BASTIEN TREPTEL Bastien is the co-founder of CTRL Group - Australia’s progressive information security firm, protecting businesses from cyber risk. CTRL Group offer best in class security solutions ranging from audits, hacking, monitoring, advisory and education. With operations in Singapore, Thailand and Australia, CTRL Group are on a mission to safeguard [...]

THOMAS MYNOTT At 19 years old I left my small country town to join the Army. I began my military career in Canberra being trained as a military manager and soldier. 2 years later I found myself in East-Timor managing a team of 34 maintenance and transportation staff and supporting the [...]

CASEY ELLIS Casey is the Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Bugcrowd. He is an 18 year veteran of information security, servicing clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations as a pen tester, security and risk consultant and solutions architect, then most recently as a career entrepreneur. Casey pioneered the Crowdsourced Security [...]

PHIL ZONGO Phil Zongo is the author of The Five Anchors of Cyber Resilience, an Amazon best-selling book that strips away the complexity of cyber security and provides practical guidance to business executives. In 2017, Phil was invited to Chicago, USA, where he was honoured with ISACA’s International Best Book / [...]

NATHAN CLARKE Nathan enlisted in the Army in 1996 and worked in many different roles supporting the various information systems supporting ADF operations. Late in his career he served in the ADFCIRT and decided then that cyber security was going to be the mainstay of his post-military career. Since Leaving the [...]

DAN HOLMAN & ERIC FLIS Dan Holman is the CEO and Eric Flis the COO of WorldStack; the leading Australian Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) company. They founded WorldStack to create the tools that enhance the decision-making of their clients with actionable intelligence. This is fuelled by freely available, but hard to [...]

NICOLE STEPHENSEN Nicole Stephensen is a Privacy Specialist with extensive local and international experience in operational and strategic privacy matters. She is Principal Consultant at Ground Up Consulting, a boutique firm she established in 2011. Nicole is also the Executive Director for Privacy and Data Protection at the Internet of Things [...]

SHANNON SEDGWICK Shannon provides future-focused leadership to government and private enterprise executives and boards to maximise the benefits of implementing new technologies, align that implementation with their strategic intent, and future-proof their organisations against cyber threats. After spending nearly a decade working across the world consulting on technology, cyber security, and [...]

DR. LYDIA KOSTOPOULOS Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos' work is at the intersection of people, strategy, technology, education, and national security. She addressed the United Nations member states on the military effects panel at the Convention of Certain Weapons Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). Formerly the Director for Strategic [...]

GREG VAN DER GAAST Greg is a 20+ year cyber veteran. Veteran may be an accurate term considering he’s been at war with the way the sector has worked for much of that time. From teenage hacker to covert government operator, to architect, manager, and head of security, he’s never accepted [...]