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14 November 2024 | Sofitel Sydney Wentworth
14 November 2024
Sofitel Sydney Wentworth
Get together with Sydney's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Delivering Digital Innovation to Drive Value Across the Enterprise
Maximising Existing Resources to Optimise Emerging Costs
Securing the Organisation Through Advanced Technology Adoption
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CISOs, for CISOs.
Venkat Balakrishnan
TAL Life
CISO
Susie Costa
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
SVP, Head of Security Management
Ben Doyle
Thales Australia
CISO Asia Pacific
Daniela Fernandez
PayPal Australia
Head of Information Security Australia
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote
Rodrigo Castillo
Chief Technology Officer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
As technology evolves, it’s crucial for organisations to transform and modernise their ways of working to ensure they can support operations at scale with security, reliability and agility. At CBA, we are transforming the way we deliver technology in a secure and resilient manner, empowering teams to design, change and operate products and services end-to-end with the customer at the centre of everything they do.
Join this session with Rodrigo Castillo, Chief Technology Officer, CBA as he shares his vision and learnings on:
09:45 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00 Breakout Session
Daniel Pettman
Chief Information Officer
BaptistCare Australia
Melanie Evans
Group Executive, Digital Services
Ventia
As organisations race to leverage the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI), IT and security leaders are actively capitalising on AI’s capabilities to drive new business growth. How can your organisation take advantage of AI as a value-add strategy and unlock new growth opportunities? How have other organisations successfully optimised their business performance through AI?
Join this session to explore two compelling AI use cases on how other organisations navigated the AI journey:
10:15 - 11:00 Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Kyndryl
Jim Freeman
CTO, ANZ
Kyndryl
Amith Shetty
Acting CEO and CIO
eHealth NSW
Organisations are urged to modernise IT operations to keep pace with the rapidly evolving business landscape. IT and security leaders are at the forefront of this initiative, tasked with building out an efficient and optimised operational model to prepare for the challenges of tomorrow.
Join this interactive session to discuss:
10:15 - 11:00 Executive Boardroom
Hosted by RiskRecon, a Mastercard Company
Cassie Roberts
Product Sales Director
RiskRecon - A MasterCard Company
Jihad Zein
Head of IT Governance, Risk and Assurance
Toll Group
Susie Costa
SVP, Head of Security Management
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Third party relationships are closest and may prove to be the most tangible risks to your business, yet the whole supply chain of your business partners still pose a substantial threat. Most organisations’ vendor relationship extend to the 8th party. IT and Security leaders need to understand this web of connectedness in order to better manage and communicate enterprise risk.
Join this session to discuss:
11:00 - 11:30 Networking Break
11:05 - 11:25 Peer-to-Peer Meetings
11:30 - 12:15 Breakout Session
Kurt Brissett
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
Transport for NSW
In today's digitally interconnected world, the imperative for innovation has never been more crucial for leadership and organisational success. As technology evolves at an unprecedented rate, organisations must continuously adapt and innovate to stay ahead in the digital race. How can CIOs and CISOs maintain a constant innovative mindset and drive business value?
Join this session with Kurt Brissett, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Transport for NSW, as he unfolds:
11:30 - 12:15 Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Freshworks
Mathews George
Chief Information Officer
Cancer Council
As digital enterprises evolve to stay competitive, continuous modernisation is imperative to minimise cost, risk and impact of legacy technology. Leveraging new technologies and innovation can become a challenge in legacy environments. What is the CIO’s best path forward to successfully allow legacy systems to coexist with new digital products?
Join this session to discuss:
11:30 - 12:15 Executive Boardroom
Hosted by CloudFlare
Ben Munroe
Vice President Marketing, Asia Pacific
Cloudflare
Frances Bouzo
Chief Information Security Officer
Ampol
Brett Wilson
Chief Information Officer
Australian Red Cross
Did you know that over 85 percent of firms in APAC have reported being hacked? Moreover, the average data breach costs organisations upwards of AUD$6.3 million. For many organisations, the question isn't if they'll be attacked, but when and how it will happen. With the increasing accessibility of certain attack types and the complexities introduced by distributed work, cloud adoption, and third-party code, achieving cyber resilience is more critical than ever.
This session will delve into strategies that IT and security leaders can use to preserve business operations and protect sensitive data in a world where attacks are inevitable. Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:
Evanta facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Parking: The hotel car park is owned and operated by Wilson Car Parking located beneath the hotel with entrance at 2 Bligh Street (rear of hotel). Car park spaces are subject to availability.
Hotel Delegate Offer:
- The hotel is delighted to offer a 10% discount on best available flexible rate advertised on hotel website
- Discount available for stay on 12th November 2024 to 14th November 2024
- To redeem this discount, please quote 2411EVANTA by contacting the in-house reservations team via phone on 02 9228 9188 during business hours or e-mail on H3665@sofitel.com (this discount code is not redeemable online)
Terms and conditions:
- Rooms are to be booked on a "first come, first serve" basis
- Rooms will be subject to availability at the time of enquiry
- A credit card is required to guarantee reservations
- If you need to cancel your reservation, please let us know 24 hours prior to your arrival date to avoid a cancellation fee of the first night’s stay, or in the event of a “no-show”
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