Conference Day Two - Thursday 7 September
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08:30 | Welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening Remarks from the Chair
Craig Horne, Chairman, ACS Victoria
TRANSFORMING INFRASTRUCTURE IN A SERVICE TO KEEP UP WITH EMERGING TRENDS
CASE STUDY:
9:00 | Redesigning SuperChoice’s Infrastructure to increase efficiency
- Orchestrating workloads in the multi-cloud environment to increase efficiency
- Using a microservices architecture to increase the portability of code between clouds
- Managing infrastructure and security cost to optimise their portfolio return
- Redefining the way infrastructure services are provided to remove time and capability constraints
Ian Gibson, Chief Information Officer, SuperChoice
CASE STUDY:
9:30 | PaaS as a digital transformation enabler for law firms
- Setting the foundations for law firms to access and store critical data
- Tailoring the platform to meet organisation’s needs
- Transforming the way law firms operate to simplify processes
Rebecca Grant, Managing Director, icourts
CASE STUDY:
10:00 | Implementing a service oriented infrastructure to enable the organisation to develop new services
- Building a new platform supporting the internal architecture
- Creating a culture of early adoption to deliver new product and features faster
- Guaranteeing continuous delivery for your business to keep up with the trends and the market
Georg Friedrich, Head of Engineering, Redbubble
10:30 | Morning tea
SOLUTION PROVIDERS THINK TANK:
11:00 | Identifying significant technologies, approaches, investments and IT direction to enable your enterprise
In this Think Tank session a panel of solution providers will come together to brainstorm practical ways that organisations can better interact with vendors. During this session, they will leverage their expertise to deliver better commercial outcomes for both parties. This will be a unique and highly valuable opportunity to get an insight into the challenges of digital transformation and technology integration from a vendor’s perspective and the session will look to identify actionable areas in which infrastructure managers can improve their action.
- Finding optimal balance between cost-saving, efficiency, value, performance and investment
- Which technologies should be deployed for greatest speed and agility?
- Discussing proven strategies to orchestrate a successful digital transformation journey
This session is reserved for our sponsors – if you wish to join them, please contact our sponsorship team on +61(0)2 9977 0565 or email info@questevents.com.au
PROTECTING YOUR ORGANISATION AGAINST CYBER-THREATS
11:40 | The trials and tribulations of securing infrastructure
- How can you ensure your digital enterprise systems are secure?
- How do you develop a corporate strategy driven by technology, security and privacy?
- Instilling cyber resilience within your company’s culture
Daniel Saffioti, Chief Information Officer, ANSTO
Mitchell Hewes, Technical IT Security Officer, ANSTO
12:10 | Understanding the human aspects of cybersecurity and privacy
- Understanding and changing behavioural influences to help protect infrastructure, network systems and data
- Designing and implementing educational tools, technology and methodologies to increase cyber security awareness
- Using gaming technology to help protect computer users against phishing attacks
Nalin A. G. Arachchilage, Lecturer, Australian Center for Cyber Security
12:40 | Networking lunch
CASE STUDY:
13:40 | Australia Post’s strategy to transform user behaviour and prevent cyber-attacks
- Understanding the importance of cultural awareness when it comes to cyber security
- Identifying and preventing employee’s risky behaviour
- Insights into Australia Post phishing experiments to test staff security awareness
Deborah Fuzy, Lead Research Analyst, Australia Post
PANEL DISCUSSION:
14:10 | Advanced cyber-threats – how to defend infrastructure
Cyber-risk is an imperative for everyone within the enterprise—but ultimate responsibility for overseeing risk rests with top leaders. What is the current threat landscape? How can PPP’s foster an integrated, collaborative, engaged approach to maintaining infrastructure security and resilience?
This session will discuss emerging threats, as well as information on mitigating controls, security architecture and incident response plans. The balancing act between emerging technology, ease of use and the need for security will be discussed.
- Understanding national vulnerabilities and separating fact from fiction in terms of co-ordinated attacks
- Assessing the risks posed by new technologies such as IoT and Blockchain
- Factoring the capabilities of hostile forces: cyber terrorism and black market cyber-attack services
Moderator:
Morry Morgan, APAC Tech Correspondent, My Security Media
Panellists:
Abbas Kudrati, Chief Information Security Officer, KPMG Australia
Deborah Fuzy, Lead Research Analyst, Australia Post
Nalin A. G. Arachchilage, Lecturer, Australian Center for Cyber Security
14:50 | Afternoon tea
DEVELOPING A MODERN ENTERPRISE DATA STRATEGY
CASE STUDY:
15:20 | Real world big data architectures: delivering rapid business value through the triple play of Cloud, AI & Open Source
- Understanding the new digital ecosystem business models impacting all enterprises
- How Cloud, AI & Open Source are fundamentally transforming data architectures and underpinning todays emerging new digital ecosystems
- Showcasing real world deployments and how they are able to deliver rapid business value
Nicholas Tan, Chief Infrastructure Architect, News Corp
15:50 | Building the infrastructure for data intensive science projects
- How to provide affordable, easy to use infrastructure that supports data-intensive projects
- Understanding how FlashLite and MeDiCI fabric stores, manipulates, and moves data around systems and devices
- How to make distributed data appear locally to allow anytime, anywhere access by end users
David Abramson, Director, Research Computing Centre, University of Queensland and Finalist, Education CIO of the Year
16:20 | Closing remarks from the Chair and drawing of the lucky door prize!
16:30 | End of Day Two and close of conference