Varonis is an innovative data security platform that allows enterprises to manage, analyze and secure their data. Varonis specializes in creating software that manages and protects enterprise data against insider threats, data breaches and cyberattacks by analyzing the behavior of the people and machines that access your data, alerting on misbehavior and enforcing a least privilege model.

Enterprise data under our scope is typically comprised of sensitive information that is stored in spreadsheets, emails, word processing documents, presentations, audio files, video files, text messages and any other data created by employees. This data often contains an enterprise’s financial information, product plans, strategic initiatives, intellectual property and numerous other forms of critical data.

With offices and partners worldwide, Varonis has over 6000+ customers spanning leading firms in financial services, healthcare, public, industrial, insurance, energy and utilities, media and entertainment, consumer and retail, technology and education sectors.

Australia’s largest and oldest vendor independent Data & Analytics consultancy. For 20 years, we have been combining industry expertise with technical capability to deliver tangible business outcomes. Come by and hear how we can help you deliver your business outcomes.

DAMA is a non-profit professional organisation dedicated to "promoting the understanding and practice of managing information as a key business asset". DAMA provides a forum for its members to exchange information, problems, ideas, and experiences, helping information management practitioners become more knowledgeable and skilled in their profession.

DAMA has been in operation in Australia since the mid 1980s with activities in most of the major cities.

Aristedes Mahairas

Special Agent in Charge- Special Operations and Cyber Division

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Aristedes Mahairas entered on duty with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1996. He has served as the FBI’s Legal Attache’ in Athens, Greece, and was a Supervisor on the Joint Terrorism Task Force. SAC Mahairas also served as a Section Chief of the Strategic Operations Section in the Counterterrorism Division of FBI Headquarters, and as the Chief of Staff to the Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch. In 2015, FBI Director James B. Comey appointed him as the SAC of the FBI’s New York Special Operations/Cyber Division. Prior to his entry into the FBI, SAC Mahairas served as a Police Officer in New York City. He received a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Political Science from Baruch College and his Juris Doctor from New York Law School.

Ben Jiang started his career within public sector audit services in 2003. Since then he has held roles with the Queensland Audit Office (QAO), Australian National Audit Office and more recently the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office (VAGO). Ben is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor with tertiary qualifications in both Accounting and IT. Prior to joining VAGO, Ben both started and led QAO’s first data analytics unit for 2½ years. During this time, Ben setup processes which streamlined the collection of reconciled data across 80 audit clients operating 20 different Accounting and HR systems. The collected datasets were then transformed and mapped into a QlikView dashboard for use by auditors on their audits of financial reports. These initiatives saved our auditors both time and reduced the risks of errors being introduced into manual analysis.

Senior executive and manager in the Australian public service - Kevin has been recently leading new capabilities in the data, business intelligence, fraud detection, surveillance and intelligence fields, both for the development and commercialisation of new technologies and the implementation of large-scale commercial solutions.

Previously Kevin has been a consultant, business analyst and project manager in electronic commerce, electronic service delivery and information management with extensive experience in government strategy development, requirements analysis and tender development and evaluation. Completed over 300 projects for Australian Federal and all state governments. Kevin was a project manager on a number of large implementations.

Dr Anthony Rea is the General Manager of the Bureau of Meteorology's Data Program and Chief Data Officer. Previously, he was Head of the Bureau of Meteorology’s Observing Strategy and Operations Branch for four years. He joined the Bureau in 2000 after starting his career as a land surveyor. He has a PhD in meteorological remote sensing and a Masters in Public Administration. In the Bureau, Dr Rea has responsibility for policy and governance in relation to data, end-to-end quality for all data and planning of the Bureau’s data gathering capabilities. He also takes a leading role within the World Meteorological Organisation and chairs its Open Program Area Group on Integrated Observing Systems.

Charlotte Crabtree is currently working as Executive Director for Queensland Government’s Centre for Insights, Data sharing and Analytics (CIDA). Charlotte is passionate about making Queensland a leading government agency in terms of delivering progressive and innovative analytical and data products and services. Charlotte spent sixteen years working for the UK Government and police service. She has also worked as an executive in strategy, planning and analysis in the Australian Health Service. and in her spare time is a keen traveller and enjoys running on the Gold Coast beaches with her puppy.

Dr Greg Terrill has worked on climate and environment issues since the mid-1990s, both for the Commonwealth Government and internationally. He has recently taken over responsibility for the Environmental Resources Information Network in the Department of Environment and Energy, which provides the Department’s leadership on spatial data and environment data architecture.

Duncan McIntyre is the Assistant Secretary responsible for the Data and Digital Branch at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In this capacity he advises the Prime Minister and the Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation on ways to unlock the potential of digital and data to transform the Australian Government and the economy. Prior to this Duncan was the Assistant Secretary at the Department of Communications and the Arts advising on the National Broadband Network and before that, he advised on emerging technology issues, telecommunications consumer issues and Australia Post. Earlier in his career, Duncan was an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Finance, a Director at the National Office for the Information Economy, at the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and at the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business

Karen is the Director of Capability at the Australian Public Service Commission since 2012, where she leads the work for the Centre of Leadership and Learning to improve the capability of the Australian Public Service through core and management skills. Since April 2017 she has been working in partnership with the Digital Transformation Agency on the joint Building Digital Capability program, to develop an APS Digital Talent Strategy, Digital Leadership Program and learning design standards for specialist digital skills.

Karen is a very experienced learning and development practitioner and has worked extensively in the Foreign Affairs portfolio and national security community. Her expertise is curriculum design and training development and she has experience across the breadth of professional disciplines including human resource management, change management, risk management, and regulation.

Analytics and business intelligence leader with extensive experience in consulting and client based environments.Vast of experience working in different industries including gambling, retail, health and online businesses (startups). Sveta is a data strategist professional with a passion for connecting people to the data they need to make decisions, build better products and execute marketing strategies. Effective liaison between business and technology. Experience in building data science and analytics practices from scratch, recruiting and developing teams.

Geoff Neideck heads up the Data Strategies and Information Technology Group at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Geoff is responsible for leading the development of the Institute’s strategies for acquiring and managing major data assets, for developing and delivering on ICT strategies and managing key relationships across government in support of the public sector data agenda. Geoff has extensive experience in statistics and data ranging across development and management of survey and administrative data collection, data integration and major data infrastructure projects. He has managed large national economic and social data programs at the AIHW, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statistics Canada and during 2017 was seconded to the Data Availability and Use Taskforce at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Leanne is the Chief Innovation Officer and CIO at AUSTRAC, and leads the Innovation, Information and Analytics teams. Her remit is to deliver advanced analytics and customer service platforms to enable AUSTRAC to innovate, working closely with industry and partners. She joined AUSTRAC in November 2015 to lead the team delivering Fintel Alliance.

Formerly CIO and Chief Digital Officer at the Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman, her experience ranges across multiple private and public sectors in digital services and delivery, governance, ICT, marketing and communications, business improvement and web science. Through the Web Science community Leanne is actively engaged on digital literacy initiatives, particularly for emerging generations, and the challenges of understanding digital disruption.

Rolf Green is the Director Information for ICT and Digital Government Division at the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation. He is responsible for managing the Information Management Framework as well as realising value from data across NSW Government. His interests encompass the full information lifecycle across all Structured, Unstructured and Master Data as well as Data Governance, Analytics, Quality and Compliance.

Mark Jobbins is the leader of the Technical Services organization in Asia Pacific and Japan for Pure Storage, responsible for the Systems Engineering, Solution Architects, Professional Services, and Customer Service teams. Mark is passionate about creating exceptional customer outcomes and leading high-performing cross-functional teams to drive customer and partner success.

With over 25 years of international industry experience, Mark has held leadership positions at global technology companies including HP and EMC, and played a pivotal role in accelerating growth at system integrators Tripoint and CEANET. Prior to joining Pure Storage in 2014, Mark was part of the senior leadership team at EMC responsible for consulting and professional services delivery and customer service across Australia and New Zealand.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Computer Aided Engineering from Huddersfield University, UK. He is currently based in Sydney, Australia.

Dietrich Benjes leads the sales and operations efforts of the Varonis business across APAC.

In his role, Dietrich frequently advises on the tenets and merits of data governance, big data and data management to peers at technical trade shows and conferences around the world.

Having held both highly technical as well as strategic business development roles throughout his career, Dietrich is able to combine his unique experience to educate on the technological challenges as well as the long term operational benefits associated with implementing a company-wide framework for data protection and control. Dietrich has experience of managing and the deployment of data protection solutions across multiple vertical sectors and in varying organisational sizes. He has advised on a number of enterprise wide deployments for GDPR, PCI, Data Governance, and also has excellent knowledge of the risks and pitfalls of big data management

Dr Graham Williams is Director of Data Science, Cloud AI at Microsoft. He is a developer and researcher in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence particularly in the cloud. His activities encompass projects empowering the widespread application of artificial intelligence technology.

Previously he was a Director of Data Science at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) where he built both the ATO's data science capabilities and - through the Australian Government’s Data Analytics Centre of Excellence - support for a whole of government initiative in data science. His research background includes being Principal Computer Scientist for Data Mining with CSIRO Australia and serving as a Senior International Expert and Visiting Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an Adjunct/Honorary Professor with the University of Canberra and the Australian National University.

Over his career Graham has been a researcher, advisor, practitioner and educator with over 30 years in the industry. His extensive publications include the recent book The Essentials of Data Science: Knowledge Discovery Using R and the popular book and software, Data Mining with Rattle and R: The Art of Excavating Knowledge from Data.

Tom is currently the Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Identity & Biometrics Systems in the Department of Home Affairs. Tom's responsibilities include delivering and supporting the systems in Home Affairs for Intelligence, risk, analytics, big data, enterprise data warehouses, business intelligence & reporting, Biometrics, client identity, geospatial and maritime surveillance. Tom joined the then department of immigration and border protection in mid 2015 not long after the merger of customs and immigration. Tom's role was to establish a branch to centralise the delivery of data and information to the department and support the establishment of central intelligence and identity management capabilities. Tom is an enthusiastic and passionate driver of change to deliver better operational outcomes through better use of data. Outside of work Tom spends most of his time with his 8 year old twin and 5 year old daughters.

Dr Simone Richter holds a PhD in Physics from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany and joined the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in February 2016, having built a distinguished career in nuclear and accelerator physics and as a senior science manager driving transformational change.

ANSTO is a publicly-funded research agency and the custodian of Australia’s nuclear science infrastructure, including the Centre for Accelerator Science, the National Deuteration Facility, the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering and the Australian Synchrotron. As the Group Executive for the Science & Technology arm of the organisation, Dr Richter oversees the research and infrastructure programs accessed by hundreds of national and international scientists and industry partners every year. Dr Richter’s role is specifically to foster innovation in research to support health, the environment and advances in the nuclear fuel cycle, as well as the development of future nuclear science infrastructure and capabilities for Australia.

Dr Richter is a founding director of one of Europe’s largest research facilities – the 1.6 billion Euro Facility of Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), which is currently under construction near Darmstadt, Germany. Dr Richter’s key role was to negotiate with government bodies from the nine signatory countries to the FAIR convention, and other partners, to shape the funding profile and scientific programme of FAIR. Dr Richter’s past roles have included Administrative Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer for FAIR; vice-chairto the Helmholtz Association (HGF) Committee of Scientific-Technical Councils which advised the Helmholtz Senate and Assembly of Members on scientific-technical matters of relevance to the HGF. Dr Richter has a wide range of Board experience and is currently holds positions on the Boards of National Imaging Facility (NIF), National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), as well as Australian Synchrotron Holding Company Pty Ltd (ASHco).

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is Australia’s peak representative body and advocacy group for those in the digital ecosystem. We are a not-for-profit organisation to benefit members, and AIIA membership fees are tax deductible. Since 1978 the AIIA has pursued activities to stimulate and grow the digital ecosystem, to create a favourable business environment for our members and to contribute to Australia’s economic prosperity.

We do this by delivering outstanding member value by:

• providing a strong voice of influence

• building a sense of community through events and education

• enabling a network for collaboration and inspiration; and

• developing compelling content and relevant and interesting information

Since 1996, Intech Solutions Pty Ltd has been delivering data centric solutions to organisations of all sizes across a broad range of government and industry sectors.

As an Australian-based solution provider, Intech is uniquely positioned to take on complex and demanding data projects. With Intech Solutions, you will be working with the developers and experts in implementing Intech’s Enterprise Information Management solutions.

Intech’s flagship product, IQ Office, can provide solutions for a wide range of information challenges, such as:

• data preparation
• standardisation
• anonymisation and privacy legislation-compliant data matching
• de-duplication
• data / address validation
• geo-coding
• a single view of client information.

IQ Office is a comprehensive Enterprise Information Management platform, providing complete integration services, master data management and a data quality solution in the one platform.

We deliver surprisingly flexible data systems that quickly adapt to your changing needs. Our clients use our cloud-based data collection, validation and workflow toolset to ensure data quality and future agility - in short, to work smarter, not harder. Specialising in the Government and NGO sectors, SmarterSoft is an approved AWS Public Sector Partner.

Snowflake started with a clear vision: Make modern data warehousing effective, affordable and accessible to all data users. Snowflake enables the data-driven enterprise with instant elasticity, secure data sharing and per-second pricing, across multiple clouds. Because traditional on-premises and cloud solutions struggle at this, Snowflake developed a new product with a new built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake: Your data, no limits. Find out more at snowflake.com.

The Pure Storage Data Platform is powered by software and hardware that’s effortless to use, efficient from end-to-end, and evergreen to upgrade. It’s got everything you need to drive industry-defining innovation and achieve business results that were previously unimaginable.

Teradata delivers better business outcomes through technology-enabled solutions in the areas that matter most – from operational excellence and asset optimization, to customer experience and product innovation, to finance transformation and risk mitigation. We work with leading businesses in over 75 countries worldwide. Our clients include many of the top performers and best-known brands in telecom, transportation, consumer packaged goods, financial services and manufacturing. We focus on turning the most complex and challenging data sets into high-value assets that produce high-impact insights and tangible value for the business.

OUR MISSION

To help Australian companies thrive through effective and self-sufficient data management. As an integrity-driven organisation, Robinson Ryan assists our clients in creating effective data management systems.

We achieve this through applying our extensive experience in the industry, commitment to clear and jargon-free communication and our outcome-focused solutions.

Robinson Ryan offers a clear and trustworthy path through the complex landscape of data management.

Every day, QSR International helps 1.5 million researchers, marketers and others to utilise Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) to uncover deeper insights contained within the “human data” collected via social media, consumer and community feedback and other means. We give people the power to make better decisions by uncovering more insights to advance their area of exploration.

When selecting qualitative data or survey analysis software, you need confidence that the product is robust, accurate and most of all, trusted. Whether it is for health, government, academia, or business, our history of pioneering innovation, user collaboration and responsiveness have earned us the trust and confidence of users around the world to transform their information into valuable evidence. NVivo and Interpris provide the tools to harness your data, so you can focus on arriving at meaningful results and evidence-based interpretations.

Developed from the Academic arena in 1981, NVivo is today relied on by people in private and public organizations, across more than 150 countries to get the most out of their data. Our strong history in product development is based on our passion for actively listening to users and by understanding the changing data landscape.

SPP and Zetaris partner to deliver significant data analytics projects to Government. SPP is a leading management consulting firm with strengths in Public Sector work, advising a number of agencies on issues related to data including data strategy, data monetisation and best practice in designing data programs. SPP also has strong data-analytics program management skills. Zetaris is the creator of a leading virtual data analytics platform that is being utilised by major organisations including Westpac, as well as leading government agencies in Victoria and NSW. Together, the SPP/Zetaris partnership solve the challenge of integrating “big data” solutions for Government, in an efficient and effective way.

SPP and Zetaris partner to deliver significant data analytics projects to Government. SPP is a leading management consulting firm with strengths in Public Sector work, advising a number of agencies on issues related to data including data strategy, data monetisation and best practice in designing data programs. SPP also has strong data-analytics program management skills. Zetaris is the creator of a leading virtual data analytics platform that is being utilised by major organisations including Westpac, as well as leading government agencies in Victoria and NSW. Together, the SPP/Zetaris partnership solve the challenge of integrating “big data” solutions for Government, in an efficient and effective way.

• RXP brings together creativity, design, insights and technology to help our clients build products and digital solutions.
• Our team is made up of some of the most talented designers, researchers, technologists and delivery people in the business.
• We use agile ways of working and modern tools to deliver value quickly to your employees, citizens and customers.
• RXP comprises of 7 key practices, which group our capabilities in a way that optimises engagement with clients. Our practices are underpinned by a suite of shared methodologies which allow them to integrate and support optimal delivery for our clients.
• Our Insight capability provides data centric solutions to unlock business insight, through governed visualisations, trusted analytics and API connectivity to support evidence based decisions in the digital evolution. Our key capabilities are as follows:
• BI, Reporting, Analytics & Visualisation
• Data Governance
• Data Management and Data Migration
• Data Quality
• Data Warehouses, Marts and Lakes
• Integration & Delivery
• Master Data Management (MDM) and Product Information Management (PIM)
• Strategy & Architecture

Quest® helps its customers reduce tedious administration tasks so they can focus on the innovation necessary for their businesses to grow. Quest solutions are scalable, affordable and simple-to-use, and they deliver unmatched efficiency and productivity. Combined with Quest’s invitation to the global community to be a part of its innovation, as well as its firm commitment to ensuring customer satisfaction, Quest will continue to accelerate the delivery of the most comprehensive solutions for Microsoft Azure cloud management, SaaS, security, workforce mobility and data-driven insight.