Leah Mooney
For more than 20 years, Leah has provided legal, regulatory, governance, risk and compliance services to corporate and government entities and not-for-profit organisations in a range of sectors. She is best known for helping organisations to understand data privacy, cyber security and technology risk and compliance, with a particular focus on responding to complex data breaches, security of critical infrastructure, countering foreign interference, and high-risk AI technologies.
Leah has worked as a director of a Big Four consulting firm and a special counsel in a top tier international law firm, in addition to senior in-house roles with a university and Australia's leading provider of identity theft and cyber incident remediation services.
Leah is the National Privacy Lead at the Australian Society of Computers and the Law and a member of the Queensland Law Society’s Intellectual Property, Data and Privacy Law Committee and Gen AI Courts and Dispute Resolution Advisory Group.
The risks boards should know about AI… but don’t
Treating AI as one monolithic risk category leads boards to apply generic controls that miss how differently AI systems actually behave, fail and expose data.
Silent to explicit: Why kinetic cyber risk is now a board‑level issue
Cyber incidents increasingly cause physical damage, and this session shows why boards need one unified approach to legal, insurance and response decisions.
Countering foreign interference and national security resilience in the age of AI
AI-enabled disinformation is accelerating foreign interference risk in Australia, and this session examines what national coordination is doing about it.
World-Class Speakers
Hear from the most influential leaders and experts who will discuss pressing issues and emerging trends in cyber security.
