CIO Leaders Summit Australia, Melbourne 2024

Today I attended the CIO/CISO Leaders Summit Australia, Melbourne 2024. I was offered a complimentary ticket by reps at Focus Network. 

The event included both CIO and CISO streams, and we could attend sessions in either stream so I switched across a couple of times. 

This photo was taken after a session titled: "Closing Keynote Panel Discussion: Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Cybersecurity and Tech – Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Female Talent" - where the majority of blokes decided to leave the room. Which pretty much sums up the problem with women in tech right there. 

More info: 

CIO Leaders: https://focusnetwork.co/cioleadersaustralia.com/melbourne/

CISO Leaders: https://focusnetwork.co/cisoleaders.com.au/melbourne/ 

Program:

8:00 Registration, Badge Collection & Refreshments

8:30 Welcome and Introduction & Master of Ceremonies

8:40 Opening Debate: Balancing Innovation and Security: Who Should Have the Final Say in Approving New Technologies?

9:05 Keynote Presentation – Artificial intelligence and your business

9:40 Keynote Panel Discussion: AI in the Enterprise: Balancing Innovation and Security

10:15 Keynote Presentation: Accelerating Cloud Security to enable AI: How Security teams can adopt a new operating model to enable agile AI adoption?

10:50 Networking Break

11:10 Breakout Session: How REA Group Utilises Behavioural Data Science to Safeguard Against Email Borne Threats and Streamline Security Protocols

11:10 Breakout Session: Are You Ready to Adopt a New Cloud Security Operation Model?

11:10 Breakout Session: The Essential Eight & The Modern Threat Landscape

11:10 Breakout Session: Driving the Right Work to the Right Resource at the Right Time

11:45 Speaking Presentation: Unmasking cybercrime, the law enforcement response

12:20 Keynote Speaking Presentation: Reducing Risk with Modern Identity Management

12:55 Breakout Session: Identity Protection in an AI-Driven World

12:55 Breakout Session: The Essential Eight: Overcoming Your Challenges with PAM

12:55 Breakout Session: Balancing Innovation and Risk: Enhancing CX with AI and Quality

12:55 Breakout Session: A Practical Guide to Driving Digital/AI Innovation in Enterprises

13:30 Networking Lunch

14:15 Speaking Presentation: The Art and Science of Deception

14:50 Speaking Session: Empathy in Cybersecurity Leadership: Navigating Beyond Conventional Wisdom

15:25 Networking Break

15:45 Keynote Speaking Session: Australian Cybersecurity Trends and Initiatives Research

16:10 Closing Keynote Panel Discussion: Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Cybersecurity and Tech – Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Female Talent

16:40 Closing Remarks

16:45 Networking Drinks