Speakers
Christie Wilson, Cyber Resilience Lead, Unisuper
Christie is the Cyber Resilience Lead at
UniSuper, where she helps employees understand cybersecurity threats, and how to take the right
steps to prevent them. Christie works with the information security team to provide employees
with simple,
easy to understand advice on cyber safety for work and home, as well as up-to date information
on the latest cybersecurity threats and how to respond.
Christie is a senior IT leader with over 20 years' experience in both the vendor and corporate IT spaces.
Christie's roles have spanned procurement, sales, service delivery, service management, vendor management, governance, IT risk management, compliance, and now cyber security.
In her 10 years in IT sales and service delivery, Christie worked with companies such as IBM, ANZ, NAB, QANTAS, Telstra, and UniSuper to deliver IT software and hardware projects and ongoing support.
In the corporate IT space, Christie has worked in several greenfields roles, including IT risk management, vendor management, and vendor governance.
Before starting in the IT world, Christie completed her BA (English Literature and Sociology) and Graduate Diploma, Social Science (Social Research) at the University of Tasmania.
Anya M. Reading, Professor of Geophysics, School of Natural Sciences (Physics) – University of Tasmania
Anya Reading studied astrophysics and
geophysics for her undergraduate/Honours degrees at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She
quickly adopted computational techniques as part of the toolbox that she carries through her
scientific research life. A PhD from the University of Leeds, researching earthquakes at the plate boundary
beneath New Zealand, and a mixed technical/research role with British Antarctic Survey added
remote area data collection to that toolbox.
Anya Reading came to Australia in 2000 to take up a research fellowship at ANU, moving to UTAS in 2007. She leads research which pioneers recording geophysical data in remote or challenging locations such as Antarctica, outback Australia and the Bass Strait Islands. This adventuring spirit also extends to exploring and extending the ways that we can use computers to learn from data. She is currently Professor of Geophysics, recently joining the Physics discipline at UTAS, with strong ongoing connections to Earth Sciences and IMAS.
An advocate of STEM subjects in the public eye, she also contributes to national and international research development, for example, through progressing national research infrastructure for Australia, and policy development activities for the US Natural Science Foundation, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Rebecca Kardos, Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Aurora Energy
Rebecca is the Chief Executive
Officer/Managing Director of Aurora Energy, Tasmania 100% owned energy retailer. Rebecca has
significant executive experience in the utilities sector in Australia and New Zealand in both
the public and private sector. Rebecca is currently a non-executive director of the Alannah and Madeline
Foundation and has a range of non-executive director experience in the not for profit sector and
with industry bodies.
Rebecca is passionate about creating and realising value for customers, communities, employees, partners and shareholders. She has proven performance in the creation and execution of strategy, which is supported by her strong ability to collaborate, constructively challenge, facilitate change and culture leadership. She has a strong social conscience, is tech and people savvy and proven performer in achieving commercial outcomes.
Rebecca holds a Masters of Business Administration, a Bachelor of Computer Science and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
