Speakers and Organisers

NSW Privacy Commissioner

As the NSW Privacy Commissioner, Samantha Gavel's role is to promote public awareness and understanding of privacy rights in NSW, as well as providing information, support, advice and assistance to agencies and the general public. Her responsibilities include the preparation of reports in the interests of privacy as well as conducting inquiries and investigations into privacy related matters. Most recently Ms Gavel was the National Health Practitioner Ombudsman and Privacy Commissioner, and previously held the role of Private Health Insurance Ombudsman for six years. Ms Gavel has also worked in senior administrative roles for both NSW and Commonwealth Government organisations. She is an experienced mediator and has significant expertise in complaints handling, dispute resolution, privacy rights and ombudsman work.

Director at Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation

Lyria is Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is also co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and Faculty lead in the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security. Lyria's research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia and other jurisdictions, and the problems of treating “technology” as an object of regulation. Recently, she has been working on legal and policy issues associated with the use of artificial intelligence, the appropriate legal framework for enhancing cyber security, and oversight for law enforcement intelligence. Lyria is a member of the editorial boards for Technology and Regulation; Law, Technology and Humans; Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law; and Law in Context. She is on the NSW Information and Privacy Advisory Committee, the Executive Committee of the Australian Chapter of the IEEE’s Society for the Social Implications of Technology, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Director, Privacy Enhancing Technology, Deloitte, Australia

Tim is a Director in the Deloitte Australia, Data & Privacy team, leading the firm's Privacy Enhancing Technology initiative. Having held senior roles at SAP, IBM and Oracle he has been actively involved in the PETs space for the last 5 years, most recently as Head of Strategic Engagements with an Australian listed start-up before joining Deloitte. He is also an active participant in the global homomorphic encryption standardisation initiative.

Professor of Law, Sydney University

Kimberlee is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a Fellow with the Gradient Institute. She specialises in issues at the intersection of law and technology, as well as intellectual property law. Her current research focuses on the law relating to the collection, ownership, use and governance of data about and related to people, including privacy law, with the goal of ensuring that data collection, use and linkage, and data and predictive analytics are developed in ways that are beneficial to people and society. She will soon be commencing a new ARC Linkage project on Socially Responsible Insurance in an Age of Artificial Intelligence.

CEO, Ambiata

Stephen is an expert in the application of data science to solve tough business challenges and create new value, which he has done during his time at CSIRO, NICTA and Canon’s Australian R&D centre.

He has over 20 years of experience in the data science field, and a PhD in Physics. He has a strong technical background, including algorithm design and implementation, machine learning, data wrangling, data security, cryptography and privacy.

Research Scientist, Data61, CSIRO

M.A.P. Chamikara is a research scientist at CSIRO's Data61, and he is also affiliated with Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC), Australia. He received his Ph.D. from RMIT University, Australia. For his Ph.D. research work, he received the Research Achievement Award for outstanding research performance, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, and the RMIT Prize for Research Excellence – Higher Degree by Research (Technology). He also received the Collaboration Award, Software and Computational Systems program, CSIRO's Data61 for his research work at CSIRO. His current research interests include data privacy, distributed privacy-preserving machine Learning, explainable AI, and human-centric cyber security.

Head of Product, IXUP, Australia

With over a decade of experience in product management, Paul works with customers, partners and the IXUP development team to create and shape our platform roadmap, product features and functions. With an interest in commercialising PET technology, Paul specialises in designing platforms and processes that protect and enhance data within secure cloud architectures.

NSW Government’s Chief Data Scientist

Dr. Ian Oppermann is the NSW Government’s Chief Data Scientist working within the Department of Customer Service. He is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Ian has been recognised as a Global Leader in Data and Analytics (Corinium’s Global Top 100 in 2020 and 2022) spanning the domains of government, industry, academia and standards. Ian has an MBA from the University of London and a PhD in Mobile Telecommunications from Sydney University. Ian is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW, is a Fellow and Immediate Past President of the Australian Computer Society, and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is Chair of Australia’s IEC National Committee and JTC1, the NSW AI Review Committee and the NSW Smart Places Advisory Council.