Chancellor of the University of New South Wales and Chairman of the UNSW Foundation Ltd

David is also the President of the Art Gallery of NSW Trust, Non-Executive Chairman of Barrenjoey Capital Partners Group Holdings Pty Limited, Chairman of Sydney Airport and Chairman of Levande Living. He is also a member of the Board of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, a non-executive Member of LeapFrog Investment’s Global Leadership Council, a member of the Commonwealth Government’s Competition Taskforce Expert Advisory Panel, Patron of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and Raise Foundation and a Founding Panel Member of Adara Partners. He was previously Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, Chair of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools for the Commonwealth Government of Australia. He was also a member of the Takeovers Panel, the ASIC External Advisory Panel and Director of Singapore Airlines Limited, the Westfield Group and Singapore Telecommunications Limited, Chairman of Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd, the Australian Securities Exchange Ltd, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Guardians of the Future Fund, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Board of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School and Investec Bank (Australia) Ltd.

Director UNSW SECedu

Richard Buckland is UNSW Professor in Cybercrime, Cyberwar and Cyberterror. He is the Director of SECedu Australian Cybersecurity Education Network, a partnership between UNSW and the Commonwealth Bank. Richard is UNSW Director of Teaching Practice, and Director of Education at UNSW’s Institute for Cyber Security.  

His research areas are in Security Engineering and risk, along with Education and Teaching….

CBA’s General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations.

An IT professional with over twenty years’ experience across cyber security, executive management and operational delivery, Andrew is responsible for detection and response to cyber-attacks against CBA systems and customers. Prior to CBA, Andrew was Chief Information Security Officer at the RBA where he was responsible for leading the development and implementation of their security strategy and processes. In 2019, his work led to RBA being named the most cyber resilient agency since the ANAO began resilience audits. Andrew has also consulted to the Australian Government Cyber Security Small Business Program, is a member of the cyber committees for the Council of Financial Regulators and the Australian Payments Network, and is a participant in the G8 Working Party for Security Issues.

 Advanced Practices Team - Google

Dan specialises in translating real-world adversarial tradecraft and emerging activity into engaging insights for audiences of all levels.  

Partner | Cyber Red Team

Chris leads the Australian Cyber Red team and has performed penetration tests for organisations all around the world. Chris has had two previous Cyber Security Consulting companies that he had founded with HackLabs and Hacktive. The latter being sold to Deloitte in 2022. 

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) - Suncorp

Keith Howard was appointed Executive General Manager, Cyber Security & Risk in February 2024, leading the Cyber Security and Risk team for the Group, and is responsible for keeping the Group and its customer information safe and secure.   

Group Chief Information Security Officer - Westpac

Richard has 20 years’ experience at the Westpac Group.  Prior to his appointment as Group Chief Information Security Officer, Richard was the Head of Technical Security Services for the Group.  In these roles, he has led the Group’s information security strategy, delivery and governance.  

Security Engineering Manager - Canva

Becca is a massive application security nerd with a passion for education and rooting out nasty vulnerabilities. She currently leads the Security Engineering Outreach and the Security Investigations & Research teams. Basically, she loves finding big problems, fixing them, and then teaching others not to make the same mistake. In a previous life, she was a pentester, but grew tired of breaking things without sticking around to rebuild after the chaos. In a future life she’s thought about being a teacher, but that seems like more work for less money. In her spare time, Becca enjoys hanging out with her dog, learning Tok Pisin and pretending to be a theatre critic.  

University of Tasmania

Dr Park is lecturer in the School of Information and communication Technology at the University of Tasmania, where she lectures and develops curricula for courses in data networks and cybersecurity. 

Monash University

Professor Monica Whitty is the Head of Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity and is Professor of Human Factors in Cyber Security. She has been a member of the World Economic Forum Cyber Security Centre and was a member of the WEF Cyber Security Global Futures Committee. 

Lecturer in Cyber Security within the School of Computing at Macquarie University

Damian teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate units in Penetration Testing, Software Development, and Computer Networking, including the delivery of Cisco CCNA training.

 Prior to joining Macquarie, Damian had a long career in the IT industry providing independent consulting services and technical training on behalf of vendors such as VMware and Hewlett-Packard.

Damian’s interests include Cyber-Physical systems, side-channel attacks, the verification of both hardware and systems software for correctness and security, automation of IT systems, virtualisation, and the use of type-theory and functional programming techniques in application domains including VLSI design, systems software, and network protocols.

SECedu, Monash Lead

Nigel Phair is a Professor within the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.  He is an influential analyst on the intersection of technology, crime and society.