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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 filter data that sits on the open web, deep, and dark web, and WorldStack’s solutions provide the tools to turn that data into genuine insight.

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 Security Institute, where she is co-author of the IoTSI Security Framework for Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructure and hosts a bi-weekly podcast, ‘Privacy Matters‘.

With nearly 20 years in the privacy profession, Nicole believes in building organisational capacity around privacy and embedding best practice into organisational culture. In her private practice, she assists government, private and not for profit sectors to unlock the strategic value of privacy and enhance community trust. She also helps to find, unpack and address privacy risk, via formal Privacy Impact Assessments and more collaborative on-site reviews of policies, processes and ‘on the ground’ handling of personal information. In consultation with her clients, she develops and delivers bespoke training for staff and executive levels.

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 risk management, Shannon has unique and unparalleled insight into what makes an organisation successful and resilient.

Shannon has landed coverage in print and broadcast outlets around the world, including the Today Show, Seven News, Sky News, ITV, KBPS, ABC, 60 Minutes, 2GB, and Sunday Night. His articles have been featured in the Asia Pacific Security Magazine, AFR, The Australian, news.com.au, and university journals.

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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 Engagement at the College of Information and Cyberspace at the National Defense University, a Principal Consultant for PA and higher education professor teaching national security at several universities, her professional experience spans three continents, several countries, and multi-cultural environments.

She speaks and writes on disruptive technology convergence, innovation, tech ethics, and national security. She lectures at the National Defense University, Joint Special Operations University, is a member of the IEEE-USA AI Policy Committee, participates in NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Program, and during the Obama administration has received the U.S. Presidential Volunteer Service Award for her pro bono work in cybersecurity. In efforts to raise awareness on AI and ethics she is working on a reflectional art series [#ArtAboutAI], and a game about emerging technology and ethics called Sapien2.0.

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 anything without understanding how the pieces fit together, without asking “why?”

The answers led him to realisations about the true root causes of issues and the fact that not only are they not even on most people’s radar, but that many of the industry’s solutions and approaches are counterproductive, requiring a new approach he’s been perfecting over the last decade. He’s on a mission to pull InfoSec away from dealing with symptoms and to start addressing the true origins of problems, dramatically boosting assurance while slashing costs and complexity.

Named 2017 Cybersecurity Professional of the Year – Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) SC Magazine, Global Privacy and Security by Design (GPSbyDesign) International Council Member, and finalist Women in Technology Business Role Model of the Year 2018; Dr. Rebecca Wynn is lauded as a “game-changer who is ten steps ahead in developing and enforcing cybersecurity and privacy best practices and policies.” She is a “big picture” thinker who brings nearly 20 years of experience in Information Security, Assurance & Technology.

Recently, Rebecca led the information security, privacy, and compliance pre-acquisition, acquisition and post-acquisition of LearnVest, Inc. to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company – a Fortune 100 company. She is well known for being a gifted polymath, having deep understanding of current cyber security challenges and privacy issues. She has a proven track record of taking companies to the next level of excellence in many sectors including government, financial services, fintech, healthcare, information technology, legal, semiconductors, and retail.

Jasun Tate is a career Cyber Intelligence professional with over 21 years experience in the US Intelligence and Cyber Operations Community. Having worked in some of the most critical and sensitive operations for the US Government at Home and Abroad his unique perspective on the reality of the Cyber threat is unique in and of itself. After serving with the US Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Army Research Laboratories Jasun left the classified field of operations and traded it in for distinguished positions with a few Fortune 100 companies as the Public Sector Business Information Security Officer for the largest Data Broker and Credit Agency in the world Experian.

After seeing the disparity between the Cyber Intelligence capabilities in contrast to the security capabilities of the world today he started a unique and agile boutique firm named bits&digits. Initially developed as a Cyber Solutions and Development consulting firm, it has since matured into one of the worlds most bespoken Crisis Mitigation and Information Awareness outfits today.

After 18 years of working in cybersecurity he realised most of the solutions being implemented were falling short. With four years of extensive research, he found the real reason why cybercrime was so prevalent was mostly due to a lack of knowledge at the CEO and Director level.

In 2018, Andrew co-founded the International Cyber Resilience Institute, with the goal of educating CEOs and Directors about cybercrime. The company now offers advice to executives around the globe covering cybersecurity, including risk mitigation and how to properly handle a security breach.