Zenith Live Encore Brisbane

Agenda at-a-glance

*Agenda is subject to change

12:30 – 1:00 PM	Arrival, coffee and light lunch
1:00 – 1:05 PM	Welcome Shannon Nixon Regional Director Zscaler
1:05 – 1:15 PM	Australia's Agentic Future: Securing Innovation in an Autonomous Era The future organisation will be increasingly agentic, and the organisations that lead will be those that can enable autonomous innovation within a security architecture designed for continuous trust. Eric Swift Managing Director and Area Vice President Zscaler ANZ
1:15 – 1:40 PM	Reimagining Zero Trust SASE for the AI Era AI and market shifts are redefining the enterprise. You cannot win by outrunning attackers with better AI; you out-architect them. This keynote shares Zscaler’s vision for the Zero Trust Exchange, highlighting Zero Trust SASE innovations designed to simplify operations, elevate user experience, and prove that architecture beats AI by making your attack surface disappear. Bill Lapp CTO Zscaler
1:40 – 1:55 PM	Securing Australia’s Next Horizon: Building Resilience in the Age of AI From SolarWinds to the rise of agentic AI, major shifts in the cyber threat environment have forced governments to rethink how security is built. This session will trace that evolution from the global shift toward Zero Trust to Australia’s 2023 commitment to embed it across government, and the emerging challenge of securing systems operating at machine speed. Against Five Eyes warnings that frontier AI could transform cyber risk within months, the discussion will explore how Horizon 2, SOCI reforms and AI governance are converging - and what this next phase of Australia’s resilience agenda means for industry. Adam Dobell Head of Public Sector APJ Zscaler
1:55 – 2:20 PM	Securing the Full AI Lifecycle This session examines how organisations can secure AI across every layer; from discovery to runtime. It covers visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned AI use, granular access controls, real-time guardrails, compliance benchmarking, and prompt hardening to protect data and internal AI apps. It also addresses governing autonomous agents through protocol-level controls and centralised oversight. Nick Harders Senior Director of Solutions Engineering ANZ Zscaler
2:20 – 2:55 PM	Afternoon Tea Break, Networking & Demo Showcase
2:55 – 3:20 PM	Regaining Control of your Data in the Agentic Era Enterprise innovation now relies on feeding large language models and autonomous agents with mission-critical business data leaving organisations open to governance blind spots, compliance penalties, and supply chain exposure. This session breaks down how Zscaler's enhanced DSPM solution shifts data protection from reactive perimeter defense to proactive, data-centric governance. Discover how agentless, AI-powered classification maps your complete data surface, demystifies complex identity-to-data relationships, and ensures strict least-privilege access across distributed cloud estates. Mark Shaw Regional Lead for Data Security, ANZ Zscaler
3:20 – 3:45 PM	Modernising Cyber Defense with Agentic Security Operations The threat landscape is outpacing most security teams. In this session Michelle McClean examine today’s fast-moving threat landscape and why SecOps must modernise. The session explores how agentic AI helps SOC teams detect, investigate, and respond faster, shifting analysts from manual triage to higher-value decisions and narrowing the gap between attack speed and human response. Michelle McClean Senior Director for Security Operations Zscaler
3:45 PM Onwards	Closing remarks and networking