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Identity is now the most valuable signal in cyber  and the earliest indicator of attacker intent. In high-threat environments, waiting for alerts isn’t enough.

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This session breaks down how critical organisations are using identity telemetry. Logins, privilege shifts, access anomalies, and behavioural patterns  to detect hostile activity earlier, disrupt lateral movement, and respond before impact. Hear the practical playbook for shifting identity from a static control to a live threat-intelligence capability, and what it takes to operationalise identity data at scale.

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The number of non-human identities, from AI agents to service accounts and automation scripts, now far exceeds human users in many environments. But these identities often lack clear ownership, lifecycle management, or access controls. In this session, we’ll unpack why they’ve become one of the most overlooked and risky parts of modern identity programs.You’ll learn how to:

• Identify and inventory non-human identities across your environment
• Set lifecycle, ownership, and access policies that actually stick
• Reduce risk by securing tokens, automation credentials, and embedded secrets

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As hybrid environments expand and automation increases, privileged access has become the most exploited pathway in breaches. Identities, human and machine, now hold powerful permissions across cloud, APIs, SaaS, and operational systems, making traditional PAM models too slow and siloed.This panel will explore how organisations are unifying Identity and PAM strategies to gain visibility, enforce least privilege, and detect misuse in real time. Hear how leaders are reducing privileged sprawl, managing machine credentials, and aligning PAM with Zero Trust without slowing operations.

• Why converging IAM and PAM is critical for controlling high-risk access across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Practical approaches to reducing privileged sprawl and managing machine identities at scale.
• How to automate least privilege and real-time monitoring without disrupting productivity.

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An interactive session where attendees participate in handling a simulated breach due to compromised credentials, focusing on containment and remediation strategies.

Synthetic voice technologies are advancing rapidly, placing increasing pressure on voice-based authentication and verification systems. This session examines how deepfake audio is beginning to surface in real security-relevant contexts and what this means for identity and access management (IAM).

Drawing on applied research and real-world deployments across speech science and AI security, the talk highlights documented cases of synthetic voice misuse and detection, and what they reveal about current system limitations. It also outlines practical strategies for improving resilience as voice synthesis continues to evolve.

• Where deepfake voice risks are already emerging in operational workflows
• How detection and layered defences can strengthen voice authentication
• What IAM teams should prepare for as synthetic speech capabilities advance

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Practical insights into deploying MFA effectively to protect against unauthorised access.

Every wave of AI hype brings sweeping claims that "everything is different now." But trust, between people, institutions, and the systems we rely on has rules that don't bend easily. This panel separates real shifts from noise, exploring how verification, authenticity, and accountability must adapt without abandoning the principles that make trust possible in the first place.

Key takeaways:

• The trust fundamentals AI doesn't change and why ignoring them creates real risk
• Where verification, provenance, and identity genuinely need to be reinvented for AI-generated content and agentic systems
• What leaders, regulators, and builders must do now to keep trust intact as the stakes climb

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Delegates will chose from a list of pertinent peer-to-peer discussion topics focussing on evolving and emerging trends, techniques and technologies.

Put your knowledge to the test in this fast-paced quiz covering real-world identity trivia, key concepts, and emerging trends. Compete for bragging rights—and a travel voucher—as the top scorer takes the crown.

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Lessons from Transforming Workforce Identity for 60,000+ Healthcare Professionals

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In healthcare, identity is critical to both security and patient care. Join Hemangini Tandel as she shares Ramsay Health Care’s identity transformation journey, delivering automated identity lifecycle management and provisioning for more than 60,000 identities in just 12 months.

This practitioner-led session explores how Ramsay combined strong change management, trusted data foundations and practical enablement strategies to drive adoption and deliver identity transformation at scale. Attendees will gain real-world insights into balancing security, governance and workforce experience in one of Australia’s largest healthcare environments.

Key Takeaways

• Why change management is critical to identity transformation success
• How trusted data enables automation and stronger governance
• Practical strategies for driving adoption at enterprise scale

In this session we will take a live pulse of the room with a series of multiple questions discussing Interoperability, digital wallets, and citizen identity and where Australia fits in the global identity landscape and have our panel of leaders discuss in this open forum think tank.

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This interactive session puts these questions directly to the audience. Participants vote live on a series of real-world scenarios, explore the results together, and vote again as perspectives shift through the discussion.

• How close do you think Australia is to making digital wallets part of everyday life?
• In your view, what’s the hardest challenge to overcome for digital identity adoption?
• Which sector is best placed to push digital identity forward in Australia?
• When thinking about interoperability, where should Australia focus its first big step?
• By 2030, what form of citizen identity do you think Australians will rely on most?
• How do you see Australia’s position in the global identity landscape by the end of the decade?

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