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Keynote Speakers
Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, CSC
National Cyber Security Coordinator
LTGEN Michelle McGuinness is Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator, appointed in February 2024. She has held senior appointments across intelligence, interagency and international engagement roles including multiple appointments within the U.S., most recently as Australia’s first Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Other senior appointments include Chief of Staff to the Chief of the Defence Force and Director General, Counter-proliferation and Terrorism at the Defence Intelligence Organisation. LTGEN McGuinness graduated from UNSW Canberra with a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and Bahasa Indonesian) in 1996 and a Master of Arts (Strategy and Policy) in 2009. She has served at the ADFA campus as the operations officer in 2008 and had the privilege to return as the Commanding Officer and Chief Instructor between 2014–2015. In 2018, LTGEN McGuinness was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross.
Main Program and Tutorial Speakers
Chathura Abeydeera
KPMG Australia
Queen Aigbefo
Phronesis Security
Leonard Barker
Business Name
Richard Bible
SALTT Technologies
Richard Billington
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dr Mark Carey-Smith
AUSCERT
James Carlopio
Cultural Cyber Security
Andrew Collins
Nansen Digital Forensics
Pouya Ghotbi
Amazon Web Services
Peter Gigengack
Department Of The Premier And Cabinet - Western Australia
Jon Green
Hewlett Packard Enterprises
Jessica Gulick
Cyber Esports Foundations
Matthew Gurr
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Louise Hanna
Excite Cyber
Hinne Hettema
Business Name
Joel Hindman
Business Name
Chris Hows
Mercury Information Security Services
Asrar Ismail
Business Name
Zane Jarvis
security2Cure
Yashasveene Jayachandran
University of Queensland
Mark Laffan
Australian Catholic University
Grant Lockwood
Meerkat Consulting
Rachel Mansson
Deakin University
Paul McCarty
Sourcecodered
Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, CSC
National Cyber Security Coordinator
Conor Naughton
Solis Security
Zohreh Norouzi
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ross Paterson
Recorded Furture
Colby Prior
Octopus Deploy
David Rudduck
Solis Security
Daniel Silver
Business Name
Lloyd Simon
Tanto Security
Sergeja Slapnicar
University of Queensland
Fukusuke Takahashi
NTT DATA Group Corp.
Alex Tilley
Security2cure
Vannessa Van Beek
Fortescue
Niru Verma
Mercury Information Security Services
Kylie Watson
DXC Technology
Alex Webling
Resilience Outcomes Australia
Brett Williams
SentinelOne
Claire Wilson
The University of Queensland
