IN-PERSON

Melbourne CISO Executive Summit

17 November 2022 | The Langham, Melbourne

17 November 2022
The Langham, Melbourne

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Melbourne's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:

Adapting to ever-changing digital business strategies, with security at the forefront

Accelerating high growth & a data first mindset, while empowering talent & protecting the enterprise

Driving worldwide innovation – optimising processes and elevating customer experience

Melbourne CISO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CISOs, for CISOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Justin Davies

Ovato
CIO

Tracey Evans

Seek
CIO

Barry Magsanay

Treasury Wine Estates
Global Head of Information Security

Matt Mueller

Iluka Resources Limited
CIO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Melbourne CISO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda


16 November 2022

17 November 2022

18:00 - 21:00  Governing Body Welcome Reception

Governing Body Welcome Reception

Exclusive to community members, this "open house" style reception is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

11:30 - 12:15  Breakout Session

From the Front Lines – The Ransomware Defence Strategies That Worked

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Guy Segal

VP Cyber Security Services APAC

Sygnia

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Lauro Burkart

Director of Cyber Security Services

Sygnia

Over the past year, we partnered with more than 100 organisations to defeat ransomware attacks. Join our session to find out what strategies worked for these CISOs, and how you can build on their experience to secure your network. Ransomware attacks have evolved, but if you identify the threat early on, technologies already in place can eliminate it with no need for additional spend.

Join us and discover:

  • Real-world case study: The anatomy of a heavyweight ransomware attack
  • Key pitfalls commonly overlooked by security teams
  • Quick wins for preventing ransomware attacks without investing in additional technologies

11:30 - 12:15  Breakout Session

Imperatives For Technology Leaders to Inspire Others and Drive Change

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Mary-Beth Hosking

Global CIO

Pointsbet

Transformation is critical for any organisation to succeed, and technology-enabled change has become a widespread means of improving responsiveness to competition and customer satisfaction. In the current climate of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, every IT leader has had to up their change game. To strategically transform, leaders need to deliver tech at speed, innovate at scale and put humans at the centre by effectively managing the changes associated with both people and processes.

In this session Mary Beth, CIO, Pointsbet will cover:

  • The quickly changing technology landscape and what is the greatest potential impact on your organisation or industry
  • How to continuously renew ways of working and reinvigorate approaches to talent to match the pace of market change
  • What it takes to deliver in a world where technology never stands still and leaders must know how to be a more engaged, dynamic, and active

11:30 - 12:15  Executive Boardroom

Reimagining Your Approach to Technology for the Digital Age – Prioritising Customer-Centricity

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Tony Bailey

CEO & Founder, AccessHQ a NCS Dialog company

NCS

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Sam Fariborz

Cyber Services and Program Manager

Kmart Australia

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Grant Lockwood

CISO

Virtus Health

The digital age may be upon us but technology quality is stuck in the industrial era posing risk to effective digital transformation. To succeed, IT and security leads must reimagine the role of quality in their organisations by shifting focus from inspection, cost and control to a mindset aligned to vision, customer experience, business outcomes, and IT implementation.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Identifying and aligning customer needs and digital transformation initiatives to drive business outcomes
  • Integrating customer-centric technologies as part of IT operating models
  • Improving technology quality for enhanced customer experience through applications

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

12:15 - 13:15  Lunch Service

13:15 - 13:50  Keynote

Securing Digital Business Transformation Starts With Zero

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Kavitha Mariappan

EVP Customer Experience and Transformation

Zscaler

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Matthew Stokeld

Cloud Infrastructure Lead

Department of Education & Training Victoria

Digital transformation is a powerful business enabler that is compelling leaders to fundamentally change their technology ecosystems. The potential of technology to unlock value and drive progress has never been greater and the imperative to transform your business, securely, has never been more urgent. With data, users, and devices everywhere, how can technology leaders reimagine cybersecurity in a world without boundaries?

Join this keynote to hear strategies on:

  • Accelerating transformation with innovative security services, and communicating their value to the business
  • Scaling and simplifying security across the organisation, minimizing risk, and gaining agility
  • Protecting today's cloud-first, hybrid workforce with a proactive, intelligent, and radically simple security architecture

13:50 - 14:00  Break

08:00 - 09:00  Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45  Keynote

Cloud Strategy & Governance at Bendigo: How to Upskill key IT Talent to Combat Talent Shortages

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Andrew Cresp

CIO

Bendigo & Adelaide Bank

As the ongoing migration to the cloud continues, organisations risk faltering as they attempt to upskill IT talent and combat talent shortages. In this context, it is essential for organisations to build a robust digital talent model – leveraging new technologies to shift mindsets across the Australian workforce. To maintain operational efficiency, drive value, and ensure longevity, organisations must broaden their skill and opportunity lens to embrace diversity, focusing on reskilling and upskilling – beyond just the tech and engineering spheres.

Join this session with Andrew Cresp, CIO at Bendigo, and discuss how they:

  • Applied democratisation of learning through the pandemic to fast-track learning around the cloud, DevOps, and APIs
  • Utilised their IBL program to widen talent pathways
  • Create a chargeback model for cloud to maximise value from cloud and minimise cost

09:45 - 10:00  Break

10:00 - 10:45  Breakout Session

Take Control of Your Everywhere Workplace for Unified Endpoint Management

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Graeme Pyper

ANZ MD & Director APAC Partner and Alliances

BlackBerry

Although most organisations do an exceptional job of layering different technologies to secure their data, breaches continue to occur. So what's going wrong and how can you identify these blindspots? In many instances, the point of failure can be traced to the user and their endpoint. Security leaders must demand a tight hold on the endpoints in today's changing landscape. 

In this session, you can learn about:

  • What are the major Endpoint management capabilities you can implement
  • How can you combat the complex challenges of managing workloads in the new era
  • Ways you can continuously monitor endpoint metrics and manage system health

10:00 - 10:45  Breakout Session

Technology as an Enabler and not Just a Tool or Solution

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Jennifer Rebeiro

CIO

Greater Western Water

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Saeed Tasbihsazan

CTO Enterprise, Government & BFSI

Telstra Corporation

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Elizabeth Wilson

CIO

Department of Education & Training Victoria

As the world moves towards an ultra-digital era, businesses are constantly transforming. Technology has brought on this new era by enabling every transformation. Despite this suggested correlation, transformations that are solely focused on technology often fail to meet long-term business expectations. So, what is the ultimate competitive advantage for business transformation in the digital era? Business leaders in general and CIOs must look at and beyond technology to propel their organisations into the digital vanguard. For digital transformation to succeed, organisations need to evaluate and actively manage the interaction of strategy, leadership, and technology.

Join this panel to learn:

  • How do you create value through technology and what is the impact on the bottom line
  • How to innovate in a digital era and embed this capability in the entire organisation
  • What degree of responsibility does a board take in managing cyber risks in digital transformations

10:00 - 10:45  Executive Boardroom

Accounting for Third-Party Risk in Strategic Planning

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Tracey Evans

CIO

Seek

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Greg Emsley

General Manager, Digital & Technology

Maurice Blackburn

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Cassie Roberts

Regional Solutions Consulting Director

RiskRecon

Third parties expose businesses to strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks. Moreover, leaders have less visibility into third parties than into their own businesses. For many organisations, the pandemic exposed the fragility of the organisation’s third-party network and impressed the need to flex quickly to new third and fourth parties in the extended enterprise to meet demand without increasing risk exposure.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

  • Standardising third-party risk management assessments to be used by business units
  • Maintaining visibility of all ongoing third-party relationships
  • Identifying and mitigating the risks of the third-party network

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

10:45 - 11:30  Networking Break

10:55 - 11:20  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

14:00 - 14:45  Breakout Session

The Keys to Failure: A Historical Look at How to Prepare for and Address Your Future Breach

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Stephen Moore

Chief Security Strategist

Exabeam

What are the keys to security failure? Join this session to hear from Stephen Moore the Vice President and the Chief Security Strategist at Exabeam. He will discuss why security teams, specifically the SOC, fail when not aligned to adversary capabilities, leadership, and internal politics. Then, learn how to make your team more resilient using a simple model based on outcomes and use cases formed during breach response.

The session will also cover: 

  • How to use available observations and outcomes to preempt failure
  • How to avoid making decisions in a vacuum of experience
  • A review of common shortcomings and observations
  • A take-home exercise for security leadership and SOC capability (tabletop and thought experiment)

14:00 - 14:45  Executive Boardroom

The Risks and Rewards of the AI-Powered Organisation

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Annie South

Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer

Telstra Corporation

In an era where data is widely regarded as ‘the new oil’, AI and machine learning are rapidly emerging as the primary drivers that fuel the broader digital economy. As organisations adapt, becoming more AI-powered, technology leaders must take a step back and consider the ethical responsibilities this entails. Perennial questions remain about how emerging tech will affect the skill needs of the future, what career paths will look like alongside the rise of augmented human AI, and where the concomitant risks lie. All these questions must be addressed if technology leaders hope to employ an ethical, scalable AI model.

Join this boardroom with Annie South, Chief Data and AI officer, Telstra, as we consider:

  • How can you build an ethical, scalable model for an AI-powered organisation?
  • What role does data play in the adoption of AI?
  • How is emerging tech going to affect the skills of the future?

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

14:00 - 14:45  Executive Boardroom

From Password to Passwordless

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Lloyd Evans

Head of Identity- JAPAC

LastPass

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Lukasz Gogolkiewicz

Head of Corporate Security

Seek

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Varun Acharya

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Healthscope Limited

Passwords are the keys to our digital kingdom. They allow employees, partners, and sometimes customers to access a broad range of tools and systems that enable them to work, collaborate, and transact. Passwords are also notoriously weak as a security tool, and their problems remain at an all-time high unless we take the proper steps to manage and protect them adequately. Statistics from reports such as the 2022 annual Verizon DBIR show that approximately 80% of breaches are related to credential theft. Against this backdrop, a pertinent question is how do you manage your passwords and reduce human behaviour risk, given that humans are the weakest link?

The session covers:

  • How does password management fit into your cybersecurity strategy?
  • How can businesses reduce the risk of human behaviours?
  • Why going beyond SSO and MFA will help enhance your cybersecurity posture and productivity
  • How business can accelerate Passwordless authentication

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

14:45 - 15:30  Networking Break

14:55 - 15:20  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

15:30 - 16:15  Breakout Session

Fostering a Sustainable and Effective Workforce

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Luke Power

ANZ Managing Director

Trellix

Across the board, security leaders are realising that it's no longer effective to focus purely on skills and experience when hiring an ideal security team. There's been increased pressure to get creative and think outside the box when attracting and retaining emerging security leaders.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Implementing proactive strategies to hire emerging security leaders
  • Looking beyond the surface for competencies to creatively upskill and align employees with appropriate roles
  • Executing immediate retention practices to maintain your team

15:30 - 16:15  Executive Boardroom

Effectively Communicating Cyber Risk With Data

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John Ellis

CISO

BUPA ANZ

Around the world, there’s a heightened awareness of the value and risks associated with data in the digital age. From high-visibility data breaches to increased regulation, the debate about what’s at stake and what to do about it rages on. There is no shortage of data available to the security function, but insights – the signals of a real threat that demands action — are a different story. Technology leaders who can derive meaningful findings from their environments can better detect threats with fewer resources — a difficult, ongoing challenge as organisations become increasingly digital and complex.

Join this boardroom to discuss

  • How to improve your data security posture management by accelerating visibility, classification, and actionable insight across all types of enterprise data
  • Why organisations need to make privacy more central to how they deliver customer value
  • How to effectively respond to a third-party data breach

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

15:30 - 16:15  Executive Boardroom

The Evolving Role of the Digital CIO

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Linda Craven

Chief Digital & Information Officer

Defence Bank

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Jeremy Bree

CIO

Carlisle Homes

The role of the CIO today looks very different from what it did just a year ago, with opportunities to contribute well beyond the traditional IT function. CIOs can actively contribute as chief digital officers, lead major digital initiatives, be more active in strategy development, and enable other executives to contribute to the digital agenda.

So, how will the CIO role evolve to continue to drive digital growth, transformation, and acceleration?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Understanding the inhibitors of enabling digital acceleration and how you can advance the CIO role to match organisational needs
  • Building an IT organisation around you to drive digital business acceleration while also managing the looming cyber risk posed by digitalisation
  • What new skills do CIOs need to expand their digital ambitions, build and operate a successful digital enterprise

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CxOs).

16:15 - 16:25  Break

16:25 - 17:00  Keynote

Adopting a Growth Mindset and Boosting Resilience

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Daniel Bull

World Record-Breaking Adventurer

Guest Speaker

At the very top of the world, as in the business world, constant change means we’re all navigating new terrain. Come together and bounce back from the greatest disruptive event of our generation, while being inspired by 3x world record-breaking adventurer Daniel Bull. He shares powerful and practical strategies learnt from Everest to Antarctica and beyond while empowering you to defy limits, grasp opportunities, and conquer your own mountains – in work and in life.

Daniel will share:

  • Proven strategies for dealing with unrelenting change
  • Powerful insights on courageous leadership in the face of ongoing uncertainty
  • What it takes to reach the top – adopting a growth mindset and boosting resilience despite epic challenges

17:00 - 18:00  Closing Reception & Prize Drawing

16 November 2022

17 November 2022

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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The Langham, Melbourne

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