Conference Schedule

Donna is a psychologist with 25 years experience in the neuropsychological assessment of patients presenting with a range of neurological conditions, including dementia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, brain tumours, stroke, and movement disorders. She obtained her PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology & Clinical Psychology from the University of Queensland in 2007, with her research focused on memory functioning in the perimenopausal period and the effects of hormone replacement. The first 15 years of her clinical career were based within the Neurology and Neurosurgery Departments of the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, before she moved solely to the private sector. She never ceases to be fascinated with the cognitive symptoms that patients present with in the context of their neurological conditions, or the resilience that individuals can show in the face of adverse health prognoses. Donna now combines her neuropsychology experience with her clinical psychology background, providing assessments, cognitive remediation interventions, and therapy to patients seeking to improve their cognitive functioning and psychological well-being.

Dr Kailas Roberts is a general psychiatrist and psychogeriatrician. He has a special interest in cognitive disorders and dementia assessment and management, though has an extensive experience in treating a range of mental health disorders. He received his medical degree from Leicester University in the UK in 1998. He has trained and worked in the field of psychiatry for over twenty years, both in the UK (London and Wales) and Australia (Canberra and Brisbane). He qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Psychiatry in 2009 and obtained a Certificate of Advanced Training in Old Age Psychiatry in 2019..

As Head of AI and Automation at Sekuro, I lead the design and delivery of AI-powered platforms and tools at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cyber security. I believe AI must be built with security and privacy as foundational principles, not as afterthoughts, and I champion that conviction across everything my team delivers. With nearly two decades of experience spanning infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, security operations, and executive leadership, I bring a rare combination of deep technical capability and strategic vision. My background across senior security leadership roles, including Director of Information Security, Senior Manager of Cyber Security, and Cyber Security Strategy and Architecture consulting, directly shapes how I approach AI risk, responsible use, and secure-by-design engineering. I remain a hands-on technical leader, contributing to system design, architecture, and code whilst simultaneously building and growing a high-performing engineering team.

Placeholder Speaker D designs large-scale security architecture programmes, with a focus on zero trust, identity, and measurable risk reduction.

Meghan Leigh is the State Clinical Research Manager for Icon Research in Queensland, leading teams that deliver oncology and haematology clinical trials across Australia. Passionate about improving patient access to innovative therapies, Meghan works at the intersection of research, technology, and patient care, helping bring tomorrow's cancer treatments to patients today.

Alex Tilley is a Cyber Intelligence and investigation guy with over 25 years of experience spanning the private sector and federal law enforcement. As the Australian Federal Police's first Senior Cybercrime Senior Technical Analyst, he specialised in unmasking and prosecuting sophisticated threat actors in global cybercrime and child protection. In his current role as Global Threat Research Coordinator at Okta, he leads law enforcement liaison efforts and drives critical threat research for the world's leading identity company.

Brendan is a security researcher and co-founder of Signal 11, with a background spanning web application, network, hardware, and embedded device security. His work focuses on finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in real-world systems, with a particular interest in connected devices and the security risks created when consumer and business infrastructure overlap.