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Adam is an high-energy leader, military veteran, and business executive with practical leadership experience working in diverse and complex environments. As CEO of CyAmast, an Australian founded technology company – specialising in IoT network security solutions, he is steering the company through a dramatic and successful scale-up period.

Their technology sits at the intersection of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Defined Networking and is game changer in the way organisations can get visibility over their connected devices, and the defence against the pervasive threat of cyberattacks.

Jacqueline Jayne (JJ) currently serves as Security Awareness Advocate for the APAC region for KnowBe4, the world’s most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform. With over 20 years’ experience as a conduit between people and technology, she has mastered the art of communication and influence. Previously, she led a successful cybersecurity education and awareness program that changed behaviour and culture, aimed at helping users make better cybersecurity decisions. Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility, and there is a gap in how to go about engaging hearts and minds across an entire organisation, regardless of its size. Her insights on the human condition and how to engage at all levels in this space are invaluable as many people struggle to understand the cyberthreat landscape and equally, tech people struggle to understand engage the people to create change. Humans are innately curious which in this climate causes major issues.

Mark works for Lockton Companies Australia, the worlds largest privately owned insurance brokerage and risk advisor.

Mark is the Head of Lockton’s Australian Cyber & Technology Practice, and works with the Global Cyber and Technology team advising clients on the insurable nature of their associated cyber, privacy and technology risks. His experience encompasses advising small business to ASX top 200 companies, across a diverse range of industries.

Mark is a regular contributor to the Cyber Insurance area through both the regular publication of White Papers and appearance on panels on the topic. Mark compliments this area additionally advising clients on their Directors and Officers Liability, IT Liability, Professional Indemnity, Crime and Statutory Liability Insurance risks.

Mike Thompson is the CTO and Co-founder of HackHunter. HackHunter protects organisations by detecting and tracking malicious WiFi and WiFi-operated drones. Mike is an IoT expert with an extensive background in Information and Cyber Security.

Amongst Mike’s many roles, he has:

Mike is a smart home and 3D printing fanatic with a passion for unlocking the potential of IoT to make our lives richer, safer and sustainable. After the successful exit of his previous business, Mike combined his skills and experience in IoT and cyber security to start the HackHunter journey.

Dr. Alana Maurushat is Professor of Cybersecurity and Behaviour at Western Sydney University where she holds a joint position in the School of Computer Science & Mathematics, and in the School of Social Sciences and Criminology, and is Key Researcher with the CRC Smart Satellites. She is currently researching on Payment Diversion Fraud and Ransomware, Tracking Money-Laundering through Bitcoin Blenders, distributed extreme edge computing for micro-clustered satellites, and Ethical Hacking. She previously was Senior Lecturer in Law, Key Researcher on the CRC Data to Decisions – Big Data in National Security, and Senior Fellow with the Australian CyberSecurity Centre for Research and Education all at UNSW. She is the Cyber-Ambassador for the NSW Cybersecurity Network. She is on the Board of Directors for the cybercrime investigation company IFW Global. She lectures & researches in Cybersecurity, Privacy and Security by Design, Cyber Risk Management, and Artificial Intelligence across the disciplines of law, criminology, business, political science and information communications technology. Alana has done consultancy work on cyber security, open data, big data, technology and civil liberties for both the Australian and Canadian governments, industry and NGOs. Alana has done media with 60 Minutes, the New York Time, Insight, ABC, and 730 Report, and is the author of many books and articles.

Daniel Graves is currently Chief Technology Officer at Delphix, responsible for strategy technology partnerships including AWS, GCP, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Graves is a software and cloud industry veteran of over 20 years with a diverse background in other functions including technology partnerships, business development, marketing, CTO, sales management, program management, presales, and as a developer.

At Delphix Graves assists with defining the overall partner and alliance strategy, and hiring and managing the team of business development, channel sales, and technical partner development staff. Previously at Delphix, Daniel built the Product organization from the ground up, including Product Management, Product Marketing, Program Management, and Delphix Labs. Prior to Delphix, Graves served as Cloud CTO at Symantec, leading technical and product strategy for the Cloud.

Over his career, he has led product groups at a variety of leading technology firms including NeXT / Apple, Sun Microsystems, NetDynamics, and Rockwell International’s AI labs. Graves has a Masters in Computer Engineering from Stanford University.

• Experienced Researcher – 20 years experience holding senior positions in research at Channel Nine, Seven Network, News Corp and Fairfax Media.

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, RiskIQ, Elias Manousos is a security technology expert and experienced executive with over 20 years of delivering enterprise security solutions. Prior to co-founding RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), an Internet leader in authorization and single sign-on (SSO).

At Securant, he was instrumental in pioneering the now commonplace technologies providing increased browser security. Elias bootstrapped RiskIQ from zero to 100 employees and more than 100 customers in just 5 years. Today eight of the 10 largest financial institutions in the U.S. and five of the nine leading Internet companies in the world rely on RiskIQ to protect their websites, mobile apps and customers from malware and fraud.

Nithin has scaled and led SQR Systems to design and deliver critical secure communications solutions for defence, national security and financial services on a global scale. His patented encryption technology is used in heavily regulated sectors.

He is an active contributor and thought leader in some of the world’s leading information security research and development communities and his contributions are featured in many high profile publications. He has been actively promoting simplicity in security and the need to consider user experience as a core part of security development.

Over the past 3 years, Nithin has established several research and commercial programmes in government, private sector and academia exploring emerging technologies to protect privacy from the threat of quantum computing.