Dr Ian Oppermann

Dr Ian Oppermann is an esteemed, leading expert in the Digital Economy with nearly 30 years of experience in ICT. He served as NSW's Chief Data Scientist from 2015 to 2023, where he chaired the AI Advisory Committee and developed a world-first AI assurance framework. Ian is an Associate Industry Professor at UTS, co-founder of ServiceGen, and a highly cited researcher.

Dr Catherine de Fontenay

Dr Catherine de Fontenay is a leading economist with extensive academic experience, having held roles at the University of New South Wales, University of Melbourne, Stanford University and New York University. She has served as a Commissioner of the Productivity Commission since 2019. While at the Commission, she has led research on Digital Technology in Healthcare, Measuring Healthcare Productivity, using Financial Mechanisms to Improve Hospital Care, and Young People’s Use of Private Health Insurance. She and Karen Dunn authored the Productivity Commission’s submission to the Department of Health and Aged Care’s review of Safe and Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Health Care.

Leah Mooney

Leah Mooney is a prominent expert in cybersecurity, data privacy, and compliance, with a focus on data breach incident response, high-risk technologies, and security issues in critical infrastructure. She specialises in minimising the privacy impacts of Generative AI and addressing the legal complexities of cyber breaches, with extensive experience managing high-profile incidents.

Dr Talia Avrahamzon

Dr Talia Avrahamzon is a social scientist and senior policy leader with over 20 years experience in social development and policy, across government, academia and not-for-profits, She has contributed extensively to public policy, research, and sector reform, with a focus on addressing institutional discrimination, and attitudinal, behavioural and systems changes to embed inclusion, rights and cultural safety across diverse sectors and systems. She is the Head of Policy and Advocacy at Research Australia.

Tracey Duffy

Tracey Duffy is an experienced leader in medical device regulation, with extensive expertise in overseeing the safety and approval of medical devices, including software and AI. Her career spans senior roles within the Australian Department of Health, private sector advisory positions, and international regulatory bodies, where she has contributed significantly to shaping global practices in medical device safety.

Marina Yastreboff

Marina Yastreboff GAICD MAICD is the President and Chair of AUSCL Australasian Society for Computers and Law – a think tank focused on promoting the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals at the intersection of law, innovation and policy.

She is admitted as a solicitor in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and has held several senior roles including within UNSW, Philips, Lafarge Holcim and Ernst & Young, specialising in emerging technologies, governance systems and cross-border research collaboration. She is on several boards, including the Data and Digital Advisory Board for the Starlight Foundation and Advisory Board for Realta Logic, a leader in global regulatory digital twin compliance systems.

Dr Emily Kirkpatrick

Dr Emily Kirkpatrick is an experienced healthcare executive and non-executive director in both the public and private sectors. She leads digital and transformational change through her consulting company as Managing Director of the EKology Group. Emily has fellowships in primary care, public health, clinical governance, and medical administration and has previously led statewide reform in South Australia. She is a senior clinical lecturer at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and a Board Member of the South Adelaide Local Health Network, combining her passion for health system ecosystem navigation with her embrace of innovation through machine learning capabilities.

Sallyanne Wissmann

Sallyanne is a Health Information and Information Management Executive Consultant with over 30 years’ experience as a leader in health information management in the public and private not-for-profit healthcare environments in Australia and New Zealand. Sallyanne is a fellow and life member of HIMAA, a Certified Health Information Manager (CHIM), a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA), and an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (AFCHSM).  Sallyanne has previously served as the IFHIMA Western Pacific Regional Director, during which time she served on the IFHIMA Board. 

Mitch Redshaw

Mitch is a cyber risk and readiness professional with 14 years’ experience. He brings a wealth of background across State, Federal Government and critical infrastructure cyber security consulting in cyber crisis management, cyber exercise delivery, strategy and threat intelligence. Mitch regularly works within Australia’s healthcare sector to help healthcare organisations better prepare for incidents, understand what could go wrong, interpret their threat landscape and better manage their cyber risk exposure. As a former global cyber crisis management, planning and exercise lead with a top-5 worldwide consulting firm, Mitch has worked with many organisations across all continents. Mitch’s key experience includes:

• Leading the development of Australia’s national cyber crisis arrangements, now used by domestic security intelligence agencies, via the National Cyber Security Committee and Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Leading the development of a nation-wide cyber threat intelligence system, noted in Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy
• Developed threat intelligence, incident management frameworks and exercises used by Government and critical infrastructure organisations during the 2018 Commonwealth Games
• Developing and leading multiple private and public sector cyber crisis exercises, including Whole-of-Government exercises
• Managing incident response efforts for private and public sector organisations experiencing cyber crises domestically and internationally
• Helping numerous large, complex organisations in private and public sectors to define and implement cyber security strategies, transformation initiatives and readiness uplift outcomes.