Program

14-16 October 2026
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

Browse the program and start planning your CyberCon 2026 experience across three days of keynotes, panels, workshops, and more.

Format
Location
Audience Level
Themes & Topics
Building Secure Technology
Hacking, Red Teaming
Law, Policy and Global Power
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
People, Culture and Workforce
Running Secure Operations
Breakout

When the playbook burns: AI accelerated incidents and the response gap killing Australian organisations

Ashwin Pal & Kaustubh Vazalwar
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Room 212/213
Running Secure Operations
Incident Response, Crisis Coordination and Recovery

An AI-augmented ransomware attack made a rehearsed incident response plan irrelevant within 90 minutes, exposing gaps regulators now penalise.

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Intermediate
Breakout

Who's accountable when AI acts with credentials

Ramon Rodriguez
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Room 216
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
Governing Autonomous and AI-Driven Systems

Identity frameworks built for humans fail when AI agents act autonomously with legitimate credentials, and this session maps that accountability gap.

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Intermediate
Breakout

Your website has a new front door: Generative AI wants in, and the attackers are already there

Jason Liu & Timothy McIntosh
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Room 217
Hacking, Red Teaming
AI/ML and Emerging Attack Surfaces

As generative AI crawlers and agentic browsers surge, websites need a framework to distinguish trustworthy automation from attackers using the same access.

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General
Breakout

Experts as a service: Crowd based forecasting for cyber risk quantificaiton

Samuel Keogh
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Room 218
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
Board Oversight, Assurance and Risk Appetite

Crowd-based expert forecasting turns distributed security knowledge into a calibrated, dollar-denominated risk signal for assets no scanner can reach.

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Intermediate
Breakout

Perception is not assurance: What validated assessments reveal about SME cyber security

Alladean Chidukwani
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Room 219/220
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
Cyber Governance, Ownership and Accountability Models

Multi-year research into validated SME assessments reveals a governance blind spot where self-reported confidence still substitutes for real cyber assurance.

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General
Think Tank

Beyond the credential: What Telegram knows about your company that you don’t

Jesse Hoppo
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Think Tank 1
Running Secure Operations
Threat Intelligence, Detection and Adversary Behaviour

Infostealer logs expose far more than usernames and passwords, including session cookies and SaaS access most security teams never think to monitor.

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General
Think Tank

Compliant, but still exposed: Rethinking OT cyber risk as an architectural problem

Praveen Gauravaram
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Think Tank 2
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
Cyber Governance, Ownership and Accountability Models

Using Colonial Pipeline and Stuxnet as examples, this session shows why OT risk increasingly comes from architecture and dependencies, not missing controls.

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General
Think Tank

The first 24 Hours: Checklists, choices and chaos in cyber crisis response

Jesse Pearce
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Think Tank 3
Running Secure Operations
Incident Response, Crisis Coordination and Recovery

Well-designed checklists for the first two, eight and twenty-four hours of a cyber incident turn chaotic decision-making into calm, coordinated response.

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General
Think Tank

Finding meaning in the signal: Why detection needs adversarial ground truth

Julian Brownlow Davies
Fri
 
16 Oct
12:35 pm
 - 
1:15 pm
Think Tank 4
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
Cyber Governance, Ownership and Accountability Models

Detection engineering should be driven by continuous adversarial simulation as ground truth, closing the gap between telemetry and real assurance.

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Intermediate

Lunch

Fri
 
16 Oct
1:15 pm
 - 
2:15 pm
Exhibition Hall
Break
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Exhibition Closes

Fri
 
16 Oct
2:00 pm
 - 
2:15 pm
Exhibition Hall
Break
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Featured

Anthropic CISO session with Jason Clinton

Jason Clinton
Fri
 
16 Oct
2:15 pm
 - 
2:55 pm
Plenary Theatre

Anthropic Deputy CISO Jason Clinton spent more than a decade at Google, where he led Chrome infrastructure security against advanced persistent threats.

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Keynote

Keynote with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Fri
 
16 Oct
3:05 pm
 - 
4:05 pm
Plenary Theatre

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and co-founder of the Open Data Institute, on where data and privacy are heading online.

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