Agenda

Jim is well known in the local market for delivering on his promise and his entire career has been spent connecting the right people at the right time in roles across Europe, China and Australia.

He founded ADAPT to deliver quality outcomes with integrity and since 2011, growth has been consistent. Jim is still positioned across sales and account management where he delivers innovative results and programs and leads by example.

He also runs entrepreneurial product development and the evolution and clear differentiated value of ADAPT’s offerings. As well as a NSW Small Business Excellence nomination, ADAPT were 55th in BRW’s 2014 Top 100 Start Ups – Jim’s 3rd time there – previously as Founder of Strategic Path, an award-winning ICT publisher, he steered the company to make the list in both 2009 and 2010.

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.

Tenar has spent the last 18 years working in sales, running her own company consulting to corporate Australia around Workplace Wellness / Employee Experience and now she finds herself back over on the dark side as an employee, part of a well oiled machine – and loving it! As a Senior Manager of the ADAPT Advisory team, Tenar runs the team that fulfils over 60 private advisory events each year across Asia Pacific. Tenar build genuine relationships quickly and easily, loves connecting people, finding out how to solve a problem and then delivering.

Byron is a highly experienced technology and business journalist, editor, corporate writer, and event producer.

Prior to joining Adapt, he was the editor-in-chief at CIO Australia and associate editor at CSO Australia. He also created and led the well-known CIO50 awards program in Australia and The CIO Show podcast.

Byron creates valuable insights for our community of senior technology and business professionals that help them reach their organisational and professional goals. He has a passion for uncovering stories about the careers and personal philosophies of Australia’s top technology and digital executives.

When he is not working, Byron enjoys hot yoga, swimming, running, and spending time with his family.

Tom has worked with researchers and research institutes to bring innovation and invention in the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing sector to market.

Previously a Member of the South Australian Parliament, he served as Minister for Science and Minister for Manufacturing, Innovation & Trade. Tom is respected by both sides of politics as straight shooting, direct and honest. His key strengths include strategy, communication, an understanding of science and technology and the future use of these to effect meaningful economic change.

His focus on outcomes allows him to evaluate what is important and connect the key elements of a process to achieve rapid adoption and stakeholder agreement.

As a seasoned cybersecurity professional with a passion for innovation and a keen understanding of the ever-evolving threat landscape, Andrew Philp brings a wealth of 25 years of knowledge and expertise to the field.

For the past 10 years at Trend Micro, Andrew has held various leadership roles, all focused on assisting enterprises and government agencies to understand, manage and reduce their cyber security risk posture. Andrew currently leads Trend Micro Platform strategy for ANZ enterprise business, driving a combined Trend, Customer and External team strategy to drive benefits and time to value from the platform.

Andrew is a passionate advocate for engaging with CISOs and CIOs. Understanding that effective cybersecurity goes beyond technology, he actively connects with industry leaders, fostering a collaborative environment where knowledge is shared, and collective defence strategies are strengthened.

Andrew has been involved in many industry speaking engagements nationally and internationally, in the IT and security sector, sharing a wide range of knowledge from thought leadership insight, customer use cases, right through to technical solution expertise.

Claudine Ogilvie is the former Chief Information Officer for Jetstar and Non Executive Director with Youi Insurance. She has a deep understanding of strategy, risk, technology and innovation; and expertise in governance, transformation, marketing and Asia markets. Prior to Jetstar Claudine was CIO for Ridley Corporation; she managed KPMG’s Consumer and Industrial Markets business. She also held product management, sales operations and marketing roles for International SOS (Australia, NZ, PNG and Pacific Islands), British Petroleum (BP Australia) and Unipath (France).

Claudine is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Claudine is an alumni of the Australia-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Program Kuala Lumpur, and an Asialink Leaders Program alumni (Melbourne University). She has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia (B.Bus) and a Diploma of Business Management from the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce Reims, France (Dip.Mgnt).

Based in Sydney, Australia, Yvette is a senior executive cyber leader. Most recently she was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in residence in APJ for the cyber and compliance company Proofpoint. She also spent almost 5 years at the Jetstar Group of Airline companies (Jetstar Aus/NZ, Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan and Jetstar Vietnam). Prior to Jetstar she was the CISO at Australia’s largest freight and logistic company Asciano, as well as having built up the security function at Atlassian before they went to IPO.  She is a Fellow of the Australian Information Security Association.

Matt Berry is a senior pre-sales engineer at Abnormal Security and specialist in security and networking. Matt’s 20+ years in IT cover both pre- and post-sales roles across leading IT vendors, service providers, and customers.

Prior to his role at Abnormal Security, Matt was working with customers across Asia Pacific on their cloud security & SASE requirements at Palo Alto Networks, and was the lead pre-sales engineer at VMWare for both their SD-WAN and SDN data centre solutions; where he also served as field-CTO in the networking and security business unit, presenting regularly at various events and conferences. Matt is the co-author of ‘SD-WAN 1:1 The What, Why and How’.

Brett Winterford is the APJ CSO at Okta advising policy makers, business leaders and fellow security professionals on evolving threats and opportunities to improve their security posture. Prior to Okta, Brett held senior leadership roles in the security teams at Symantec and Commonwealth Bank. Yet, he’s best known for his work as a security journalist. In 2020, he was the founding editor of the Srsly Risky Biz newsletter, a companion to the Risky Business podcast, providing the cybersecurity, policy, defence and intelligence communities with a weekly brief of the news that shapes cyber policy.

Prior to working as a security practitioner, Brett was the editor-in-chief of ITnews Australia and has contributed extensively to ZDNet, the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald.