Future of Tech Summit - 2026

Overview

Heading into 2026, technology and security teams are navigating increasing complexity, fragmented workflows, and growing pressure to deliver reliably across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Many still struggle with identity sprawl, inconsistent infrastructure patterns, and fragmented delivery that slows progress and increases risk. This session focuses on the practical steps leaders are taking to get ahead of 2026 by restoring consistency, strengthening governance, and creating predictable, secure delivery across teams and platforms.

What to expect

• Engagement Peer
• Executives 200+
• Insights Closed-Door

What we will cover

• Security baselines are inconsistent across teams, providers, and environments, creating material exposure and audit friction.
• AI adoption is outpacing governance models with data access boundaries, identity controls and platform consistency falling behind.
• Identity, secrets and access management have become fractured spanning legacy AD, multiple cloud IDPs, local service accounts, and unmanaged developer credentials
• Engineering and cloud delivery teams are working in parallel silos creating duplicated patterns, configuration drift, and unpredictable delivery outcomes

Agenda

• 11:00 am Solving the Hard Problems IT Leaders Are Facing in 2026(Future of Tech & Risk Readiness Summit Live 2026) As 2025 closes, Australian organisations are experiencing a common and growing reality: security, cloud, data, and engineering ecosystems have become too fragmented to support the speed, resilience, trust and AI-readiness demanded by boards and customers. Multiple clouds, diverse toolchains, inherited legacy infrastructure, and decentralised operating models have created an environment where every team works differently, every project creates drift, and every platform evolves in a slightly incompatible way . The outcome: higher risk, slower delivery, escalating costs, and an inability to rapidly but safely adopt AI. Heading into 2026, CIOs, CISOs, CTOs and Heads of Platform are converging around a consistent set of critical problems: Key discussion points: Security baselines are inconsistent across teams, providers, and environments, creating material exposure and audit friction. AI adoption is outpacing governance models , with data access boundaries, identity controls and platform consistency falling behind. Identity, secrets and access management have become fractured , spanning legacy AD, multiple cloud IDPs, local service accounts, and unmanaged developer credentials. Engineering and cloud delivery teams are working in parallel silos , creating duplicated patterns, configuration drift, and unpredictable delivery outcomes. Regulators and boards are raising expectations , demanding evidence of operational resilience and control maturity while tolerance for variance rapidly diminishes. This webinar brings senior technology leaders together for a practical, solution-focused dialogue on the capabilities, foundations and governance models that must be strengthened before the 2026 delivery cycle begins.

Speakers

• Andrew Haddad · Chief Information Officer, AGL
• Claes Mansson · Chief Information Officer, Swinburne University of Technology
• Scott Lester · Chief Risk and Audit Officer, BHP
• Teena Rowell · Chief Risk Officer, Suncorp Group
• Wendy Antaw · Chief Technology Officer, Perpetual
• Sandro Bucchianeri · Group Chief Security Officer, NAB

Partners

• HashiCorp

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