Talks & Presentations

Keynote panel with Joshua Collins (Deloitte) on why fragmented governance over non-human identity sprawl has become the enterprise's most exploitable blind spot, and how a unified Okta-Deloitte policy engine replaces point tools for workforce, contractor, and machine identities. Also co-hosted a roundtable with Deloitte's Jose Almaraz on navigating security-driven governance in a fragmented identity landscape.

Live demo session on why AI agents shouldn't be handed users' own keys — using delegated, notarised JWT claims (RFC 8693 actor claims) instead of borrowed tokens to build production-ready agentic AI without hand-rolling custom identity and authorisation code.

Fireside chat keynote with Rhys Evans (AWS) on why AI agents need to be secured as first-class identities, not bolted-on service accounts.

Demo session on securing agentic AI at scale — why treating AI agents as service apps causes privilege escalation, and how modelling agents as first-class identities with Cross-App Access (XAA) closes the gap.

Presented and ran live demonstrations at the AI Identity Summit series in both Sydney and Melbourne, sharing Okta's blueprint for securing the agentic enterprise.

Keynote on securing customers, employees, and AI agents in the age of autonomous AI — why AI security is identity security, and how to close the agent identity and data authorisation gaps that stronger models expose.

As Large Language Models evolve into autonomous agents capable of executing complex workflows, the attack surface expands exponentially. It is no longer enough to guard against prompt injection; we must now secure the actions the AI takes. This talk introduces a comprehensive framework for securing Agentic AI, moving beyond basic guardrails to architectural resilience.

Ran a hands-on lab at apidays Melbourne 2025, walking attendees through securing APIs and AI agents with Auth0 Fine-Grained Authorization.

Delivered the opening keynote and an Auth0 breakout session at Oktane on the Road Sydney, covering the state of identity and Auth0's roadmap for ANZ customers.

Represented APJ as an Oktane Ambassador at Okta's global Oktane conference, supporting onsite programming and audience engagement.

Presented findings from Auth0's Customer Identity Trends Report 2025 at a series of ANZ roundtables, covering how AI agents are reshaping consumer trust in identity and authentication.

Co-hosted an Auth0 Virtual Dev Camp — a hands-on session run for customers and their extended engineering teams to get building with Auth0.

Presented at the ANZ Identity Summit series in both Sydney and Melbourne, sharing Okta and Auth0's blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise with a mixed audience of technology, legal, and business leaders.

Keynote presenting the updated Auth0 roadmap to an ANZ audience as part of Okta's Oktane on the Road regional roadshow.

Speaking at the Digital Retail Summit for the second year in a row, on how secure identity underpins delightful customer experiences in retail.

Webinar for the NSW Chapter of the Australian Computer Society on Passkeys — what they are, how they work, and where they fit in modern authentication.

Presentation given at IdentityXP's Identity Management Day 2024 Virtual Conference on Passkeys.