About Us

BSides Melbourne is made up by a bunch of info sec friends with 20+ years behind them who simply want to make a positive impact to the Melbourne community. We are driven by sharing information, have a huge passion for growth in our industry where researchers can present their work in a friendly and welcoming environment and everybody has an opportunity to learn and network.
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• Meet our Organisers
• Meet our Review Board
• Meet our Mentors
• Thankyou to all our volunteers

BSides Melbourne Organising Committee

Email the team if you have any questions.

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Lukasz Gogolkiewicz

​Lukasz is the Head of Assurance at Context Information Security and one of the co-founders of TuskCon, Australia's most disorganised conference on the beach. He regularly presents at various conferences around Australia and New Zealand and when he isn't herding pentesters, you can find him building something useless in his woodworking shop.

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Kirstin McIntosh

​Kirstin McIntosh is the Head of Partnerships for CyRise, Australia’s cyber security venture accelerator where she works with some of most technically adept and ambitious minds of the cyber security community. She supports their growth with  startup skills, customer introductions , and investor links. Before this, Kirstin worked in Europe and Asia in business development in the private sector, and corporate partnership roles in public sector for over 23 years before returning to Australia in 2017 and moving into startups. Kirstin holds an MBA from IMD in Switzerland, and a B.Comm from University of Melbourne.

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Brett Williams

Brett is one of the organisers and committee members of Bsides Melbourne. He is widely recognized for his extensive and in-depth knowledge of the security landscape. He has experience working across industry sectors including finance, government, health and education. Brett has over 27 years’ experience working in information technology and Security.

​Over the years Brett has presented both locally and globally on a wide range of security topics including incident response, intelligence, security operations and digital forensics.  Conferences have included, ACSC, AISA, ISC2, Singapore Govware and RSA Conference. His day job is a Lead Solutions Architect at Flashpoint, where he is responsible for providing relevant intelligence and services to customers, to help them address various use cases including cyber threat intelligence, anti-fraud, physical security, Counter Terrorism and law enforcement.

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Alison Fenwick

Alison is one of the organisers and committee members of BSides Melbourne. She has over 19 years of industry experience, mostly across Government and Financial sectors and has a board coverage of roles, including network/communications engineer, project management/delivery and strategy. Alison contributes to the broader community, including raising puppies for Guide Dogs Victoria!

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Lidia Giuliano

Lidia has been in the Information Security industry for over 15 years, with experience spanning the DoD, financial, retail and telecommunication sectors. After living in the USA for 3 years and seeing the impact BSides brought to the community, she wanted to create the same experience in Melbourne.
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Lidia is also a member of the Black Hat Asia Regional Review Board, DevSecCon Review Board, Black Hat USA Speaker Coach Program, volunteer mentor for FiTT, actively involved in the information security community.  She has completed a BAppSci (CS) & MAppSci (IT) from RMIT University and has spoken at many security confidences internationally and nationally.