AES Open Day - Speakers

Dr Kenneth Radke

Technical Director, Critical Infrastructure and Operational Technology Environments, Cyber Security Resilience | Australian Signals Directorate

Simon Siebert

Head of Payments Architecture | Australian Payments Plus

Frank Phillis

Senior Go to Market Solutions Architect (Security) | Amazon Web Services

Frank is a Senior Go to Market Solutions Architect (Security) at AWS, working with customers and the AWS service teams. He enables customers to get their security architecture right. Frank specializes in cryptography, payments, identity, and incident response. He’s the creator of the popular AWS Incident Response playbooks, he is an AWS blog post and technical documents author, and regularly speaks at top tier AWS security and industry events.

Riaz Hussain

Head of Security Standards & Transformation | AusPayNet

Riaz Hussain is Head of Security Standards & Transformation at Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet). He is responsible for security standards, frameworks, and policies for payments, including sponsorship of industry-wide programmes.

Riaz has more than 30 years’ experience in technology leadership across financial services in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and United States. He holds an Masters Degree of Science from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Mark Williams

AES Migration Program Engagement and Change Lead | AusPayNet

Mark Williams is the AES Migration Program Engagement and Change Lead. He has 30 years of experience in leading change, ranging from systemic innovation and new service development through to technology modernisation and digital venturing.. Mark has broad experience in the payments system landscape including deep knowledge of the regulatory environment and is passionate about industry-wide systemic change and innovation. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Strategy Officer at BPAY Group, responsible for its long-term and sustainable growth including Osko, the first overlay service on the New Payments Platform.