AI in Cyber ANZ Online schedule

AI makes phishing, impersonation, and manipulation more convincing and scalable. It is critical to rethink traditional approaches to awareness and security uplift. This session explores how behavioural science can strengthen cyber resilience, trust, and decision-making in increasingly AI-driven environments.

As AI systems, agents, automation, and machine-driven processes expand, organisations are facing an identity challenge that goes far beyond human users. Explore how leaders are approaching non-human identity, access control, and trust in increasingly automated environments.

AI is now embedded across enterprise tools, SaaS platforms, and workflows, making blanket restrictions on public LLMs increasingly ineffective. Employees are building their own integrations, and AI capability is spreading organically through business systems.This session explores what modern AI governance looks like in practice, shifting from blocking to enabling with targeted controls, embedded safeguards, and scalable oversight across cyber, legal, and operational frameworks.

AI embedded capabilities rapidly enter the enterprise, organisations are facing growing challenges around visibility, accountability, and third-party risk. This session explores how cyber leaders are approaching trust, governance, and supply chain security in increasingly AI-driven ecosystems. 

AI is changing not only how data is used, but where it moves, who interacts with it, and how quickly it leaves traditional governance boundaries. As organisations adopt copilots, embedded AI tools, and autonomous workflows, leaders are being forced to rethink long-held assumptions around visibility, control, and accountability. This session examines the growing tension between innovation and protection in environments where data is no longer confined to predictable systems or workflows. 

AI is rapidly becoming embedded across SOC workflows, detection, and response, but many teams are still questioning whether it is improving effectiveness or simply accelerating complexity. Explore where AI is delivering operational value, and where expectations may be outpacing reality.

AI reshapes how organisations operate and decisions are made, challenging cyber leaders to think beyond traditional security playbooks. This panel explores how CISOs are balancing governance and risk thinking with innovation, leading teams through uncertainty, influencing business strategy, and maintaining human judgment in increasingly tech dominated environments.

• What tensions are emerging between AI-driven efficiency and meaningful human oversight?
• What leadership habits become more valuable as organisations rely more heavily on automation and machine-generated insight?
• How do security leaders avoid becoming operational gatekeepers and instead become strategic enablers in AI-driven organisations?

Panellists:

Arun Singh Tyro’s former CISO

Vijay Narayan CISO Mercy Health

Madhuri Nandi Head of Security Nuvei

River Nygryn CTO Command Ridge Virtual Asset Authority