Cloud Infrastructure Melbourne 2025 schedule

In this 5-minute networking session, the goal is to connect with three new people. Enjoy the opportunity to expand your network!  

• How enterprises can move away from rigid infrastructure models to more flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud adoption.
• Strategies for giving teams greater autonomy while ensuring security, compliance, and operational control.
• How organizations can reduce cloud spending, manage FinOps effectively, and avoid overprovisioning while scaling.

• How do you lead the successful delivery of enterprise-grade data and AI platform projects with a constantly evolving landscape.
• Data governance and compliance considerations when managing data and AI initiatives in cloud environments?
• How do you respond to evolving regulatory and legal requirements impacting data democratisation
• How cybersecurity and risk considerations are shaping modern data platform architecture

Speakers:

Maruf Hossain 2024 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics Banking & Finance Sector

Su Jella Board Member Women’s Tennis Foundation 

• Rethinking security, risk, and compliance for AI 
• Understanding unconsidered needs for managing AI at scale
• Understanding and managing risks in the AI solution stacks

• Understanding Distributed Cloud: How it differs from hybrid and multi-cloud models and its impact on enterprise IT strategies.
• Reducing latency, improving data sovereignty, and ensuring high availability across distributed environments.
• Best practices for adopting distributed cloud in AI workloads, edge computing, and complex enterprise architectures.

Co-presenters:

Sakshee Koli Head of Engineering & Site Infrastructure Coles Group

Rochana Attale Enterprise Architect Coles Group

• How quantum computing, edge AI, and serverless architectures are reshaping IT infrastructure.
• Strategies to maximize ROI while maintaining flexibility and scalability in evolving cloud environments.
• Aligning cloud adoption with long-term business goals to stay ahead in an AI-driven landscape.

Moderator
Hanna Bakker GTM Lead APAC Vercel

Panellists

Chandima Miyanadeniya Global Head of Enterprise Architecture Kennedys

Rajesh Padmawar EM – Architecture The Salvation Army Australia

Darragh Kennedy Director, Software Engineering Zendesk

• An introduction to effective Shared Responsibility Models that keep platform teams focussed on their priorities while ensuring app teams maintain compliance.
• How to establish tight feedback cycles, automated compliance monitoring, and clear accountability for security posture and audits.
• Foundational strategies for moving quickly in the cloud while maintaining visibility and governance.

As businesses transition and scale their environments across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, complexity and cybersecurity threats rise exponentially. Join Rubrik to discover how to simplify cloud modernisation journeys, strengthen cybersecurity posture, and build an integrated, resilient data management strategy. Learn how Rubrik streamlines data protection, compliance, and governance, enabling organisations to confidently accelerate cloud migration and modernisation projects while ensuring cyber resilience at every step.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand how to accelerate and simplify legacy infrastructure modernisation
• Learn proven strategies to enhance cyber resilience and rapidly recover from ransomware and cyber threats across multi-cloud environments
• Discover how to seamlessly integrate and simplify data governance, compliance, and operational efficiency through Rubrik’s ecosystem-driven approach

• Why traditional data centers are rigid, costly, and insecure.
• How a modular, service-driven cloud model enhances agility and scalability.
• Steps to transition from on-prem to a modern cloud ecosystem without compromising security or performance.

Speakers:

Rajesh Padmawar EM – Architecture The Salvation Army Australia

Usman Zafar Senior Principal Enterprise Architect – Data Invesco

Cloud teams are driving innovation at lightning speed, building the future of our business. Meanwhile, security teams carry the heavy responsibility of keeping everything safe and compliant. Sometimes, this creates tension and misunderstandings that slow things down. Let’s unpack where these gaps come from, why shared responsibility matters, and how modern tools and practices help both teams collaborate smoothly without sacrificing speed or safety. It’s about turning friction into partnership and building cloud environments that are both agile and secure.

• What enterprises need before investing and scaling AI and understanding why infrastructure maturity matters
• Balancing risk and cost of AI adoption
• Evaluating buy-vs-build strategies for AI solutions
• The growing importance of AI governance—and how cloud infrastructure plays a critical role in enforcing responsible use

Organizations are accelerating cloud adoption, and protecting sensitive data across dynamic, multi-cloud environments is a top priority—but also one of the most complex data security challenges. With the exponential growth of data, traditional data loss prevention (DLP) solutions struggle to keep up, leaving critical gaps in coverage, compliance, and risk mitigation. 

In this session, we’ll explore how to take cloud security to the next level by integrating advanced data security posture management (DSPM) with intelligent DLP. Learn how to gain visibility into your most critical data assets, enforce policies that reduce risk, and ensure compliance with evolving global regulations. Attendees will leave with actionable insights into:

• Building a cloud-native security strategy to identify and protect sensitive data wherever it lives.
• Leveraging automation and AI to drive accurate classification, tagging, and monitoring of cloud data.
• Proactively mitigating risks with contextual DLP that empowers secure collaboration and data sharing.

• Customer service is one of the first industries to be disrupted by AI, at Zendesk we have leveraged our technology resources to transform the company internally, and to build AI into all parts of our customer product.
• Hear how we built a self service infrastructure platform, first for storage and then for data, it now manages 1000s of databases and warehouses serving our 100,000 + customers.
• How Devops needs to adapt to survive in the AI age and comparing the Cloud wave to the AI wave.

As organisations grow and embrace hybrid and multi-cloud environments, managing cyber risk becomes increasingly complex. Security teams often struggle with a patchwork of disconnected tools or rely on security platforms that don’t fully deliver on their promise to reduce risk across hybrid cloud environment. This leads to fragmented visibility, higher operational costs, slower response times, and unmet compliance requirements.

In this session, we will explore:

1. Approaches for building a connected cloud security strategy that delivers end-to-end visibility, prioritising vulnerabilities by actual risk, and driving effective remediation across varied infrastructures.
2. How organisations can cut through the noise to focus on the exposures that truly matters—from development to deployment and beyond.
3. Practical steps to move from alert fatigue to a unified, risk-based security strategy—enabling quicker decisions and better overall security outcomes.

• Cybersecurity threats facing AI and cloud-powered enterprises.
• Balancing AI innovation with security, compliance, and governance.
• Future-proofing enterprise cloud environments against evolving risks.

Moderator

Rucha Gatti Associate Director, Technology and Information Risk NAB

Panellists
Abhra Pal Lead Solutions Architect – Data and Cloud Infrastructure Telstra Super

Dave Vinluan Senior Release & Delivery Lead (Cloud, Data and Infrastructure Services) ANZ

Sean Duxbury Principal Engineer (Google Cloud Platform) IAG