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Ashkan Tashvir built and launched the first of several businesses at the age of fifteen and subsequently led a series of businesses to become thriving and successful enterprises across various industries. With a master’s degree in information systems management, he was amongst the youngest Certified Microsoft Trainers at the time and has worked on various technology projects for government bodies and a range of sectors, including legal, finance and hospitality. During this time, his interest in business and entrepreneurship continued to evolve and he led or advised several startups and SMEs to become sustainable, scalable ventures before becoming an investor and venture builder himself.

In addition to his extensive business and technological engineering qualifications and experience, Ashkan is a deep thinker, voracious reader and philosopher with a profound interest in and knowledge of Western and Eastern philosophy.

For more than a decade, he was driven by a quest to discover why there is so much dysfunction and suffering in the world and to find the answer to a burning question, ‘Why are we human beings the way we are and what drives our decisions, behaviours and actions?’ His quest led him to a crossroads between the realms of technology, business, leadership and philosophy.

Observing a distinct lack of logical, ontological and systematic thinking in the areas of human consciousness, transformation and leadership, particularly in terms of how they empower people to generate opportunity and wealth for themselves and others, Ashkan set his mind to using his newly discovered knowledge to devise a series of practical frameworks, tools and methodologies, one of which is the Being Framework™. The framework is laid out in his best-selling books BEING and Human Being.

This framework, which incorporates the Being Profile® assessment tool and the Transformation Methodology™, is now supporting people from all over the world to create significant economic and social benefits in their organisations and personally derive fulfilment from their contribution in life. He has since also designed and built the Genesis Framework™, a revolutionary business venture building paradigm.

Anthony Woodward –  Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director | Mentor & Advisor | Digital Transformation | Cloud | Growth | M&A

For more than 25 years, Anthony has built, scaled and run technology companies in the internet and cloud services space. By helping businesses to understand how to use technology to advance strategic objectives and enable performance, he has converted game-changing market opportunities into leading businesses as a CEO, Executive Director and Entrepreneur.

Leveraging access technologies to create Zip World in 1995, the market-leading retail and wholesale provider was sold to NASDAQ listed Pacific Internet (now Telstra) in 1999. He then founded Bulletproof, which he grew to be the leading end-to-end Cloud Services provider in ANZ, took public through a listing on the ASX in 2014, and led a rapid growth trajectory to c.$50m revenues in FY17 before its acquisition by AC3 in 2018. Anthony joined Logicalis Australia in July 2021, as Chief Executive Officer.

Tony Jarvis

Director of Enterprise Security, Asia Pacific Japan

Based in Singapore

Tony Jarvis is a CISO advisor and cybersecurity strategist who has advised Fortune 500 clients across the world and served as a thought leader within the industry. Tony has held a variety of leadership and advisory roles with leading brands such as FireEye, Standard Chartered Bank and Telstra, and has an acute understanding of how to successfully deliver cybersecurity engagements which strategically align with business objectives. He is passionate about educating audiences on the risks posed by modern cyber threats and advises business leaders as they undertake major cybersecurity transformation projects and initiatives. Tony holds a BA of Information systems from the University of Melbourne.

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Scott Fletcher is a Cloud Security Engineer at Oracle. His background includes Penetration Testing, Software Development & Security Consulting. He has also held Principal Consultant roles in both Australia & New Zealand, and worked for a number of enterprise and financial services organisations.

In an IT career spanning two decades across a range of technical implementation, architecture and leadership roles for some of Australia’s most recognised brands, Tom Walker has established a reputation for delivering the improbable whilst embedding significant and impactful organisational change on the teams he has led. An advocate for a security first culture, Tom takes a pragmatic approach to transformation, and always challenges the status quo believing “better” is only a transient state to “best”.

Scott’s LinkedIn | Oracle

Alan is a highly confident, effective and adaptable leader, manager & team player, with some 30 years experience in all facets of security, particularly cyber and enterprise security risk management, with a focus on ‘value-at-risk’. Currently, Alan is the Director of Advisory Services for Decipher Cyber, where he works with founder Tinesh Chhaya to grow their business and deliver quality outcomes at a reasonable cost based on the value of change required in a transparent manner.

During his career as a senior RAF Police officer, he has accrued extensive operational exposure in the UK & overseas, in both multi-national & multi-agency environments, against the backdrop of a broad threat spectrum & across all 3 of the so-called physical, personnel & information security pillars.

Since leaving the RAF in 2006, he has added management consulting plus business development, delivery & pre-sales experience in both Public & Private sectors in the role of a Trusted Advisor & SME. After spells at CSC & T-Systems as UK Chief Security Officer and being responsible for end-end security governance, operations and risk, he joined Babcock International Group as their first CISO in 2013. He led the delivery of significant improvements in the Group’s cyber security capabilities to the benefit of the wider business & its customers. After a year as an Independent, he later joined IBM Security in 2015 as an Associate Partner leading activities in the UK’s FinSvces Sector, where he also led the delivery of a £multi-million security workstream as part of a £1.2 billion contract with a Tier 1 Bank. He returned to freelancing in 2018, working through Cybercorre & then joining a start-up, Guardian Cyber Services, in 2019, before landing an all-too-brief role at 2-Sec Consulting. He has been on contract to Hitachi Europe’s Security Business Group since October 2019 and has also been CISO-in-Residence at CyLon Labs since March of even year, supporting 2 Cohorts of startup/scale ups and supporting a CyLon Spark workshop in Oman in 2020.

Kylie is the Lead Client Partner for Defence and National Security in Australia and New Zealand at IBM with the remit to helping solve some of the nation’s more complex national security problems with consulting specialities in data, AI, automation, cyber security, hybrid cloud, openshift, innovative technologies and agile processes. Kylie previously ran Cybersecurity for IBM Consulting as well as Hybrid Cloud and Cloud Security for all industries across A/NZ.  Prior to that she was a Risk Partner managing Cybersecurity and data analytics for government clients at Deloitte and a Lead Client Partner for Defence on Risk.

Kylie has a strong interest in human behaviour in regards to technologies including users and cyber criminal behaviour, and regularly advises clients on strengthening security based on her insights. She is both a Sociologist and a Technologist with experience and degrees in sociology, management, cyber and data. She has advised and managed clients across Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Korea with innovation, data management, advanced analytics and security.

Her insights into cyber warfare and criminal activity hinge on the human side of malicious attacks with an intent to determine the intent of the actors, degree of maliciousness and to help teams prepare their cyber defence (or level of offence). Kylie holds a top secret Australian government security clearance. On top of that she loves exploring why people are drawn to cyber crime.

Kylie has won awards for innovation, new products/services, business and community service and has a track record of leading large multifaceted teams of hundreds of people with deep technical expertise on technology projects and programs for consulting budgets as large as $300M+. In her spare time she is the Chair of a Charity Think Tank the National Institute for Strategic Resilience (NISR) that seeks to gather perspectives and encourage diversity of thought on national resilience and security policy…. and can be seen on the basketball court most weekends managing junior premier league teams, coaching, mentoring emerging coaches, and watching her children play.

Apurva Chiranewala is the General Manager of fintech company Block Earner, where he oversees global operations, growth and expansion, and builds strategic partnerships.

Formerly head of shipping at eBay and chief development officer at fast-growing logistics scale-up Sendle, Chiranewala has worked in a number of high-profile leadership roles at large corporations and startups alike.

As an early pioneer in eCommerce, Chiranewala has closely witnessed the disruption of traditional retail and shipping industries globally during his career first at Snapdeal, one of India’s earliest eCommerce unicorns, at Catch.com and Sendle here in Australia. Chiranewala foresees a parallel path of disruption happening now due to blockchain technology in the traditional finance space.

Chirag’s ambitious goal is simple—to enable human progress through technology. To accomplish this, he wants to help build a world where there is trust in digital systems, protection against cyber threats, and a safe environment online for communication, commerce, and engagement. He is especially passionate about the safety of children and vulnerable sections of society online. This goal has served as a motivation that has led Chirag to become a sought-after speaker and advocate at various industry-leading conferences and events. Chirag is respected as a thought leader in cyber security with keynotes and presentations at forums in United States, Australia, and Asia. His podcast features insights from distinguished professionals in a wide range of disciplines including media, entrepreneurship, executive leadership, and futurology.

He is the author of the highly successful book “7 Rules to Influence Behaviour and Win at Cyber Security Awareness” which has been purchased in over 11 countries across the world and became an Amazon Australia Best-Seller in its category.

During the course of his career spanning across multiple sectors and countries, he has built, implemented, and successfully managed cyber security, risk management, compliance, and awareness programs. The success of these programs was a result of unyielding focus on business priorities, a pragmatic approach to cyber threats, and most importantly, effective stakeholder engagement. Chirag has held senior leadership positions in large, complex organisations and excels at the art of translating business and technical speak in a manner that optimises value.

Chirag has also conducted several successful cyber security education sessions for executives and non-technical audiences in diverse industries such as finance, energy, healthcare, and higher education. He has led teams, managed multi-million-dollar budget and transformation programs. He has experience in both IT and OT environments, and leading cyber security through de-mergers and divestments.

Chirag has extensive experience with a wide range of standards, frameworks and regulations including NIST CSF, APRA CPS 234, AESCSF, PCI DSS, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and ISO 27001/2.

Chirag’s academic qualifications include a master’s degree in telecommunications management from Oklahoma State University and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Mumbai. He holds multiple certifications, including Certified Information Security Manager, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control, and Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer.

His areas of expertise include strategic cyber advisory to executives, cyber risk management, cyber strategy and architecture, security and technology governance, cyber transformation programs and security awareness training.

Get a copy of 7 Rules to Become Exceptional At Cyber Security: A Practical, Real-world Perspective For Cyber Security Leaders and Professionals on Amazon and Chirag’s website.

With over 20 years experience in information technology, John is an accomplished consulting practice leader, management and sales consultant, published author and writer, global thought leader in information risk management and security, governance, risk, and compliance.  John addresses business, technology, and compliance issues on a global scale.

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