2024 Sydney CISO Executive Summit

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Sydney's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:

Delivering Digital Innovation to Drive Value Across the Enterprise

Maximising Existing Resources to Optimise Emerging Costs

Securing the Organisation Through Advanced Technology Adoption

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Venkat Balakrishnan

TAL Life
CISO

Susie Costa

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
SVP, Head of Security Management

Ben Doyle

Thales Australia
CISO Asia Pacific

Daniela Fernandez

PayPal Australia
Head of Information Security Australia

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Sydney CISO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda

Keynote Session

Enhancing Operational Resilience to Accelerate Digital Transformation of Tomorrow

As technology evolves, it’s crucial for organisations to transform and modernise their ways of working to ensure they can support operations at scale with security, reliability and agility. At CBA, we are transforming the way we deliver technology in a secure and resilient manner, empowering teams to design, change and operate products and services end-to-end with the customer at the centre of everything they do.

Join this session with Rodrigo Castillo, Chief Technology Officer, CBA as he shares his vision and learnings on:

Building modern operating models to fuel digital initiatives and drive business value
Identifying and responding to evolving changes to minimise business impact
Leveraging AI to elevate the customer experience and sustain competitive advantages

Executive Boardroom Sessions

Risk to the Nth-Party Degree

Third party relationships are closest and may prove to be the most tangible risks to your business, yet the whole supply chain of your business partners still pose a substantial threat. Most organisations’ vendor relationship extend to the 8th party. IT and Security leaders need to understand this web of connectedness in order to better manage and communicate enterprise risk.

Join this session to discuss:

Gaining visibility into risk across the whole supply chain
Strategies for effective risk management and monitoring business partners
Overcoming resource challenges to prioritise third party risk

Steady Modernisation to Optimise Legacy Technology

As digital enterprises evolve to stay competitive, continuous modernisation is imperative to minimise cost, risk and impact of legacy technology. Leveraging new technologies and innovation can become a challenge in legacy environments. What is the CIO’s best path forward to successfully allow legacy systems to coexist with new digital products?

Join this session to discuss:

Keeping legacy systems agile to meet business needs
Prioritising which legacy systems to modernise
Freeing up budget to implement AI solutions

Breakout Sessions

Driving Innovation for Transformative Digital Solutions

In today's digitally interconnected world, the imperative for innovation has never been more crucial for leadership and organisational success. As technology evolves at an unprecedented rate, organisations must continuously adapt and innovate to stay ahead in the digital race. How can CIOs and CISOs maintain a constant innovative mindset and drive business value?

Join this session with Kurt Brissett, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Transport for NSW, as he unfolds:

Optimising the use of technology to enhance the user experience
Securing digital products and services while ensuring safe and reliable transit solutions
Investing in innovative tools and processes for long-term growth

Navigating the AI Journey - From Experiment to Execution

As organisations race to leverage the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI), IT and security leaders are actively capitalising on AI’s capabilities to drive new business growth. How can your organisation take advantage of AI as a value-add strategy and unlock new growth opportunities? How have other organisations successfully optimised their business performance through AI?

Join this session to explore two compelling AI use cases on how other organisations navigated the AI journey:

Identifying high-impact AI use cases and align your AI investments to your AI ambition
Strategically plan your AI execution and governance
How to measure and realise value from AI investments?