Cyber West Summit
Cyber education for business leaders.
What is the CyberWest Summit?
Cyber security is not just an IT problem. It affects everyone who uses digital technology, especially in the era of remote work, online transactions, and cloud services.
The annual CyberWest Summit provides jargon-free, accessible education to professionals from across an organisation on what they need to understand. Attendees gain an insight into the full range of issues covered under ‘cyber’ from the global context to legal requirements. Most importantly, they learn actionable ways to protect themselves and their organisation from cyber threats, and how to get back to business should the worst happen.
Across two days attendees can hear from expert speakers, participate in interactive workshops and connect with cyber providers operating in WA who can help solve their problems.
CyberWest Summit 2024
The theme for 2024 was “Cyber Ready, Stay in the Game”, and continued to grow attracting 679 delegates across the two days. Attendees had a range of opportunities to learn and engage with cyber security through meeting 34 exhibitors and participating in the 28 Presentations, 13 Panels, and 8 Workshops delivered by 88 local, national, and international experts.
Keynote speakers included
Kai Roer, international cyber culture expert,
Craig Ford, author, CISO and Cyber Unicorn and
Hayley Turner, Area Vice President, APAC for Dragos.
In addition, Seeyew Mo, Assistant National Cyber Director for Cyber Workforce, Training and Education at the White House renowned scam artist turned CIA advisor, Frank Abagnale, both gave pre-recorded virtual presentations exclusively for the Summit.
CyberWest Summit 2023
CyberWest Summit 2023 was re-imagined as 'The Cyber Conference for Non-Cyber Professionals', linking to our mission to help all businesses to be more cyber-secure. The 2-day event brought together over 500 attendees.
The event theme was “Secure by Design”, and showcased engaging keynotes, thought-provoking panel discussions,
in-depth workshops plus a careers showcase, all aimed at bridging the gap between IT and other parts of the organisation in understanding cyber resilience.
Keynote speakers included:
Camille Stewart-Gloster, Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House
Terry Roberts, Whitehawk
CyberWest Summit 2021
The inaugural CyberWest Summit was held in Perth on 24 - 25 June 2021. Attended by over 350 delegates, the event focussed on critical infrastructure and law enforcement as well as finance, health, education and data science.
Speakers at Cyber West Summit 21 included
The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull
The Hon Andrew Hastie MP (Assistant Minister for Defence)
Keith Howard (Chief Information Security Officer of Commonwealth Bank Group)
Tim Watts MP (Shadow Assistant Minister for Communications and Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security).
In addition to the keynote presentations, delegates attended breakout sessions and a live demo showcase.
The breakout sessions, run by mostly Western Australian industry experts, talked to the various topics of focus for the Summit, providing a high-level view of how the risk of cyber attack is a disruptor to business, and how it can be combatted.
The Live Demo Showcase component provided five local WA cyber security companies with the opportunity to demonstrate a capability with potential commercialisation and highlight the export opportunity for new and upcoming businesses in the sector.
“Amazing event – lots of interaction, great activities, great mix of government, industry, academia and partners involves – one of the highlights of the year for me so far.”
— CyberWest Summit Delegate Feedback