2025 Speakers
The Hon Andrew Leigh MP
Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Assistant Minister for Employment
Kate O'Rourke
Commissioner
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Lucy Poole
General Manager Strategy, Planning and Performance Division
Digital Transformation Agency
Alison Rose
Chief of Space Division
Geoscience Australia
Joe Smith
Assistant Secretary of Cyber Security Preparedness and Response
Department of Home Affairs
Pia Andrews
Former Chief Data Officer
Department of Home Affairs
Paul Robards
Chief Data Integration Officer
Department of Defence
Andrew Spiegelman
Head of Data & Analytics
Service NSW
Dr Andrew Taylor
Assistant Secretary, Strategy and Delivery
Office of the National Data Commissioner
Elizabeth Tydd
Commissioner
Australian Office of the Information Commissioner
Dr Lance Emerson
Deputy Secretary, eHealth Division
Department of Health
Jenny Humphrys
Chief Data Officer
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Heidi Hutchison
Assistant Director-General, Cyber Uplift
Australian Cyber Security Centre Australian Signals Directorate
Kayelle Drinkwater
Data Branch Manager
Department of Social Services
Claire Sparke
Group Head, Data Governance and Integration Group
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Donna Goodman
Director, Data Availability and Sharing
Department of Health and Aged Care
Rebecca Ostergaard
Chief Digital Officer
CSIRO
Greg Italiano
Government Chief Information Officer
Department of the Premier and Cabinet of WA
Shikha Sharma
Chief Information Officer & Director Business Improvement Technology
Department of Human Services SA
Nattlie Smith (Wiradjuri)
Branch Manager, Strategic Insights
National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA)
Jo Talbot
Manager of Data Governance
Australian Communications and Media Authority
Helge Janicke
Deputy CEO, Research Director
Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre
Olga Lysenko
Director Enterprise Data Strategy & Governance Management
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Benjamin Lamont
Manager Technology Strategy and Data
Australian Federal Police
Mike Lau
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Australian Digital Health Agency
Peter Alexander
Chief Technology Officer
Department of Defence
Nithin Balakrishnan
Director, Data Capability
ACT Government
Dr. Tania Churchill
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
Hannah Harding
Data Analytics and Translation Director
Department of Health and Aged Care
Sourish Datta
Chief Information Security Officer
Triple Zero Victoria
Meredith Padgett
Acting Director Professions and Pathways
Australian Public Service Commission
Sadeed Tirmizey
CISO
Seqwater
Gabriel Rus
Senior Data Analyst
Australian Taxation Office
Andrew Morrison
Chief Technology Officer
Digital Transformation Agency
Savi Munasinghe
Senior Manager, Technology Governance, Risk & Compliance
Commonwealth Superannuation
Garrett Tyler Parker
Director, Analysis & Insights
Austrade
Peter Worthington-Eyre
Chief Data Officer & Executive Director
South Australian Department of Treasury and Finance
Adi Bhagavatula
Partner
EY Australia
Simon Wall
Director, Data Governance and Management
National Library of Australia
Glynnis Barodien
Executive Manager, Data Governance Lead
CSIRO
Angkana Whiley
Data & AI Leader
Australian Computer Society Representative
Anne Cornish MRIM
Chief Executive Officer
Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance (RIMPA)
Karthik Murugan
Data Leader, Public Sector
Amazon Web Services
Michael Amon
Director, Data Policy and Evaluation
Attorney-General’s Department
Dr Jasmine Glover
Director, ACT Heritage System Reforms
ACT Environment Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate
Mahesh Gupta
CyberSecurity Processes and Products Leader
RMIT University
Veronica Morados
Chief Information Officer
Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate - ACT Government
Kristy Van Putten
Senior Director - Directorate Data Officer
ACT Government
Bilal Yousuf
Director Business Intelligence and Analytics
Queensland Building and Construction Commission
Stirling Jones
Product Owner - WoAG Coding Capability Project, Coding Redevelopment
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Vihan Patel
Principal, Data and AI
Mantel Group
Tonya Higgins
Head of Data and Insights
Beyond Blue
Jeremy Newman
Principal Customer Trust Manager
Autodesk
Daniel Wang
Digital Performance Analyst
Austrade
Melissa Larkins
Partnership Manager
Canberra Cyber Hub
Kerry Taylor
Professor Data Science, School Computing
The Australian National University
Corey Trembath
Head of Public Sector & Health – Customer Advisory
SAS
Ashlee Marcuccio
Regional Vice President, ANZ Public Sector
Salesforce
Glenn Powell
Industry Principal
Snowflake
Travis Murphy
Senior Product Manager
Snowflake
Samuel Spencer
CEO and technical co-founder
Aristotle Metadata
Katherine Boicuic
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
EY Australia
Permenthri Pillay
Partner, Government and Public Sector Business Transformation, Digital Transformation
EY Australia
Kieran Hagan
AI Segment Leader
IBM A/NZ
Sue Laine
CTO Data
Quest
Matthew Oostveen
Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan
Pure Storage
Paul Lamb
VP & General Manager ANZ
Iron Mountain
Rob Nedanovsk
Senior Professional – Digital Solutions Manager
Iron Mountain
Jonathan Gray
Lead Partner, Enterprise Data & Information Management
Anchoram Consulting
Sarah Lauder
Director, Data and Information Management
Anchoram Consulting
Vinicius Cardoso
CTO ANZ , Head of Solutions Engineering
Cloudera
Chris Hilton
Senior Support Engineer
Blancco Australia & New Zealand
Sam Darmo
Senior Sales Engineer
Precisely
Imran Yusuf
Senior Graph Consultant
Graphaware
Adam Clarke
Chief Technology Officer
Logicly
Ahsan Mehmood
Head of Data Management Solutions
Quantexa
Andrew Ritchie
Principal Customer Success Manager
Alation
Andrew Smailes
Enterprise Data Specialist
DAMA Canberra Branch
Liz Daykin
Investment Data Governance Lead
Australian Retirement Trust
President
DAMA Australia
Australian Retirement Trust
President
DAMA Australia
Jason Murell
Chair - Co-Founder
Australian Cyber Network, DSI - Murfin Group
