
Sydney CISO Community
Inner Circle
6 September 2023 | Beta Events
6 September 2023
Beta Events
Collaborate with your peers
Join Sydney's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Assessing the current state of digital business as a joint IT and business challenge
Engaging business partners for joint decision making
Using credibility instead of fear to effect change and motivate accountability
Sydney CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Nishanth Chandran
Suncorp Group
Transformation Director & Interim CIO/Head of Wealth Technology

Lea Cornelius
Compass Group Australia
CIO

Susie Costa
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
SVP, Head of Security Management

Christian Daugbjerg
Demant
Vice President IT, Asia Pacific

Ben Doyle
Thales Australia
CISO Asia Pacific

Daniela Fernandez
PayPal Australia
Head of Information Security Australia

Paul Murphy
GHD
Chief Information Officer
Agenda
6 September 2023
16:30 - 17:30 Executive Networking Reception
17:30 - 18:45 Discussion Topics
Secure Digital Business – Sharing Accountability Across the Organisation

Colin Mapp
Chief Information Officer
Toyota Finance Australia

Victor Akkari
Chief Information Security Officer
Cochlear Limited

Venkat Balakrishnan
CISO
TAL Life

David Gee
Global Head Technology, Cyber & Data Risk
Macquarie Group

Michelle Martin
General Manager, Customer Platforms
Transurban

Katie Payten
Head of Digital - Cyber Security and Technology Risk
Woolworths Group

Kathleen Stubbs
Regional Director, Information Technology Asia Pacific
Colliers International Australia

Danny Walsh
Business & Technology Services (BTS) Director
George Weston Foods

Jihad Zein
Head of IT Governance, Risk and Assurance
Toll Group
Shared responsibility for accelerating digital business and its impacts will come about when CIOs and CISOs equip the business to actively participate in decision-making. Recent cybersecurity events and hybrid models have demonstrated that digital transformation is as much a business challenge as it is an IT one. How should CIOs and CISOs work together in order to make digital decisions alongside business partners, using credibility instead of fear to effect change and motivate accountability across the organisation? Join your peers to discuss how CIOs and CISOs can work together to influence business leaders and foster collaboration with business-side partners.
Assessing the Current State of Digital Business as a joint IT and Business Challenge
What metrics are you currently using to demonstrate your organisation's tech, IT and security environments?
How are you demonstrating the business value of new digital initiatives?
Are you working with the board to establish governance models that share responsibility for digital initiatives? How successful has this been?
Engaging Business Partners for Joint Decision Making
How are you involving business leaders around cyber decision-making to ensure joint responsibility?
What methods have you found effective when communicating the balance of risk, value and cost?
How are you leveraging influence and credibility to foster communication and collaboration across the organisation?
18:45 - 19:15 Networking Break
19:15 - 20:30 Summary Discussion & Dinner
20:30 - 21:30 Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Sydney CISO Community Inner Circle.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
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