – Australia Football League

Elizabeth Clark

Department of Home Affairs

Elizabeth Clark

Assistant Secretary, Industry Partnerships Branch, Department of Home Affairs

Biography

Elizabeth Shenton

Department of Corporate and Digital Development, NT Government

Elizabeth Shenton

MDM Program Sponsor, Department of Corporate and Digital Development, NT Government

Elrich Engel

AMP

Elrich Engel

Director of Cyber Security (CISO), Architecture & Data, AMP

Elrich Engel is the Director of Cyber Security (CISO), Architecture & Data at AMP Ltd as the executive accountable for Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, Financial Crimes Operations & Data. He brings around twenty years of experience working in security and technology roles, having supported large scale digital transformations for ASX-listed companies in financial services and telecommunications, having successfully navigated complex technology migrations and delivering large scale enterprise programs. Elrich was previously the CISO at Vodafone Hutchison Australia, where he built the Cyber Defence & Response Centre (CDRC) from the ground up, restructuring and tripling the cyber practice, driving the diversity agenda and establishing the Cyber Security programme management practice, managing a multimillion-dollar annual budget. He holds a Bachelor’s degree (National Diploma) in Information Technology from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa and has completed the Sustainable Business Strategy course from Harvard Business School. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds several industry certifications. He serves on the advisory board of the Deakin University Executive Advisory Board for Cyber (EABC), advisory board of the Palo Alto Networks JAPAC Executive Advisory Board, is an industry advisor to CyRise - Australia's Cyber Security Accelerator, and has served as a steering committee member of the Sydney Joint Cyber Security Centre (JCSC). He was recognised as one of the Business of InfoSec 2021 Global Top 100 Leaders in Information Security. Previously, he has held various leadership positions, including Vodacom South Africa, where responsibilities included building the security capability across several Vodafone markets in the African region, as well as roles with Sensis (Australia), the South African Government, and several system integrators. Elrich is passionate about helping purpose-driven companies unlock long term growth, balancing doing good while doing well, empathy-based leadership, fostering and celebrating an inclusive culture, and cyber resilience advocacy.

Elvys Nunes

RD

Elvys Nunes

Head of Consumer Market Insights and Analytics and Health LATAM, RD

12 anos de experiência em Marketing, Estratégia & Insights e Vendas em companhias líderes de Mercado como Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever, Nivea, BASF e Johnson & Johnson. Formado em Administração de Empresas na ESPM em São Paulo, extensão da bacharel na Dorset College em Dublin e MBA na Babson College em Boston.

Participou de grandes projetos na area de Insights, Inovação e Estratégia como o relançamento da Marca Kibon, turn around da marca AdeS, Lançamento de Ben & Jerrys no Brasil, Nova Estratégia de Desodorantes Nivea, Relançamento da marca Suvinil e na Reckitt Benckiser, ele foi responsável em criar um novo modus Operandi para a area de Insights & Analytics no Brasil facilitando a gestão de dados e o acesso aos principais KPIs de negócios através de novos Dashboards. Em Inovação, de acordo com a Nielsen Bases, a Reckitt Health teve o melhor resultado em interesse de compra globalmente com a sua proposta de inovação. Atualmente ocupa a posição de Head de Insights e Analytics LATAM Health para Reckitt Benckiser.



Emily Grant

Department of Home Affairs

Emily Grant

Assistant Secretary, Industry Partnerships, Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre, Department of Home Affairs

Ms Emily Grant is the Assistant Secretary, Industry Partnerships in the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre (CISC) at the Department of Home Affairs.

The CISC works across all levels of government, and with owners and operators of critical infrastructure, to identify and manage risks to Australia’s critical infrastructure.

Ms Grant’s Branch leads CISC’s engagement with industry, including through the Trusted Information Sharing Network and a network of Cyber Outreach officers. The branch also leads a series of regulatory and non-regulatory reforms to enhance the security and resilience of Australia’s critical infrastructure, including those flowing from recent amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018.

Ms Grant has almost 20 years’ experience in the Australian Public Service (APS) across a number of agencies, including the House of Representatives, Department of the Environment, Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Home Affairs. Ms Grant has extensive experience in liaison between APS Departments and Ministerial offices, including as the former Branch head responsible for Ministerial and Parliamentary matters within the Department of Home Affairs.

Emma Liversidge

Australian Taxation Office

Emma Liversidge

Director, Australian Taxation Office

Emma Stavrakis

Pick ‘n Pay (South Africa)

Emma Stavrakis

Head of Data Engineering, Pick ‘n Pay (South Africa)

Endri Mani

RBC Capital Markets

Endri Mani

Director of Machine Learning Platform, Principal Technologist, RBC Capital Markets

Endri is a director at RBC Capital Markets heading the Data Science Platform team. He researches and applies Artificial Intelligence on financial tabular data, a field where academic research has fallen behind compared to AI usecases in Computer Vision.

Endri has extensive expertise in ML/AI, building models used in high impact businesses. He has developed AiDiract in RBC Capital Markets, which is a machine learning-enabled platform that helps data science teams be more productive by reducing the amount of tedious, operational work and allowing more time to focus on building valuable models.

Endré Walls

Customers Bank

Endré Walls

EVP & CISO, Customers Bank

Endre Jarraux Walls is the EVP and CISO for Customers Bancorp and Customers Bank. He is responsible for the security of over $19B in domestic assets and provides leadership to the Bank’s technology risk, digital compliance, security operations, governance, resilience, physical security, and cyber fraud departments of Customers Bank’s award-winning Corporate Security Group. He has held all 3 C-level roles in the technology industry, as an award-winning CIO, CTO, and now CISO. Prior to joining the Bank, he served as an executive in the, Healthcare, Telecom, Technology, and Hospitality industries. Walls also led a ground-breaking global advisory services division for a Global 100 technology company.

He was recently recognized as one of the top 40 under 40 leaders in the greater Philadelphia region, is a 2021 Top 100 CISO, was recognized as a top 10 global CISO in 2020 and received an American Cyber Awards honor in 2020. He attended both Capella University in Minnesota for his BS in Information Technology and Yale University’s School of Management for Executive Education.

Eoin Burke

Link Group

Eoin Burke

Head of Financial Crimes (APAC), Link Group

Eoin has 20 years’ experience in Financial Crimes and Data Analytics, and has worked across APAC and EMEA in a number of Senior Leadership roles.

Eoin joined Link Group in 2012 and is the Head of Financial Crimes responsible for protecting the data and monetary assets of over 30 million individuals. His current remit spans across Fraud Prevention, AML/CTF Reporting, Training & Awareness, Suspicious Matter Reporting, Regulator & Law Enforcement engagement. Eoin is responsible for the strategy, leadership and continuous improvement of the Financial Crimes department, ensuring the people, processes and technology are all operating effectively to mitigate the risk of fraud impacting the wider ecosystem.

Eric Yamashita

dataxchange

Eric Yamashita

Data Management and Governance Specialist, dataxchange

Evelyn Wareham

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE)

Evelyn Wareham

Chief Data and Insights Officer, Insights and Data Transformation (IDx), Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE)

Evelyn is a passionate believer in the power of data, information and knowledge to change lives. As Chief Data Officer for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), Evelyn is responsible for growing governance, strategy and capability to help MBIE to get its data engine in gear and become an evidence led organisation. Prior to this at Stats NZ, Evelyn led delivery of data for customers and the expansion of New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure as a world-leading research hub of anonymised, person-centred data. At Archives NZ, she guided agencies on recordkeeping and supported professional development across the Pacific region. Her career has been a fabulous rollercoaster ride across the information ecosystem – from historical taonga, to recordkeeping, digital preservation, privacy, information management, metadata, statistics, data integration, data science and algorithm ethics.

Fahad Alsaawi

Lean Business Services (KSA)

Fahad Alsaawi

Chief Data Officer, Lean Business Services (KSA)

-Supervising and implement Data Architecture design at the company.
-Building fully scalable Data platform which play central role as data integration hub for all internal and external integration.
-Building full scalable data lake , covering design and implementation of having the mixture design and data warehouse and Data lake.
-Implementation of Big Data Platform using (NIFI,Kafka) as integration platform.
-Building Advanced analytics artificial intelligence & machine learning products and deploy it on production.
-implementation of analytical layer covering all services and products.
-designing life data streaming architecture to make sure all data across all components are updated.
-Simulation engines (like hospital emergency department simulation , pharmaceutical supply chain simulation, health Policy simulation), we are adopting (agent based models , system dynamic models , discrete event models) as approach in developing these engines.
-Computing engines (Like data quality engine , terminology engines) its rule based engines where machine learning is injected with in it to enhance the rules and optimize outcomes.
-Establishing a full data eco system within the company.
-Data governance implementation.
-Data Strategy.
-Digital transformation strategy and positioning for the company.
-Digital Twin platform using advanced behavioral models related to health care.

Fahad Najeeb

Latitude Financial Services

Fahad Najeeb

Head of Data Platforms & Engineering, Latitude Financial Services

Fahad is an enabler and a team builder, in his current role as Head of Data Platform & Engineering @ Latitude, he is helping customers and stakeholder make financially smarter decisions.

He is building nimble, closed feedback loop platforms and change that enables responsible, proactive and customer/merchant centric personalisation.

Fahad has over 17 years of industry experience working with MNCs, Startups & System Integrators across various industry verticals.

He enjoys applying learnings from across industries to bring about change, keeping customers and stakeholders aligned.

In his downtime Fahad loves spending time with his wife and two daughters, discovering new places/eateries, cycling, and dreaming of traveling in a camper trailer.

Faisal Khan

Queensland Government

Faisal Khan

Director Cyber Security, ICT Governance & Risk, Queensland Government

Faisal Khan is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with experience of over two decades in various technology, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance domains in Australia as well as overseas both in public and private sectors.

He holds an M.Phil. in information risk management (mainly cybersecurity and information governance) from University of Queensland which gave him an opportunity to conduct and publish his cybersecurity research. Faisal earned certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. In the start of his career, he also managed to obtain certifications such as MCSE, CCNE and CCNA.

He worked over a decade in a reserve bank overseas where he pioneered and led cybersecurity and IT governance functions. He has also worked for EY Australia and Senior Consultant – IT Risk and Assurance.

Faisal also managed an ASX200 company’s ISO 27001 journey from scratch to the certification level.
Faisal is currently associated with Queensland Government for the last four years where he has served multiple entities. He currently leads the cybersecurity function of an important Queensland Government department.

Cybersecurity governance is Faisal’s favourite domain and he loves to seek and share knowledge in this very domain.

Faizal Janif

Marsh

Faizal Janif

Senior Vice President and Head of Cyber Advisory, APAC, Marsh

Faizal is a senior security executive who sits on the Australian Information Security Association’s (AISA) Executive Advisory Board, sat on the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) panel reviewing the Australian Cyber Security Strategy, member of the Joint Cyber Security Centre (JCSC) and has worked closely with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) and most recently Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and The Department of Home Affairs, In addition Faizal is also the founder of the Cyber 12.

Faizal poses in-depth knowledge in Security Operations Delivery, Infrastructure modernization, System Administration, ITSM, and SIEM. Faizal has implemented a large number of ICT and OT project within pre-set budgets while adhering to timelines and quality expectations. Faizal has worked as a trusted advisor and lead internal implementer while being a SME for InfoSec (ISO 27001), Cyber Security (NIST) and PCI-DSS compliance, Faizal poses experience in preparing for security audits, with extensive experience reviewing the Information Security measures and ensuring end to end implementation of security initiatives, safeguarding the information resources of the organization to maintain integrity, confidentiality and availability.

Faizal is Adept in deploying, monitoring and administering end to end Incident Response, ERP & Application Software, UAT, Anti-Malware, HIPS, HIDS, System and Disk Encryption software, Data Leak Prevention (DLP) and Hardware appliance like SIEM appliances, Router, Firewall, IDS, IPS, Switch and Proxy servers, Faizal brings many years of Writing, reviewing and updating documentation security strategies, roadmaps, policies and guidelines.

Farayi Kambarami

Woolworths

Farayi Kambarami

Head, Central Planning and Data, Woolworths

Farayi Kambarami:: Head | Central Planning and Data at Woolworths (Pty) Ltd & M.Phil Computational Linguistics researcher at CUT

Farhan Choudhary

Gartner for IT Leaders

Farhan Choudhary

Principal, Analyst - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Gartner for IT Leaders

Farhan Choudhary is a part of the Artificial Intelligence team, under Data and Analytics at Gartner, focusing on Artificial Intelligence along with Data Science, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

He helps clients with best practices around operationalizing machine learning and AI models, hiring and upskilling, organizational strategies, platforms/tools (buy vs. build vs. outsource) - finding the right platform/tool, pricing and contract reviews, and productionization techniques (DataOps, MLOps, ModelOps) to operationalize and achieve success with data science, ML and AI initiatives.

He co-led the Gartner Use Case Prism Framework and with that guides organizations on the strategic, organizational, and technology aspects of using advanced analytics as a driving force of their growth. 

Fawad Bayunus

Standard Chartered Bank

Fawad Bayunus

Cluster Head, Information & Cybersecurity Risk - Pakistan & Middle East, Standard Chartered Bank

Fawad worked as a Technology Security Officer (ITSO) in the CIO Organisation for ABN AMRO Clearing Bank – APAC region.

Prior to joining ABN AMRO Clearing, Fawad was working as an IT Risk Assurance & Security specialist for ING Bank in Australia. He was also engaged with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and worked in the Digital Trust & Risk Assurance domain on several IT Security & Risk Assurance projects. Having over 17 years of experience with demonstrated success and accomplishments in Big4 and other financial institutions. A professional with a focus on composing and implementing procedures, assessing technology integration and a successful lead to major project implementations.

Prior to joining PwC, he has led the Information Security team for The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, UFJ - Oceania Region. Fawad started his career with A.F. Ferguson & Co. (a member firm of PwC) before moving into the financial industry. His past experience includes roles at organisations such as Askari Bank Limited, Samba Bank Limited, Silk Bank Limited, Westpac and Aussie Forex & Finance.

Fergus Hanson

Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Fergus Hanson

Director, International Cyber Policy Centre, Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Fergus Hanson is the Director of ASPI's International Cyber Policy Centre and Convener of the Sydney Dialogue.

He is the author of Internet Wars and has published widely on a range of cyber and foreign policy topics.

He was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Professional Fulbright Scholar based at Georgetown University working on the uptake of new technologies by the US government.

He has worked for the UN, as a Program Director at the Lowy Institute and served as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in The Hague. While working for philanthropist Andrew Forrest he led the establishment of the Freedom Fund in London and the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery in Washington D.C.

He has been a Fellow at Cambridge University’s Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Pacific Forum. He is a member of the board of directors of the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation and Art Monthly Australasia. He is an Advisory Board member of the Cyber Peace Institute in Geneva.

Fernando González Paulin

RappiPay Mexico

Fernando González Paulin

Chief Data Officer, RappiPay Mexico

Fernando es Chief Data Officer en RappiBank México. Es un apasionado de la tecnología, los datos, la innovación y el emprendimiento. Es Ingeniero en Mecatrónica y Maestro en Inteligencia Artificial por la Universidad de Edimburgo. Fernando lleva más de 7 años en el mundo de los datos. Ser ha desempeñado en cargos como Director de Inteligencia Artificial para Banco Azteca, y actualmente, Fernando lidera las estrategias de cara a datos para Rappi: desde su extracción, manipulación, análisis, y explotación de los datos a partir de modelos.

Fernando Mayer

Arkon Data

Fernando Mayer

CEO, Arkon Data

Fernando Mayer has over 12 years leading highly specialized tech teams in the fields of bioinformatics, medical devices, software development, data engineering, data science and global enterprise digital transformation. As a Co-Founder in Abraxas Group he has spent the past 9 years helping build several tech startups that through the understanding and harnessing of the data humans produce and gather, aim to improve specific areas fundamental to our civilization. He has also designed the coursework and been a lecturer on Healthcare Systems and Information Technologies at Tecnológico de Monterrey and is passionate about enhancing human capabilities through technology. In Arkon Data he has helped materialize the company’s mission of driving systemic value and raising organizational intelligence; the results of this endeavor translate into projects ranging from massive data extractions to Active Master Data Management implementations. In his spare time he enjoys composing and producing music, learning new skills and traveling.  
 
 

Fernando Serto

Cloudflare

Fernando Serto

Chief Technologist & Evangelist - APJC, 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. For the last decade, Fernando has been focused on resolving customer’s challenges, and evangelizing new technologies in the Application Performance and Security areas. Fernando has also spent a number of years working for a major Telco in APAC, specializing in WAN, Cloud, Security and Media solutions.

Filipe Faro

Peppery

Filipe Faro

Chief Data Officer, Peppery

Filipe Faro é um profissional com passagens em agências como Talent, Sunset e atualmente na Peppery. Atuou boa parte da carreira como Head de CRM atendendo cliente como Fiat, Jeep, Nextel, Palmeiras, Frooty. Hoje ocupa a cadeira de CDO (Chief Data Officer) da Peppery, onde comanda não só a área de CRM, mas toda a estrutura de dados, passando pelas áreas de DBM, Data Science, BI e Performance para clientes como Reckitt Benckiser, Grupo SEB, brMalls, Sodexo, Energisa, Nike entre outros.

Fiona Norton

BigCommerce

Fiona Norton

Product Marketing Manager, BigCommerce

Fouad Fahim

SAP

Fouad Fahim

Solution Advisor Expert - Center of Excellence N.A., SAP

Francesco Battaglia

Francesco Battaglia

Agos

Francesco Battaglia

Francesco Battaglia

Data Manager & Head of Data Analytics, Agos

As Head of Data Analytics Office, I am responsible for setting up cross-sectional analyses with the aim of supporting a data-based decision-making process. Among the features of the office are the cross support to directions and the orientation towards innovation. As Data Manager, I take care of supporting the various strategic initiatives linked to the data world with the aim to improve the effectiveness by the business point of view.

Francis Kaitano

Bank of New Zealand

Francis Kaitano

Enterprise Security Architect, Bank of New Zealand

Francis is a visionary, transformational and practical cyber security leader with the ability to pragmatically deliver value adding outcomes. He has over a decade and a half of diverse experience across multiple fields of security and risk management spanning across multiple industry sectors including working for 2 separate Big 4 firms holding senior management, architecture, operational and consulting roles interfacing with board, exec level, technical and non-technical cross functional stakeholders.

He believes that innovation is the oxygen for driving simple yet value adding security capabilities. Core to his skills is his ability to solve complex business problems and influence change by bringing a diverse stakeholder base on board by demystifying complexity whilst painting a clear picture of the value aspects to be delivered from both the business and customer perspective. He is a proponent of using Design Thinking and DevSecOps to ensure security can scale and meet with the pace of business, security, and digital change.

Francisco Gaia

Merck

Francisco Gaia

Assoc. Director, Data Science & Advanced Analytics, Merck

Nearly a decade experience in Business Strategy related areas in the Pharmaceutical Industry, in Consultancy and Market Research, Market Intelligence and Sales Force Effectiveness, providing analytical support to Finance, Marketing, Sales and R&D.
I have developed go-to-market models, launch strategies and forecasts for both Specialty Care and Primary Care products for over 30 countries in the Emerging Markets. I have implemented statistical models to evaluate product performance, launch tracking, optimal resource allocation, and have led international and cross-functional Market Research for Insights Generation and New Product Planning. Some of my statistical modelling for Product and Market Forecasting have been awarded Industry-wide recognition.

 

 



 

Frank Silva

Dataiku

Frank Silva

Solutions Engineer, Dataiku

Frank Silva é o líder técnico do time Dataiku Brasil. Ele é especialista em criar modelos de Machine Learning, engenharia de dados, e de soluções analíticas. Frank trabalhou com centenas de equipes diferentes em várias áreas de ciência de dados.



 

Frederique De Letter

Domino's

Frederique De Letter

Director, Enterprise Data Intelligence, Domino's

Through-out my career I have accumulated significant experience delivering value and effectively solving organizational challenges within a business strategy consulting and data analytics environment which has allowed me to progress rapidly from a local to global leadership role.

I play at the intersection of data, tech and business strategy driving digitalization across the enterprise and strategically identifying and executing on monetization and associated business models.

Frederique De Letter

Domino's

Frederique De Letter

Director, Enterprise Data Intelligence, Domino's

Through-out my career I have accumulated significant experience delivering value and effectively solving organizational challenges within a business strategy consulting and data analytics environment which has allowed me to progress rapidly from a local to global leadership role.

I play at the intersection of data, tech and business strategy driving digitalization across the enterprise and strategically identifying and executing on monetization and associated business models.

Fuller Yu

Hospital Authority

Fuller Yu

Chief Information Security Officer, Hospital Authority

Fuller has more than 22 years of experience in cybersecurity, technology risk management and information security in global financial services and healthcare sectors. He is now the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Hospital Authority Hong Kong driving the corporate cybersecurity strategy and supporting its digital transformation journey.

Prior to joining Hospital Authority, Fuller held various leadership roles in cybersecurity and information security including Director of Technology Risk Management of Credit Suisse, Head of Technology Risk Management and Cybersecurity of AIA Group, and Vice President of IT Risk Management of JPMorgan.

 He received his MBA and Master in Information Systems Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

 Fuller is also the Co-Chair of Cybersecurity Work Stream of Digital Health Partnership (GDHP), a collaboration between governments, government agencies, and WHO.

Gabriel Akindeju

Risks Consult

Gabriel Akindeju

Managing Consulting Director & Chief Security Officer, Risks Consult

Gabriel Akindeju sits across multiple organisations providing strategic CISO roles, including Managing Consulting Director & Chief Security Office, Risks Consult; was CISO, Waikato District Health Board and also, was the Deputy CISO, Health Alliance Te Whatu Ora - Northern Region, under contract.

Gabriel Akindeju is an innovative and strategic Technology Risk Management and Security Management thought leader with background in Enterprise Technology Risk Management and Enterprise Security Governance and Architecture; Information Systems Management; Instrumentations and Controls Engineering; Electronic Electrical Engineering; PRInCEII and Agile practices.

His overall objectives are to help organisations (1) leverage effective technology risk management and security for the creation of stakeholder values by optimising risk-reward dynamics (i.e. improve Risk Agility and Controls Optimisation Efficiencies); (2) prevent value erosion via the deployment of effective risk and security operations management framework and processes (i.e. optimise Risk Posture and minimise Risk Profile); and (3) safely and securely recover, if and when, business disruptions occur due to technology related issues and/or events (i.e. improve resilience and incident response readiness).

Gabriel is skilled in transformational Enterprise Technology Risk Management and Security capability maturity uplifts and has helped various organisations, including in his current role, bootstrap capability maturity programmes through structured yet agile architectural frameworks and processes. He has a special knack for senior leadership engagement and can drive positive uplift in enterprise culture shift through simple, easy to manage and yet effective initiatives.

Gabriel is a prolific innovator and an advocate of continuous improvements through adoption and applications of complex adaptive system integration concepts. He is passionate about the alignment and transformation of technologies; and technology governance and management processes into strategic enablers and competitive differentiators for businesses through risk optimisation.

Gabriel was the winner (one of 2) of the UK's 2006 best IS dissertation award for his work on RFId, courtesy of the ISACA, UK; Gabriel also won the ISACA Certificate of Excellence Award in 2006, courtesy of the ISACA Auckland Chapter; and was cited in the 2008 edition of Marquis Who's Who in the world. Gabriel won an Oceania Geographic Region CRISC award in Dec 2012; and more recently was cited in the Volume 4 (June 2020) of the ISACA Journal – Building Enterprise Security Programme.

Gabriel often speaks at professional seminars and likes to help professional candidates seeking certifications through both formal review seminars and informal mentorship. He enjoys professional teams, who pride in value creation, professionalism, & training and promote personal professional development as tools to defining, creating, and delivering superlative customer experiences.

Gai Le Roy

The Interactive Advertising Bureau

Gai Le Roy

CEO, The Interactive Advertising Bureau

Gai is the CEO of IAB Australia which is the peak advocacy, research & standards body representing digital media and advertising. Gai has worked in the media industry for 30 years and the digital ad industry since 1998. Prior to running the IAB Gai held senior data, strategy and research roles at Fairfax Media, Nielsen and ninemsn. Gai is a global leader in media strategy, effectiveness and measurement as well as building and managing teams that help close the divide between digital and traditional marketing.

Gareth Lloyd

Media24 (South Africa)

Gareth Lloyd

Head: Data & Analytics, Media24 (South Africa)

Gareth Powell

Studio Retail Group

Gareth Powell

Director, Data, Studio Retail Group

I have over 19 years of experience in the world of data and analytics focused in retail, financial services and telecommunications. I’ve recently become Director of Data with Studio Retail. It’s a brilliant organisation and I’m truly proud to be helping to shape its journey. It’s a data-rich sector, a hugely exciting organisation with a great brand and culture and there is significant opportunity to win with data. I’ve held Director roles previously with TalkTalk and N Brown Group and I’ve led customer analytics, data science, digital analytics, research, BI and forecasting teams across a number of roles in my career. My vision with data is to create a ‘walled garden’ focus on the big strategic opportunities as well as creating an environment where analytical business partnerships can thrive. I’ve got a diverse team operating in a dynamic environment and our focus and purpose is on how we can create value through data and insight. My recently expanded role also encapsulates data engineering, data architecture and data governance.

Garrett O’Hara

Mimecast

Garrett O’Hara

APAC Field CTO, Mimecast

Garrett O’Hara is Mimecast’s APAC Field CTO and co-host of the Get Cyber Resilient podcast where he has interviewed local and global security leaders. Over two decades he has held roles across development, project management and delivery, training and development, and cyber resilience. This broad experience helps him support organisations as they navigate their cyber resilience strategies. He is a regular contributor to Australian media on all things cyber.

Gary Baverstock

Gary Baverstock

Denodo

Gary Baverstock

Gary Baverstock

Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Northern Europe, Denodo

Gary Baverstock is the Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Northern Europe for Denodo. Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Gary has a degree in Social Sciences from Southampton University. He has 25+ years of experience selling complex IT based business solutions to a wide range of blue chip corporate clients which have improved their productivity and enhanced their profitability. Gary has a strong background in Enterprise Software in areas including Data and Application Integration, Business Intelligence and Data Virtualization, working previously with Software AG and Information Builders. Gary has been working with Denodo for over 11 years and leads the company’s efforts in acquiring, developing and retaining strategic customers in the UK and in the Nordic Countries. 

Outside of work, Gary has a wife and two sons and is founder and Chairman of a Junior Football Club in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire which has a membership of 300+ young footballers ranging in age from 5 to 18.

Gary Gooden

Seattle Children's

Gary Gooden

CTSO, Seattle Children's

Gaurav Singh

BHP

Gaurav Singh

Manager Decision Sciences, Technology, BHP

Versatile and driven, Gaurav offers skills in strategic planning, operations management, and advanced analytics gained over 20+ years of leadership experience. In that time, he has forged collaborative partnerships across organizations to deliver advanced analytical solutions to complex business challenges.

Gavin Cope

Absa (South Africa)

Gavin Cope

Head: Advanced Analytics and Insights (RBB), Absa (South Africa)

Gavin Ryan

Navitas

Gavin Ryan

Global Head of Information Security, Navitas

Taking a business centric approach to Cyber Security has allowed me for over 17 years to build and run successful Cyber Security Teams. These Teams deliver outcomes aligned to business risk appetite and evolve with the continuing change in the Cyber Security threat landscape.

With a strong focus on delivering quality outcomes across the people, process, and technology pillars of Cyber Security, I have worked with global and national organisations across industries including education, mining, oil and gas, health, financial services, technology, and government sectors.

My experience includes Cyber Security strategy, assessment, transformation, management, data protection, incident response, risk management, privacy, metrics and reporting, education and training, third party management, identity and access management, cloud, policies and procedures, frameworks and standards, regulatory and compliance.

Gemma Lipovski

National Transport Insurance

Gemma Lipovski

Head of Insights and Analytics, National Transport Insurance

10 + years’ experience in data and analytics focused roles in financial services.  Currently the Head of NTI’s Insights and Analytics department; a cross functional area providing reporting, analytics, insights and data science solutions.  Passionate about how data and advanced analytics can be leveraged to drive efficiencies, improve processes and support the achievement of strategic objectives.             

Geoffrey Coley

Veritas Technologies

Geoffrey Coley

Chief Technology Officer, South Asia and Pacific Region, Veritas Technologies

Geoffrey Coley is the CTO of the South Asia Pacific region at Veritas. In his role, Geoffrey is responsible for leading a regional architecture practice and pre-sales team to design technical approaches and drive strategic engagements for large enterprises, service providers and key channel partners.

Geoffrey has over twenty-two years of experience across several leading multi-national firms with international exposure to banking, media, telecommunications, and government sectors. He brings a wealth of experience to Veritas pertinent to high-performance team leadership, business development, commercial design and service delivery.  Geoffrey is also the executive sponsor providing oversight relating to new technology adoption and value realisation for some of Veritas’ largest customers.

Before joining Veritas in 2019, Geoffrey spent more than seven years at Cisco, first in professional services before expanding his remit to lead a part of a global business development function focused on large and complex opportunities transacted as-a-service, considering design, deployment and run motions.

Earlier in his career, Geoffrey held numerous IT professional and largely technical roles across various industries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, EMC Australia, Unisys Australia, Vodafone and Lehman Brothers UK. With his strong understanding of business requirements, solution and enterprise architecture and technical knowledge, Geoffrey has an excellent track record in developing or responding to IT strategies and technology transformation initiatives that have helped organisations to achieve measurable business outcomes.

Geoffrey is passionate about long-term roadmaps for customers and about developing his team to have an opinion and to map points-of-view, assisting customers address the likes of cyber risk, digital compliance, cloud, and SaaS adoption. 

In his free time, Geoffrey enjoys time with his family, most things outdoors from running, to group fitness and has an avid interest in geopolitics and international relations. 

George Do

Gojek

George Do

Chief Information Security Officer, Gojek

George has been working in the cybersecurity field for over 25+ years concentrating on the
building and operating cybersecurity programs. He specialises in the transformation of
cybersecurity, winning customer trust, and ensuring a strong cybersecurity posture for
organisation.

George has extensive experience in maturing global cybersecurity programs and teams. He has
extensive experience in securing applications (products and services), securing core IT
infrastructure and cloud workloads, and maintaining a robust incident response capability.
George leads global teams in cybersecurity, data privacy, governance, risk, compliance (GRC),
and implementation of security frameworks. 

Working closely stakeholders across functions, the global programs he developed has ensured
security is baked into products and services at birth.

Before joining Gojek and GoTo Financial, George served as the global Chief Cybersecurity
Officer (CISO) at Equinix where he built the global cybersecurity program from inception.
Previous to that he worked at Exodus (Savvis / Century Link), and Tivo in senior security
leadership roles. He began his career at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) where he collaborated with senior federal officials to secure government information
assets.

George serves on customer advisory boards for several cybersecurity firms and is an advisor for
venture capital. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at cybersecurity industry events.

George Finney

Southern Methodist University

George Finney

Chief Security Officer, Southern Methodist University

George Finney is a Chief Information Security Officer that believes that people are the key to solving our cybersecurity challenges. George is the bestselling author of several cybersecurity books, including the award-winning book, Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future. George was recognized in 2021 as one of the top 100 CISOs in the world by CISOs Connect and has worked in Cybersecurity for over 20 years and has helped startups, global telecommunications firms, and nonprofits improve their security posture.

Gerardo Carrera Mendoza

Mabe Corporativo

Gerardo Carrera Mendoza

Head of Analytics & Machine Learning, Mabe Corporativo

In charge of building a robust team, machine learning infreastructure and a data pipeline to develop innovative data science and machine learning based solutions for different areas and processes of Mabe, some include: dynamic price optimization, demand forecast, logistics, IoT, manufacture (predictive mantainance, quality inspection).

Germaine Tan

Darktrace

Germaine Tan

Director of Analysis, APAC, Darktrace

Germaine is the Director of Analysis, APAC at Darktrace. Based in Singapore, she works with CISOs, managers and security teams all over APAC to optimise and integrate into Darktrace in their digital environments. She also consults with these teams about their cyber security posture and cyber risk strategy. These teams are from a large variety of industries like financial institutions, healthcare, entertainment and critical infrastructure. She also manages the team of 17 analysts in the APAC region that threat hunts and monitors networks from all over the world. Germaine holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a Masters of Science in Technology Management from Nanyang Technological University. She is also certified with CEH, CISSP and CRISC.

Gil Geron

Orca Security

Gil Geron

CPO & Co-Founder, Orca Security

Gil has 15 years of experience leading and delivering cybersecurity and intelligence products. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Gil directed a team of over 80 cyber professionals at Check Point Software Technologies. There he led the strategies and development cycle of its core cybersecurity product portfolio, which grew to over $400M in annual revenues while under his leadership. Gil is committed to providing seamless cybersecurity solutions without compromising on efficiency.

Gil Kirkpatrick

Semperis

Gil Kirkpatrick

Chief Architect, Semperis

Gil Kirkpatrick is the Chief Architect for products at Semperis, a leading provider of cyber preparedness, incident response, and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise directory services on-premises and in the cloud. Gil has been building commercial products for enterprise IT for a very long time, focusing primarily on identity management and security-related products. He has been named a Microsoft MVP for Active Directory and Enterprise Mobility for each of the last 15 years, and is the author of Active Directory Programming, as well as the founder of the Directory Experts Conference. At Semperis Gil builds products to prevent, detect, and recover from cyber-attacks on enterprise hybrid identity environments. Gil speaks on cyber-security, identity, and disaster recovery topics at IT conferences around the world.

Girish Agarwal

Girish Agarwal

Piab

Girish Agarwal

Girish Agarwal

Chief Digital & Information Officer, Piab

Giulianna Carranza

El Comercio

Giulianna Carranza

Chief Data Officer, El Comercio

Senior Executive Professional with experience in major multinational companies, designing comprehensive strategy Data & Analytics and Data Science: KPI's, effectiveness of digital media (Digital Analytics) and traditional channels; to provide business insights, trends and consumption habits of customers and monetize these operations. Local and regional leadership teams in Latin America.


 

Gliseth Chuqui

SGS

Gliseth Chuqui

Head of Data Science, Analytics & Innovation, SGS

Creator of the Data & Innovation department at SGS, where we create data technology applications, use machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other technology solutions related to digital transformation.

I am a disruptive, innovative, and creative leader with strong analytical skills. I have a bachelor's degree in statistics from UNMSM, as well as certifications as an Agile Coach and a Scrum Master, and specialist training in Digital Transformation: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Cloud and Cybersecurity from MIT, Managment and Innovation Strategies from CENTRUM PUCP, and Design Thinking for Business Innovation from Universidad del Pacifico.

I have had different roles as a head of a department, a leader of teams, and a project manager. In these roles, I oversaw technological innovation, implemented advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, and worked in fields of business intelligence, business analytics, financial intelligence, and corporate ethics. I also have experience in diverse sectors ranging from technology, banking, insurance, fishing, mining, agriculture, and certifications, both domestically and internationally.


 

Grace Brown

JSE

Grace Brown

Head: Client Services, JSE

Grae Meyer-Gleaves

Hollard Insurance

Grae Meyer-Gleaves

CISO, Hollard Insurance

Grae has over 25 years experience across multiple industries in ICT leadership, consulting and management roles. He is a specialist in information security, risk management, business continuity, disaster recovery, infrastructure and architecture.

He started his career in IT and cyber security with the Australian Army and has since held senior positions with leading Global and Australian organisations such as Allianz, Fortinet, Westpac, QGC – A BG-Group business, Bank of Queensland, Data#3, Brisbane City Council and Wesley Mission Queensland.

Over the past 18+ months he has been with Hollard Insurance Australia leading their cyber security and Line 1 IT Risk as the Chief Information Security Officer. Grae is also a founder and director of Cybercation which provides unique gamified training solutions for some of Australia’s largest organisations.

Graeme McLellan

Bank of New Zealand

Graeme McLellan

Divisional Security Officer, Bank of New Zealand

25 years in information security across professional services and the banking sector in UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Provides forward-thinking and practical advice in simple language for technical, business and executive audiences. Recent focus on driving cyber and scam awareness for colleagues and customers.

Strong stakeholder management and an advocate for staff growth and a fun working environment.

Graeme Payne

The New Era of Cybersecurity Breaches: A Case Study and Lessons Learned (US)

Graeme Payne

Author, The New Era of Cybersecurity Breaches: A Case Study and Lessons Learned (US)

Graeme Payne is a consultant, speaker, and coach. He works with boards and senior executives to help them understand and manage cybersecurity and IT risks. He has over 30 years of experience in consulting and IT management in financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and utility industries. During the Equifax 2017 Data Breach (which exposed the sensitive information on 146 million US consumers), he was Senior Vice President and CIO of Global Corporate Platforms. He was fired the day before the former Chairman and CEO of Equifax testified to Congress that the root cause of the data breach was human error and technological failure. Graeme would later be identified as “the human error”. Graeme authored “The New Era of Cybersecurity Breaches: A Case Study and Lessons Learned” about the Equifax 2017 data breach.

Prior to joining Equifax in 2011, Graeme was a Principal at Ernst & Young and Global Leader of Governance, Risk & Compliance at Wipro Consulting. Over his 30 year career, he has consulted with hundreds of companies on cybersecurity and IT risk programs. Graeme started his career as an accountant and holds many security and IT risk certifications.  He grew up and worked in New Zealand before moving to the United States in 1995. Graeme is currently Practice Leader. Strategy, Risk & Compliance at Kudelski Security.

Gram Ludlow

Marriott Vacations Worldwide

Gram Ludlow

SVP, Chief Information Security Officer, Marriott Vacations Worldwide

Grant Anthony

Orion Health

Grant Anthony

CISO, Orion Health

Grant is an information security, risk and compliance leader with 14 years’ experience designing, implementing, and leading complex information security programmes across Europe, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Grant recently relocated to Auckland and is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Orion Health.

Grant has deep experience building and leading globally dispersed information security teams in highly regulated environments (Finance, Physical Security and Health) and strong knowledge of information security management frameworks including ISO 27001, HITRUST and Cyber Essentials. Grant led the incident management programme development for an organisation with 30,000 staff and supported the development of global security operations centre.

Grant tackles business challenges with a pragmatic, risk-based mindset and excels in distilling complex problems and solutions into visually appealing, audience-oriented material – driving understanding, consensus and action. Grant brings passion, a global perspective, and is driven to see security investment be cost effective, impactful and sustained.

Grant Lockwood

Virtus Health

Grant Lockwood

CISO, Virtus Health

Grant Lockwood is Virtus Health’s Chief Information Security Officer. His 20 year IT career includes 9 years in healthcare and 5 years at the pointy end of healthcare cybersecurity, going full-stack from the boardroom to the server room. His hobbies include skydiving, astrophysics, and lying in biographies.

Greg Brown

UPS

Greg Brown

VP of Strategy and R&D, Advanced Technology Group, UPS

VP of the Advanced Technology Group leveraging Emerging Technology to support the UPS vision for a Global Smart Logistics Network. The areas of focus include Data Driven Decisions, Autonomous Systems, Robotics/Automation, and Sensors and IOT.

Guillermo Azcárraga Gomis

HPE (Spain)

Guillermo Azcárraga Gomis

HPE GreenLake Go To Market for MLOPs, HPE (Spain)

Guillermo has spent over 25 years with HPE, serving a number of roles across several services business units within the company, garnering a wealth of experience in design, development, technical and software support and business development.  Prior to his current role of heading up HPE’s GreenLake Go to Market for MLOps business, he spent five years in Ireland where he led the company’s OpenStack Professional Services business.

 Before joining HPE he worked at IBM as a programmer in their factory in la Puebla de Valbona (Valencia, Spain).

Guillermo holds a M.Sc. in Physics from University of Valencia (Spain), and an MBA from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid (Spain).

Gurprit Singh

Partners Capital

Gurprit Singh

Head of Data, Partners Capital

Guru Rao

FB Alliance

Guru Rao

Chief Digital & Analytics Officer, FB Alliance

Experienced leader with deep passion for corporate strategy, innovation and enterprise transformation. Successfully launched and grew a digital insurance startup and two large business subsidiaries. Scaled business through strategic partnerships, launched new products and new business models, and devised innovative technology platforms.

I have advised and mentored InsureTech leaders on developing effective partnerships with insurance companies and delivering "quantifiable" business value through their tech solutions.
 

Responsible for identifying, evaluating and driving company's high priority growth initiatives.
Established and operationally responsible for company's digital products, digital marketing, data, analytics, actuarial, core systems and information technology functions. Initiatives completed include rapid introduction of new insurance products into multiple states in the US; near-real time data and analytics for decision making across the enterprise; best in class enterprise data governance, security and compliance; transformation to a core digital platform development; 100% virtual enterprise IT; predictive modeling based insurance/actuarial product development; and, InsureTech partnerships. Digital initiatives under implementation are telematics-based auto insurance product and a white-label platform, IoT solutions for mitigating property losses using smart home devices, and mobile/AI solutions aimed at improving customer experience.

Gus Clarke - Tyme

Gus Clarke

Tari Labs

Gus Clarke - Tyme

Gus Clarke

Head of Security, Tari Labs

Cyber Security professional with over 20 years experience in both offensive and defensive security across a plethora of industries. Strong technical security background and strategic ability allows Angus to articulate business risk at all verticals in organisations. Deeply passionate about the development of the next generation of cyber security specialists and growing the South African hacker community.

Guy Morrell

The Francis Crick Institute

Guy Morrell

CISO, The Francis Crick Institute

An engineer by background, Guy is an experienced problem solver. CISO at the Francis Crick Institute since Jan 2021 and head of a technical group for the last three years, his focus has shifted from challenges with a binary answer to the fuzzy world of human beings and their interactions with each other and the digital world. Year one as CISO has seen him deliver an end-to-end refresh on security policy, culture and practice through digital transformation of cyber-security operations and data governance while bringing Nobel Prize winning scientists along on the journey.og post content here…

Hamdan Azhar

BlackRock

Hamdan Azhar

Head of Data Science, Global Marketing, BlackRock

HAMDAN AZHAR is a data science, analytics, and research leader with over 10 years of experience discovering meaningful insights in complex datasets and using storytelling to drive business, product, and social impact. The founder of PRISMOJI, he was formerly a director at Blockchain Technologies Corporation, and prior to that, was a data scientist at Facebook, at GraphScience, and on Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign.

A prolific writer and public speaker, his writings on technology and culture have been published in WIRED, VICE, Forbes, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has taught data science courses at Boston University and at the City University of New York and has delivered invited lectures in over 14 countries. He is a co-inventor on Facebook's granted patent on emoji machine learning.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Hamdan holds a master’s degree in biostatistics from the University of Michigan, a bachelor’s degree in economics from Penn State, and completed one year of the Ph.D. program in neuroscience at the University of Chicago.
 

Hanan Levin

Hunters

Hanan Levin

VP of Sales, EMEA, Hunters

Hanan Levin has over 20 years of experience in creating, delivering and selling innovative enterprise cyber solutions. Prior to his role as VP Sales EMEA at Hunters, Hanan served as VP Products at Illusive Networks, and as the VP of Product Management at ForeScout. Hanan was part of the initial team at CheckPoint developing Firewall-1, VPN-1 and Provider-1. Hanan served as a Major in the Israeli Air-Force.

 

Haneeh Alanize

Ministry of Finance (KSA)

Haneeh Alanize

Enterprise Data Management & Analytics Platform Department Head, Ministry of Finance (KSA)

Hany Lasheen

Beyti (Egypt)

Hany Lasheen

CIO, Beyti (Egypt)

Happy Amon

Government of Botswana (Botswana)

Happy Amon

Deputy Director: Cyber Security, Government of Botswana (Botswana)

Hariharan Srinivasan

Franklin Templeton

Hariharan Srinivasan

Director, Enterprise Data Engineering & Analytics , Franklin Templeton

Harish Nankani

Harish Nankani

Merck

Harish Nankani

Harish Nankani

Executive Director, Human Health Data & Analytics, Merck

Harleen Thethy

BBC Global News

Harleen Thethy

Head of Analytics, BBC Global News

Harpreet Khalsa

Edith Cowan University

Harpreet Khalsa

Chief Data Officer, Edith Cowan University

Amongst, IAPA’s Top 25 Analytics Leaders for 2022

Harpreet Khalsa is a firm believer in Information is a real asset and if utilised prudently with well understood business objectives, it can make wonders happen. Working with business leaders in both consulting and industry has helped Harpreet acquire business acumen and that combined with his passion of converting data into actionable insights has helped him deliver on a variety of meaningful analytical and forecasting capabilities.

The focal point of his professional journey has been a never ending fascination with practically demonstrating how technology can be exploited to elevate the quality of decision making and functions performed by human capital.

Currently, Harpreet is working as a Chief Data Officer for Edith Cowan University and is responsible for management reporting / analytics and data quality / governance for the University. He has been pivotal in creating the culture of insights driven decision making, which has led to significant improvements in planning and operations, within various parts of the organisation.

Harry Chan

IHH Healthcare Singapore

Harry Chan

Assistant Vice President, IT, IHH Healthcare Singapore

Harry Zhao

Tourism & Events Queensland

Harry Zhao

Analytics Leader, Tourism & Events Queensland

Harry has 10+ years of experience in digital and customer analytics. He is passionate about activating insights to multiple channels such as websites, app, and CRM, which allow businesses to create personalised and consistent digital experiences.

Hashim Khan

SEEK

Hashim Khan

Cybersecurity Projects and Governance Lead, SEEK

Hashim Khan is a technology enthusiast and a delivery leader on digital transformations and initiatives transcending industries and borders. He has led some of the largest digital initiatives in the public sector in Dubai, winning innovation awards. He is very focused on the human element in terms of the solutioning approach as being a big advocate of customer centricity.
Apart from work, Hashim keeps himself busy with side gigs for his entrepreneurial aspirations, but he also enjoys good food, loves soccer, and still watches anime.

Hayley Morris

Accident Compensation Corporation

Hayley Morris

Manager Technology Risk & Enablement, Accident Compensation Corporation

Hayley Morris comes from a rich consulting and corporate background, now at a government entity in New Zealand focusing on the Controls environment. Notably, her tenure at EY included leading multi-faceted engagements, including information security, data analytics, business improvement and technology audits across Africa and the United States. At Barclays Africa, she led Information Risk Management, including cyber security, data protection, logical access management, data governance and records management across the region.
She has a formal knowledge foundation with degrees in commercial and technology fields and is certified through ISACA.

Hayley Pettitt

OneTrust

Hayley Pettitt

Senior Solutions Engineer, OneTrust

Hayley Turner

Darktrace

Hayley Turner

Director of Industrial Security, APAC, Darktrace

Hayley is Director of Industrial Security, APAC at Darktrace, a leading autonomous Self-Learning AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology. Hayley works with organizations across industries such as critical infrastructure, finance, healthcare and utilities, helping them to address a range of security challenges with Cyber AI technology. In her 5 years at Darktrace, she has spearheaded some of the company’s exponential growth across the APAC and EMEA regions. Prior to joining Darktrace, Hayley worked for a leading Australian Federal Government agency on National Security, predominantly Counter Terrorism.

Heamanth Raina

MUFG

Heamanth Raina

Head of Data Governance, EMEA, MUFG

Heidi Badgery

Alteryx (ANZ)

Heidi Badgery

Managing Director, Alteryx (ANZ)

Heidi Badgery is the Managing Director of Alteryx in ANZ, and is responsible for company strategy, business activities and operations in the region.

Under Heidi’s leadership and extensive experience in enterprise software business development, as well as passion for customer centric technology, Heidi’s zealous to accelerate Alteryx’s growth strategy and empower more organizations to use their data to make decisions at pace and scale, to achieve business outcomes.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, Heidi has worked in the United States and across Asia Pacific, building businesses and accelerating organizational performance in software, SaaS and consulting services. Prior to joining Alteryx, Heidi led Adobe’s Professional Services Go To Market team across Asia Pacific, with a focus on ensuring Adobe’s customers realize their digital ambition and achieve measurable business outcomes through their digital transformation. Heidi has also spent 13 years with Symantec, leading the Company’s global accounts, the Norton business in Greater China and developing new strategic services offerings for the global business. Leaving Symantec, Heidi worked with CEB then Gartner to create and deliver strategic service offerings focused on areas of leadership and driving organizational performance.

Heidi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Marketing and is undertaking her Doctorate in Business.

Helge Janicke

Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre

Helge Janicke

Research Director, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre

Professor Helge Janicke is the Research Director of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre. He is affiliated with Edith Cowan University and holds a visiting Professorship in Cyber Security at De Montfort University (DMU), UK. Prof. Janicke’s research interests are in the area of cyber security, in particular with applications in critical infrastructures using cyber-physical systems, SCADA and Industrial Control Systems. His current research investigates the application of Agile Techniques to Cyber Incident Response in Critical Infrastructure, Managing Human Errors that lead to Cyber Incidents, and research on Cyber warfare and Cyber peacekeeping. Prof. Janicke established DMU’s Cyber Technology Institute and its Airbus Centre of Excellence in SCADA Cyber Security and Forensics Research. He was the Head of School of Computer Science at DMU before taking up his current position. He founded the International Symposium on Industrial Control System Cyber Security Research (ICS-CSR) and has contributed more than 150 peer reviewed articles and conference papers to the field from his collaborative research with industry partners such as Airbus, BT, Deloitte, Rolls-Royce, QinetiQ, and General-Dynamics

Hemant Todi

Delta Dental

Hemant Todi

VP, Data Analytics & Insights, Delta Dental

Heng Mok

Zscaler

Heng Mok

CISO - APJ, Zscaler

Heng is the former CISO of AGL Energy and is a practical Cyber leader who has over 20 years’ experience spanning a range of industries and cyber disciplines. Heng has worked on some of the largest transformation programs–including digital transformation–in Australia, within the financial services and energy sectors. He has written security standards for the Open Data Center Alliance and currently sits on a number of CompTIA Cybersecurity Certification committees.

Heng believes that as adoption of cloud, AI, data analytics, remote working and digital transformation gains traction, organizations need to have the right Cyber people, partners, process and technology embedded to enable business outcomes.

Henrica Makulu

EcoCash Holdings & HM Digital

Henrica Makulu

Data Scientist & Founder, EcoCash Holdings & HM Digital

Website: https://henricamakulu.wixsite.com/website

Leveraging data for better decision-making. A Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate specializing in advanced analytics data products.

Currently a Data Scientist at one of Africa's leading technology solutions providers, EcoCash Holdings. Tools: Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks, SQL, Python, Qlik Sense, PowerBI, Tableau.

Hesham Saad Al Ghamdi

Abdul Latif Jameel (KSA)

Hesham Saad Al Ghamdi

Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Abdul Latif Jameel (KSA)

Hieu Ngo

National Cyber Security Center of Vietnam, Co-founder, ChongLuaDao.Vn

Hieu Ngo

Former hacker and cybercriminal - now Cybersecurity Specialist, National Cyber Security Center of Vietnam, Co-founder, ChongLuaDao.Vn

Hieu (Hieupc) is a Vietnamese hacker and former identity thief. He was convicted in the United States of stealing hundreds of thousands of persons' personally identifiable information and in 2015 was sentenced to 13 years in U.S. federal prison. He has recently been recruited by Vietnam’s National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) as a technical expert.

From 2007 to 2013, he operated a "massive international hacking and identity theft scheme from his home in Vietnam" in which he stole personally identifiable information (such as names, Social Security numbers, and bank account data) of 200 million U.S. citizens. Hieupc obtained this data by hacking companies' databases, then advertised and offered (on two websites he operated, which were later shuttered) the stolen information for purchase by other cybercriminals. he was also able to obtain data from Court Ventures, an Experian subsidiary, by "posing as a private investigator operating out of Singapore."

Hieupc made nearly $2 million from his scheme. The Internal Revenue Service has confirmed that 13,673 U.S. citizens, whose stolen PII was sold on his websites, have been victimised through the filing of $65 million in fraudulent individual income tax returns.

Hieupc says, he wants to mentor young people and help guide them on the right path, and away from cybercrime. He’s been brutally honest about his crimes and the destruction he’s caused. His LinkedIn profile states up front that he’s a convicted cybercriminal.

For more details on his background, you can view his wikipedia page.

Hinne Hettema

Mainfreight

Hinne Hettema

Cyber Operations Consultant, Mainfreight

Hinne Hettema assists organizations with their tactical cyber defence, focusing on defensible architecture, monitoring strategies, active defense and threat intelligence. He has extensive experience in security leadership roles, as well as practical hands-on implementation of solutions and delivering technical training in cybersecurity approaches and solutions. He is a liaison member and trainer for first.org. Last year he wrote 'Agile Security Operations' (Packt) and also wrote 'Principles for cybersecurity operations'. He studied theoretical chemistry and philosophy, and academicaly affilliated with the University of Queensland as a Research Fellow.

Hisham Mohamed

Emirates NBD (Egypt)

Hisham Mohamed

CISO, Emirates NBD (Egypt)

Hon Stephen Noel Dawson MLC

Government of Western Australia

Hon Stephen Noel Dawson MLC

Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and ICT; Medical Research; Volunteering, Government of Western Australia

Stephen was born in Dublin, Ireland and migrated to Australia in 1989.
Stephen studied to be a French and Drama teacher at Edith Cowan University and in 1995 he joined the Labor party at the University orientation day.
Stephen was elected to represent the Mining & Pastoral Region at the 2013 Western Australian state election.
He served as Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Kimberley, Pilbara, Gascoyne and Goldfields-Esperance regions before being promoted to the position of Shadow Minister for Mental Health; Disability Services and Child Protection in September 2013.
Stephen has been a Chief of Staff to a number of Government Ministers in Western Australia and Victoria, has worked for the Trade Union movement and immediately prior to his election to Parliament, worked as the Western Australian State Manager for Essential Media Communications.
Upon coming to Government in 2017 Stephen was elected as the Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, a role he continues to hold and was appointed as the Minister for Environment and Disability Services.
Stephen has also served as the Minister for Electoral Affairs, Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister for Industrial Relations prior to being appointed to his current roles of Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and ICT; Medical Research; Volunteering in December 2021.

Howard Anthony Fyffe

VAST Data Australia Pty. LTD

Howard Anthony Fyffe

Managing Director, VAST Data Australia Pty. LTD

Howard leads sales and operations of VAST Data’s Australian & New Zealand Business (A/NZ). He has expertise in helping customers build a data strategy to unleash the value of data for the upcoming wave of Deep Learning and AI.

VAST Data’s Vision is to eliminate 30 years of storage tiering, complexity and ever increasing storage costs – and address the exascale storage challenge with a single, Universal all flash platform for all data and next gen workloads including HPC/AI/Machine Learning.

Prior to VAST Data, Howard was Country Manager for Veritas A/NZ where he helped large government and enterprise organisations protect their data and address the growing problems of dark data and ransomware.   Howard moved to Veritas from Nutanix where, as Country Manager for A/NZ, he oversaw Nutanix’s IPO while leading the adoption of Hyperconverged.   Before joining Nutanix, Howard was Director of IoT and Data Centre practices at Cisco Systems, Australia. Howard joined Cisco Systems in the U.S. via Cisco’s acquisition of Topspin Communications; a low-latency and High Performance Computing (HPC) company.

Howard has high energy and an engaging style to work with clients and to solve business problems. He draws on his years of expertise to deliver solutions around Data, Digitisation, Cyber Security, AI and Deep Leaning. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business and Economics from Lehigh University and resides in Sydney, Australia with his family.

 

Humberto Fukuda

Oracle

Humberto Fukuda

Distinguished LAD Data & Analytics Solution Engineer, Oracle

Mais de 20 anos de experiência em BI, Big Data e Analytics, com bacharelado na USP e MBA em Business Analytics & Big Data pela FGV, ingressou no mercado como estagiário até chegar a gerente sênior de projetos numa das maiores empresas de consultoria, a Accenture. Depois, foi para uma das maiores empresa de tecnologia, a Oracle, no papel de principal enterprise architect. Complementou sua jornada, atuando como gerente senior de Data & Analytics da maior empresa varejista, Grupo Pão de Açucar e participou da conquista do título de unicório da start-up MadeiraMadeira sendo o Diretor de Data & Analytics da empresa. Atualmente, é o engenheiro de soluções responsável por atuar nos casos mais complexos e clientes estratégicos da Oracle na America Latina.






Humberto Robles Mendez

Grupo Salinas

Humberto Robles Mendez

Director of Artificial Intelligence, Grupo Salinas

Actualmente, soy Director de Inteligencia Artificial de Grupo Salinas. Fundé el área, la he estructurado en toda la organización, he capacitado a más de 700 personas de la compañía, he coordinado los desarrollos e implementaciones de IA y he diseñado también uno de los modelos de inteligencia artificial más exitosos de Banco Azteca.
Soy profesor de inteligencia artificial de la Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias del Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, desde hace 5 años.
Soy economista y biólogo por el Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey
Poseo certificados de ciencia de datos e inteligencia artificial por el MIT y Dell EMC
Experiencia previa:
Office Max MX: Fungí como gerente de analítica avanzada e inteligencia de negocios
Arca Continental: Fui coordinador de ciencia de datos
Arvo Capital: Me desempeñé como científico de datos y consultor de estrategia de negocios

 
 

Hwee Cher Tan

CGS-CIMB Securities

Hwee Cher Tan

Group Head, IT Security and Governance, CGS-CIMB Securities

Hwee Cher as Group Head of IT Security & Governance of CGS-CIMB, oversees IT security management and the framework that governs how IT values can be improved and IT risks can be managed to align with business objectives of the company. She has more than 25 years of information security experience acquired across various industries, covering areas such as governance, risk assessments, compliance, audits, system and network hardening, security monitoring, vulnerability and incident management. Prior to CGS-CIMB, Hwee Cher spearheaded the global IT Audit program in Olam and was the Information Security Leader with The Walt Disney Company where she built the studio content protection team in APAC and established global standards. Earlier, she held appointments that led the security programs and implementations in the government, financial, utilities, technology sectors.

Ian Jackman

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Ian Jackman

General Manager Data and Analytics, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Ian has a dual degree in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, and a Diploma in Project Management.  Before joining Bendigo and Adelaide Bank in 2009, Ian spent 15 years in industry and consulting roles across IT, project management, business strategy and customer experience - working with large companies such as Orica, Pitcher Partners, Telstra Super, Medibank, RACV, and VicRoads amongst others, and 3 years working in London for ICI.  Ian’s particular passion is translating data into insight and action, and leading strategic programs to deliver business and customer experience outcomes.

Drawn to its customer centred culture, Ian joined Bendigo and Adelaide Bank in 2009 to initially work on, and then lead as Program Director, the implementation of an enterprise CRM platform, single customer view and customer master data solution. Ian subsequently moved into the role of Head of Customer Insights, evolving the enterprise capabilities around customer analytics, and then became the Head of Customer Voice reporting into the Chief Customer Officer, with responsibility across customer feedback management, customer analytics and insight, voice of customer, and market research.  Ian currently has a dual role as the Head of Data, and Practice Lead for Customer and Data Enablement, with responsibility for the organisation’s data strategy, governance, platforms, business intelligence, and analytics capabilities, as well as the Open Banking program.

Based in the Macedon Ranges in regional Victoria with his family of 3 daughters, Ian works predominantly out of the Bendigo and Melbourne offices.

Ian Teague

Checkmarx

Ian Teague

Regional Sales Manager, ANZ, Checkmarx

I am a sales leader with a track record of managing customers directly as well as building and running sales teams that are consistently overachieving targets, building lasting customer relationships and having a strong team culture.

I have experience working with hypergrowth vendors and my own consultancy. I have sold to traditional enterprises, enterprises undergoing digital transformation and pure play online/born in the cloud companies. Verticals I’ve focused on include: Banking & Financial Services, Telco, Retail, Media, Utilities, Technology and Public Sector.

My experience of sales management, sales (direct and in-direct), pre-sales and professional services allows me to offer financial outcomes, consulting and technical solutions to solve both customer problems while driving commercial outcomes for my employer. I have worked for successful companies in mature markets across multiple enterprise verticals, however my passion is being the first on the ground for new market entry and growing teams during hypergrowth.

Specialities: Sales management, direct sales, channel sales, strategic account management, market entry, GTM creation, building teams, mentoring, forecasting discipline, negotiation and closing. I have sales expertise in the following areas: Cloud Security, CyberSecurity, Network Security, Identity, Identity Governance, Artificial Intelligence, WAF, DDoS mitigation, ZeroTrust, Mobile Networks, Cloud Computing, DevSecOps, Open Source, Live Streaming, VOD, OTT and Web Performance.

Ian Tilson

dotdigital

Ian Tilson

Head of Partnerships APAC, dotdigital

With more than fifteen years of ecommerce experience in Asia Pacific and Europe, Ian has a wealth of ecommerce knowledge across the online industry, garnered from his senior roles at marketplaces, online retailers and technology vendors, as well as running his own ecommerce business. As Head of Partnerships for APAC, Ian works with Dotdigital’s amazing agency and technology partners, helping enable clients to succeed with their omnichannel marketing.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iantilson/

 

Ibrahim Shafiu

Waikato District Health Board

Ibrahim Shafiu

Coordinator Business Intelligence and Reporting, Waikato District Health Board

Over the last six years, Ibrahim has been working in Data and Analytics, Healthcare. He has over 20 years of industry experience in Data and Analytics across many sectors. (Supply Chain, Border Control, Life Insurance, Healthcare).

Iftach Ian Amit

Cimpress

Iftach Ian Amit

CSO, Cimpress

Ian is the CSO of Cimpress, the world leader in Mass Customization, with over 15 businesses worldwide and remote teams. Before Cimpress, Ian held senior leadership positions with Amazon, ZeroFOX, IOActive and has over 25 years of experience in the security industry as a practitioner. Ian is also the co-founder of DC9723 - the Tel Aviv DEFCON group-and serves as a BSides Las Vegas board member. He is also the creator and co-CEO of The CISO Track - a series of CISO centric curated events.

 

Ignacio Diaz

Bumrungrad International Hospital

Ignacio Diaz

Chief Information Officer, Bumrungrad International Hospital

Ignacio Madrid

Capgemini

Ignacio Madrid

Director | Practice Leader | Insights & Data, Capgemini

Más de 30 años de experiencia profesional. Líder orientado a resultados con capacidades fuertemente desarrolladas en ventas corporativas y gubernamentales, comunicación, negociación, transformación empresarial, estrategia, análisis de datos y Big Data, inteligencia de negocios, balanced score cards, finanzas corporativas, definición e implementación de procesos y KPI, productos y segmentación de clientes. Análisis de rentabilidad, integración y arquitectura de sistemas, gestión de proyectos complejos y gestión de áreas funcionales, habilidades, con amplia y profunda experiencia dentro de la industria de servicios financieros y experiencia relevante en telecomunicaciones, comercio minorista, bienes de consumo, fabricación, gobierno, petróleo y gas e industrias de alta tecnología. Gerente profesional altamente motivado enfocado en generar altos rendimientos corporativos para la empresa y sus clientes, con habilidades especializadas en finanzas corporativas y proyectos de valor, basados ​​en casos comerciales viables y ROIC positivo. Nombrado uno de los Top 100 Innovadores de América en Datos y Análisis 2018 por Corinium Intelligence: https://www.coriniumintelligence.com/insights-the-top-100-innovators-in-data-and-analytics-ignacio-antonio-madrid-torres




 

Imraan Kharwa

Infobip

Imraan Kharwa

Data Protection Officer, Infobip

I am a Privacy and Information Security professional with over 10 years of proven experience in financial, consulting and retail environments. I have worked with organisations of all sizes in creating their strategic vision, crafting bespoke solutions and have successfully deployed dozens of data privacy and information security projects in various sectors. I have a keen attention to detail, strong work ethic and the ability to perform effectively in fast paced and high pressure environments.

Ina David

NEST

Ina David

Head of Data & Analytics Strategy, NEST

A strategic thinker with over 15 years of experience in strategy, analysis, and market research with strong commercials from a variety of industries. Currently, I lead on a large-scale data transformation, which includes designing and delivering a data strategy and a programme of data literacy for transformative change in data and analytics for Nest Corporation, which provides high-quality, low-cost pensions to nearly 1 in 3 workers in the UK

Indranil Das

Indranil Das

Ericsson

Indranil Das

Indranil Das

VP, Head of MS IT & ADM Portfolio, Ericsson

Ingunn Jones

Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Ingunn Jones

Head of Data & Integration, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Isa Oliveira

GRUPO SBF

Isa Oliveira

Head of Data, Analytics & AI, Chief Data Scientist, GRUPO SBF

I was trained as an astrophysicist and have many years of working experience in problem-solving and scientific data exploration (earth- and satellite-based data) in academic research institutes in Brazil, the United States, and the Netherlands. I am also a multilingual educator, professional speaker and accomplished scientific writer.
I now apply this experience to the realities and challenges of the complex world outside academia, where I am the Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Grupo SBF, using data and AI to understand the world, predict and prescribe the future!

 

 



 

Isabella Hofmeyr-Pretorius

Capitec Bank (South Africa)

Isabella Hofmeyr-Pretorius

Specialist: Group Data Privacy, Capitec Bank (South Africa)

Isabella is a dynamic, driven and very passionate legal professional, specialising in corporate and commercial law with a strong focus on data protection, consumer law and technology law. She is an admitted Attorney and Notary Public and currently serves as a Legal Advisor in the Risk Management Department of Capitec Bank. She has always had a keen interest in corporate governance and commercial law, while her passion for technology law and data protection was sparked when she served as Legal and Compliance Manager at leading eCommerce fashion retailer in South Africa.

 Isabella completed an LLB, LLM (in comparative private law), professional certificates in Chartered Secretaries and Governance and Certified International Privacy Professional (Europe) all while working full time. She is a passionate supporter of educational initiatives, continued professional development and knowledge sharing, always keen to learn through discussions and constructive debates with other professionals.

Ishita Majumdar

eBay

Ishita Majumdar

Vice President, Analytics Platform and Products, eBay

Itumeleng Makgati

Standard Bank (South Africa)

Itumeleng Makgati

Group Executive: Information Security, Standard Bank (South Africa)

Iván Herrero Bartolomé

Grupo Intercorp

Iván Herrero Bartolomé

Chief Data Officer, Grupo Intercorp

Passionate by the digital world, I love to find innovative solutions to companies’ defies and manage to visualize opportunities where others see barriers. This challenge-seeking attitude first led me to study Telecommunications Engineering and, after 6 years working for Deloitte, build my own startup, which was acquired by Deloitte Colombia at the end of 2015. During these years I have been involved in different projects (digital transformation, eCommerce, analytics, digital marketing, LRMS, mobile apps, massive data analysis, process redesign, etc.), in sectors such as finance, telco, education, utilities, retail and media. I own outstanding communication skills, both written and spoken, and I feel comfortable interacting with manages and C-level executives.

I have always enjoyed combining my interest for technical aspects with a humanistic vision of the enterprise management, which I reinforced during the Executive Developing Program I attend at INALDE Business School (University of the Sabana, Colombia). I have had the chance to lead teams since the first steps of my professional career, helping me understand that the key to success resides in the mutual trust among all team members. My managerial style is based on respect and proximity, focusing both in the professional and personal development of my team mates.

Learning and acquiring new knowledge and skills is one of my hobbies, so I completed my studies to become an MSc. in Business Intelligence and Big Data.

 

J.M. Benedetto

Leroy Merlin

J.M. Benedetto

Chief Data Officer, Leroy Merlin

Above all I am a data enthusiast. My career was built around information management and data exploitation on SC topics. Recently I broadened my scope to encompass all use cases where data can be used to solve business problems.

Specialties: Process Engineering, Information and Data Management, Analytics, Agile Project Management, Digital SC.

 

 



 

Jaap Singh

Secure Code Warrior

Jaap Singh

Head of Customer Strategy and a Co-Founder, Secure Code Warrior

Jaap Karan Singh is the Head of Customer Strategy and a Co-Founder at Secure Code Warrior. After security testing at BAE Systems in Australia, Jaap moved from hacking web applications to educating developers on how to protect their own applications. Jaap has delivered training on web application security concepts and run workshops at Australian financial and telecommunications organisations in Australia. 

Jacob Yackenovich

Watson AIOps

Jacob Yackenovich

Program Director, Watson AIOps

As a Product Manager I am the entrepreneur, strategist, technical visionary, cross-functional team leader, and client advocate for the following IBM offerings:

  • IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
  • Netcool Agile Service Manager
  • IBM Tivoli Network Manager
  • IBM Tivoli Network Configuration Manager
As the market authority, I influence the actions to:
  1. define the product to be built; and
  2. manage its development, launch, and ongoing improvement.
My responsibilities include accountability for key outcome metrics, including customer satisfaction, accessibility, revenue and profitability of the offering.

Professional Experience:
Multiple software engineering assignments detailed below. Multinational Experience with software engineering teams (United States, China, Canada, Brazil, Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Norway, Italy, Germany, Poland, India, Australia, Japan).

Multinational Experience with customer face-to-face engagements (United States, China, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Italy).

Instrumental team member in the close of multi-million dollar customer deals and acquisitions.

Recognized leader with an ability to understand and work with technology, understand business priority of our customers, and work with technologists and with executives.

Customer Lab Advocacy to Fortune 20 and Fortune 400 companies. Customer Lab Advocates act as general problem-solvers, sounding boards, and ombudsmen, and then understand clients’ business needs as a means to define and drive solutions (features and functionality) into IBM offerings.

Jacqueline "Jack" Powell

Allianz Life

Jacqueline "Jack" Powell

CISO, AVP IT Security and Risk Management, Allianz Life

Jacqueline Powell

Allianz (USA)

Jacqueline Powell

CISO, Allianz (USA)

Jacqui Loustau

AWSN

Jacqui Loustau

Founder, AWSN

Jacqui is a cybersecurity expert with over 2 decades of global experience in IT and Information Security. She is passionate about security and collaborating with others to drive innovation and change within industry.
She started her career working in PC support, helpdesk’s and as an unix administrator before moving to Europe and into a career in cybersecurity. She has worked as a consultant on various high profile projects within the European Commission, UK government, NHS and financial sector.
Jacqui is the founder of the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) which aims to connect, support and inspire more people, in particular, women to pursue a career in security.
She is often invited to speak and write about her drive to increase the number of women in security in Australia and is an advocate for securing small businesses and career changers.
She is also the recipient of several awards, including most recently the AUSCERT Information Security Excellence Award in 2021.

Jacquie Young

Semperis

Jacquie Young

VP, APAC, Semperis

Jacquie is a cybersecurity advocate and specialist in the Asia Pacific region. Jacquie has worked in the technology industry for over 26 years with 14 of those years across APAC and the last five focused in the vulnerability management space. She thrives on agility and a fast- moving market, hence the move to Semperis to lead channels for the APAC region

Jacquie Young

Semperis

Jacquie Young

Cybersecurity Advocate, Semperis

Jacquie is a cybersecurity advocate and specialist in the Asia Pacific region. Jacquie has worked in the technology industry for over 26 years with 14 of those years across APAC and the last five focused in the vulnerability management space. She thrives on agility and a fast- moving market, hence the move to Semperis to lead channels for the APAC region.

Jade Arenstein

Incubeta

Jade Arenstein

Head: Data Strategy & Analytics, Incubeta

Jade Haar

NAB

Jade Haar

Head of Data Ethics, NAB

Jade has almost seventeen years legal experience internationally and in Australia in such areas as data protection, freedom of information, litigation and legislative reform. She was previously NAB’s Chief Privacy Officer from late 2013 – to mid 2019, situated in NAB’s Group Governance & Legal department.

Previously Jade was based overseas in London, where she worked as a regulatory lawyer for the BBC, and in New Zealand, where she had various roles in government relating to law reform and indigenous issues. Her NAB experience includes being across regular improvements to policies and credit consents, keeping a watchful eye over marketing campaigns and has lived through implementing the biggest updates to Australian Privacy legislation for the last 20 years (the introduction of the APPs and comprehensive credit reporting, as well as the Mandatory Data Breach scheme), which she helped roll out across the Enterprise.

Jade now combines her experiences across those sectors to be NAB’s Head of Data Ethics, based in their Enterprise Data team.

Jakkie van Wyk

NZ Health Partnerships

Jakkie van Wyk

Director Programme and Data – FPIM, NZ Health Partnerships

Jakkie managers and oversees the FPIM Oracle Programme and Health System Catalogue Transformation Programmes and integrated workstreams (Technology and Operations, Data and Compliance) that also add an important part of both programmes with the services that they provide.
With 30 years’ plus experience delivering successful transformation through people and technology, Jakkie has managed and delivered multi-million dollar global programmes of work across South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Malesia, Japan and New Zealand.
Prior to joining NZ Health Partnerships, Jakkie was responsible for several of Fonterra’s transformational programmes working in highly regulated environments.
It is not the size of the programme that drives Jakkie but the challenge of complex systems or processes, compliance issues or political initiatives that need to be delivered within tight timeframes. Jakkie believe strongly in developing a high performing, self-driven teams that deliver quality outcomes and also an environment where teams want to add value and feel appreciated.

Jalpa Bhavsar

Coles

Jalpa Bhavsar

Senior Security Specialist, Coles

Jalpa Bhavsar is a Senior Security Specialist at Coles, based in the Melbourne head office. Jalpa is a seasoned technologist with 13+ years of experience in Information Technology, including more than 6 years in cyber security. Jalpa has contributed in building security operations in large scale enterprises. Jalpa brings years of experience in incident response planning and exercise across diverse sets of industries such as retail, aviation and banking. Prior to working in cyber security, Jalpa held multiple client-facing positions in network engineering and team leading with telecom and managed services providers. Jalpa holds a Masters’ degree in Computer Science from Swinburne University Technology and Bachelors’ degree in Electronics Engineering from India.

James Darwin

Okta

James Darwin

Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

James Darwin is a recognised thought leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Cyber Security solutions, with over 25 years’ experience in this space. He is certified as a CISSP and CCSP from ISC2.
James has spent 20+ years working with legacy Identity and Access Management systems, and now works at Okta, a modern Cloud-first Identity-as-Service (IDaaS). James describes Okta as incredibly fast to implement and easy to use with more than 7000 documented integrations.

James Ley

Ivanti

James Ley

Director Solution Engineering, Ivanti

I have extensive experience in end user computing, with a dedicated focus on endpoint security. I have worked in a technical pre-sales role for a number of years helping organisations secure their digital workforce.

I currently lead a team of pre-sales engineers in ANZ ensuring we support our sales teams & our partners in resolving customer challenges with complimentary solutions.

Through a variety of career roles I have obtained a wide variety of technical and business skills. Working with a wide range of technologies including, Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, AppSense and Ivanti I have gained over 15 years of EUC experience.

James Malizis

SAS

James Malizis

Director of Customer Advisory, Australia and New Zealand, SAS

James Malizis is Director of Customer Advisory for SAS Australia and New Zealand. A proven customer success leader with 25 years of experience working across the Asia Pacific region, he is responsible for supporting organisations as they navigate their digital transformation journey. A thought leader with strong aptitude for innovation and creativity, James is passionate about cloud technology, customer-centric solutions and the power of analytics.

James Norman

Pure Storage

James Norman

EMEA Health and Life Science Solutions Director, Pure Storage

James Norman is the EMEA Health and Life Science Solutions Director at Pure Storage, enabling the organisation to better understand and meet the needs of Health, Life Science, Social Care and Pharmaceutical organisations. A world respected figure in change management and IT transformation, James has more than 30 years’ experience within the health sector, having held several senior positions within finance, performance, operations and IMT. James joined Pure Storage in 2022 following 8 years in similar senior roles across industry, having previously worked in the NHS for over 24 years.

James has led multiple major public sector transformation programmes and published several papers on the potential of Technology to enable organisational transformation and enhance public services. He was appointed as an external advisor to Her Majesty’s Treasury in 2015, sitting on the Comprehensive Spending Review board. In 2016, James was named as one of the top 50 data leaders in the UK by Information Age, for his thought leadership on digital transformation. He sits on the Health and Social Care Council within TechUK, two health advisory panels and established the All4Health&Care (previously Tech4CV19) community to help frontline Organisations and Tech companies come together in the fight against COVID-19.

James is proud to have spent the majority of his professional career within the NHS, and is passionate about supporting healthcare organisations, not selling to them. He encourages organisations to think in terms of outcomes rather than technology and to develop a collaborative mindset.

In recognition of his work, he was named EHI Healthcare IT champion of the year in 2011 and Thought leader of the year in 2013. James is a graduate of Liverpool John Moore’s University, with a BSc (Hons) in Technology Management and holds a Post Grad in Leadership for Health Service Improvement from Birmingham University Health Service Management Centre.

James Wood

Loyalty NZ

James Wood

Head of Data Platforms, Loyalty NZ

Jan Lambrechts

ANZ

Jan Lambrechts

Data Ethics Lead, ANZ

Jan Lambrechts is a data ethics professional with over 20 years’ experience in law, IT, government, and financial services.

Jan enables organisations to solve complex problems through the strategic, ethical use of data and analytics. He designs and implements frameworks for data ethics, privacy and data governance, working closely with analytics teams to translate ethical concepts into practical rules and guidelines for producing insights, products and services.

Jan is passionate about human rights and technology, and believes that the opportunities of analytics and artificial intelligence can be leveraged in a way that respects human autonomy and dignity.

Janelle Baily

Western Australia Police Force

Janelle Baily

Assistant Director Data Science & Analytics, Western Australia Police Force

Janice Carey

Bupa

Janice Carey

Former Head of Data Strategy, Chief Customer and Strategy Office, Bupa

Janice Carey is Head of Data Strategy at Bupa Australia and New Zealand. In a career spanning over 25 years building technology-enabled businesses, she has worked across Manufacturing, Retail, Public Sector, Telco, Higher Education and Health and specialises in building high performing teams to navigate complexity and deliver value. Janice is responsible for researching and publishing Bupa’s “All Data-One Platform” strategy with a focus on marshalling analytics for competitive advantage. She also has oversight of the customer and strategy analytics team whose signature strengths are combining enterprise, digital and external data to deliver impactful well visualised insights at pace, and personalising the digital customer experience.

Previous roles involved establishment of a new enterprise insights capability at Monash University and senior appointments at IBM.   Janice holds an MBA (Melb) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Monash).

 

 

Jannem Yong

Healthfirst

Jannem Yong

Head, Information Security, Healthfirst

Jarryd Pagonis

Darktrace

Jarryd Pagonis

Regional Director, Darktrace

Jarryd is a Commercial Director at Darktrace. Based in Melbourne, Jarryd is responsible for educating the market on harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence in an ever-changing threat landscape. He works closely with CISOs and IT experts to understand their unique security challenges, and how Darktrace can help address these concerns.

Prior to joining Darktrace, Jarryd worked in the IT industry for numerous years and holds a Bachelor of Business from Monash University with majors in Strategy and International Business.

Jason Anderson

Australian Retirement Trust

Jason Anderson

CISO, Australian Retirement Trust

Jason is an accomplished and skilled transformational Cyber Security Executive, with over 20 years’ experience of Information Security, Risk Management, Governance and Compliance.

Highly focused, with a proven track record of delivering large scale cyber security transformation programs and initiatives within global organisations. Able to conceptualise and think laterally, introducing innovative ideas and ensuring targets and stakeholder expectations are delivered to time and budget.

An authentic leader and effective communicator who can quickly build trust through strong relationship skills. An ability to understand complex business problems with the ability to influence at Board and C-level to ensure cyber security is regarded as a business enabler.

Jason regularly presents at industry events with a focus on Board level communication, reporting and strategic program delivery. Jason has a Bachelors degree in Information Technology and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Southern Cross University as well as numerous industry qualifications.

Jason Gislason

Chevron Phillips

Jason Gislason

Chief Digital Officer, Chevron Phillips

Jason Greenwood

Jason Greenwood

B2B eCommerce Specialist,

For 20+ years Jason has been helping brands across ANZ and beyond expertly architect compelling digital shopping & brand engagement experiences.

After many years in eCommerce (working across pure-play, retailer and agency) , he realised that most consultants and agencies target 'sexy' retail brands and B2B & DTC brands often get short shrift as a result. He started Greenwood Consulting to address this imbalance by focusing on B2B & DTC eCommerce consulting.

Jason:

You can connect with Jason on LinkedIn, via Greenwood Consulting and at jason [@] greenwoodconsulting.net

Jason Lei

Forge Hardware

Jason Lei

Managing Director, Forge Hardware

Jason Lei is a global supply chain and operations expert and founder of Forge Hardware, a new Melbourne-based glass and glass hardware e-commerce business that is quickly winning the hearts of architects, trade professionals and retail customers.

Beginning his career at a Shanghai-based glass manufacturing plant, he then moved to Australia and worked in several Melbourne-based glass processing and glass hardware businesses as well as ran a glazing business providing installation services. With a passion for e-commerce solutions, he then decided to take a career change to work at one of Australia largest e-commerce brands, Kogan. Gaining invaluable insight, he realised the potential to transform the traditional operating processes currently dominating the glass and glass hardware industry. With his holistic understanding of the industry and an MBA from Monash University, he decided to embark on a journey to disrupt the current glass hardware market.

Forge Hardware has been built to solve all the problems experienced by customers of glass and glass hardware industries and it is with this digitally driven e-commerce business model that Forge Hardware customers are able to greatly enjoy the benefits of a seamless online experience supported by the operational excellence throughout the entire business supply chain.

Website: https://forgehardware.com.au/

Jason Murrell

AISA

Jason Murrell

Cloud Branch Chair, AISA

Jason Murrell is Cloud Branch Chair at the Australian Information Security Association (AISA), which has always been an important cog in the development of a cohesive information security sector, where he works closely with members to advance cyber safety among the Australian public, businesses, and governments. He has long been a supporter of start-up businesses in Australia, particularly in the cyber security space. Currently assisting Cyber Hive and prior to that with 6clicks, an AI-driven cyber GRC platform, he is also involved with Cyber Aware, a market leader in the cyber awareness training arena. He is a champion of mentoring and connecting Australia's cyber network, so that we can all work together locally and bring our cutting-edge solutions to the rest of the world.

Jason Urquhart

Jason Urquhart

HUB International

Jason Urquhart

Jason Urquhart

Chief Data Scientist - National Accounts, HUB International

Jason Wood

ISACA Auckland

Jason Wood

President, ISACA Auckland

Over 21 years of international business experience (e.g., USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Bermuda) in planning, conducting, and quality reviewing complex information technology audits (inclusive of new business development, leading diverse teams, developing people and managing projects). In-depth understanding of financial, operational and information technology risks, controls, and processes; and the implementation of cost-effective internal controls to minimize risk and maximize value. Experienced at presenting audit findings, reports, and strategies to executives and audit committees. People-focused leader who provides supervision and coaching to team members that enables their individual growth, and client-focused leader that knows the importance of managing clients’ needs and expectations (both internal to the audit firm and external to the client). Extensive teaching, facilitation and training experience. Honored as a Forty Under 40 recipient from the Rochester Business Journal in 2008. Authored a book titled “IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises: Revenue, Expenditure, Inventory, Payroll, and More” published by Wiley Publishing in December 2013. Experienced with a wide array of financial applications (e.g., SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, BAAN, PeopleSoft); operating systems (e.g., mainframe, os/400); and networks (e.g., Active Directory). Worked across various industries including manufacturing, financial/banking, technology, telecommunications, and real estate.

Jay Henderson

Alteryx

Jay Henderson

SVP of Products, Alteryx

Jay leads product, design, and strategy for Alteryx – a leader in analytics automation. At Alteryx, Jay’s team is focused on cloud acceleration, Big Data fluency, AI as a strategic advantage, and expanding personas. He has over twenty years of product experience at analytics companies like Acoustic, IBM, Unica, SPSS, NetGenesis, and ClearForest. Jay is bringing customer-centricity and innovation to the forefront of the Alteryx product experience.

Jay is a Texas native but moved to Boston to attend MIT and never left. He’s since adopted the Red Sox as his hometown team and participates in a local curling league on the weekends.

Jean Panagamuwa

Jean Panagamuwa

Capital One

Jean Panagamuwa

Jean Panagamuwa

Head of Data Analysis and Governance, Capital One

Jean Panagamuwa is Head of Data Analysis and Data Governance for Capital One UK and has 18 years experience in the Financial Services industry. Jean has built high performing teams that drive data insight, deliver great customer outcomes and that use data to solve real business problems.
With broad experience in designing data governance processes, building engagement in and commitment to data governance practices and driving understanding on the interaction between the users and producers of data, Jean has changed the way the UK business approach data governance enabling business wide trust in data and broader use of data to drive business value.

Jean-Claude Pizzi

SAP Italy

Jean-Claude Pizzi

Director Analytics Cloud for EMEA South, Business Technology Platform, SAP Italy

For the last 22 years, I have investigated how Data can support the decision-making process of organizations in a highly competitive world. I worked with demanding customers and skilled partners to identify the best solutions to their challenges.

My strength is not to focus only on a single silo but to understand what flow data must go through to generate the most value in every organization.

My focus is providing the best planning capabilities for my customers, and this requires understanding the journey that this data must do up till the end-user front-end.

Let’s embark with SAP in this journey to discover the true value of data.

Jean-Luc Chatelain

Accenture

Jean-Luc Chatelain

Global Chief Technology Officer - Applied Intelligence, Accenture

As MD & CTO of Accenture Applied Intelligence, I lead the innovation and technology strategy focused on artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and cognitive automation. With the strength of a global and diverse team of designers, engineers & data scientists I lead the development and roadmap of our flagship system of intelligence solution, the Applied Intelligence Platform (AIP+). With it, our clients are enabled to be data driven, AI powered and leverage all trusted data to discover actionable insights, inform their business processes and deliver new & accretive business outcomes.

Jeff Bodzewski

Wool & Water

Jeff Bodzewski

Partner & CEO, Wool & Water

Jen Waugh

Pepper Financial Services Group

Jen Waugh

Senior Manager, Information Security, Pepper Financial Services Group

With 10 years in the Security Industry and specialising in Security Assurance, Governance and Compliance and Awareness, Jen has a broad knowledge and experience across many security disciplines including Incident Response, research and strategy and risk management.

Jen is actively involved in the Women in Technology and Mentorship and in her role as Senior Manager Information Technology, Jen leads Pepper Moneys ANZ Security Team.

Jenana Roper

Schneider Electric

Jenana Roper

General Manager Digital Solutions, Pacific Region, Schneider Electric

Jenana has over 20 years' experience in the built environment and technology sectors, in a series of consulting, business advisory, commercial and transformational roles. Her experience spans large multi-national corporations, to small software startup environments. In her current role, Jenana leads the IoT, analytics, software, cybersecurity, and technology consulting business within Digital Buildings at Schneider at a country level, where she is responsible for setting the digital transformation strategy and objectives, together with leading teams to successfully execute on digital growth ambitions. Jenana is passionate about using technology as a strategic enabler for a secure and sustainable business future, business innovation, and a powerful lever for accelerating climate action in the built environment.

Jennifer Firbank

Telstra

Jennifer Firbank

Strategy & Influence Principal Cyber Security, Telstra

Jen is the left-hand lady to Telstra’s CISO APAC, Narelle Devine, and leads Telstra’s Cyber Security Strategy & Influence function. Together with her brilliant team, she drives the strategic vision of cyber security and is responsible for shaping the wider cyber environment by influencing behaviour and decision making, both internally and externally.

Jen is a big picture person and strategic thinker, and her strong generalist capabilities means her solutions are very considered. Jen previously led Telstra’s external engagement capability in cyber security, and worked as Chief of Staff for the CISO where she served as their confidant and right hand.

Jen has previously worked as the Strategy and Operations Manager for Hewlett Packard on a top 10 Global Account, and has held various senior Media & Communications roles in the technology, banking and superannuation sectors. Jen holds a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts (Public Communications).

When Jen isn’t at work, she is often found being pulled around Canberra by her Labrador, or somewhere outdoors with her family.

Jennifer Fitzgerald

IBM

Jennifer Fitzgerald

Director, Product Marketing for AIOps, IBM

Jenny leads product marketing for IBM’s AIOps portfolio and IBM Turbonomic. She is passionate about customer value and has over a decade of experience across marketing strategy, analytics & operations. She’s an avid sports fan, water polo alum, and enjoying hiking followed by a good IPA.

Jenny Menna

Humana

Jenny Menna

VP, Business Cybersecurity Risk, Humana

Jenny Menna is the Vice President for Business Security Risk at Humana, Inc. Her executive security experience spans government, financial services, and the healthcare industry. Her current and past industry leadership roles include the FS-ISAC Board of Directors, the Global Cybersecurity Alliance Strategic Advisory Committee, the Financial Top Level Domain Board of Directors, the Risk Committee of Early Warning Services, and the National Cybersecurity Alliance Board of Directors. She is a Visiting Fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute.

Prior to joining Humana, she served as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for U.S. Bank. Jenny also held a variety of senior cybersecurity leadership positions in the Department of Homeland Security. Her responsibilities ranged from industry outreach to front-line operational and technical activities – including serving as US-CERT Director, to leading national-level policy initiatives. She received awards for her work under both the Bush and Obama Administrations, and the inaugural Excellence Award from the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center for her leadership in advancing state and local government cybersecurity. She was selected for the Senior Executive Service in 2009. Jenny received both her Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Chicago and is a Certified Information Security Manager.

Jenny Simpson

Football Australia

Jenny Simpson

Chief Technology Officer, Football Australia

Jeremy Krause

Global Media Brands

Jeremy Krause

Chief Innovation and Disruption Officer, Global Media Brands

Jerome Couzy

Informatica

Jerome Couzy

Data Governance & Privacy Domain Expert: MEA, Informatica

With more than 10 years in the Analytical world, Jerome is helping companies leverage the value of their data. Jerome will share how the Informatica Intelligent Data Management platform can help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation by using understood, trusted and governed data.

Jerry Lavish

KPMG

Jerry Lavish

Managing Director - Risk Analytics, KPMG

Jerry Lavish is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Advisory Services Practice with over 20 years of Financial Services industry experience in technology, research, trading, and portfolio management. Jerry has also been an equities sales trader utilizing self-developed algo trading models for value-added client execution. Strong technical and business management skills enable him to understand a client’s needs and provide innovative solutions. For the past 7 years at KPMG, his current and past clients include some of the leading entities in the Capital Markets and Banking industries.

Jess Kuan

P&N Group

Jess Kuan

Senior Manager Data Analytics & Insights , P&N Group

With a career in financial services spanning over 15 years, Jess has a wealth of experience in the banking industry.

Responsible for P&N Group’s data management and analytics, Jess is focused on building a data-driven organisation through embedded data governance capabilities, growth of data literacy, and the introduction of modern data concepts and tools to support strategic decision-making. Her approach to analytics and governance is process-driven and business-focused, driving insights to improve customer outcomes whilst balancing growth and sustainability for the Group.

Jess has a Bachelor of Commerce majoring Banking and Economics and a Graduate Diploma of Predictive Analytics.

P&N Group (Police & Nurses Limited) is a customer-owned banking group represented by P&N Bank in Western Australia and bcu in NSW and south eastern Queensland.


Jesus Ramirez Claverie

Caja Los Andes

Jesus Ramirez Claverie

CIO/CDAO, Caja Los Andes

Sustentado en mis capacidades de liderazgo, he logrado desarrollar grupos focalizados en la búsqueda y el cumplimiento de los objetivos de corto y largo plazo en las organizaciones en que he participado. Incorporo la visión de empresas globales junto a la de emprendimientos locales, desempeñando roles de dirección, planificación y liderazgo en la ejecución de las iniciativas. #Bigdata #Analytics, #ArtificialIntelligence, #MachineLearning.

Poseo alta capacidad de estrategia y desarrollo de personas, orientando en la consecución de metas en condiciones de alta presión sin descuidar aspectos de un sano ambiente laboral. Esto se produce fortaleciendo el sentimiento de pertenencia en el emprendimiento que se lleva a cabo (intra o extramural) y perfeccionando herramientas de desarrollo organizacional que potencien la adaptación a nuevos escenarios.

Creo poseer un sistema de referencia de altos valores basados principalmente en honestidad, tolerancia, mejoramiento continuo, respeto y confianza. Esto se logra con un permanente y flexible entendimiento del entorno, producto de la meditación y reflexión consciente.

 

Jharna Deshmukh

Jharna Deshmukh

Scotiabank

Jharna Deshmukh

Jharna Deshmukh

Director - Data Science & Analytics, Scotiabank

Jharna is the Director of Data Science & Analytics group in Scotiabank, with close to 20 years of industry experience.

She holds a graduate degree in Computer Science Engineering and an MBA in Finance.

She is a passionate about driving greater access to meaningful data across the business for informed decision making.

Ji Peng

Latitude Financial Services

Ji Peng

Analytics Manager - Data and Capability, Latitude Financial Services

I am working as senior manager for data science and strategy at Latitude. My focus is to enable our internal analytics and data science teams to fully embrace cloud and open source resources, and migrate their existing key analytics workloads such as single customer level view and predictive models from the traditional tools such as SAS and Exadata to our new Customer 360 platform. Before this role, I had led advanced analytics CoE and campaign analytics CoE teams, and also worked in the embedded analytics team within business to provide portfolio, sales and campaign analytics in the past.

Jim Locascio

TTX Company

Jim Locascio

Manager of Data Engineering and Business Analytics, TTX Company

Jimmi Rai

Central Garden & Pets

Jimmi Rai

Senior Director Analytics, Central Garden & Pets

Jimmy Wu

Bundaberg Brewed Drinks

Jimmy Wu

Head of Insight, Bundaberg Brewed Drinks

It is Jimmy's passion to discover new opportunities through data, increase sales, acquire more customers and reduce the operating costs for businesses. He is at the forefront of data analytics with broad exposure to advanced analytics, data science & BI, delivering projects utilising sophisticated approaches including the use of predictive analysis, machine learning algorithms & Geo-spatial location analysis.

Jimmy has over 15 years’ experience in data analytics across a range of industry segments, specialising in retail & FMCG. He has worked with many influential brands including Coca-Cola, Coles, IGA, Subway, RFG, Tabcorp, The Coffee Club and most recently heading up the Data & Insights Division for Bundaberg Brewed Drinks.

Jo Stewart-Rattray

Australian Computer Society

Jo Stewart-Rattray

Vice President, Communities, Australian Computer Society

Jo has over 25 years’ experience in the IT field some of which were spent as CIO in the Utilities and as Group CIO in the Tourism space, and with significant experience in the Information Security arena including as CISO in the healthcare sector. She underpins her information technology and security background with her qualifications in education and management. 

She specialises in consulting in risk and technology issues with a particular emphasis on governance and security in both the commercial and operational areas of businesses. Jo provides strategic advice to organisations across a number of industry sectors including banking and finance, utilities, manufacturing, tertiary education, retail, healthcare and government. 

Jo has extensive board and committee experience. She has chaired a number of ISACA’s international committees including the Board Audit & Risk Committee, Leadership Development and Professional Influence & Advocacy. She served as an Elected Director on ISACA’s international Board of Directors for seven years and was the founder of its global women’s leadership initiative, SheLeadsTech. 

Because of her involvement with ISACA and the SheLeadsTech program and her rural background Jo was selected from a large number of candidates to be one of only two non-government delegates and was invited to join the official Australian Government delegation to the 62nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) held in New York in March 2018. She returned to the UN in 2019 and will speak at two events in 2021. 

She has spoken on Capitol Hill during a Day of Advocacy designed to bring tech leaders together in one place to discuss issues related to women in tech leadership and then to meet with Congress representatives and Senator’s offices. 

Jo has had an annual award established in her honour to recognise her outstanding leadership and commitment to increasing the representation of women in technology leadership and the tech workforce more broadly. The inaugural ISACA Oceania Jo Stewart-Rattray Award was awarded in September 2018. 

Jo Stewart-Rattray

Silver Chain Group

Jo Stewart-Rattray

Chief Security Officer, Silver Chain Group

Jo has over 25 years’ experience in the IT field some of which were spent as CIO in the Utilities and as Group CIO in the Tourism space, and with significant experience in the Information Security arena including as CISO in the healthcare sector. She underpins her information technology and security background with her qualifications in education and management.


She specialises in consulting in risk and technology issues with a particular emphasis on governance and security in both the commercial and operational areas of businesses. Jo provides strategic advice to organisations across a number of industry sectors including banking and finance, utilities, manufacturing, tertiary education, retail, healthcare and government.


Jo has extensive board and committee experience. She has chaired a number of ISACA’s international committees including the Board Audit & Risk Committee, Leadership Development and Professional Influence & Advocacy. She served as an Elected Director on ISACA’s international Board of Directors for seven years and was the founder of its global women’s leadership initiative, SheLeadsTech.


Because of her involvement with ISACA and the SheLeadsTech program and her rural background Jo was selected from a large number of candidates to be one of only two non-government delegates and was invited to join the official Australian Government delegation to the 62nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) held in New York in March 2018. She returned to the UN in 2019 and will speak at two events in 2021.

She has spoken on Capitol Hill during a Day of Advocacy designed to bring tech leaders together in one place to discuss issues related to women in tech leadership and then to meet with Congress representatives and Senator’s offices.

Jo has had an annual award established in her honour to recognise her outstanding leadership and commitment to increasing the representation of women in technology leadership and the tech workforce more broadly. The inaugural ISACA Oceania Jo Stewart-Rattray Award was awarded in September 2018.

JoAnn Stonier

Mastercard

JoAnn Stonier

Chief Data Officer, Mastercard

JoAnn C. Stonier serves as Chief Data Officer for Mastercard, leading the organization’s data innovation efforts while navigating current and future data risks. She oversees the curation, quality, governance and management of the company’s extensive data assets, as Mastercard increasingly looks to deepen the strategic value it can provide its merchant, banking and government customers and cardholders through its expanding data-driven products and capabilities.

JoAnn previously served as the company’s Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer, responsible for global privacy and information governance, and leading regulatory engagement for data compliance.

JoAnn is a recognized and highly sought-after thought leader in emergent data and privacy issues.  She has advised industry executives, governments, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs. Currently, she serves on the United Nations Expert Group on Governance and Artificial Intelligence and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on data consumption.  JoAnn also serves as a Board Advisor for Truata, a data trust co-founded by Mastercard and IBM, on the Board of Directors and Governance Committee for Hope For The Warriors, a non-profit Veteran service organization, and on the Board of Trustees and Executive & Finance Committees for Academy of Mount St. Ursula, where she attended high school in Bronx, New York.

JoAnn received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis College. She holds memberships in the Bar of the State of New York and the Bar of the State of New Jersey. She is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Jodi Blomberg

Waste Management

Jodi Blomberg

Senior Director, Data Science, Waste Management

Jodi Blomberg leads the Enterprise Analytics and Data Science teams at Schwab. Her teams build data science and machine learning models and applications that serve all of Schwab’s business lines, such as marketing campaigns, personalization models, and client journeys. Previously, she managed data science teams building software-as-a-service solutions at SAS in public and private clouds.

Joel Garnatz

IBM

Joel Garnatz

Americas Process Mining Program Lead, IBM

Joel Garnatz has over 15+ years leading teams to help customers find greater value in business automation. Over the last six years he has been focused on accelerating this journey with process and task mining for discovery and RPA for execution. In his role today, he enables customers, team members, and partners in the Americas to identify process opportunities for digital transformation.  

Joey Chua

OSM Maritime Ship Management Pte Ltd

Joey Chua

Head of IT, OSM Maritime Ship Management Pte Ltd

Joey Chua started his career as a marine engineer in the Republic of Singapore Navy and has gone on to work in many different roles in the maritime industry. He is now the Head of Information & Technology in OSM and is responsible for the overall ICT strategy in OSM Asia and work in tandem with the global team. He is an advocate for diversity and second chances. Joey is a keen believer in using technology and cybersecurity for operational advantage.

 

Joey leads an active lifestyle and hits the gym 5-6 days a week to ensure he keeps a clear mind.

Joey Fontiveros

Philippine Army

Joey Fontiveros

Commanding Officer at Cyber Battalion, ASR, Philippine Army

Joey’s training in IT started with Hardware Maintenance, Network Essentials, Email Collaboration suite, CCNA, Web Design, CEH, CSCU, SANS 504, CISSP (on-going). Majority of his work experience involves dealing with cybersecurity and which is still a core focus.

He twice served as Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert Exchange in USARPAC, Fort Shafter, Hawaii and took Cyber Law and Emerging Technologies at Asia Pacific Center for Military Law, Sydney Australia and Completed the International Programs on Cyber Security at George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Joey is currently the Commanding Officer of the Cyber Battalion, ASR, in the Philippine Army. Previously he was chief of the Cyberspace Management Branch.

Johan Isaksson

Johan Isaksson

Volvo Cars

Johan Isaksson

Johan Isaksson

Head of Data Platforms, Volvo Cars

John Ellis

BUPA Australia & New Zealand

John Ellis

CISO, BUPA Australia & New Zealand

As the CISO for Bupa Asia Pacific, I have the privilege of leading a team of talented people to secure the data and systems of Bupa, its customers, and employees to become the most trusted and digitally integrated Health Services organisation in the Asia Pacific.

Throughout my career of more than 26 years, I have been helping organisations achieve their security objectives by designing, implementing, and operating various information security and technology risk management projects. This broad exposure has provided me with an in-depth understanding of security, strategy, risk, and business.

I was fortunate to have lived in Asia for 14 years, where I developed a keen interest in how 'cyberspace' plays an increasingly important role in geopolitics and foreign policy. This interest led me to study and achieve my Masters of Cybersecurity, Strategy, and Diplomacy from the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW Canberra).

Diversity and inclusion are powerful tools in solving our complex security challenges. As a father of three daughters, I want to play a leading role in shaping the world where we are defined by our acts and not the colour of our skin, gender, or nationality.

John Paul Tonelli

Definity Financial

John Paul Tonelli

Manager of Data Governance Tooling & Reporting, Definity Financial

John-Peter Dolphin

Pacific Gas & Energy Company

John-Peter Dolphin

Director - Data Management & Analytics, Pacific Gas & Energy Company

Jon Gilbert

Department for Education

Jon Gilbert

CISO, Department for Education

Jon has been the Chief Information Security Officer at the UK Department for Education since 2018, and has previously held senior security roles across UK service provider, Media, CNI and Government sectors.

Jon Manning

ABN Group

Jon Manning

Group Data and Analytics Manager , ABN Group

Jon has over a decade of experience spread across various data and analytics roles in Queensland and Western Australia. He is currently leading the ABN Group on a data transformation journey that prioritises data culture, uplifts data capability and creates an environment for analytics to add maximum value.

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Jonas Christensen

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

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Jonas Christensen

Head of Data Science , Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Jonas Christensen has spent his career leading data science functions across multiple industries and is currently the Head of Data Science at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers.


He is an international keynote speaker on data science and analytics leadership, a postgraduate educator and advisor in the field of data science and machine learning and host of the Leaders of Analytics podcast. He holds a Masters of International Finance and a Masters of Accounting from Deakin University as well as a Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

Jonas is passionate about what data science and AI can do for the world of business and beyond. He believes data science and AI will be as revolutionary to the way we do business and interact with each other as IT and personal computing has been over the past 40 years.

Jonathan du Preez

Meridian Energy

Jonathan du Preez

Information Security Manager, Meridian Energy

Jonathan has 21 years of experience in a range of activities such as risk management,
assurance, incident response, security architecture, technical design, and management and delivery of a Security Strategy and Operations. He worked in a broad range of sectors such as telecommunications, energy, financial, government and various enterprises locally and abroad.

Jonathan Paul

Fifth Third Bank

Jonathan Paul

Vice President - Director IT Governance, Fifth Third Bank

Jonathan Paul

Fifth Third Bank

Jonathan Paul

VP, Director of IT Data Governance, Fifth Third Bank

At Fifth Third Bank, he has the privilege to establish an industry leading data governance framework built by highly motivated stakeholders in an agile environment. Leading with Data Management as a core pillar of the overall Data Strategy for the Bank, Fifth Third Bank is helping to drive a culture that is aware of heightened expectations for managing data while creating desire for enhanced technology that not only manages data but accelerates business outcomes.

Jonathan was KY City Festival Pop-a-Shot High Score Champ at 1998 Southgate.

Jose Rodrigues

Woolworths

Jose Rodrigues

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Woolworths

Joseph Carson

ThycoticCentrify

Joseph Carson

Chief Security Scientist (CSS) and Advisory CISO, ThycoticCentrify

A Cyber Security Professional with 25+ years’ experience in Enterprise Security & Infrastructure, Joseph is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). An active member of the Cyber Security community and a frequent speaker at Cyber Security events globally Joseph is also an adviser to several governments and cyber security conferences. (ISC)² Information Security Leadership Award (ISLA®) Americas Winner 2018.

Josh Chartrand

Definity Financial

Josh Chartrand

Director of Data Governance & Strategy, Definity Financial

Josh Reid

Ando Insurance Group Limited

Josh Reid

Head of Pricing and Analytics, Ando Insurance Group Limited

José Vaisman Romero

Falabella Group

José Vaisman Romero

Head of Advanced Analytics, Falabella Group

José Vaisman es responsable del desarrollo de soluciones corporativas de analítica avanzada en Falabella. Matemático de carrera, José ha liderado el desarrollo de productos analítico para Banca de Inversiones, Banca de Retail, Cadena de Suministros y Venta por Departamentos entre otros. Uno de sus mayores focos es democratizar y escalar el desarrollo de soluciones inteligentes e integrarlas en procesos de negocio.


 

João Chela

Banco Safra

João Chela

Head de Modelagem e Analytics, Banco Safra

Executivo do mercado financeiro especializado em modelagem de riscos e Analytics, com passagens anteriores pelo Banco Itaú-Unibanco e BM&F Bovespa e Banco Pan.

Atualmente é Head da área de Modelagem e Analytics no Banco Safra.

Gerencia equipes de Analytics e Modelagem para as áreas de negócio( ex: Safrapay, Banco Digital, People Analytics e Alta Renda).

Doutor em Matemática Aplicada pela UNICAMP, Pós-Doutorado pela UNIFESP- São José dos Campos e Professor da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).





João Quaranta

Banco do Brasil

João Quaranta

Gerente Executivo de Portfólio e Governança de Dados, Banco do Brasil

Cientista de Dados, atuando no segmento financeiro há 16 anos com soluções analíticas para CRM e clientes investidores. 

 

 



 

Juan Carlos Oré

Credicorp Capital

Juan Carlos Oré

Chief Data Officer , Credicorp Capital

Chief Data Officer de Credicorp Capital. Líder de la estrategia de datos & analytics de la empresa a nivel regional (Perú, Colombia, Chile y Panamá). Experiencia implementando programas de gestión de datos que ayuden a tomar mejores decisiones. Desde 2019, es también miembro fundador de la asociación CDO Latam, que reúne a los principales profesionales de diferentes industrias de la región para convertirse en un instrumento de coordinación, interrelación y crecimiento de las prácticas de gobernanza de datos y análisis de la información en América Latina. Becario Fulbright. Master of Science in Technology Management por la University of Illinois. Bachiller en Ingeniería de Sistemas por la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.



 

Juan Manuel Saravia Herrera

Mibanco Colombia

Juan Manuel Saravia Herrera

Chief Strategy & Data Officer, Mibanco Colombia

Professional with 13 years of experience in the financial services industry in Latin America, where I have had the opportunity to lead and implement high impact projects across all the business areas of the company.

 

Juan Mauricio Leandro Jiménez

Coopeservidores

Juan Mauricio Leandro Jiménez

Chief Data Officer, Coopeservidores

As a leader of a data department, I have advanced experience in the adoption of new
technologies that can help to improve both organizational and departmental processes, using
tools such as Cloud Computing, RPA, CRM, BPM, among others. This experience allows me to
identify the needs of companies, from their conceptual stage to the design and construction of
the required architecture. As a Chief Data Officer, I developed soft skills in negotiation, conflict
resolution, and project management, which allow me to carry out initiatives of different kinds
and manage the people involved in their execution.
Working in companies with different approaches has allowed me to develop experience
in the process of identifying real and achievable needs in the short term that return a benefit to
the companies.
From a technical view, I focused on learning and implementing different Machine
Learning techniques such as SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees, K-Means, KKNN, Natural
Language Processing (NLP) techniques, among others. I have devoted most of my time to a
deep understanding of how algorithms work and how they are implemented and incorporated
into business processes.

 

Juliana Kuroda

Mondelēz International

Juliana Kuroda

Head of Analytics, Mondelēz International

Experiência de 14 anos com análises de dados que geram mudanças de comportamento e ganho de performance. Atuação com grandes varejistas, bancos, e-commerce e indústria com foco em Inteligência de mercado, Analytics e Data Science. 

 

 



 

Julien Molez

Société Générale

Julien Molez

Group Innovation Data & AI Leader, Société Générale

Justin Shaw-Gray

Synack

Justin Shaw-Gray

Sales Director UKI, Synack

Justin Shaw-Gray is Sales Director for the UKI region for Synack, Inc. In 2018, shortly after joining Synack, Justin was awarded SC Media’s Runner Up for Best Cybersecurity Sales Leader. Prior to Synack Justin held senior roles at Netscope, Zscaler, and Riverbed. Justin is originally from Zimbabwe where he was Founder and Human Rights Activist for the Restoration of Human Rights Zimbabwe. Justin is an avid runner and lives in London with his wife and three young children. 

Justin Wong

Puppet Asia Pacific

Justin Wong

Solutions Engineer Team Lead, Puppet Asia Pacific

For over twenty years, Justin Wong has worked in IT, with experience in service delivery, managed services, and pre-sales. His specialties include systems management, service management, and technology architecture, and he is ITIL-certified. Justin has a Master of Technology in Software Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and Computer Science, both earned from the National University of Singapore. He has a track record of developing solutions for clients across different industries.

Kalpana Yendluri

Experian

Kalpana Yendluri

Senior Director, Data Management & Governance, Experian

Kamil Jankowski

Schneider Electric

Kamil Jankowski

Director, AI Product, Schneider Electric

Karen Owens

WA Police Force

Karen Owens

CISO, WA Police Force

I am a resourceful, self-motivated, results driven CISO, operating with absolute integrity.
I have significant international experience in information security and risk management, currently based in Australia.
I am a professional with a reputation for achieving business oriented results using highly developed communication and presentation skills and a flair for building natural rapport and trust amongst colleagues and business partners.
As a respected leader of highly motivated and successful teams spanning all elements of information security and risk management I advocate for workplace diversity and equality.

Karin Chu, PhD

Peapod Digital Labs

Karin Chu, PhD

Vice President, Data Science & Reporting, Peapod Digital Labs

Karina Korpela

Invesco

Karina Korpela

Head of Data Analytics & Visualisation, Invesco

Karl Lewis

Duo Security at Cisco

Karl Lewis

Lead Architect, APJC, Duo Security at Cisco

Karl Lewis is Duo Security at Cisco's Lead Architect for the APJC region. He helps bridge the gap between technology and business problems for organizations by helping them understand how Duo integrates and addresses current business challenges around cybersecurity. Karl has over 8 years of experience administering, designing and securing enterprise and service provider networks as a multi-certified network security architect and a contributor to the PreSales Collective, an international community of pre-sales professionals.

Kassim Hussein

Cleveland Clinic London

Kassim Hussein

Head of Enterprise Analytics, Cleveland Clinic London

Kassim joined Cleveland Clinic London(CCL) in July 2020 as Head of Enterprise Analytics.

Kassim has 13 years of experience in data and analytics, previously working for various NHS Trusts, Bupa, IQVIA and Lloyds Banking Group.

Kassim has proven experience in leading analytical teams from startups to established companies in a mature state.

Kassim leads the enterprise analytics team which is a centre of excellence for Cleveland Clinic.

As part of the organisation’s 3 year plan to deliver a world class analytics offering, Kassim is providing senior leadership in the development and day to day operations of the enterprise’s analytic tools, data management strategy, data warehouse and ML/AI capabilities across the enterprise.

Kassim also leads on the development and day-day operations of CCL’s analytical platform which provides meaningful insights across the enterprise to internal and external stakeholders.

Outside of his day-day role, Kassim has a passion for mentoring and diversity in the workplace.

Kate Carruthers

Kate Carruthers

UNSW

Kate Carruthers

Kate Carruthers

Chief Data and Insights Officer, UNSW

Kate Hamilton-Myers

ANZx

Kate Hamilton-Myers

Analytics and BI Lead, ANZx

Kate Platonova

HSBC

Kate Platonova

Group Chief Data Officer, HSBC

Kathleen Mullin

Healthmap Solutions LLC

Kathleen Mullin

Former CISO, Healthmap Solutions LLC

Kathryn Gulifa

WorkSafe Victoria

Kathryn Gulifa

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, WorkSafe Victoria

A passionate and experienced Analytics executive and evangelist, Kathryn currently occupies the role of Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Worksafe Victoria. Kathryn has an education in Finance/Econometrics, with particular expertise in Analytics Transformation across the full value chain, from data to advanced analytics, honed over more than a decade in banking and more recently the public sector. Kathryn is a vocal advocate for gender diversity in the Analytics industry and hold seats on the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia (IAPA) and Deakin Information Systems and Business Analytics (DISBA), and is an active contributor to industry initiatives like the development of an industry accreditation framework, consultation on university curriculum and judging of the Top 25 Analytics Industry Leaders since its’ inception.

Kathy Hickey

Qlik

Kathy Hickey

Vice President, Product Management, Qlik

Katie James

Flybuys

Katie James

Head of Digital, Flybuys

Katie James is the Head of Digital at Flybuys. With over a decade of experience in digital and marketing for some of Australia’s best-known brands, Katie is passionate about digital experience and how it enables consumers online and offline. Leading the digital & member delivery functions for Flybuys, Katie’s team is focused on building intuitive & highly personalised digital experiences that simplify the often overly complex world of loyalty programs. 

 

Katrina Truong

Katrina Truong

KMH Labs

Katrina Truong

Katrina Truong

Director, Data Governance, KMH Labs

Kaushik Lakshman

Sportsbet

Kaushik Lakshman

Head of Data Science, Sportsbet

Kaushik is an experienced leader who is passionate about enabling data science teams to deliver strategic business value. He is currently the Head of Data Science at Sportsbet, Australia’s most popular wagering entertainment platform where his team builds data science models to bring excitement to the life for millions of Aussie punters. He has worked across various B2C digital businesses and enjoys the art of bringing together the worlds of innovative data science ideas and commercial outcomes. Kaushik is passionate about creating diverse and open environments where teams can thrive and grow.

Kautilya Jain

Signal Capital Partners

Kautilya Jain

Chief Data Scientist, Signal Capital Partners

Kautilya has 12 years of experience in the investment management industry using quantitative techniques to discover trading and investment opportunities at time horizons varying from milliseconds to multiple years. Prior to joining Signal Capital in September 2019 as its Chief Data Scientist, Kautilya led EMEA Big Data Analytics efforts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. His Quantitative Strategy team used Artificial Intelligence techniques such as Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to gain insights from proprietary and public data to provide unique, actionable investment ideas, and new ways of answering fundamental questions across sectors, regions, and asset classes. His work was amongst the most widely read at BofAML and he was regarded as one of the top Big Data analysts in Europe.

Kautilya holds a Masters in Finance (London Business School), a Masters of Technology in Computer Science (IIT Bombay) and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (IIT Bombay). Kautilya is also a CFA charterholder.

Kayla Matheson

Tableau

Kayla Matheson

Director Customer Success, Tableau

Keat Koay

Shopify

Keat Koay

Sr. Data Science Manager, Shopify

Keeshan Pillay

Dremio

Keeshan Pillay

Enterprise Lead, MEA, Dremio

Keeshan brings more than a decade of experience in the field of information technology and, with  extensive experience of working with Start-up’s, Mature Start-up’s and Public companies in enterprise computing across MEA, covering various vendors in the Data, Analytics and Security space. Keeshan joined Dremio to build the Middle East and Africa, and he will share how Dremio's platform can help organisations accelerate queries directly on the data lake for faster time to insight.

 

Keith Howard

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Keith Howard

CISO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Keith Howard was appointed Chief Information and Security Officer for Commonwealth Bank in 2019 where he leads the Cyber division for the Group (Including Commonwealth Bank and Bankwest), responsible for keeping the Group and its customer information safe and secure.

Prior to this appointment, Keith led large cross-functional teams delivering transformational change such as the successful SAP upgrade and previously led the Group’s Customer Engagement Platform delivering powerful customer experiences using machine learning.

Before joining Commonwealth Bank in 2015, Keith delivered technology transformation programmes and managed global teams across multiple industries including petroleum, transport and software, having lived in both the UK and Asia prior to moving to Australia.

Kelli Odell

Lyre's Spirit Co

Kelli Odell

National Sales Manager, Lyre's Spirit Co

Kelli Odell is the ANZ National Sales Manager for Lyre’s Spirit Co, joining the company in March 2020; when the brand was 8 months old in market. She has build a career in the drinks industry, working at Moet Hennessy Australia for 6 years in sales management. Working across premium drinks and the luxury goods world has strengthened her ability to understand customer needs, avenues to market and making your brand stand out. It’s this experience and passion that has allowed her to lead and grow the Lyre’s Australia team to be the leading non-alcoholic brand in ANZ.

Kelly Parkhurst

Absa Bank

Kelly Parkhurst

Head of Product Design & Innovation, Absa Bank

I am obsessed with strategic vision and implementation and have spent a 20 year career understanding the heart and mind of audiences, stakeholders and brands. In the process, this has grown market share, loyalty and driven the positive impact of the bottom line of a number of businesses.

My diverse skill set that encompasses strategy, innovation and execution was honed across a number of Industries including banks (FNB and now African Bank), institutions of Higher Learning (University of Johannesburg) and Oil and Gas (Sasol).

I have a knack for complex challenges, which has been honed over the years. In 2008, I was Head of Employee Engagement at FNB, which was the start of the credit crunch. I drove first-to- market interventions around employee engagement that contributed towards making FNB a forward-looking innovative bank. This resulted in winning two FNB Innovation Awards as well as South African awards for publications and internal communication and a number of International Pearl Awards for communication.

I am currently Head of Customer Experience at African Bank. A role that entails evolving a sales organisation into a customer centric business. It has allowed for the comprehensive application of Customer Experience best practice. In just over a year this focus and execution has guided African Bank from 4th to 1st in the highly respected SA-csi Customer Satisfaction Survey. This rating also awarded my work with the Service Contact Centre which was ranked best in the industry. This makes African Bank the country’s most loved bank of 2020.

Ken Mizota

Rapid7

Ken Mizota

Regional CTO, APAC, Rapid7

Ken has over 20 years of experience leading product development and consulting in information security and ITSM disciplines as a vendor, consultant and customer. He currently serves Rapid7 as regional CTO, Asia-Pacific. At Rapid7, Ken has led vulnerability management products and the platform services underlying the entire Rapid7 portfolio. Prior to Rapid7 he was a product leader in digital forensics and incident response where he drove development and technical partnerships for products adopted by every US federal agency, law enforcement globally and over half of the Fortune 100.

Kendra Vant

Xero

Kendra Vant

Executive GM Data, ML & AI, Xero

Kendra is an industry leader in building data-driven products by harnessing emerging artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to solve problems for businesses and industry globally.

Kendra has had a rich and varied career working in New Zealand, Australia, the US and Malaysia, leading data and technology teams at companies such as Seek, Telstra, Deloitte and now Xero. At Xero, she heads a globally distributed team of developers, machine learning specialists and data practitioners using emerging practices and technologies to make data work harder for small businesses and their advisors.  

After doctoral research in experimental quantum physics at MIT and postdoctoral work in applied quantum computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Kendra worked in bespoke software development. She then moved into generating business insights from data before focusing on applying machine learning to create personalised experiences in an increasingly connected and digital world. She gets her greatest satisfaction from leading teams to solve difficult problems that have a positive impact on the world.

Kerissa Varma

Old Mutual (South Africa)

Kerissa Varma

CISO, Old Mutual (South Africa)

Kevin Fleming

Craveable Brands

Kevin Fleming

General Manager IT, Craveable Brands

A technical and commercially astute hands on leader with a passion for customer experience, analytics and automation. Simplifying and transforming the technology landscape, achieving commercial outcomes. Uniquely blending leadership, technical skills, architecture and strategy; excelling in mid-sized organisations with a focus on innovation and contemporary styles of working.

Recent achievements:

  • Stabilised operations that create and record thousands of transactions across Craveable Brands 550 restaurants of Red Rooster, Oporto and Chicken Treat.
  • Ensuring each transaction is correctly recorded and logged for analysis. Adapt and updating system architecture to deliver reliability and scalability.
  • Revived failed Data and Analytics project by focussing on what is achievable and will deliver the best result sooner.
  • Delivered significant savings on Telstra contract.
  • Designed new system to protect revenue from changes in the franchisee legislation.
  • Progressed MovePlus start-up venture by prioritising features and developing systems architecture.

Kevin Tham

Avenue Bank

Kevin Tham

CISO, Avenue Bank

Kevin is an Information Security veteran, focused on non-intrusive security strategies and solutions for enterprises. With over 20 years of experience in the Information Security industry, Kevin began his career as a Security Researcher and academia in Queensland. His pivot into the private sector landed him as a Security Engineer, building bespoke security logging and monitoring solutions for a large global financial institution in the early 2000s. In more recent times, Kevin was the Head of Cyber Security in Qantas Loyalty, focusing on setting the Cyber Strategy, Loyalty Fraud Prevention Program, and also led the Infrastructure and End User Computing domains.

Kevin is always challenging status-quo and always encourages his teams to lean-forward and be true technologists by embracing new solutions or refactoring current solutions to improve the member and employee experience.

Khalid Alohali

Oracle

Khalid Alohali

Domain Specialist Manager: Cloud Engineering Data Management META, Oracle

Kheeran Dharmawardena

Kheeran Dharmawardena

Independent Data Architecture Expert,

Kheeran has over 2 decades of experience in delivery of many ICT services within the higher education and government sectors, including infrastructure delivery, service delivery, data management, IT & enterprise architecture and eresearch.  Kheeran takes a socio-technical approach to its engagements, looking at the social, organisational, and institutional aspects alongside the technical aspects that influence building data infrastructure and services.

Kheeran’s work include,

Khurram Waheed

Extrahop

Khurram Waheed

Principal Solution Architect, Extrahop

Khurram Waheed (KW) has been ExtraHop's Principal Sales Engineer for 5+ years; working across all customer verticals in Australia and New Zealand. KW has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry across the globe, working for vendors like Cisco Systems/US and Juniper Networks/EMEA. KW currently specializes in NDR (Network Detection and Response) and ITOA (IT Operations & Analytics) solutions, having architected them for large telcos, retail/casinos/universities/federal and state government customers. In his prior life, KW used to be an Enterprise and Service Provider solutions architect covering Data Center, MPLS, MetroEthernet, Mobile Packet cores as well as BNG technologies. KW holds a CCIE certification, and has a US patent in 'Detection of DoS attacks'.

Kira Leeb

Kira Leeb

Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria

Kira Leeb

Kira Leeb

(recently) Executive Director, Data, Surveillance & Intelligence (COVID Division), Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria

Prior to coming to VAHI Kira held several progressive positions within Canada, all related to health and system performance reporting. Kira began her career at the Canadian Institute for Health Information in 2000 where she was responsible for the production of serial and specialised reports on Canada’s healthcare system.
For the past 7 years Kira led CIHI’s health system performance reporting initiative that included strengthening pan-Canadian health system performance improvement efforts through data, indicator development and analysis. Kira also led the development of a country-wide acute care patient experience survey that is being implemented in multiple jurisdictions in Canada.
From 2006–2008, Kira was seconded to the Health Council of Canada where she supported the Council’s mandate to report on health care renewal.
Kira holds a MA in Psychology.

Kirat Khara

Lenovo

Kirat Khara

Head of eCommerce, Lenovo

Kirat is the Director of E-Commerce for Lenovo Australia and New Zealand. He is responsible for driving the Digital Demand Generation across multiple media platforms along with running the Lenovo E-Commerce website. Over the past decade, he has built e-commerce strategies and operating models across multiple industries along with driving innovation in the go-to-market strategy via an audience-first approach.

As a senior leader, his focus has been on driving unprecedented growth through relentless innovation and managing high-performance teams. Prior to joining Lenovo, Kirat led the Online business for Samsung Electronics where he was responsible to setting up the business ground up in Australia.

Based out of Sydney, he is passionate about building a consumer-first approach and occasionally speaks and writes about the why and how on the paradigm shift in digital E-Commerce.

Linked in : https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirat-khara-65506656/

Twitter : https://twitter.com/Kirat_Khara

 

Kirti Desai

The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ)

Kirti Desai

Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ)

Kirti Desai is a strategic and passionate leader with more than 18 years’ experience driving digital innovation and transformation across a series of businesses and sectors in New Zealand and the UK. A proven thought leader, Kirti operates at a strategic level to influence and form thinking on business development, customer experience, revenue diversification and transformation.

 

Previously leading Westpac NZ, Paymark, Quotable Value and now REINZ through their digital transformation, she has a passion for growth and believes that building a positive culture and nurturing a high-performance team is the best way to achieve business success.

Kris Gardiner

Linfox Logistics

Kris Gardiner

Head of Data and Analytics, Linfox Logistics

Kris is known as an expert in creating and managing highly functional teams that deliver and manage enterprise wide data solutions with a particular focus on the usability and adoption of the solution within an organisation.

Kris Lawson

Snowflake

Kris Lawson

Regional Director, Snowflake

Krishna Kasi

BNP Paribas APAC

Krishna Kasi

Vice President – Audit, BNP Paribas APAC

Krishna Kasi is an IT Security enthusiast, working as Vice President with BNP Paribas and has over 20+ years of professional experience in the ICT sector, primarily focusing on infrastructure, cyber security and governance, risk management and compliance (GRC). His professional capabilities span Enterprise risk management, Cyber security and enterprise architecture. Recognised as an “Architect of excellence” by Microsoft.

Throughout his career, Krishna has been well-regarded for his ability to dramatically improve operational efficiency and team productivity through the automation of manual processes. Leveraging an astute understanding of multiple departments and industries. He has achieved professional success in multiple countries, including Singapore, Japan, US and India, In addition to maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the Singapore, Hong Kong and Australian ICT and finance sectors. He loves to be on a constant learning path, whether it be trying a CTF(Capture The Flag) or learning emerging technologies. Currently, he is researching on blockchain security and IoT security.

Krista Bell

Beyond Bank

Krista Bell

Senior Manager Data Governance, Beyond Bank

Krista Bell specialises in Data Strategy, Data Governance and how to create data-enabled capabilities within organisations. She has worked across several industry sectors including the Financial; Resource; Telco and Member sector within Australia, UK and Europe. She also has a keen interest in data ethics within AI/ML and ESG considerations.

Kristie Fankhauser

Material Difference

Kristie Fankhauser

Founder and Managing Director, Material Difference

Kristie is a strategic marketer with over 25 years’ experience in marketing, business development, branding, bids and tenders and communication strategies.

Her expertise is in developing and implementing effective holistic marketing campaigns that drive business growth, client loyalty and staff engagement across a range of industry sectors, in particular professional services, non-profit and creative industries.

Kristie has developed all main components of marketing – from establishing the marketing function, building the brand, media and advertising campaigns, profiling raising programs (through sponsorships and strategic partnerships) to client relationship management programs.

Along the way, she has developed organisations’ internal capabilities (people and systems), to ensure marketing can be applied by everyone, not just a core few in a central group.

Recently, Kristie has founded an e-commerce business with a well-known Australian artist. As Managing Director of Material Difference, Kristie is responsible for supply chain, business operations and strategic partnerships, licencing agreements, marketing and creating a customer ecosystem. She is also Chief Marketing Officer for Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) – who offered a centralised tertiary admission for 17 institutions in Queensland. Managing stakeholders and customers this role ensures the B2B and the B2C strategies are always insync.

Kristie believes that no marketing, brand, communications or digital strategy can work or exist without a defined business strategy. She has previously worked with leadership teams to help articulate the vision, supported by measurable objectives that can be actioned across marketing, brand, clients and communications.

Degree qualified in law she is also focused on ensuring that any marketing and business development efforts improve a business’ financial position.

Kristiina Tiilas

Kemira

Kristiina Tiilas

Head of Data & Analytics, Kemira

Krystal Naidoo

The Heineken Company (South Africa)

Krystal Naidoo

Head: Data & Analytics, The Heineken Company (South Africa)

I am a Data & Analytics professional with 14+ years’ experience, where 7 years I have been managing Data & Analytics teams. I am responsible for building and executing the strategy for Data and Analytics.
Currently employed at Heineken reporting to the Digital Transformation Director. Responsible for building and executing the strategy for Data and Analytics in the OpCo. Core to this role is taking the organisation on an analytics journey, building and expanding on the Single Source of Truth and achieving of ambition of being data driven. Focus on delivery at a tactical and strategic level.

People leadership is key to any deliverable and I have a proven track record in building and supporting high performing teams.
Ability to work under pressure in fast-paced, time-sensitive environments.
Excellent analytical, forward thinking and problem solving skills. Proven ability to successfully manage multiple initiatives from planning through to implementation.

Functional responsibilities include: Data Engineering, Data Management, Business Intelligence and Data Science

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Kshira Saagar

Latitude Financial Services

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Kshira Saagar

Chief Data Officer, Latitude Financial Services

Kulani Likotsi

Standard Bank

Kulani Likotsi

Head of Data Management and Data Governance, Standard Bank

Specialties: Data Governance, Data Strategy, Data & Regulatory Compliance, Data Protection, Data Privacy, Information Risk management, Data Management, Records Management, Data Security, Data modeling, Data Architecture, Database Management
Technologies, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and Business Intelligence concepts (SSISS,SSRS,SSAS)and
technologies, Dimensional Modelling, Data Quality Services(DQS), Master Data Management (MDM), I2, Informatica, SAP

Kum Fei Poon

BigID

Kum Fei Poon

Solution Architect, BigID

An experienced solutions consultant with many years experience in industry across ASEAN and ANZ marketing specialising in Identity Management solutions, directory services, desktop management, data security, privacy and governance.

 

Laszlo Mucsi

The Data Storytellers

Laszlo Mucsi

Co-Founder & Community Leader, The Data Storytellers

Laura Lees

AWSN

Laura Lees

Sydney Co-Chapter Lead, AWSN

Laura has over 20 years experience in the technology, security and risk management industries with a focus on financial services. She is the Country Business Information Security Officer - Australia/New Zealand for a global Financial Services organisation and is responsible for all Information Security related matters in country.

Laura is also the current Vice President for the ISACA Sydney Chapter having served on the board for the past 3 years. In addition, Laura is the Sydney Co-Chapter lead at AWSN along with being a member of both the FAIR Institute and AISA Sydney chapter committees. Laura holds an MBA from MGSM and a Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science, along with industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM and SABSA.

Laura has been recognised via a number of industry awards including being listed 2nd on the IFSEC Global – Security & Fire Safety news “Top Influencers in Security & Fire” for 2021 – Security Executives category and the 2019 recipient of the Jo Stewart-Rattray award for Women in Leadership from ISACA International.

Laura Roxburgh

NTI

Laura Roxburgh

Lead Insights Analyst, NTI

Laura has 15 years’ experience in data analytics, predictive modelling and analytical consultancy in the UK and Australia across a range of industries including Financial Services, Aviation, Retail and Health.  Currently the Lead Insights Analyst at NTI; delivering actionable data led analytical solutions and insights by leveraging and discovering data opportunities.  Laura thrives on applying her efficiency and goal focussed mindset to solving data problems with optimal commercial and business gain.

Laura Temesi

Standard Chartered (Kenya)

Laura Temesi

Head: Cyber Partnerships & Communications, Standard Chartered (Kenya)

Lauren Heyndrickx

Ralph Lauren

Lauren Heyndrickx

VP, CISO, Ralph Lauren

Lawrence Crowther

Snyk

Lawrence Crowther

Head of Solutions Engineering APJ, Snyk

Lawrence leads the solutions engineering team for Snyk in Asia Pacific and Japan. He leads a team of technologists who help grow the overall APJ business and evangelise Snyk’s products and solutions across the region. Prior to Snyk, Lawrence was the senior director of solution architecture for Elastic’s APJ business and before that he spent 6 years at Pivotal Software in various leadership roles such as Head of Platform Architecture APJ for their Cloud Foundry product, started and ran the Pivotal Labs business in Australia and Field CTO. He has extensive experience in open source software, distributed systems and modern cloud native development. In Lawrence’s 20+ years experience he has worked with successful high growth software companies that have either IPO’d or have been acquired, so he knows what it takes to build a business at scale.

Lawrence Smith

Informatica

Lawrence Smith

Technical Channel Manager - Africa, Informatica

Lazola Ndamase

Absa Group

Lazola Ndamase

Head of Data Insights & MI, Absa Group

BI Evangelist with extensive experience in Business Intelligence, Data Management & Data-Warehousing.

Lee Fulmer

UBS

Lee Fulmer

Chief Data Officer & Global Head of Innovation Labs, UBS

Lee Sarkin

Re Munich

Lee Sarkin

Chief Analytics Officer, Re Munich

Lee has over 16 years of experience in actuarial, AI / data analytics, research and consulting roles at primary insurers, reinsurers and independent consulting. As a regional Chief Analytics Officer, Lee heads the regional AI-analytics team, located in Singapore, covering the Life & Health Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa business of Munich Re.

Lee’s team combines cutting edge AI/ML modelling with Munich Re’s deep domain knowledge and technology to develop AI-driven digital solutions that enhance insurers’ end customer experience and operational efficiency by transforming underwriting and claims processes. His Master’s degree, presented at the 2014 International Congress of Actuaries in Washington D.C., provided many South African insurers with the first credible South African research for underwriting HIV and applied advanced analytics methods to medical scheme and managed care data.

Lee is now completing a PhD in AI and advanced analytics, is a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Actuarial Society of South African where he chairs its Demography & Epidemiology committee.

Lee Whatford

Domino's Pizza UK & Ireland

Lee Whatford

CISO, Domino's Pizza UK & Ireland

Leith Higdon

Leith Higdon

Export Development Canada

Leith Higdon

Leith Higdon

Director, Customer Analytics, Export Development Canada

Leith Higdon is the Director, Customer Analytics with Export Development Canada (EDC). She has over 14 years of experience in the data & analytics world that spans provider, agency, and client side. Leith’s work covers quantitative & qualitative methodologies, advanced analytical modeling and data quality & governance for a variety of companies including several fortune 500 companies. Leith views her role as being a translator between the business and data & analytics teams and her passion is finding the story behind the numbers.

Leonard Ong

GE Healthcare

Leonard Ong

Senior Director, Regional Information Security Officer, APAC, GE Healthcare

Leonard Ong

GE Healthcare

Leonard Ong

Senior Director, Regional Information Security Officer, Intercontinental & China, GE Healthcare

Leonard has over 20 years of experience in Information, Cyber and Corporate Security gained in telecommunication, enterprise, banking, pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical technology sectors. He is the Regional Information Security Officer, Intercontinental & China for GE Healthcare. Prior to that, he was the Group Chief Information Security Officer for a leading vertically integrated healthcare platform in the Asia Pacific. He led Governance, Risk Management, Compliance (GRC) service for Asia Pacific region in MSD International (also known as Merck & Co., Inc.).

In his earlier career, He was with Barclays Capital as the Head of Global Information Security Risk & Operation, Asia pacific. Leonard is passionate on volunteering with several International and Singapore-based security associations since 2003. His longest service is with ISACA Singapore Chapter where he has been elected as Chapter President for two consecutive terms.

Leonard has also served ASIS International Chapter as Honorary Chairman for 3 years. He is still serving in ASIS International as Community Vice President. Leading information security associations, such as (ISC)2 and ASIS International, have recognised his contributions. He was awarded Information Security Leadership Achievement (ISLA) in Senior Information Security Professional category in 2011and Professional Certification Board (PCB) Regional Award in 2014.National Infocomm Competency Centre (NICC) has awarded Leonard with 'IT Specialist of the Year' in 2005. He was instrumental in achieving K. Wayne Snipes 2013 award for ISACA Singapore Chapter being the best very large chapter in Asia with over 2,500 professional members.

International Data Group (IDG) and CEO | CIO Club recognised Leonard with CSO ASEAN Honoree award in 2015 and as ASEAN CSO30 in 2021.Following that, in 2016, He was presented with ISACA’s Paul Williams Award for Inspirational Leadership. Leonard was successfully selected as Finalist in the inaugural AISP-CSA Cybersecurity Award 2018 in senior leaders’ category. In July 2020, Leonard will be inducted into ISACA Hall of Fame. The designation recognises members who have shown exemplary dedication to advancing ISACA’s purpose through volunteer service, member engagement and other activities. 

Leonard holds Master of Computing from National University of Singapore (NUS)and is a Fellow with Singapore Computer Society.

Leonardo Araujo

DELL Technologies

Leonardo Araujo

Latin America Consulting Senior Director, DELL Technologies



 

Leslie McCrory

Aldi

Leslie McCrory

Global Director, Customer Insights, Aldi

Liliana Becerril Ovalle

Grupo Bimbo

Liliana Becerril Ovalle

Shared Services Global VP, Grupo Bimbo

Professional with over 20 years of experience with career developed in Shared Services, Controllership, Financial Reporting and Project Leading in World Class Telecom and CPG´s Transnational Companies, performing International Projects in over 10 countries plus Expatriate Experience.

In my current role as Global VP, I have the responsibility and commitment to continuously assess the GBS Organization to create strategy and drive the evolution to build out and enhance work streams geared toward operational efficiency and automation of deliverables used during the business life-cycle. Partner with internal organizations at all levels to support operational objectives and ensure financial results by providing First Class Services in a solid Control Environment. Continue the development of skills for high performing teams with focus on operational discipline and enhancing the customer and Collaborators experience.

I have built, developed and collaborated with multiple Project and Work multicultural and multidisciplinary successful Teams. Building Interpersonal relationships and creating solid and extended Networking in and out of the Organization is a must in my day to day.

I am active in Diversity and Inclusion topics; I´ve been part of D&I Committees in some of the organizations I´ve collaborated with.

My first passion is my family! I also enjoy Musicals, bowling and I would be very excited if at some point I could become a theatre makeup artist or props builder.
 
 

Lily Clarke

SAS Australia & New Zealand

Lily Clarke

Customer Advisory Lead for Health and Life Sciences, and Government, SAS Australia & New Zealand

Lily Liu

Western Health

Lily Liu

Director, Digital Health, Western Health

Lim Thian Chin

Cyber Security Agency of Singapore

Lim Thian Chin

Director (CII Division), Cyber Security Agency of Singapore

Thian Chin is leading the Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) Division at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). The division is responsible for building the cyber resilience of the Nation’s essential services across 11 CII sectors covering government, utilities, transport and services clusters. His team works with sectoral regulators to strengthen the cyber resilience of CII owners, to promote confidence-building measures and to deepen the public-private partnership between the government and CII stakeholders. Thian Chin also represents Singapore in International and regional cybersecurity forums where he shares his knowledge on cybersecurity resiliency and capability building.

Thian Chin has over 19 years of experience in Information & Technology governance, risk management, resilience and compliance, and Operational Technology cybersecurity. Prior to joining CSA in August 2015, he was responsible for the regional Technology Governance function in United Overseas Bank. He also led the Technology Risk function in GIC from 2008 – 2013. In his earlier years, he was a Manager and had led a team of auditors in Information Technology in Ernst & Young.

Thian Chin holds an Executive Master’s (Cybersecurity) from Brown University, a bachelor’s degree (Computer Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University and is an alumnus of the George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He is a certified GICSP, CGEIT, CDPSE, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, CISA, and SABSA practitioner.

 

Linda Zhang

Deustche Bank

Linda Zhang

Director, Head of Data, Corporate Bank Technology, Deustche Bank

Lisa Marchant

NAB

Lisa Marchant

Head of Communications Transformation, NAB

Liz Macpherson

Office of the Privacy Commissioner | Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu

Liz Macpherson

Acting Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner | Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu

Liz MacPherson is the Deputy Privacy Commissioner and responsible for the policy, compliance, investigations and dispute resolution functions of the OPC.  Liz joined the Office in April 2020 and has had a distinguished career of public service.  Liz has held a number of Deputy Chief Executive roles before being appointed to the position of Government Statistician. In addition to her wide and extensive leadership, management, policy, operations and regulatory experience, Liz has previously worked together with the Privacy Commissioner on a number of projects over the years. As a previous Government Statistician and Government Chief Data Steward, Liz understands the value and importance of privacy, and its role in maintaining trust.

Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen

Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen

GRUNDFOS

Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen

Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen

Lead Data Architect in AI Solutions, GRUNDFOS

I have previously worked as a researcher at Yale University investigating and analysing data from the research organization CERN. My tasks at CERN included: triggers to filter for relevant data to store, data quality and data analysis. In these tasks I have used different analysis strategies and ML/AI methods to achieve the desired results. I spent more than 10 years of working with the dataset from CERN - one of the largest in the world. Through which, I learned what is important to succeed in an end-to-end IOT/AI pipeline.

Two years ago I switched from my career in academia to a job at Grundfos. I wanted to apply my knowledge in an area that can help solve climate issues. At Grundfos I have contributed to the digitalization transformation by creating guidelines for data pipelines, data quality and data architecture

Louis DiModugno

HSB – a MunichRe Company

Louis DiModugno

Chief Data and Technology Officer, HSB – a MunichRe Company

Louis is the Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Technology Officer at HSB, a MunichRe Company (formally Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance). He also is a retired USAFR Colonel, as well as a General Electric-Trained, Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Quality Leader and a Department of Defense-Trained Lean Sensei.

His previous roles have ranged from creating and deploying data & analytics programs at Fortune 50 Global companies with broad financial services industry and consulting experience in the United States and internationally. His disciplines extend across business strategy, line operations, technology management and data strategy. Additionally, he has implemented process design/re-engineering/digitization programs for financial service/insurance companies as well as government/military programs.

His educational background includes a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma, a B.S. in MIS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completion of the USAF Air War College leadership curriculum.

Louisa Somers

Genesis

Louisa Somers

VP, Enterprise Security, Genesis

Louise Coetzee

Wesbank

Louise Coetzee

Head: Fraud Analytics, Wesbank

Loumi Hakim

Oracle

Loumi Hakim

Product Manager: Database Security, Oracle

Lucas Damien Mirabella

Weta Digital

Lucas Damien Mirabella

CISO, Weta Digital

Highly qualified Information Security and Risk Management Professional. Currently working as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Weta Digital, the most important Visual Effect company in the Film Industry. Their portfolio includes Game of Thrones, Avatar, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Avengers Endgame, Planet of the Apes, The Hobbit, and more than 100 movies).

Previously worked in the New Zealand All of Government Information Security Architect at Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) for the Government Chief Digital Office (GCDO) and also as Information and Communications Technology Security Architect in the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

Can-do attitude and results-oriented with a flair for project management and problem-solving. Strengths include SABSA, TOGAF, CRISM, ISO27001, PCI-DSS, ISAE3402, MPA-TPN (Trusted Partner Network), NZISM, PSR, AU-ISM, GDPR and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX).

Strong experience in as-a-service models including DaaS / PaaS / TaaS / MaaS / SaaS and participated in complex commercial and government cloud environments within Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.

Over 15 years of experience in different roles in the Information Security field for several globally important companies such as Weta Digital, DIA, GCDO, MBIE, Spark (Formerly Telecom New Zealand), Victoria University, General Electric Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Philip Morris Corporation, Argentine Telecom Group (France Telecom Affiliate), amongst others.

Advanced and strong technical knowledge, Bachelor in Security with two specialisations in "Bank Security" and "Criminalistics and Criminology", International Certifications and ongoing continuous improvement.

Real passion and interest in the field of IT Security, Assurance and Risk Management. Have published two books on Information Security and Cyberterrorism.

Lucas González Day

Le Wagon

Lucas González Day

Head of Data Business Development - LatAm SSC, Le Wagon

Lucas Gonzalez Day es un ejecutivo con 4 años de experiencia en el área de ciencia de datos, desarrollando equipos de BI y Data Science en una industria no digital como es la del petróleo y gas. Actualmente se desempeña como Teacher en los bootcamps de Data Science de Le Wagon y Jefe de Data Analytics en YPF. Realizó 10 publicaciones, 5 de las cuales tienen foco en el desarrollo de una cultura data-driven y en la adopción de la ciencia de datos para mejorar los resultados operativos del negocio. Ingeniero en Petróleo del ITBA, con un Executive MBA del IAE Business School, tiene otros 7 años de experiencia como ingeniero analista de datos en la industria del petróleo, y un perfil emprendedor e intrapreneur para impulsar cambios en las organizaciones en las que se desempeña. 



 

Lucia Arando

Naranja X

Lucia Arando

Data Management Manager, Naranja X

After 10 years of experience in Software Development Engineering, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and immerse in the rising Data Management field.
Currently I lead the Data Management team at Naranja as part of the Center of expertise Big Data & Advanced Analytics, innovating a data leadership framework so as to get the most of their data assets and democratize its access to the whole company.

 

Lukas Jan Stroemsdoerfer

Mercedes-Benz (Germany)

Lukas Jan Stroemsdoerfer

AnalyticsOps Lead, Mercedes-Benz (Germany)

Lukas is a Data Scientist and DevOps Lead at Mercedes-Benz AG. With his passion for Open Source development and Analytics, he is building sustainable Data & Analytics products.

Luke Coley

Dataminr

Luke Coley

Senior Director, Sales APAC, Dataminr

Luke has a great depth of knowledge spanning corporate security, analytics, identity management, cyber security and AI. He is an energetic and outcomes-focused business leader with strong commercial acumen. He takes great pride in working with organisations to provide teams the tools required to capture a holistic view of their threat landscape - enabling better protection of people, assets, technology, brand and reputation. Luke has held senior positions at Mimecast, Lexer, Gigya and Experian and most presently as Senior Director APAC for Dataminr, where he spearheads ongoing expansion efforts in emerging markets.

Luke Dicken

Zynga

Luke Dicken

Director, Applied AI, Zynga

Dr. Luke Dicken is Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence at Zynga Inc where he leads a team driving innovation at the intersection of AI, Analytics, Game Development and Computational Creativity. Luke’s long term passion lies in using AI and data-centric tools to empower game creators to provide engaging and immersive experiences and democratise game development through technology. He was named as one of Develop magazine’s “30 Under 30” for 2013, and was listed as the #1 most influential person in Game Analytics in 2018, but hasn’t found a subtle way to work either of these into a bio.

Luke Morris

Capgemini

Luke Morris

Senior Director, Intelligent Operations and Sustainability, Capgemini

Luke is a Senior Director within the Invent team in Capgemini Australia leading the Supply Chain Invent practice, part of Intelligent Industry. He is a supply chain professional with 15+ years industry experience in supply chain planning, operations and transformation. Luke is passionate about helping organisations modernise their supply chains for a sustainable future through the integration of market leading technology, automation and industry best practice.

 

Mabu Manaileng

Standard Bank (South Africa)

Mabu Manaileng

Lead Data Scientist, Standard Bank (South Africa)

Mackenzie Muir

Allianz

Mackenzie Muir

CISO, Allianz

Magdalena Avanesian

TheTechLawyer

Magdalena Avanesian

Legal Counsel & Privacy Officer, TheTechLawyer

Magna Fernandes

Thoughtworks

Magna Fernandes

Data and AI Strategist, Thoughtworks

Magna é especialista em dados e IA, com mais de 17 anos de experiência em entrega de softwares e desenvolvimento de estratégias de dados para indústrias como companhias aéreas, construção civil, serviços financeiros e outras.
Em 2019 se juntou à Thoughtworks e desde então vem atuando junto a clientes globais, apoiando o uso de tecnologias emergentes para desbloqueio de valor e escalabilidade de suas operações.









Mai AlOwaish

Gulf Bank (Kuwait)

Mai AlOwaish

Chief Data Officer, Gulf Bank (Kuwait)

Maija Hovila

KONE

Maija Hovila

Chief Analytics Officer, KONE

Maija is the Chief Analytics Officer at KONE, the global leader in the elevator and escalator industry and provider of innovative digital and People Flow® solutions. She leads analytics capability development across KONE to drive the utilization of data for even better performance.
Maija has extensive international experience in the areas of data, analytics and strategy across consulting, start-ups and large multinationals in both B2C and B2B sectors. She holds M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics, strategy and international business and MBA from the University of Cambridge.
In her spare time, Maija is an avid athlete and has represented Finland in the World Championships in Ironman triathlon and cycling and in the Youth Olympics in alpine skiing.

Maiwand Youssofzay

Abnormal Security

Maiwand Youssofzay

Country Manager, ASEAN, Abnormal Security

Maiwand Youssofzay is the ASEAN Country Manager at Abnormal Security and an expert in email security having worked in the sector since 2011.

Starting his career with MessageLabs, Maiwand proved to be a highly driven and successful sales leader, working closely with customers across the region to resolve their email security challenges. Most recently he was the Country Manager for South Asia and Korea at Proofpoint.

In 2022 Maiwand launched Abnormal Security in ASEAN.

Mandy Turner

The University of Queensland

Mandy Turner

Senior Manager Cyber Security Operations Centre, The University of Queensland

Mandy Turner is a cybercrime specialist with an interest in the mechanisms and mitigation of cybercrime. She is a firm believer that diversity in all its forms should be encouraged to promote innovation and find solutions to challenges facing the world. She has won multiple InfoSec industry awards, and in 2019 she was in the first cohort to be named a Fellow of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA). Mandy is an Adjunct lecturer in Criminology, presents on cybercrime at cyber security conferences, writes books on the subject, and in 2018 she founded Demystify Cyber, established to help people stay safer from cybercrime.

Manisha Keyal

AIA Health Services Sdn Bhd.

Manisha Keyal

General Manager, AIA Health Services Sdn Bhd.

Manohar Esarapu

City of Port Phillip

Manohar Esarapu

Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Digital and Technology Services, City of Port Phillip

Manohar Esarapu, currently Chief Information and Innovation Officer at City of Port Phillip and Honorary Fellow at the Deakins Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute. He is at the fore front of leading technology lead innovation and driving digital transformation initiates. He was leading the corporate venture program D.N.A at Bosch working with deep-tech start-ups. He has delivered large scale transformation programs with new business models. In the recent past he is working on cross section of topics embedding IOT, AI and 5G.

 

 

Marcelo Manzano

Tableau Software

Marcelo Manzano

System Consultant, Tableau Software

Formado em Engenharia Eletrônica e Ciências da Computação, com MBA Internacional em gestão estratégica de TI pela FGV, Arquiteto de Solução Tableau com mais de 20 anos de experiência no mercado de “Analytics”. Atuou em empresas como Oracle, Informatica, Telefonica, Claro, Hospital das Clinicas, Sabesp, ADP, Serpro, Banco do Brasil, HP, entre outras. Coordenador e Professor de MBA - Big Data da FIAP. Especialista em Ciência de dados, Big Data, Machine Learning, AI e IoT.





Marcelo Sousa

iti Itaú

Marcelo Sousa

Head of Data & CRM, iti Itaú

Using data and technology to help businesses overcome their challenges.
Worked on digital transformation projects, managed a credit and debit card portfolio, and served as the account manager for a large corporate client.
Years of work in a large financial institution, made me developed an in-depth knowledge of banking, payments technologies, e-commerce, and retail industries.

 

 



 

Marco Figueroa

Australian Institute of Company Directors

Marco Figueroa

Senior Manager, Cyber Security Risk & Compliance, Australian Institute of Company Directors

Marco Figueroa is a recognised industry practitioner with extensive senior leadership, cyber security, and engineering experience in government, ASX fast-moving consumer goods with international operations in Asia Pacific, private and not for profit organisations managing information security and technology risk. As a senior executive, Figueroa operates with an agile and high performing mindset set to achieving strategic and tactical outcomes by inspiring, empowering and supporting people whilst encouraging collaboration and information sharing.

Figueroa’s objective is to provide strategic and tactical information security and technology risk thinking by engineering sustainable risk and security services that deliver defined levels of risk at defined cost.

Figueroa has built strong industry reputation for leading security teams and delivering solutions at scale, particularly in organisations undertaking digital transformation programs by developing, implementing, and accelerating the speed of seamless security, resilient, and reliable systems through innovation, best practice, leadership, and end state vision.

Marcos Roberto da Silva

Banco Carrefour

Marcos Roberto da Silva

Superintendente de TI - Head of Data Management, Banco Carrefour

Marcos Roberto, há 14 anos no Banco Carrefour, dirigiu as estruturas operacionais de Tangíveis, Prevenção a Fraudes, Mesa de Crédito, BACKOFFICE e Ouvidoria por 8 anos e, em paralelo, foi um dos responsáveis pela Consolidação do Portfólio de Clientes numa única Processadora. Em 2016 retornou à Área de Tecnologia, onde liderou diversas iniciativas, lançamentos de novos produtos e funcionalidades relacionadas à Transformação Digital.
Nos últimos 2 anos, vem promovendo mudanças nas Áreas de Arquitetura, Engenharia e Governança de Dados, reportando-se ao CDO e contribuindo para a criação da cultura de orientação a dados.
Formado em Matemática com especialização em Análise de Sistemas e pós-graduado em Sistemas de Informação pela Fundação Santo André, possui MBA em Gestão de Negócios no IBMEC-SP, MBA em Tecnologia para Negócios: AI, DATA SCIENCE E BIG DATA pela PUC-RS e MBA Executivo pela Fundação Dom Cabral.




 

Marcus Or

crypto.com

Marcus Or

Manager: Technology Risk & Compliance, crypto.com

Marcus Tan Cheng Lin

Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) A*STAR

Marcus Tan Cheng Lin

Head of Cybersecurity Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) A*STAR

Mr Marcus Tan is the Head of the Cybersecurity department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore.  He leads the department in the research and development of various aspects within the cybersecurity domain.

After graduating from NUS with a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Master of Engineering, he started his career at the Centre for Wireless Communications.  In his 30 years of professional career, he has assumed various leading technical roles in Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Siemens R&D and EurekaPlus, prior to joining I2R.

Mr Marcus Tan has attained the certifications of CISSP, CCSP, CISA in the cybersecurity domain and PMP for project management.

Marcus Tu

Singapore Post

Marcus Tu

Head of Cybersecurity, Singapore Post

Marcus Tu is the Head of Cybersecurity for SingPost Group. In this role, Marcus is responsible for the Group Cybersecurity strategy, Cybersecurity Operation, Incident Response, Security Engineering and Cybersecurity Risk and Compliance for Singapore Post Group of Companies, working closely with executives at all levels and across business units and subsidiaries of the organization. Marcus has over 25 years of experience in managing IT Operation, Infrastructure Service Delivery and Information Security in Asia Pacific region.

Marcus holds a Master of Business (Information Technology) from RMIT University, Australia. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP); Certified Project Management Professional (PMP); Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA); Certified Information Security Manager (CISM); Business Continuity Certified Specialist (BCCS); and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).

Marcus Yin

Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (Singapore)

Marcus Yin

Agency CISO, Information Technology Division, Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (Singapore)

Marcus Dillion Yin is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Corrupt Practices
Investigation Bureau (CPIB), a government agency in Singapore. He is responsible for overseeing
the agency's cybersecurity program on a strategic level, along with guidance to ensure the agency
is resilient against cyber threats.

Marcus brings 20 years of experience in the field of information security. His diverse experience
spans various industries such as Défense, Homeland Security, Petrochemicals, Transport and
Government, focusing on securing Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT).
Prior to CPIB, Marcus was the cluster lead for the Transport Critical Information Infrastructure (CII)
cluster at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). He was responsible for providing
oversight on the cyber resilience of all IT and OT transport (i.e., aviation, maritime and land
transport) CIIs in Singapore. Earlier in his career, Marcus was head-hunted as part of regional
portfolio leadership in several multi-national corporations (MNC), focusing on securing OT
infrastructure and platforms.

A prolific contributor to the industry, Marcus was an affiliated faculty member for the Executive
Risk Management programme at Singapore Management University Academy, a Global
Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Advisory Board Member and an ISA99 standards
committee member. He was also part of the subject matter expert panel to review the ISACA's
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) 7th Edition Review Manual and
ISACA's Whitepaper: 5G Security Addressing Risk and Threats of Mobile Network Technologies.
He has since published several papers at the New Challenges of Aerospace Technology and
Maintenance Conference (NCATMC).

Marcus holds a Master of Science in Computer Control & Automation from the School of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He also holds the
following related credentials and certificates: GICSP, GCIH, ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Expert,
CISSP, CCSP, SSCP, CRISC, CISM, CGEIT, CISA, RIMS-CRMP, PMP, PMI-RMP, Certified
COBIT 2019, CQI & IRCA Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System
(ISMS) Lead Auditor and Certified ISO/IEC 22301 BCMS Lead Auditor.

Marek Rucinski

Australian Taxation Office

Marek Rucinski

Deputy Commissioner - Head of Smarter Data Program, Australian Taxation Office

Marene Allison

Johnson & Johnson (USA)

Marene Allison

CISO, Johnson & Johnson (USA)

Maria Dang

University of Sydney

Maria Dang

Senior Data Engineer, University of Sydney

Maria has been working for the University of Sydney for over twenty years in the data management space. Her leadership at the university has been instrumental in the university staying abreast of the emerging trends in data management and allows them to be at the forefront of technology, providing an exceptional student experience allowing them to view their most up to date data in student portals.

 

Mariana Abreu

Discovery, Inc

Mariana Abreu

Director of Insights & Analytics, Discovery, Inc

Mariana is responsible for Insights and Analytics at Discovery Brasil, providing data-driven strategies and opportunities to guide the company through video consumption formats' transition. 

With over eight years in the Music Business, Mariana was part of the industry transition from physical to digital sales, creating innovative solutions at a new business environment. 

Mariana is a pioneer in the Brazilian music market combining consumption data to define accurate sales and marketing strategies. 

Responsible for building and expanding a data-driven culture she developed intuitive dashboards translating analysis to a clear storytelling, assuring that a feeling-based industry could also use data in its favor. 

 

 



 

Marianna Kekana

VAT IT

Marianna Kekana

Head of Data & Business Intelligence, VAT IT

I have strong communication skills; I am very passionate, active and always willing to go an extra mile to learn new range of things in building experience in my field of work. I can work individually and in a team which has taught me patience, tolerance and listening skills.

Marie Lauri

Marie Lauri

Deutsche Bank

Marie Lauri

Marie Lauri

Head of Data Risks and Controls & Regional Data Officer, Deutsche Bank

Mario Cuniberti

Oracle

Mario Cuniberti

Head of Technology and Transformation, Oracle

Mario Cuniberti se desempeña en la actualidad como “Head of Technology and Transformation” para Oracle Multi Country Region, reportando al SVP de la Región y brindando soporte a las principales empresas del sector privado y público de este territorio. Sus principales responsabilidades son: liderar los negocios estratégicos de la región armando los equipos de trabajo y asegurando la visión integral de la propuesta de valor de Oracle; asesorar al SVP de la Región en todos los temas de tecnología de Oracle; y ser un evangelizador de las soluciones de Oracle con los clientes y en el mercado en general.

En su rol previo como Director de Arquitectura, Mario lideró un equipo de arquitectos de solución especializados en temas de Tecnología, y Aplicaciones con foco en soluciones cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Durante dos años encabezó el equipo de Arquitectura y Preventas de Analytics y Big Data para América Latina, liderando a más de 20 consultores especializados en el portafolio de productos de Analytics y Big Data de Oracle.

Mario ingresó a Oracle en octubre de 2010 como Director de Arquitectura y Preventas, siendo responsable de definir y ejecutar los procesos de generación de valor (demos, POCs, buz case, etc) y arquitectura de cara a los principales clientes, proporcionando orientación y conocimientos especializados en la aplicación de las soluciones de Oracle según las necesidades de negocio del cliente.

Previo a trabajar en Oracle, Mario se desempeñó como Socio en Deloitte Argentina para la línea de negocio de Consultoría de Enterprise Applications.

Anteriormente, trabajó en SAP durante 12 años como director para la Región Sur de la línea de negocios de Servicios Profesionales (Consultoría y Educación), liderando un equipo de más de 200 profesionales en Argentina y Chile. Durante este período fue responsable tanto de la venta como del delivery de los servicios de consultoría, participando del seguimiento y ejecución de los principales proyectos en la región (comités de dirección).

Al comienzo de su carrera profesional, Mario trabajó en Unión Fenosa (España), implementando Sistemas de Gestión Comercial para Utilities y luego pasando a la práctica de SAP. Durante este período desarrolló una experiencia internacional que le permitió vivir en España, Venezuela, Chile, Brasil e Italia.

Mario es Licenciado en Sistemas, egresado del Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas (CAECE), y luego cursó un Executive MBA en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. También realizó entrenamientos ejecutivos en IAE Business School (Argentina), IESE Business School (España) y Universidad de Michigan (Estados Unidos).



 

Mario Schlener

EY

Mario Schlener

Lead of Financial Services Risk Practice and Global FS Risk Technology/Alliance/Innovation Lead, EY

Mario is the Canadian leader of EY’s Financial Services Risk Management Practice since October 2017. He is leading several Global EY asset developments using ML/AI applications and solutions for risk management (i.e. credit-, market- ccr- liquidity risk models), AML/Fraud/Cyber (i.e. TM models, CRR models, Sanctions, fraud, cyber/resiliency models) and Compliance (i.e. trade surveillance models).  

He brings over 22 years of experience in risk and capital markets modeling and quantitative risk management (i.e. 10 years at Erste Group in the Fixed Income Product Structuring and Corporate Finance departments in Vienna and New York and 10 years in Advisory as Partner for Deloitte in Germany/Austria and Navigant Capital Markets Advisors in London). During 2009-2013 he was leading several large litigation cases (i.e. Lehman OTC closeouts, Structured Credit closeouts). Mario focuses primarily on the development and validation of risk and pricing models (incl. deep learning) for market, credit, liquidity, counterparty credit, operational risk, and for the FinCrime space. Additionally, Mario has a key role in developing ongoing thought leadership thinking approaches, especially for the risk domain.  

 

Marius Poskus

Dominos Pizza

Marius Poskus

IT Solutions Operations Analyst, Dominos Pizza

Mark Albert

Ogilvy

Mark Albert

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Ogilvy

As Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Ogilvy, Mark works closely with clients to create, manage and deliver data-driven communications and customer experiences.  Having previously been Head of Data Consult at Velocity Frequent Flyer and a Founding Partner in Torque Data, Mark has spent the last 20 years working closely with leading Australian brands to leverage data assets for marketing purposes.  He's a firm believer in the commercial and internal benefits that can be derived from embedding a positive data culture in an organisation.

Mark Jones

Medibank

Mark Jones

Deputy CISO, Medibank

Mark is a passionate professional and advocate for security with more than 20 years of experience across information and cyber security in the key disciplines of governance, risk, compliance and audit, engaging and presenting at board and executive levels. Having identified industry gaps and growing demands for security capabilities, particularly for strategy, projects, management, frameworks, awareness, GRC and audit (such as ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, ISM, SOC, SOX). In 2014, Mark established his first of two security consulting start-ups, the latter having been acquired in 2019 by a highly regarded US firm.
Throughout his career, Mark has extensively consulted and successfully delivered cyber security services and solutions within diverse sectors including finance, government, critical infrastructure, education and commercial throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, UK and North America. Mark is an active industry speaker and panellist at conferences and events, and seeks to advance the understanding of cyber security through accessible and meaningful language for everyone.

Mark Marshalek

Farmers New World Life Insurance

Mark Marshalek

Head of Data Governance, Farmers New World Life Insurance

Mark Rees

Xero

Mark Rees

Chief Technology Officer, Xero

Mark Rees is responsible for Xero’s global technology strategy and direction. 

At the centre of Mark’s role is enabling Xero’s platform for innovation, growth and operational excellence with the support of world-class talent across Xero’s platform, security, data, engineering and architecture teams.

In his time at Xero, Mark has been a key part of driving some significant achievements at the company; not least of which is the scaling of Xero itself; from a startup to a global tech company. This scaling has been relentless — from 10 teams to 14, then 22, 36, 60, and now over 100.

Prior to joining Xero, Mark was Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft New Zealand and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Trade Me. He was also a research fellow at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Mark Tan

Tokio Marine Insurance Group (Singapore)

Mark Tan

Head of Information Security, Tokio Marine Insurance Group (Singapore)

Mark has over 20 years of information security experience with regional responsibilities, delivering security services to global multinationals operating across Asia, primarily in outsourcing and shared services environment. Skilled in Service Delivery, ISO 27001, ITIL, Vulnerability Management, and Vulnerability Assessment.

He is currently the Head of Information Security at Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore, and was previously with Orange Business Services, CIMB, CSC, and TruSecure.

 

Mark Wilson

Handelsbanken

Mark Wilson

Data Governance Lead, Handelsbanken

Mark Woodward

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

Mark Woodward

Director, Data Strategy, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

Markus Lin

Loan Market Group

Markus Lin

Analytics & Insights Manager, Loan Market Group

Markus has 10 years of experience in analytics, experience in managing end-to-end analytics capability for FCMG, Retail, Mining, Higher Education, and Facilities Management. He is a passionate and experienced Analytics Leader with specialist knowledge in data and analytics. He champions influence and leads teams, bringing data, analytics to businesses, to accelerate business digital product performance and customer experience. Markus heads up the Analytics & Insights team at Loan Market Group, and leads the transformation of business needs into actionable insights, and works with the executive team to streamline the capability with the aim to create a self-service analytics ecosystem for Loan Market Group.

Marlon Nair AF

Marlon Nair

Alexander Forbes

Marlon Nair AF

Marlon Nair

Head: IAM, Alexander Forbes

Marlon P. Sorongon

Maybank (Philippines)

Marlon P. Sorongon

CISO, Maybank (Philippines)

Marlon has 20+ years of overall extensive experience in Information Technology specialising in Server and Network Infrastructure, Information Security and Cyber security. Work with several industries and has manage and implement multiple technology and cyber security projects. He is an advocate of Cyber security education and as a former professor in a university still had a passion for teaching and mentoring.

Marlon believes success is a result of your hard work and your ability to rise when you fall. Believe in yourself and when no one else does.

Martin Bolfeta

Neovici

Martin Bolfeta

Managing Director, Neovici

Martin Bolfeta is a professional with more than 28 years performing as a C-level executive within the IT,AI and Telco Transformation Edge Technologies in Industries like Telecom, Retail, ICT (Information and Communications Technology) among others. His responsibilities throughout his career included (among others): Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Software, BSS/OSS, IoT, Strategy and Consulting, Services, Network technology, Wireless & Wireline, leading implementation and delivery of several complex projects (SW, IT and Tech infrastructure) with a focus on profit and growing long-term business. All of these while leading teams of talented and high-performing people.

Martin has had experience as an active member in executive boards across leading international companies like Accenture, Amdocs, Emerson, Ericsson, and Huawei. He has a proven track record of managing large P&L’s delivering growth YoY.

He is currently the Latam Managing Director at Neovici, a Swedish company dedicated to Intelligent Process Automation. His responsibilities include leading the business origination in Mexico and Latam and managing the P&L of the company.

Martin is passionate about leadership, consulting, innovation, and business origination. He believes in multiculturality, continues learning and diversity among the workforce and values it greatly, as proven in the composition of his previous teams.
 
 

Martin Knell

Goodstart Early Learning

Martin Knell

Head of Data & Analytics, Goodstart Early Learning

Martin is part of the Executive Leadership Team at Goodstart Early Learning, Australia’s largest childcare provider with 670 centres. His focus is on strategy, business transformation, and the use of data and analytics to improve outcomes for children, family experience and business performance.

Prior to Goodstart, Martin has worked for Virgin Australia, Lufthansa Airlines, and as a Management Consultant for Oliver Wyman. He holds qualifications in Aeronautical Engineering (RWTH Aachen), Management (CDI Paris) and Data Science (Harvard).

Martin McManus

Kennards Hire

Martin McManus

General Manager IT, Kennards Hire

Masum Billah

Tuwharetoa Health

Masum Billah

Head of Data Science, Tuwharetoa Health

After completing his Bachelor of Data Science at Massey University, Masum worked for companies throughout New Zealand and Australia. These companies varied in both size and sector as much as the jobs themselves did. Masum loves Data and is very passionate about helping businesses through Data driven decisions.

With over nine years of “Development and Data Science” experience behind him, he settled in the idyllic town of Taupō just over a year ago, where he led a Data Science team in a health organisation. He also entertains a couple of startups here in Aotearoa and overseas.

When unable to get away for the weekend he enjoys fishing, archery, videography, and volunteering for local organisations.

Matt Aubusson

QANTAS Loyalty

Matt Aubusson

Head of Data Commercialisation & Value Optimisation, QANTAS Loyalty

Matt Aubusson is Head of Data Commercialisation & Value Optimisation for QANTAS Loyalty. With over 15 years’ experience in data, analytics and technology, Matt leads a multi-disciplinary function that includes machine learning, personalisation, experimentation, digital effectiveness and measurement, product development and data commercialisation.

Matt Berry

Abnormal Security

Matt Berry

Senior Pre-Sales Engineer, Abnormal Security

Matt Berry is a senior pre-sales engineer at Abnormal Security and specialist in security and networking. Matt's 20+ years in IT cover both pre- and post-sales roles across leading IT vendors, service providers, and customers.

Prior to his role at Abnormal Security, Matt was working with customers across Asia Pacific on their cloud security & SASE requirements at Palo Alto Networks, and was the lead pre-sales engineer at VMWare for both their SD-WAN and SDN data centre solutions; where he also served as field-CTO in the networking and security business unit, presenting regularly at various events and conferences. Matt is the co-author of 'SD-WAN 1:1 The What, Why and How'.

Matt Preswick

Wiz

Matt Preswick

Enterprise Solutions Engineer, APJ, Wiz

Matt Preswick is the Enterprise Solutions Engineer for Wiz in APJ, with experience in network, email and cloud security at leading security vendors in EMEA and APAC. Before joining Wiz, he lead operations at a Sydney based network analytics startup before returning to Cloud security with Wiz.

Matt is passionate about developing scalable and actionable security practices within APJs largest organisations.

Matt Tett

AWSN

Matt Tett

Co-Chair, AWSN

Matt Tett is the Managing Director of Enex P/L. He is well known globally across industry and government as a very well connected, highly technical straight shooter. Effectively applying science to translating complex technology for the lay person, ensuring customers receive what they are paying for.

Matt is a current board director of Communications Alliance and a former board director of the Internet Industry Association (IIA). Matt is a current board director and Co-Chair of the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN). He is also the current chair of IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA) enabler Work Stream 3 (eWS-3) – Cyber Security and Network Resilience and sits on the IoTAA Executive Council.

Matt is an Advisor and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for IoT Security Mark P/L who operate the global IoT Security Trust Mark™ (STM) Certification and voluntary cyber security labelling scheme.

Matt has a deep technical background in network and security systems and he holds the following security certifications in good standing for 17+ years: CISSP, CISM, CSEPS and CISA. He is a certified Government security advisor and retains State and Federal Government security clearances.

He is also a judge for a number of industries, including the Commsday “Edison” Awards, IT Journo “Lizzies” Awards, InnovationAus Awards for Excellence, IoT Impact Awards and the Australian Women in Security Networking Awards.

Matteo Senardi

Docsity

Matteo Senardi

Head of Data & Analytics, Docsity

Matteo Senardi is the Head of Data & Analytics at Docsity, where he leads the team responsible for the whole data chain, from collection on real time clickstream, to transformations and normalisations in order to feed company's Data Lake in Google BigQuery. This includes datasets definitions and gathering, development of data-pipelines or the science of making it work and their deployment in production with CI/CD.
He graduated in computer engineering in Modena and, after his degree, he started working with data in the R&D department of Webranking, a digital marketing agency. He moved later to Mediaset as a senior data engineer, before later joining Docsity.
Matteo designs and maintains several open source projects in his GitHub account, which are currently used in data-intensive production environments.

Matthew Duckworth

MetLife

Matthew Duckworth

IT Risk and Security Manager, MetLife

As a senior information / cyber security expert with over 19 years’ experience I have worked in a range of industries including Airlines, Banking and Finance, Federal and State Government, Construction, Healthcare, Mining, Retail and Utilities.

In my previous roles, I have demonstrated a deep technical understanding with experience establishing and leading managed security services, ensuring the teams, both local and global, achieve desired outcomes. I also have a proven ability to deliver and have worked in both short term and long-term projects to ensure the successful integration of solutions.

Matthew Ireland

Alpine Energy

Matthew Ireland

Chief Digital Officer, Alpine Energy

Over 20 years of senior technology management and project delivery experience within major sports events, utilities, professional services and investment banking. Consistently successful in dealing with multiple internal and external clients and project teams to deliver on time and under budget. High level stakeholder management including CEOs, government agencies, media corporations and sporting federations.

Matthew Kelly

Northern Trust Asset Management

Matthew Kelly

Head of Digital & Automation, Northern Trust Asset Management

Matthew Kelly is the Head of Digital & Automation for Northern Trust Asset Management. In this role he is responsible for deploying tools that digitize and structure data, process information, and enable cognitive decision making to drive business outcomes across the organization globally.

Matthew has more than 25 years of experience in various operational, technology, client facing and change management position. He has led teams at firms such as J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, and Societe Generale where he oversaw the Global Process & Program team which included Data Governance.

Matthew holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston, an Executive MBA in Finance & Risk Management from University of Washington and is a CFA charter holder.

Mauricio Arnau

Mauricio Arnau

Caixa Bank

Mauricio Arnau

Mauricio Arnau

Head of Analytics, Caixa Bank

Mauricio joined CaixaBank in 2019 with the goal to define and drive the Advanced Analytics strategy in the biggest bank in Spain. His goal was to expand the use of AA across the whole value chain. As today, CaixaBank has more than 20 teams developing machine learning models and is working to drastically reduce the time to value of each use case by collaborating with the CDO and Architecture teams, while building innovative internal capabilities. Mauricio has previous experience in consulting for 7 years (McKinsey and BCG) and banking (Lloyds Banking Group). Mauricio was part of the team who defined the Digital Strategy for Lloyds and implemented Agile at scale in the bank to drive HR initiatives. Mauricio has an MBA from London Business School and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics.

Max Heinemeyer

Darktrace

Max Heinemeyer

Director of Threat Hunting, Darktrace

Max is a cyber security expert with over a decade of experience in the field, specializing in a wide range of areas such as Penetration Testing, Red-Teaming, SIEM and SOC consulting and hunting Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups. At Darktrace, Max oversees global threat hunting efforts, working with strategic customers to investigate and respond to cyber-threats.

He works closely with the R&D team at Darktrace’s Cambridge UK headquarters, leading research into new AI innovations and their various defensive and offensive applications. Max’s insights are regularly featured in international media outlets such as the BBC, Forbes and WIRED. When living in Germany, he was an active member of the Chaos Computer Club. Max holds an MSc from the University of Duisburg-Essen and a BSc from the Cooperative State University Stuttgart in International Business Information Systems.

Mazino Onibere

Regis Aged Care

Mazino Onibere

Head of Cyber Security, Risk and Compliance, Regis Aged Care

Mazino focuses on building organisational level information security capability which in turn translates to improved and sustainable business performance.

As a Cyber Security Leader with over twenty years of experience in various areas of Information management and Technology, Mazino possesses skill and experience in the development and realisation of cyber security strategy in alignment with the business strategy; the creation and instillation of desired organisational security culture; and the establishment of effective Information security governance within the overall corporate governance structure.

Mazino  completed his Master of Information Systems degree at the University of Melbourne, where he is currently undertaking a PhD. His research focuses on strategic role of the CISO and the impact on organizational performance.

Meena Kumar

Meena Kumar

RBC

Meena Kumar

Meena Kumar

Associate Director of Data Architecture & Data governance, I&TS Data Management, RBC

Meenakshi Thanikachalam

Ally Financial

Meenakshi Thanikachalam

Head of Data Strategy, Architecture & Analytics, Ally Financial

I am a technology executive, I've been a goal-oriented leader & advisor with a passion & enthusiasm to foster ideas and produce creative solutions to difficult problems. I Identify opportunities to monetize and unlock the true value of data. My top priority is making smart choices balancing design & execution.

I provide advise to optimize customer value and financial performance by simplifying enterprise data ecosystems to facilitate easier data-driven decision making. I partner closely with CIOs & stake holders to establish the technology vision & road maps that drive data strategy on multi-million dollar data initiatives

I've succeeded at building high performing Agile data teams, attracting, developing, and motivating the best talent of interdisciplinary and technically diverse teams to fully use their capabilities.

Meidi Van der Lee

REA Group

Meidi Van der Lee

Security Analyst, REA Group

Meidi holds a double degree in Accounting and Information System Management. Her previous career she was in company management overseeing accounting, finance and strategic investment, and was never in any ICT role. After a long career break she returned to uni as a mature age student, doing a post grad degree in Cybersecurity in Edith Cowan University in 2019. Immediately after she completed the degree in 2020, she was employed as a Security Analyst at REA Group, the company behind the well-known realestate.com.au, the portal that you go to for property buy and rent.
Since uni time, Meidi has joined AISA (Australian Information Security Association) and AWSN (Australian Women in Security Network). Now Meidi is also a member of ISACA, having had earned the CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) certification and (ISC)2 pending CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional) certification.

Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Curtin Institute for Computation & Australian Space Data Analysis Facility

Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Director, Curtin Institute for Computation & Australian Space Data Analysis Facility

Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt is an internationally prominent radio astronomer working in the space between astrophysics, computer science and big data. She is the Director of the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC) and the Australian Space Data Analysis Facility (ASDAF).  

 Professor Johnston-Hollitt leads two multi-disciplinary teams investigating how to best meet the increasing demand for computational modelling, data analytics, and visualisation, working closely with SMEs and researchers to tackle problems that are both fundamental in nature as well as industry-focused. 

 

Merwe Roux

STADIO Higher Education

Merwe Roux

Head: Business Process & Analytics, STADIO Higher Education

I am an Industrial Engineer and technology enthusiast who loves to solve old problems with new technologies. I am a lifelong learner with a great passion for education, technology and entrepreneurship.

Michael Ballinger

Michael Ballinger

UBS

Michael Ballinger

Michael Ballinger

Data Services Lead (WMPC IT Digital Core & Analytics), Chief Digital Information Officer, UBS

Michael Braybrooke

Infoflow

Michael Braybrooke

Informatica Consultant, Infoflow

Michael Burkhalter

Michael Burkhalter

Credit-Suisse

Michael Burkhalter

Michael Burkhalter

Head of Data Insights & Innovation, Credit-Suisse

Michael Chambers

Michael Chambers

Cineplex Entertainment

Michael Chambers

Michael Chambers

Senior Manager, Customer Analytics, Cineplex Entertainment

Michael Dziekan

TELUS

Michael Dziekan

Director of TELUS Insights, TELUS

Michael Gilfix

IBM Cloud Paks

Michael Gilfix

VP, Product Management, IBM Data & AI; Chief Product Officer, IBM Cloud Paks

Michael Leppitsch

Ascend.io

Michael Leppitsch

Global Head of Alliances, Ascend.io

Michael Leppitsch has been leading alliances at Ascend.io for three years, building on a 30-year career of enabling business ecosystems among startups and Fortune 1000 companies. His toolkit contains digital-first business and go-to-market strategies, data automation with analytics, data pipelines, digital and human workflows, machine learning, API ecosystems, public cloud and industrial IIoT, and hands-on expertise in services, manufacturing, utilities, and the business end of startups. Michael lives in Santa Cruz, California yet has no idea how to surf.

 

Michael Morris

Michael Morris

Global Furniture Group

Michael Morris

Michael Morris

Director, Data & Analytics, Global Furniture Group

Michael N. Berkowitz

Citi

Michael N. Berkowitz

MD, Global/North America Liquidity Management, Citi

Michael Pogrebisky

Checkmarx

Michael Pogrebisky

Technical Director, Checkmarx

Michael Pogrebisky has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry where he has served in multiple technical capacities such as solution architect, software developer, technical advisor, and researcher.

Michael prides himself on being a creative out-of-the-box thinker and enjoys challenging himself to learn new technologies. One of his favorite professional challenges was serving as the Chief Technologist for the Application Lifecycle Management group at HP Software. Michael holds a degree in Computer Sciences from the prestigious Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Michael Waring

Ivanti

Michael Waring

VP Security Solutions, Ivanti

Michael Waring has been with Ivanti for three years and is currently the Vice President of Asia Pacific leading the Security team. He has been in the tech industry for most of his career holding leadership and executive positions with companies such as IBM, Kofax and HPE and is recognised as a strategic thinker and inspiring sales leader. When not working, Michael is an avid rugby fan and spends most of his time with his three children and beautiful wife.

Michelle Bonat

JPMorgan Chase & Co

Michelle Bonat

CTO - Data Marketplace & Central AI/ML - Consumer Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Michelle is a leader, technologist, innovator and speaker, passionate about solving big impactful problems in financial services with artificial intelligence. A dynamic hands-on leader, with experience spanning data science, engineering, and product management with a track record of success in delivering commercial software products and data platforms globally at scale.

She has successfully run large multinational technical teams for one of largest tech cos in the world (Oracle), as well as 3 companies which were acquired. Brought products to global market leadership. Shipped technology in more than 25 countries and 30 languages. Founded a company. Developed and scaled complex real-time data pipelines that have powered more than 100 million automated investment insights. Quantitative Masters degree (MBA, Finance, Kellogg) and hands on AI/machine learning engineer.

Michelle Edwards

DAMA

Michelle Edwards

Queensland Branch President, DAMA

Michelle Edwards (nee Kempster) is the Queensland Branch President of DAMA, and the Enterprise Data Manager at yourtown. Previously Michelle was the Senior Manager of Data Governance & Quality at Tabcorp. Michelle has a lot of hands on experience from a variety of industries facing into the business, cultural and technological change and challenge associated with data governance.

Michelle brings years of experience working in client roles leading a continual focus on strategic information & data goals. Michelle presents regularly with industry forums on data related topics and supports the wider business in resolution of internal & external data audits & reviews.

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Michelle Edwards

yourtown

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Michelle Edwards

Enterprise Data Manager, yourtown

Michelle Edwards (nee Kempster) is Enterprise Data Manager at yourtown. Previously Michelle was the Senior Manager of Data Governance & Quality at Tabcorp. Michelle has a lot of hands on experience from a variety of industries facing into the business, cultural and technological change and challenge associated with data governance.

Michelle brings years of experience working in client roles leading a continual focus on strategic information & data goals. Michelle presents regularly with industry forums on data related topics and supports the wider business in resolution of internal & external data audits & reviews.

Michelle Pinheiro

ANZ

Michelle Pinheiro

Head of Enterprise Data Governance, ANZ

Michelle is Head of Enterprise Data Governance at ANZ Bank. In this role, she is responsible for Data Governance strategy across the group, the ANZ Data Privacy and Ethics framework, Enterprise Metadata Management and a Centre of Excellence for Data Quality.   She has 25 years of experience in the world of Data and utilises that knowledge to help foster sustainable large scale analytical environments for commercial success.

Michelle Rennie

The Royal Children’s Hospital

Michelle Rennie

Chief Information Officer, The Royal Children’s Hospital

Michelle-Joy Low

Reece Group

Michelle-Joy Low

Head of Data & AI, Reece Group

Michelle is a senior executive with deep expertise in the optimisation of data, AI and human behaviour towards better commercial decisions and societal benefit. She established the enterprise Data & AI practice at Reece Group, and leads the strategy, execution and culture around Reece ANZ's use of data and intelligent technologies. In a career spanning ML-backed digital transformations, quantitative science and cross-functional leadership, Michelle has helped many of Australia’s leading organisations turn data into advantage. Her contributions have seen companies embed advanced analytics and ML solutions in their operations, the impacts of which included distributing entire workforces and launching new business adjacencies. But she is best known for making the complex simple, innovating under constraint, and her passion for creating high-integrity teams — with a conviction that the heart of any competitive advantage is people delivering beyond the sum of their parts.

Mickey Perre

Devo

Mickey Perre

Cybersecurity Strategist APAC, Devo

Mickey Perre is the APAC Cyber Security Strategist working at Devo with a long and varied background in Cyber and IT.
Before joining private enterprise, he worked across multiple industries including Government, Legal, Gambling and Healthcare.
Mickey is a tactician who enjoys providing talk topics that are not only relevant but actionable.

Miguel Jesus

Narta

Miguel Jesus

Chief Data Officer, Narta

Miguel's role is to lead the Data team and projects and design and implement an innovation strategy to explore the data from 30%+ of the Australian retail market.

NARTA was established in 1965 and is the largest independent electrical buying group in Australasia. With 26 members in Australia and 9 in New Zealand, the combined buying power of more than $3 Billion (AU).

Mike Jagusch

National Cyber Security Centre

Mike Jagusch

Manager Mission Enablement, National Cyber Security Centre

Mike is Manager Mission Enablement at the National Cyber Security Centre. Mike has had several roles within NCSC and a broad experience within cyber-security. Mike has worked in customer engagement, providing organisations security advice and guidance at both a practitioner and governance level. Mike also had significant involvement in the roll-out of CORTEX capabilities. Previously, Mike has been involved in the more ‘hands-on’ aspects of cyber-security in his role managing the Systems Engineering team who design, build, maintain and evolve NCSC’s cyber-security capabilities. In his current role, Mike is focused on delivering strategic outcomes by leveraging the expertise of the entire NCSC. Mike’s teams provide communications, policy, stakeholder engagement and business support.

Mike Jennings

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Mike Jennings

Senior Director Customer Data Platforms, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Mike Styer

GlassHouse South Africa

Mike Styer

Country Manager, GlassHouse South Africa

Mike Styer is an accomplished technology executive with more than 30 years’ experience in the information technology sector.  As country manager of GlassHouse South Africa, Mike is responsible for managing GlassHouse Technology’s growing customer base in South Africa.  With a wealth of experience and wide-ranging knowledge of IT platforms and environments, Mike is able to provide a strategic view of  tactical execution, operational management, sales and buying cycles, solution delivery, architecture planning and infrastructure & application design and integration.  He has worked with some of the most respected global IT brands and has gained significant experience across a multitude of technology disciplines during his career working at many of South Africa’s leading multi-nationals.

Mike Willis

Westpac

Mike Willis

Mike Willis, Director Chapter Area lead, Enterprise Information Management, Westpac

In his current role Mike is responsible for enterprise data governance capabilities leading a team of ~50 data experts working across all areas of Westpac New Zealand. The team is focused on developing and embedding enterprise data policies and standards, deploying an operational data management framework and associated tooling to transform and improve Westpac functions and behaviours in support of a mature, data driven culture.

Previously Mike was Director Risk Data at Westpac where he was responsible for credit data and regulatory reporting.  Prior to joining Westpac in April 2018, Mike spent 16 years working in UK Financial services in a number of roles including leading and delivering strategic data transformations across BCBS239, data analytics and process automation.  

Mikko Muurinen

Mikko Muurinen

Helen

Mikko Muurinen

Mikko Muurinen

Head of Data & AI, Helen

Milad Aslaner

SentinelOne

Milad Aslaner

Senior Director: Cyber Defense Strategy, SentinelOne

Milad Aslaner is an internationally recognized speaker, published author, and community leader. Recent examples of his engagements include a panel discussion at the Digital Next Summit hosted by the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority, his books including ‘Hands-On Cybersecurity for Architects’ and his work within the OWASP Foundation as the Chapter Leader for Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 

He has 14 years of international experience across product management, product marketing, business planning, and cross-functional team leadership. With his background, he has established a proven track record launching new product lines and built and execute global sales and marketing strategies that lead to new revenue streams and accelerated service consumption. 

Milos Pesic

Marken

Milos Pesic

Global Head of Information & Cyber Security, Marken

Ming Tang

NHS England

Ming Tang

Chief Data and Analytics Officer (interim), NHS England

Mitchell White

ATO

Mitchell White

Acting Assistant Commissioner for Cyber Security Governance & Operations, ATO

As the Assistant Commissioner for Cyber Governance and Operations, Mitchell oversees the integrity of the ATO’s systems in terms of cyber operations and governance and information handling in a rapidly changing environment.

Mitchell is also responsible for advice on cyber governance and operations across the organisation and managing the ATO’s compliance standards, and cyber security capabilities and protections.
Mitchell is a proud public servant having worked within government ICT for nearly 20 years. He has extensive SES experience across 4 roles in 2 agencies, managing 2 of the largest Cyber capabilities in Australian federal government.
Mitchell has managed the implementation of multiple large programs at the senior executive level in both the Cyber and traditional Infrastructure disciplines.
Mitchell and his wife Rebecca are the proud parents of a son and two daughters, who are a constant source of fun and energy!

Mitra Minai

Healthscope

Mitra Minai

CISO, Healthscope

Mitra is a senior Technology and Security Transformation executive with over 20 years’ experience working in the Health, Financial and Professional Services industries. Mitra is a recognised leader in successfully defining and implementing Centres of Excellence Technology and Cybersecurity functions across major International and Australian Banks and most recently in the Health Sector.
Mitra is a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders including Board of Directors and Risk and Audit Committees, enabling effective governance and insights for investment and decision making.
Mitra is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Healthscope. She is in charge of defining and implementing Healthscope’s Cybersecurity strategy, priorities and roadmap. She is actively uplifting the Cybersecurity capability and maturity posture of the Organisation and delivering effective Threat Intelligence and Cybersecurity solutions and services across the Enterprise to 42 Healthscope Hospitals.
Mitra is an active Board Member on the ISACA Melbourne Chapter Board and has extensive experience in governance and oversight of all operational elements of the Chapter activities to ensure the delivery of optimal value and services to the members.
She is ISACA International’s lead liaison to the International Standards Organisation (ISO), working with International experts on the uplift of standards such as AS/NZS 31000 Risk Management, ISO/IEC 38500 IT Governance and ISO 27001/2 Information Security standards.

Moacir Klapouch

OneTrust

Moacir Klapouch

Diretor de Engenharia de Soluções, OneTrust

Moacir Klapouch é Engenheiro de Soluções na OneTrust, com mais de 15 anos de experiência em segurança da informação e privacidade. Formado em processamento de dados e com MBA executivo na FIAP. Profissional de privacidade e proteção de dados (CIPP/E, CIPM), Membro da IAPP e ANPPD® - Comitê de Segurança.

 

Mohamed Bessa

UIB Societe Generale (Tunisia)

Mohamed Bessa

Chief Data Officer, UIB Societe Generale (Tunisia)

Mohammed Al Lawati

Bank Muscat (Oman)

Mohammed Al Lawati

CISO, Bank Muscat (Oman)

Mohammed Al-Doseri

Tas'heel Finance (Saudi Arabia)

Mohammed Al-Doseri

CISO, Tas'heel Finance (Saudi Arabia)

Monica Verma

Helsedirektoratet

Monica Verma

CISO, Helsedirektoratet

Monique Hoffman

GENRIC Insurance Company Ltd (South Africa)

Monique Hoffman

Chief Analytics Officer, GENRIC Insurance Company Ltd (South Africa)

Monique’s actuarial career started out at KPMG for 2.5 years - a year of which she spent at the KPMG London office. With a drive to gets her hands dirty on some non-life work, she moved to Guardrisk and then Telesure. The consulting bug bit again and she later joined Milliman. Her most recent appointment is at GENRIC Insurance, where she is the chief analytics officer, head of corporate actuarial, and last but not least, the CEO of the newly established GENRIC Life.

Morna McAulay

Dyson

Morna McAulay

Global Director, Data, Dyson

Morne Taljaard

FNB (South Africa)

Morne Taljaard

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, FNB (South Africa)

Mthokozisi Moyo

Nedbank Insurance

Mthokozisi Moyo

Head: Mobile & Digital and Emerging Technology, Nedbank Insurance

Head of Digital & Emerging Technology specialising in Digital transformation, Instrumental in corporate strategy development, profitability, streamlining productivity, and competitive performance through skilful alignment of technical resources with organisation’s strategic vision. An entrepreneur with extensive experience in leading start-up software companies and delivering high quality technology solutions on-time and on-budget. Delivered various tactical transformation solutions in the Banking, Insurance, Retail and Online Gaming industries. Skillset comprises of delivering solutions in the following technology, Mobile & Web apps, RPA, SOA, OpenInsurance, Cloud, Chatbots, ML, AI, Voice technology, BI, Data Analytics and transforming legacy. 

Muath AlHomoud

Tasnee (Saudi Arabia)

Muath AlHomoud

CISO, Tasnee (Saudi Arabia)

Muhammad Haroon

Payments International Enterprise (Bahrain)

Muhammad Haroon

Head: Information Security, Payments International Enterprise (Bahrain)

Haroon is currently working as Head of Information Security for PIE, the first and largest fintech company in Bahrain. He is an experienced Information and Cyber security executive with over 15 years of experience in cyber-security, enterprise risk assessments and compliance standards e.g. ISO 27001, PCI DSS and NIST framework. 
 
He founded OWASP chapters in multiple countries across the region and is the current chapter leader for the Kingdom of Bahrain. Recognised by many international vendors to identify critical vulnerabilities.

Specifically in the last ten years he provides consultancy to top public and private enterprises in various GCC countries and globally. His current research area is Hybrid security architecture for enterprise

Muhammad Haroon

Payments International Enterprise (Bahrain)

Muhammad Haroon

Head: Information Security, Payments International Enterprise (Bahrain)

Mumbi Odame

Rand Merchant Bank

Mumbi Odame

Head of Customer Experience and Design, Rand Merchant Bank

Mumbi Odame is the Head of Customer Experience and Design at RMB responsible for building a client-led and design-led Customer Experience capability for the organisation. She was one of the first three Certified Customer Experience Professionals (CCXP) in Africa and has used this knowledge to drive systemic client-centric thinking. She has diverse and significant experience in the financial services industry.

Mumbi is also a founding board member of Customer Experience South Africa (CXSA), a professional association and governing body created to represent Customer Experience professionals in South Africa.

She has a passion for strategy and people giving her an edge in developing and implementing CX strategies underpinned by a truly human element.

Munyaradzi Nyikavaranda

Multichoice Group

Munyaradzi Nyikavaranda

Group Executive Head: Digital Analytics & Marketing Technology, Multichoice Group

I am a software engineer turned digital analytics specialist & behavioural science practitioner with over 18+ years in the digital space. My passion is driving business value through the provisioning, operationalization, and democratization of data-led thinking through people empowerment, streamlined processes & strategies, powered by fit-for-purpose technology. I believe in continuous development and mastery which is why approximately 85% of hard skills are self-taught.

Throughout my career, I have worked on large scale projects that led to the commercialisation of digital data on enterprise-wide systems on mobile, web, and social media for global brands such as Standard Bank, ABSA, Barclays, Multichoice, Toyota, Jägermeister, Stella, Boschendal Wines, Hino, Cadbury, Vodacom, Cell C, South African Venture Capitalist Association (SAVCA), Phatisa, Old Mutual, and Lexus in different roles and levels.

The deep understanding of data, eCommerce, performance marketing, technology, behavioral science and business, coupled with lateral specialist understanding of digital marketing and eCommerce allows me to approach problem-solving from multiple perspectives while identifying commercialisation opportunities in the value chain.

Murat Beshtoev

Murat Beshtoev

Bayer

Murat Beshtoev

Murat Beshtoev

Head of Analytics & Innovation, HR, Bayer

Murendeni Nemukula

Postbank

Murendeni Nemukula

Head of Data Management and BI, Postbank

A passionate and hardworking individual with good Statistics skills, a team player that is willing to learn and eager to take on challenges in the work place. My objective in life is: To gain experience and become an asset to the company in return. I believe one of my strengths is that Im always up for a challenge and willing to try new things out. 

Myrna Acosta

MicroStrategy

Myrna Acosta

VP and General Manager, Central U.S. & Canada, MicroStrategy

Nadia Taggart

Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Australia

Nadia Taggart

Director Cyber Security Operations, Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Australia

Nadia Taggart is the Director of Cyber Security Operations at Department of Parliamentary Services. Nadia’s team is responsible for cyber security incident response, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, cyber threat hunt and emulation, and cyber security engineering. Nadia has over a decade of leadership experience in a variety of contexts, ranging from cyber security, information operations, communications security and ICT delivery, through to driving educational reform programs in schools. Nadia has a Bachelor degree in Psychology and Sociology, a Master of Teaching and a Master of Cyber Operations. Before joining DPS, she was a Director within the Department of Home Affairs, driving evidence based and intelligence informed strategic change in cyber security. Prior to that she worked at the Department of Defence in Information Warfare and with Defence’s ICT Security Branch where she led whole of Defence reform to uplift Defence’s ability prevent and respond to cyber security incidents. Nadia’s eclectic background and broad skillset has given her unique perspectives on cyber security, and a passion to embed key cyber security principles within all areas of the business by making it meaningful and relevant to those outside the cyber security bubble.

 

Nancy Wong

ASX

Nancy Wong

IT Internal Audit (IT and Cyber Security), ASX

Ms Nancy Wong is the Internal Audit Manager (IT and Cyber Security) in Australia Securities Exchange (ASX) and is responsible for assessing and influencing the maintenance of technology and cyber resilience and providing insights to strengthen the security control environments.

She previously worked as a Technology Risk Manager in EY Australia and Hong Kong offices with extensive experiences in Technology risk regulatory compliance, IT risk management and Cyber Security control assurance for various financial institutions and multinational companies across Asia Pacific Region.

With more than 8 years’ experience as a cyber security advisor and auditor, Nancy has developed comprehensive knowledge of emerging technologies (including cloud services and distributed ledger technology) and provided insights to technology and business executives for the strategy development in supporting the delivery of Tech and Cyber Resilience priorities.

She has also led teams to review the security and data risk profile of critical services / applications to ensure they sit within the organisation’s risk appetite range and assess the sufficiency and effectiveness of security controls supporting the services.

Her strength is to translate her knowledge on rapidly developing technologies, regulatory obligations, and industry best practices into clear and simply messages for non-technology people to understand. She is also passionate about cyber incident management and cyber threat analysis and intelligence.

Naomi Molefe

Discovery Limited (South Africa)

Naomi Molefe

Global Exco Member, Women in Big Data, Strategic Sourcing and Research Specialist, , Discovery Limited (South Africa)

Narelle Devine

Telstra

Narelle Devine

CISO Asia Pacific, Telstra

As Telstra’s Chief Information Security Officer Asia Pacific, Narelle is responsible for the company’s cyber security operations, intelligence, risk, governance, compliance, development and engagement. Narelle balances these responsibilities with raising her six year old daughter and two year old son (with help from her husband, Michael).

Narelle began her career as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy, eventually assuming the role of the Navy’s first Director Cyber Warfare. In 2016, Narelle left the Navy to pursue her next chapter in the public service and was appointed the Chief Information Security Officer for the Department of Human Services. In this role, she transformed the cyber organisation, building a new state of the art Cyber Security Operations Centre and uplifting the capability from 25 to 250 personnel.

Narelle holds a Bachelor of Arts in Information Systems and English, a Master of Science in Information Technology and a Master of Systems Engineering. In addition to her love of cyber operations she is passionate about workplace culture, diversity, training and recruitment and is a current member of the RSAC Advisory Board and the AISA Executive Advisory Board.

Narelle was a finalist in the 2019 CSO AWSN inaugural Women in Security awards in the Security Champion category. In 2018 she received the CISO Lens Industry Leadership Acknowledgment; and in 2016 was on the Australia Day Honours List, being awarded a Conspicuous Service Medal in recognition of meritorious achievement as the Deputy Director – Cyber (Maritime) in Joint Capability Coordination Division.

Natalia Kacperek

Department of the Premier and Cabinet of WA

Natalia Kacperek

Director: Data Analytics & Insights, Department of the Premier and Cabinet of WA

Natalia is passionate about the potential data has to unlock insights that lead to better decisions.  She is the driving force behind the whole-of-government data hub, which works collaboratively across the Western Australian public sector to solve problems using data.   Prior to this, Natalia drove the strategic use of information throughout a number of roles in policy, strategy, and analytics.  With background in statistics,  she is enthusiastic about implementing advanced analytics in a functional way every day. 

Natalie Jakomis

Coats

Natalie Jakomis

Global Director, Data Science & Analytics, Coats

Nathalie Montero

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Nathalie Montero

Global Shared Services Compliance and Controls Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Nathalie Castro is Controls & Compliance Director at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where she leads cross-border collaborative interlock, staff development, and effective presentation and communication skills. She credits her success to having a passion for people and the ability to identify, develop and timely manage and drive execution of complex Delivery Center strategies, process enhancements and solutions. She looks forward to connecting with likeminded professionals.
 
 

Nati Harpaz

TradeSquare

Nati Harpaz

Founder, TradeSquare

Former MD of Catch.com.au and founder of Tradesquare, Australia’s leading B2B marketplace platform, Nati Harpaz is a tech and online entrepreneur with significant experience in both start-up and large scale businesses. Nati is also the chairman of Inside Retail and a director of BridgerPay a payment integration SaaS platform.

 

Nehson Pillay

Nehson Pillay

Independent CISO and Forensics Investigator,

Nehson is currently an Independent CISO consultant to the Telco, Insurance and Banking Industry. A core focus is to guide organisations on Enterprise Risk Management, Digital Forensics, Security Awareness Programs & Security Audits.

Nehson is a Certified CISO(EC-Council) and a Certified ISO 27001(ISO/IEC) Lead Practitioner.

Neil Pope

Wesfarmers

Neil Pope

Head of Technology, Wesfarmers

Neil has over 25 years’ experience within IT and OT, he has the benefit of being technical as well as the ability to help the business leaders understand the midfield of IT. Neil is currently studying his Masters in Cyber Security at ECU and is striving to help business stay protected against the ever increasing threat from Cyber.

Nelson Chieh

Natura & Co. Latam

Nelson Chieh

Head of Data & Advanced Analytics, Natura & Co. Latam

Nelson vem conduzindo a adoção da cultura de data driven na Natura & Co Latam. É responsável pelas disciplinas de Data Strategy, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Science & Martech. Lidera também os projetos relacionados a MDM & Reference data (Customer, Product, etc.). Ele é o representante do Brasil no programa Global Country CDO Ambassador do MIT/CDOIQ. 

Anteriormente, liderou equipe de governança de dados do Itaú na jornada de transformação digital. Foi responsável pela mudança na estratégia de condução de Top-Down para colaborativa. Promoveu democratização no uso de dados de qualidade para tomada de decisão. Desde 2004, vem conduzindo importantes projetos corporativos que visam transformação no uso de dados. Formado em Eng. Elétrica pela POLI-USP, concluiu seu mestrado em Administração pela EAESP-FGV (dissertação Intra-empreendedorismo). 

 



 

Nelson Tiongson

The Medical City

Nelson Tiongson

Assistant Vice President & Head of Health Informatics, The Medical City

Nelson is a health Informatics professional with over 10 years of experience specialising in health
information systems, electronic medical records, project management, analytics, customer
engagement and research and quality improvement. Nelson has over 5 years in management to
provide advise on Healthcare related IT strategies and acquisitions, training and
information utilisation. He empowers users to maximise technology, data and processes to
improve health.

Nenad Susic

Rio Tinto

Nenad Susic

Risk Business Partner, Rio Tinto

Nenad Susic is a risk management leader with a 15-year career across mining, public administration and not-for-profit industries in domestic and international jurisdictions. Nenad served the risk management community as the President of Risk Management Institute of Australasia chapter in Western Australia. In addition to working at Rio Tinto, Nenad also chairs the Risk, Compliance and Security Committee at the International Institute of Business and Technology.

Nerushka Bowan

Norton Rose Fulbright

Nerushka Bowan

Director and Head of Technology, Norton Rose Fulbright

Nerushka Bowan is a technology and privacy lawyer based in Johannesburg. She is a director and the head of the technology practice for South Africa. She is an #InspiringFifty2020 winner (the Inspiring Fifty initiative is aimed at showcasing 50 successful women in STEM each year).

Nerushka has extensive experience in complex and strategic technology and privacy law matters, including outsourcing transactions and regulatory and compliance issues across various industry sectors. She is recognised as an international thought leader in emerging technology law and in analysing the future legal and regulatory issues of emerging tech such as AI and blockchain. She also has work experience in our London and Melbourne offices.

She is a sought after international speaker and is regularly interviewed by media. She is an advocate for legal innovation and is involved in upskilling of lawyers for the future of law. She also mentors future legal innovators through the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation.

During 2020, she was selected as one of six judges globally for the IAPP Annual Innovation Awards, and was also a co-chair of the Johannesburg IAPP KnowledgeNet chapter from 2016-2019. She is a Consensus Forum Member of the South African National Blockchain Alliance (funded by the Department of Science & Technology, in partnership with the CSIR), and created a course with the Blockchain Academy on the legal & regulatory implications of blockchain and cryptocurrency. She is also a Consensus Forum Member of the South African National Blockchain Alliance (SANBA).

Ngan MacDonald

Institute for Automated Intelligence

Ngan MacDonald

Chief of Data Operations, Institute for Automated Intelligence

Using my experience in analytics, information management, healthcare reform, IT strategy and business transformation, I lead projects, both large and small, in data, strategy and implementation. Healthcare is in the midst of a technology and data transformation. My experience in both consulting and corporate enterprise data functions ensures a deep understanding of both what it takes for organizations to execute their strategy and how to leverage expert resources in the market. Data management and analytics go hand in hand to improve outcomes and communication is key to bridging the gap between technology and business leaders for enterprise alignment.

Niamh Toohey

Women in Technology WA (WITWA)

Niamh Toohey

Diversity Equity Inclusion Advisor, Women in Technology WA (WITWA)

Niamh is People and Technology Leader; in her current role as A/CTO at the Department of Communities she is enabling the department's data and digital strategy with the support of a diverse, talented team. As an advocate of both DEI & tech, Niamh volunteers her time to support WIWTA as a DEI Advisor."

Nicholas Lim

Elastic

Nicholas Lim

Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic

Nicholas Lim (Nic) joined Elastic in 2011 and has undertaken the roles of Consulting and Solutions Architecture throughout his tenure. Nic’s involvement with Elastic started many years ago when he replaced an enterprise security solution with Elasticsearch (version 0.9.x) in an overseas governmental institution. His experience has taken him across Asia Pacific and Japan on speaking engagements as well as deploying Elastic solutions ranging from matching and recommending one’s favourite viewing channels and shopping products; to deciphering signals through the noise. Personally, Nic finds joy in solving and unlocking new solution possibilities with the Elastic stack alongside his esteemed customers.

Nick Blewden

Ofgem

Nick Blewden

Chief Analytics Officer, Ofgem

Nick Cowan

Department of Transport - Maritime

Nick Cowan

Data and Business Strategy Analyst, Department of Transport - Maritime

Nick has almost two decades’ experience of data analysis and five years in software engineering. Associate Fellow of the Operational Research Society and a former member of the UK Government Operational Research Service.

He has broad experience in telecoms, transport, mining, power, and government - in operations research, data analytics, risk and simulation modelling, and software development.

Nick is now using business intelligence and data analysis to assist in the delivery of maritime safety, education, and compliance programs in Western Australia.

Nick Cox

Yellowbrick

Nick Cox

Head of Product, Yellowbrick

Before joining Yellowbrick as Head of Product, Nick ran Product Management at Pure1 for Pure Storage. There he led  a number of product and technology teams delivering cloud based analytics and monitoring for physical and virtual storage appliances. Prior to Pure1 Nick ran product for CloudBoost (part of the Dell EMC Data Protection Suite) along with Streaming Analytics and Cloud Colocation for Isilon. Nick has worked at Palm, HP and Yahoo on a wide range of enterprise and consumer hardware and software products from Semantic Web Ontologies to Operating Systems and mobile handsets.

Nick Dennis

Tealium

Nick Dennis

Regional VP Solutions Consulting APJ, Tealium

With a data and marketing background, Nick has worked in digital marketing for over 15 years.  His experience in several martech start-ups and global marketing clouds has helped put a great perspective on what customer experience focused organisations need to focus on to be successful.  Spoiler alert, both technology & data play a key role to help enable that success, along with people, process & culture.

As the RVP of Solution Consulting across APJ, Nick spends a lot of his time explaining to friends what that exactly means - yet still ending up confusing them!

An expat-Brit, Nick loves spending time with his family and dog, taking in the amazing sights of Australia & New Zealand! 

Nick Therkelsen-Terry

Queensland AI Hub Board

Nick Therkelsen-Terry

Chair, Queensland AI Hub Board

CEO Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry co-founded Max Kelsen in 2015 to provide big data and machine learning services to clients large and small. In his position as CEO, Nicholas is responsible for designing and executing strategic vision, project design and management, fiscal and legal governance, and team building. Prior to this, Nick was consulting for companies across a range of industries to assist with their technology requirements. Nick holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland.

Nick Tucker

The Co-Operative Bank

Nick Tucker

Head of Information Security, The Co-Operative Bank

A senior IT leader with global executive management experience and a passion for Information Security. I am a multi-skilled, commercially focused IT professional coupling vision, strong leadership, communication and organisational skills, particularly a rare affinity with people AND technology. I lead by influence and have particularly successful experience across a global, complex, multinational marketing organisation and Information Security in Banking

I have more than 18 years as technology management in Marketing/FMCG and now Financial Services, including 15 years as Global IT Director for The Continuity Company, a consumer loyalty marketing group (28 offices in Europe, Asia and Americas, operations in over 60 countries).

In 2016 I left England and moved back to New Zealand, a lifestyle choice made particularly for my three-year-old twins.

I am currently working at Co-operative Bank with responsibility for building a robust Information Security framework.

I have a proven ability to generate creative, original ideas; to innovate, and to implement technology-based cross-functional solutions for global business challenges whilst maintaining budgetary vigilance and accountability.

Nick Watkins

UK Health Security Agency

Nick Watkins

Deputy Director, Data Science & Visualisation, UK Health Security Agency

Nik Whitfield

Panaseer

Nik Whitfield

Chairman and Chief Seer, Panaseer

Nik is Chairman and Chief Seer at Panaseer, a company he founded with the mission to ensure enterprises are well protected from cyber-attacks by applying data science to the challenges of asset inventory and control assessment. His team created the first Continuous Controls Monitoring platform, which answers the fundamental questions of what assets an organisation is defending and how well protected they are.

Over the past 25 years, Nik has enjoyed identifying opportunities for improvement in business and technology operations, and creating data analytics products to realise those benefits. He is recognised by the UK government and industry bodies as a leading technology entrepreneur and thought leader on cybersecurity.

Through his time as an entrepreneur and leader, Nik has developed a passionate interest in personal well-being. He researches the causes of common mental and physical issues, experiments personally with innovative treatment modalities, and shares his own story to help and encourage others to be happy and well.

Nikita Medvedev

Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Ltd.

Nikita Medvedev

Director of Advanced Analytics, Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Ltd.

Nikita Newell

Lendlease

Nikita Newell

Head of Cyber Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Lendlease

Nikolaos Thymianis

Caresocius

Nikolaos Thymianis

CISO, Caresocius

With his love with IT and Information Security, Nick Thymianis, CISO at
Caresocius has been working towards achieving Information Security in a
young company. Nick’s previous work made him associate with people in the
healthcare Industry, while doing Cyber Security Assurance and Maturity
assessments for organisations in the NHS. He has also become a Cyber
Security Speaker in emphasis speaking about trust in places where it can be
unreliable and data segregation where unison can mean disaster.

Nikoleta Tsockallos

ANZ

Nikoleta Tsockallos

ANZ Chief Data Office - Enterprise Data Governance Change & Learning Lead, ANZ

Nilesh Shah

Johnson & Johnson

Nilesh Shah

IT Director, Data & Analytics, Medical Devices, Asia Pacific, Johnson & Johnson

Nilesh is an experienced professional with over 16 years of industry experience in both Information Technology and Commercial roles with strong leadership towards Driving Efficiency and challenging status quo. Recognised as a Critical thinker and problem solver with an ability to quickly identify and communicate business opportunities and solutions, he is a proven Leader who is comfortable and delivers at or above expectations under demanding circumstances.

Nilesh also has excellent people management skills and experience working in USA & various ASPAC markets. He is currently IT Director, Data & Analytics, Medical Devices, Asia Pacific at Johnson & Johnson.

 

Nilton Gomes

DELL Technologies

Nilton Gomes

Services Account Executive, DELL Technologies






 

Nimesh Mohan

Coca Cola Europacific Partners

Nimesh Mohan

Group Threat and Vulnerability Lead, Coca Cola Europacific Partners

Experienced Cyber Security Specialist with a demonstrated experience of 15 years working in the Cyber Security industry. Has worked in various profiles both internal and customer facing roles in Security Consulting, Banking, oil & energy industry and Manufacturing . Professional skilled in Cloud Security ,Security consulting, Security Operations ,Security architecture, regulatory and compliance audits and Cyber Security governance.

Nipun Sharma

Komatsu

Nipun Sharma

Enterprise Architect - Data Strategy and Applied Intelligence, Komatsu

Nitya Shankar

Westpac New Zealand

Nitya Shankar

Change Lead - Data Transformation Programme, Westpac New Zealand

Nitya Shankar is a change leader with broad and deep experience in large complex organisations across a range of sectors. She has over 20  years of experience in people focussed roles across Learning & Development, Organisational Development and Change Management. In her current role, she is focussed on enabling people across Westpac NZ (WNZL) to shift mindsets and behaviours and adopt a data culture.

 

Prior to this, Nitya headed up WNZL's Change Management Practice where she led a large team of change managers to enable change adoption in an agile environment. In earlier roles, she has worked with Executive Leadership teams to deliver the benefits of enterprise-wide, strategically significant and complex change initiatives, while supporting people at the coalface to own and implement the change.

 

Nitya has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a Master's degree in Psychology which she draws on and finds practical application for in her everyday work. She is an active member the Change Management Institute, a global network for Change Professionals.

Njabulo Ibrahim Mthombeni

Oracle

Njabulo Ibrahim Mthombeni

Cloud Country Leader: South Africa, Oracle

Ibrahim Njabulo Mthombeni is the new Cloud Country Leader for South Africa. He brings over 27 years of IT industry experience. He has been with oracle for 11 years after Sun Microsystems acquisition in 2010 where he was Software Business Manager for Sub Sahara and Africa (SSA). Prior to this role Ibrahim managed Sales team in SADC region covering countries like (Zambia, Zimbabwe, DRC, Malawi, Madagascar Seychelles Angola and Mozambique). 

He has proved to be a creative and analytical thinker, self-starter with very high mentorship skills. A highly innovate individual with commercial acumen to establish and maintain high value alliances with key stakeholders in the region and has an entrepreneurial flair to deliver on key results over past 11 years with Oracle.

Over the years Ibrahim has demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills. He has proven to be an energetic IT professional with ambition and passion to drive business results, possess leadership qualities and integrity.  

His educational background includes, just to name a few; a bachelor’s in computer science; Master of Business Systems and Master of Technology.  He believes “The legacy of successful leaders lives on through the people they touch along the way

Nkululeko Thangelane

Vodacom (South Africa)

Nkululeko Thangelane

Executive Head: Lead Data Scientist International Markets Big Data & AI, Vodacom (South Africa)

I am inherently a problem solver who always enjoys a challenge. Have high interest in artificial intelligence and computational intelligence. I like to apply my mind in solving real world problems through machine learning, deep learning and A.I.

Noel Jarrett

Telstra

Noel Jarrett

Chief Data and AI Officer, Telstra

Noel Jarrett is the Chief Data Officer for Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications company and national brand. Noel is responsible for delivering Telstra’s:

  • data & analytics strategy,
  • data architecture,
  • data governance
  • data management, and
  • machine learning & artificial intelligence tools & solutions.

With an extensive career in technology businesses in Australia & Asia, Noel’s experience spans the diverse strategic, technology, operational and cultural issues faced by a challenger greenfield start-up company through to a market leading mature business. This unique blend of skills and experience enables him to champion and execute transformational change that delivers superior business outcomes in dynamic, highly complex technology environments. His recent secondment to the Chief Information & Security Officer (CISO) Asia Pacific role for Telstra during the COVID-19 pandemic, testament to his intellectual versatility and unmatched ability to deliver accelerated operational transformation.

Noel began his professional engineering career with Australia’s Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (OTC) managing complex projects that delivered International Telecommunications networks and facilities. At a pivotal time in the deregulation of the telecommunications industry, Noel joined Optus, the new challenger organisation. As their inaugural Queensland State Manager, he pioneered the greenfield startup of Optus’ network infrastructure, workforce and business relationships. Over the next 20 years, Noel led a number of large national and international teams in various Director roles including Fixed Core Engineering, Customer Provisioning and Service Assurance.

Upon joining Telstra in 2012, Noel continued to apply his extensive experience in Director roles including Networks & Facilities, Level 3 Proactive Assurance and Customer Service Improvement. As part of the Telstra’s 2022 Strategy, Noel was appointed as its Data and Automation Solutions Executive. Noel’s role was expanded to include the development and expansion of Telstra’s big data infrastructure, machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. As its current Chief Data Officer, Noel has accountability for Telstra’s enterprise-wide data and analytics strategy, governance framework and data and analytics solutions.

Noel completed a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons) at the University of Queensland, then followed this with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management at Deakin University, INSEAD (Singapore) as well as a number of Harvard short courses. By engaging with global technology leaders in Silicon Valley, Noel has further expanded his professional network. Noel is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Noel shares his enjoyment of travel, boating, music, theatre and cricket with his wife Sue and their 2 adult sons.

Noel Yuhanna

Forrester

Noel Yuhanna

Vice President, Principal Analyst , Forrester

Nomonde Ngxola

MicroStrategy South Africa

Nomonde Ngxola

Country Manager, MicroStrategy South Africa

As a Keynote Speaker, PhD scholar in Digital Transformation and Leadership, I would summarize my key set of competencies as follows:

Setting and Implementing Digital Strategy:
Digital Transformation is an elusive term and means different things to different organisations. A key part of the transformation process is to develop a clearly-defined and compelling digital strategy for the company’s future and ensure that all relevant digital initiatives are fully integrated into the strategic-planning process for leadership commitment, resource allocation and execution.

Serving as a Cross-Functional Change/Digital Agent:
Very often, digital transformation (at least at a divisional level) is a siloed and uncoordinated process. A key part of any transformation drive is to champion and coordinate digital initiatives. I fulfill the role of the organisations central coordinator in the digital transformation process, serving as an intermediary between all other executives and functions in the roll-out of digital initiatives and capabilities, fully integrating business and technology, and closing digital performance gaps that exist in and between the various functions and business units of the organization.

Driving Digital Innovation:
Working with teams across the business to generate innovative digital solutions for products, services, processes, customer experiences, marketing channels, and business models. Key innovation initiatives include : Experience Centers, a KPI'd Innovation Committe, Hackathons and Organisational Intrapeneurs.

Measuring ROI on Digital Projects:
Digital innovation and transformation initiatives should create value by, improving customer engagement and loyalty, driving new revenues, or achieving new efficiencies. This entails monitoring and reporting on the ROI outcomes of digital projects and investments – linked to enterprise KPIs – with the goal of demonstrating the positive impact from these initiatives- a critical part of my role.

Expanding the Digital Innovation Ecosystem:
By primarily building, managing and continuing to grow an internal and external digital innovation ecosystem, tapping into competencies across and beyond the organization.

Developing Digital Talent :
The demand for digital innovation and transformation is currently outstripping the supply of qualified talent in the market and inside organizations, along with HR, I work to attract and retain top talent, and to build digital capabilities across the company.

Norma Guiselle Moreno

Colmena Seguros

Norma Guiselle Moreno

CDO, Colmena Seguros

Especialista en Inteligencia de Negocios y analítica de datos, con más de 12 años de experiencia liderando proyectos tecnológicos y de transformación digital aportando flexibilidad y sostenibilidad en la estrategia de la organización, con amplia experiencia en diferentes sectores económicos: consumo masivo, banca, telecomunicaciones, medios de comunicación y aeronáutica. Con visión prospectiva para entender las tendencias del mercado, anticipándome a las necesidades de la organización y proponiendo proyectos de innovación.

 

Norman Kromberg

SouthernCarlson

Norman Kromberg

VP, Information Security and CISO, SouthernCarlson

Odilon Almeida

InterSystems

Odilon Almeida

Senior Area Sales Manager, InterSystems

Multinational Information Technology company focused on Financial Services and other Industries providing a complete, comprehensive and agile Data Platform - https://www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris/ to solve complex business problems that require real time transactional and/or analytical data processing.

• Head Sales for Financial Services industry, reporting to Global Financial Services Sales VP in NY, responsible for defining Brazil business unit GTM and Sales strategies as well as building the required team to support the operation,
• Responsible for managing current installed base and prospecting new business in the industry, develop strategic partnerships and implementing an Outbound marketing Campaign to drive business and market awareness.



 

Olanrewaju Oyinbooke

AXA Mansard

Olanrewaju Oyinbooke

Power Platform Adoption Specialist, AXA Mansard

I have been opportune to contribute to business growth by leveraging on business data at different capacities in my career journey.

I started as a Data Analyst Freelancer on Fiverr in 2015 and worked with several data projects ranging from academics to pharmaceutical industries. This really got me engaged and exposed to different industries ' challenges and how data can be leveraged to solve them.

As a Busines Transformation Analyst, I acted as an Internal Consultant, constantly bringing efficiency into the business processes, e.g. I delivered on a Dashboard Analytics project which reduced the average time taken to get KPI reports from over 5 days to minutes (just the minutes required to put on your PC or mobile and access the dashboards).

I was a pioneering resource in many areas of my career. e.g. I started the First Data Science Team at AXA Nigeria. put in place all needed structure and frameworks and got the team functional in under 2 months. today, this team is totally integrated into the company's organogram and has delivered projects which have reduced cost, increased revenue, and also optimized business processes. I established a Data Science community in 2019 to support the learning journey of many employees and also bridge the gap between the business and the data science team.

I introduced workplace automation leveraging on Microsoft Power Platform. got management's approval and started a community within the organization with the aim to democratize this knowledge. This community meets monthly and has collectively and individually automated over 30 processes in the organization within one year.

I currently lead the Data Management Office Unit where I oversee the Data Management and Governance activities in the organization, architect Machine Learning solutions for the Data Scientist, project manage the Data Architecture Project, etc.

I am a lover of the community. beyond the 2 Communities that I started in my organization, I am an active leader in the Nigeria Power Platform, I have created over 110 Youtube Videos on Analytics, Collaboration, Machine Learning, and Automation.

I am proficient with Python, Azure, R, Power Apps, Power Automate, SQL, Docker, etc, and can be trusted with leading a data team to give maximum results.
I am quite exposed to several technology and tools and I have experience combining many of them innovatively to solve difficult business challenges.

I love playing football and you can hardly beat me on the pitch. A proud Manchester City fan.

Oleg Zavivaev

Laybuy

Oleg Zavivaev

IT Operations and Security Manager, Laybuy

I am an IT professional with 15 years’ industry experience in leadership positions. My career has seen me lead a team of 10 IT administrators for a large company with offices distributed across Russia, and more recently, since permanently emigrating from Russia, as IT Manager for an innovative group of startup software companies based in Auckland and as IT Operations and Security manager in innovative international fintech business with branches in New Zealand, Australia and United Kingdom.

Oliver Chen

Traveloka

Oliver Chen

Head of Data, Traveloka

Oliver is the Head of Data at Traveloka, a unicorn Lifestyle SuperApp based in South East Asia with a core business in travel. The data team covers data analytics, data engineering and data science across the organisation.

Oliver has been with Traveloka for two and a half years. Previous to joining Traveloka, he had extensive and varied experience as a consultant, in a London-based fintech start-up and as a Deputy Director at the Risk Management Institute at the National University of Singapore. His PhD is in applied mathematics at the University of Toronto.

Oluseye Ogunkeye

Majid Al Futtaim (UAE)

Oluseye Ogunkeye

Head: Security & Privacy - Carrefour, Majid Al Futtaim (UAE)

Oren Coral

Orca Security

Oren Coral

Vice President Sales, APAC, Orca Security

Renowned for his technical savvy, strong business sense and dynamism, Oren was the first person on the ground to build Orca’s founding team in APAC. He brings over two decades of executive leadership in cybersecurity, telecommunications, mobile networks and monetisation solutions.

In his previous role at Allot Communications (NASDAQ: ALLT), a leading global provider of network intelligence and security solutions, Oren spearheaded the business growth and increased sales fourfold in APAC.

Before that, Oren led APAC sales teams for various startups and SMEs, including Flash Networks and InspiAIR.

He obtained his BSc in Computer Science from Netanya Academic College, Israel.

Otto Neuer

Otto Neuer

Denodo

Otto Neuer

Otto Neuer

VP, Central Europe, Denodo

“I'm passionate about working in one of the hottest spaces in the industry: Data Management. As we all know, it's not just about the data - it's also about people and the way we use data and related technologies.

Therefore, I am proud to work with many industry-leading, innovative customers and partners, helping them to tackle their daily data challenges, as well as to build a sustainable data platform for future initiatives.”

  • VP Sales Central- & Eastern Europe at Denodo Technologies since 7/2019
  • Previously holding Sales Management roles in organizations like Talend, Informatica, Cognos and more

Ozan Özgür

Akbank

Ozan Özgür

Head of Data Warehouse, BI & AI/ML Technologies, Akbank

Pablo Guzzi

Ualá

Pablo Guzzi

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Ualá

I am a young executive with roots in statistical discipline (UNTREF) and two masters (Data mining UBA and MBA Di Tella). Over the years I gained experience in many different areas applying Analytics techniques to generate added value to the business, always with the proliferation and understanding of business, linking Business & Analytics.

The leadership of large multidisciplinary teams, the generation of business know-how, adaptability and the strategy to insert analytical equipment into the company are the pillars on which I rely on to develop and strengthen a Data-Driven Decision Making culture.


 

Pablo Olmos del Amo

Aeroméxico

Pablo Olmos del Amo

CDO, Aeroméxico

Over ten years of experience in Data and Analytics projects (BI, BigData, IA, ML...). Experience managing large teams and multiple projects and clients. Experience working in the two major Spanish banks, their international branches and a USA local bank: Santander, BBVA-Bancomer (México DF), BBVA Colombia (Bogotá) and TotalBank (Miami).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Quick learner, proactive and goal-oriented professional. Team player.
• Open minded person with ability to find imaginative and smart solutions to complex problems.
• Experience in international projects coordinating different kind of local and remote teams.
• Experience in coordinating international and intercultural Partners (India based).

Paloma González Martínez

Paloma González Martínez

Chief Data Officer,

Data Expert & Business Oriented Leader with over 14 years serving as a key interface from raw data into strategic actionable insights to transform the business by answering ad-hoc complex questions.
Solid expertise in proactively drive the collective understanding of business through data, helping companies become truly data driven. Leading data teams with sophisticated methodologies but guaranteeing business acumen and goal achievement.
Problem solving skills and ability to maximize leadership skills when facing highly stressed situations; balanced mixture of quantitative and soft skills.
Economist by CIDE with prior experience at the Federal Government as an advisor, reporting to State Secretaries.
 

Parag Deodhar

VF Corporation

Parag Deodhar

Director - Information Security, Asia Pacific , VF Corporation

Parag Deodhar is the Director of Cyber Security & Risk Management for APAC at VF Corp and is based in Hong Kong. Parag is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor from ISACA, US and Certified Fraud Examiner from ACFE, US. 

 

Parag has over 20 years’ experience in Enterprise Risk Management, specializing in Operational Risk, Cyber Security and Fraud Risk Management. He has worked in leadership roles with multinational companies like AXA Group, KPMG, Deutsche Bank and Mahindra-British Telecom.

Paraskevas Panayi

Bank of Cyprus

Paraskevas Panayi

Head Information Security Risk Management, Bank of Cyprus

Pasi Koistinen

Coinhako

Pasi Koistinen

Chief Information and Security Officer (CISO), Coinhako

Pasi Koistinen is the Chief Information and Security Officer (CISO) of Coinhako, Singapore’s
market-leading crypto platform. Pasi drives Coinhako’s information security policies and is
responsible for developing and establishing a world-class security framework to prevent, assess, and
tackle internal and external threats to the company. Previously he co-founded two cybersecurity
companies, Cyber Intelligence House in Singapore and Silverskin Information security in Finland. The
companies provide threat intelligence and penetration testing services. Pasi has worked as CISO, and
head of security in several companies during his 23 years tenure in the field of cyber security

Patrick Benoit

CBRE

Patrick Benoit

VP, Global Cyber Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) / Business Information Security Officer (BISO), CBRE

Patrick is the Global Head of Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance / Business Information Security Officer for CBRE. He was formerly the Deputy CISO for Cheetah Digital. He has been an Executive Business Partner at Experian; a Customer Delivery Executive and Service Delivery Leader at Dell; and owned a technology consulting company. He is a highly effective Business Leader with a mastery of Technology and Security. He is also a Writer, Speaker, and a continuous Mentor/Advisor and Learner.

He has demonstrated repeated success guiding business strategy to achieve maximum positive business impacts with minimum resource expenditures. Talented at building and launching global technology and security programs, grooming high-performing teams across all domains, plus guiding the digital transformation, enhancing the digital customer experience, driving and enhancing revenue using technology and reducing risk to the business. A skilled executive leader, presenter, negotiator, and businessperson, able to forge solid relationships with strategic partners and build consensus across multiple organizational levels.

Patrick McGrath

Commvault

Patrick McGrath

Director: Product Management - Data Intelligence, Commvault

Patrick McGrath is an authority on data governance and its implications for data management.    He currently leads Product Management for Commvault’s Data Intelligence products using advanced analytics to drive efficiencies, risk management, data privacy and compliance across vast collections of customer data.

He previously led Product Marketing and digital transformation thought leadership initiatives at EMC's Enterprise Content Division. 

Patrick has over 40 years of experience as a product/service owner, marketer, consultant and IT customer to help organizations compete in today's digital business environment.  

Having led data privacy breach incidents for a large university, this webinar is close to his heart!

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Patrick McQuaid

TD Bank

Patrick McQuaid

VP, Marketing Technology Analytics & Insights, TD Bank

Patrick spent ten years as a Management Consultant specializing in leading large transformation projects during which time he worked in Europe, North America and Asia in a variety of industries. His career in Financial services started when he joined the National Australia Bank in 2008 where he worked in Technology, Program Management, Digital Strategy, CX and Marketing. Patrick joined Marketing as the enterprise leader for NAB's NPS implementation and Customer Experience and then changed roles to lead the Customer Analytics and 1 to 1 Marketing teams. He joined TD Bank in 2019 as the VP for Marketing Technology, Analytics & Insights across North America.

Patrick Ng

Southern DHB

Patrick Ng

Chief Digital Officer, Southern DHB

Patrick is the Chief Digital Officer at Southern District Health Board. He was formally the Chief Operating Officer at SDHB and has been a Deputy Government Statistician. He is also a Chartered Accountant. Patrick holds an MBA, degrees in accountancy / economics and has a long standing interest in data and information. His wife has recently started her own company to provide data, integration and automation services. Patrick and the SDHB team have recently submitted a substantial business case to implement New Zealand’s first digital hospital in Dunedin.

Patrick Wang

DP World

Patrick Wang

IT Security Risk and Compliance, DP World

Patrick Wang is the IT Security, Risk and Compliance Specialist at DP World Australia (DPWA). He joined DPWA at a time of extensive cybersecurity uplift from the ground up and is responsible for developing the organization’s information security strategy, implementing the strategic information security roadmap, and providing expertise and guidance on cybersecurity operations, governance, risk, compliance, development and engagement. Prior to joining DPWA, he led cybersecurity programs in many sectors including eHealth, Telecommunications, Government, Software, Aviation, Banking and Finance. He worked at IBM Australia for many years and led to develop strategic security solutions. Some of them won IBM Head Office Innovation Awards for global use. He has more of a computer science, applied mathematics and academia background, initiated the “and” algorithm for keyword search over encrypted data, published widely on a range of cybersecurity and applied mathematics, reviewed papers for many international journals and conferences, taught cyber security subjects, and supervised PhD and master students. Patrick holds a Bachelor and Master of Applied Mathematics and Master and Doctor of Computer Science.

Paul Barratt

Ineos Grenadiers Cycling Team

Paul Barratt

Head of Performance Support & Innovation, Ineos Grenadiers Cycling Team

Paul Ewasuik

Collibra

Paul Ewasuik

Director of Cloud Partnerships, Collibra

Paul Janis

New York Life Insurance Company

Paul Janis

Corporate Vice President - Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, New York Life Insurance Company

Paul Mackay

Cloudera

Paul Mackay

Cloud Director, EMEA, Cloudera

At Cloudera, we believe that data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights.
To that end, we deliver an Enterprise Data Cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera accelerates digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

Mackay works within the Cloud team who are responsible for articulating the technology strategy for Cloudera in EMEA, working with counterparts globally, to ensure that the benefits of the Cloudera CDP platform is understood by both customers and business partners alike. As a broad theme, Mackay shows how the Cloudera data platform allows organisations to store, analyze, stream and ultimately derive value from data using solutions such as Data Warehouse and Machine learning, from the Edge to the DC to the Cloud.

Prior to joining Cloudera, Mackay was the EMEA CTO at Dell Technologies responsible for their Cloud Platforms, CI and HCI solutions. Previously his background was in pre-sales and professional services consultancy, working for some large IT organisations as well as running his own company for many years. Mackay has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry.

Paul Macpherson

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Paul Macpherson

CISO, Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Paul leads the Information Security team for Te Pūtea Matua (Reserve Bank of New Zealand), with responsibility for managing information and cyber security risks across the organisation.

Paul has over 30 years’ experience in information security administration, consulting and management roles across the public and private sector. Previously he held information security management roles at Westpac NZ and Xero, and spent 10 years with KPMG where he provided information security consulting and audit services to clients globally. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).

Paul Whelpton

JUMO (South Africa)

Paul Whelpton

Chief Analytics Officer, JUMO (South Africa)

Paulo Melo

Grupo Security

Paulo Melo

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Grupo Security

Financial Services executive with broad experience in all aspects of data and financial management. International experience with Data Strategy, Data Management, Advanced Analytics, M&A, Financial Planning & Analysis and Controlling.

Specialties: Data Strategy, Data Governance, Advanced Analytics, Competitive analysis, financing, mergers and acquisitions execution, budgeting, treasury.

 

Paulo Monteiro

Snowflake

Paulo Monteiro

Senior Solutions Engineer, Snowflake

With over 25 years of Data Analysis, Business Intelligence and ERP systems experience, I have had the opportunity to work in many roles including Systems Consultant, Pre & Post Sales Engineer, OLAP Modeler, ETL Designer, SAP Administrator and Developer.

My goal is to utilize best of breed cloud technologies, and provide data analytics solutions to complex business problems.



 

 



 

Paulus Susanto

Fullerton Health

Paulus Susanto

Head of IT, Singapore, Fullerton Health

Paulus is currently heading the Singapore IT Team at Fullerton Health Group. Prior to the work in healthcare, he was working in insurance business. He has over 10 years of experience in various senior IT positions during his career. His main experience including governance, application systems, service management, project management and IT security.

Pawan Verma

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China

Pawan Verma

Chief Data Officer, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China

Pawan is a data management, risk and regulatory practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the finance industry. He has led multiple large-scale strategic data management, regulatory, risk, finance and technology transformation programs at many of the Tier 1 global banks. Currently, he is the CDO at ICBC NY Branch and leads their data management group.

Penelope Maxwell

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Penelope Maxwell

Data Analytics Lead, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Penelope leads the Analytics Centre of Excellence at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and is a key driver in taking the global business on its journey to data self-sufficiency using an ‘Enterprise Analytics’ approach.  

 

Previously an engineer at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Penelope has a deep understanding of the company’s vision and purpose which in conjunction with her technical expertise and people leadership encourages others to see the ‘art of the possible’ with data and has helped shape the businesses vision for data. 

 

Pete Murray

Veritas Technologies

Pete Murray

Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand, Veritas Technologies

Pete Murray is the Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) at Veritas. In this role, he is responsible for leading Veritas' overall strategy, sales operations and new business growth in the ANZ region.

An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, Murray joined Veritas from Pure Storage where he was the Director of Strategic Channels for the Asia Pacific and Japan region. Prior to Pure Storage, Murray spent 13 years at Dimension Data where he last held the role of Regional Director for NSW and ACT, with key responsibilities to champion the organisation’s strategic business and cultural transformation. Under Murray’s leadership, his teams had consistently exceeded their business revenue targets for consecutive years. Earlier in his career, Murray spent time at Telstra Corporation, Touchbase and Avaya Communication where he held senior sales and marketing leadership positions.

Murray is passionate about making a difference by giving back through the IT community. In 2017, he co-founded the Jack Edge Connected Classroom Foundation which provides secure video connectivity from homes to classrooms for terminally ill children.

Murray holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Management Science and Information Systems from the University of Auckland.

Pete Williams

Penguin Random House UK

Pete Williams

Director, Data & Online, Penguin Random House UK

Peter Bouhlas

WA Police Force

Peter Bouhlas

Office of Digital Government, WA Police Force

WA Chief Information Security Officer at Office of Digital Government and board member of the Security Research Institute at ECU raising cyber security standards, practices and maturity for the public sector. Developing WA’s cyber security strategy, threat intelligence, incident response capabilities and training and awareness.

Previously Senior Director, Information Systems and Performance Audit, for the Office of the Auditor General. Spent many years developing policies, plans and strategies for auditing Information Systems across the WA public sector with a large focus on cyber security, risk management, BCP/DRP, ICT strategy and governance.

As Project Manager for a software development company, managed and led over 20 large-scale software implementation projects for Australian and international companies in agricultural, mining, oil and gas industries. Also spent time consulting for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank on a range of projects involving over 15 countries on ICT strategies, projects and auditing.

Peter Butler

Peter Butler

HCL

Peter Butler

Peter Butler

Data Science Lead - Europe, Asia & Australia, HCL

Peter Grabowski

Peter Grabowski

Austin Site Lead, Enterprise Machine Learning, Google,

Peter Grabowski is a longtime Googler and former Nest employee. He's currently the manager of the Enterprise Machine Learning team in Austin. Previously, he managed a data engineering team at Nest and helped build the Assistant for Kids team at Google. Outside of Google, he teaches machine learning as part of UC Berkeley's Master's in Data Science, and is a managing partner of PXN Residential, LLC.

Peter Lee

PLUS Malaysia

Peter Lee

Head, Customer Loyalty, Payment & Big Data, PLUS Malaysia

Peter Lee has extensive experience in Big Data, strategic marketing, analytics, open payment as well as development, implementation and operations of Digital & Business transformation programs. Since joining PLUS Malaysia Bhd as Head of Customer Loyalty, Payment and Big Data in 2018, he has made significant contributions by leading numerous Digital Transformation Projects, driving innovation in setting up Big Data capabilities and cashless payment, reinventing loyalty programs and establishing a robust ecosystem play framework for the organization. Prior to joining PLUS, Peter led various strategic business development initiatives including Big Data monetization, value realization, customer strategy development and business consulting across different industries such as telcos, banking, resources, media and entertainment. Peter graduated from University of Malaya with First Class Honors bachelor’s degree in Accounting.

Phil Zongo

Cyber Leadership Institute

Phil Zongo

CEO, Cyber Leadership Institute

I help experienced cybersecurity professionals break out of functional positions and accelerate their path into CISO roles, and gain credibility with key decision-makers and the board.

On an ambitious journey to develop a bonded tribe of 10 000 global cyber leaders by 2025, the Cyber Leadership Institute has already equipped cyber leaders from more than 30 countries with practical strategy design, leadership, and executive communication skills, helping sharpen their influence on the c-suite and the board.

Our executive education programs are underpinned by hundreds of carefully curated, high-quality and fully editable strategy toolkits to help cyber leaders (1) Accelerate budget approvals, (2) Rapidly build credibility with key decision-makers, and (3) Awe the board and executives with polished and unforgettable presentations.

Some of my career highlights include:

  • Author of The Five Anchors of Cyber Resilience, a best-selling, contemporary executive strategy book.
  • Author of The Gift of Adversity, an intriguing memoir coming soon.
    2017 winner of ISACA International’s Best Book/Article Award, one of ISACA’s highest global honours, which recognises individuals for major contributions to publications in the field of cybersecurity and IT governance.
  • 2020 Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD - New York) - 4th Industrial Revolution Category. MIPAD is a unique global list that identifies high achievers of African descent globally in support of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), proclaimed by the UN General Assembly Resolution 68/237.
  • 2019 Semifinalist - The Wharton Executive Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program Business Plan Competition, which features dozens of entrepreneurs globally.
    Nominee - Australian Information Security Association (AISA) - 2019 Cyber Security Professional & 2020 ISC2 Asia Pacific Senior Cyber Security Professional of the year awards
  • Winner of 2018 Zim International (Australia) Outstanding Achievement Award, African Australian NSW 2018 Outstanding Performance Award, 2019 Appreciate Africa Asia Outstanding in Business Award (Beijing, China), accolades that recognise achievements that far exceed the norm.

Philip Grenfell

H2O.ai

Philip Grenfell

Solution Engineering Lead, Australia & New Zealand, H2O.ai

Phoram Mehta

PayPal

Phoram Mehta

Senior Director, APAC CISO, PayPal

Pieta Brown

Pieta Brown

NZ Data Science & Analytics Forum,

Pieter J. Rossouw

Momentum

Pieter J. Rossouw

Insights Consultant & Research psychologist, Momentum

Pieter Van Der Merwe

Woolworths Group

Pieter Van Der Merwe

CISO, Woolworths Group

Pieter is the Chief Information Security Officer at Woolworths Group, responsible for all cyber security activities associated within the Group, which includes iconic Australian brands such as Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (NZ) and Big W. Based on revenue, Woolworths is one of the world’s largest retailers with over 3,500 stores and 200,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand.


Pieter has over 20 years experience in information security spanning a number of geographies and industries. Pieter started his early career as a graduate security administrator in the banking sector, played with some firewalls and encryption for a while and then tried his hand at consulting for 10 years. Pieter returned to the industry in 2015 as the CISO of Woolworths where he has been delivering the strategic cyber security transformation of Woolworths Group.


Pieter prides himself in taking a practical approach to information security, and is constantly searching for ways to derive the most value out of the current investments in security processes and technologies, and for getting the basics of security right. This philosophy has enabled Pieter to successfully lead the deployment of a number of security practices and projects throughout his
career.

Pieter Wessels

Nedbank

Pieter Wessels

Head: Consumer Innovation, Nedbank

Experience people manager in the fields of data science & machine learning, analytics & insights and BI / Visualization. I am a gifted problem solver, a creative story-teller (visualization wiz) using data and quantitative techniques and a people-first leader :)

I have more than 12 years experience in analytics, modelling and credit risk within a retail banking environment. I also have extensive experience with managing a team of analyst (both managers of self and managers of others) across a diverse array of specialities including machine learning and decisioning, collections-, pricing- and impairment* (LGDs, PDs etc.) modelling; reporting, forecasting, sales analytics and operational monitoring and reporting. (*though I was predominantly active during the IAS39 methodology and not IFRS9 - by then I had already moved on to ML, decisioning and collections modelling)

Where I am different is that I am intellectual, yet very practical in application with a keen eye for detail - I can work independently or through others (either as a supporting and guiding persona or by taking the lead) and although I am analytical very strong, I also have a unique creative side - able to take the complexity and translate it into simplicity. From complex data and huge amounts of information to relevant summaries, storylines, presentations and infographics using conventional tools like excel and PowerPoint, PowerBI or whatever gets the point across ... I make it work!

When managing I can be guiding or leading, depending on the situation at hand and the requirements. I am also a compassionate manager, yet strong and decisive when required.

I have managed various teams during my career, from the small innovative focus data science team to the
large Analytics and BI team with 20-25 analyst.

Specialities within the teams are various
1) programming languages like SQL, Python and SAS (and some JAVA, R and Matlab, but only when the project required it)
2) reporting tools like Excel, SQL and PowerBI,
3) agile techniques tolls (BitBucket, Confluence and JIRA) and
4) collaboration tools like MS Teams and SharePoint

My personal specialities lies within SQL/SAS with a bit of python the side and a real love for storytelling through tools like PowerBI.

Poon Hong Yuen

Ministry of Manpower

Poon Hong Yuen

Deputy Secretary (Workforce)/ Chief Data Officer, Ministry of Manpower

Hong Yuen is Deputy Secretary (Workforce) at Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower
(MOM), which aims to develop a productive workforce and progressive workplaces.
He is also MOM’s Chief Data Officer.


His previous role was as the Chief Executive of SPRING Singapore, the government
agency supporting the growth of enterprises in Singapore. Prior to SPRING, he was
the Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Law and before that Chief Executive Officer of
the National Parks Board. He had previously held various appointments in
organisations across the Public Service, including the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of
Trade and Industry, Economic Development Board and Infocomm Development
Authority. He had also worked as a venture capitalist covering markets in Shanghai
and Silicon Valley.


Hong Yuen graduated from Imperial College, London, with a first class honours degree
in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He has attended the Advanced Management
Programme at MIT Sloan School of Management and the International Executive
Programme at INSEAD. He also serves on the boards of CPF Board, the Institute for
Human Resource Professionals, Eden School and Pathlight School

Prafull Sharma

Prafull Sharma

UBS

Prafull Sharma

Prafull Sharma

Head of Core Banking & Chief Data Officer P&C Division, UBS

Pravin Kumar

Wibmo Inc.

Pravin Kumar

CISO, Wibmo Inc.

Pravin Kumar is a seasoned, futuristic and a thought leader in Technology, Cyber and Privacy domain. Pravin brings one of the unique expertise along with traditional Network, Application and End user device security which is to manage security and risk associated with new way of development called DevOps including CI/CD pipeline, containerization, Dockerization, Zero Trust architecture, Micro Service build, Sprint and story building. In Summary, A DevSecOps professional who practices Security and Privacy by Design.
Pravin has 20+ years of extensive industry experience in Technology and Cyber Strategy, Risk, Privacy, Compliance, DLP, DevSecOps, Cloud migration and security, Governance, transformation, Data Protection, Third Party Risk and Privacy domains of Information Technology with leading Banking and Financial Institutions.
Pravin Kumar is currently Director, India head of Technology and Cyber Control and Global head of Data Assurance practice at Barclays. He was responsible for the overall information and cyber security control strategy and its implementation across India captive CoE setups. In his expanded global role, he is currently responsible for the Technology, Data and Cyber Assurance Delivery, driving control strategy, delivery in this newly setup service.
He is the former Director, Global Head of Assurance (Tech, Cyber and Data) at Barclays. Prior to joining Barclays, he has performed various leadership roles in Cybersecurity and Information Technology GRC domain at Deutsche Bank (Head Risk, Regulatory and Control ( APAC) – 2 years), JP Morgan Bank (VP and Head global compliance CoE– 2.4 years), Program Manager for NCB and QIB in Middle East, HDFC Bank (AVP -GRC – 4 years), LIC (Head of IT Infra and Security- 11).

Pru Steinerts

UWA Data Institute

Pru Steinerts

Industry Engagement Manager, UWA Data Institute

Pru Steinerts is a member of the Office of Industry and Commercial Development at UWA. She has extensive experience in developing strategic partnerships between industry, business and government to anticipate future skill needs, enable improved outcomes and an increased industry connection to education. Pru’s focus is to enable national and state priorities and translation of research for impact in the portfolios space, data and radioastronomy.

Pru Steinerts has worked across academia, industry and government sectors and is passionate about improving student experience and facilitating industry and university partnerships to advance knowledge, solve problems and tackle emerging community issues. 

Quentin Williams

Deloitte

Quentin Williams

Associate Director: Digital Engineering, Deloitte

Quincey Collins

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Quincey Collins

Chief Security Officer, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

With over 20 years of combined experience in the information technology and information security field, Quincey Collins (CISSP, CIPP/US, GCIH, CISA) brings a multi-dimensional perspective with an emphasis on information security operations, privacy, auditing, compliance, vendor risk management, and IT operational risk management. Quincey spent 8+ years working for the United States Air Force in Germany, Italy, and England. Quincey spent an additional 5 years supporting different commands and agencies within the Department of Defense in Europe as a contractor/consultant.

In his role as the Chief Security Officer for Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton LLP, Quincey is responsible for information security, privacy and risk management strategy. He places a high emphasis on cybersecurity and privacy training for employees and continuing education for the information security department. Quincey recently led Sheppard Mullin through an extensive ISO 27001 audit and recertification process.

Quincey holds a B.S. in Cybersecurity, and a M.S. in Information Technology with a specialization in Information Assurance from University of Maryland University College.



Rachel Fojtik

Mater Health

Rachel Fojtik

Business Engagement Leader, Data and Digital Solutions, Mater Health

Rachel Fojtik is a seasoned leader of Data and Analytics with over 20 years experience leading end to end data platforms and teams. Rachel has been involved from inception in the creation of a number of analytics environments throughout multiple industries.  She has been in the healthcare industry for over six years and is a thought leader in the space of data literacy where she regularly shares presentations at conferences and gives opinions speaking on panels and podcasts, as well as running training programs.  Rachel is an influencer in many spheres from her place on the Nudgee College board to working with Executives, Clinicians and Clerks at Mater Hospital. She is good at finding the best in individuals in her teams and enhancing those to create high performing teams.

 

Rachel O'Brien

Bank of New Zealand

Rachel O'Brien

Head of Privacy & Data Ethics, Bank of New Zealand

Rachel O’Brien is the Head of Privacy & Data Ethics at BNZ, responsible for advising on privacy, data protection, and data ethics issues.  Rachel has over 13 years’ experience covering privacy, data protection, commercial contracts, consumer law and intellectual property. She has worked in multiple jurisdictions (United Kingdom, Middle East, and New Zealand) and has run strategically important projects with multiples stakeholders. 

 

Rad Aniba

Telethon Kids Institute

Rad Aniba

Head of Data Strategy and Governance, Telethon Kids Institute

Rade Bogdanovic

BigID

Rade Bogdanovic

Director Alliances APJ, BigID

Rafa Costa

Compra Agora

Rafa Costa

Head de Dados e Analytics, Compra Agora

Rafa Costa é um entusiasta em dados e desenvolvimento de negócios focados e tem 15 anos de experiência em arquiteturadesenvolvimentoimplementação de soluções e análise de dados. 
Consolidou sua carreira com foco na geração de valorestratégia e construção de novos produtos e serviços por meio de análise de dados, por issoem paralelo a sua carreiracriou a Data Lover, uma comunidade para profissionais de dados. Seu desejo com esse projeto é disseminar conhecimento sobre esse mundo que tanto ama porquesegundo eleos dados são a base de tudo! 

 

 



 

Rafael Lopes

SC Johnson

Rafael Lopes

Head Analytics, SC Johnson

Solid track on delivering P&L, Market Share and distribution results. Expert on developing effective and engaging teams.

 

Rafael Narezzi

CF Partners

Rafael Narezzi

Chief Technology Officer, CF Partners

Rajiv Dholakia

Privacera

Rajiv Dholakia

Head of Products, Privacera

Ram Karnati

Synchrony Financial

Ram Karnati

VP Data Engineering, Synchrony Financial

Ramesh Narayanaswamy

Aditya Birla Capital

Ramesh Narayanaswamy

Chief Technology Officer, Aditya Birla Capital

Ramesh is an experienced Chief Information officer / Chief technology officer across Banking, Financial markets, Wealth management, Insurance, Mutual funds, Lending , e-commerce, logistics and Digital delivery . He is a seasoned Technology leader with a passion for executing Transformational projects, which creates value across industry verticals. He believes and develops technology frameworks and innovative delivery models, which ensure standardisation of operational process, products and platforms.

Currently Ramesh is the Chief Technology Officer at Aditya Birla. He was previously with CIMB, Singapore Post, Standard Chartered Bank, IBM, Citi Bank, TCS, RNASYS.

Ramin Mobasseri

Wells Fargo

Ramin Mobasseri

VP Enterprise Artificial Intelligence, Wells Fargo

Randall Gordon

Citi

Randall Gordon

SVP, Global Data Governance Risk Officer, Citi

Randike Gajanayake

LGIAsuper

Randike Gajanayake

Head of Data Analytics and Performance, LGIAsuper

Randike is the Head of Data Analytics & Performance at LGIAsuper and Energy Super. He is responsible for providing strategic leadership in data and analytics excellence, which entails enterprise-wide data & analytics architecture, data analytics, business intelligence, data governance, compliance reporting, performance reporting.

Randike began his career in academia reading for and earning a PhD in computer science that investigated information privacy in eHealth systems from Queensland University of Technology and NICTA (now Data61). Following a postdoctoral fellowship, Randike made a career a shift to become an information and data management consultant working across multiple domains before joining LGIAsuper.

Randike is passionate in building decentralised data and analytics capability that contribute to a cultural uplift in data literacy across the whole enterprise. He is also a keen advocate of taking a people-first approach in building high performing data and analytics teams.

 

Randy Jenovai

PharmaPacks

Randy Jenovai

Head of Data & Analytics, PharmaPacks

Rasika Amarasiri

Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

Rasika Amarasiri

Data Analyst, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

Rasika Amarasiri is the Data Analyst at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. He has over twenty years experience in academic and research-related data management and analysis in health care and large scale global financial sectors. His career has spanned across multiple disciplines and institutions across industry and academia. He has a PhD in data mining from Monash University, Australia, a MSc and BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Ratih Sudirham

Okta

Ratih Sudirham

Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Ratih has been interested in cybersecurity since her undergraduate days starting with cryptography. Her first job is developing Operating Systems for highly secure Smart cards and has more than 10 years of experience in software engineering, technical consultancy, risk management and security solutions engineering combined.

Specialising in APJ region she is well versed in regional adoption of cyber security and digital transformation. She has been invited to participate and share information about account security on a few occasions including Apidays Singapore.

With Okta currently her role is to grow the Asia market and work with businesses implementing and adopting zero trust security with cloud technology without compromising user experience with Okta Workforce and Customer Identity Cloud Solutions.

Ray Chow

Westpac New Zealand

Ray Chow

Senior Manager Cyber Security Advisory, Westpac New Zealand

Ray Chow is passionate to make the internet safer for all New Zealanders. He has been in the Industry Security Industry for over 15 years and worked across various industries in Government and Private Sector. He has previously held roles with law enforcement responsibilities at Department of Internal Affairs and security leadership roles at Westpac and New Zealand Post.

He had experienced in Incident response, security operations & stakeholder managements. Recent years his focus has shifted towards the challenges in securing human beings. Currently he leads Westpac's Cyber Security Advisory team. Ray is active New Zealand Internet Task Force member since inception, Board Member, current mentors for the Internet Task Force and the Conference Programme Chair. He spent his free time volunteering for Summer of Tech to support the upcoming generation of talents.

Ray Greenwood

SAS Australia & New Zealand

Ray Greenwood

Customer Advisory Manager, SAS Australia & New Zealand

Ray is currently the manager of the Customer Advisory team for NSW at SAS. Prior to this, Ray has spent two decades in the world of advanced analytics as both a user and a vendor of analytics platforms across a diverse range of industries including financial services, retail, government, telecommunications and more. He has found that if there is one consistent theme across the years, countries, businesses and industries it is that there is always business value to be found in innovation driven by analytics.

Ray McRae

Crestone Wealth Management

Ray McRae

Cybersecurity Manager, Crestone Wealth Management

I am a dedicated IT professional with over 10 years’ experience working across both technical and IT management roles.

My areas of expertise include; an advanced technical knowledge IT Infrastructure design, Cyber Security and Microsoft technologies; an ability to solve technical problems in complex IT environments; provide efficient solutions for internal users; management of IT Infrastructure and Cyber Security systems and projects; and leading IT teams to meet business goals.

I have been a trusted advisor to Executive Management Teams, possessing extensive Financial Services industry experience regarding Risk Mitigation, Regulatory Compliance, Vendor Management and Stakeholder Engagement.

Raymond Mahlangu

Sanlam

Raymond Mahlangu

Chief Data Officer: Group Data Platforms and Services, Sanlam

Rebecca Holdsworth

Vodafone

Rebecca Holdsworth

Head of Privacy and Compliance, Vodafone

Bec is a seasoned leader who brings operational scale and deep privacy and compliance expertise to her role as Head of Privacy and Compliance at Vodafone. Bec has a passion for tackling privacy and fraud complexities head-on and building continuous improvement into operational compliance practices. She is a trusted partner to product, business, legal and engineering teams across the Vodafone. Bec has previously held a range of people, commercial and compliance roles in a number of large ANZ businesses across aviation, hospitality and telecommunications industries. Currently studying a Masters in International Security, Bec has a keen interest in ethical treatment of all people, ethical leadership and of course, ethical use of personal information. Bec is the current Chair of the Auckland chapter of the Privacy Officers’ Round Table, a role she has held for the last four years. In late 2021, after five years, Bec stepped down from role of Chair of Asylum Seekers Support Trust – a NFP focused on providing human services and upholding rights of Convention refugees and people seeking asylum in New Zealand.

 

 

Regan Murphy

Snowflake

Regan Murphy

Principal Sales Engineer, Snowflake

Resham Sivnarain

Vodacom

Resham Sivnarain

Tech Lead: Machine Learning & AI, Vodacom

Creative thinking and the ability to operationalise innovation.
An ability to deal with complex issues and migrate between detail and high-level requirements
A drive and commitment to exceed expectations and achieve excellence
A passion for personal development and growth with a high learning potential
A zest for knowledge and strong analytic and problems solving skills

Reuben Athaide

Standard Chartered

Reuben Athaide

Head, Cyber Security Advisory and DevSecOps, Standard Chartered

Reuben has a proven track record specialising in effectively blending diverse teams from multiple complex tech stacks/projects to create easy to use products that can be adopted across the organization to access revenue quicker by increasing the flow of work from left to right. Most recently driving and overseeing the building of a CI/CD pipeline, Cloud adoption and #shifting left with Security controls in pipeline. This combined with a diverse and extensive background in the business and in technology (having built and run trading systems, successfully managed large complex programs for tech and M&A), ensures the right IT is built secure by default and adopted to drive digital transformation.

Reza Salari

Pacific Life RE

Reza Salari

Head of Business Information Security (BISO), Pacific Life RE

Ricardo Raposo

B3

Ricardo Raposo

Diretor de Dados e Analytics, B3

Estatístico, líder experiente de equipes analíticas com alto nível de desempenho, atuando em empresas de referência na ciência de dados. (IBM, Credicard, Itaú Unibanco e B3)

Experiência profissional diversificada, incluindo políticas e operações de crédito e cobrança; modelagem de vendas e relacionamento com clientes; modelos de crédito e parâmetros nos padrões de Basiléia II e IFRS9; governança e privacidade de dados.

Responsável atualmente pela área de Data & Analytics da B3.

Ricardo Soler

QueroQuitar

Ricardo Soler

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, QueroQuitar

Ricardo Soler é sócio e Chief Data & Analytics Officer (CDAO) da fintech QueroQuitar e tem mais de 15 anos de experiência em ajudar clientes, internos e externo, a terem as melhores decisões de negócio baseadas em dados. Antes de assumir o desafio na QueroQuitar, Ricardo trabalhou em multinacionais como KPMG, Telefonica e Laureate e em empresas brasileiras como Cogna e Pratika. Ricardo é formado em administração de empresas, com MBA em Business e pós-graduação internacional em data science pela Texas University.

 

 



 

Ricardo Wendell

Thoughtworks

Ricardo Wendell

Data and AI Strategist, Thoughtworks

Ricardo possui mais de 16 anos de experiência desenvolvendo soluções em software e dados para diferentes indústrias. Como liderança técnica vem apoiando times e clientes, projetando e modernizando plataformas de dados para diferentes cenários nos últimos 6 anos. Atualmente é Principal Consultant na Thoughtworks apoiando projetos e iniciativas em Data & IA.









Richard Asch

Western Power

Richard Asch

Head of Cyber Security, Western Power

Technology leader with a genuine passion for solving complex problems, unlocking business value and mitigating cyber risk. Throughout his career, Richard has led cyber security teams in asset intensive industries, including national critical infrastructure operators, in Australia and abroad.

Richard Bird

Ping Identity

Richard Bird

Chief Customer Information Officer, Ping Identity

Richard Bird is the chief customer information officer for Ping Identity. He is a cyber security veteran, identity-centric security expert, voice of the customer and an advisor to the global marketplace on solutions for the most challenging business issues faced in today’s world. Richard is a dynamic international speaker and a pragmatic former corporate executive that cuts through the hype and hyperbole of today’s cyber security realities and does it in an engaging and thought-provoking way.

He has spent more than 20 years in corporate business and technology roles within multiple industries. His diverse background includes serving as a chief information officer, a chief information security officer and the global head of identity for JPMorgan Chase’s consumer businesses. Richard’s combination of IT operations and security experience have afforded him the opportunity to be a trusted and strategic advisor to hundreds of companies for topics ranging from identity-centric security, to threat and vulnerability management, data protection and cloud security. Richard is a member of the Forbes Tech Council and a board member for the Identity Defined Security Alliance.

Richard Fox

Qdoba Restaurants

Richard Fox

Former VP, Head of Analytics, Qdoba Restaurants

Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson

TigerGraph

Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson

Technical Director, TigerGraph

Richard has been an independent data system designer for over thirty years, consulting to most major industries including FIS, banking, retail and manufacturing. For the last ten years, he has concentrated on bringing the most advanced data technologies to market, with graph analytics as the natural evolution of that journey.

Rick Cavallaro

Forrester

Rick Cavallaro

Consultant , Total Economic Impact, Forrester

Rickard Lindell

Rickard Lindell

Nordea

Rickard Lindell

Rickard Lindell

Head of AI & Analytics, Nordea

Ridwaan Boda

ensafrica

Ridwaan Boda

ExecutiveTechnology, Media, and Telecommunications , ensafrica

“Ridwaan Boda of ENSafrica is widely respected for his ability to handle complex technology projects, with an impressive track record in large-scale outsourcings. Clients laud his "excellent grasp of the law, good technical knowledge, good customer manner and outstanding work ethic."” - Chambers Global Guide to the Worlds Leading Business Lawyers

I am the head of ENSafrica's award winning Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) law unit, co-head of the Fintech law unit and co-head of the data privacy practise.

For the past 7 years I have been a member of the United Nations Data Governance and AI Expert Group (previously the UN Global Pulse Privacy Advisory Group), and I am the current Chair of the Substantive Law Committee on Technology Sourcing of the International Technology Lawyers Association (previously Vice-Chair). I am also a member of the Advisory Board of the Innovation Law Club Africa and founder and Chair of Privacy Officers Africa.

I am a globally recognised, award winning lawyer in IT and Telecommunications law, data privacy law, corporate law, data commercialisation, and fintech.

My current and past accolades and awards include recognition as a leading global business lawyer by Chambers and Partners (IT and Telecommunications law and Fintech law), Best Lawyers (Corporate law and IT law) and the Client Choice Award for IT law.

I am a noted thought leader and public speaker, and I have facilitated, participated, led and / or presented at thought leadership and other events in TMT and data privacy laws globally, including at the United Nations HQ in New York, The Hague, Geneva, Accra, Bangalore and across South Africa. I have also authored numerous articles and publications.

I have specialist, extensive and deep expertise in all aspects of TMT and data privacy law, including:

dealmaking;
outsourcing and insourcing;
4IR law;
IT projects;
IT Procurement;
digitisation, advertising and marketing law;
new and emerging tech (including IoT, AI, drones, AdTech, Fintech, 3D printing etc);
data commercialisation and data philanthropy;
cloud-computing law;
social media law;
data and information privacy (including POPI and GDPR);
broadcasting, TV, film, sports and social media influencer / advertising agreements, as regulatory advice related thereto;
general IT and commercial agreements;
SLA's;
IP;
online commerce including website and app legal compliance;
distributorship arrangements, joint ventures and strategic alliances; and
mergers and acquisitions.

Rob Holmes

BHP

Rob Holmes

Lead Data Science and Analytics, BHP

Rob Knight

SUSE

Rob Knight

Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Cloud Products, SUSE

Rob is SUSE's CTO for Enterprise Cloud Products, and is responsible for SUSE's overall strategy and vision for Application Delivery. He has been working with containers in production environments since before Kubernetes was released, and played a critical role in taking SUSE's Application Delivery Solutions to market. He's been working in the Application Delivery space for over 12 years at a variety of companies, and speaks daily to customers, partners, press and analysts on the future of the Application Delivery marketplace.

Rob Roemers

STIB-MIVB

Rob Roemers

Head of Data & Analytics, STIB-MIVB

Robbie Whittome

Curtin

Robbie Whittome

CISO, Curtin

Robbie is responsible for leading the Cyber Security and Digital Identity portfolios at Curtin University, based in Perth, Western Australia. He brings more than 10 years of experience in technology and cyber security roles in the public and higher education sectors to build cyber-resilient capabilities and solutions.
As one of a few and a growing number of certified CISOs in Australia, Robbie provides unique and innovative solutions to ever-growing cyber security challenges. Robbie leverages transparency, trust, collaboration, and partnerships to ensure business operations and organisational strategies can be enabled in a cyber-resilient and risk-informed approach.

Robert Curtis

InterWorks

Robert Curtis

Regional Director: APAC, InterWorks

As part of a 25-year career in data and technology, Robert has been assisting organisations in Asia Pacific of all sizes and verticals in finding and maintaining success with their data and analytics.  In his 15 years with InterWorks and serving as the Director for Asia Pacific, Robert has worked with some of the largest companies in the world as a trusted advisor and solution partner.

Robert Di Schiavi

N Brown Group

Robert Di Schiavi

Group Cyber Security Engineering Lead , N Brown Group

Robert Fleming

Zivver

Robert Fleming

CMO, Zivver

Robert Fleming is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Zivver, responsible for all Marketing Strategy and Execution.  He has 25+ experience working in technology, applications and information security, spanning roles at Oracle, Qlik and PWC.  Robert spent a number of years living and working in Silicon Valley, USA at Oracle HQ responsible for areas of Applications Product Management where he defined and launched a portfolio of new software products.  As a Management Consultant at PWC he spent several years advising clients on the strategic use and application of new technologies in a number of vertical sectors spanning Financial Services, Telco, Retail, Public Sector. 

Roberto Cavicchioli

Tetra Pak

Roberto Cavicchioli

Director, Marketing Practices, Tetra Pak

Robin Antony

WSO2

Robin Antony

Solutions Architect, WSO2

As a Solutions Evangelist at WSO2, Robin consults with clients on their application and infrastructure security needs. With 11 years experience working with IAM and SIEM technologies across a range of industries including banking and retail sectors, Robin prioritises simplifying solutions through scripting and automation, while strategising with clients on their architectural and design requirements.

Robin Long

Rapid7

Robin Long

Regional Manager, Rapid7

Rodrigo Celoto

Safra

Rodrigo Celoto

Executive Superintendent - Data & CRM & Analytics, Safra

Searching and implementation of business opportunities with Data & CRM & Analytics.

 

 



 

Roey Eliyahu

Salt Security

Roey Eliyahu

Co-Founder & CEO, Salt Security

Roey founded the cyber security college to train the next generation of leaders and prepare them for elite security units serving in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). Roey also led development of security system projects at Cigol Digital Systems, a military grade security systems company. Prior to Cigol Digital Systems, Roey was a team leader in an elite cyber security unit of the IDF developing high-end security systems.

Roger Han

Roger Han

KMH Labs

Roger Han

Roger Han

VP, Strategy & Analytics, KMH Labs

Roger Temple

PGG Wrightson

Roger Temple

Information Security & Infrastructure Manager, PGG Wrightson

Roger started his career in Information Security April 2008 with an organisation called SpinVox, after 14 years in Arboriculture. SpinVox, a private equity start-up, pioneered transcription of mobile phone messages to SMS and email. He was part of the team that got SpinVox certified to ISO27001 and took the business through ISO9001 certification with no noncompliance’s – a first with BSI at the time. Roger took over management of the InfoSec function in early 2009 and managed all aspects of security across the organisation, its globally dispersed suppliers for transcription services, and maintained ISO certifications for 27001 and 9001. In late December 2009 SpinVox was acquired by Nuance communications and Roger became responsible for fronting security for all of Nuances service portfolios in the UK and Europe; Mobile, Healthcare and Enterprise services, all of which were driven by SaaS voice recognition platform. He managed customer facing technical sales support, platform security and complex data processing and usage scenarios for global dispersed customers and Nuance research and development teams. He was promoted to Director of the Mobile division in August 2014 and remained in this role until returning to New Zealand in February 2016. Roger worked with SSS IT Security Specialists as their Principal Security Consultant, managing the consultancy team as well as customer development and the new managed services for security operations. Roger undertook engagements with New Zealand Parliamentary Services, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Civil Aviation Authority. Roger started PGG Wrightson in April 2018, a greenfield role where he established the security function and strategy. Roger has driven a comprehensive programme of improvement work during the last 4 years covering suppliers, hosted environment, endpoint management, security automation and executive and board reporting, and in 2020 took on responsibility for the infrastructure team.

Rohan Langdon

Extrahop

Rohan Langdon

Principal Solution Architect, Extrahop

Rohan Langdon is Country Manager - Australia & New Zealand at ExtraHop. Rohan has a proven history of building strong collaborative relationships with customers and partners. Driven by continuous growth he's passionate about helping customers navigate and improve their operational efficiency and security posture, preparing for what lies ahead. Prior to this role, Rohan served as Country Manager - Australia, New Zealand & Japan at Forescout Technologies. Throughout his career, Rohan has spent close to two decades holding a number of leadership and direct sales roles with companies including, McAfee, Intel Security, Salesforce.com, Dell EMC & IT start-up Aconex(An Oracle company).

Ronia Bamann

BNP Paribas Securities Services

Ronia Bamann

Head of Continuous Improvement, BNP Paribas Securities Services

  • Head of digital transformation and continuous improvement program to industrialise processes
  • Over 20 years experience in leading cross-functional teams on projects and improvement initiatives in financial services
  • Master Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma and MBA from London Business School

Ronnie Rahman

The Lines Company

Ronnie Rahman

Head of Technology, The Lines Company

Ron is an IT and OT cyber security evangelist, he has spent his career working within the technology and security sectors. He has lead teams within government and private sector organizations focusing on cyber security, physical security and technology. He is currently working for The Lines Company in the King Country.

Rosane Ricciardi

UnitedHealth Group

Rosane Ricciardi

Data and Analytics Director - CDAO, UnitedHealth Group

 Large experience in Analytics, Data Science, Digital, Mobile , SAFe Agile and Design Thinking.

 

 



 

Rose Skandari

BP Australia

Rose Skandari

Data Science Manager, BP Australia

Dr Rose Skandari is a Data Science Manager at BP leading a high performing team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and developers to deliver AI driven solutions to the business for enabling the energy transformation and reimaging retail. She was named as Top 25 Analytics Leaders in Australia in 2020 and got nominated as a finalist for Women in AI Awards 2022. Rose has years of experience in successfully building Data Science teams and capabilities along with developing AI driven business strategies. She has contributed to many Advance Analytics and AI projects from design and development to implementation and deployment in various fields such as biomed, utilities, energy, finance, and retail.

Rose got her PhD from Melbourne University in 2017. Before that, with degrees in Electrical Engineering, she worked for over 5 years in the Oil & Gas industry.

 

Rosemary Cooper

Sonic Healthcare

Rosemary Cooper

Global Information Systems - Governance, Risk and Compliance, Sonic Healthcare

Rosemary is a seasoned health technology and business leader having co-founded one of Australia's leading health tech start-ups that was successfully acquired by an ASX listed company in 2015. Her experience includes start-ups and corporate businesses in managerial, C level, Board and directorship roles.

Having gained extensive experience in conceptualising and driving complex business design and digital projects across major global organisations - predominantly in the healthcare sector, her unique and diverse experience includes transforming organisations and their operating models to be compliance and customer-centric using innovative transformation strategies.

Her doctoral studies have centred around stakeholder theory and she has a strong interest in privacy, data governance and ethics, especially in the emerging AI landscape.

Rosemary is an accomplished professional speaker and published author.

Roshan Fernandes

Western Sydney Local Health District

Roshan Fernandes

Information Security & Risk Manager, Western Sydney Local Health District

Ross Asquith

Synack

Ross Asquith

Solutions Architect, Synack

Ross Asquith is an experienced member of Synack’s solution architect team and technically fluent in Synack’s crowd-sourced security platform and services. Ross has held technical roles in cybersecurity for over 20 years including at market-leading vendors Netskope and Zscaler. Ross’ industry knowledge and desire to help organisations transform their security makes him an informative and entertaining speaker.

Ross Wakelin

Airways New Zealand

Ross Wakelin

InfoSec Technical Lead, Airways New Zealand

Ross has worked in the InfoSec space since the mid 1980s. During this time he has worked for organisations such as the European Commission, UK MOD, UK Home Office, MI6, Telecom Italia, Dutch Military, Internet Security Systems, Citibank Global, Gen-I/Telecom, Meridian, Fulton Hogan, Datacom and a myriad of others in various consultancy roles. He is currently working for Airways Corporation of New Zealand as their InfoSec Technical Lead, where his role is defining the Security Architecture and designing and implementing solutions along that roadmap. In his spare time Ross is an adult educator, delivering courses in Emergency Management across Civil Defence organisations in NZ.

Rudo Tagwireyi

University of Canterbury

Rudo Tagwireyi

CISO, University of Canterbury

Delivering value while balancing risk and cost is essential to me, I work efficiently to meet objectives. My core value is stewardship; as such, I diligently and efficiently ensure the best outcomes for anything entrusted to me. My passion is ensuring that information technology is a business enabler with business-related technology risks adequately addressed without comprising on security or operational effectiveness. I am a thought leader who puts people first before processes and technology when addressing security risks.

Rune Rasmussen

Rune Rasmussen

SpareBank 1 SR Bank

Rune Rasmussen

Rune Rasmussen

Chief Data Officer, SpareBank 1 SR Bank

Rupal Sumaria

Penguin Random House UK

Rupal Sumaria

Head of Data Governance, Penguin Random House UK

Ryan Faulds

AWSN

Ryan Faulds

Perth Chapter Lead, AWSN

Ryan is the lead Talent Acquisition Specialist with Servian Perth - A company who design, deliver and manage innovative data & analytics, digital, customer engagement and cloud solutions that help our customers sustain competitive advantage. He has spent a number of years recruiting across Software Engineering, Data & Analytics and Cyber Security. He is also one of the Perth AWSN Chapter Leads and is passionate about connecting, supporting and inspiring women in Security across Australia.

Ryan Kalember

Proofpoint

Ryan Kalember

Executive Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy, Proofpoint

With almost 20 years of experience in the information security industry, Mr. Kalember currently leads cybersecurity strategy for Proofpoint and is a sought-out expert for leadership and commentary on breaches and best practices. His global team of security experts ensures that Proofpoint’s customers have consistent insight into the attacks that target their people.

Mr. Kalember joined Proofpoint from WatchDox where he served as both chief product officer and chief marketing officer and was responsible for successfully building and leading the product and marketing teams through the company’s acquisition by BlackBerry. Prior to WatchDox, he was instrumental in running solutions across Hewlett-Packard’s portfolio of security products. He has also held a variety of leadership positions at ArcSight and VeriSign, working as a security practitioner across the US, EMEA, and Latin America.

In addition to serving as a trusted advisor to CISOs worldwide, Mr. Kalember is also a member of the National Cyber Security Alliance board and Cybersecurity Technical Advisory Board. He has provided cybersecurity counsel to the Aspen Institute, National Governors Association, and global government delegations including Jordan, North Macedonia, Peru, and Spain, and his expertise has been featured on ABCNews.com, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, NBC Bay Area, NBC Nightly News, USA Today, VOX, The Washington Post, and WIRED. He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, where he studied fault tolerance, cryptography, and authentication algorithms.

Ryan Ko

University of Queensland

Ryan Ko

Chair and Director of Cyber Security, University of Queensland

Professor Ryan Ko is Chair and Director of Cyber Security at the University of Queensland, Australia. At UQ, he established UQ Cyber - UQ's interdisciplinary cyber security education programme and research centre. He previously held scientific leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard Labs and the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research is central to many critical infrastructure, cloud security, data provenance and SIEM tools across open source (OpenStack, Kali Linux) and industry tools (ArcSight) today. He has published 100+ publications in top venues and has received A$13million in competitive research funding. A Fellow of Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and recipient of the (ISC)2 Information Security Leadership Award, he holds a PhD and B.Eng.(Comp. Eng.)(Hons) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the co-founder of the NZ Cyber Security Challenge, and drafted the NZQA Level 6 Cyber Security qualification as part of the NZ Cyber Security Skills Taskforce (Dept. of Prime Minister and Cabinet).

Ryl Jensen

Digital Health Association (formerly NZHIT)

Ryl Jensen

CEO, Digital Health Association (formerly NZHIT)

Digital Health Association (formerly NZHIT) was formed in 2002 as a not-for-profit, incorporated society and has grown to become the peak body for the New Zealand digital health industry sector. Our membership represents the majority of digital health companies and organisations operating in New Zealand as well as a broad cross-section of healthcare providers, consultancies, legal, insurance, banking, government, regional agencies and international companies with an interest in New Zealand's health sector.

Sabarinathan Sampath

Wire19

Sabarinathan Sampath

Chief Strategy Officer, Wire19

Sabarinathan Sampath, Chief Strategy Officer, Wire19 (a venture of ZNet Technologies) is a proficient and seasoned senior executive with over two decades of experience in delivering large-scale, custom, integrated technology solutions for leading telcos, hosters, and large enterprises. His expertise includes consulting and launching of cloud services delivery platform (offering array of SaaS/IaaS/PaaS services). He is an inspirational leader who works effectively in building new global, cross-functional teams focusing on sustainable results with a process-oriented approach. He has held senior positions in Europe and in Southeast Asia in large multi-national organizations. He is a regular speaker/moderator/panellist in various events centred around emerging technologies, cloud, digital transformation, and datacenter and hosting industry.

He is now settled in India with his wife and 2 kids. He loves to get on long rides on his cycle as a part of his daily routine. For more details on his profile, you may look at: https://in.linkedin.com/in/sabarisampath.

Saeid Abolfazi

Saeid Abolfazi

TELUS

Saeid Abolfazi

Saeid Abolfazi

Head of Data, Analytics, and Robotic Processes, TELUS

Sagi Shahar

CommBank

Sagi Shahar

Senior Manager, Penetration Testing, CommBank

Sagi is a Cyber Security professional for over a decade. His main focus is offensive security (penetration testing, red/purple teaming, and security research) on both technical and strategic levels. He is very passionate about security training as well as building offensive security capabilities and practices for organisations. He has published some of his work in various conferences/universities across Australia and online. His experience include local and global industries such as government, education, media, mining, and financial.

Sahar Nezami

Sahar Nezami

Bank of Canada

Sahar Nezami

Sahar Nezami

Senior Director, Analytics & Insights, Bank of Canada

Sam Barfoot

Checkmarx

Sam Barfoot

Security Architect, Checkmarx

Sam Kline

Energy Australia

Sam Kline

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Energy Australia

Sam Riethmuller

Coles

Sam Riethmuller

Head of Advanced Analytics, Coles

I joined the Coles team almost 7 years ago, after several years in research and consulting across various industries – uplifting data analytics capabilities to solve complex business problems.

As Head of Advanced Analytics at Coles, I’m proud to be leading a high-performing team of architects, data scientists, engineers, and delivery specialists in empowering our leaders, enabling our frontline teams and ultimately in transforming the customer experience. In a short space of time, our team has developed impressive in-house capability, with robust cloud engineering and data management infrastructure, extensive customer insights and advanced analytics, forecast and optimisation modelling, and powerful AI and machine learning capability. Our industry-leading solutions are addressing a range of business problems, including customer acquisition/retention, demand forecasting, scoring, space/range optimisation and cost monitoring.

 

And this is just the beginning…

 

We have a growing and diverse range of customers with differing needs and we’re operating in an ever-changing, challenging world. We must ‘change at pace’, be efficient, and ‘innovate for the future’. This requires us to invest in our current and future capability, so we can continue to deliver unbeatable customer experiences. To achieve this, we need to arm our teams with the right information and the most advanced tools, so we’re able to develop their trust, confidence, and capability. Importantly, we must ensure our technology roadmaps are aligned with the broader business strategy. At Coles, this involves aligning around a single, integrated, customer-driven demand forecast, that drives data-led commercial decisions and operational optimisation.

 

I have a passion for aligning and empowering retail leaders to better understand technology, its potential, and in leading them through the discovery of opportunities to harness data in delivering on a common strategic vision. At Coles, we’re lucky to have significant top-down support – through investment in the technology and in the development our people, who are ultimately our greatest assets. I’m passionate about gender diversity in data and analytics and in bridging the gap between academia and industry. Approximately 40% of our lead roles are held by women and our graduate program has mentored and helped develop over 100 future scientists and technologists. I’m pleased to say that data science at Coles is a thriving hub of diversity, inclusion and cutting-edge technology and we’re continuing to evolve our “centre of excellence” though a variety of change management initiatives, so we’re able to “translate the tech” into a set of meaningful experiences for our teams and our customers.

It’s certainly an exciting time to be partnering with data and analytics and I’m proud to be leading on this and presenting at the Corinium conference this year.

Sam Shaheen

City of Melbourne

Sam Shaheen

Director City Data, City of Melbourne

Samantha Gavel

Information & Privacy Commission NSW

Samantha Gavel

NSW Privacy Commissioner, Information & Privacy Commission NSW

Samantha Gavel was appointed as NSW Privacy Commissioner on 4 September 2017. Her role is to promote public awareness and understanding of privacy rights in NSW, as well as providing information, support, advice and assistance to agencies and the general public. Her responsibilities include the preparation of reports recommending legislative, administrative or other action in the interests of privacy as well as conducting inquiries and investigations into privacy related matters.

Ms Gavel has the power to deal with complaints about privacy matters, monitor agency functions while reporting to the Attorney General about proposals for legislative or administrative change.

The Privacy Commissioner administers the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIP Act) and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (HRIP Act).

Most recently Ms Gavel was the National Health Practitioner Ombudsman and Privacy Commissioner, and previously held the role of Private Health Insurance Ombudsman for six years. Ms Gavel has also worked in senior administrative roles for both NSW and Commonwealth Government organisations. She is an experienced mediator and has significant expertise in complaints handling, dispute resolution, privacy rights and ombudsman work, as well as a deep knowledge and understanding of Australia’s health system.

Ms Gavel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sydney University. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has completed accredited mediation training with LEADR.

Ms Gavel is chair of the Council of The Women’s College at the University of Sydney and the independent member of the Private Health Insurance Code of Conduct Compliance Committee.

Sameer Vanodia

BNP Paribas

Sameer Vanodia

Head of Data Analytics, BNP Paribas

Sameer is a transformational leader with 15+ years of experience in finance industry with global banks, clearing house and stock market. Sameer has strategically leveraged the power of Data & analytics to grow business and to meet regulatory expectations. Sameer has extensive Data Governance, Data Management, Data quality and Analytics experience, establishing new functions, building global teams and delivering end to end solutions.

Sami Laine

Okta

Sami Laine

Director, Technology Strategy, Okta

Sami Laine is Director of Technology Strategy at Okta. For the last couple of decades, Sami has helped many of the world's largest enterprises, financial institutions, and public sector organisations protect against fraud, malware, threats, and data breaches, and now at Okta helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.

Sammi Li

Flagstar

Sammi Li

Chief Analytics Officer - Community Banking, Flagstar

Samuel Santoso

Moula

Samuel Santoso

Head of Data and Automation, Moula

Sandhya Iyer

Latitude Financial Services

Sandhya Iyer

Chief Data Officer, Latitude Financial Services

I am a thought leader passionate about helping businesses leverage data as a strategic asset to solve problems and identify new opportunities. With over 15 years of experience in a number of data disciplines such as Analytics, Insights, Reporting, Data Science, AI/ML, Data Governance & Quality, I  take pride in in driving customer and commercial value through effective use of data. Lately my focus has been on building data rich culture in the organisation by uplifting data literacy, improving data trust worthiness and promoting self serve capabilities. One of my biggest professional goal in life is to be able to create a “No data No decision” culture in an organisation.

Outside of work, I volunteer as a Girls Liaison director  for a not-for profit organisation called “Go-Girl, Go for IT” which is a part of VIC ICT for Women. Go-Girl is mainly focussed on helping young girls from the age of 10 – 17 understand and develop interest for career in STEM.

I have 2 beautiful children, a boy aged 7 and girl 4 and work – life balance is an important input into my everyday decision making.

Sankaraiah Sreeramula

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Sinar Mas

Sankaraiah Sreeramula

Chief Data Scientist, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Sinar Mas

Dr. Sankar Sree is a performance-driven forward-thinking technocrat with an innovation mindset and has over 15+ years of experience in leveraging machine learning models and data mining to uncover insights ($300M++ in business growth in last 3 years). He is proficient in communicating complex statistical modelling to revenue growth business opportunities. Dr. Sankar is highly motivated, enjoy solving complex problems, leading and mentoring technical team, optimising data management, automation, and integration. He has a proven track record in leading 50+ challenging projects in ML/AI, Digital Transformation, eCommerce, Industrial IoT and AWS Cloud by being trusted advisors to the clients, guiding them through the journey. Currently he holds the position of Chief Data Scientist (Head of Data Science) at APP Sinarmas.

Sarah Hamel

Sarah Hamel

Laurentian Bank of Canada

Sarah Hamel

Sarah Hamel

AVP Data Governance, Laurentian Bank of Canada

Sarah Iannantuono

SEEK

Sarah Iannantuono

Security Influencer, APAC Security, SEEK

Sarah Iannantuono is a Cyber Security Strategy and Influence leader, with a background that sits at the intersections of Data Protection, Cyber Strategy and Security Culture. Sarah has led a Data Protection Office of a large staff company, built security awareness programs, and has been the voice of security within her organisation. While Sarah's passion lies in cyber security strategy and education, she is also a self-professed pop culture & coffee nerd.

Sarah Keelan

Family planning New Zealand

Sarah Keelan

Clinical Information Systems Co-ordinator, Family planning New Zealand

Sarah is a Registered Nurse with a Master of Public Health from The University of Sydney. Sarah last worked clinically in 2017 and has since undertaken a range of roles in primary and tertiary healthcare bridging the gap and improving processes between IT, data, and clinicians.

Sarah worked for Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network in Sydney before moving to Waikato DHB in 2019. Sarah now works at Family Planning where she implements Nationwide processes. Sarah believes successful projects in healthcare must include data and requires collaboration between clinicians, operational managers, and data analysts in order to be fit for purpose.

Sasha Beharilal

MWEB (South Africa)

Sasha Beharilal

(Attorney) Compliance & Regulatory Manager, MWEB (South Africa)

I am a tech, media and telecoms lawyer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I have worked at a TMT law firm in Johannesburg, and at a NASDAQ-listed edu-tech company where I have gained considerable experience in regulatory compliance and privacy law (POPIA, GDPR, CCPA, and Privacy Shield). As of Jan 2020, I am the Compliance and Regulatory Manager at Mweb. In addition, am the founding chapter chairperson of IAPP Cape Town (2019-2020) and a board member of ISPA.

Beyond privacy, cyber security and law, I love marketing (the aggressive, fearless function that contrasts the cautious, risk-averse compliance function) - corporate symbiosis. I am also passionate about social development. I have been active with Rotaract (and Rotary) and many other social initiatives.

Schellie-Jayne Price

Chevron Australia

Schellie-Jayne Price

Senior Legal Counsel & Digital Translator, Chevron Australia

As a Women in Technology WA Tech 20 Award Winner 2021, Legal Technology & Innovation Committee Chair for the Association of Corporate Counsel and Advisory Board Member for the Centre for Legal Innovation Aust & NZ, SJ as inspired use of data science in the law and beyond.

Scott van Kalken

Orca Security

Scott van Kalken

Systems Engineer, Orca Security

Scott is an experienced Developer and DevOps practitioner. He has worked as a developer deploying cloud native applications and infrastructure across multiple organisations. Most recently Scott has been working in the security field, and has been helping developers and DevOps teams understand security, but also helping security teams understand DevOps teams. Scott is passionate about DevOps, DevSecOps, automation and building software securely. Scott will happily talk about deep malware analysis, or deploying at speed to kubernetes using pipelines (or anything in between). Scott believes that pragmatism is the thing that security and devops teams should be focused on to make their lives better.

Sean Burns

QBE Insurance

Sean Burns

Head of Data & Analytics for Asia, QBE Insurance

Sean Burns is the QBE Insurance Head of Data & Analytics for Asia. He has over 20 years hands on experience working in Data & Analytics in banking and insurance internationally. He worked and lived in India, Japan, Singapore (currently based), and his home country, the United States. Started as an analyst, he then moved up to train analysts, leading analysts, and leading D&A teams.


At QBE, Sean created and implementing a three pillar D&A strategy in order to:
1. Ensure our data is the source of truth
2. Utilise advance analytics tools of machine learning/AI to solve business programs
3. Expand data literacy of the QBE Asia talent

He is married with his wife Emi, and two sons, Tommy and Ryan. Sean loves to travel around the world, and he volunteers as a Scoutmaster for Troop 7.

Sean MacCarthy

Claire's Inc

Sean MacCarthy

Executive Director Global Analytics & Store Segmentation, Claire's Inc

Sean MacCarthy is the Executive Director of Global Analytics and Store Segmentation for Claire’s Inc. Sean has worked in Retail, Operations, Supply Chain and B2B Analytics and Strategy for the last five years across the Home Appliance, Chain Drug Retailer and Fashion Accessories Industries with a focus on utilizing cross-functional data and insights to drive company strategies. He has been the “boots on the ground” cleansing the data and building the models, the leader in introducing emerging technologies and working with IT to implement them and the strategist who utilizes his team’s insights across their various functions to provide company direction. Prior to his corporate work, Sean was a Philosophy Professor whose area of concentration was epistemology.

He completed his Philosophy graduate work at Fordham University and his undergraduate work at Miami University (OH).
Sean resides in the Chicago, Illinois area with his wife and four children.

Sebastian Klapdor

Sebastian Klapdor

Vistaprint

Sebastian Klapdor

Sebastian Klapdor

Chief Data Officer, Vistaprint

 

 

Seema Sewell

Maricopa County

Seema Sewell

Assistant CISO, Maricopa County

Seema is the Assistant Chief Information Security Office for Maricopa County, currently the 4th most populous county in the United States. She has been managing programs in the government sector for almost 20 years starting with the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases through public health measures.  With adoption of ARRA and its HITECH provision in 2009, Seema shifted her focus towards the integration of technology and healthcare to promote data driven decisions while maintaining data security and privacy.  She quickly realized that diseases in humans and ‘diseases’ in computers are pretty much the same thing and has leveraged her experience in both areas to take a holistic, systems approach to information security that she has employed for the better part of a decade. 

 

Serena H. Huang, PhD

PayPal

Serena H. Huang, PhD

Global Head of People Analytics & HR Technology, PayPal

Sergio Gaiotto

Oi

Sergio Gaiotto

Chief Analytics Officer, Oi

27 anos de mercado, atuando com Transformação Digital.

Nos últimos 10 anos, levando consciência da importância do uso de dados com Cultura Analítica e geração de valor com Data-Driven Strategy. Atuando em alguns setores como: Telecom, Varejo, Seguros, Produtos Financeiros, Benefícios, Serviços e Saúde.
Com a aplicação de Business Intelligence, Big Data, AI & Advanced Analytics (Ciência de Dados), Inteligência Artificial e IoT.

Contribuindo consistentemente na transformação das empresas com uso de dados confiáveis, democratizando o acesso e simplificando seu uso.

Sou apaixonado por aquilo que faço, estou sempre atento a inovação, com foco em resultados, liderança e desenvolvimento das pessoas.

Meu objetivo é contribuir com soluções diferenciadas e sustentáveis, com visão fim a fim, buscando atender ao objetivo estratégico da companhia, com rentabilidade e solidez. Compartilhar conhecimento, liderando e desenvolvendo pessoas, atento a cultura e momento da empresa, com olhar integrador e ações sustentáveis.

 

Sergio Lopes dos Santos

RD

Sergio Lopes dos Santos

Data & Analytics Director/CDO, RD

Responsible for business development, implementation and technical solutions for digital projects in Innovation/ Analytics / Artificial Intelligence / Business Intelligence / Big Data.


Sergio Mejía

Yellowbrick

Sergio Mejía

VP Latin America, Yellowbrick

Helping companies making sense of data and accelerating insights.

Shaan Ciantar

Jacobs

Shaan Ciantar

Data Interaction Designer, Jacobs

I seek to enhance the relationship that humans have with data. The fourth industrial revolution is inevitable and scary for many, but contrary to the mainstream opinion, I believe we are faced with a tremendous opportunity to empower individuals with the information they’re seeking, and the means to act on it. The potential negatives are not lost on me; the ethics in AI and automation are key areas of concern. I draw from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to: Data Science, Behavioural Economics, Analytic Philosophy, and Human-Centred Design.

As a Data Interaction Designer, my role involves determining how data used, presented, and interacted with in order to improve workflows and lessen the mental strain involved. I remember several key instances where technology has made my life qualitatively better – my first Gameboy, instant messaging, and digital art, to name a few. More recently we’re seeing the emergence of informative dashboards and data capture systems, which I see as having the amazing potential to not only enhance productivity, but to improve worker satisfaction.

Shafiullah Ismail

Mubadala Capital (UAE)

Shafiullah Ismail

VP & Head of Cyber Security Architecture, IT Governance & Risk, Mubadala Capital (UAE)

Shahab Siddiqui

Petrofac (UAE)

Shahab Siddiqui

Global Head: Cyber Security, Petrofac (UAE)

Shahid Faiz

Shahid Faiz

Principal Engineer, Latitude Financial Services,

I am working as Principal Data Engineer with Latitude. Over the last 3 years, I have helped data engineering and platforms team at Latitude to build, scale and support data engineering and ML platforms. Before Latitude, I have been with Sportsbet and contributed to data engineering, and ML platform there. I am always curious to figure out how technology can be stretched to solve business problems in a repeatable and scalable way.

 

Shaik Abdulkhader

Leading Petrochemical Company (Qatar)

Shaik Abdulkhader

CISO, Leading Petrochemical Company (Qatar)

Shailesh Yerram

Shailesh Yerram

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited

Shailesh Yerram

Shailesh Yerram

Managing Director, BI Analytics and Cloud COE, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited

Shamsul Izhan Abdul Majid

Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commissions (MCMC)

Shamsul Izhan Abdul Majid

Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commissions (MCMC)

Recognised for his track record in Digital Transformation for business growth, Sam is a Business Technology leader with vast international experience in driving innovative growth across a diverse range of landscape including transportation, utilities, logistics, telecommunications and Government. At the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Sam is responsible as the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer (CTIO) over the Commission's technology, innovation vision and strategies execution for growth whilst focusing on improving technological advancement.

He had bootstrapped start-ups, drives corporate innovation, a regular public speaker and gained recognition with innovation awards of IDC, APICTA and iAwards. He holds a Research Masters and Engineering Degree from University of Melbourne, Australia.

Shane Moffitt

Digital Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet

Shane Moffitt

Deputy CISO for Victorian State Government, Cyber Security Branch, Digital Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet

Shane Moffitt is a senior cyber risk executive with a passion for offering new perspectives to deliver tangible improvements to technology systems that form the backbone of business operations. Throughout his career, Shane has demonstrated the vision to lead from the front, win broad-based acceptance for his project management methodologies, technology solutions and concepts, and deliver the type of infrastructure growth, stability and compliance that adds value to the organisations he serves.

Sharat Nautiyal

Vectra.AI

Sharat Nautiyal

Regional Security Architect, Asia, Vectra.AI

Sharat has over 15 years of experience assisting organizations in the areas of security architecture, threat detection and threat hunting. As a Security Engineer at Vectra.AI, Sharat works with enterprises across Asia to assist with the security foundations covering visibility, detection and response across on-premises, multi-cloud and hybrid footprint which helps organization embrace agile technologies to stay competitive. Sharat is a member of Sans/GIAC Advisory Board and holds multiple security certifications such as CISSP, CRISC, CISM, GCIH,CDPSE,CCSK etc

Sharon Shea

Former member of Interim Health New Zealand Board

Sharon Shea

Principal, Shea Pita & Associates Ltd, CEO, Manawaroa Ltd, Board member, Te Aka Whai Ora (Māori Health Authority), Former member of Interim Health New Zealand Board

Sharon Norma Shea MNZM is a New Zealand chairperson. She has various governance roles and holds board memberships, mainly in the health sector. She is the current chairperson of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board and the co-chairperson of the establishment board of the Māori Health Authority.

Shehan Fernando

Westpac

Shehan Fernando

Senior Manager, Data Analytics, Westpac

Shehan is currently a Data Analytics Senior Manager at Westpac Group. Previously he was an Associate Director in KPMG’s Management Consulting practice in Brisbane. Shehan has a raft of experience in technology, data analytics, risk management, assurance, artificial intelligence, machine learning, strategy and program/project management. He has a very strong passion for the space sector especially in observational astronomy and astrophysics, and was a member of the KPMG Australian Space Agency Client Service Team. Shehan is also part of the steering committee for the SmartSat Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Space Cooperative Research Center (CRC), where they look at the implementation of AI and other emerging technologies through the use of Satellites in Australia and around the world.

Shehan recently completed his thesis to develop an Artificial Intelligence model to find new exoplanets using data from NASA's TESS space satellite.

Siavash Motearefi

Fair Work Commission

Siavash Motearefi

Chief Data Officer, Fair Work Commission

Siavash is an end-goal and solutions-focused professional with over 20 years of experience in data governance, data quality management, data and digital strategy, change management, and program implementation. 

Siavash has extensive experience across a diverse range of business areas including working in analytics and information management at executive levels, formulating corporate business intelligence, Information Management (IM), Advanced Analytics Strategies, developing transformation roadmaps as well as overseeing strategy execution with a passion for bringing people, data, and technology together to drive business objectives.

Siba Salloum

GEMS Education (UAE)

Siba Salloum

Head: Corporate Data & Analytics, GEMS Education (UAE)

Silvina Arce

Grupo Falabella

Silvina Arce

Corporate Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Grupo Falabella

Experienced Chief Data Officer, establishing a robust and integral Data Governance and Data Management model, with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. She has been involved in Banking transformations for more than 20 years, projects related to Core Banking and Digital transformation. She has been leading this kind of projects in different financial institutions worldwide during the last 20 years.

 

Simon Herbert

NSW Department of Customer Service

Simon Herbert

Chief Data Officer & Executive Director, Data and Insights, NSW Department of Customer Service

Simon Lim

Checkmarx

Simon Lim

Business Director, Checkmarx

Simon Lim is the Business Director for Checkmarx Asia Pacific whose role is to develop and expand new businesses in the area of Application Security Testing. He currently works with enterprises and security partners to provide the technology, expertise, and intelligence to enable developers to secure their apps and to deliver secured software faster. Simon has more than 20 years’ experience in various roles driving sales, marketing and business development with Cisco, EMC & VMware.

Simphiwe Phakathi

Standard Bank Group

Simphiwe Phakathi

Executive Head: Personalization, Business and Commercial Clients, Standard Bank Group

Simphiwe is a seasoned banker with more than 16 years’ experience across full data value chain. He has experience in the SA and Africa Regions market and has been exposed to different aspects of personal and business banking from product, risk, segment and customer management. Simphiwe is a seasoned data management, business intelligence and analytics profession and a business academic at heart

Siobhan Hady

Corinium

Siobhan Hady

Head of Research & Production, Corinium

Sitt Paing

Pun Hlaing Hospitals

Sitt Paing

Interim Chief Technology Officer, Pun Hlaing Hospitals

Dr Sitt Paing is a Healthcare Management Professional and Health Tech Enabler working as Interim CTO at Pun Hlaing Hospitals Group in Myanmar. He worked as clinical practitioner for 4 years and worked in different managerial positions for more than 5 years. Despite of all the challenges in Myanmar, he is managing to support filmless and paperless digital hospital operation in 3 hospitals and 4 clinics across the country. Myanmar is currently going through a hard time but he believes that quality healthcare will always be a demand. He is currently leading the innovative delivery of care through available technology and data usages for the catchment population of 3 Millions. His academic background includes clinical, managerial and digital technologies from Myanmar and UK.

Siva Sivasubramanian

BigInsights

Siva Sivasubramanian

Cyber Security Advisor, BigInsights

Siva is a well-rounded IT professional with rich senior management experience gained by working for organizations around the world. He has demonstrated abilities in building and running IT organizations. He has held several sensitive roles such as CIO, CTO, Chief Architect and Project Director for large projects.

Skip McCormick

BNY Mellon

Skip McCormick

Data Science Lead in Architecture and Data Office, BNY Mellon



Sonya Crosby

Westpac New Zealand Limited

Sonya Crosby

Chief Data Officer, Westpac New Zealand Limited

Sonya is Chief Data Officer for Westpac New Zealand, responsible for driving the strategic direction of Westpac New Zealand’s data quality and maturity, enabling business transformation and a differentiated customer experience.  Sonya has a strong background in digital innovation, harnessing new technologies to deliver new value, most recently as General Manager of Everyday Banking at the Bank of New Zealand and prior to this as the Chief Innovation Officer at SkyCity Entertainment Group where her role focused on creating new value across core, adjacent and breakthrough horizons.  Other roles include GM Digital Innovation at Fonterra Group, Managing Director at Datamine and Senior Executive Marketing & Communication roles in both Australia and New Zealand.  Sonya was recently listed in the  CDO Top 100 Global Data Power Women of 2022, won the Informatica Global Data Governance Award in 2021, is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing and current Vice Chair of the NZ Tech Leaders Executive.

Sovan Sahu

Sovan Sahu

Canada Life

Sovan Sahu

Sovan Sahu

Director, Data & Analytics, Canada Life

Sovan is passionate about delivering Technology Platform Solutions in the Data & Analytics space. His expertise is in enabling Data & Analytics capabilities to solve business challenges that make an impact. He does it by establishing the right technology platforms, processes, governance framework and building high performing teams. He has been successful because of his breadth of experience across multiple platforms and industries which help him to set vision and accelerate the data and analytics journey. At Canada Life, he is responsible for enterprise Data & Analytics technology platform stack enablement and operations for all lines of business. Prior to that he was in the technology consulting practice at Deloitte Canada.

Sravan Kasarla

Thrivent

Sravan Kasarla

Chief Data Officer, Thrivent

Stacey Walker

Charter Hall

Stacey Walker

Head of Information Technology, Charter Hall

I have been working in technology for 20 years. Since 2010, I have been in leadership roles such as Technical Lead, Program, Iteration and Delivery Management. I have managed technical delivery teams of up to 45 people. My preferred method of delivery is Agile or Lean, but can work with what’s best for the team and the business.

Stacey-Lee Valentyn

Capitec

Stacey-Lee Valentyn

Product Head: Integrated Business Planning/Forecasting, Capitec

Well rounded, innovative and results-oriented individual with a keen eye for detail. Strengths lie in analysis, project management, implementation and the leadership/development of BI resources. Driven and efficient, with strong analytics problem solving skills and a can-do attitude.
Complements innovative business culture with a personality that can be summed up by the following characteristics; bubbly, innovative, assertive, versatile, positive and self-motivated.

Furthermore, I love a good adventure - Survivor South Africa Season 6 Castaway

Stacy Chege

IPSL (Kenya)

Stacy Chege

CISO, IPSL (Kenya)

Ste Watts

Aldermore Bank PLC

Ste Watts

Group Head of Security Operations, Aldermore Bank PLC

Stephan Singh

Stephan Singh

Pictet Group

Stephan Singh

Stephan Singh

Chief Data Officer, Pictet Group

Stephen Alberts

Telstra Enterprise

Stephen Alberts

Head of Data and Analytics, Telstra Enterprise

Stephen is the Head of Data and Analytics for Telstra Enterprise, with a focus on enabling data solutions to support the digital transformation of Enterprise customers and services.

 

Stephen Clarke

Archives New Zealand

Stephen Clarke

Chief Archivist - Kaipupuri Matua, Archives New Zealand

Stephen McNulty

Haventec

Stephen McNulty

Chief Growth Officer, Haventec

A highly commercial, versatile and capable leader, with extensive experience in Technology Hardware and Services organisations, encompassing Digital Services, Software, Hardware and Alliances/Partnership/Channel Mgmt. Stephen has led Delivery organisations in global Technology Consulting organisations and led sales divisions in global Technology Hardware and Software companies. He has built Capability and Solution Selling teams and managed Sales and Country teams to strong results both in Australia and in Europe. Stephen brings strong operational excellence and a dedication to enabling an entire sales organisation to flourish.

Stephen is adaptive, embraces the opportunity in change and finds creative ways to excel in the many and challenging roles he has accepted. Stephen is both a team player and a great cultural leader.

He invests deeply in people and relationships and has developed a strong network of industry leaders, particularly in FSI, Telco and Cloud services.

Stephen Mills

NTT LTD

Stephen Mills

Senior Vice President, Information Security Services, NTT LTD

Stephen brings a wealth of experience to the table, his career in cybersecurity
spans over 20 years, including roles from engineering, security consulting to
product development.

Stephen is responsible for execution of the Group CISO security strategy, leading
global operational teams with functions covering Security Architecture, Assurance,
Incident Response and Platform Development across NTT Ltd Group.

Joining the NTT Group as part of Dimension Data in 2003 he was brought onboard
to work with clients to deliver consulting services including cyber advisory, security
penetration testing and facilitation of cyber hacking defence courses.

Stephen has held his current role since 2017 by helping establish the Group CISO
team with a primary role to build a centralised internal security function to support
all regions and businesses across the Group.

Steve Boras

Citizens

Steve Boras

Executive Vice President, Head of Model Risk Management & Validation, Citizens

Steve Boras is the Head of Model Risk Management & Validation at Citizens Bank in Boston, focused on managing the model risk of the bank via validation of models, performance management, and monitoring of outcomes, and serving as a sounding board for new and emerging modeling techniques and their respective appropriateness.

Since joining Citizens in 2015, Steve has led several risk analytics functions, most recently heading the Risk Architecture Center of Excellence (covering loss forecasting model development for CCAR/DFAST and CECL, and PD, LGD, and EAD modeling for wholesale), as well as anti-money laundering modeling, macroeconomic scenario generation, and Data Science. Steve also holds leadership roles in enterprise risk, ESG and Inflation/Stagflation scenario analysis, and artificial intelligence and machine learning governance.

Steve’s early part of his career was spent as a commercial credit analyst at Bank of New York. Over the course of 30+ years in banking, Steve has headed risk and business groups at Citigroup, HSBC USA (where he provided business approval on large commercial transactions and deposit pricing strategies), and Fifth Third.

Active in a number of professional and community organizations, Steve earned his B.S. in Quantitative Business Analysis from Penn State and his MBA from Temple University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation and is an Eagle Scout.

 

Steve E. Asemota

FirstBank

Steve E. Asemota

Chief Data Officer, Enterprise Data Management & Transformational Analytics, FirstBank

Steve Green

Steve Green

Financial Conduct Authority

Steve Green

Steve Green

Head of Central Data Services, Financial Conduct Authority

Steve Nichols

Shell Energy

Steve Nichols

Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Shell Energy

Steve Phillpott

Solidigm

Steve Phillpott

Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer, Solidigm

Steve Phillpott is Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer at Solidigm. He is focused on deployment of a global infrastructure that supports the company’s innovation, manufacturing, and delivery of quality storage technology solutions for Cloud, Big Data, Social and Mobile requirements. Based at the Solidigm offices in San Jose, Calif., he manages the company’s global IT team.

Phillpott was named CIO for Solidigm in August of 2021. Prior to joining Solidigm, Phillpott was CIO for Illumina, a leader in developing systems for the analysis of genetic variation and biological function.

Phillpott was previously CIO for Western Digital Corporation, a global leader in hard disk drive manufacturing and data storage. Additionally, he was the CIO of Proflowers.com, a high-volume e-commerce retailer and Vice President of Information Technology for Global Enterprise Applications. Prior to that, he held various leadership positions at companies that include Memec (Avnet), Gateway and Qualcomm.

A recognized industry expert, Phillpott has received numerous industry awards. He is a frequent speaker on IT innovation, transformation, and cloud migration strategies at many leading industry events, including Amazon Executive Summit and events sponsored by Gartner, Forrester, BIO-IT World, Information week 500 and numerous others.

Phillpott received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Technology Management from the University of Pheonix.

 

Steve Singer

Zscaler

Steve Singer

Country Manager, ANZ, Zscaler

Steven Lee

Bunnings

Steven Lee

Pen-tester, Bunnings

Steven is an Offensive Security Engineer who has recently joined Bunnings. He established his cyber security career at a major Australian financial institution having performed Penetration Testing and GRC Specialist roles. Steven is passionate about the improvement of system/application security based on lessons learned from security assessments, and understanding how attacks can be better detected and prevented in enterprise environments by working directly with blue-teams through offensively minded work.

In a previous life, Steven was a Chartered Civil Engineer responsible for project management of road and bridge construction projects in various locations across Australia.

Stijn De Lathouwers

Suncorp Group

Stijn De Lathouwers

Head of Data Platforms & Engineering, Suncorp Group

Stijn (Stan) De Lathouwers is a Customer Technologist with a successful track record of combining customer experience, data, marketing and IT functions. From delivering marketing and customer experience solutions in a wide variety of B2C FMCG, Media and Financial Services, through to advance analytics, Artificial intelligence, robotics, business intelligence implementations and customer-centric CRM platforms, he has delivered business transformation in the continuously evolving areas of Customer, Marketing, Data Analytics and Technology. Over the last years he has led Suncorp’s data solutions and delivery for the group. 

Stu Bailey

ModelOp

Stu Bailey

Co-Founder and Chief Enterprise AI Architect, ModelOp

Stu is a technologist and entrepreneur who has been helping large enterprises to effectively consume AI, leveraging data intensive and AI focused technology for over two decades.

Stu has received several patents and awards and has helped drive emerging standards in analytics and distributed systems control.

Stuart LeGros

Alation

Stuart LeGros

Account Executive, Alation

Stuart Moseley

Converge International

Stuart Moseley

Chief Data Officer, Converge International

Stuart has over 25 years’ experience in consultancy, analytics and IT. Stuart has been an executive and problem solver across a range of business areas including analytics, risk management, marketing and HR. Prior to joining Converge, he worked with the largest banks in Europe, Asia and Australia developing risk analytics and process automation solutions. Stuart holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School.

Stuart Philips

Interos

Stuart Philips

Product Marketing Director – Cyber, Interos

Su Rayburn

Delta Community Credit Union

Su Rayburn

Vice President, Information Management & Analytics, Delta Community Credit Union

Dr. Sujatha (Su) Rayburn has worked in the Data & Analytics arena for more than 20 years and takes pride in calling herself first and foremost a “data evangelist” with a passion and talent for helping businesses solve myriad problems with their data assets. Su’s lifelong passion for learning and understanding how to drive positive business outcomes with data and analytics also led her to recently complete a doctorate in business wherein her dissertation was on the role of the top management team in driving competitive advantage with big data analytics orchestration.

 

Currently, Su is the Leader responsible for Enterprise Information Management & Analytics Strategy and Execution at Delta Community Credit Union (DCCU) where she has enabled the CU to obtain a high ROI for their data program by pioneering a top-down governance strategy coupled with agile development practices. Su’s governing philosophy revolves around placing the customer at the center of all operations - as a result, over the years, her team has maintained a high NPS within the CU.

 

Prior to DCCU, Su was responsible for providing valuable insight and leadership while governing key data assets at Equifax. She conceived and designed processes for handling data change management with internal and 3rd party providers, built comprehensive data quality measurement metrics, coordinated with the team on enterprise data governance and management strategies and guided data quality management and improvement for the data sources for which she was the primary steward. Su is a regular contributor and speaker at various industry, trade conferences and webinars and was featured as a successful Agile Business case study at the TDWI Executive and Teradata Partner conference.

Sudhir Iyer

MyState Bank

Sudhir Iyer

Systems Technical Manager, MyState Bank

Technical Manager with a solid experience of 11+ years of beating Core Banking Implementation blues across banks in multiple geographies - West Asia, Australia, South Pacific and SE Asia. Passionate about working hands-on on modernizing Australian banking space through watershed projects like New Payments Platform and Open Banking.

Sundeep Tengur

SAS

Sundeep Tengur

Senior Manager, Business Solutions - Fraud & Financial Crimes, SAS

A senior financial crime solutions specialist, focused on banking and financial services. I provide strategic advice to senior industry stakeholders and design solutions to proactively mitigate fraud risks.

Sunil Saale

MinterEllison

Sunil Saale

Head of Cyber, MinterEllison

Sunil is a transformative leader who specialises in building comprehensive and resilient cybersecurity programs with a sharp focus on providing competitive advantage to the organisation and establishing strategic partnerships across the cybersecurity ecosystem. Sunil also has extensive consulting experience gained through working with a diverse range of clients across multiple countries and industry verticals.

Currently Sunil leads the Cyber and Information Security Program at MinterEllison, Australia's largest law firm.

Surachai Chatchalermpun

KTB - Krungthai Bank

Surachai Chatchalermpun

Head Information Security Officer, KTB - Krungthai Bank

Surachai has managed 6 Cybersecurity teams under App pentest, IT security compliance, Security solution architect, Security awareness, UAM and CSOC. He is responsible for cybersecurity for all Thailand Krungthai branches, oversea branches and Krungthai's subsidiary companies. Prior to joining Krungthai as Head of IT Security, Surachai was the Regional Head of IT Security at Maybank.

He is certified in DPO-GDPR, CISSP, CDPSE, CISA, CISM, CSSLP, SSCP, CEH, ECSA, ISO27001, MIT, Harvard.

Suthagar Seevaratnam

The Australian National University

Suthagar Seevaratnam

CISO, The Australian National University

Suthagar Seevaratnam is the inaugural Chief Information Security Officer for the Australian National University. He was appointed to this role, in late 2018 following the first ANU data breach. He is accountable for the University's information security strategy and oversees the University's significant investment in information security uplift. Suthagar and led the team which detected the second breach reported in June 2019 and was the primary author of the public breach report which followed. In late 2019 Suthagar was appointed by the sector to be the first co-chair of the University Foreign Interference Taskforce cyber working group. In this capacity he helped draft the UFIT guidelines to help counter foreign interference in the sector. Since 2020 Suthagar has built and led the University's first CSOC and cyber engineering capability. In addition to cyber security, he and his team are also responsible for supporting the University's efforts to counter foreign interference and fraud.

Prior to joining ANU, Suthagar was the General Manager of IT Operations and Chief Information Security Officer for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. His appointment to the Bureau came at a time of extensive cybersecurity uplift in the wake of the organisation’s breach in 2016. Suthagar was also the Head of Cryptology for the Australian Signals Directorate where he was responsible for Australia’s intelligence and cybersecurity cryptologic mission. During this time, he initiated the ASD joint co-lab facility on the ANU campus – the first such open academic facility.

Taka Marindo

BNK Bank

Taka Marindo

Head of IT, Governance, Cybersecurity & Third Parties, BNK Bank

I have 19 years combined experience in the IT industry in various sectors spanning, Banking/Finance, education, mining, health, and energy/utilities covering IT Leadership, Internal Audit & Risk assessments, project management, IT Strategy, solution and enterprise architecture design and delivery, Information/Cyber Security/risk, Identity & Access Management. Key areas of experience include managing virtual project teams, stakeholder management, IT strategy formulation and execution, technology road mapping and business case development.
During my career I have led teams that delivered large and complex transformational programs and IT solutions using different technology systems and platforms.
Delivering results particularly motivates me as well working with teams influencing and introducing change. I am very comfortable working with people from diverse backgrounds and with different skill-sets.

Talal Alasmi

Ministry of Education (Oman)

Talal Alasmi

Director: Electronic Information Security Department, Ministry of Education (Oman)

Tamer Al-Ajrami

Housing Bank (Jordan)

Tamer Al-Ajrami

Head: Cyber & Information Security, Housing Bank (Jordan)

Tan Chin Tang

Pathology Asia

Tan Chin Tang

Head, IT Security, Pathology Asia

Tane Oakes

Ticketek

Tane Oakes

Chief Technology Officer, Ticketek

Tane Oakes has more than nine years’ experience at TEG and its ticketing business Ticketek, transforming the customer experience for live events and working with cutting edge technologies and TEG’s software partners including global vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, and MongoDB.

Tanja Magas

Democrance (UAE)

Tanja Magas

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Democrance (UAE)

Tarek Ibrahim

Wiz

Tarek Ibrahim

Enterprise Solutions Engineering, APJ, Wiz

Tarek Ibrahim has over 21 years’ experience within Cyber Security and Networking. He spent the first eight years of his career working for service providers in technical pre-sales and engineering roles before making the move into the corporate arena. The next nine years were spent working within large enterprise organizations, in senior technical and security management roles. In his final corporate posting Tarek served as Information Security and Networks manager for Ramsay Health Care, Australia’s largest private hospital operator.

Prior to joining Wiz, Tarek spent over five years at Carbon Black Inc where he built great expertise in the latest attacks and threat vectors, incident response and threat hunting.Tarek is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). He also earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of New South Wales.

 

Tarick Fadel

Tarick Fadel

Alberta Blue Cross

Tarick Fadel

Tarick Fadel

Director - Analytics, Research & Pricing, Alberta Blue Cross

Tarick joined Alberta Blue Cross in 2004 and holds an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, which he applies to provide leadership within the Analytics, Research and Product Pricing. As Director of Analytics, Tarick is passionate about data and plays an integral role in transforming Alberta Blue Cross in to an insights-driven, customer-focused provider. Having led the development and operationalization of an Analytics Resource Centre and an Enterprise Data Office within Alberta Blue Cross, Tarick understands the value and importance of data and information management - bolstered by appropriate governance. Tarick also sits on the board of ElderCare Edmonton, a community-based program helping Seniors live actively

Tass Melissinos

WSO2

Tass Melissinos

Vice President & Regional GM A/NZ, WSO2

As the Vice President and GM for Australia and New Zealand for WSO2, Tass brings more than 30 years experience helping clients to deliver on their digital integration & transformation initiatives by leveraging modern application architecture models and API-Led life-cycles.

Tass has extensive national and international IT industry solution experience with multiple senior leadership roles in global IT companies, which include IBM, Intel, Tibco, and CA Technologies.

In his current role, Tass is responsible for leading a dedicated regional team enabling customer digital transformation projects by leveraging WSO2’s enterprise integration(APIM) and customer identity and access management(CIAM) platforms and solutions.

Tatiana Mazza

Carrefour

Tatiana Mazza

Chief Data Officer, Carrefour



 

 



 

Tehmina Shah

Tehmina Shah

Bell Canada

Tehmina Shah

Tehmina Shah

Director, Data Science, Bell Canada

Teresa Murphy

Port of Brisbane

Teresa Murphy

Head of Technology, Port of Brisbane

Teresa is a software engineering professional with more than 30 years’ experience working in IT related roles and senior managerial positions for organisations such as CSIRO, IBM, TechnologyOne, Shortcuts and Port of Brisbane.

Teresa is currently the Head of Technology at The Port of Brisbane (PBPL) where she is working on a number of digital strategic business initiatives including improving organisational digital dexterity and progressively modernising areas of the business such as Marine Surveying & Dredging operations. A significant recent project was the design and implementation of the IT/OT infrastructure and systems for the new Brisbane International Cruise Terminal (BICT) which official opens in June 2022.

As an infrastructure intensive organisation with a mix of Operational and Information Technology, as well as being a telecommunications provider in its own right, cyber security is a major focus of this role. The Port of Brisbane was named as a critical port in the original Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) legislation and ongoing compliance with this evolving legislation is another of her key responsibilities.

The Hon. Karen Andrews MP

Australian Government

The Hon. Karen Andrews MP

Minister for Home Affairs, Australian Government

After a career as an engineer and running her own industrial relations business, Karen Andrews was elected to parliament in 2010 as the Federal Member for McPherson on the Gold Coast.
Following a period as Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills and Assistant Minister for Science, Minister Andrews was sworn in as Minister for Industry, Science and Technology in the Morrison Government Cabinet in August 2018. In doing so, she became the first ever female cabinet minister from Queensland.
On 30 March 2021, Minister Andrews became the first ever female Minister for Home Affairs. Minister Andrews’ portfolio responsibilities include Australia’s domestic security and law enforcement agencies, cyber security policy, counter terrorism, counter espionage and foreign interference, counter child sexual exploitation, and overseeing the safe re-opening of Australia’s international borders.

Theo Mauger

Theo Mauger

NatWest Markets

Theo Mauger

Theo Mauger

Senior Business Analyst/Data Architect, NatWest Markets

Thierry Grima

ENGIE

Thierry Grima

Group Chief Analytics Officer, ENGIE

Tiffany Perkins-Munn

BlackRock

Tiffany Perkins-Munn

MD, Global Head of Research, Analytics & Data, BlackRock

Tiffany Perkins-Munn, Ph.D., Managing Director and BlackRock’s Head of Global Marketing Research, Analytics & Data, has spent the past 20 years in using data to drive decision-making within in financial services firms. She has implemented research and analytics, machine learning and big data initiatives across the financial services spectrum (sell-side, buy-side, asset management). Dr. Perkins-Munn joined BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, in April 2018 to drive the build of a Data-Driven Marketing organization — a groundbreaking undertaking for BLK that fuses research, analytics and data with AI, NLP and ML capabilities to use research, analytics and data to drive impactful, quantitative decision-making.

Tighe Wall

Contact Energy Ltd

Tighe Wall

Chief Digital Officer, Contact Energy Ltd

With experience leading business transformations across North America and Europe, Tighe is responsible for transforming Contact Energy through digitization and operational excellence.

Tilene Narainan

Sasol

Tilene Narainan

Customer Experience and Future Value Creation, Sasol

Tilene Narainan has over 17 years of experience across industries with specialization in Retail, Food and Consumer goods. Highly consumer centric with a strong focus, on retail strategy and planning, distribution, digital strategy, supply chain, channel and category management, sales and marketing, food development, customer experience, product, and new concept development.

Tim Burnett

Costain Group PLC

Tim Burnett

Security Architect , Costain Group PLC

Tim Hartman

Infoblox Australia and New Zealand

Tim Hartman

Head of Solution Architects, Infoblox Australia and New Zealand

Tim Hartman leads the Solution Architect organization for Infoblox across Australia and New Zealand, a leader in Enterprise hybrid cloud network security.

Tim’s role is to lead and develop Network and Security Solutions Architects that consistently and predictably deliver measurable business outcomes for our clients.

Prior to joining Infoblox Tim spent 3 years at Nutanix as Director of systems engineering, 12 years at VMware in various technology leadership roles within the Asia Pacific and Japan region taking emerging technologies to market such as Network Virtualisation, Storage Virtualisation, and Cloud Management technologies. Ending his tenure as Director of Software Defined Data Centre Systems Engineering, APJ.

Prior to VMware Tim worked for Symantec for 15 years exiting the company as Senior Director Systems Engineering for Asia Pacific and Japan for the Security and Compliance solutions.

Tom Daniewski

Federal Court of Australia

Tom Daniewski

CISO, Federal Court of Australia

Results driven executive with global cross-industry experience in cyber security, digital transformation and business resilience, enabling capability and moving strategy into action towards positive changes within complex organisations.

Tom Gamali

ALJ Group (Saudi Arabia)

Tom Gamali

Group CISO, ALJ Group (Saudi Arabia)

tom lintern

Tom Lintern

homes.co.nz

tom lintern

Tom Lintern

Chief Data Scientist and Head of Commercial, , homes.co.nz

Tom is the Head of Data Science at Trade Me, leading a team responsible for the application of data science across Trade Me and advocating for data-based product decisions. Tom is new to this role following just over 6 years at homes.co.nz, where he developed their HomesEstimate valuation algorithm and was responsible for using data partnerships to generate mutually beneficial commercial outcomes.

Tomas Martinkenas

Vinted

Tomas Martinkenas

Director of Security and Privacy, Vinted

Tony Aitken

Auckland Transport

Tony Aitken

GM Data and Analytics, Auckland Transport

Tony Green

Puppet

Tony Green

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Puppet

Tony Kitzelmann

Airservices Australia

Tony Kitzelmann

CISO, Airservices Australia

Tony Kitzelmann is the Chief Information Security Officer and Head of the Cyber Security Centre at Airservices Australia.

A strong believer that ‘cyber security is a team sport’, Tony is focused on promoting a sustainable, resilient, and holistic approach to cyber security supporting the business. Tony leads a team of resolute cyber security professionals who defend the systems and people who manage 11% of the global airspace for the regions aviation sector. Tony leads his team to embed security into the design and management of systems and services to provide resilient and flexible solutions to meet the demands of the sector.

Tony’s experience in the cyber arena is complemented by his previous work across multiple sectors. Most recently through his role as the CISO for the Australian Digital Health Agency where he designed and implemented the cyber security practice securing Australia’s “My Health Record” system and the health records of twenty-seven million citizens. Prior to this role, Tony was the Senior Cyber Security Executive and Chief Information Security Officer (APAC) at Lockheed Martin for five years from 2012. In this role, he was accountable for the strategic leadership and delivery of corporate cyber security functions within the ASIA Pacific region and provided functional leadership to the various business lines in the region.

Tony is always looking to further his knowledge through new challenges working within the cyber security domain and believes that our role as leaders in this exciting field, is to challenge the status quo and look at ways in which we can shape the future and security of our respective organisations.

Tony holds numerous industry and academic qualifications and is currently about to complete his Masters in Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy at UNSW.

Tracy Parsons

New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manatū Aorere

Tracy Parsons

Chief Data Officer, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manatū Aorere

Tracy Parsons has over 20 years data and information management experience and is currently responsible for leading the data, information and analytics function at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A lawyer by training, she has held data and information leadership roles in Parliament and the Transport Sector.

She is passionate about the cultural and behavioural factors which unlock the value of information, and has presented at a number of conferences on this topic.

Tracy​ Whitelaw

LGAQ

Tracy​ Whitelaw

Chief Digital Officer, LGAQ

Tracy is a digital specialist with over 20 years-experience in creating customer-centric digital roadmaps and building high-performing, award-winning teams. In 2021, Tracy won the Women in Digital Australian Executive Leader of the Year award, a testament to her commitment to delivering excellent digital leadership at every opportunity. She has led digital and social media for some of the largest events in Australia over the last decade, including the Brisbane floods, G20 and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is now the first Chief Digital Officer in 125 years at the Local Government Association of Queensland, with a state-wide remit to improve data and digital maturity for all 77 QLD councils.

Tracy is a passionate advocate for using data-driven decisions to help improve both the customer and employee experience and believes you can’t have happy customers without happy employees. She is often described as a ‘breath of fresh air’ and a strong, calm leader and mentor with a relaxed approach that drives cultural change.

On the rare occasion she's not online, Tracy is living up to her proud self-confessed geekiness by indulging in her love of gaming and gadgets. She has a borderline unhealthy obsession with Converse sneakers and California. She’s also definitely Mac, not PC.

Trent Lidstone

3M

Trent Lidstone

ASIA Digital Service Lead, 3M

Tridoshanjay Jain

Haynes

Tridoshanjay Jain

Ecommerce Manager for ANZ region, Haynes

Tsega Thompson

Atlantis Paradise Island

Tsega Thompson

Director, IT Security & Compliance, Atlantis Paradise Island

Information Security professional with twelve (12)+ years of experience, while working in telecommunications, financial services, and hospitality industries. I obtained my BSc in Information Technology from University of Phoenix and a MPS in Information Assurance from Pennsylvania State University.
I currently work as the Director, IT Security & Compliance at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas. My portfolio includes IT Governance, Risk & Compliance, Security Strategic objectives, Operation Resiliency, Identity & Access Management, Data Security, Security Operations and Security Awareness.
With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, I have obtained an array of certifications throughout my career. Most notable are the CISSP and CRISC.
In my downtime I enjoy reading pure fiction and travelling. I consider motherhood my greatest accomplishment, and I’m currently vying for Aunt of the year with my youngest nephews.

Tshiamo Shilowa

Standard Bank (South Africa)

Tshiamo Shilowa

Data Scientist, Standard Bank (South Africa)

I have a huge love and passion for technology that is how I landed in this field. My passion is so big that I have committed myself to ensuring that the next generations are technologically skilled and equipped for the future of tech.

Tyler Cohen Wood

MyConnectedHealth

Tyler Cohen Wood

Founder & CEO, MyConnectedHealth

Unai Obieta Jimenez

Adecco Group Spain

Unai Obieta Jimenez

Chief Data Officer, Adecco Group Spain

Engineer with over 20 years of experience in multinational companies, highly motivated and passionate about new challenges. I believe evolution and transformation are necessary in this changing world, being data, as well as the people, a fundamental part of this process.

Leading the digital transformation of the company, looking for direct impacts on the P&L, using new technologies, methodologies and innovation, to improve the operation of our services. Working transversally, ensuring that all business units participate and feel responsible. Creating global groups capable of positively impacting the company

Helping to create a data driven company, taking advance of the value of the data. Defining and implementing the data governance, creating a community that belongs the data is an essential part in modern and competitive companies. Getting data analytics, RPA, IoT, DevOps or artificial intelligent part of day to day.

Thanks to the experience I have gained, I have the ability to define the company's digital and technological strategy. Being able to successfully lead it later.

Vasyl Nair

Mine Super

Vasyl Nair

Group Chief Executive Officer, Mine Super

Mine Superannuation Fund (Mine Super) is a profit to members, public offer super fund
dedicated to serving the retirement needs of all Australians. Its enduring purpose is to deliver
an exceptional retirement for members which achieves peace of mind along the way. Mine
Super employs 180 staff and manages over $12.5 billion in funds for approximately 57,000
members. In addition to superannuation and pension products, Mine Super offers its
members insurance and access to financial advice.

Vasyl Nair is the Chief Executive Officer of Mine Super (prior to this, Vasyl held the roles of
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Strategy Officer since he
commenced with Mine Super in 2016). Vasyl has a strong background in law and corporate
finance, having also held roles across operations, strategy, marketing and risk related
functions at Westpac and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Vasyl holds a Bachelor of
Laws (Hon), Bachelor of Commerce, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice and an Executive
Master of Business Administration. He is admitted to the Supreme Court of NSW as a
solicitor, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has achieved a
Certificate of Business Excellence from the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. He has
also served as a director of an Australian fintech organisation, specialising in superannuation
and investment administration.

Venkat Balakrishnan

TAL

Venkat Balakrishnan

CISO, TAL

Venkat has nearly 18 years of experience in enhancing the cyber security capability of several organisations across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to taking up the CISO role of TAL, he worked with several CISOs across APAC especially within the financial services sector to develop and deliver multi-year cyber security strategy and transformations. At EY, he built and led the Cyber Threat Management practice across APAC with a combination of onshore/offshore team of over 80. He was instrumental in positioning EY as the leader in Managed Security Services across various Analyst evaluations, such as, IDC and Forrester. He built the Cyber Security Program and Enterprise Security Architecture practices during his early days at EY. He led global security operations at DXC along with the regional security architecture function. During his early days, he worked with the ASD on a cyber security research work, and earned a PhD in Computer Science with a thesis in Cyber Security at Macquarie University. He has four book chapters and ten research publications, and has presented his research work at various universities across Americas, Europe and Asia.

Venkata Narra

SnapLogic

Venkata Narra

Regional Presales Manager, APAC, SnapLogic

He has over 20 years of experience in technology. His focus in the last decade has been to help establish new technology across the ANZ market and is committed to positioning solutions which solve current and emerging challenges from customers and prospects. 

Before calling Australia home Venkata has spent time in Europe and US, delivering large IT transformation projects for customers. 

He believes in an active lifestyle and enjoys being outdoors. He has climbed a few peaks above 5,500 metres in the Himalayas and his last adventure was summiting Kilimanjaro. 

Venkatesh Subramaniam

Olam International

Venkatesh Subramaniam

Group CISO & Privacy Head, Olam International

Vibhor Pandey

bizartX

Vibhor Pandey

Founding Partner and Chief Data & Operating Officer, Grand Company and Co-founder, bizartX

Vibhor is a data culturist, entrepreneur, policy researcher, and community leader with 12+ years in business advisory, product management, and economic development.

Vibhor spent most of his career in data analytics and business process engineering across Australia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Vibhor sits on boards and industry advisory groups; he is the Chief Data and Operating Officer with Grand Company; and Co-founder at BizartX. He is a science graduate and currently a PhD candidate with QUT's Centre for Data Science and Centre of Future Enterprise. As a practising academic, his key focus areas are innovation and entrepreneurial policy evaluations, and micro-behaviours in entrepreneurial ecosystems, quality signalling in entrepreneurial ventures. Vibhor also teaches Entrepreneurship and Data Science and Digital Transformation at QUT Business School.

Vicknaeswaran Sundararaju

PRefChem (PETRONAS)

Vicknaeswaran Sundararaju

Head Cybersecurity, PRefChem (PETRONAS)

Vicknaes has 12 years of industrial experience in the IT securities and compliance field, across various business domains.

He is responsible to ensure the existing and new IT Security policies that are rolled out in PETRONAS are complete and as mature as the group requires. Works with the different business units to measure compliance with existing policies and develop risk based implementation plans to achieve the level of adherence required at PETRONAS international offices and Industrial Control System. Continues to mature the Group's incident response and ensure an awareness programme around information security throughout the business.

In addition, he is a specialist in ISO 27001 implementation, vulnerability assessment, security governance and network/system.

Victor Botlhokwane

Oracle

Victor Botlhokwane

Manager: Account Cloud Engineering, Oracle

Victor Condogeorges

Ticketek

Victor Condogeorges

Head of Martech & Ecommerce, Ticketek

Victor Condogeorges is the head of Marketing Technology & Ecommerce at Ticketek. His career journey started in technology, through media and digital agencies, and most recently in the perfect union of the two; marketing and technology. Throughout his career, he has been enabling better use of tech in every business he has worked with, powered by his determination and commitment to excellence. His most recent endeavour, Ticketek is a growing business operating in Australia for decades and is now on the global stage. When not in the office or on zoom calls, Victor enjoys working with his hands on woodwork projects, most recently being his son's crib.

Vidhu Bhardwaj

AWSN

Vidhu Bhardwaj

Perth Chapter Lead, AWSN

Vidhu Bhardwaj is a Senior Consultant in Technology Risk & Cyber Team at KPMG. Her background is in Lecturing, specialised in IT Networking and Cybersecurity. Through her previous role, she empowered young minds to resolve business challenges using technology and instilled a passion in them for lifelong learning. She is an ACS Certified Professional and was also a nominee for WiTWA (Women in Technology - WA) Awards in 2021.

Vidhu is a proponent of equality and diversity in every realm of life and is committed to increasing the engagement of women in technology based roles. A passionate volunteer, Vidhu serves AWSN as Perth Chapter Co-Lead and mentors schoolgirls via Tech Girls Movement Foundation.

Being an art lover, her free time involves creative painting strokes, sketching, and colouring with her toddler.

Vidhya Medapati

FNB

Vidhya Medapati

Head of Commercial Client Experience, FNB

Driven by her passion for all things design, data and digital; Vidhya has had an extensive career in financial services with intense focus on two primary elements: optimization and efficiency. She believes that In an ideal customer centric world, optimization and efficiency within an organization should first and foremost be of benefit to its customers and customer facing employees. Vidhya is a COO with the Commercial bank of FNB, accountable for Customer Experience for over 5 years.

Vijay Narayan

Environment Protection Authority Victoria

Vijay Narayan

CISO, Environment Protection Authority Victoria

Vijay Narayan is the CISO at Environment Protection Authority Victoria. His role involve assisting EPA to achieve its goal to become a data driven and intelligence lead regulator. Establishing Information security function, frameworks and technology capability from a Greenfield. Delivering a large security program of works to uplift organisational maturity and cyber security defense. Working hard to achieve desired VPDSS compliance targets

Vijay Varadharajan

The University of Newcastle

Vijay Varadharajan

Director of Advanced Cyber Security Engineering, The University of Newcastle

Prof Vijay Varadharajan has held the Global Innovation Chair in Cyber Security at the University of Newcastle since March 2017. He is also the Director of Advanced Cyber Security Engineering Research Centre (ACSRC) at Newcastle. Previously he was Microsoft Chair Professor in Innovation in Computing at Macquarie University (2001-2017). At Macquarie, he conceived the concept of an interdisciplinary institute in Cyber Security and was the founder of the Optus MQ Cyber Security Hub. Prior to this he was Dean of School of Computing and IT at University of Western Sydney (1996-2000).

Vilmos Lorincz

Vilmos Lorincz

Lloyds Banking Group

Vilmos Lorincz

Vilmos Lorincz

Managing Director, Data and Digital Products, Commercial Bank, Lloyds Banking Group

Vimal Kumar

The University of Waikato

Vimal Kumar

Head of the Cybersecurity Lab, The University of Waikato

Vimal Kumar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato where he leads the Cyber Security Lab (CROW). He has worked on various government and industry funded projects with international collaboration. Notable projects he is working on currently are AI for Human Centric Security and Cyberdipomacy. He is the convenor of the Master of Cyber Security program at the University of Waikato which attracts many domestic and international students. Vimal has written two books and has published a number of peer reviewed papers and book chapters.

Vinay Manikkam

IAG

Vinay Manikkam

Principal, Enterprise Security Architect, IAG

Vinod Sukumaran

Allianz Australia

Vinod Sukumaran

Senior Manager Data Management and Governance, Allianz Australia

Vipin Gautam

Centene

Vipin Gautam

Director, CISO Architecture & Strategy Execution, Centene

Vipin Gopal, PhD

Eli Lilly and Company (USA)

Vipin Gopal, PhD

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Eli Lilly and Company (USA)

Vipin Gopal, PhD, MBA, is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Eli Lilly, a Fortune 150
Global Pharmaceutical company. In this role, he is responsible for leading next-gen,
transformational data strategy and execution across the Lilly enterprise, as well as
development of advanced analytics capabilities and data science solutions for the company.

Vipin is a 20+ year veteran in the space of advanced data and analytics, and has a significant track record of building high-performance data analytics functions and creating business value with advanced technologies.

His prior leadership experience spans four Fortune 100 companies in industries ranging from healthcare to aerospace. Before joining Eli Lilly, Vipin was the Senior Vice President of Clinical Analytics at Humana, where he was responsible for the corporate organization that developed and applied data science and analytics solutions to advance Humana’s clinical
strategy, operations, quality and outcomes. Prior to Humana, he was with Cigna Healthcare, United Technologies Corporation and Honeywell.

Vipin is a thought leader and frequent speaker on the transformational power of advanced data analytics for a broad range of strategic topics in healthcare. Over the past year, he was quoted in Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and Nature. In recognition of his leadership contributions in the space of data and analytics, he was listed as a ‘2018 Top 100
Innovator in Data and Analytics’ and was awarded the 2015 Analytics Leadership Award by Indiana University Kelly School of Business. Vipin has also served on the organizing/advisory committees of many national and international analytic conferences. He obtained his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University and B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, both in engineering, and has an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Vipin is a passionate advocate of educational initiatives and developing an empowered and diverse workforce. Most recently, he served as Chair of the Advisory Board of Greater Louisville International Professionals (GLIP), and as a member of the Board of Directors of Jefferson Community and Technical College (JCTC) Foundation.

Viral Kothari

Department of Communities and Justice, NSW Government

Viral Kothari

Data Engineer - Data and Analytics, Courts, Tribunals and Service Delivery, Department of Communities and Justice, NSW Government

Viren Mantri

Standard Chartered

Viren Mantri

Head, Information and Cyber Security, SC Ventures, Standard Chartered

Viren Mantri is the Head of Information & Cyber Security at SC Ventures, a business unit that provides a platform and catalyst for Standard Chartered Bank (SC) to promote innovation, invest in disruptive financial technology and explore alternative business models. Viren works closely with business stakeholders and ensures robust level of cyber security in an ever-changing threat landscape, whilst remaining in line with regulations and  business risk appetite. Viren has been with SC since 2007 and has led various cyber programmes, and prior to that with McAfee, UBS, KPMG and Citibank for several years

Viridiana Romero

TV Azteca

Viridiana Romero

Chief Data Officer, TV Azteca

Pytorch Udacity Scholar by Facebook, Passionate Data Scientist with 3+ years of experience looking for new opportunities in Data Science and Machine Learning roles. Involved in multiple phases of Data Science projects life cycle such as cleaning, training, and deploying models. Skilled in a diversity of programming languages like Python and SQL. Critical thinking, attention to details, interpersonal and communication skills to drive results. Strong business development professional with a Master’s Degree in Networking and Information Technology and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration & Computer Science. Seeking to utilize my strong prioritization and analytical skills to bring fast, intelligent solutions at your Company. Fluent in English and Spanish.

Viviane Girgis

QANTAS Loyalty

Viviane Girgis

Senior Manager Digital Performance and Experimentation, QANTAS Loyalty

Wai Kit Cheah

Lumen

Wai Kit Cheah

Senior Director, APAC Product Management & Security Practice, Lumen

Wai Kit is the Senior Director of Lumen’s Product Management & Security Practice in Asia Pacific, where he is responsible for Lumen’s security services portfolio, SOC services and security service delivery in the region. This includes strategizing, positioning and executing on the delivery of security services such as DDoS mitigation, Adaptive Network Security, Managed SOC Services and Managed Behavioral Analytics in key markets. He is instrumental in driving the solutions that empower clients to meet today’s evolving cybersecurity challenges.

Prior to Lumen, Wai Kit has held stints with service providers Dimension Data, Sun Microsystems, Dell, IPsoft, and Equinix. An IT veteran of 25 years, he has also sat on the board of Cloud Security Alliance when the Singapore chapter was first incepted. Wai Kit is an advocate for digital transformation, with expertise in management consulting, operations and business change management. Wai Kit is passionate about helping businesses to manage the increasing cyber risks which they are facing today.

Wasim El-Omari

Snowflake

Wasim El-Omari

Cyber Security Field CTO, Snowflake

Wasim El-Omari is a Cyber Security Field CTO at Snowflake, working in a global team focusing primarily on the APJ region based in Melbourne, Australia. Wasim has more than 20 years of experience in cyber security. He has a background in Security Operations, Incident Response, Digital Forensics and Cloud Security. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering in Telecommunications and a Masters Degree in Information Security with a focused interest in Data Governance, Risk Management and Incident Handling.

His career has taken him globally to different regions and has worked with Fortune 100 companies and Federal Agencies to design, implement and validate effective security programs. At his former role at Cisco Systems he led a team of security practitioners in the technology area of security behavioural analytics. He is now focused on the Data Cloud at Snowflake and the security that it is intrinsically built for addressing digitisation challenges. He is passionate about being able to help customers address their digital challenges in the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Wayne Armstrong

PlaceMakers

Wayne Armstrong

Head of Digital Channels, PlaceMakers

Wayne Meecham

Hismile

Wayne Meecham

Head of Data and Technology, Hismile

Wayne has over 25 years of experience in the management and growth of organisations, including 15 years in executive and senior leadership roles within high-volume businesses. His roles have spanned software delivery, gaming/gambling, e-commerce, consumer goods, and industrial goods, with many having associated regulatory or compliance requirements. Wayne has led businesses through digital transformation and the delivery of secure technology platforms that enable business growth through efficiency and the extraction of value from company assets.

Over the past five years, Wayne has focused on data and analytics in data-rich and data-driven organisations. That focus has included real-time capture and analysis of end-to-end business performance data, combining sales, cost of goods sold, direct and indirect costs to run high-efficiency operations and help steer product marketing campaigns.

As technology evolves, Wayne continues to advocate for the implementation of platforms allowing for improvement in business efficiency through automation and technology-based intelligence.

 

Wayne Phillips

SentinelOne

Wayne Phillips

Directory Security Engineering, ANZ, SentinelOne

As Director of Security Engineering, Wayne helps organisations understand and adopt SentinelOne as a foundational XDR technology. Helping customer integrate SentinelOne into their security operations reduces overheads, improves security posture, and increases customer satisfaction. Wayne brings over 25 years of enterprise security, strategy and product development from fast paced cloud and mobile start-ups. His roles range from system integration to CTO and Technical Founder.

Wesley Shen

Kiwi Property

Wesley Shen

Head of Data & Insights, Kiwi Property

Over the past 12+ years, Wesley has been a practitioner and people leader across a number of disciplines, including insights, research, and data science. He has worked in several industries, including Research FMCG, Media & Entertainment, Logistics, and Property & Real Estate.

He holds a Master's in Management, with a specialization in Marketing, from the prestigious I.E. Business School (Spain). His passion for learning and his commitment to staying current on the latest developments in data, marketing, and product management enables him to provide thought leadership in the organisation he serves.

Today, his mission is to help Kiwi Property leverage data as a strategic asset; to work alongside the GM Digital and champion the digital transformation of operations, products and services at scale through the application of knowledge, AI and automation. Recent focus has been on implementing the core data analytics capabilities and processes to accelerate product innovation and operationalise decision intelligence.

https://www.kiwiproperty.com/

 

 

Wessel de Meyer

Snowflake

Wessel de Meyer

Senior Sales Engineer, Snowflake

 

Wessel de Meyer is the Senior Sales Engineer at Snowflake.

At Snowflake Wessel de Meyer’s focus is working with organisations to get more value from their data assets. He has more than 20 years experience in Data Analytics working for vendors such as Informix, IBM and SAS in pre-sales and consulting roles to help organisations across industries with data and analytics solutions to solve key business problems.

Snowflake makes data sharing simple and secure and enables even the smallest agency to stand up infrastructure quickly and cost-effectively.

Wigor Anderson Correia

Thoughtworks

Wigor Anderson Correia

Data & AI Director, Thoughtworks

Com mais de 22 anos de experiência trabalhando em grandes empresas nacionais e multinacionais e 16 anos atuando em consultorias especializadas em Dados & Analytics, vem acumulando uma vasta experiência na implementação de projetos complexos de Advanced Analytics, Inteligência Artificial e IoT em 2021 entrou para a ThoughtWorks Brasil como Diretor Data e IA.








Williams Faez

Transbank

Williams Faez

Chief Information Officer| Chief Data Officer, Transbank

I am a Computer Engineer and Master in Business Administration (MBA). With 9 years of experience working in business intelligence, I have worked from very technical positions to more commercial and strategic positions.
I am currently leading Analytics, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence initiatives for the SACI Falabella group, working daily in multidisciplinary teams and in different countries of Latin America. One of the most important projects that I have had to lead is the assessment big data / data governance for the Falabella group, a strategic project for the company because it seeks to transform the company into a "data driven" organization. Previous to this, I lead the design and implementation of 83 Commercial KPI's for Corporate Falabella Retail.
With a positive, proactive and service-oriented attitude, faced with the challenges that business intelligence proposes, I have tried to inspire the work teams that I have to lead.

 

Wilmer Rodriguez Ruiz

Grupo AJE

Wilmer Rodriguez Ruiz

Jefe Global de Data & Analytics, Grupo AJE

Soy un profesional apasionado con los datos y analítica, con casi 15 años de experiencia en industrias de consumo masivo, cosmética y agroindustria. Con experiencia en liderazgo de equipos multiculturales e interdisciplinarios en empresas globales como Grupo Gloria, Yanbal International y actualmente como Jefe Global de Data & Analytics en Grupo AJE.

He logrado un aprendizaje y experiencia en estrategia de datos, dentro de mis áreas de especialización podemos mencionar un despliegue efectivo de estrategias de datos que involucran la Transformación digital, innovación con plataformas tecnológicas, arquitectura y cultura de datos.

Tengo una comprensión profunda de los modelos operativos de la empresa para integrar eficazmente el análisis avanzado con las estrategias y entrega de valor. Considero que los retos importantes de la visión de Datos & Analytics, son poder llevar a la ejecución e implementar una democratización y uso eficiente de los datos que permitan monetizar y lograr la capitalización de estos, mediante la conexión adecuada de los puntos de la arquitectura de datos, el gobierno de datos, la gestión de los datos, calidad de datos y ciencia de datos, visión y estrategias de la empresa.

Mis competencias principales incluyen:

- Business & Digital Analytics
- Procesos Industriales, Agro industriales, Cadena de Suministros y de Retail.
- Gestión de Indicadores Comerciales, Cadena de suministro, Financieros y de RRHH
- Inteligencia de Negocios.
- Implementación de plataformas Cloud para Data & Analytics.
- Implementación de ERPs (planeamiento de la producción, gestión de calidad,distribución, costos, finanzas, comercio exterior, inventarios y recursos humanos).




 

Wong Chi Keong John

Speedoc

Wong Chi Keong John

Senior Data Analyst, Speedoc

John is an experienced data analyst and data scientist frequently called upon by Senior Leaders to provide insights from data to optimise organisation-level processes with ground level staff. He has successfully reduced waiting time in emergency and patient journey touch points to surgery. He has a Degree in Physics and an ASQ certified Six Sigma Green Belt. John has also completed the General Assembly Data Science Immersive course to acquire cutting-edge knowledge and skills in data science for application.

Wouter Veugelen

Santos

Wouter Veugelen

VP Global Cyber & Information Security, Santos

Wouter is currently the global chief information security officer at Oil Search Limited (ASX:OSH), one of the 25 largest global oil and gas exploration and development companies with presence in Australia, Papua New Guinea, United States, United Arab Emirates and Japan.

Wouter has a wealth of experience establishing and optimizing cyber security capabilities leading local and globally distributed teams protecting IT and Operation Technology (OT) environments with broad cyber security domain knowledge built on strong technical foundations.

He holds two master degrees: a master of science degree in information & communication security from Sweden's most prestigious technical university and a master in information technology. He has obtained and actively maintained the following professional certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, SABSA Foundation, ITIL Foundation and SANS GICSP, GCIA, GCIH, GPEN, GWAPT and GSEC.

Xi Liang

Endeavour Drinks Group

Xi Liang

Data Science Lead, Endeavour Drinks Group

Xi heads of data science practice at Endeavour Group and built the practice from scratch. Her team are responsible to enable more than 50 million incremental revenue a year through multiple AI products. She leads the thinking and the delivery on how to use AI and machine learning to bring a significant and lasting business impact. Prior to joining Endeavour Drink, she worked at McKinsey & Company for 4 years leading advanced analytics projects in Australia, Japan, China and the US. She published more than 10 scientific papers at renowned international journals and conferences and published 4 US patents.

Xuchun Li

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Xuchun Li

Xuchun Li, Deputy Director & Head of AI Development Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Dr Li is heading the AI Development Office from the FinTech & Innovation Group in MAS. The mandate of the AI Development Office focuses on promoting the usage of Artificial Intelligence in the Singapore financial sector. It will develop and implement the AI strategy for Singapore financial industry, facilitate industry-wide AI projects within and beyond the financial sector as well as embark on initiatives to develop a sustainable ecosystem that supports the experimentation and deployment of AI-based technologies in the financial sector. Dr Li’s major expertise covers areas such as machine learning, big data analysis, cloud computing, text mining etc. He also has strong commercial software development experience. Before joining MAS, he was a scientist at VISA and UBS. He holds a PhD in machine learning.

Yali Wu

Yali Wu

Nordea

Yali Wu

Yali Wu

Data Product Owner, Nordea

Yash Nannoolal

Nedbank Limited

Yash Nannoolal

Head of Advanced Analytics, Data-Driven Intelligence, Group Technology, Nedbank Limited

Established a successful BI and support team to provide services across Nedbank clusters. Spearheaded the innovation of a Data driven culture in Nedbank starting with Power BI. The tool is a global success story and Nedbank are the biggest consumers in SA (to be formally verified).
https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/848386-nedbank-banking-capital-markets-power-bi

Academic career have set benchmarks worldwide
( 230 citations for 4 papers spanning less than 10 years)

Senior Process Engineer in Process Development, R&D at Sasol

Engineering Management Specialist in MES at Sasol leading 4IR with next gen tech.

Data Management and Big Data Engineer in EIM at Sasol

Yoganthran Naidoo

Sanlam (South Africa)

Yoganthran Naidoo

Chief Data Steward, Sanlam (South Africa)

As a keen Data Management professional, practicing for the past 15 years, Data has become a passion. I firmly believe that data is an asset and the key in gaining consumer loyalty and competitive advantage in the market place (data driven organisation). I eagerly await the day when data is financially recognised as an asset and reflected on a company’s balance sheet. Emerging trends in Cloud, BIG Data, IoT (Internet of Things), Robotics and associated technologies and devices are consuming and producing a plethora of information, at an exponential rate that many industries find difficult to interpret and consume. My skill and interest is in assisting companies develop targeted sustainable Enterprise Information Management strategies, architectures, operating models, roadmaps and pragmatic point solutions powered by leading technologies (Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning) and methodologies, to aid business user(s) leverage the power of information (insight, hindsight and foresight) to best navigate their companies into the future. Data like all other assets depreciate and lose value. Proper data management principles, policies and processes ensure that data assets retain value and are safeguarded, and governed throughout the data lifecycle. King III charged the board of directors with the responsibility to ensure good data management within the enterprises they oversee. King III further compounded the importance of good data management by indicating that an enterprises financial results cannot be trusted if the data used to produce those reports cannot be trusted.

Yvette Lejins

Proofpoint

Yvette Lejins

Resident CISO APJ, Proofpoint

In her role as Resident CISO, APJ, Yvette focuses on driving Proofpoint’s people-centric security vision, strategy, and initiatives to its customers. She brings hands on experience, knowledge and perspective in managing risk and improving cyber security posture across complex enterprises. Yvette provides trusted cyber advice and insight advisory services for Proofpoint’s customers. 

Prior to joining Proofpoint, Yvette worked for the Qantas Airline Group, where her main role was the CISO for Jetstar Group of Airline companies (Jetstar Aus/NZ, Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan and Jetstar Vietnam). Prior to Qantas she was the CISO at the freight and logistic company Asciano, as well as having built up the security function at Atlassian before they went to IPO. 

Zachary Rea

MicroStrategy

Zachary Rea

Director: Sales Engineering for Middle East, India, Turkey & Africa , MicroStrategy

Zak Khan

Australian Energy Market Operator

Zak Khan

Senior Manager – Enterprise Business Analytics, Australian Energy Market Operator

Zak Khan is an accomplished data analytics strategist and thought leader with deep industry experiences. He has held diverse leadership roles across many facets of Information Management domain including data strategy formulation, building data quality and governance capabilities and operations management in Data warehousing, business intelligence & advanced analytics. Zak has global consulting experiences and assisted organisations across Telecommunications, Utilities and Financial services sectors to uplift data analytics capabilities in order to solve complex business problems and deliver business outcome.

Zana Pekmez

Zana Pekmez

Raiffeisen Bank International

Zana Pekmez

Zana Pekmez

Head of Customer Intelligence Analytics, Raiffeisen Bank International

Zana Pekmez is IT and data leader with a stellar record in driving business value with technology and lean data analytics solutions. Over the past decade she had contributed to creating technology vision and strategy, as well as driving its implementation continually focused on bringing the business value and needed change and transformation.

Zana´s is highly skilled in agile leadership and delivery at scale whit a track record of building from ground-up, leading and coaching large, diverse and high performing agile product teams distributed across several countries. She is an industry influencer with professional focus on data analytics, cloud computing and agile delivery’s continually providing thought leadership and sharing her knowledge as a speaker and as a mentor.

Her current side hustle is in the fields of sustainability and circular economy where she explores the synergies between digitalization, emerging technologies and sustainability identifying new possibilities for staying ahead in business while caring for the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit

Zeshan Shahzad

ASB Bank

Zeshan Shahzad

Information Security Consultant, ASB Bank

A diverse, innovative and highly motivated information security leader with over 23+ years’ of multi-industry global experience having in-depth knowledge of Cyber and Physical Security, ICT, Privacy, Cloud, Enterprise and Security Architecture, Business Continuity, Fraud, Audit and Risk Management.
Zeshan believes in lifelong learning; he holds 30+ industry certification including CPP, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, CGEIT, CDPSE, PMP, CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPT, FIP, PCI-ISA and TOGAF to name a few. He is a qualified MRes in Business Administration, PGD in Management and Business, Master of Computer Science and Bachelor of Computer Science.

Zoltan Varadi

St John New Zealand

Zoltan Varadi

General Manager - Performance Planning and Insights, St John New Zealand

Data technology leader with strong business acumen to see the big picture, cut through complexity, handle uncertainties, and seize data monetization opportunities that drive internal operational performance. Significant background in data and analytics solution architecting, with proven success in delivering enterprise-scale data warehouse in on-premises and Azure cloud environments, and cloud-based solutions to big data processing, real-time analytics, machine learning, and AI cognitive services.