Speakers

Sushmita Ruj is Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney. Her research interests are in applied cryptography, blockchains, cybersecurity and data privacy. Before joining UNSW, she was a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, an Associate Professor at Indian Statistical Institute and an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Indore. She was a visiting researcher/faculty at NTU, Singapore, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan, INRIA, France, Kyushu University, Japan and intern at Microsoft Research Labs, India. She received her B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India and master’s and Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, India, all in Computer Science. She was a member of the “Blockchain For Cybersecurity” working group of the National Blockchain Roadmap of Australia and the Blockchain working group founded by the Reserve Bank of India. She has collaborated with researchers across five continents and has delivered over 85 technical lectures around the world. Sushmita serves on the Editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) and Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). She served as a Program Co-Chair for ACISP 2021 and Indocrypt 2019. She won best paper awards at ISPA 2007, IEEE PIMRC 2011 and IEEE ANTS WIE'17. She received Samsung GRO award, NetApp Faculty Fellowship, Cisco University Research Grant, OCSP grant from IBM Research. Sushmita is a Senior member of ACM and IEEE. More details can be found on her Homepage: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/sushmita-ruj

Simon leads business development globally at Vauld. Vauld is a global crypto yield, lending, and trading platform, with market leading UX design and customer service. Prior to joining Vauld, Simon was Asia Lead and Head of OTC Markets at Celsius. He is Vice Chair of the ACS Blockchain Committee, and a Global Expert with the Blockchain Founders Fund. He has interned with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge University's Judge Business School, and spent two years at the Australian Consulate in New York, where he worked with two crypto unicorns throughout 2020, on their Australian market entry strategies, and ran Australia's trade mission to Consensus 2019. He holds an MBA from AGSM, and a Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon.

Corien Vermaak started her career as a technology law specialist within the telecommunication space and soon fell in love with Data Privacy and the legal structures governing Cybercrime. In her career, Corien specialised in Cybercrime legislation and Data privacy while representing large multinational on these matters. She holds a master’s degree in law specialising in Cybercrime and Data privacy. She has been involved in the writing of legislation in this regard as well as consulting to Africa Union and Interpol on issues relating to Cybercrimes and privacy. Corien is a Qualified Digital Forensic Auditor, Lead ISO 27001 auditor and C|CISO. She has used her lab and investigative experience to instruct and develop training focused on educating children on the dangers in the digital world. She has been running a pro-bono campaign educating over 52 000 children on cyberbullying and digital privacy. Corien is one of the global heads of Cisco Woman in Cyber Security and has been both an executive and non-executive board member for Woman in ICT.  Corien is currently a Security Architect for the Cisco Security center of excellence in APJC where she leads CISO advisory and market leadership projects.

NFT’s bring a layer of democratic empowerment previously not seen. The layer of full auditability, transparency and accountability together with the programmability of money through De-Fi (Decentralized finance) presents new blended business and finance models that open up: - mainstream audiences to permanently confirm ownership of collectible digital assets. - struggling creatives, so often ravaged by digitisation, to seize a fresh landscape of new opportunities. - publishers and producers to breathe fresh air into tiring models and - disenfranchised communities to express their powerful, artistic voices more effectively, secure in the knowledge that the financial transactions are secure, transparent and auditable.

Experienced Cloud Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in AWS Cloud Computing, Hybrid environment and Automation, Citrix Design and Implementation, Windows Infrastructure, Cisco Networking, Storage Area Network (SAN), VMware ESX, Linux System Administration, and IT Service Management. Strong engineering professional with a Master’s Degree focused in Network Computing from Monash University.

Pankaj is senior data scientist at EY experienced working in mining, retail, telecommunication and professional services industry. He is a known name in the industry for his skills in Machine Learning,Deep Learning, Data Engineering, Open Source ML Implementations, and Cloud services.

“ Abhishek has led multiple process improvement, automation and digital transformation initiatives across business functions for various banking, insurance, retail, utilities and mining companies. He is experienced in evaluating business processes and developing reliable and scalable solutions that leverage Automation, A.I. and other emerging technologies. In his 9+ years of experience he has delivered 50+ process improvement and automation initiatives, setup 5+ innovation centers of excellence and led large scale digital transformation initiatives. Abhishek has co-authored a RPA industry white paper titled RPA Balanced Scorecard : Taking Intelligent automation to the next level”

Zubair Baig is an Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the School of Information Technology, Deakin University. His research interests are in the areas of cyber security, artificial intelligence, digital forensics, smart cities and the Internet of Things. He is a cyber security mentor, architect, researcher, analyst, course content designer, research supervisor, team leader and a public speaker. He has led and co-investigated complex and mission critical research projects in the past, and has an impeccable track record with; +95 peer-reviewed research publications, 2 US patents, >$2.5M of research funding across 12+ multidisciplinary research projects, supervision of 8 HDRs to completion, 25+ national and international keynote talks and editorial responsibilities with 3 international peer-reviewed journals. He was listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists in the Stanford University 2021 citation indicator report.

My name is Mohammed Tousif is working on OCR Technology and Process Automation for last 7 years, currently working for NAB.