Bryan Krekel is a global intelligence strategist and Senior Strategic Advisor at Northrop Grumman with over 25 years of experience in counterintelligence and cyber security. He is the principal author of landmark studies on Chinese cyber warfare capabilities for the US government.
A cybercrime is reported in Australia every seven minutes, and the fastest growing attacks never touch the firewall. They talk their way past someone in accounts on a Friday afternoon. These eight Australian experts have run the incident, written the policy, sat in the CISO chair and, in one case, been the hacker. Here is who to put on stage.
One of the most in-demand and charismatic Customer Experience speakers and consultants in the world today, David Avrin, CSP, GSF has shared his content-rich, very entertaining and actionable presentations with enthusiastic audiences and organizations across North America and around the world. Recent presentations include Singapore, Bangkok, Melbourne, Brisbane, Antwerp, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Mumbai, Sri Lanka, Abu Dhabi, Manila, Rotterdam, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, London, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, Johannesburg, and Dubai. David helps organizations better understand and serve their changing customers and clients to help future-proof their businesses by becoming ridiculously easy to do business with.
A distinguished executive with a proven track record of driving digital transformation, reducing business risk, and enhancing cybersecurity posture across global financial services and pharmaceutical organisations. David Gee brings extensive executive management experience from HSBC, Macquarie Group, CUA and Eli Lilly, coupled with a deep understanding of complex regulatory environments and emerging technologies.
Dr Juliette Tobias-Webb is a behavioural scientist and keynote speaker who helps leaders design for the way people actually behave, not the way the org chart assumes they will. With a PhD from Cambridge, she has advised Google, Mastercard, Citibank and Atlassian, and has held senior behavioural science roles at Commonwealth Bank and Ogilvy Australia.
Dr Emily Heath works with companies and leaders who want to create change: for their teams, their customers or even themselves. As a behavioural neuroscientist, author, and executive known for creating award-winning behaviour change programs across industries like tech, finance, cyber safety, and mental health, Emily fuses deep real-world business experience with academic expertise. If you are facing a behavioural challenge, complex problem, or simply seeking to better understand your world, Emily can help.
Gavin Reddrop is an AI keynote speaker and business innovation advisor who helps organisations rethink how they work in a fast changing world. With a 20 year background across the military, global corporates like Mars and Motorola, and a decade as an entrepreneur, Gavin brings a practical, real world view to AI adoption.
Hein's story is not just about personal achievement but about shifting perspective. As a teenager, he struggled to understand why he was born blind, but through extreme challenges and life-changing experiences, he came to see his blindness as his greatest gift. His journey demonstrates the power of resilience, adaptability, and the ability to turn obstacles into opportunities. Audiences leave his presentations inspired, energized, and ready to challenge their own limits. Hein Wagner doesn't just speak about overcoming obstacles-he lives it.
