Private Event Series
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Date: Thursday, 24th April 2025
Time: 12pm – 2:30pm (SGT)
Location
The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore – The Fullerton Bay Pods
80 Collyer Quay
Singapore 049326
Website: Website
Session Overview
As organizations accelerate software development, traditional vulnerability management methods—often reactive and fragmented—can no longer keep pace with modern security and business needs. To effectively secure applications at scale, CISOs and CTOs must shift from a vulnerability-centric approach to a risk-driven strategy that balances security, speed, and innovation.
This session will explore how leading organizations evolve from traditional vulnerability management to a proactive, risk-based AppSec approach. Snyk’s AppRisk solution provides comprehensive visibility into application security across the SDLC, offering a structured inventory of security assets to:
- Bridge security gaps by mapping risks across development and production environments
- Enable risk-based prioritization to focus on vulnerabilities that pose real threats
- Measure security posture with actionable risk key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Integrate security into CI/CD workflows to improve efficiency without slowing development
Attendees will gain insights into:
- Aligning security strategy with business objectives to strengthen overall resilience
- Empowering security and development teams to collaborate on proactive risk reduction
- Using automation and AI to drive real-time security visibility and remediation at scale
Join us to discover how CISOs and CTOs can transform AppSec from a reactive function into a strategic, risk-driven program that enhances security governance and innovation.
Presenter
Pas Apicella, Field CTO, Snyk APJ
Pas Apicella is the Field CTO for Snyk in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, where he collaborates with large financial services institutions (FSIs) and other enterprises to secure their cloud-native applications throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from source to cloud. His expertise helps businesses mitigate risks while staying at the forefront of innovation. With over 20 years of experience in open-source software, distributed systems, and cloud-native development, Pas has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies. His career includes high-impact roles at top technology firms, contributing to key projects at Snyk, Elastic, Pivotal, VMware, Oracle, and IBM. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from RMIT University.
Moderator
Ross O’Brien, Principal Advisor, Focus Network
Ross is a writer, commentator, research manager and consultant. His analysis centres on the impact information technologies have on Asia’s economic and social development.
Ross is a recognised thought leader on technology-enabled sustainability, having conceived and developed two global indexes which assess the role of new technologies in the fight against climate change: The Green Future Index and The Blue Technology Barometer. The Green Future Index is used as a benchmarking tool by several national and pan-national government organizations worldwide, including the European Commission.
Ross has written and delivered reports and presentations for C-level executives for over two decades as an independent consultant and has served as a non-executive director on the board of Weyland Tech, a developer of mobile business and fintech applications.
Being based in Hong Kong for over 20 years, and in Asia for nearly 30, Ross has conducted market research and consulting projects in over a dozen Asian economies, including months-long engagements in China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh. He has also worked in professional service teams at Asian technology firms including Huawei and PT Telkom.
About Snyk
Snyk is the leader in developer security. We empower the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 2,500+ customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut and Salesforce.
Snyk was named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing (AST) and in The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis (SCA) 2023, and has been recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2022 along with the 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50.
Website: https://snyk.io/product/
Joe Gillett, Head of Oceania, KnowBe4
Joe Gillett is the Head of Oceania at KnowBe4 where he is responsible for building and managing sales teams within the region. He has 20 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications sectors managing teams in all sectors from SMB/ mid-market/ corporate/ enterprise and government, across all verticals. Gillett previously held sales leadership roles at 5G Networks, Optus and Telstra. He earned his honours bachelor in Business Administration from the University of La Trobe, Australia and is a Mentor and Coach to sales professionals and customers, to enable them to achieve their goals.
Agenda at a glance
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Registration & networking
4.00 pm – 4.05pm – Welcome address
4.05 pm – 5.15pm – 3 course lunch served4.05 pm – 4.45pm – Embracing disruption in the financial services industry: A Privacy versus Security conundrum – Amanda Chan, BlackBerry
4.45 pm – 5.15pm – Demo
5.15pm – 5.45pm – Discussion
5.45 pm – 6pm – Closing remarks
