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ANZ Cyber Summit 2026

The ANZ Cyber Summit, co-hosted with OTsec ANZ, launches in Sydney on 15-16 September 2026, bringing together more than 100 senior IT security stakeholders from Australia and New Zealand’s largest organisations. The conference facilitates key discussions on cybersecurity topics including Geopolitical Risk, AI Governance, and Building a Culture of Cyber Secur…

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35Speakers
8Sponsors
113On the bill · sessions
32Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at ANZ, in alphabetical order.
Adam Byrne
Group CSO · The Adecco Group
Adrian Kazias
Senior Manager, Cyber Defence & Resilience · Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation
Amritha Shetty
Senior Manager – Technology & Cyber Security Governance Risk & Compliance · QBE Insurance Limited
Chris Grisdale
CISO · hipages Group
Colin Renouf
CISO · Healius
Craig James
Business Value Advisor, APAC · Cloudflare
Deepthi Nair
Director, Cyber Security & Information Management · Yooralla
Didar Chy
Information Technology Security Architect · Reserve Bank of Australia
Dominic Grunden
CISO · Power and Water Corporation
Dr. Tom Gao
Chief Technology and Digital Services Officer · City of Sydney
Edwin Kwan
Head of Product Security · CoStar Group
Faz Rahman
Head of Information Security · NOW Finance
Gaurav Vikash
Head of Security and Risk – APAC · Axon
Gursimran Tiwana
Head of Cyber Security · Lumus Imaging
Huntress Labs
Ignatius Gigis
Senior Solutions Engineer, Team Lead · Huntress Labs
James Kearney
Executive Manager Cyber · Commonwealth Bank
Jess Thomas
Assistant Director | Cyber Security Engagement NSW/ACT · National Office of Cyber Security, Australian Department of Home Affairs
Jihad Zein
Global Head of Governance, Risk and Assurance, Group IT · Toll Group
John Ellis
Global Head of Security Trust & Influence · QBE Insurance Limited
Josh Schwarz
Sr. Sales Engineer · Airlock Digital
Joshua Manzie
Cybersecurity GRC Specialist · Power and Water Corporation
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Adaptive Security
Airlock Digital
Akamai
Cloudflare
KnowBe4
Magnet Forensics
SentinelOne
ThreatLocker
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Agenda

Selected from 113 sessions on the bill.
  • 08:50

    Opening Address

  • 08:50

    Opening Address by the Chair

  • 09:00

    Panel Discussion: Security Vs Resilience: Are We Focusing Too Much on 'If' and Not Enough on 'When' We Will Get Breached?

    For a long time, we have been focused on preventative measures to keep attackers out. Yet even the most sophisticated defenses can be bypassed. The critical question facing modern …

  • 09:00

    Panel Discussion: Sovereign Risk: How Do We Counter the Effects of Geopolitical Volatility on ANZ Cyber Security?

    As global volatility intensifies, geopolitical tension has become an operational reality for Australian and New Zealand organisations. In this expert panel discussion, we explore h…

  • 09:00 (Day 2)

    Panel Discussion: Security Vs Resilience: Are We Focusing Too Much on 'If' and Not Enough on 'When' We Will Get Breached?

    For a long time, we have been focused on preventative measures to keep attackers out. Yet even the most sophisticated defenses can be bypassed. The critical question facing modern …

  • 09:40

    Presentation: Scaling AI Insights: Inside Cloudflare’s Internal Journey with Claude Mythos

    Granted early access to Project Glasswing, Cloudflare put Claude Mythos to the ultimate test: hunting vulnerabilities across 50 production repositories. This session reviews how Cl…

  • 09:40

    Presentation: The Double-Edged Sword: Defending Against (and With) Agentic AI

    In 2026, the rise of Agentic AI has fundamentally altered the cyber landscape. These autonomous systems do not merely follow scripts; they reason, adapt, and pivot, allowing advers…

  • 09:40 (Day 2)

    Presentation: The Double-Edged Sword: Defending Against (and With) Agentic AI

    In 2026, the rise of Agentic AI has fundamentally altered the cyber landscape. These autonomous systems do not merely follow scripts; they reason, adapt, and pivot, allowing advers…

  • 09:50

    Presentation: Secure-by-Default: Rethinking Cyber Strategy in the Age of AI

    AI has empowered employees to build custom applications at light-speed, but it has also supercharged attackers. Today, frontier models like Mythos can compress the timeline from vu…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 32 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

32 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
6Sponsoringsponsor only
24Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Cloudflare·Airlock Digital

Speakers by seniority

49% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite720%
  • Director / Head of1029%
  • Manager / Lead720%
  • Engineer · IC514%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles514%

Of 35 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01CloudflareSp2V
  2. 02Airlock DigitalSp1V
  3. 03Power and Water Corporation4V
  4. 04Adaptive SecuritySp
  5. 05AkamaiSp
  6. 06Huntress Labs3V
  7. 07KnowBe4Sp
  8. 08Magnet ForensicsSp
  9. 09SentinelOneSp
  10. 10ThreatLockerSp
  11. 11QBE Insurance Limited2V
  12. 12Angus Knight Group1V
  13. 13Australian Institute of Company Directors1V
  14. 14Axon1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified8
100% of 8
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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