AGENDA

Insights that inspire.

09:00 AM
09:30 AM
Registration & Coffee
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
Opening Keynote

Preparing the Payments Industry for What’s Next

Yew Kuann Cheng – Regional Vice President, PCI Security Standards Council
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
Keynote

Governance, Risk & Compliance in the Age of Real-Time Payments: Building a Resilient Control Framework

Mark Carlo Pahati – Vice President, ISACA - Sydney Chapter
10:30 AM
10:45 AM
Keynote

Keynote

Riaz Hussain – Head of Security and Standards, Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet)
10:45 AM
11:30 AM
Panel Discussion

Security Without Friction: Balancing Risk Controls and Customer Experience

Moderator:
Tharun Kuppanda – Head of Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Partnerships, Boardroom Group

Panellists:
Chris de Wit – Group Chief Risk Officer, Colonial First State
Jane Couchman – Chief Risk Officer, Aware Super
Varun B Iyer – Tech and Cyber leader, ING Australia
J A Zein – Global Head of Governance, Risk & Assurance, Toll Group
Manjunath Iyer – Global Cyber GRC, Zurich Cover-More
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
Networking Break
12:00 PM
12:15 PM
Keynote

Data Security in the AI World (Risk Associates)

Dr. Aftab Rizvi – CEO & Chairman, Risk Associates & The Associates Group
12:15 PM
12:30 PM
Keynote

Network Tokenisation 2.0 – Securing Card-on-File and Agentic Commerce in a Token-First Australia

Ali Hawli – Vice President - Payments, Australasia, Mastercard
12:30 PM
12:45 PM
Keynote

Payment Security in the Age of Agentic AI

Ajay Unni – Founder & Chief Executive Officer, StickmanCyber
12:45 PM
01:20 PM
Fireside Chat

Building Resilient Instant Payments Infrastructure for the NPP Era

Chris Campbell – Head of New Payments & Payments Policy, The Westpac Group
River Nygryn – Chief Technology Officer, Command Ridge Virtual Asset Authority

Moderator:
Nathan Cassar – Event Host
01:20 PM
02:20 PM
Lunch Break
02:20 PM
02:35 PM
Keynote

Identity as the New Perimeter – Synthetic Identity and Deepfake Defence Strategies

Santanu Lodh – Chief Information Security Officer, OFX Group
02:35 PM
02:50 PM
Keynote

Quantum-Resilient Cryptography and the Long-Term Security Roadmap for Australian Payments

Dr. Rajendran N – Co-inventor of UPI, Former CDO/CTO, MCX and NPCI
02:50 PM
03:30 PM
Panel Discussion

The Future of PCI, Encryption, and Data Protection in a Tokenised, Cloud-Native Ecosystem

Panellists:
River Nygryn – Chief Technology Officer, Command Ridge Virtual Asset Authority
Rizwan Mahmood – CEO, Guardware Australia Pty Ltd
Dr. Rajendran N – Co-inventor of UPI, Former CDO/CTO, MCX and NPCI
Yew Kuann Cheng – Regional Vice President, PCI Security Standards Council

Moderator:
Nathan Cassar – Event Host
03:30 PM
03:45 PM
Closing Keynote

From Detection to Prevention: Building Closed-Loop Payment Security Systems That Stop Fraud at Source

River Nygryn – Chief Technology Officer, Command Ridge Virtual Asset Authority
03:45 PM
04:00 PM
Closing Remarks
04:00 PM
Onwards
Networking Gala
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