Executive Summit

Cybersecurity incidents are no longer a question of “if” but “when.” In today’s interconnected digital environment, tech leaders must evolve beyond reactive defense to proactive resilience. In this fireside chat-style session, you'll hear from Daniella Traino, Group CISO at Wesfarmers in conversation with Maryam Shoraka, Head of OT Cyber Security Operations, Sydney Trains, as they discuss:

• Cybersecurity’s evolving role in enabling business resiliency
• Enhance recoverability, manage risk and leverage emerging technologies
• Framing cybersecurity through a risk and investment lens to drive strategic and talent outcomes and secure board collaboration

CISOs face unprecedented challenges as evolving threats, including those posed by GenAI, rapidly increase enterprise risk. While new technologies offer defences, they also introduce vulnerabilities. A cyber-ready workforce is crucial for organisational resilience, but how do you equip your organisation to face the future of threats with confidence?

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Acting decisively under pressure to manage and mitigate threats
• Maintaining stakeholder confidence and protecting reputation during disruptions
• Sharing threat intelligence and preparing for long-term attack consequences

CIOs wanting to communicate IT’s relevance and impact on wider business outcomes must shift the focus of conversations with business partners from what IT does (technical inputs and outputs) to how IT delivers real value to stakeholders’ business priorities. But with conflicting board priorities, changing tech capabilities and ongoing change management, delivering a coherent story with impact is tough. 

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Building coherent narratives around IT spend, and it’s impact to deliver value and business growth
• Key metrics that focus on business outcomes, rather than technology itself
• Crafting and telling an impactful business value story to increase influence

 Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT and security leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CIOs and CISOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.

Join this session to:

• Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
• Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
• Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs

CIOs are uniquely positioned to lead digital business initiatives and champion change across the C-suite. By integrating technology with business strategy and engaging executive peers early, CIOs can accelerate innovation, scale transformation and maximise the value of technology investments.

Key takeaways include:

• Aligning technology and business objectives through C-suite co-leadership to drive digital success
• Prioritising formal change management early to increase adoption, utilisation and speed-to-value
• Leading the organisation in fostering a culture of innovation, accountability and enterprise-wide growth