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CDAO Melbourne

2026 Speakers

Daniel Morse

Chief Data Officer

EnergyAustralia

Olga Vasilyeva

Former Chief Data Officer

Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA)

Farnoosh Sadeghian

Acting Chief Information Officer

Yarra City Council

Behrooz Hassani-Mahmooei

Chief Analytics Officer

Monash University

John Antony

Chief Data and Insights Officer Strategy

EPA Victoria

Irfan Khan

Head of Data and Analytics

Melbourne Airport

Brad Ryan

Chief AI Officer

i-screen

Irina Chinenova

GM, Data & Insights

REST

Craig Rowlands

General Manager Enterprise Data & AI

Australian Unity

Kathryn Gulifa

GM Data and Analytics

HBF Health

Darshil Mehta

Head of Member Data Management

AustralianSuper

Greg Turner

GM Data & Analytics

Acenda Life

Jane McCarthy

Head of Data & Insights

Flybuys

Vibhu Tandon

Executive General Manager Data Analytics & Insights

MedHealth

Patrick McQuaid

Group Head of Data, Analytics & AI

NGM Group

Ajay Radhakrishnan

Head of Data and Digital

City of Greater Geelong

Nea Dhillon

Director, AI Technology & Delivery

Victoria University

Dheeraj Garg

Global Head of Data, AI & Analytics

Thryv

Suresh Bhaskaran

Head of Data & Analytics

Asahi Beverages

Saurav Sachdev

Head of Technology - Data & AI Platform

Coles

Asmita Deshpande

EM Data Product & Data Governance Expert

NBN Australia

Ali Khan

National Head of Data, AI & Interoperability

St Vincent's Health Australia

Sandeep Shankar

Head of Data and Analytics

iSelect & Compare the Market

Kaushik Lakshman

Head of Data Science

Xero

Hamish Morgan

Head of Data and AI Governance

Treasury Wine Estates

Annie Yu

Senior Manager, Data & Analytics (APAC)

Mars

Nikita Jauhari

Divisional Data Management Steward

NAB

John Howe

Regional Product Artwork and Content Lead for Asia Pacific

MARS Corporate Marketing

Zoran Karanfilovski

Data Governance Lead

Pepper Money

Ian Evans

Director: Data, Insights & AI

Keypath Education

George Ibrahim

Senior Manager Contract Quality and Performance

Department of Transport & Planning

Adam Rentsch

Head of Data & AI

Cricket Australia

Asel Mendis

Data & Analytics Lead - Network and Retail Analytics

Kmart

Vivek Kumar

Tech Manager, Data Engineering

Thryv

Dr M Maruf Hossain

2024 Global Top 100 Innovators in Data and Analytics

Banking and Financial Services

Bhavisha Sharma

Senior Data Delivery Lead

GPC Asia Pacific

Raja Koushik

Data Migration & Governance Manager

Kinetic

Amish Goel

Head of Data, Analytics & Insights

Adairs

Subhrajit Banik

Branch Head

DAMA Melbourne

Melroy Vanlangenberg

Former Head of Data Governance

Australian Unity

Dave Vinluan

Former Head of Release and Service Delivery

ANZ

Ajay Kumar

Head of AI Solutions

InfoTrack

Bhargav Addala

Senior Vice President Product

ThoughtSpot

Esther Lim

Principal Solutions Consultant

Quest

Joseph Sullivan

Regional Vice President and Head of Specialist Sales APJ

Informatica from Salesforce

Richard Wilmot

Technical Account Manager

Ab Initio

George Bassili

Managing Partner

IM Systems

Domenic Brasacchio

Senior Account Executive

Cloudera

Durjoy Patranabish

VP and Head of Global Business

Tiger Analytics

Della Zhuang

VP of Growth ANZ

Ataccama

Gunjan Shrestha

Enterprise Solution Architect

Tricentis

Vincent Low

Founder & CEO

Synogize

Dean Nguyen

CEO & Director

KADA AI

Nishank Pottapu

Sr. Principal Solution Engineer

BMC Software

Joe Herbert

Principal Solution Architect

Maia by Matillion

Bernadeth Lucanas

Cloud, Data, AI, & Cyber Security Expert

Mutka Arora

Associate Director - Enterprise Data Management

Optus

Gavin Chew

Data and AI Executive

Alinta Energy