Platforms, Products, and People: The Power of APIs in the Age of AI

Derek Jones

APAC Digital Transformation - Securities Services BNP PARIBAS

Derek works within the Digital Transformation office for CIB Securities Services in APAC. He is based in Sydney.

Derek joined the bank in 2006 in Sydney and has occupied various roles in Project and Change Management, Continuous Improvement and Relationship Management, including 5 years based out of the Luxembourg office, where he focused on Digital Transformation initiatives.

Derek holds a Bachelor of Commerce from UNSW, a Masters in IT from QUT, as well as Project Management credentials and a black- belt in Lean Six Sigma.

Saurabh Chaubey

Platform Lead Engineer - QBE

Experienced technology professional with a demonstrated history of delivering excellent customer outcomes spanning multiple industry verticals: Insurance, Investment Banking, Government & Telecommunications. Able to harness technical expertise to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient Cloud-Native Architectures and best practices in System Integration, Platform Automation and DevOps.

Specialise in designing and implementing cloud solutions, enabling migration of workloads to the Cloud and building serverless applications and microservices.

Passionate for advocating best practices and employing relevant architectural patterns. Keen to learn new technologies along with running proof of concept evaluations.

Colleen Pender

Head of Technology, Technology Services - NAB

Gaurav Verma

Chief Engineer - Commonwealth Bank

Excited to be leading a small talented team building an API platform which facilitates creation of scalable, secure, consistent and easy to consume APIs. More importantly, the platform will enable external developers and partners to integrate with bank’s internal systems.

From my past life, I am beyond convinced that a DevOps culture within the team and CI/CD principles for software delivery are absolutely vital for delivering high quality software/applications at a rapid pace.

Always trying to search for best practices, learn new tools/techniques/languages/frameworks, find the next awesome thing. Huge fan of applications/tools that keep simple things simple and make complex possible.

Nathalie Moss

CIO - Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Jason Royals

Enterprise Integration Architect - Suncorp

20 years experience in the technology and finance industry has given me a great insight into how technology can be used to solve real world problems. I'm excited about technology and what it can do to enable great experiences for customers, business, developers and operations.

An early Agile advocate, I have been a part of many successful agile project teams and a key contributor to bringing those core values into the enterprise. Most recently I've been leading the design and implementation of Suncorp Bank's API strategy, including Suncorp Bank's response to the Consumer Data Right (CDR) API.

I often contribute to open source and the technology community, and have presented to internal and external forums on a wide range of technology-related topics.

I have a broad range of skills in the technology space specialising in architecture, analysis, software design, and engineering.

Nina Karisik

Software Engineer - Mypass Global

A Software Engineer with a keen interest in making technology accessible for all.

As a tech speaker, coding mentor, and nominee for the WITWA Woman of the Year, I'm striving to transform 'otherness' into 'oneness' in the tech world. I'm here to turn 'bugs' into 'features' and 'problems' into 'opportunities' - in coding and in life!

Yedhu Joseph Moonjely

Head of Platform - API & Integrations - QBE Insurance

Making IT Happen.

Rajesh Bavanantham

Principal Architect - MLC Life Insurance

Highly experienced in IAM(OKTA/Azure AD/Auth0),API Gateways(KONG/Apigee), API security(OIDC/OAuth2) Enterprise integration pattern, Microservices, SOA design, JEE,Springboot development & design.My unique experience in Microservices architecture design, security, agile methodologies & delivery using patterns would bring huge value and culture to the organisations. My keen & positive attitude towards any new technology makes my learning curve very agile and my extensive experience in service and integration delivery add key value to the Organisation. My key skills relies on delivery focus design, cutting edge design , no compromise in quality delivery, inspiring leadership to guide team members towards successful delivery and make the environment fun and productive. I have outstanding devops experience, which would help organisation to keep up in right cutting edge devops path.

JeongSuk Lee

Senior Cloud Engineer - ANZ

Experienced DevOps Engineer and Consultant with over 14 years in software engineering and cloud advisory roles. Specializes in optimizing enterprise applications and mission-critical systems. Proficient in a wide range of programming languages and cloud technologies. Holds an MBA in Financial Engineering and an MSc from EDHEC Business School. Certified FinOps Practitioner and AWS Database Specialist. Proven track record in driving operational efficiency and enhancing automation at ANZ and AWS.

Nikhil Patinge

Director – WoVG Digital Integration Service - Department of Government Services

I am a people leader and digital & data analytics subject matter expert with more than a decade of experience in executive and technology management positions. I am passionate about unleashing the power of data through analytics and digital transformation for better decision-making and enhanced customer experience. I lead high-performing teams to deliver it by developing technology products and service design.

I currently head the Whole of the Victorian Government's (WoVG) API Capability Program, which constitutes a central Data Integration Platform and engagement services, providing departments and agencies across Vic Gov the capability to access cross-jurisdictional data and content in turn improving the effectiveness and overall experience of delivering services to citizens and businesses.

Liam Ford

Principal Engineer - NAB

Liam Ford, Principal Engineer at National Australia Bank. In my role, I lead the Payment Orchestration Team, overseeing the design, development, and implementation of innovative payment solutions. My responsibilities include driving technical strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of our payment systems. Liam brings over 20 years of experience in Java Web Application Development across various industries. He is a certified developer in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka.

Certifications:

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
Confluent Fundamentals Accreditation
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Knowledge: Serverless
Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Nilesh Gule

Enterprise Architect - DBS Bank

Nilesh is a Vice President at DBS Bank, where he leads the design and implementation of scalable and innovative solutions using hybrid cloud, big data, and emerging technologies. He has over 2 decades of experience as a software developer, architect, and leader in various domains such as BFSI, healthcare, and retail. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure since 2018 and the first Docker Captain in Singapore for his excellent contributions to technical communities.

Nilesh is passionate about learning, adopting, and experimenting with new technologies, and sharing his knowledge and insights through blogging, speaking, and organizing events. He is a certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps, and Data Engineer Associate, and a co-organizer of the Microsoft Azure Singapore user group. He lives by the motto of coding with passion and striving for excellence.

Laura Schaufelberger

Software Engineer - ANZ

Laura’s journey in Technology began in high school, when her maths teacher encouraged students to enroll in computer science the following year. Laura was delighted by the interactive aspect of coding and was grateful to have been given the nudge to explore something she thought was only suitable for super smart gamers.

While working in tech over the last 10 years, Laura has observed and given much thought to the way people think about and describe technologies, including the end user.

Her presentation will explore how teams can spot hidden assumptions when designing for even the most technical of users.

Ian Chew

Founder & CEO - Greenie Web

The internet is responsible for up to 1.6 gigatons of CO2 emission - more than the entire pre-COVID aviation industry combined. With rapid digitization by industry & tech adoption in the developing world, its projected to increase by 5 - 7 % a year. Most startups, expertise and capital are devoted to traditional decarbonization. Greenie Web is a Climate-Tech SaaS that fills the gap by tackling this entirely new category of digital decarbonization.In doing so, our work:
1) Enables enterprises achieve their net zero goals
2) Smoothens the energy transition by reducing internet-related energy consumption
3) Provides a low-carbon method to digitize traditional industries & build Web 3.0

Mehdi Medjaoui

Author of Continuous API Management - Founder and Chairman of Apidays Conferences

Mehdi Medjaoui is the founder of APIdays conferences series worldwide, that he started in 2012 in Paris. He is highly involved in the API community and API Industry, and is a current author, lecturer, consultant and investor in the API space. In 2011 he co-founded OAuth.io, a SaaS OAuth API middleware for OAuth integration and implementation used by 40,000+ developers, that had been acquired in December 2017. His research involves publishing the API Industry Landscape and the yearly State of Banking APIs.

Saul Caganoff

Principal - Deloitte Australia

Saul Caganoff is Principal and CTO within Deloitte’s Platform Engineering team. He has more than 25 years experience in the IT industry, specializing in systems integration. Saul has been influential in driving Deloitte’s microservices and API strategies, design and implementation capabilities as well as in promoting APIs within the developer and business community.

Erik Wilde

OAI Ambassador @ OpenAPI Initiative - API Strategist and Content Creator at Getting APIs to Work

With over 10 years of experience in the API field, I am passionate about helping organizations on their digital transformation journeys, making sure that vision, strategy, and technology are aligned, and that they are driven by well-aligned business and organizational initiatives. As an OAI Ambassador at the OpenAPI Initiative, I promote the adoption and use of open standards and best practices for API design and management, and with Getting APIs to Work, I provide consulting and training services for API programs.I have a strong background in digital transformation, API design, and API governance, and I have contributed to many publications, patents, and standards. I have also worked with various industries and sectors, such as healthcare, education, finance, and government, to help them leverage the power and potential of APIs for innovation, integration, and automation. My mission is to help organizations get APIs to work in a truly transformative way, by ensuring that they have the right APIs, and that they design and manage them in the right way.

Claire Barrett

Director - APIsFirst and Co-lead of Women In APIs

Claire Barrett is director and founder of APIsFirst based in the UK, and co-founder of The API Collective. She has over 25 years' experience consulting to medium and large organisations with globally recognised brands, on justifying, executing and communicating technology and API-enabled change.

Arsalan Ellahi

Principal Architect - Kiwibank

I like to empower scale-ups or incumbents with long-term competitive advantage for sustainable growth and high performing teams using fit-for-purpose architecture patterns and practice.

Experienced in FinTech, FitTech, AgriTech, Telco and Retail domains.

Aden Forshaw

CTO / Founder - ThatAPICompany

My ultimate goal is to build companies that use technology for social good. For that I’m leveraging 18+ years of hands on software engineering, team building, and leadership experience.

My aim now is to give back to the next generation of developers, and work on projects that have worldwide scale & impact.

Anand Tamboli

Founder/Director - 3DOTS Studios

Anand is a serial entrepreneur, global keynote speaker, award-winning author, innovation expert, and transformation specialist. He is passionate about sharing his experience and loves to inspire. Anand specializes in contemporary topics that intersect technology and people. Being a polymath, Anand can often shed new light on a topic that you think has been "done to death." Anand helps people in leveraging technology, adapt, and develop an innovative mindset. Anand has extensively worked with several Fortune 500 multinationals and has thorough cross-industry experience.

Aden de Leeuw

Director, Application Development & Integration - Defence Housing Australia

As the Director of Application Development and Integration with Defence Housing Australia (DHA), my role involves leading our software engineering, testing, and ICT architecture teams. Our primary goal is to develop robust systems that aid DHA in its core mission: offering affordable and quality housing to the Australian Defence Force.

Jacob Bednarz

Systems Engineer - Control Plane - Cloudflare

Jeremy Glassenberg

Product Lead, APIs - DocuSign

Experienced product leader of over 16 years with a proven track record of building APIs and growing developer ecosystems at successful startups such as Box and Tradeshift. I've managed and expanded communities of tens of thousands of developers, executed high-profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google, and led application marketplaces that were key to their companies' growth and retention. While focused on Product Management and APIs, I also manage developer relation programs and application marketplaces.

Bruno Watt

Managing Director - Hypermedia.tech

I live in the world where business and technology intersect.

Prasanna Dangalla

Senior Software Engineer - Leecare

Experienced software engineer with 10+ years in the industry. Skilled in a variety of technologies and dedicated to innovation and problem-solving. Strong ability to collaborate with diverse teams and deliver high-quality results. Seeking a challenging role to leverage expertise and drive growth.
● Expert in API Management
● A designer and developer of WSO2 API Manager

Adeel Ali

Co-Founder & CEO - APIMatic.io

Adeel Ali is the founding CEO of APIMatic, an SDK-first developer experience platform for APIs. Adeel holds a Ph.D. in the domain of web-based APIs automation. He is constantly driven by the desire to do things better, whether that is making APIs easy to consume, or running a business. Besides APIMatic, Adeel loves reading, traveling, and playing cricket.

Alex Barnett

Head of DevRel & Community - Postman

Alex is a results-oriented senior developer relations leader with 20 years of internet-related business experience. He's passionate about technology, developers as a customer, ecosystems & platforms development, as well as leading & developing high performing teams at world-class enterprise technology companies such as Postman, Intuit, RMS and Microsoft, as well as PaaS and web development start-ups. In various roles he has been responsible for business and technical strategy, planning and execution of developer marketing, platform evangelism, technical and business education, and technical support and partner success.

Chuck Herrin

Field CISO & Customer Advocate - F5

Chuck Herrin is Field CISO & Customer Advocate at F5. He joined the company through the acquisition of Wib Security, where he held the position of CTO.

In the 20 years prior to Wib, Chuck held a variety of CISO and technology leadership roles, including EVP and CISO for Texas Capital Bank and end to end responsibility for Security, Risk, and Compliance for AIG’s Consumer Group.

Chuck is passionate about security and particularly interested in emerging threats and the rise of generative AI, microservices, and APIs in modern applications

Kris Ramanah

Cloud Chapter Lead - CBA

- Technology leader who is passionate about engineering, architecture and planning
- Amateur carpenter and gardener
- Originally from East coast of Mauritius, and now on the East coast of New South Wales
- Has been studying APIs since 2007 and now a student of organisational friction

Derrick Hodges

Director, Solution Engineering, Australia & New Zealand - Solace

Derrick helps Solace clients across Australia and New Zealand better understand how event-driven architecture, and Solace’s products in particular, can improve their responsiveness and agility by enabling a real-time flow of information across their enterprise. Derrick has been with Solace for five years; before that he served in a variety of consulting roles with IBM, Progress Software, and most recently Oracle. Derrick holds a bachelors of science degree in communications and video imaging from the University of Salford in the United Kingdom.

Yong Sheng Tan

Solutions Architect - Orkes

I am a financial technology professional excited about delivering solutions that drive efficiency from increased automation, systems collaboration, or workflow re-engineering. I have a technical background in software development across web, mobile and desktop solutions as well as a deep appreciation of enterprise architecture and cloud infrastructure. I am adept in managing software delivery lifecycles using the Agile methodology and believe firmly in elevating business value as an outcome to improve business-technology synergy.

Anand Rai

Field CTO - Traceable AI

Anand Rai is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience in driving digital innovation.

A recognized thought leader in API security, cloud security, and zero trust architectures, Anand has held significant roles in global organizations where he has successfully led complex API security initiatives.

He is also the author of the book “Bootstrapping Service Mesh Implementations with Istio,” which offers practical insights and guidance on implementing service mesh architectures using Istio.

As Field CTO at Traceable AI, Anand specializes in API security, helping organizations safeguard their most critical assets in today’s increasingly interconnected world.

Jordan Walsh

Strategic Solutions Engineer - Postman

Jordan Walsh is a Senior Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Postman. He has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry and has worked on a variety of projects, including web products, mobile applications, and APIs. He is passionate about creating products that solve business problems, delight users, and generate revenue all at the same time. As a Solutions Architect @ Postman, Jordan helps customers adopt and use Postman to design, develop, and test APIs. He is also responsible for developing and delivering training and education materials on Postman. Jordan is a strong advocate for the use of APIs and believes that they are essential for the future of the technology industry. He is excited to share his knowledge and experience with the APIDays community and help them learn more about APIs and how to use them effectively.

Giri Venkatesan

Principal Developer Advocate, CTO Office - Solace

Giri is a Developer Advocate with extensive experience in various technical domains, including Integration and Master Data Management. He started his engineering journey in the classic EAI & B2B Integration space and has been a part of the Integration evolution culminating in modern EDA, Microservices, Spring, and other Low-code/no-code frameworks. He has a keen interest in building and promoting creative solutions and is a huge fan of open-source standards and applications. He is excited to identify and explore tools and frameworks to aid Businesses in their quest for achieving efficiency and increased productivity.

Jack Skinner

CTO For Hire & Founder - FrontGate.app

Jack is a consultant CTO For Hire, specialising in all things web and APIs. He consults to small and growing software companies on patterns and practices for scaling teams and technology. He’s spent the past decade growing technical communities as a speaker, organiser, facilitator and coach.

Addison Schultz

Developer Relations Lead - GitBook

Addison Schultz is a web developer & designer working and living in Tokyo, JP. He leads the developer relations team at GitBook, a tool for technical teams to document their products and APIs. He's been working the last 6 years on collaborative tooling, he’s worked with some of the world’s leading design and development companies, providing product teams with advice and industry advice on how teams can build better products, faster.

Erwin van der Koogh

Customer Architect - honeycomb.io

Ex-developer/tech lead, recovering management consultant, currently in the biggest challenge of my career as a startup founder of Linc.

Linc is a front-end application development platform that gives you a working, unique preview URL for every single commit in all your environments (yes, including production).

Evelyn Bayes

Customer Success Architect -

A Customer Success Architect with a passion for Open Source software, Big Data and Machine Learning!

Reece Ramsay

Technical Success Manager - New Relic

Reece Ramsay is a Technical Success Manager at New Relic, with a career history focused on infrastructure, DevOps, and observability. Throughout his professional journey, Reece has cultivated a deeply curious mindset, constantly exploring new technologies and methodologies to optimize system performance and reduce costs. His extensive experience in managing complex IT environments naturally led to an interest in large language models and their impact on infrastructure and costs.

Dasith Wijesiriwardena

Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft

I am a polyglot software engineer with experience in consulting environments as well as solution architecture. I have been working with Microsoft technologies for close to 2 decades. My focus is distributed systems and I have extensive experience in development across the stack. In most of my development projects I employ an Agile method of development with emphasis on good design principles, manageable codebases and scalability. These days I mostly utilize Azure and AWS offerings to design & deliver cloud native solutions.

Currently my attention is on cloud native solutions and Kubernetes on edge:
➢ Converting monolithic systems into modularized cohesive parts + microservices.
➢ Event sourcing, CQRS & Eventually consistent models and distributed systems.
➢ Event driven serverless solutions. (Azure Event Hub / Event Grid with Azure Functions or AWS SQS and AWS Lambda).
➢ Containerised workloads and orchestration (Kubernetes, Dapr + Tye).
➢ Running intelligent systems on edge using Kubernetes and modern workflows using GitOps.

Carlos Rodriguez Iturria

CTO - Synapsewerx

I am extremely passionate about people, technology and the most effective ways to connect the two by sharing my knowledge and experience.

Working collaboratively with customers and partners inspires and excites me, especially when the outcome is noticeable valuable to a business and results in true innovation. I enjoy learning and teaching, as I recognise that this is a critical aspect of remaining at the forefront of technology in the modern era.

Over the past 15+ years, I have developed and defined solutions that are reliable, secure and scalable, working closely with a diverse range of stakeholders. I enjoy leading engagements and am very active in the technical communities – both internal and external. I have stood out as a noticeable mentor running technology events across major cities in Australia and New Zealand, including various technology areas such as, Enterprise Integrations, API Management, Cloud Integration, IaaS and PaaS adoption, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Automation among others.

In recent years, I have shaped my role and directed my capabilities towards educating and architecting benefits for partners using APIs and Cloud Native technologies. I get especially excited when I am able to position both as a way to exceed my customers’ expectations.

Mamta Sarangal

Chief Architect - CC&C Solutions

Shaugh McIntosh

Head of API Strategy - Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Shaugh is an experienced technology leader with a background in Software Engineering. Until this year he was responsible for all internet banking channels for Bendigo Bank, leading a large multi-disciplinary team through a digital transformation.More recently he has stepped into the role of Delivery Owner for APIs, working to accelerate the move to APIs as Products across Technology and Business.

Shreshta Shyamsundar

Distinguished Technologist - Infosys Limited

A globally trusted thought leader and specialist with proven ability in the field of establishing enterprise-wide high-performing software engineering practices extending to Quality engineering, DevSecOps, Site reliability engineering, Cloud expansion and optimisation to deliver business capabilities at scale thus improving the quality of work for software developers and quality engineering community alike across industry segments.

Jeremy Snyder

Founder and CEO - FireTail

Jeremy is the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security platform. Prior to FireTail, Jeremy worked in M&A at Rapid7, led sales at DivvyCloud, one of the earliest cloud security posture management companies, and also led AWS sales in southeast Asia. Jeremy started his career with 12 years in IT and cyber operations. He has an MBA from Mason, a BA in computational linguistics from UNC, speaks 5 languages and has lived in 5 countries.

Nick Blyth

Managing Director - Singularity Tech

Nick founded Singularity Tech with the objective to help Australian businesses uplift their APIs, Microservices and DevOps capabilities. Over the last five years the team has helped different government agencies and ASX100 clients on their API led digital transformation journeys.

Chris Walsh

Technical Director - Step Zero

Chris has over 20 years of experience in technology. He has held roles ranging from CIO/CTO in large multinational corporations to CTO in consulting services organisations across Australia. Over the last three years, he has been responsible for Platform Engineering and APIs for the NSW Government and License Platforms.

Pooja Mistry

Developer Advocate - Postman

Pooja Mistry(@poojamakes) is a Developer Advocate at Postman, an API platform with over 20 million users. She is passionate about the intersection of technology and community, and she works to expand the reach of Postman’s API Platform to developers worldwide. Before working at Postman, Pooja led the Partnership Advocacy Program at IBM and worked to build communities around sharing technology insights in the API, APIOps, Integration, and Data and AI space. Pooja loves to learn, teach, and share her knowledge with developers. Along with being a proud plant mom, she strongly believes in helping new technologists get up and running with technology and feel confident in their abilities to make!

Dontae Tyler

CEO - OQP Solutions

Dontae Tyler is the founder of OQP Solutions, a US based cybersecurity consulting firm that empowers user and business communities to secure their digital landscapes. With over nine years of experience supporting several US federal agencies within Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of State (DOS) and certifications including CISSP, CISM, CEH and Security+, Dontae demystifies cybersecurity through practical, real-world solutions. His mission is to make cybersecurity accessible to all, challenging the status quo with innovation and passion.

Aron Marden

Principal Solutions Consultant - New Relic

Aron is a Principal Solutions Consultant at New Relic. He has been working in the technology space for over 15 years with a background in SysOps, System and Solution Architecture and a hobby developer – finding his passion at New Relic for the last 5 years, instrumenting and collecting data from systems that have no right to be instrumented and gaining answers to broad and complex questions with vast and unique datasets.

Emily Melhuish

Staff Engineer - Multitudes

I love to be involved in a range of things from blowing up circuits to riding horses to rockets. I'm an Electrical Engineer by trade but have found myself working in the realms of software and data science. From wrangling car dealer's data at Trade Me, to automating rocket engine testing analysis at Rocket Lab to working with cows at Halter, I've picked up a rather diverse skillset. With a passion for both hardware and software, I hope to combine the two to make technology smarter and more sustainable. Currently, I'm leading engineering at Multitudes.

My main goal in life is to one day have an all-electric, self-driving car that can pull the horse float. Maybe there's a rocket somewhere in there too.

Prerna Tiwari

Senior Solutions Engineer - Confluent

I'm Prerna, a solution engineer with 16 years of expertise in solutions architecture, presales and post-sales, known for my collaborative work with enterprise executives and deep industry knowledge. Specializing in customer discovery and architectural patterns, I create solutions that align with client's strategic goals, serving as a trusted advisor for strategic account growth. My consultative approach fosters mutual benefits and customer success, enhancing satisfaction and partnership depth. Adaptable and detail-oriented, my passion for technology and commitment to excellence drive me to consistently deliver superior outcomes and pursue continuous improvement.

David Irecki

CTO APJ - Boomi

David Irecki is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Asia Pacific / Japan (APJ) at Boomi, a category-leading, global software as a service (SaaS) company with more than 20,000 global customers and a worldwide network of 800 partners.

As CTO, David leads the region’s efforts in advocating and evangelizing the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in business with intelligent integration and automation. He is instrumental in helping organizations across the APJ region thrive in the digital age and on their AI journeys.

David leads a team of pre-sales professionals across APJ. Under his leadership, his team helps customers transform their business by solving integration, APIM and data management challenges.

Marilena Müller

Senior Manager, Product Management - Boomi

Marilena Müller is a Senior Product Manager at Boomi, where she leads the team behind Boomi’s API Control Plane. With extensive experience in building and scaling API management solutions, Marilena is dedicated to driving innovation and delivering impactful products that help organizations integrate and connect seamlessly.

Beyond her role at Boomi, Marilena has a strong academic background as a former lecturer in user-centric software design at a German university. She continues to support the next generation of tech talent by supervising multiple thesis projects within Boomi, fostering a culture of learning and growth. As an active member of Women in API, Marilena is passionate about advocating for diversity in technology and empowering women in the field.

Jessica Newton

Business Platform Lead - Canva

As a qualified Accountant(CPA) and IT professional(CSPO) who has lived and breathed in Finance and Finance systems over the last 15 years, I am curious about anything can help make Finance users’ life easier. I strive to find solutions that combines people, process and the ecosystem to turn the business strategy into operational plans. I want to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, which will streamline and rationalize the IT enablement process.

Certified enterprise agile practitioner and product owner with ability to lead project from inception to execution, delivery and outcome focus to ensure finite funding and resource commitments are utilised to optimise organisational value.

William Fettke

Product Owner of TDev & SaaS Marketplaces - Telstra

With a background in UX Design, and an intense love for all things code & development, I have had the opportunity to work across a variety of areas in Telstra with a core focus in the business & enterprise segments.

As the Product Owner of B2B2X APIs and Experience, I am working with a passionate team defining Telstra’s monetised API strategy and realising it through the development of API products and the customer portal they are exposed, managed and supported on (dev.telstra.com).

I thrive in a fast pace team and prioritise forming a culture that encourages others to do the same.

Warren Vella

Senior Solutions Engineer - Confluent

Warren Vella is a Solution Architect at Confluent working with Financial Services, Retail, Energy and Government agencies. Prior to joining Confluent, Warren was at AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) for over 12 years where he held several roles including Enterprise Integration Architect and Team Lead.

Matthias Biehl

Digital Strategy - IBM

Matthias is a techie at heart with a background in APIs, AI, security and software engineering. He has led large-scale API initiatives in both business and technology roles. Nowadays, he uses his technical background to help companies define their digital strategy, execute their transformation agendas, and bring innovations to the market. Matthias publishes a blog on APIs, is the author of several books on APIs, and regularly speaks at technology conferences.

Shikha Agarwal

Integration and API Architect - IBM (webMethods)

Shikha Agarwal is an Architect in the Integration and API domain, with 18-year track record of architecting, designing, and implementing cutting-edge solutions for clients across the US and ANZ regions. Currently serving as the Head of the Solution Architecture Team for webMethods in ANZ, Shikha spearheads a team of adept Solution Architects dedicated to addressing complex business challenges through advanced integration and API solutions.

Her expertise spans the entire evolution of integration technologies—from the early days of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to REST, Microservices, iPaaS, and Hybrid Integrations. Her deep understanding of the shifting design patterns in the integration landscape equips her to navigate the demands of a hybrid environment that integrates SaaS platforms, legacy systems, devices, and partners.

Under Shikha's leadership, her team actively engages with clients through Lunch and Learn sessions & workshops focused on iPaaS and Hybrid Integration capabilities. These sessions highlight her unwavering commitment to empowering customers with actionable knowledge and insights into modern integration strategies.

Bernd Beilke

Technical Lead Integration & App Modernization - IBM

Bernd is a Technical Architect for IBM's portfolio of Integration Products including API Connect and Datapower. He has been working for IBM Australia for 6 years now after leading the Technical SME team for Portal and Web Content Management in IBM EMEA.

Troy Leliard

Solution Architect Lead - Akamai

As Regional Solution Architect Lead, Troy helps businesses proactively tackle API security vulnerabilities with the Noname API Security Platform.He started his career designing and deploying large Telco backbone networks across Africa and Europe before moving into the Financial Services Sector and pivoting into security & pen-testing. Since then, he accumulated over two decades of technology and business consulting experience spanning multiple geographies & industries, holding executive positions from a start-ups through to large global system integrators.

Patrick Chiu

Enterprise Architect - APIM - Telstra

An IT professional with 20+ years of Tier 1 IT experience in Telecommunication/Technology Industry.

Work in a largest Australia Telecommunication company with a solid Enterprise Software Development Experience and Enterprise Architecture Experience.

‣ 6 years experience in software development with Microsoft and Java technology
‣ 6+ years experience in IT solution architecture
‣ 10+ years experience in IT solution architecture leadership

Sam Chinellato

Cloud Engineer - IBM

Ran Sun

Partner - AI Consulting Group

Ran is an AI technology consulting partner, with 15 years of experience leading technology transformation for the largest organizations in Australia. Ran is a top graduate from Master of Actuarial degree. She has provided advice on digital transformation strategy across banking, financial services and mining, led large-scale digital projects to deliver exceptional service experience and business growth. Her passion is to empower executives and business leaders to deliver outstanding value through AI innovation.

Nalin Arachchilage

Associate Professor in Cyber Security - RMIT University, Australia

Dr Nalin Arachchilage is an Associate Professor in Cyber Security in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, Australia and an Honorary Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Warwick, UK. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and Privacy (2021 - 2024) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he served as an Assistant Head of School (Research), and a Director and Coordinator of the Master of Professional Studies (MProfStuds) in Digital Security Programme. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Cyber Security at La Trobe University, Australia and an external supervisor to PhD students at King's College London (KCL), UK. Besides, Nalin also serves as a technical Advisor (Board of Advisors) to DEFSAFE Cyber Security Inc, New Zealand.

Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow (2019 - 2021) in Cyber Security at La Trobe University, Australia. Before joining La Trobe, Nalin worked as a Lecturer in Cyber Security (2015 - 2019) and then as a Visiting Researcher (2019 - 2021) in the School of Engineering and Information Technology of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), where he led the Usable Security Engineering research group.

Nalin holds a PhD in Computer Science (Cyber Security) from Brunel University London, UK, where he developed a game design framework to teach people how to protect themselves from phishing attacks. At Oxford University, he cut his teeth as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Systems Security Engineering (2013 - 2014) in the Department of Computer Science and then joined the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Usable Security and Privacy (2014 - 2015).

Nalin obtained a BSc (MIS) Hons from University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, and has completed a master's degree, MSc Information Management and Security at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), USA.

Nalin has presented his research at Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, California, USA and collaborated with HP in a research capacity at the HP Lab, Bristol, UK. His research has been featured in numerous media outlets including ABC TV, ABC News Radio, SYN Radio 90.7 FM, Sky News Australia, Daily show on Radio 2SER 107.3, Choice - Australia, Guardian labs (sponsored by Intel Corporation, Australia) and UNSW TV. He has been an invited speaker for conferences both nationally and internationally.

Peter Jessup

Cloud Integration Specialist - IBM

Peter has been working with Integration and Messaging technologies for over 20 years. As an SME for the IBM Automation Portfolio, he provides technical expertise for the Cloud Pak for Integration in Australia.

Andrew Saunders

Architect - API Governance & Platforms - NAB

Andrew Saunders is a Senior Architect leading all things API at NAB. Andrew has been integrating distributed systems since the mid 90's and is a long term strategic thinker with a ceaseless desire to improve and simplify everything.

Gautam Rewati

Technical Manager, APAC - Couchbase

With over a decade of experience in the software industry as a Solutions Architect, Consultant, and DevOps/MLOps specialist Gautam excel in delivering customer-centric solutions, understanding complex needs, and ensuring successful implementation to drive business outcomes.

Asim Suvedi

Senior Engineering Manager - Sinch ClickSend

People-focused, outcome-driven Engineering Leader with experience scaling/ leading multiple teams through Product Engineering, Operations and Digital Transformation.

Taresh Mulky

Head of APAC Presales - Frends iPaaS

Experienced Presales with over a decade in technical sales, team leadership, and customer engagement within Data Analytics, Big Data, PaaS, SaaS cloud technologies, and enterprise software domains. I'm passionate about learning new things and connecting with people across a range of industries.

Kayvan Farzaneh

Solutions Architect - F5

Kevin Bowling

Enterprise Architecture, APJ Lead - Workato

I am a seasoned technology leader with a track record of steering digital experience strategy and overseeing delivery of mission-critical, customer-facing products such as web and mobile applications. My leadership has resulted in the creation of scalable, multi-channel experiences powered through cloud-based platforms, service-oriented architecture, and open-source technologies. I am committed to implementing a product-focused approach and mentoring team members across geographic regions, leveraging data-driven insights to drive measurable business results while fostering a culture of learning, growth, and innovation.

Hemi Gur Ary

Senior DevSecOps Engineer - DataMeshGroup

Security and privacy are fundamental to managing organisations. Let's make their implementation as open, easy, and accessible as possible. For this reason, I spent most of my career building solutions, frameworks and platforms. A focus that enabled me to deliver high security value in a straightforward, cost-effective way. Over the years, I have found that the key to my success depends on three crucial foundations. The first is continuous learning and improvement. The second is keeping things pragmatic and straightforward. The third is a strong connection with the relevant communities in and out of my organisation.

My career journey in security started in 2006, but the CISSP certification I achieved in 2009 gave the proper context and structure to my endeavour. A year later, in 2010, I secured a highly sought-after job as a cyber security architect for the biggest bank in Israel, Bank Hapoalim. Working as a cyber security architect, year by year, I came to realise that my best value is in Secure Systems Development Life Cycle(SSDLC) and Application Security. In 2012, I led a big SSDLC transformation project for the bank. In 2013, I became the manager of a team of 5 architects, which later grew to two teams of 5. By 2014, the cloud revolution was changing the future of IT, and I focused my ongoing studies on this domain. Cloud-native technologies were quickly transforming how applications were developed and deployed to production. After a year of complex studies, I landed a new role as a senior cloud architect for a multi-national technology giant, Amdocs. Working for Amdocs, I created a global organisation's security framework for cloud adoption and was knee-deep in complex IT/cyber security transformation projects. This role introduced me to DevOps and DevSecOps and showed me how small agile teams can achieve extraordinary things together.

Since 2017, I have followed my path in helping organisations with significant transformation projects. I am looking to join the right teams at the right time and work in a collaborative and agile environment to make a change in security, application, and cloud delivery.

Elena Kelareva

Product Lead, Apps API Platform - Canva

Tech industry leader, ecosystem builder and startup advisor. Wide range of experience across: people, product and business leadership in the tech industry; platforms and APIs product strategy; ecosystem development; partnerships and government relations; artificial intelligence; startup advisory; B2B SAAS product strategy; technology and innovation policy consulting; startup ecosystem development; rural and regional economic development.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenakelareva/

Akalanka Karunarathne

Specialist Director - Deloitte

Aman Kaur

Program Manager - TPG Telecom

Innovative and results-driven PMO and Program Management professional with 17+ years of experience, I bring a unique blend of expertise and a proven track record of consistently surpassing expectations. As a self-motivated professional, I possess a strategic mindset that enables me to chart the path towards achieving business objectives while prioritizing process enhancement.

Known for my exceptional ability to thrive in dynamic environments, I have a solid track record of delivering successful program rollouts, earning a reputation as a reliable trusted and high-achieving professional.

As a technology enthusiast, my true passion extends to transformation and strategy. I wholeheartedly believe that technology flourishes when it aligns with the essence of humanity. By fostering collaboration between people and technology, I aspire to unlock their combined potential, driving exceptional business outcomes. That's where my expertise shines.

Sudeep Bhattacharyya

Specialist Director - Deloitte

Sudeep is a senior Information Security and Architecture professional. He has close to 15 years of security work experience across Americas, APAC and ANZ geographies.

Sudeep started his security career as a graduate Identity and Access Management Developer and SME at Dell EMC USA. From there, Sudeep diversified his skillsets across broader cybersecurity domains, having worked at Accenture India and Australia and Deloitte Australia. He has demonstrated expertise and success in delivering large-scale security programs building global, enterprise class security and identity solutions across a broad range of industries.

Sudeep is also a strategic leader having technically led, coached and mentored multiple medium to large teams delivering strategic enterprise grade security and identity solutions during his tenure at Dell EMC, Accenture and Deloitte.

In his most recent experience, Sudeep is one of the lead security architects in the Products and Technology Business Line at Telstra (secondment from Deloitte). Sudeep leads a few major, highly visible and NexGen programs at Telstra on both Microsoft and AWS Cloud Platforms. He has also performed various security assessments on a broad range of solutions on-boarding to Azure and AWS Cloud and Cloud Native platforms. Some of these solutions included Big Data and AI Platforms, Telstra Video Platform, Telstra TV and Box Office, Foxtel from Telstra, Enterprise Splunk Integration to name a few. Sudeep has also been instrumental in securing an enterprise grade DevOps solution, developed internally at Telstra) for automation of Security Scanning, Vulnerability assessment and container based deployments to cloud and cloud native platforms.

In his other engagements and work at Deloitte, Sudeep is deeply involved in some of major government accounts on key Digital Transformation and Next Gen Cloud Security engagements, leads a team of security architects and engineers and provides Security Thought Leadership for the Cloud Security Practice.

Yun Zhi Lin

Partner - Deloitte

Yun leads Deloitte Engineering's FSI practice and specialises in AI-accelerated software development and application modernisation. He brings over 20 years of industry experience across fintech, banking and investment management.

Yun was an early adopter in driving AWS serverless within the enterprise and currently is pioneering the combination of software engineering with AI prompt engineering, to drive speed and certain in the refactor and re-architecture of complex legacy applications and core systems.

Outside of work, Yun is a father and gamer. He is currently playing Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth Wukong.

John Deeb

General Manager ANZ - Workato

John Deeb is Country Manager for ANZ at Workato. As country manager he is responsible for the growth of the Workato platform in the ANZ region. This covers local marketing, business development, sales, partners and customer success.

Prior to Workato, John was co-founder at Rubicon Red an independent consulting firm helping customers enable enterprise agility and operational excellence through the adoption of emerging technologies.

John held senior product management positions at Oracle and TIBCO Software. His areas of focus include enterprise integration, business process management, and intelligent automation..

John holds a Bachelors degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Queensland and a Masters degree in IT from the Queensland University of Technology.

Chid Gurav

Customer Engineer - Google

Chid is a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, bringing over 20 years of experience in the IT industry across diverse domains. A specialist in APIs and integration, he is passionate to help companies on their digital transformation journeys in building robust APIs and integration ecosystem using the power of Google Cloud. His expertise spans in enterprise architecture in establishing multi-cloud, multi-tenant, distributed, highly scalable, and highly available IT landscapes that allow organisations to deliver innovative solutions and drive business agility.

Madhan Sadasivam

Customer Engineering Lead - Google

Madhan is a Customer Engineering Lead specialising in Apigee API management platform. Madhan has 24 years of industry experience working on software engineering programs focussing on reliability and security of large software products. He has also been an Engineering Lead launching mobile security products for the enterprise market. Madhan is passionate about enterprise application design particularly APIs, Event Driven Architecture, Application Integration, Security and automation.

David Micallef

eLearn Solutions Lead - Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS)

David is a highly accomplished IT leader with over 20 years of experience driving innovation in education and enterprise environments. He excels at delivering complex solutions, leveraging his deep understanding of systems integrations, AI and cloud technologies to achieve cost-effective and highly scalable solutions. As an expert in building API strategy and API security, he ensures seamless integrations across diverse IT landscapes, including multi-cloud environments, adhering to industry best practices. As a Technical Lead, he expertly manages teams and projects using Agile and Scrum methodologies. David is passionate about developing cutting-edge solutions that address evolving organizational needs.

Jithma Beneragama

Strategic Advisor - AWS

A digital executive with international experience driving businesses to succeed. Broad experience delivering compelling customer experience across multiple platforms including mobile, tablet and online for a variety of services such as e-commerce, apps, video, subscription, downloads and portals

An innovator with proven capacity to lead strategic thinking and challenge industry norms, while also managing day to day deliverables. A product manager with P&L accountability and ability to manage projects from idea through business case to delivery.

A seasoned people leader who has solid experience building and leading high performance teams to collaborate and create innovative solutions and deliver them on time.

A business leader with a clear understanding of current digital technologies, platforms and operating systems and enthusiasm for the future trends and what they bring.

Paco De La Cruz

Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Deloitte

I am a cloud solution architect and developer and started my professional career back in 2001; and since then, I have been working as a consultant. This has allowed me to work for multiple organisations in many different industries and to learn from many different environments.

I am a Microsoft Azure MVP, certified as MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure and working in an extraordinary team at Deloitte Platform Engineering; architecting, building and implementing Integration Solutions based on Microsoft Azure. You can read a bit about my work on my personal blog: https://pacodelacruzag.wordpress.com

I have worked with different technologies, including Azure, .NET, BizTalk and MuleSoft; and played different roles, such as solution architect, technical leader, developer, and business analyst.

Brendan Yell

Startup Community Director - FusionAuth

I am is an experienced technology founder, program manager, mentor and investor.

I currently the co-host of PITCH at Web Summit and co-director of Startup Grind Sydney.

More recently Brendan built and ran Twilio's global startup program which included Twilio, SendGrid and Segment. As a former founder I am active in startup communities around the world and can be found via the hashtag #wheresyelly.

Amit Vohra

Principal Technologist - API & Integrations - QBE Insurance

• Developer with 11 years of experience in IT Industry, designing and developing.
• Mule Certified Developer - MCD - Integration and API Associate!
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (English) Completed
• I am a Sun Certified JavaCAPS 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 developer, Sun Certified Java Programmer.
• Experience in various java based applications using java, spring, hibernate, JDBC, JMS, XML Parsers(DOM & SAX) and J2EE.
• Experience in java webservices, both SOAP based and Restful,
• Experience in working on various EAI ( Enterprise Application Integration) tools like Sun SeeBeyond (5.1.1 and 5.1.2), JavaCAPS 6.0, 6.1, TIBCO BW, TIBCO BWPM.
• Experience in working on Oracle Suite, Oracle OSB, Oracle SOA BPEL.
• Expertise in working with XML, XSD, WSDL, JAX series, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Experience on Agile/ SCRUM methodologies, Waterfall Model and Incremental Intuitive (Spiral) Models of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Worked on Net Beans IDE 6.5, 6.0 & 5.5.1, Eclipse Juno,galileo,helios , SeeBeyond eDesigner, TIBCO designer.
• Experience working on Maven, Github, SVN
• Worked on various tools like JMeter, SOAP UI, UML
• Currently leading the team of 5 members and involved in the design, coding and unit testing.
• Possess good problem analysis skills with ability to follow project standards.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

Mostly worked on middle-ware development projects with experience in support projects as well.
Have worked on all most domains, Telecommunication, Banking & Finance, Energy & Utilities, Public Undertaking.
Skill Set : Core Java J2SE, J2EE , JavaCAPS, TIBCO BW

Yongkang He

Founder - K8SUG - the Most Active K8s + AI Meetup

I am a technology enthusiast who enjoys helping customers find innovative solutions to complex business challenges. 8 years ago, I shift my focus on Cloud solutions. I am now 60 times Multi-Cloud certified on AWS, Azure, GCP, Alicloud and OCI plus Kubernetes and Terraform and Specializing on Security, DevOps, GitOps etc.. I had over 20 years with deep hands-on experiences particularly in Cloud, Security, Backup/Recovery and Archiving, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management and Virtualization.

I ever worked for Wiz, Kasten/Veeam, Rubrik, Veritas/Symantec, McData/Brocade and multiple Global Service Providers including Dimension Data, IBM, Fujitsu and Unisys.

My strengths include helping Start-ups to grow, Solution Selling, Go-to-market Strategy, Field Enablement, Regional Product Management and Global Competitive Intelligence.

Thiago S Shimada Ramos

Global Volunteer Advocate - K8SUG - the Most Active K8s + AI Meetup

As a results-driven Cloud Native BizDevOps professional who is all about optimising systems and streamlining processes to make life easier for everyone, I help businesses to thrive. I have a proven track record of leading revenue-generating projects and driving customer outcomes across multiple enterprise environments.

I absolutely love working in fast-paced, dynamic environments where effective collaboration and quick decision-making are key. And incredibly passionate about innovation and enjoy teaming up with cross-functional groups to create technology solutions that drive real business value. Let’s go!

As a Global Volunteer Advocate at K8SUG and leader of the Cloud Native Melbourne community, I spearhead a worldwide network of professionals dedicated to advancing Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and modern edge systems through a globally-local perspective. By orchestrating global initiatives connecting industry pioneers and organisations.

Ready to elevate your business or personal tech journey through innovative cloud-native solutions and strategic BizDevOps expertise? Let's connect to engage, collaborate, and achieve exceptional results together. Whether you're an organisation seeking transformation or an individual passionate about technology, reach out now, and let's make innovation happen!

Lovee Jain

Senior Software Engineer - Prezzee

A tech inquisitive, I am passionate about the human side of it. I love to map out user journeys, interact with customers, design and develop applications and most of all I love removing silos to create an integrated platform with an optimal user experience.

I love collaborating and connecting with people from diverse backgrounds as this helps me to think from multiple perspectives and makes me more inclusive at my approach of solving problems.

I have worn multiple hats and have experience in full-stack development, cloud computing, user experience design, system integration, and analytics. As a visual person, I love to draw out boxes and charts.

With a goal of becoming a solution architect, I am always seeking opportunities where I can utilise my flair of stakeholder management, process thinking, strategizing and challenging myself each day!

I am also a Women Techmakers Ambassador for Melbourne, helping elevating women in tech community by organising/participating/talking at multiple tech and networking events.

And a GDG Melbourne Co-organiser, responsible for organising meetups, hack nights, DevFests, Viewing Parties and Study Jams. I regularly speak at events and MC to large groups of people at events. Recently recognised as an international speaker, I have had speaking engagements at GDG DevFests at Kuala Lumpur and Auckland.

Also, as a Social Media Manager at GDG Melbourne, I'm responsible for monitoring all the comms on multiple channels, further including the development and management of the website at: gdgmelbourne.com

In my spare time, I love to read/write Medium articles, listen to digital/tech podcasts and engage with the community. Always learning, I continue to dive into multiple cloud trainings and certifications from time to time.

Frank Fan

Solution Architect - Amazon Web Services

Frank has over 20 years working experience designing and implementing large scale technology transformations.

He is an application modernization advocate focusing on container and large scale migration and modernization.

He is a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, AWS certificed solution Architect - Professional and VMware Certified Design Expert.

Rashendra Gunawardena

Principal Engineer @NEF - NAB

I am a passionate Software developer with desire to learn new technologies which occurs everyday. With more than 9 years of experience working as a Senior /Software Engineer covering all phases of Software Development life cycle I find this is the most dynamic environment to evolve.

Make profit for the organisation, develop scalable softwares and enhance user experience are some the main motivations which kept me going in this industry for the last 9 years.

J2EE technologies such as Spring 4.X, Hibernate 4.X, JSF 2.X, Web Services Rest/SOAP/Restlet/ Spring Web Services , Android and Phonegap as mobile technologies and front end technologies such as Angular 1.X/5/6 are some of the areas which I have heavily worked on.

Represented in Australian companies such as Honda Australia, Momenton Pty, Wellcom Worldwide, DealsDirect.com.au, OneIT perth, and XGenGroup Melbourne . Currently I am working in Momenton/NAB playing a senior role in the development. Spring security and AOP are some of my specialties which I have master over the last few years. Throughout the last few years I have strictly followed the TDD and Agile methodology as a team.

Jay Desai

Senior Sales Engineer - Datadog

As a Technical Sales professional, Jay has engaged in DevOps, Process Automation, Application Performance Monitoring, SCM, Build & Deploy with strong and consistent achievements in technical & operational improvements for organisations. Engaging with customers and performing Proof of Technologies & Proof of Concepts for tomorrows requirements.

Dr. Omaru Maruatona

CEO - Aiculus

I am a Cyber security and Machine Learning practitioner with deep industry and research experience.

I previously worked with a big Australian bank to develop a Machine Learning based fraud detection algorithm and have also consulted for PwC Australia in Cyber security architecture and strategy.

I am a thought leader in the application of AI and smart cities and have published and spoken at various organisations and conferences in Australia.

I am currently the CEO at Aiculus, a Cyber-AI company which specialises in bleeding edge solutions that help organisations fully and securely leverage technology.

Dinesh Kumar

Singularity Tech - API Engineer

Over a decade of professional experience in API development and systems integration, with a focus on Apigee, including expertise in Apigee Edge, Apigee X, and Developer Portal, ensuring secure and robust API management. GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect, with hands-on experience optimizing API performance and scalability, with a focus on innovative and cutting-edge development.