Agenda

Trevor Gauld is Deputy Commissioner at Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA), where he plays a key role in shaping national skills strategies to meet Australia’s current and future workforce needs. With deep expertise in workforce development, vocational education, and strategic policy, Trevor brings a strong commitment to building a future-ready, inclusive, and skilled economy.

Prior to joining JSA, Trevor served as the National Assistant Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, where he championed the rights of workers and advocated for quality training and apprenticeship pathways. His career began in the electrical industry, working across power distribution, transmission, maintenance, and construction—giving him firsthand insight into the importance of practical skills and lifelong learning.

Trevor has held numerous board directorships and committee roles, providing strategic advice on skills development, worker entitlements, immigration, trade policy, and climate and clean energy initiatives. His collaborative approach has seen him work closely with government, industry, unions, and education providers to drive innovation and improve outcomes for learners and employers alike.

He is a passionate advocate for equity in education, employment and training, and his leadership continues to support JSA’s mission to enhance skills mobility, workforce capability, and economic participation across Australia.

Jim founded ADAPT with a vision to help Australia thrive commercially, now and for the future.  To enable that, Jim leads ADAPT’s mission to connect, inform and equip our local business and tech leaders.

Leading the development of ADAPTs agenda’s and content strategy whilst also advising executive leadership teams from global technology service providers, Jim is uniquely experienced to be the voice of the end-user, the customer and the vendor.

Bringing his deep knowledge of the local market, Jim regularly presents “Know your Customer” webinars and guides the world’s largest vendors with their G-T-M and content strategies.

Through entrepreneurial product development and a servant leader mentality with his team and clients, ADAPT grows annually with clearly differentiated value for all stakeholders.

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.

Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of the award-winning behaviour change consultancy Inventium. She has worked with companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft to help boost productivity, innovation and wellbeing.

In 2021, Amantha was the first Australian to win the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the ‘Oscars for Management Thinking’).

In 2025, Amantha was recognised at the Australian AI Awards, where she won AI Consultant of the Year and the AI Excellence Award - the latter chosen from the highest-scoring individual winners across all categories to recognise the top performer of the year.

Amantha is also the host of the number one ranking business podcast How I Work, which has had over 6 million downloads, where she interviews some of the world’s most successful people about their habits, strategies, and rituals.

Amantha’s thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company and she is the author of four bestselling books, including international bestseller Time Wise and The Health Habit. Her latest book The Energy Game is out now.

Mark is a passionate, committed, and respected technology leader in government with over 25 years of experience leading policy, strategy, data, digital, and technology delivery functions across government.  

Mark currently serves as the Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer at the Australian Taxation Office. In this role, Mark provides leadership and strategic direction for the broad technology ecosystem, ensuring support for the agency’s tax, super and registry systems in a rapidly changing digital landscape.  He works in close partnership with senior business leaders to ensure that we are taking advantage of the most innovative trends in technology to best support taxpayers, tax agents, ATO staff, and the community. 

Prior to his current role, Mark was the First Assistant Secretary and Chief Information Officer at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, preceded by previous senior executive leadership roles at the Department of Education, Australian Bureau of Statistics, ComSuper, and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

Margaret has been part of IP Australia’s leadership team since early 2020 and is currently acting Director General of IP Australia. Her focus is on ensuring that IP Australia has the right capability to deliver on its strategic objectives, and on working collaboratively both domestically and internationally to support effective IP policy development.

Before joining IP Australia, Margaret was A/G First Assistant Secretary of Legal and Compliance in the former Department of Environment and Energy.

Margaret has extensive experience in providing legal and governance advice to government across a range of subject matters including education, industry,science, environment and energy.

Since 2008 she has held Senior Executive rolesin the Commonwealth Government.

She was General Counsel of the Department of Industry Science and Resources from 2012 to 2017 and General Counsel of the then Department of Environment and Energy from 2017 to 2019.

She has a Bachelor of Arts/Laws(Hons) and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the Australian National University. She is also a graduate of the Australia Institute of Company Directors.

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

Alex is an enterprise leader with a track record of building and integrating complex technology organisations. He’s spent the past two decades helping large enterprises navigate digital transformation, with particular focus on security, risk management, and organisational integration.

Currently, he leads the combined Armis and Veza businesses for ServiceNow. In this role, he’s focused on unifying asset intelligence and cyber risk management capabilities with identity and access security tools, giving organisations automated visibility into their assets, who has access to what, and how to remediate vulnerabilities. His mandate is to help government and enterprise organisations proactively manage cyber risk at scale.

Before joining ServiceNow, Alex built Armis from the ground up into a leading cyber asset intelligence platform. His approach to scaling an organisation emphasises cultural continuity and genuine partnerships with customers.

He works closely with CIOs and security leaders across government and large enterprises, and acts as an adviser to other organisations navigating complex growth and integration challenges. His experience spans new market entry, building partner ecosystems, and helping leadership teams balance innovation with operational stability and strong culture.

Alex believes that sustainable competitive advantage comes from strong people, clear mission, and a genuine commitment to solving customer problems. He brings three decades of pattern recognition on how organisations successfully implement change and build resilience.

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.