Adam Jacobs has a background in corporate finance and investment banking and has spent the past 11 years leading educational institutions. He is currently the Managing Director and Group CEO of the EdTech Group, a national education and training organisation specialising in the delivery of both accredited and non-accredited digital technologies education. Before joining Junior Engineers, Adam served as CEO of The Australian Institute of Personal Trainers (AIPT), Australia’s leading Registered Training Organisation for health and wellness, nutrition, and fitness qualifications, delivered through a network of 110 campuses nationwide. Prior to his career in the education sector, Adam worked at a Sydney-based corporate advisory firm, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, IPOs, capital raising, valuations, underwriting, financial structuring, corporate restructuring, governance, and risk management.

Alfred is an incident responder, specialising in managing and mitigating complex cyber threats.
Outside of his professional life, Alfred is an avid sports enthusiast. He enjoys a wide range of activities, including basketball, badminton, and volleyball, to name just a few. His love for sports is matched only by his enthusiasm for desserts, making him a connoisseur of sweet treats.

Stephen is currently employed by NCC Group as a Senior DFIR consultant, guiding clients through cyber incidents and ensuring effective security measures are in place to mitigate against current and future threats. Stephen has over eight years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, with a career spanning the Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, PwC, and his current role at NCC Group APAC. His expertise covers a wide range of disciplines, including Vulnerability Assessments, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics & Incident Response. Prior to joining NCC Group, he was part of PwC’s Global Threat Response Team, where he played a key role in securing PwC’s network across 150+ countries.

Arijit Paul is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in cloud security, threat hunting and incident response. With a background in both offensive and defensive security, Arijit specializes in leveraging advanced tools and techniques to protect cloud environments. Currently, Arijit is focused on threat detection, automation and response, helping organizations secure their cloud infrastructures.

Darryl has worked across multiple areas and disciplines, both as an electronics engineer working in embedded design, in academia lecturing at the University of Adelaide, a train controller, FIFO mining and construction across the country and now works in security analysis.  After a broad career, he has found a discipline to call home and refine his skills.  In his spare time, Darryl prefers to keep his hands dirty renovating his house, and repairing cars and bicycles, spending quality time with his daughter and partner and playing with their Golden Retriever.

Dylan is a cyber security leader specialising in digital forensics, incident response and security advisory. He has spent the last 8 years helping world leading brands investigate, respond to and recover from cyber incidents.

He actively contributes to open source projects covering threat hunting and intelligence; in addition to the MITRE ATT&CK framework (ask about defence evasion!).

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James is a Principal Consultant with CyberCX specialising in Microsoft Azure architecture, security and automation with over 25 years industry experience. He is a published author and journalist, an ex-Microsoft MVP and a current Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has worked with customers across a wide range of industries, including government, defence, finance, retail and higher education.

Dr. Jason M. Pittman is an academic and practitioner with expertise in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Faculty positions include Fulbright Scholar at University of Adelaide, University of Maryland Global Campus, High Point University, Cal State Polytechnic Pomona, as well as Capitol Tech University. In industry, he has worked for consulting firms, corporations, and startups.

Mickey is a Solution Consultant at Palo Alto Networks with a solid track record in the SIEM space, including stints at Elastic, Devo, and Splunk, he brings invaluable expertise to the table. Before tenures in cyber security, he worked at the Department of Industry as an Assistant ITSA.

Monika is a software IT professional working in one of the Big Four Banks in Cyber Security Risk and Control Enablement Advisory Services.

Monika has poken at a range of events AISA Canberra ,AISA Brisbane ,ISACA Melbourne ,ISACA New Zealand ,Bsides Sydney ,Victoria University podcasts sessions .Victoria University Panel speaker ,Speaker and Chair of some more council events in Melbourne

Nick, with over 25 years of experience, has worked across multiple roles and industries, including radio frequency engineering, software programming, and cyber security. He has led cyber security practices, advised executives as a virtual CISO, and helped deliver Australia’s first NATO ‘Locked Shields’ event. Nick was the Global Cyber Alliance's first Australian ambassador.

Richard is the head of research and SilentGrid Security. He has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience as a researcher and pentester across goverment and private organisations.

Mum, Artist, Investor. Sasha has never worked in the same industry twice. Her story is one of a non-conformist, of following opportunities and doing things differently. Currently MD of Steam Ventures, a strategic advisory that aims to put the ‘A’ back into STEM, her 17 years of global experience spans entertainment, gaming, telecommunications, space and technology industries. As Co-Founder of Internet provider Uniti Wireless Limited (ASX:UWL), she took the company to an ASX listing within < 5 years and in < 10 the Company sold for ~ $3.7 billion to a global asset management consortium. Sasha believes it’s a privilege to now support other Australian Founders on their journeys - their unwavering pursuits of vision, which through continuous exploration of ideas and determined trial and error, pushes boundaries to create the new futures that lay ahead of us.

I'm a high school student currently in grade 9, I enjoy studying in STEM. I am a lockpicking enthusiast and I have won 1st place in the 2023 BSides Melbourne lockpicking competition and got 2nd place in the 2023 AISA Cyber-Con lockpicking competition. At BSides Adelaide I got third in Lockpicking and participated in the Black bag CTF.

Toby Richer is a Security Architect at Leidos Australia. After obtaining his PhD in AI and working as a postdoctoral researcher, he spent 15 years researching AI for Cybersecurity at Defence Science Technology Group Australia. In his spare time, he doesn't enjoy arguing about AI on the internet but does it anyway.