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Proven experience in information technology, modernising and optimising digital delivery to underpin both the customer and employee experience. Nasa always looks for opportunities where her own values feed directly back to the community “Its about making a difference and more services accessible to everyone”. She has considerable experience helping organisations move forward with a strategic plan that gives them the digital tools they need to help leapfrog the roadblocks and pitfalls that can hold them back.

As Director of Strategic Research at ADAPT Matt Boon, is responsible for directing and developing ADAPTs research content and positions. In his role at ADAPT Boon advises C-Suite executives across the end-user and technology provider landscape. Boon is also responsible for bringing together groups of C-Suite leaders to discuss and prepare for the myriad of challenges and opportunities they face.

ADAPT host’s numerous industry leading IT focused events annually and Boon is responsible for hosting, chairing and delivering ADAPT independent content and positions to help attendees make informed IT decisions.

Belinda Dennett is a highly respected public policy specialist with more than 20 years experience at the forefront of Australia’s digital economy and technology ecosystem. Most recently Belinda was Head of Government Relations at AirTrunk and previously spent more than a decade leading Microsoft’s Corporate Affairs and Policy team in Australia. Belinda is a former Federal ministerial advisor with a focus on digital economy policy. She has qualifications in law and business.

Dr. Amr Hassan is Director of Emerging Technologies at Monash University and Program Director of MAVERIC, a AU$60 million AI supercomputing initiative setting a new benchmark for sovereign AI infrastructure in the Australian higher education sector. MAVERIC is delivering next-generation, energy-efficient GPU infrastructure to accelerate large-scale research across health, climate science, life sciences, and drug discovery. His work spans AI-enabled research and enterprise transformation, multi-cloud architecture integrating hyperscale and ISO 27001-certified private cloud, high-density GPU platforms underpinning national AI capability, and cybersecurity governance. Amr’s career bridges enterprise IT leadership and research computing, balancing the rigour, scalability, and security of enterprise systems with the agility required to support advanced research and discovery. Over 25 years, he has led teams delivering research computing at national scale, data centre modernisation, enterprise-scale public cloud adoption, and secure enclaves supporting sensitive and regulated workloads.

Greg Boorer is the founder and CEO of CDC Data Centres (CDC).

Since founding the company in Canberra in 2007, and under Greg’s leadership as CEO, CDC has grown from a start-up to become a leading owner, developer and operator of large-scale, highly secure and sovereign data centres across Australia and New Zealand.

Greg’s significant technology and data centre industry experience was gained as a highly successful sales executive working across Europe and the United States and upon returning to Australia in 2006 Greg identified an opportunity to provide purpose-built data centres dedicated to government customers to keep Australia’s digital and data critical infrastructure safe. Now, industries such as government, finance and banking, energy, logistics and retail entrust CDC and leverage its sovereign status to ensure that their data is secure and available.

The success and high regard of CDC as a strategic partner to the most discerning government and critical infrastructure customers can be attributed to Greg’s vision and leadership of a high performing executive team who continuously innovate to deliver ultra-modular, flexible, scalable, sustainable, next generation data centres facilities.

Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Science from the University of Newcastle, Australia, is the Chair of Cricket ACT, the Chair of Canberra charity, Hands Across Canberra, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is the immediate past Chair of the Federal and ACT Council of the Australian Information Industry Association and immediate past President of the Commonwealth Club Canberra.

In 2017 Greg, and his wife Margaret, established their own charity fund, the Boorer Foundation, which provides a broad range of support to the Canberra community.

Andrew Sjoquist is a technology entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience building and scaling companies across cloud, connectivity, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure. Throughout his career he has focused on solving complex infrastructure challenges at the intersection of technology, energy and connectivity. 

As Founder and CEO of WinDC.ai, Andrew is pioneering a new model for AI infrastructure by bringing high-density compute directly to renewable energy generation sites. WinDC.ai develops modular AI data centres designed to convert surplus clean energy into scalable AI compute, helping address the growing global demand for compute while reducing grid constraints. 

Andrew is passionate about enabling the next generation of sustainable digital infrastructure and accelerating the convergence of AI, energy and hyperscale computing. 

Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. He says his primary areas of interest are the potential of technology to transform the way organisations operate, the change management obstacles executives encounter in realising this potential and the tactics and techniques leaders have deployed to overcome these difficulties.

Peter now takes on multiple roles within ADAPT including the moderation of private events and roundtables, interviewing business executives about the strategies they are pursuing and assisting with the structuring of our delegate surveys and the interrogation and analysis of ADAPT’s treasure trove of end-user and C-level data