18 Feb 2026
Sydney
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Join us at the Data Protection and Security Summit in Sydney for expert-led sessions on navigating privacy reforms, AI security, and more. Connect with industry leaders and gain practical insights to strengthen your organisation’s data protection strategy in a connected world.

February 18, 2026
Wednesday
08:30am - 3:30pm
AEST
Abbotsford Event Stadium
350 Great N Rd, Abbotsford NSW 2046, Australia
Free to attend
Industry practitioners

The production playbook for engineers shipping AI at scale.

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Attending Companies

The company we keep.

Who's in the room

Built for the people shipping AI in production.

Built for in-house eng & infra teams shipping AI in production — here's who gets the most out of the day. Not a perfect match? Staff engineers, founders, heads of data and other hands-on technical leaders fit right in — the three above are just where most of the room sits.

Infra, SRE & Cloud leads

GPU economics, hybrid topology, cost & latency trade-offs — real numbers from real production.

AI / ML Platform leads

Steal model-serving, eval and orchestration patterns from teams two cycles ahead of your stack.

VPs & Directors of Engineering

Pressure-test your AI roadmap against peers shipping it. See what's actually scaling beyond the prototype.

What you'll walk out with

Concrete deliverables, not just notes.

1

Registration Opens & Networking Breakfast

Secure by Design shifts cybersecurity from reactive patching to proactive design, placing accountability on builders, not customers, across the full product lifecycle. Modern Defensible Architecture.

2

Registration Opens & Networking Breakfast

Secure by Design shifts cybersecurity from reactive patching to proactive design, placing accountability on builders, not customers, across the full product lifecycle. Modern Defensible Architecture.

3

Registration Opens & Networking Breakfast

Secure by Design shifts cybersecurity from reactive patching to proactive design, placing accountability on builders, not customers, across the full product lifecycle. Modern Defensible Architecture.

4

Registration Opens & Networking Breakfast

Secure by Design shifts cybersecurity from reactive patching to proactive design, placing accountability on builders, not customers, across the full product lifecycle. Modern Defensible Architecture.

12
Speakers

Senior engineering leaders, all in-house practitioners.

Every speaker has shipped — at scale — what they're talking about.

Abbi Bressoud

Senior Product Manager, Identity & Access Management, 84.51

Afsheen Jahan

Manager Identity & Access Control, Clean Away Waste Management

Anatoli Kazatchkov

Head of Engineering, JIRA, Atlassian

Benjamin Cirillo

Group Financial Controller, Hazeldenes Chicken

Andrew Kempe

COO Asia Pacific, Lazard Asset Management

Animesh Singh

Senior AI Platform and Infrastructure Director, LinkedIn

Amit Agarwala

Head of Emerging Technology & AI, BlueScope Enterprise

Alexander Forostenko

Director of Compliance, Farther

Andrew Crandall

Americas IAM Technical Solutions Architect Leader, IBM

Travis Hughes

Senior Account Director APJ, Conga

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agenda preview

A day designed for momentum.

2 keynotes · 3 panels · 4 "How I Solved" case studies · 1 live audience simulation · roundtables · drinks.

10:10 am

Test Agenda Title

Designing efficient pipelines for large-scale ingestion, processing and storage.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
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Read more
Director of Privacy - Data and AI, Atlassian
Panel
5:10 pm

Agenda two

Latest in hardware and cloud infrastructure for high-performance AI.

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

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Read more
VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations, Nomura
Keynote
4:20 am

Test Title 4

Bias mitigation, transparency, accountability — building AI you can stand behind.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
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Read more
Head of Risk / Data Protection Officer, BDO Unibank
SOCIAL
9:15 am

Actual Title for Agenda

Practical patterns for integrating CI/CD tailored to ML — maintain performance and accuracy in production.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
Head of Risk / Data Protection Officer, BDO Unibank
case study
10:10 am

Test Agenda Title

Designing efficient pipelines for large-scale ingestion, processing and storage.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
Director of Privacy - Data and AI, Atlassian
Panel
3:10 pm

test three

Beat the rush. Complimentary barista coffee & breakfast.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations, Nomura
case study
4:20 am

Test Title 4

Bias mitigation, transparency, accountability — building AI you can stand behind.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
Head of Risk / Data Protection Officer, BDO Unibank
SOCIAL
9:15 am

Actual Title for Agenda

Practical patterns for integrating CI/CD tailored to ML — maintain performance and accuracy in production.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
Head of Risk / Data Protection Officer, BDO Unibank
case study
3:10 pm

test three

Beat the rush. Complimentary barista coffee & breakfast.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations, Nomura
case study
5:10 pm

Agenda two

Latest in hardware and cloud infrastructure for high-performance AI.

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Collapse
Read more
VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations, Nomura
Keynote
4:20 am

Test Title 4

Bias mitigation, transparency, accountability — building AI you can stand behind.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
Head of Risk / Data Protection Officer, BDO Unibank
SOCIAL
9:15 am

Actual Title for Agenda

Practical patterns for integrating CI/CD tailored to ML — maintain performance and accuracy in production.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
Head of Risk / Data Protection Officer, BDO Unibank
case study
10:10 am

Test Agenda Title

Designing efficient pipelines for large-scale ingestion, processing and storage.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
Director of Privacy - Data and AI, Atlassian
Panel
3:10 pm

test three

Beat the rush. Complimentary barista coffee & breakfast.

AI agents are now writing code, deploying systems, and making real production decisions. But when things go wrong, model drift, data leaks, or outages, most organisations can’t answer three simple questions: Did we catch it? Who’s responsible? How do we prevent it next time?

This panel brings together engineering, platform, and security leaders tackling a new reality: AI is breaking both observability and accountability.

We’ll cover:

  • Why traditional monitoring misses AI failures  and what’s replacing it
  • Where accountability sits when AI makes decisions
  • How to design audit trails, guardrails, and escalation paths for AI systems
  • Lessons from early AI incidents what was caught, what wasn’t, and who took responsibility
  • What regulators, boards, and customers now expect
Collapse
Read more
VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations, Nomura
case study
5:10 pm

Agenda two

Latest in hardware and cloud infrastructure for high-performance AI.

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Collapse
Read more
VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations, Nomura
Keynote
What attendees say

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2025 edition NPS
94%
Would attend again
Keynotes
panels
case studies
9.2
Content rating / 10
From '25 attendees
The IAAM Summit was a great event to sponsor, Clutch really assisted us in having the best possible outcome all the way from initial conversations to the execution on event day. Always there to help and facilitate great conversations with attendees.
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Jocelyn Bukal
“I enjoyed the round table discussion….having some pre-defined questions to get things flowing was great…..it allowed the presenter to listen and not drive the conversation.”
Gaston Perez
Cloud Engineering Leader, MassMutual
Past Speakers
Abhi Banerjee

VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations, Nomura

Afsheen Jahan

Manager Identity & Access Control, Clean Away Waste Management

Toon Convents

Director of Product Engineering, Movember

Andrew Kempe

COO Asia Pacific, Lazard Asset Management

Ad Wolst

Head of Cyber Security Engineering APAC, BUPA

Desmond Seeley

Executive Manager of AI & Engineering, Commonwealth Bank

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What do I need to bring?

Just bring yourself, your laptop or a notebook and get ready to collaborate!

Will sessions be recorded or live-streamed?

No. You'll have to be there to enjoy the sessions.

Will there be WiFi?

Yes, absolutely! Stay connected at the event with complimentary wifi - we'll share the details at the event.

Will food and drinks be provided?

Yes, morning tea, lunch, and afternoon refreshments will be provided. Please indicate any dietary requirements during registration.

Are Chatham House Rules in effect?

Absolutely! No media, recordings, or live streaming... what happens in the room, stays in the room.

What is the dress code?

Smart casual or business casual is recommended, no need for a suit and tie! Keep it comfortable.

Are there any fees to attend?

Nope! The conference is completely free for AppSec, Engineering, and Cybersecurity professionals.

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Sydney, AU
Doltone House Hyde Park
350 Great N Rd, Abbotsford NSW 2046, Australia
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