Step into the reality of a major cyber incident with someone who has navigated the storm. This session offers firsthand insights into the true impact of a breach, focusing on:

• Practical experiences and lessons learned
• The profound people impact
• Navigating the challenging aftermath  

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This session will explore how businesses can safeguard sensitive data in the AI era. Attendees will learn about strategies to reduce data risk across operations, navigate the evolving landscape of data protection regulations, and stay ahead of emerging threats.

• Understanding the impact of AI on data security and emerging cyber threats
• Strategies for reducing data risk and protecting sensitive information
• Navigating Australia’'s data protection regulations in the context of AI
• Leveraging advanced data security solutions to stay ahead of threats
• Building a proactive security posture to protect against future challenges

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As data spreads across clouds, devices, apps, and AI pipelines, identifying and protecting it has never been more complex. This session brings together security and data leaders to uncover hidden data, reduce exposure, and align teams to reduce risk without stalling innovation.

• What are the biggest security risks from data sprawl, and how do you prioritise them?
• How do you align IT, privacy, and governance teams on shared data protection goals?
• Where does shadow data most often accumulate, and why is it often missed?
• How can organisations effectively discover, classify, and monitor data across disparate environments?

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The shift to Generative AI (GenAI) magnifies data security risks across fragmented hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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This session:

• Presents the case for Security-First AI Adoption, demonstrating how to eliminate up to 99% of data exposure risks and implement proactive controls for safe GenAI integration
• Introduces Securiti.ai’s unified data security and compliance framework, which enables 70% faster GenAI outcomes while mitigating the 18.5x increase in associated security threats
• Shows how to integrate robust controls, including OWASP LLM protection, automated data discovery, classification, access management, and continuous compliance, ensuring your AI foundation is secure, compliant, and ready for innovation

In this innovative session, attendees will be faced with a series of scenarios that they may face in their roles. Attendees will discuss the possible courses of action with their peers to consider the ramifications of each option before logging their own course of action.

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Results will be tallied and analysed by our session facilitator and results will impact the way the group moves through the activity.

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Will we collectively choose the right course of action?

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Connected cars have quietly become rolling case studies in everything that can go wrong with modern data collection. They capture our locations, driving habits, contacts, and even conversations — all wrapped in “consent” we don’t really control. But the bigger story isn’t just about vehicles; it’s about how easily convenience normalises surveillance. This session uses the connected car as a mirror for our broader digital ecosystem, revealing how the same patterns of data sharing, opaque consent and commercial profiling play out across every connected device we use.

• How connected vehicles expose the hidden trade-offs between innovation, privacy and control
• What this means for CISOs, privacy and data leaders charged with defending trust in an always-connected world
• How to reframe governance and consent before “acceptable loss” becomes the default setting

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Join this demo to explore how organisations can operationalise and automate compliance with global data regulations. Learn how the OneTrust platform can help you:

• Streamlines processes
• Ensures real-time monitoring
• Simplify the management of data privacy requirements
• Stay ahead of regulatory changes and minimise risk with automated workflows, reporting tools, and actionable insights—all in one place

AI is moving fast — but are your guardrails keeping up? In this session, we’ll hear from a leader who’s building AI governance frameworks inside a complex enterprise. They’ll share:

• What governance looks like beyond policy documents
• The realities of managing AI risk in the wild
• Lessons learned from putting principles into practice

Select a topic of discussion and engage in an interactive roundtable discussion with a group of your like-minded peers.

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

As enterprise data environments grow more distributed, maintaining strong data hygiene is essential to preventing exposure and ensuring compliance. This session offers practical approaches for identifying weak points, reinforcing governance, and embedding secure data practices into day-to-day operations.

• Identify and address common breakdowns in data hygiene practices
• Strengthen access controls to minimise overexposure across environments
• Automate routine governance to reduce manual oversight gaps
• Embed data protection into systems, workflows, and culture

Australia’s Privacy Act reforms, Digital ID, and CDR are reshaping obligations. This panel focuses on impacts and next steps.

• Which reforms matter most in 2026, and what’s the impact?
• Cross-border transfers: how do we meet APP 8 with vendors?
• Digital ID and CDR: how do we manage consent and minimise data?
• Program uplift: what are the non-negotiables by 2026?

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In this session, we’ll take a live pulse of the room on six big-picture questions. The results will drive a candid, expert-led discussion on what they reveal about where we are — and where we’re heading.

• In today’s environment, what should be the primary purpose of the data protection function?
• What’s the most effective way to influence company-wide behaviour change around data protection?
• Is AI the silver bullet for protecting our data moving forward?
• What's the biggest driver behind current data protection investments?
• Where should security leaders should spend more time and money?

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