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Sydney Data Protection & Security Summit 2026

The Sydney Data Protection & Security Summit 2026 brings together security professionals, IT leaders, and industry experts to tackle the latest challenges in data protection and privacy. Key focus areas include the Australian Data Privacy Act, AI and ML in data security, data breach incident response, and best practices for encryption and loss prevention. At…

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33Speakers
8Sponsors
0Sessions
36Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Sydney, in alphabetical order.

Akash Shrivastava
Security Architect - Banking & Financial Services
Andrew Dean
Solutions Architect · Chainguard
Angela Dunbar
Head of Privacy, Information and Knowledge Management · Australian Red Cross
Angelina Liu
Account Executive, ANZ · Aikido Security
Cole Cornford
Chief Executive Officer · Galah Cyber
Doug Hammond
Chief Information Security Officer · Uniting
Edwin Kwan
Head of Product Security · Domain Group
Eliza Knapp
Director of Privacy - Data and AI · Atlassian
Fiona Chan
Group Privacy Officer · APA Group
Gaurav Vikash
Head of Security and Risk - APAC · AXON
Geoff Morrison
Sales Engineering Director (APAC) · Varonis
Girish Darda
Head of Security · Littlepay
Gordius Mak
Head of Data · Healius
Jihad Zein
Global Head of GRC · Toll
Kanik Sachdeva
Security Engineering Manager · Medibank
Kesh Anand
Head of Architecture, Cybersecurity and Data · National Intermodal
Lisa McCallum
Chief Data Officer · Cancer Institute NSW, NSW Health
Louis Nyffenegger
Founder · PentesterLabs
Luke Bampton
Application Security Lead · Monash University
Mahendra Samawickrama
Director - AI Safety, Governance, and Policies · Centre for Sustainable AI
Matthew Golab
Director, Practice Empowerment AI - APAC · Relativity
Paul Theriault
Senior Security Architect · Atlassian

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

11:11 Systems
Netwrix
OneTrust
Progress
Proofpoint
Relativity
Vanta
Varonis
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 36 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

36 companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
5Sponsoringsponsor only
28Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

OneTrust·Relativity·Varonis

Speakers by seniority

61% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite515%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • Director / Head of1442%
  • Manager / Lead412%
  • Engineer · IC721%
  • Other roles26%

Of 33 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1OneTrustSponsor1
2RelativitySponsor1
3VaronisSponsor1
411:11 SystemsSponsor-
5NetwrixSponsor-
6ProgressSponsor-
7ProofpointSponsor-
8VantaSponsor-
9Atlassian2
10Aikido Security1
11APA Group1
12APM1
13Australian Red Cross1
14Australian Signals Directorate1
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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