~ CISO Roundtable ~ Speakers & APAC media profiles
17 th October 2023 AISA Australian Cyber Conference 2023, Melbourne
Asian Business Review
Asian Business Review is the industry magazine serving the Asia Pacific's dynamic business community. Independent, incisive, authoritative, and with an experienced and dedicated team of seasoned journalists and expert opinions from market leaders, it is the definitive magazine for the Asia Pacific's business elite. The print magazine, offers fresh perspectives and ideas to guide its readers through the challenges and complexities of their businesses, providing opinions and analysis on all areas of business to improve performance. It covers in-depth issues and stories with a longer time frame. Its online arm, asianbusinessreview.com, covers daily news and stories from top Asian business markets with immediate relevancy.
Total combined print and digital audience reach: 124,671
Tessa Distor Managing Editor Asian Business Review
Tessa Distor serves as the Managing Editor and leads the editorial department at Charlton Media Group. This renowned publisher is behind prominent business magazine titles including Asian Business Review, Singapore Business Review, Hong Kong Business, Asian Banking & Finance, Retail Asia, Asian Power, and seven other distinguished titles. Before ascending to her current role, Tessa sharpened her editorial acumen as the company's Copy Editor.
Status 06 October – CONFIRMED for CISO roundtable: Due to fly into Melbourne on the 16 October
Network Magazine Taiwan
Network Magazine Taiwan, was founded in 1991, has built up unparalleled authority and leadership in our reports on network related market, product, technology, and trend. The Magazine focus on enterprise IT including the following area: Internet-based services, Security of System and Networking, Operation of Networking / Telecon / Storge / Developing. The Magazine gradually turned to be one of the most influential media in Taiwan and in the Chinese community for news, purchase reference, decision maker, management, and learning. She becomes an indispensable assistant to large, medium, and small enterprises for their total solutions in networking and computing.
Libraene Hsieh Editor in Chief Network Magazine Taiwan
Libraene Hsieh is Chief Editor of Network Magazine Taiwan. Libraene brings over 10 years of experience in IT media and had attend many critical events and interviews with global vendors and customers. Prior to joining Network Magazine Taiwan, he was with BuyMagazine.com where he served as director of electronic magazine. Before that, he was the editor of PC Computing in Taiwan.
Status 06 October – CONFIRMED for CISO roundtable: Due to fly into Melbourne on the 16 October
Saigon Times Group
Saigon Times Group , the leading media group in Vietnam with publications covering the economy, business and technology, both in English and Vietnamese. Publications include The Saigon Times Weekly, The Saigon Times Daily and Thoi bao Kinh t ế Saigon (in Vietnamese). Leaders, senior officials and specialists at state agencies at both local and central levels • Business executives and managers • Economic experts • Overseas businesses interested in the Vietnamese market Readers include: •
Saigon Times Group have over 200,000 readers.
Tran Thi Ngoc Hue Editor, Saigon Times Group & Chairwoman of the Board of Governors, Saigon Times Foundation As well as writing for the Saigon Times Group covering technology, new innovations and tech start ups, Ms Hue is also Chairwoman of the Board of Governors, Saigon Times Foundation overseeing their various philanthropic interests.
Status 06 October – CONFIRMED for CISO roundtable: Due to fly into Melbourne on the 16 October
Freelance
Rosalyn Page Freelance Journalist
Rosalyn is a freelance journalist with 20+ years covering technology and innovation. Rosalyn’s articles have been published in local and overseas newspapers, magazines & websites including, CSO, CMO, Which, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The South China Morning Post, and The Sun-Herald. Previously Rosalyn has held positions as a senior journalist and digital content producer at IDG and Choice magazine. Writing about technology trends and issues, as well as some product testing and reviews.
Status 13 October: CONFIRMED for CISO roundtable: Due to fly into Melbourne on the 16 October
Singapore Business Review
Singapore Business Review is the industry magazine serving Singapore’s dynamic business community. Independent, incisive, and authoritative, it is the definitive magazine for Singapore’s business elite. It is the only local business magazine in Singapore guaranteed to reach senior decision makers in the top 1,700 companies with combined sales of S$692 billion and 94% of listed companies.
Total combined print and digital audience reach: 835,767
Lady Jo-an Llorin Producer/Reporter Singapore Business Review
Lady Jo-an Llorin works as a producer and a reporter at Charlton Media Group. She is adept in producing video interviews, engaging with the most renowned analysts and business professionals in Asia Pacific. Beyond her core responsibilities, Lady Jo-an offers a multifaceted skill set that includes business interviews, writing, video editing etc for premier magazines such as the Singapore Business Review, Insurance Asia, and Asian Banking & Finance.
Status 06 October – CONFIRMED for CISO roundtable: Due to fly into Melbourne on the 16 October
Australian Associated Press
Australian Associated Press is the beating heart of Australian news. AAP is Australia’s only independent national newswire and has been delivering accurate, reliable and fast news content to the media industry, government and corporate sector for 85 years. We keep Australia informed. The reach is 141,000 unique monthly visitors.
Rachael Ward Reporter Australian Associated Press
Rachael Ward is a seasoned journalist with a rich and diverse background in the world of news reporting and production. With a career spanning over 11 years in the media industry, Rachael has consistently demonstrated her dedication to delivering accurate and engaging news to audiences across Australia. Currently based in Melbourne, Victoria, Rachael is an integral part of the Australian Associated Press (AAP) team. She joined AAP in August 2022 as a Reporter at AAP, Rachael reports on breaking news stories in technology and politics. Prior to her role at AAP, Rachael Ward was at Seven Network, where she worked as a Producer for Seven News. Rachael made her mark as a story producer and reporter, contributing to the network's extensive coverage. She also coordinated outside broadcasts, showcasing her versatility and commitment to delivering top-notch news.
Status 06 October – CONFIRMED for CISO roundtable: Due to fly into Melbourne on the 16 October
Women in Security Women in Security Magazine is a bi-monthly global publication. In each Women in Security Magazine edition explores different journeys of women in security, gains career perspectives from industry experts, looks at different technology perspectives, and provides insights from industry greats on diversity and inclusion. Women in Security Magazine is part of the Source2Create portfolio, trusted partners to AWSN for the Women in Security Awards, and content media and marketing specialists. Women in Security Magazine delivers content that engages this valuable audience around a diverse range of issues, including innovation, diversity policies and strategy plays, trends, recruitment and training, leadership, advancement and other issues.
Stuart Corner Freelance Technology Journalist
For three decades Stuart has been observing, analysing, reporting and commenting on all aspects of the information technology industry: in Australia, the Asia Pacific and globally. He has an in-depth knowledge of the information and communications technology industries going back 30 years, wide range of contacts in the Australian ICT industry. Status 13 October: CONFIRMED for CISO roundtable: Due to fly into Melbourne on the 16 October - Given Stuarts focus is on women in cyber security we would like to organize a suitable interview with a female member of Bugcrowd’s APAC leadership team.
CommsDay
Established in 1994, Communications Day is the authoritative source for commercial, regulatory, political and technology news and analysis for telecommunications in Australia and New Zealand. Delivered every working day to a reader base of C-level executives, regulators, government and opposition ministers and their staff, CommsDay provides essential business intelligence and a key competitive advantage for anyone working in the ANZ telecoms sector. The reach is 270,000 unique monthly visitors.
Grahame Lynch Founder
Grahame Lynch is the Founder of Communications Day, Space & Satellite AU, CommsDay Summit & North Sydney Sun.
Status 06 October - CONFIRMED for CISO round table: “ We are a daily publisher and holding our annual Melbourne event literally the day after, so I can't dedicate a reporter to an entire day there as we have other things going on. But you can put us down as attending the CISO roundtable (I cannot give a name yet) but we probably will bow out of the one and ones as we have a daily deadline not long after."
Guardian Australia
Guardian Australia is the Australian website of the British global online and print newspaper, The Guardian. Available solely in an online format, the newspaper's launch was led by Katharine Viner in time for the 2013 Australian federal election and followed the introduction of Guardian US in 2011. The Guardian Australia is part of the British “The Guardian” whose readership equates to a global reach of 3.3 million.
Josh Taylor Reporter Guardian Australia
Josh Taylor is a Guardian Australia reporter based in Melbourne. Over the last 15 years Josh has worked for BuzzFeed News and Crikey where he covered politics, technology, and freedom of information.
Status 06 October: Hoping to attend AISA and if he does, he would love to attend our event – will advise us shortly
The Australian
The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964. As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership as of September 2019 of both print and online editions was 2,394,000.
Jared Lynch Technology Editor The Australian
Jared Lynch is a business reporter with a career spanning 15 years across national publications. Jared is based in Melbourne and writes on technology, cyber security, agribusiness, healthcare and gaming. He also has extensive experience in markets, media, regulation and police reporting. Status 06 October: David Swan originally confirmed for our event representing The Australian, however on 05 October David advised he would be moving to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald . David has proposed Jared as a replacement, we are awaiting Jared ’ s response.
David Swan Freelance Technology Journalist (Starting new position as the tech editor at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald in late October) David is one of Australia's leading technology reporters and editors. Previously David was the technology editor for Australia's national broadsheet newspaper The Australian, chief technology reporter at independent IT news website iTWire, and at News Corp publication Technology Spectator. David is regularly the journalist who publishes the breaking technology stories first and is regularly sought for commentary on what's happening in tech both home and abroad.
Appearing regularly as a tech expert on Sky News, Channel Ten's The Project, and on radio.
David was awarded Australia's best technology industry journalist in 2017 and 2018 at the ACS IT Journalism awards, and was highly commended in 2018 at the Quill awards for best business feature writing.
Status 06 October: David originally confirmed when he was technology editor for The Australian however, he informed us on the 05 October that he will be joining The Syndey Morning Herald and The Age at the end of October. He has connected us with Jared Lynch who has taken over his position at The Australian. We have gone back to David and invited him to attend while he is between publications, and are awaiting a response.
iTnews
In an age where the right information at the right time can make or break a deal, Australia's technology leaders rely on iTnews for their daily fix of accurate, up-to-the-minute news, analysis and research. Information and communications technology is the engine room of the modern business. Business leaders tell us they rely on iTnews to inform their strategy, make business cases for technology investments, set policies and chart their careers. Collectively, the team at iTnews has continuously won a swag of awards which include Technology Title of the Year, Best News Title, Best Editor, Best Business Journalist, Best News Journalist and Best Technical Journalist. The iTnews team also curates technology conferences and judges the annual Benchmark Awards for excellence in ICT project delivery. The iTnews website is an important hub for technology enthusiasts to discuss the issues that interest them. Few publications can boast such intimacy with its audience, connected via feedback comments and forums. Status 06 October: we reached out to Velvet-Bell Templeman Group Editor advised that she is running the ITNews round table at the same time as our event. We are trying to secure an alternative journalist from this publication.
ITwire
ITWire is a powerful source of top line ICT and General News, Analysis and Comment and has a vibrant community for industry professionals. iTWire puts tech and general news and developments from around the globe into perspective, covering all the important sectors of ICT and Business Sectors in Australia and globally, with a strong emphasis on government Its award-winning team of writers have earned a reputation for providing hard-hitting, insightful commentary and critical analysis of the business of technology, including corporate performance and developments, new product and service offerings and industry trends.
Status 06 October: David Heath is not in Melbourne during the week of the event and we will try to secure a colleague.
MySecurity Media
MySecurity Media is a multi-channel, multi-platform content provider specialising in the security and critical technology domain. First established in 2006, we have extensive industry knowledge, an international network of security professionals, talented digital marketing expertise and an active audience database. Our solutions consider your business goals and connect you to the right audience with a focus on results.
Chris Cubbage Director & Executive Editor
Chris Cubbage is a widely published security professional and industry commentator, including two books and online documentary. Chris is Executive Editor of the Asia Pacific Security Magazine, Australian Security Magazine and other technology channels including ChiefIT.me (ICT, cloud, big data) and DRASTICnews.com (drones, robotics, automated systems). He is a contracted security advisor to government agencies, a former homicide detective and a federal commission investigator. Primary Twitter Feeds @AmlecHouse @apsmagazine
Status 13 October: Filmed interview completed on 10 October
at the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney with David Gerry. The interview
footage has already published and shared. Chris Cubbage is
not attending AISA.
TechDay
TechDay is a purely digital publisher and operates only in the technology sector running an extensive network of technology news websites throughout the globe, with sites in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Its sites include: • SecurityBrief - Technology news for CISOs & cybersecurity decision-makers • CFOTech - Technology news for CFOs & financial decision-makers • ChannelLife - Industry insider news for technology resellers • eCommerceNews - Technology news for digital commerce decision-makers • ITBrief - Technology news for CIOs & IT decision- makers • TelcoNews - Telecommunications news for ICT decision-makers Whether you want to target consumers through to the most elite CIO business management, they can help. Sean Mitchell Publisher at Techday Having worked in Information Technology for over a decade, Sean combines his experience in both IT with publishing and running his own business. Status 13 October: Sean will not be in the ANZ region the week of our event however, he has agreed to write a feature on David Gerry and Bugcrowd as part of his series “Titans of Tech” . The answers to Sean ’ s questions have been submitted, Zonic has also agreed to provide Sean with a transcript and photos of the CISO roundtable.
FutureCIO In the digital economy, Information Technology (IT) is no longer a separate unit operating within the confines of the enterprise. It is embedded in every fabric of the business – from finance, sales and marketing, production and distribution, customer service and support. In this digital-first reality, the Chief Information Officer is both strategist and operations leader, helping guide the enterprise to its new destination, responding to changes and adjusting to the realities of an unknown future. FutureCIO is about enabling the CIO, his team, the leadership and the enterprise through shared expertise, know-how and experience - through a community of shared interests and goals. It is also about discovering unknown best practices that will help realize new business models. The reach is 26,000 unique monthly visitors.
Allan Tan Group Editor in Chief FutureIoT, FutureCIO and FutureCFO
Allan is Group Editor-in-Chief for CXOCIETY writing for FutureIoT, FutureCIO and FutureCFO. He supports content marketing engagements for CXOCIETY clients, as well as moderates senior- level discussions and speaks at events.
Previous Roles include: •
Group Editor-in-Chief for Questex Asia concurrent to the Regional Content and Strategy Director role. • Director of Technology Practice at Hill+Knowlton in Hong Kong and Director of Client Services at EBA Communications. Status 013 October: Allan is based in Hong Kong and originally confirmed to attend our event however, he missed the Visa deadline. Allan is recording a podcast with Dave on the 18 th October at 5pm Melbourne time.
Zonic Group Contact:
Bruce Reid General Manager - APAC Zonic Group BReid@ZonicGroup.com +61 499 888 466
Zonic Group Contact:
Mark Fox CEO Zonic Group MFox@ZonicGroup.com +61 2 800 600 24 | +44 7836 248 110
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