Cindy Taibi is the Chief Information Officer of The New York Times.

Cindy started at The Times in 1981 and has worked across the company in a variety of roles: initially as a developer in our core print News Systems group; overseeing I.T. for our regional media group in the mid-2000s, as the head of our print advertising and business systems teams; and recently, overseeing our internal infrastructure, including international locations.

As C.I.O, Cindy is responsible for applying technology to support our business, including: the infrastructure that supports the mission of The Times, productivity tools and critical applications that are the nervous system of our business, including our financial systems, our talent management systems and our legal and compliance systems.

Cindy is the first woman to hold the role at The New York Times.

Dr Clark is currently Head of the Australian Space Agency and a director of Rio Tinto, CSL Limited and CARE Australia. She is a member of the Australian advisory board of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Dr Clark recently chaired the Expert Working Group into the Review of Australia’s Space Industry Capability. She was Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 2009 to 2014.  Prior to CSIRO, she was a Director at NM Rothschild and Sons (Australia) and was Vice President Technology and subsequently Vice President Health, Safety and Environment at BHP Billiton from 2003 to 2008.

Dr Clark holds a BSc from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from Queen’s University, Canada and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Fellow of the AusIMM and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  In 2014, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Dr. Eppanapally is a financial services professional, an entrepreneur and a philanthropist with a passion for healthcare, education and the environment. His lifelong mission has been to transform youth into responsible citizens and establish a peaceful society for harmonious living.

With over 30 years of diverse experience and as a financial services professional, Dr. Eppanapally has been involved in directing and managing major high visible global initiatives in the financial services industry. He is an entrepreneur and invested in several disruptive technology companies. He is a visionary, passionate about giving back to the society, founder of few NGOs and serves on several boards.

Bob Hennessy was appointed Group CIO of Lendlease in June 2015 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Bob has over 40 years’ experience in technology across a range of industries, including steel manufacturing, transport, financial services, telecommunications and consulting.

Prior to joining Lendlease, Bob was CEO of Pactera’s Australian and NZ business having sold his privately-owned consulting firm to them in 2012. Pactera was a NASDAQ listed entity at the time of the sale.

Previous roles include at Westpac (1998-2002) leading the technology stream supporting the integration of BT, Rothschild and Westpac Financial Services, which saw him appointed CIO of the integrated company (BT FG). At TNT (1988-98) Bob was CIO of the Asia Pacific region driving the integration of the Australian business from 1996 to 1998 following the acquisition of TNT by the Dutch PTT.

As a consultant, Bob conducted reviews of transformation programs in telecommunications, health and retail fuel. He has sat on client steering committees for major transformation programs in banking, manufacturing & distribution and transport.

Bob’s experience as an executive in industrial sectors and volatile business conditions lends him a rare combination of experiences invaluable for companies on the cusp of significant change. His combination of client-side and sell-side roles, coupled with his entrepreneurial experience brings an appreciation of a range of business perspectives.

Mr Stephen Pearson commenced as Chief Information Officer (CIO) in February 2018.

A consistent, results-driven global CIO and IT executive, he has proven ability to deliver sustainable transformational change through positive influencing, the close collaboration of IT and business stakeholders, and effective leveraging of technology as a key business enabler.

As Defence CIO he is responsible for:

• ensuring Defence has a modern, dependable, secure and integrated single information environment which supports Defence’s business and military operations;

• providing strong leadership of the people and financial resources within the Group; and

• making a significant leadership contribution in relation to security, both for the Defence organisation and at a whole of government level.

Prior to joining the Australian Public Service, Stephen’s career encompassed diverse industry sectors including mining services, supply and logistics, retail, airlines, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare and professional services.

He has a strong record of success in developing and implementing IT strategies, operating models and technology solutions (digital, ERP) in complex global business environments. He is experienced with both centralised and distributed IT functions, and is an advocate of organisation change management to complement technology initiatives.

After spending a number of years successfully delivering major business change initiatives at Air Canada, Qantas, Coles and Newcrest Mining, he was the global CIO of Orica during a time of great change in the industry and the organisation. He has also been an independent advisor to Toll Group, Ausenco and Oil Search leadership, supporting their respective transformation programs. Prior to joining Defence, Stephen was CIO and Head of Transformation at Lattice Energy.

His vision for the future is for the successful delivery of effective, flexible, innovative and scalable ICT solutions and services to support our current and future integrated Defence capability to defend the country and its interests.

Stephen graduated from the University of Central Queensland with a Bachelor of Business Studies in 1977 and is a Chartered Accountant.

He is married with two children, a daughter and a son. He enjoys tennis, keeping fit, travelling, wine, music and watching most sports, particularly rugby union where he is a Foundation Member of the Melbourne Rebels.

Greg became the Government Chief Information and Digital Officer (GCIDO) in July 2018, making him the NSW Government’s most senior technology executive.

As GCIDO, Greg advocates for technology that enables the NSW Government’s objectives and fosters sector-wide collaboration on a digital agenda to continue to transform the state into a global technology leader. He is responsible for building digital capacity and integration across the public sector and implementing the NSW innovation and digital government strategies.

Greg’s extensive career in government technology has included leading the delivery of a multi-agency platform to help protect children at risk with the NSW Department of Family and Community Services, and running NSW Health’s ICT strategy, policy governance and operations as the Chief Information Officer, where he was recognised with the Australian Healthcare CIO of the Year award in 2014.

Rocky Scopelliti is a world-renowned futurologist. His pioneering research on the confluence of demographic change associated with Millennials, and digital technology, have influenced the way we think about our social, cultural, economic and technological future. His new book ‘Youthquake 4.0 – A Whole Generation and the New Industrial Revolution’ will be launched in September 2018.

As a media commentator, his unique insights have featured on SKY Business News, The Australian Financial Review, ABC Radio National, The Economist, Forbes and Bloomberg. As an international key note speaker, his presentations have captivated audiences across Asia Pacific, the USA and Europe including Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As a thought-leader, over 150 boards and leadership teams, including Fortune 100 corporations, each year seek his advice on strategy.

A distinguished author, his 12 published thought-leadership research reports have become internationally recognised for their influence including the World Economic Forum’s Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services Program.

In an executive capacity, he is a member of the Optus Business Leadership team as the Director, Centre for Industry 4.0 where he leads the specialist team creating world class thought-leadership and innovation to guide enterprises on the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

In a non-executive capacity, he is director on the board of Community First Credit Union, a member of the REST Super Technology Advisory Panel and member of the Australian Payments Council.

Educated in Australia and trained in the USA at Sydney and Stanford Universities respectively, he has a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Management and an MBA. He is also a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Brendan has joined Bankwest recently and is currently in the CTO role.  Brendan has 20 years’ experience in financial services across Banking, Insurance and Wealth. Brendan has joined from Deloitte where he was Principal within Platform engineering focussing on FSI needs.  Previously Brendan was Head of Retail and Wealth Architecture at CBA as well as delivering Digital Platform strategy for the Institutional Bank. Prior to CBA Brendan worked for Suncorp leading their Business intelligence practice and Personal Insurance Digital Channel. His focus in Bankwest is to continue to drive their Transformation program leveraging the Companies existing capabilities that differentiate us in the market and new adopt emerging technologies.

A true travel technologist, Mike has become influential as a technology evangelist, customer experience and data guru with a clear understanding of the role technology plays in assisting people to make informed and interactive travel decisions and ultimately, allowing people to get on with their business. He is an excellent communicator and big picture thinker and has a track record of developing and leading innovative teams.

Mike had worked for FCTG for over 15 years and has been part of some truly inspirational and transformative projects and initiatives during his time. He started his career as an accountant for FCTG’s New Zealand Corporate Division, later moving into business process re-engineering and project management. Mike held the role of Chief Customer Officer, Technology for Flight Centre Travel Group Limited’s (ASX: FLT) corporate brands in Australia and New Zealand overseeing customer experience, technology and data strategy until February 2019.

During his long and successful career, he led a digital transformation of corporate travel brands in Australia, growing product portfolio from 5 to over 99 products during the 5-year journey. In May 2018, Mike had shared his learning with other executives at Forrester CX conference to great success, having made it to Which-50 publication.

Two of the products Mike had responsibility for have contributed to FCTG being named one of the top 20 ASX most innovative companies. Firstly, Savi – recently launched Online Booking Platform for our corporate travellers underpinned by AI/machine learning and user-focused UX and secondly, Sam (Smart Assistant for Mobile), chatbot for travellers – a great blend of user experience and targeted user engagement.

His career also saw him diversify into the Marketing and Digital space by taking the combined role of Chief Information and Digital Officer with a privately-owned company engaging in start-up activity.

Mike holds a BCom in Accounting and Tax, GradDipCom and BCom (Hons) in Operations Management and Supply Chain and Masters in Management Accounting. He is a certified Chartered Practising Accountant (CPA Australia) and Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA, UK) and a member of both institutes.

A leader in transformation who has worked in large corporate organisations across Europe, the United States and Australia, William Payne has a successful track record of delivering effective change. From rapidly turning poor performing IT functions into truly customer-focused business capabilities, to leading global change programs across 20 countries or developing business-led strategic plans, William combines business and technical expertise with excellent facilitation and presentation skills. His extensive experience as both Chief Information Officer and Chief Strategy Officer combine to provide a unique skill set for the age of digital transformation.

Joanne Stubbs has worked in Information Technology for over 20 years with experience in a variety of industry sectors including that of retail, financial services and the airline industry.  Joanne’s most recent role was as CIO for Bakers Delight Holdings and held the role for 8 and a half years.

Previous experience includes being CIO – Asia Pacific for GMAC, CIO for The Good Guys and was recruited as CIO for Retail Corp (part of Dubaiworld). Having worked overseas for 2 years Joanne returned to Australia to take up the role of CIO for Bakers Delight Holdings.  All of Joanne’s CIO roles have been in organisations that identified a CIO was required, but the role had not previously existed.  She has worked closely with the business in every instance to align the IT strategy with that of the business strategy.

Her strengths include expertise in project management along with the establishment of robust policies and procedures to support IT objectives within the business. Joanne is motivated by assisting her staff to implement business enabling systems capable of delivering strategic advantage.  With over 20 years of IT experience and a Masters in Technology Management, she brings substantial skills in structuring teams with a delivery mindset, managing change, implementing project management techniques and delivering business value

David Hackshall is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Cochlear Ltd, a leader in cochlea implant technology that supports over 450,000 people with hearing loss around the world. Since commencing his role in July 2015, David has overseen the organisation’s global IT capability with a focus on innovating technology to further improve the Cochlear recipient’s journey.

Based in Sydney, David operates in a global capacity with operations throughout Asia, Europe and the US. Under David’s supervision the Cochlear technology function has undertaken a material restructure whilst delivering a number of customer facing and internal cornerstone applications.

David was also recently selected by his peers to be included in the top 10 CIOs across Australia and New Zealand. David has over 20 years’ of experience in driving technological transformation spanning differing industry sectors. He has worked in some of Australia’s leading companies including logistics, financial services and now medical devices. David holds both a Master of Information Technology Management and MBA from Macquarie University.

John Sutherland is Chief Information Officer at Ramsay Health Care. Ramsay is an ASX50-listed company with revenue of $11.6 billion and employing more than 77,000 people across 11 countries. Operating c.480 hospitals, specialist clinics, primary care and pharmacy businesses, Ramsay is the market leader in Australia and Europe. As CIO, John works closely with the CEO and Board to establish the digital strategy focused on their clinicians’ connectedness, patients’ experience and employee performance while maintaining the highest standard of clinical care and quality outcomes for their customers. John is an advisor to the Board of the Australian Digital Health Agency, an Organising Committee member for Health Information and Management Systems Society Asia Pacific and is guest lecturer to post graduate students at Macquarie University.

James Spenceley is an Australian VC investor, award-winning entrepreneur and company director. He is the Chairman of Airtasker and CEO and co-founder of MHOR asset management, a specialist small capital investment fund.

In 2007 James founded Vocus Communications and went on to become the youngest Australian to create and lead an ASX100 company. When he stepped down as CEO in February 2016, the company had annual revenue of $1.8billion, a market cap of $5billion and 1,500 staff. His achievements at Vocus saw him feature three times on the BRW young rich list and two-times as a EY Entrepreneur of the Year winner.

Following his success with Vocus, James has established himself as a leading Australian VC investor, mentor and philanthropist, and spent a number of years as co-owner and Chair of the Illawarra Hawks NBL team.

Alongside Airtasker, James holds a number of ASX-listed board positions including, Chairman of Silver Heritage Group and non-executive director of Indoor Sky Dive Australia Group.

In 2018 he was inducted into the CommsDay Edison Awards Hall of Fame and recently was announced as the first ambassador for the Women on Boards WOBSX program.

Mr. Mark Drasutis has been Chief Digital Officer at Insurance Australia Group Limited since October 2017.

Mr. Drasutis has a key leadership role within IAG’s Customer Labs to help build an organisation that is customer-led and data-driven across IAG and its brands including NRMA Insurance, CGU, SGIO, SGIC and WFI in Australia, as well as NZI and AMI in New Zealand. He has more than 20 years’ media and digital product experience.

He has led the digital product, platform, UXD, audience insights and innovation teams as Chief Product Officer of Digital at News Corp Australia.

He was Head of Innovation responsible for transforming News Corp Australia’s digital and innovation strategy and culture. He led a team at Yahoo! Europe, Middle East and Africa,  elivering engaging consumer experiences across a wide range of markets and platforms using data and customer insights to inform strategic business decisions.

Stuart is a highly passionate and motivated Information Technology professional with strong business acumen and deep understanding of core IT principles across multiple disciplines.

With a career that spans two decades and as has been primarily focused on the Information Security aspect of Information Technology.

Stuart’s experience ranges from some of the most simplistic systems and management, to some of the most complex. From low level technical engineering through to business leadership.

Stephen Haddad is an experienced CIO/CTO and Business Transformation Executive who has demonstrated his ability to drive strategic business growth over 20 years in Australia’s Media, Finance and Consulting organisations. Prior to this role, Stephen held CIO roles at Bauer Media, FujiFilm and senior roles within banking and telecommunications.

Stephen is responsible for all technology domains across SCA, including Business Systems, Corporate Networks and Infrastructure, Digital Design and Development, Audio Engineering Technology & Operations and Television Broadcast Engineering & Operations. Stephen also has management responsibility for the Project Management Office and Procurement functions.

Dan is General Manager of Innovation at TAL, Australia’s leading specialist Life Insurer, where he leads the innovation team including TAL’s Accelerator, Incubator and Data Lab.

Dan has been at the front line of corporate innovation for over 15 years, and has developed and launched everything from digital payments technologies to smart home products, and insurance chatbots, and even founded some of his own businesses along the way.

Dan is a published author – The Secrets of Big Business Innovation – with deep expertise in customer-led proposition design and delivering innovation in the corporate environment.

Adrian is senior data scientist at Airtasker where he’s built their machine learning pipeline and is responsible for building their machine learning products. He’s worked in the startup scenes in Sydney and the UK and conducted research in mathematics and machine learning out of Warwick University, Australian National University and Charles Sturt University. His research has covered neural networks, time series algebra, matrix analysis, complexity theory, machine learning, statistics and data science.

Adrian is senior data scientist at Airtasker where he’s built their machine learning pipeline and is responsible for building their machine learning products. He’s worked in the startup scenes in Sydney and the UK and conducted research in mathematics and machine learning out of Warwick University, Australian National University and Charles Sturt University. His research has covered neural networks, time series algebra, matrix analysis, complexity theory, machine learning, statistics and data science.

Declan Boylan founded Seven Consulting in 2002.

Seven Consulting are currently running Programs or managing Program Management Offices for CBA, NAB, Optus, Telstra , NBN, Woolworths, Lend Lease and twenty other major organisations.  Seven Consulting run over $3.0 b of strategic programs for our 25 clients and every client is a reference site.

Seven Consulting have a  100% permanent resources, 99.1% client satisfaction for 2017 and 97.8% staff satisfaction.

Prior to that, he has successfully delivered some of the largest and most critical business transformation / IT programs in Australia. Some of the clients that have engaged him as Program Director for their most complex programs include CBA, Westpac, DXC, Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Fairfax, Woolworths, P&O Group, Stockland and Unisys.

Ahmed helps solve organisations’ business and strategic problems by leveraging his multi/diverse-skilled domain in digital data, insights and technical expertise; and applying a strong business acumen and holistic thinking towards achieving commercially viable outcomes.

He enjoys problem solving by applying a well-structured and holistic approach and is enthusiastic in obtaining optimal business results within agreed time-frames as an opportunity to display his professional attitude, ethical behaviour and diverse skillset.

He completed his bachelors and post graduate in business, and holds an accounting diploma on a vocational level, and a leading-edge global digital analytics-focused industry qualification.

Michael Bryant is one of Seven Consulting leading Program Directors. He has worked extensively on delivering large scale, complex programs of work, with multiple vendors and solutions.

In recent times, Michael has been working on the digital transformation program using Scaled Agile Delivery methodology. He has been the Program Manager of multi-disciplinary teams (150+ resources) across several technology platforms and business groups for the Implementation of a transformation Program, replacing current legacy systems with SAP’s Health Insurance package. The Program involved a transformation of their Digital channel for customer services using Agile delivery methodology.

Ian Gibson is the Chief Commercial Officer and an Executive Director for SuperChoice Services Pty Limited and as such has seen the impact technology has on work practices and talent management first hand. He played an instrumental role in transforming the technology at the core of SuperChoice, Australia’s leading cloud-based superannuation management, Single Touch Payroll and clearinghouse platform He is Chairman of the Gateway Operators’ association, GATE, a Non-executive director of the Australia Business Software Industry Association (ABSIA), and a Non-executive director of the Gateway Network Governance Body (GNGB) where he also chairs the Security Committee. He has also held several senior executive and CIO roles, co-founded a boutique consulting firm and worked with several technology start-ups. Ian was a Partner in Accenture’s Strategy practice where he focused on business and IT-enabled strategy and organisational design. Ian is a regular speaker and has appeared on Sky News. He has authored over 50 publications; been twice nominated for Thought Leadership awards; in 2014 received 2 iAwards for innovation; in 2016 received an Architecture Award for Excellence and was awarded Top 30 Global Business CIO; and in 2017 was a finalist for the iTnews Finance CIO of the Year, a finalist for the NSW iAward for innovation, received an ANZ & Asia Pacific Architecture Award for Excellence (SOA category), and was awarded Top 20 ANZ & Asia Pacific Business CIO.

Gareth James is the Managing Director of Seven Consulting. Seven Consulting are currently running Programs or managing Program Management Offices for CBA, NAB, Optus, Telstra , NBN, Woolworths, Lend Lease and twenty other major organisations.  Seven Consulting run over $3.0 b of strategic programs for our 25 clients and every client is a reference site. Seven Consulting have a  100% permanent resources, 99.1% client satisfaction for 2017 and 97.8% staff satisfaction.

Gareth has lead long lasting business transformation at scale with responsibility for budgets upwards of $500m and teams sizes of 1000+,  he has successfully delivered outcomes across 48 countries. He excels in developing and championing transformational change including the redesign of operating models, he has played a leading role delivering outcomes across business process improvement, improved performance management all underpinned by the delivery of new or remediated technologies. Gareth is particularly passionate about how customer insight can be leveraged to drive improvement in both transactional customer experience and the overarching experience.

Jane Livesey currently leads PwC Australia’s Technology Consulting practice, a team of 500 technology and cyber professionals who deliver technology advice and services for many of Australia’s largest organisations. Jane is a member of PwC’s CEO and Consulting leadership teams. She enjoys the challenge of evolving the technology group in response to market demand, and setting the Technology practice on the path for future growth. Jane’s passion is to provide the best place for her team to work, and help clients meet their business aspirations.
Prior to PwC, Jane was the Managing Director at a large system integrator for 12 years. In this role she developed and led large technology practices in Australia and Asia Pacific. She was also the overall Delivery Executive for programs including the National Broadband Network, Fuji Xerox, NSW Government Departments including human services agencies, Leighton and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Jane has also held senior industry positions including time in product marketing for a Silicon Valley software company. Her experience spans the Communications, Financial Services, Resources and Public Service sectors in locations such as the US, United Kingdom, France, Korea, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

Matt leads PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology Strategy practice in Australia, with responsibility for helping clients understand the impact of technology on their business and navigating the journey and transition to a future technology state.

Matt’s background and experience is anchored in cloud computing, technology strategy and delivery of large transformation and systems integration projects. Originally from Australia, Matt has spent the majority of his career based in London working across UK and European clients.

Prior to joining PwC, Matt led the global Cloud practice for Accenture and was a Managing Director in Accenture’s Information Technology Strategy practice. He was also responsible for delivery and account leadership at a number of key clients in the United Kingdom.

Matthew has also worked for IBM and Arthur Andersen. Matthew holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computing and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Accounting and Law) from the Federation University, Australia.

Born to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter of 77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC. Dom has responsibilities spanning 7 global R&D centres, and is our in house “Team Doctor” helping Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective, with one eye on the future. Dom helped pioneer our Team Playbook and has personally run hundreds of sessions with our teams globally. He has previously been the GM Program Management for a global gaming company and a Director of Deloitte. Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, the home of the most intelligent t-shirt wearers in business, as the Work Futurist. A keen traveller, Dom has traversed over 50 countries so far, but after 15 years on these shores, he calls Australia home.

Clive Astbury is a Sales Engineer for Snowflake Computing in ANZ. Clive has worked in the data and analytics space for nearly two decades, with pre-sales roles at Informatica as well as delivery experience on many data integration and data warehousing projects in Australia and Europe.

Assoc Professor Shanton Chang is an academic at the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems. He has has extensive experience in IT Education, and also in working with talent teams of companies that seek to place and hire IT professionals. His work on ensuring employability of IT students was recognised with the Australian Computer Society’s 2017 Award for ICT Educator of the Year. He is currently involved in teaching the Master of Information Technology Management (Executive) and the Master of Information Systems, where he is helping to develop the next generation of IT talent. He is also an established researcher in the field of information needs and behaviours.

Kayhan is an Account Executive at Darktrace. Based in Sydney, Kayhan works closely with CISOs and IT experts to understand their unique security challenges. He is responsible for working with organisations to address how Darktrace’s award-winning Enterprise Immune System can be deployed across diverse digital environments.

Kayhan has 11 years of experience in the tech industry, and holds a Bachelor of Psychology from Macquarie University.