ASIS NSW Chapter Breakfast - Security Insights

MEMBER BREAKFAST MEETING: 

SECURITY APPLICATIONS & IMPLICATIONS OF BIG DATA  

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

Dr. Ian Oppermann | CEO and Chief Data Scientist, NSW Data Analytics Centre

 Ian has 25 years’ experience in the ICT sector and, has led organizations with more than 300 people, delivering products and outcomes that have impacted hundreds of millions of people globally. He has held senior management roles in Europe and Australia as Director for Radio Access Performance at Nokia, Global Head of Sales Partnering (network software) at Nokia Siemens Networks, and then Divisional Chief and Flagship Director at CSIRO. 

Ian is considered a thought leader in the area of the Digital Economy and is a regular speaker on “Big Data”, broadband enabled services and the impact of technology on society. He has contributed to 6 books and co-authored more than 120 papers which have been cited more than 3500 times. 

And

Prof. Dali Kaafar, Chief Scientist, Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub

Dali Kaafar is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University and the Group leader of the Information Security and Privacy group at CSIRO Data61. He is also the chief scientist of the Optus-Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub. Prior to that, Dali was the research leader of the Data Privacy and Mobile systems groups at NICTA and Senior principal researcher at INRIA, the French research institution of computer science and automation. He received his PhD from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and INRIA in France where he pioneered research in the security of Internet Coordinate Systems.

Prof. Kaafar is the associate editor of ACM Transactions on Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems and serves in the Editorial Board of the Journal on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He published over 200 scientific peer-reviewed papers with several and repetitive publications in the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM, Usenix IMC and PETS. He received several awards including the INRIA Excellence of research National Award and the Andreas Pfitzman award from the Privacy Enhancing Technologies symposium in 2011.