Alex Adams
Group Head of Infrastructure & Operations, ANZ and Asia Pacific
Jetstar
Alex is an experienced leader and IT Executive with an exceptional track record of transforming departments and resolving issues within large scale IT programs. He has strong skills and broad experience in strategy led transformation of IT organisations and programs, building capability, minimising risks and improving productivity, outcome delivery and budgetary performance. Central to his work is the vision to design and implement IT programs and services that enable the broader business to achieve key objectives.
Alex’s career spans the Financial Services, Entertainment / Digital, Manufacturing and Government sectors, as well as Consulting, Professional Services and Vendor verticals. He has strong skills in building business aligned IT Strategy and Plans; Enterprise PMO (EPMO), IT Governance Framework and IT process definition, Project and Program management, Enterprise applications and infrastructure services build, IT service delivery and service management.
Leesa Addison 
General Manager Technology
CPL - Choice Passion Life
As General Manager at CPL, one of Australia’s largest disability services providers, Leesa sets the technology vision for delivering on major business transformation requirements and new market innovation in response to the comprehensive transition of the disability sector to a commercial market driven by the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) across Australia.
Leesa has extensive experience specialising in business transformation across commercial, not-for-profit and government sectors leading technology strategy to design and implement new technology ecosystems, building start-up environments and first to market solutions in response to business opportunities and challenges.
Andre Bertrand
Head of IT Risk and Security
SEEK
As Head of IT Risk and Security at SEEK Andre Bertrand is responsible for SEEK’s IT risk framework globally and its cyber security strategy and operations in Australia and New Zealand. Previously he served in a number of management and consulting positions across financial, managed security services, media and technology companies in the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom. Andre is a graduate of Swinburne University in Melbourne.
Mike Brett
General Manager ICT Infrastructure
Department of Human Services
Mike has had a rewarding career both in the Australian Public Service and the private sector. He joined the Department of Social Security in the service network in 1983. In 1985, he discovered the wonderful world of IT when he moved into the Department's Perth Computer Centre. In 1989 he relocated to Canberra to further his career in ICT. In 1998 he moved to the private sector in Adelaide with his then young family. He undertook a number of different roles ranging from technical delivery through to management of application development centres. He re-joined Centrelink in 2008 as the National Manager of the first Centrelink ICT branch to be located outside of Canberra. In October 2012, he commenced in his current position and was promoted in June 2013.
Mike has a Bachelor of Computing from Monash University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Adelaide.
In 2012 Mike moved to Canberra with his partner of 24 years and their (then) 14 year old son. His eldest son remains in Adelaide to continue his university studies. Mike's interests are photography, Australian Rules football, cricket and he has recently discovered the joy of bike riding.
David Carroll
Chief Technology Officer
City of Adelaide
Working for Adelaide City Council, David is charged with strategically investing in the technology and related infrastructure that is to deliver on the City's Strategic Plan 2020. Technology and infrastructure are fundamental cornerstones in driving Adelaide to become one of the worlds leading Smart Cities.
He has an insatiable passion for technology and ICT Infrastructure being done right the first time, working to ensure it delivers not only the business benefits, but also is as agile as possible whilst still performing well into the future returning benefits far beyond its original purpose.
The KISS principle, systems architecture and solution design - built for now and into the future are key underlying themes in his success.
Andrew Clark
Vice President Asia Pacific & Global Solution Architect
Moven
Andrew Clark is the Vice President for Moven in Asia Pacific, where he combines his years of experience from across the financial services, strategy and IT architecture. Moven is a NY based mobile banking start-up focussed on changing the banking experience. It is currently partnered with TD bank in Canada and Westpac in New Zealand. Andrew was formerly at a large financial services enterprise, and moving into Fintech allows him to speak with authority across aspects of agile, security, compliance, operations and integration.
Fintech is built on cloud native platforms where infrastructure is no longer seen as a bottleneck and can be securely stood up quickly at a low cost. Andrew is a technologist focussed 100% on delivering business outcomes and transformative customer experiences.
Julian Dabbs
Chief Technology Officer
Guzman y Gomez
Julian has spent over 10 years building systems that leverage new and existing technologies. He spent his former years in the finance sector building advanced cash forecasting systems for the major Australian banks before moving into the Food & Beverage industry.
Julian joined MICROS as the Product & Development Manager for eCommerce where he accumulated an extensive knowledge of the hospitality industry, in particular POS systems and the technologies which support them. He led a team of developers and consultants through several major eCommerce projects for clients such as Pizza Hut, KFC, Oporto, Red Rooster and The Coffee Club. Julian has since joined Guzman y Gomez as Chief Technology Officer to further drive innovation for their brand.
Rhys Evans
Delivery Manager, NAB Labs
National Australia Bank
Rhys Evans currently holds the position of Delivery Manager assigned to NBA Labs, his focus is on getting LABS Experiments to production with speed using new delivery techniques with an emphasis on getting more done with less. Rhys previously held the position of CTO at Thomas Duryea Consulting and was responsible for the development of all of TD’s Services across Cloud, Managed Services, Project Management and Delivery.
His focus is on driving customer adoption and implementation of solutions to enable agility and speed to market on new business initiatives. By working closely with the business and strategic vendors Rhys helps business realise outcomes sooner with an MVP approach followed by quick iterations . Prior to his role as CTO, Evans ran the Enterprise Information Systems division within TD, and this practice saw nearly 100% revenue growth year on year. Evans’ success is due to a strong commitment to ensuring that organisation’s business goals are translated into IT architecture to enable business, and are delivered with a focus on a simple and effective user experience.
Greg Gale
National Security Officer
Microsoft Australia
Greg is responsible for security leadership, supporting government and enterprise customers on compliance and risk assessment, and leading Microsoft’s initiatives in information security assurance, trusted cloud and secure mobility. Greg is also leading Microsoft’s contribution to the implementation and realisation of the Australian Cyber Security Strategy which was released in April 2016. Greg’s role entails collaboration with research, engineering, sales, marketing, legal and operational units within Microsoft as well as engagement with customers, partners and digital leaders within the Australian Government and community.
An incurable tech-geek who was using Windows 10 at home from the early days of the Windows Insider program, Greg has both a depth in technical security expertise and the capability to engage with senior security, IT and business executives. Over the past fifteen years Greg has specialised in Information Security within government and it's something he is deeply passionate about.
Greg joined Microsoft in February 2016 after an extensive career in the Australian Public Service. His previous roles include being the Information Technology Security Adviser for the Department of Defence, a number of Director level cyber security roles within Defence, and Executive Manager ICT Infrastructure for Western Australia Police. Greg has held a number of other roles in Defence and private industry including roles in the design, delivery and management of infrastructure and networks; security and risk management; training development and delivery; and as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
Greg is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) and the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Politics) and Masters of Capability Management.
Greg is married with two children and his passions, other than his family; include technology, off-road motorcycle riding, golf, squash and water skiing.
Cam Gough 
General Manager, Digital Delivery Centre
Auspost
Cameron Gough joined Australia Post in mid-2012 as the General Manager of the newly formed Digital Delivery Centre (DDC). Cameron is passionate about unlocking the enormous potential that sits in most organisations through moving to Lean/Agile delivery models.
The DDC was established as the proving ground for this drive within Australia Post, with the transformation effort now extending more broadly throughout the organisation. Prior to Australia Post, Cameron worked in strategy, delivery and consulting roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture, before moving to Head of Technology roles at ANZ’s Retail Bank and Commercial Bank.
Chris Gough
Director of Digital Innovation
Department of the Environment
Chris has 20 years of experience as a software developer, entrepreneur and Commonwealth public servant. In the last few years, his role went from Director of Platform Services at the Environment Department (responsible for operations of over 400 heterogeneous IT systems) to “Developer at Large” at the Digital Transformation Office, then back to the Environment where he ran the first Commonwealth Digital Transformation project to deliver 15 months ahead of schedule and 90% under budget.
Andrew Hatch
DevOps Manager
SEEK
Andrew is currently the DevOps Manager at Seek, overseeing a team of 12 people whose functions range from being embedded in Product Delivery Streams with the goal of driving better DevOps practices in development and testing, perform Level 1 support duties, manage our rapidly growing usage of AWS and assist in the delivery of projects aimed at improving Seeks platforms and services
Prior to Seek Andrew worked as a consultant for a number of years delivering small through to large scale IT solutions in a number of roles spanning across Architecture, Development, Testing, IM and DevOps. Andrew has worked both in Australia and India and built his first continuous delivery pipeline in 2009. Since then Andrew gravitated more and more into DevOps focused roles, due in part to getting bored with Architecture and Development roles and being more interested in the unique challenges DevOps presented with changing traditional work and organisation practices to deliver better IT solutions. Andrew has a real passion for working in dynamic, innovative and challenging environments and building high-performing teams of talented and unique people and still enjoys getting his hands dirty with code.
Craig Horne
Chairman
ACS Victoria
Craig is the Chairman of the Australian Computer Society (Victoria) and an Account Executive with Dialog Group, an Australian owned and operated large IT consultancy which specialises in custom software development, managed services for existing software and resource augmentation. He is a seasoned professional with over 25 years in the IT industry, 15 years of which were spent in technical roles spanning hardware, software, operating systems, databases, networks and peripherals.
Craig is currently studying a PhD part-time at UniMelb researching information security strategy in organisations. He holds a Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science from La Trobe University as well as a Master of Business Administration majoring in MIS and Entrepreneurship. He is proficient with vendor technologies such as Microsoft, CA Technologies, Cisco and various flavours of UNIX and keeps up to date by undertaking a minimum of 30 hours continuing education annually, as reflected in his Certified Professional status with the Australian Computer Society.
Luke Kendall
Technology Manager
CPA Australia
Luke has an extensive work history in running large teams across diverse computing and business landscapes. A twenty year veteran of IT Operations at some of Australia’s leading organisations, Luke has seen considerable changes take place in the IT landscape; from the introduction of the World Wide Web to today’s heavily interconnected world.
Passionate about effective IT Service Delivery in the enterprise, Luke has a Master’s Degree in Information Technology, is a Certified Business Continuity Professional and holds the CISSP designation.
Abbas Kudrati
Chief Information Security Officer
KPMG
Abbas has more than 15 years of experience with cross-functional sectors of cyber security, information security and information risk management, with skills in cyber security strategy, information security management, ethical hacking, cloud and BIG Data security, IT contingency planning, information system security auditing and compliance.
Abbas is a Senior ICT Security Professional with valuable international-scale experience across government, Big 4 consulting, banking, financial, manufacturing, oil and gas, telecommunications and education sectors. He is well versed in IT standards and frameworks, such as COBIT, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, TOGAF and ITIL.
Kevin Noonan
Lead Analyst, Government
Ovum
Kevin Noonan is the Lead Analyst for Ovum’s worldwide government practice, where he spends much of his time working with governments in many locations around the world. His specialist areas of research are IT strategy, digital government and executive leadership.
Kevin is a regular guest opinion page writer for three government magazines and these are syndicated throughout the APAC region. He is in high demand as a keynote speaker and facilitator with more than fifty events in the past year.
Before moving to the private sector, Kevin worked in a number of government departments where he held senior executive roles in industry, health, taxation and social services.
Drawing on 28 years’ experience in government, and a further 10 years as an industry analyst, Kevin brings unique blend of practical experience and independent opinion.
Hartley Olley
Head of Architecture, Governance and Infrastructure
AIA Australia
Hartley Olley joined AIA in late 2011 and has been in his current role as Head of Architecture, Governance and Infrastructure since mid-2014. Hartley has over 30 years’ experience in the IT industry primarily in the financial services area. Hartley’s roles have varied from mainframe operations and systems programming to architecture and strategy. More recently Hartley has been involved in the managed infrastructure services solution for AIA Group and piloting IBM Watson.
Rainer Rhedey
General Manager Information Technology Infrastructure, Operations and Enterprise
FairFax Media
Rainer joined Fairfax in 2008 starting originally in the digital side of the business running online operations, he then moved onto running the Technology team for the Metropolitan business in 2011, and more recently into his current role of GM IT as result of group wide centralisation across Technology in Fairfax in 2012.
He has over 17 years experience in the Technology industry ranging from running internal IT departments to managing professional services teams for systems integrators and software vendors. He has a strong passion for transformation projects and also driving operational excellence among all areas of Technology.
Helen Robson
Branch Head, Technology Infrastructure
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Helen Robson is the branch head for Technology Infrastructure at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Helen has 30 years of experience in ICT with a focus on delivering business benefit and driving change through the use of new tools and technologies. She lead IT delivery for the 2006 Census of Population and Housing delivering over 150 systems including the first Australia wide on-line form capability.
Helen has lead the adoption of new development methodologies, languages, platforms, business systems and now infrastructure practices. Current projects in the branch include full automation of the stack from network through to application deployment, micro-segmentation of the environment, virtual desktops for ABS staff to work from anywhere and a move of the ABS data centre.
Basile Sepsakos
Head of IT
United Energy and Multinet Gas
Basile’s 30 years of experience cover all aspects of technology including Strategy, Business Transformation, Project Delivery, Application Development, Services, Operations, Security, Information Management, Outsourcing and Off-shore services. He has established new IT functions and optimised IT across the banking, retail, tolling and utilities industries. As Head of Information Technology at United Energy and Multinet Gas, Basile has delivered an innovative and transformative multi-vendor on/off shore outsourcing model for all infrastructure and application services, which is considered by peers to be leading the industry.
Michael Simkovic
General Manager Strategic Accountants
ASG
Michael is a widely respected professional within the IS industry having successfully architected and overseen a key business initiatives that have contributed to ASG Group become Australia’s Largest listed IT company, where he has held the position of General Manager Strategic Accounts and Services since 2013.
Michael’s unique commercial and business acumen within the IT industry has seen him develop an unrivalled reputation for successful partnering across the IT sector, fusing the products and services of start-ups to multinational into lean and financially viable game changing enterprise environments for clients.
Key to his success has been his visionary placement of partners with clients looking to keep at the forefront of the ever-changing world of products and services. Forging trust and long standing relationships with Vendors, Product innovators, IT service providers and Clients alike he has reinvented what it means to place services and products into enterprises, forever changing the landscape of the traditional IT sourcing model.
Paramount to his approach is the dedicated focus on the business benefit\results that are generated and allowing customers to “bank” these through a committed commercially orchestrated and flexible models in a rapidly changing market landscape.
Katherine Squire
General Manager, Application Development and DevOps
ASX
Katherine was Executive General Manager at IRESS responsible for turning around the Financial Markets Products Division where she focused on building a strong, high performing team that could scale globally. She has extensive experience in product management, change management and information technology within the finance industry.
Katherine has also consulted to a range of financial institutions to deliver technical, business and compliance solutions. She is currently leading the DevOps charge at the ASX.
The ASX DevOps team have implemented a full Docker Platform to create containers (as a service). The team have containerised the Atlassian Tool Stack (“eating our own dog food”) and will be expanding to other ASX applications in the near future. Containers will significantly change the deployment and environment provisioning process.
Simon Smith
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Southern Cross Coaching & Development
Simon Smith is the CEO & Founder of Southern Cross Coaching & Development, a large multi-award-winning Leadership, Executive Coaching, Team & People Development company that uses the principles of applied neuroscience in all its services to deliver outstanding outcomes in the real world.
Trained as a coach by international neuroscience specialist Dr David Rock, Simon has over 30 years experience in leadership, coaching & consulting. Awarded as the International Coach Federation Australia Coach of the Year in 2013, he has also been awarded Owner/Manager of the Year NSW State Finalist in both 2015 & 2014 in the Australian Institute of Management Excellence Awards. Southern Cross Coaching & Development has been honoured as Regional Finalists for Excellence in Business Ethics for 3 consecutive years 2015, 2014 & 2013 in the NSW Business Chamber Awards.
Simon started his career serving as an officer in the British Royal Air Force for 10 years controlling air-defence fighter aircraft, including operational anti-heroin trafficking operations in Central America. Other experience incorporates national leadership roles in corporate HR and Coaching & Consulting businesses and work & travel through over 40 different countries, including living in Borneo & the Philippines for over 2 years running his own underwater videography, SCUBA -diving & marine research business. Simon is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
Rob Stocker 
Manager IT Infrastructure
Newcrest Mining
Rob is IT Infrastructure Manager at Newcrest Mining, responsible for the global build and run of digital ready cloud platforms, optimised networks, consumerised desktops, effective security governance, efficient managed services and site IT for Indonesia and West Africa sites. Between the UK and Australia, Rob has 15 years’ experience across Trade Associations, Oracle partners and Mining. Recent roles have included looking after an end-to-end delivery teams supporting critical front line services to back end platforms, running a managed services practice from product development through to delivery, and designing an effective enterprise security roadmap. He has a strong drive for jargon free customer engagement, challenging projects with stakeholders and business benefits as the centre of success, removing complexity out of complex operations and driving awareness and discipline through the use of facts and metrics.
Nicholas Tan
Chief Infrastructure Architect
News Corp Australia
Nicholas is currently the Chief Architect for Digital Infrastructure, Cloud and Cyber at News Corp Australia.
He is a passionate advocate of open and elastic software defined services to underpin the Digital Business agenda at scale. He is widely known as a leading Enterprise Technology Executive in Australia and has previously held senior strategy, execution and product engineering roles at KPMG, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and PwC Consulting.
Nicholas is also currently a member of the Megaport Advisory Council (megaport.org) with a key mission to foster community and drive initiatives that contribute to the future of the Open Internet.
Bernard Wansink
Chief Information Officer
Schiavello Group
Bernard Wansink, Chief Information Officer at Schiavello Group, has developed and managed innovative ICT strategies for more than fifteen years. As CIO, Bernie is responsible for the strategic alignment and management of the Group’s ICT strategy with the corporate vision, with a focus on strategic planning and development, organisational restructuring, change management and delivery of value to organisational operations.
Previously, Wansink was Chief Technology Officer at Schiavello Group. He holds an MBA in Technology Management, CPPD (AIPM), CRISC (ISACA) and PRINCE2 certification.
Emma Whitty
Vice President IT
Clough
Emma is widely acclaimed within the IS industry as a fearless innovator. She is driven by the user experience and the current trend in consumerisation of technology means that she is riding the perfect storm.
Moving from Melbourne to Perth in 2013 Emma has taken on the newly created role of Vice President of Information Systems (CIO) at Clough Pty. She has catapulted the renowned Engineering Company on a journey of transformation that includes Infrastructure as a Service, the set-up of an innovation retainer, the launch of a mobile app platform, and the introduction of scholarships to help drive change.
Emma’s experience with Information Systems spans multiple industries and includes iconic organisations such as Kraft Foods, Cadbury as well as the Australian Department of Defence.
Speaking opportunities are available!
Present your company, showcase your leadership and demonstrate how you can bring value to Australia’s top organisations by speaking to this senior gathering of IT professionals from across all sectors.
Use this unique forum to demonstrate how you can optimise an organisation’s IT infrastructure by reducing costs, delivering speed and offering simplicity.
Speakers will assert themselves as leading suppliers and solution providers to the sector.
Other ways to engage:
NETWORK
By having a prominent presence at the event you and your team will be able to meet with key professionals during the two day conference, networking lunches, coffee breaks, networking drinks and official event dinner.
EXHIBIT
Having a stand at the event will enhance your brand. This can be used to set up meetings and guarantee that fellow attendees will know where to find your company representatives to make onsite enquiries at the event.
BRAND
Make an impact and elevate your presence at the event by being branded as one of the Future IT Infrastructure Forum 2016 partners or session sponsors. You will receive extensive branding prior to and during the event and be remembered as a thought leader and premier solution provider in the industry.
HOST AN IN-DEPTH LEARNING SESSION
After the main conference there will be the option to host one of two post conference in-depth learning sessions. This is your chance to assign your own session leader and present content that showcases your expertise and solutions to a targeted, intimate audience.
Contact Deen Haniff on +61 (0)2 8188 7501 or deenh@questevents.com.au to find out how we can put you in front of a highly engaged and receptive audience.
You can also download a copy of the partnership prospectus here.