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At Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Ryan Brosnahan is responsible for driving the Group’s digital transformation program, a key enabler of the bank’s strategy. He is privileged to lead a talented team across the bank’s digital, data, payments, and technology functions.

With more than 20 years of international experience in the financial services industry in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, Ryan has led complex growth and transformation change initiatives across multiple functions and businesses in financial services.

Ryan is passionate about harnessing the power of technology to improve the way we live and work, driving improvements in customer experience, business operations, and performance.

Michelle was VP & Chief Privacy Officer at Cisco as well as McAfee, where she raised awareness and create tools to promote privacy, quality, respect, trust, and asset-level possibilities for data. As a visionary in the field of privacy and the IT industry, she brings together multifaceted approaches that provide real privacy protections to drive business value. A licensed attorney, Michelle led security and privacy initiatives, ranging from regulatory compliance, privacy engineering, advocacy and education efforts, and litigation. She is the co-author of ‘The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value.’

As Chief Technology Officer for Salesforce Australian and New Zealand, Gayan leads regional efforts in security, engineering and architecture engagement with Salesforce product engineering, industry and key customer accounts. Gayan is co-founder of Salesforce’s global Architecture Guild and is an Industry Research Fellow at MIT’s Center of Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Gayan was the CIO of the Reserve Bank of Australia where he oversaw the digital transformation of the Bank’s federal government core banking services, delivery of Australia’s real-time national payment infrastructure (NPP), and uplifting the Bank’s cyber operations. Prior to the RBA, Gayan was the head of technology strategy and enterprise architecture for Westpac and director of customer data architecture for Oracle Asia Pacific. Gayan chairs Standards Australia’s governance working group for blockchain standards (IT-041) and is a member of the ISO Committee TC/307 on blockchain standards.

Dayle joined Telstra in July 2021 with nearly 30 years’ experience in the technology industry. She has held notable executive leadership roles in technology at companies such as NAB and AGL. Today Dayle leads Telstra’s Data & AI function.

Outside of Telstra, Dayle is a non-executive director at Beyond Blue, Australia’s most well-known and trusted mental health organisation, and a member of the IT Advisory Committee at Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Dayle has long championed diversity in STEM across industry and age group boundaries, both through her own work and with global organisations aimed at encouraging women and girls to participate in STEM such as Robogals and Girl Geek Academy.

Dayle’s work has been recognised with multiple industry and professional awards, including being named in the CIO50 list of the best CIOs in Australia, the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, and being awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to information technology and to women.