River in Action
Leading, Speaking, and Transforming - One Stage at a Time
A Speaker. A Leader. A Catalyst for Change.
The CEO Magazine's 2025 ANZ Top 50 Women of Influence. Experience the energy and impact of River —on stage, moderating panels, leading discussions, and inspiring audiences. Whether delivering keynotes, hosting panels, or engaging in fireside chats, River brings a dynamic presence, blending a wealth of experience from various industries and business functions with thought-provoking insights.
Explore highlights from past events, conference stages, press and industry summits below - moments that inspire, educate, and drive meaningful change.
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Recent Engagements
Speaking at InfoTrust's Launch party, sharing real world examples on Data Security & Cyber Resilience
Appearing on Sunrise on 7 Smart Glasses Privacy Concerns
Appearing on Weekend Sunrise on 7 - Discussing the Global Mastercard Outage
Fireside Chat, Panel & the Closing Keynote at The Payment Security Summit
Focus Group - Data Governance & Security Featured Keynote
CISO Sydney MC for Track C - Enabling Growth including strategies for uplifting cyber programs & maturing culture
CISO Sydney MC for Track C - Enabling Growth including strategies for uplifting cyber programs & maturing culture
CISO Sydney Panelist - GRC and intersections with AI, Resiliency, Human Centric Cybersecurity & Productivity
CISO Sydney Panelist - Educate - Simple steps to improve accountability across the business
Proofpoint Protect Tour - Customer Fireside Chat
A focus on Data Governance & DLP
Roundtable - From Boardroom to Endpoint: A comprehensive approach to cybersecurity
Click Safely - educating the blockchain & Web3 community on emerging cyber threats to crypto & blockchain projects.
Why work with river
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Deep Executive and Industry Experience - More than 17 years of experience across cybersecurity, technology, AI, digital assets, financial services, healthcare, government and regulation, including leadership roles as a CISO, CTO and COO.
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Complex Topics Made Clear - I translate cybersecurity, AI, data governance, digital assets, privacy and risk into practical insights that executives, technology teams and the public can understand and act on.
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More Than a Speaker - I combine keynote speaking and media commentary with executive education, strategic advisory and hands-on delivery, bringing practical experience rather than theory alone.
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From Boardrooms to Broadcast Media - Whether advising a board, leading an AI audit, acting as a virtual CISO or CTO, delivering a public course, speaking at a conference or appearing on television, I adapt complex ideas to the audience and make them engaging, relevant and memorable.
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Sydney, Australia