AISA's NSW Security Day Conference, SydneySEC is a one day conference with a program featuring sessions designed to foster dialogue, share best practices and help shape Australia's cyber security future.  The conference theme for SydneySEC 2026 is AI-sa: Defending Tomorrow, Today

This isn't another AI conference. This is AI-sa

Artificial Intelligence is no longer an emerging technology sitting at the edge of our strategic conversations—it's here, it’s accelerating, and it’s reshaping the security landscape faster than most organisations can adapt. AI‑SA: Defending Tomorrow, Today exists because the industry doesn’t need another high‑level “future of AI” event. It needs a forum for people who are actually doing the work—leaders, practitioners, architects, researchers—those who understand that securing AI is now integral to securing everything else. Where many conferences skim the surface—with broad ethical discussions, regulatory updates from distant jurisdictions, or the “latest” AI headlines—we’re building something different. Something essential. Something overdue.

Speaking Themes

1. The AI Security World

This stream is suitable for speakers who want to share information about: 

• AI security, AI enabled threats, and AI used defensively
• Future forward security strategies in an AI Augmented world
• Defending with AI: Practical tools and real world implementations

2. Building Cyber Resilience (Cyber security, incident response & resilience)

This stream is suitable for speakers who want to explore: 

• Cyber security risk ownership at the board, executive, and ministerial levels
• Identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery under real time pressure
• Regulatory expectations, assurance obligations, and incident disclosure
• Incident response and crisis leadership
• Investment decisions balancing security, delivery, and public trust

3. Responsible Leadership (Leadership, culture, strategy, risk, regulation & policy)

This stream is suitable for speakers who want to examine:

• Workforce capability, shortages, and long term sustainability
• Security culture and behavioural risk
• Leadership during incidents and prolonged threat activitySupply chain risk and third-party dependency
• Cyber security risk ownership at the board, executive, and ministerial levels

Speaking Session Styles 

All sessions are 40 minutes in duration and the conference program will feature the following session types:

Session
Up to two presenters will share insights on a focused topic, drawing from their relevant experience and unique perspectives. A session highlights voices with recognised impact in their area of expertise, offers valuable insights and takeaways.

Panel
A moderated discussion featuring three panellists and a moderator who bring diverse experiences and perspectives to a focused topic. A panel session offers a dynamic exchange of ideas, insights, and stories from voices recognised for their contributions and thought leadership in their field. 

Interactive Session
The interactive sessions will start with a 15 minute presentation from the speaker.  Following this, the session becomes interactive, with a focus on gaining audience participation, whereby the speaker turns facilitator, garnering audience engagement through Q&A, and discussion.