Judges

Adrian Tembel is an economics and honours law graduate of the University of Adelaide. He began practising corporate and technology law in 1993 at his law firm Thomson Geer. He became a Partner of that firm in 1997 and its Chief Executive Partner in 2009. He is also a part-time Commissioner of the South Australian Productivity Commission and a Director of the Hackett Foundation.

Ainslie is an AI/ML Specialist at AWS, where she supports Australia's leading software companies in implementing cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions.

With over 25 years of research, entrepreneurial and technology leadership experience, Williams was the co-founder and former CEO of Qualie and Reel.Reviews, pioneering video-based research and UGC platforms based on proprietary machine learning algorithms.

Throughout her career, she has partnered with global clients across FMCG, FSI, Healthcare, and Technology industries, driving high-impact outcomes and earning recognition from major industry bodies as a thought leader in AI, research, and business intelligence.

Andrew Phanartzis is the visionary Director of Property Association, Australia’s boutique consultancy for residential developers. Under his leadership, the firm delivers end-to-end expertise—from site acquisition and strategic planning through creative marketing, sales execution, and ongoing property management—helping clients transform land parcels into thriving communities.
With more than 15 years’ hands-on experience alongside some of the nation’s largest master-planned communities, apartment complexes and house-and-land subdivisions, Andrew has contributed to more than $2 billion in residential projects across the East coast of Australia. His strengths lie in anticipating market shifts, innovating sales strategies, and unlocking hidden value at every stage of the development lifecycle.
A licensed real-estate agent and FS146-qualified financial planner, Andrew holds a BA in Human Resource Management and English from the University of New South Wales. He is celebrated for his unwavering professionalism, unrelenting work ethic and a client-first mentality that consistently delivers above-market returns

Ben has over 15 years of experience specialising in cyber risk, privacy, law, technology risk, insurance and dispute resolution.

Ben leads WTW’s Australia and New Zealand cyber and technology risk team providing insurance, advisory and consulting services to domestic and international clients. Ben focuses on helping clients understand emerging technology, exposure risks and developing responsive management, resiliency and business strategies.

Bob has been in the telecommunications industry for over 53 years having started as a PMG Technician in 1967. During that period Bob has had 5 successful careers. He has worked in a variety of roles with organisations like PMG/Telecom, Alcatel (formerly STC), Ericsson Australia and worked 31 years as founder, owner, dealer principal and CEO of TTGroup Communications incorporating SmartSpeak Solutions.
While he has held many chairman positions and directorships, at the moment Bob is Chairman of Azentro, a Voice Vision and Data Company after a merger acquisitions with Productiv Pty Ltd, VV Tech Pty Ltd, FleetLink Australia and as at 22/02/18 Data Mobility and Voice (DMV) in Adelaide South Australia. DMV are a Gold MITEL Partner and Calibre One based in Darwin and Adelaide.
In building Azentro into it’s 2023 profile Bob managed 6 merger acquisitions and 4 brand changes.
Bob is also a founding director of Sheldon College which his wife Dr Lyn Bishop founded in 1997.The college has 1600+

A highly experienced, committed and enthusiastic leader who can build and enthuse large teams delivering the most complex high value projects to time cost and quality in difficult political environments. I provide strong governance, leadership and strategic management with the application of well-developed emotional intelligence bringing the very best out of staff. I have successfully delivered programmes from multi- billion dollar aircraft carriers to smaller sustainment, asset management based projects in my two careers to date. I have chaired two successful Alliances, The Design Support Alliance (a multi- million dollar contract) and the Aircraft Carrier Alliance (a multi-billion dollar contract). In addition I was fundamental in setting up the new Warship Asset Management Agreement (a multi-billion dollar Alliance supporting the Anzac ships) signed 1 July 2016.
I am a dual-national (UK and Australian) with a current Australian security clearance. I am the proud recipient from Her Majesty the Queen an Order of the British Empire (for the recovery of HMS Nottingham’s grounding off the coast of Australia) and a Companion of the Bath (for services to the Royal Navy and in particular securing the New Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carriers).

At Docuscan Australia, we are using AI to facilitate the Elimination of Data Entry in finance and rental applications using patented Drag & Drop Technology.

Brett is a second-generation mortgage stalwart, having been actively involved in the Mortgage & Finance industry for over 30 years after starting his career working at the family-owned lender Interstar (now Advantedge). He then went onto to run the Stargate Group where he pioneered outsourced mortgage processing services by creating the first BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) operation for Mortgage Brokers and was instrumental in introducing the first Mortgage Broker CRM Systems in the early 2000’s, used by over 5000 mortgage brokers prior to its acquisition by then ASX listed Rubik Financial Limited (RFL).
Instead of moving off into the sunset, Brett set about using AI to build industry leading platforms for Brokers, Lenders and Real Estate Professionals using his vast experience to bring Drag & Drop Data Capture solutions to facilitate digital customer acquisitions.
He also serves as the current Board member of the FBAA to give back to the industry that has given him so much, to support a team that he respects and to help shape a better industry for all of its participants. He is passionate about meeting people and hearing their stories, but most passionate about helping them achieve their goals.

Craig Lawton drives Australia's AI transformation as AWS's Head of AI & Data Strategy, Public Sector. With 20+ years guiding government agencies and enterprises through cloud modernization, Craig's expertise spans generative AI, data science, and smart cities. A sought-after speaker at events such as World Cities Summit and AWS re:Invent, and co-host of popular podcast "Building a Better Geek," his rare cross-sector experience positions him uniquely to advance Australia's AI ambitions.

Dali Kaafar is the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Hub Macquarie University and is Full Professor of Cyber Security and Confidential Computing at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. Prof. Kaafar is also the director of the Cyber Range Training Centre (CRTC) and director of the Cyber Security Curriculum at the Institute of Applied Technology in New
South Wales. He is also the Founder and CEO of APATE Technologies, delivering solutions to disrupt the phone scammers business model. From 2017 to 2019, Dali was also the Chief Scientist of the Singtel Optus MQ Cyber Security Hub where he spearheads since then the research of over 160 academics across the university’s four Faculties on Data Security, Security of Cyber Physical systems, cyber governance and human-centric security. As the chief scientist of the Cyber Security Hub, he developed the Science Strategy of the Hub, a multi-disciplinary approach to Cyber Resilience, under which the Cyber Security Hub currently operates. From 2016 to February 2020, Dali has also been the founder and leader of the Information Security and Privacy Research group at CSIRO Data61, the Data and digital specialist arm of Australia's national science agency, with his position at MQ being partly funded by Data61, and prior to that the research leader of the data privacy stream in AI/ML Fundamental Science pla\orms at CSIRO. Dali fosters the culture of research excellence and impac\ul reputable science. The approach to Cyber Security in Dali’s research is underpinned by his vision of “Enabling Explicit Trust in the Digital Economy”. Within the school of Computing, Dali is also the director of the Information Security and Privacy research group.
Prior to that, Prof. Kaafar was the Group leader of the Networked Systems group and research leader of the Data Privacy and Mobile systems groups at NICTA from 2012 to 2016 (National Information Communication and Technology Australia) and Senior principal researcher at INRIA, the French research institution of computer science and automation. He received his PhD from the Polytechnic University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and INRIA in France where he pioneered research in the security of Internet Coordinate Systems. In 2011, he was also researcher at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto California where he led research on security and privacy of Information-centric Networking.
Prof. Kaafar is the Senior Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE T-IFS), and Editorial Board member of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Systems (IEEE TDSC) and serves in the Editorial and Advisory Board of the Journal on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He is the general Chair of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (petsymposium.org/) 2022 and co-chair of the Cyber Defence Next Generation Technology and Science Conference 2021.
He is also member of the Advisory Board of CORE (The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia) and is the Chair of the Security and Privacy field of research. Finally, since 2019, Dali is also New South Wales Cyber Ambassador.
Dali is a world class researcher, with an h-index of 45 and 6940 citations of his research work and an i10-index of 107 according to Google scholar. His research is well known and praised nationally and overseas for his pioneering contributions to Alternatives to passwords-based authentication systems, Security and privacy of Machine Learning and networked systems, and provable privacy
technologies. He published over 300 scientific peer-reviewed papers with several and repetitive publications in the prestigious IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), ACM SIGCOMM, WWW, NDSS and PETS. Since 2015, his research attracted over $36M external funding with solid research and development partnerships established with both Australian and US Departments of Defence (Dali’s defence-related research is funded at over $12M with US Army and Defence Science and Technology Australia), the Australian Federal Government, New South Wales Government, the Department of Foreign Affairs, Wesfarmers, HSBC, National Australian Bank, Fujitsu, Siemens, Singtel, AT&T, CISCO but also start-ups and SMEs translating research into applied technology deployed at production (e.g. Adaptive AI-driven micro-segmentation security policies with Ditno and Provably private Record Linkage techniques with IXUP ltd).
He is recipient of several prestigious awards including the Highly Commended University-level 2021 Research Excellence Award, The Jim Piper Award for Excellence in Research Leadership award in 2021 by Macquarie University Sydney, INRIA Excellence of research National Award in 2010, and the Andreas Pfitzman award from the Privacy Enhancing Technologies symposium in 2011. In 2019, and 2022 he has also been awarded the very prestigious and selective Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Professorial fellowship Award.
Since November 2016, Dali has led the Information Security and Privacy Research which evolved to become a Trusted Advisor for Commonwealth entities. The group consisting of 30 researchers has established a very solid and strong relationship with several State and Federal Government agencies with significant contributions to the Federal Government Open Data initiative with Prime Minister Cabinet (PM&C). Dali Kaafar has led over 50 Security and privacy risk assessment projects undertaken by the group for diverse data assessment use cases, delivering Re-identification Risk Metric and security and Re-identification Risk Reports for the Department of Social Services, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Department of Veteran's Affairs, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Australian Public Service Commission, Transport for NSW, Australian Taxation Office. Dali Kaafar also led the development and open release of the social security payments dataset on Dataverser (available on the Australian Data Archive as the PIA dataset) with provably private properties. Prof. Kaafar was the lead investigator in the world’s first release of Provably Private High dimensionality Transportation data in collaboration with Transport for New South Wales.
Dali is currently the lead Principal Investigator of several Defence projects, including the very prestigious AUSMURI / MURI (Military University Research Innovation) Program with a US/Australia 5- years joint project awarded $13M to develop “Robust Human-AI Cyber Teams” in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, UPenn, University California San Diego and University of Wisconsin from the US side and University of Melbourne and Macquarie University from the Australian side. Prof. Kaafar is also the lead investigator and project lead of the “Rapid Malware Triage in Military Platforms” project (2021-2025) funded by Department of Defence Australia with MQ Cyber Security Hub recognized as the preferred member for the Defence Research network under the Defence Science Partnerships. In 2022, he has been awarded a 3 years $720K research grant from the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) to develop techniques to combat global phone scams using conversational AI. In 2023, he was awarded a $2.35 million grant from the Australian Federal Government for the project ‘Develop a Cross-disciplinary Cyber Security Workforce Training Program’. He is also the leader of the $12M co-investment project between Singtel Optus, Australia’s second largest telecommunications provider and Macquarie University. In 2015, Dali has been part of the European Commission Article 29 Data Protection Working Group, the advisory body that has developed the early recommendations for the EU GDPR regulation on data anonymization.

Drew is an award-winning Writer, Speaker, Financial Adviser & Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging advocate. He specialises in supporting business owners and their families to protect and provide for what matters most in their lives.
His company’s speciality brand Unusual Risks Insured, is the first Trauma Informed Organisation (TIO) working in Australian Financial Services.
He’s been recognised and awarded by non-industry bodies for his use of technology to connect people and businesses and his call for needed proactive anti-discrimination, inclusive & belonging practices in Australian Financial Services.
In his free time Drew works to mentor new businesses and support high-performing LGBTI+ young adults completing higher education to reach their full potential.

Emyr has spent over 25 years in the Data, Analytics & AI area with proven experience in leading teams, functions and initiatives across several industries
and cultural boundaries. He has led delivery in all aspects of Data, Analytics & AI across business, technology and governance, and has a passion for
enabling organisations to utilise data and analytics as a strategic asset.

With executive leadership experience at multiple major institutions including ANZ, Macquarie and Resolution Life, Emyr has proven success in AI and
Data transformation enabling the organisations to realise their data driven and digital visions by uplifting capabilities enterprise wide – incl. people,
process, technology and data.

Emyr thrives in working collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels including business, technology, vendors, board and regulators.

Jason is the Director of Broker Essentials and is Australia’s leading Mortgage Broker Mentor and sort after media commentator. In 2016 Jason foundered Broker Essentials and launched a training program for brokers after years of inquiries into the best practices and habits of a high-performance business.

Jason was named 2021 Mentor of the Year at The Adviser Better Business awards, 2021, APAC Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 - Financial Services, ABA 2020 Mentor of the year, and AMA 2020 Service provider of the year. He was the Managing Director of The Australian Lending & Investment Centre (ALIC) and has been instrumental in taking ALIC to the forefront of the mortgage brokering industry. In 2014,15,16 and 2017 ALIC was voted the top independent brokerage of the year by Mortgage Professional Australia, Australia’s best brokerage in 2014 & 15 at the Australian Mortgage Awards and MFAA in 2016 and 2018.

Jason has over 30 years’ experience in the finance sector, having worked in senior sales, distribution and management roles for ANZ and having provided financial advice and services on behalf of financial planning, equity trading platforms, private banking, lending and retail distribution brands.

More details can be found on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-back-broker-essentials/ and at Broker Essentials www.brokeressentials.com.au

Joseph Catanzariti AM is a Vice President of the Fair Work Commission, the national workplace relations tribunal.
Prior to his appointment to the Fair Work Commission, Joseph was a senior Partner of Clayton Utz and Practice Leader of the Workplace Relations, Employment and Safety Practice Group. Joseph was a trusted adviser to many of Australia’s leading companies and government departments. Joseph was also a highly experienced Commercial Litigator.

Joseph is a Visiting Professorial Fellow of the School of Law and the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business at Sydney University.

Joseph is the Chair of the College of Law.

Joseph is also co-author of Workplace Bullying published by LexisNexis.

He has previously held the positions of President of the Law Council of Australia, President of the NSW Law Society, Chair of the Workplace Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales (2000 - 2013), and Secretary of the Industrial Relations Society of Australia (1997-2011).

Joseph was awarded Life Time Recognition, Industrial Relations Society of Australia / Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association 2011, and the Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales in 2015.

Joseph is a fellow of the Academy of Law.

On 26 January 2016 Joseph was made a Member of the Order of Australia.

Kim Chandler McDonald is a globally respected thought leader in disruptive innovation, transformational trends, and strategic foresight. As the visionary Co-Founder and CEO of 3 Steps Data she has led her company to the forefront of technological advancements in cybersecurity, data sharing, observability, and governance across disparate systems.

Kim is a board member of and the Global Vice President of the Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN), the Paris-based, multidisciplinary, international trust network of cyber professionals. She drives the organisation’s strategic growth, community engagement, and leads its Combatting Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Violence initiative.

A sought after keynote speaker, Kim is an acclaimed advocate, activist, lifelong storyteller and award-winning author. Her, latest work, ‘An Interviewer’s Guidebook - Turning Conversations Into Captivating Stories’, joins her other titles: ‘Innovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World’, ‘Flat World Navigation: Collaboration and Networking in the Global Digital Economy’, and ‘Postcards From Tomorrow’ (with all proceeds from Postcards going to Lou’s Place, Sydney’s only daytime drop-in centre for female victims of domestic abuse and coercive control). She is also the co-author of ‘Entrepreneurial Renaissance: Cities Striving Towards an Era of Renaissance and Revival’.

As the Head of Data and AI for Australia and New Zealand at AWS, Mark helps Australia’s largest organisations leverage the latest technologies in these fields to drive innovation, increase efficiency and reduce costs. With fourteen years’ experience at Amazon, and a twenty-eight-year history of solving customer’s technology and business problems, Mark is passionate about the customer experience and forging long term partnerships.
Mark has an extensive sales and infrastructure background, including having previously worked as a Client Systems Manager at IBM, specializing in Storage, Unix and x86 Technologies as well as diverse experience at solution providers in the Engineering field. Mark holds an Honors Degree in Science from Otago University.

As Director of Encore Advisory Group, Mark is well known in the Advice industry and is a highly sort after trainer, educator and coach. Mark has worked with numerous mortgage broking and financial planning businesses enabling them to undertake the key important action of building a successful client advice practice, for the long term.

In 2017, after decades leading Wealth, Broking and Advice businesses, Encore was reimagined to better serve and prepare brokers and planners for the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. Encore believes a better advice business means a better industry and therefore a better community.

Mark delivers practical, real-world solutions helping businesses navigate today’s complex environment whilst providing essential advice, helping to improve the quality and value of their business. This is achieved through partnerships with the right people and solutions thus enabling practices to deliver increasingly valuable advice to more clients.

Believing every Australian deserves advice on “both sides of the balance sheet”, Mark successfully built a mortgage broking business that partnered with over 200 financial planning practices and accounting firms, delivering advice services to over 5,500 Australian families a year.

Mark is known as a leading authority in bringing together Broking and Planning groups to deliver integrated “debt advice” and “broker planner” solutions. He is dedicated to this community as an SME owner himself. Mark is himself a consumer and advocate of Advice services and has led and steered advice businesses successfully through market, regulatory and consumer change and disruption for over 20 years.

Michael commenced his career as an advertising executive with The Countryman Newspaper (West Australian Newspapers) and later Community News Group working with advertising agencies and strategic partnerships. He transitioned to online marketing with the launch of Australia’s first online business directory, listed on the ASX.

Has held senior executive and director roles in private and public companies across advertising, business services, membership, not-for-profit, publications, and technology organisations.

Experienced industry awards judge and regular presenter and contributor to various organisations and publications such as Australian Owner Manager, Lexology, and Momentum Media.

Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng, Head of the School of Computing, is renowned for his work on advancing web technologies. He has received recognition for his contribution to web service composition and his management of the ‘future web’, when billions of IoT (Internet of Things) objects will be connected to the Internet.

Distinguished Professor Sheng has been the successful recipient of 16 ARC grants valued at more than $10 million, including an ARC Future Fellowship awarded in 2014 and an ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub in 2024. He also received the AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in IoT in 2019 and the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution in 2012.

In January 2022, Distinguished Professor Sheng was elected Vice Chair on the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing, while he has served on the Technical Advisory Board of the Internet of Things Committee of Australian Computer Society since January 2019.

Olivier leads AI at Amazon Web Services for Australia and New Zealand. He helps drive alignment between business, technology and data team to deliver great customer experiences, operational efficiencies, and new products and services powered by AI. Olivier started his career as a data scientist. He has led cross functional product, engineering and AI teams.

Dr Paul Scully-Power is an integrator, strategist and orthogonal thinker and is Australia’s first astronaut. He has a unique international background in Industry, Government, Defence, Space and Academia in the US, UK, Australia, and NZ, and is well known for his network of people and institutions around the world. A leader in applying technology, he has broad expertise in national security & intelligence, aviation & aerospace, cybersecurity, remote sensing, and systems analysis & ICT. He is currently engaged in AI (national iAward for innovation), UAVs, microsatellites, smart sensors, nanotechnology and big data analytics.
Dr Scully-Power has led many high-tech, defence and security programs. He held executive appointments under Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, and was Deputy to the Associate Technical Director, US Naval Undersea Warfare Center, where he held the US Navy Distinguished Chair of Underwater Acoustics He was a Research Associate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Chairman of Membership of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, President of the Fort Trumbull Federal Credit Union, and served on the Universities & Colleges Accreditation Board and the US Office of Naval Research.
Dr Scully-Power qualified for very high altitude full pressure suit flying at Edwards Air Force Base, and was a flight crew instructor in the NASA Astronaut Office, Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, where he became Australia’s first astronaut flying aboard Challenger on the 13th mission of the Space Shuttle

Peter Lynch is a leader in Professional Indemnity Insurance in the real estate, valuation and management right industry sectors.
He boasts over 30 years’ experience with Aon Risk Solutions and as the Client Manager is responsible for developing new business within the real estate sector including the identification of business opportunities with franchise groups and other stakeholders.
He took a significant role in providing advice and support to introduce a Real Estate specific indemnity insurance scheme and is responsible for the highly successful REIQ/REINT schemes which he coordinated with the assistance of industry, lawyers, underwriters and claims staff.
Peter has a strong interest in promoting safe and quality business practices in real estate and has been a regular contributor to course materials, presentations and editorial submissions. He has been called upon to be a guest speaker at training forums for the REIQ, REIA, REINT, REIWA and various franchise groups.
Peter also provides individual Risk Management training to a number of his Franchise Group clients.

Dr Rahat Munir is a Professor and Head of Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University. He is FCA, FCPA and PhD. For over 30 years Professor Munir has been at the forefront of initiatives that have positioned organisations to support significant development and change. He is internationally renowned for curriculum development, pioneering innovative learning and teaching (L&T) practices, Micro Credentials and academic standards (including TEQSA and Australian Qualification Framework), Accreditation (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, Professional Accounting Bodies), student experience and research. He has played a pivotal role in creation of research and teaching collaborations with professional accounting bodies, Universities in China, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Europe. He has served on the panel for Faculty/Course Reviews of various Universities in Australia and New Zealand.

His research is across management accounting and controls and related subjects. He supervises Master of Research and Ph.D. students. His research interests include from management accounting systems, performance measurement systems, CSR, corporate governance, and management control systems. He has published in leading international journals as well as presented at international conferences in many parts of the world. He is affiliated with several professional bodies including the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Professional Risk Managers International Association, USA, American Accounting Association and European Accounting Association.

Professor Munir serves on various high-level Committees and Advisory Boards. Professor Munir has also served on the TAFE NSW Higher Education Academic Board. He has served as guest editor and referee/scientific program committee of various international journals, and organised conferences & workshops. He has been invited for Keynote lectures and Policy presentations in international conferences and public sector institutions. With his strong engagement with industry, he leads CFO Forum, Industry Academic Series, Thought Leadership and Business Leaders Roundtables.

Professor Munir’s sustained excellence in teaching and research has been recognised through international and national awards, including:

2 x Macquarie University Vice Chancellor’s awards for developing programs and outstanding contributions to student learning,
Dean’s teaching excellence award,
2 x CPA Australia’s award for achievement in academia, and
Business/Higher Education Roundtable Award for excellence in accounting teaching collaborations.
Professor Munir's contribution has also been acknowledged for his projects in 2015 and 2021 for the Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards at the University of Pennsylvania in the Nurturing Employability Award category for the most innovative pedagogical approach to learning and teaching. He has served on the judging panel of the Momentum Media and Accountants Daily’s Australian Accounting and Australian Digital Technology and 30 Under 30 Awards. Professor Munir's case study - The Ethics of Profit in the Australian Retail Industry was amongst the top 4 teaching cases globally by the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington DC for the ‘Best Teaching Case Studies Award’ competition.

Thomas Green is a co-founder of Neumann Space where he served as a research and policy analyst and in-house counsel for almost five years. He is currently a Project Manager in the Emerging Technologies branch of Transport for NSW and is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, the Royal Society of NSW and the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.

Thomas is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Wollongong on the regulation and enforcement of new technology — specifically concerning access to space by commercial and non-government entities.

Thomas has also previously worked on software projects and start-ups related to machine learning, worked in private equity, served as a Ministerial Advisor on emergency services and road safety, and was a business coordinator for the COVID-19 response team for Transport for NSW during the COVID outbreaks in NSW throughout 2020 and worked in the private sector as a Quality Manager through 2021 managing the design, development and production of novel COVID-19 testing kits to improve pandemic management responses and patient outcomes.

Troy Swan is the Group General Counsel and Board Member of the $1.3 billion office products company Winc. Winc was formed following the acquisition and merger of Staples, OfficeMax and Corporate Express in Australia and New Zealand by leading US based private equity firm Platinum Equity.
He has been publicly recognised as one of Australia's leading corporate lawyers and was previously an Australian Lawyer of the Year and an Australian General Counsel of the Year triple finalist. He was also the Association of Corporate Counsel Global Member of the Year, from over 43,000 lawyers worldwide, with this being the first time this honour was ever awarded to a lawyer outside America.
He became only the second Australian lawyer to win the International Value Champions Award in San Francisco and was also named the Association of Corporate Counsel Winner for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility.
Known for his business judgement, he is highly active within the legal and business community, being named a Judge at the Australian Law Awards, New Zealand Law Awards, Corporate Counsel Awards, Partner of the Year Awards and the 30 Under 30 Law Awards.
He is a long standing Member of the Law Society Corporate Lawyers Committee, is a regular commentator and speaker on legal and business affairs and leads an award winning legal team based in Sydney, Australia.

Warren supports customers in leveraging the value of cloud at scale, his focus is on identifying and overcoming blockers to adoption. Currently he is leading the roll-out of Generative AI services to enable enterprises to benefit from the new technology in a safe, responsible and effective manner.
Prior to AWS Warren was a General Manager at Commonwealth Bank of Australia and was accountable for the digital transformation of a subsidiary bank in Vietnam which contributed to a 25% improvement in CIR and 10X increase in profit over 3 years. He was also involved in a number of other large transformation programs within the main Australian bank.