MC - Abby Breytenbach - Division 5

Abby is a seasoned cyber security consultant with experience working in multiple industries including critical infrastructure, financial services, government, and more. Her expertise spans cyber risk management, incident response, forensics, threat intelligence, and cyber awareness. In addition to her consulting work, Abby has MC’d at BSides Brisbane and has taught in cyber security and engineering at both UQ and USC.

Nuno Duarte - Telstra

Nuno is Telstra’s Cyber Enablement Principal, accountable for the ongoing assessment and reporting of the organisation’s cyber risk. He brings over twenty years of experience working in security, technology, and risk management, having established security programs and managed multimillion-dollar annual budgets across Telecommunications, Financial Services and Mining sectors.

Cameron Watts - Hemisphere East

Cameron is a former national security official with more than two decades of experience in complex geo-political and geo-strategic matters affecting Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. After a successful career within government, he began Hemisphere East to provide clients with a bespoke and curated government relations, strategic advisory and market entry capability.
Mr Watts has led multi-disciplinary teams in several domains in the national security environment, and represented the Australian Government as a subject matter expert in national security to supra-national forums such as the G20, ASEAN, OECD, and the UN.

Chris Matthews - Prezzee

Having spent a career protecting top-secret & highly sensitive data. As the IT Security Officer for the elite British SAS, Chirs protected some of the world’s most classified information.
Chirs helped build and lead Apple’s New Product Security team, ensuring the secrecy of its
most innovative technologies. Apple brought Chris to Australia, where he now calls the Sunshine Coast home.
Today, as Head of Security for e-gift card & payments company Prezzee, he continues to push the boundaries of cybersecurity in the rapidly evolving world of AI.

Alex Tilley - Okta

Alex is the Global Threat Research Coordinator at Okta & is a Cybercrime Researcher & Cyber Intelligence Expert. With over 25 years of experience in security & cybercrime, Alex career began in the online casino industry before transitioning into the burgeoning field of cyber security within Australia’s banking sector playing a pivotal role in developing countermeasures against then-emerging threats, including phishing & malware attacks targeting banking platforms & customers.
Alex later became the Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) first-ever Senior Cybercrime Technical Analyst, where he combined technical expertise with investigative analysis to uncover cybercriminals’ identities, motivations, & tactics.
After leaving law enforcement, Alex led Threat Intelligence & Research for the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU).
Today, Alex is the Global Threat Research Coordinator at Okta, the world’s leading identity & authentication provider.

MC - Jarrod Loidl - Deloitte

Director (Cyber) - Deloitte - A recognised multi-disciplinary cybersecurity & technical risk leader bringing a unique blend of technical and business acumen. With two decades of dedicated experience in the field, Jarrod has worked across the cybersecurity ecosystem ranging from vendors, in-house security teams, professional services firms, & MSSP's working with some of Australia’s largest brands.

Jodie Nugent - IDCARE

Profiling and Threat Detection Lead - IDCARE, Australia & New Zealand. Jodie is responsible for delivering intelligence & reporting on the current state of scams, cybercrime, and identity theft affecting communities. She brings insights into the technical & financial enablers used to facilitate these crimes,& ways in which criminals exploit human fallibility.

Rhiana Cooke - Secolve

Rhiana grew up on the Sunshine Coast before moving to Brisbane to gain her Mechatronics Engineering degree from UQ, she has since moved back to the Coast 3 years ago. She has worked in Mining and Manufacturing industries where she gained experience with control systems, mobile equipment, and cybersecurity operations and architecture. She is now specialising in advisory and design of secure OT Systems for Australian critical infrastructure.

Jon-Anthoney de Boer - Transmax

Product Security Lead - Transmax. JA is a versatile software craftsperson and a technically-driven leader at heart. With decades of professional experience in software engineering, JA has navigated various roles and responsibilities across the tech stack, showcasing a broad and deep expertise in the field. Currently, JA leverages his wealth of experience, practical developer and security team empathy and broad technical capacity when focusing on the goal of securing and assuring the security of the software engineering 'machine'; taking a full-stack, end-to-end view that includes the perspectives of the engineering, leadership and security teams - in order to sustainably make safe(-enough) the craft of software development for an organization."

David Lalezari - NAB

David is an accomplished cybersecurity professional who has led Architecture and Cybersecurity teams at National Australia Bank for the last eight years, following his experience as a software developer, penetration tester, security consultant, and engineer. With comprehensive expertise in Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics and Incident Response and Digital and Cloud Security, he brings specialized knowledge of an attacker's mindset and "Systems Thinking" to help build strong and competent cyber security teams. An active participant with MITRE's the "Centre for Threat Informed Defence" through NAB's partnership, David leads the strategy for NAB's threat informed defence approach. He excels at translating technical threats into business risk contexts, driven by a passion for building inspiring experiences through data and threat analysis that enables more effective defense strategies and meaningful outcomes for organisations, customers and the Australian economy as a whole.