Australian Security Summit (AuSEC)

• Safeguarding and advancing Australia’s international and strategic interests in a rapidly changing environment  
• Strengthening and elevating new and existing strategic and economic partnerships  
• Advancing Australia’s national interests in multilateral organisations and standard-setting bodies  
• Working in partnership across the APS, industry and internationally – lifting our capacity to rapidly translate disruptive new technologies into ADF capability, and deepening diplomatic and defence partnerships with key partners in the Indo-Pacific  
• Assessing the opportunities, weaknesses and critical next steps to deliver the next phase of national security – sense-checking the infrastructure, technology, requirements and strategies to accelerate strategic advancement 

• Espionage and foreign interference – enhancing protection of sensitive information and early detection of ’insider threats’  
• Advancing the ability to collect, analyse, integrate, assess and disseminate intelligence with the accuracy, scale and speed required to support timely national security and intelligence decision making  
• Integrated information sharing – sharing data and information across agencies and jurisdictions to achieve smooth, whole-of-nation operational response  
• Leveraging data and intelligence to proactively identify threats vulnerabilities to national security – Embedding sophisticated, strategic insight into existing operations   
• Inter-Agency intelligence: Breaking down siloes for more sophisticated and detailed intel sharing  

Hans Koenderink, Assistant Commissioner, Intelligence and Covert Services, Australian Federal Police
Leanne Fry, National Manager (CIO), Innovation and Technology Solutions, AUSTRAC 
Rohan Samaraweera, Senior Director, Data Science Branch, Department of Home Affairs (pending final confirmation) 
Catherine Burn, Deputy-Director General, Capability, Corporate Management and Transformation, Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Tom Rogers, Commissioner, Australian Electoral Commission

• Mitigating cybercrimes against the Government, critical infrastructure, systems of national significance and those impacting the whole of Australian economy – unpacking 2024-2025 requirements to ensure robust protection   
• Cyber warfare, cybercrime, cyber espionage and cyberterrorism – How can we enhance detection capabilities and rapid response?  
• Cyber soldiers and the future of digital warfare – exploring emerging trends to inform security strategy  
• Navigating cyber security within the context of critical infrastructure  
• Enhancing and protecting the online integrity and security of Australia’s supply chain against international volatility and vulnerability

• Forecasting future technologies and sharing best practice to drive security uplift  
• Pinpointing weaknesses and opportunities for cyber uplift: What’s needed to progress into 2025 with confidence?   
• Establishing effective response plans to detect and act if a breach occurs  
• People as a fundamental pillar to national security – educating the workforce and public to uphold strong security practices  
• Raising public awareness to growing online threats   

 Nadia Taggart, CISO, Western Sydney University 
Philip Wagner, Director of Cyber Security, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Professor Helge Janicke, Deputy CEO, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre
Jorge Conde, PhD Fellow in Cognitive Warfare Science, ANU 

• Safeguarding data and sensitive information – uplifting the nation’s cyber resilience as a top priority  
• Powering national cyber resilience – how can we drive collaboration for stronger intelligence protection?  
• Monitoring systems for unexpected behaviors to protect sensitive information from falling into the hands of bad actors   
• Educating the workforce on strong security practice  
• Enhancing the ability for early detection of ’insider threats’  

Peter Anstee, First Assistant Secretary, Cyber Security Policy Division, Department of Home Affairs 
Jonathan Dean, CISO, Department of Defence 

• Assessing collaboration capabilities – what’s required to further this strength across federal and state agencies?  
• Revising and improve best practice – a whole government, system and nation approach – streamlining policy for greater understanding and compliance   
• Mastering collaboration: improving collective knowledge of emerging threats and risks; connecting to coordinate planning and prioritisation and leveraging each other’s capabilities  
• Collaborating for a comprehensive approach to due diligence: risk awareness, asking questions, transparency and accountability, and staying alert  
• People development: How can we continue to improve the growth and retention of a highly skilled Defence workforce?  

Justin Bassi, Executive Director, Australian Strategic Policy Institute 
John Blaxland, Professor of International Security & Intelligence Studies, Australian National University  
Michael Shoebridge, Former Director of the Defence, Strategy and National Security Program, ASPI and Founder, Strategic Analysis Australia