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Stephen has over 30 years of experience in the security and technology space, working with large enterprise organizations in various market sectors, such as Gaming, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, and Retail, to build and enhance their cybersecurity capabilities.

Currently working as the Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) he plays an instrumental role in securing and maintaining the integrity of Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Limited (DPE), the largest master franchisee of the Domino’s brand outside the US, encompassing 13 regions across Asia Pacific and Europe and supporting over 3,700 stores. In the last financial year, DPE served a staggering 180 million pizzas, amounting to over seven pizzas sold every second. With 80% of all orders placed through their digital platform, Stephen’s work in safeguarding customer data and ensuring a seamless user experience is particularly crucial.

Catherine Buhler, Fellow of the Australian Information Security Association

Catherine Buhler is a Fellow of the Australian Information Security Association and an experienced CISO who delivers security programs that ensure appropriate controls and processes are implemented to protect and defend the enterprise. She creates and manages security strategy based on threat intelligence, organisational security maturity, cyber risk appetite and in alignment with the organisation’s strategy.

Catherine is adept at raising business leaders’ understanding of their security risks and the business implications of their risk treatment decisions. She has a demonstrated ability to collaborate across all levels to build a security aware culture, champion innovative ideas, gain buy-in and build consensus. She builds high-performing multi-disciplinary security teams and empowers them to uplift security practices and cyber resilience. She was voted a top 100 CISO in the HotTopics and Menlo Security Global CISO 100 2022 and again in 2023.

Experienced Executive Manager, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and CISO, with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Business Process Design, Business Case, IT/IS Strategy, Business Transformation, and Risk Management. Strong information security and technology professional with a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.App.Sc.) focused in Mathematics from RMIT University.
Popular presenter with Board director experience. Non Executive Director.

Joanna Dalton is the Head of Cyber Defence at REA Group where she is responsible leading the operational security strategy for Australia’s largest proptech company. She has over 17 years of experience in digital forensics and incident response and has a PhD in artificial intelligence, data mining and network file systems. Joanna loves analysing large data sets to uncover malicious activity and is driven by helping to make the worst day in IT security just that little bit better.

Zeeshan is the Lead Cybersecurity Solution Engineer at Delinea with over 15 years of experience in IT security, specializing in Privileged Access Management, identity security, and compliance. He has worked with multinational financial institutions, large enterprises, and government agencies, delivering security solutions and conducting assessments.

With 20+ years experience in relationship, sales and team management, I have focused on driving successful customer outcomes and generating significant revenue streams. Working with some of the globe’s largest and most trusted technology vendors and premier global enterprises.

Customer relationships is my passion and delivering meaningful outcomes has been my core strength. Earning and maintaining trust from a client is proven in my ability to listen, understand and identify the deliverable necessary to provide a positive business outcome. My experience as the economic buyer persona within enterprise has provided a wealth of benefits in a relationship management capacity as a vendor.

Major highlights of my career have included executive sales management in both an acquisition and development capacity for the most valued Customer businesses across ANZ including all layers of government and enterprise for my employers. I thrive in a capacity to deliver results.

My experience includes a broad portfolio of SDDC capability including Cloud, SaaS, IaaS, infrastructure and data security solutions. My deep knowledge of the industry and emerging technologies enables me to grasp new concepts quickly and engage customers directly to assist with strategic outcomes.

Scott Hesford has over a decade of experience in IT security. Before joining BeyondTrust in 2019, he worked as Principal Consultant for CA Technologies and other large enterprises in Australia and New Zealand. A trusted cyber security advisor to enterprise customers, his experience spans across several industries such as banking, insurance, energy and utilities, in addition to state and federal governments. At BeyondTrust, Mr Hesford is an essential contributor in the regional security engineering department, helping enterprises and government agencies improve their security posture against internal and external threats.

Joshua is a methodical and outcome-oriented enterprise sales professional with 10+ years proven success, helping customers drive transformational outcomes through the adoption of operationally-critical technology solutions.

Skilled at multi-threading and cultivating executive engagement across large organisations. Adept at building compelling economic justifications and translating technology risk into business outcomes for a diverse stakeholder audience.

Innovative thinker with robust business acumen and customer-centric principles.

Caroline Soo leads the APJ Customer Success team for KnowBe4 and has been in the business of setting up her clients for success over the past 17 years, across diverse industries. She joined KnowBe4 in 2022 to make a difference in the world by making “Enabling employees (and everyone around her) to make smarter security decisions, every day” her mission to partially fulfil her childhood dream of being a heroine.

Having the privilege of working and leading at companies like Gartner, Lazada and GfK, Soo brings with her an outcome-driven value engagement approach to everything that she does, as she and her team enable organisations to shape cyber safe behaviours one day at a time. Soo is Security Awareness Culture Professional (SACP) certified, a Chemist (NUS) and Accountancy (ACCA) by training.

Anthony Caruana has worked for almost every major masthead in the Australian IT press with his work appearing around the world. As an experienced IT professional – having worked as the lead IT executive in several businesses, he brings a unique insight to his reporting. He is the CEO of Media-Wize and continues to also work as a freelance writer for corporate clients. He is also a regular presenter on radio and television, as well as at events and webinars.

His work has covered the Australian and Asian markets. He writes about enterprise and consumer technology, information security, customer advocacy and the channel.

He also has an extensive career in IT having started his career as a trainer before becoming a business analyst and eventually rising into senior management positions.

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