Event Organisers

ADAPT

ADAPT is an Australian research and events company that runs invitation-only executive programmes for technology leaders. Its security events are the Security Edge and Government Security Edge summits, with Government Security Edge held in Canberra each May for public-sector CISOs and security executives. Attendance is by invitation to qualifying end-user leaders, with vendors participating as sponsors, so there is no public ticket sale. The programme combines ADAPT's own research presentations with peer roundtables and sponsor sessions over a single day. The listing here records the date so eligible leaders can request an invitation.

1 conference

AISA

The Australian Information Security Association (AISA) is Australia's peak body for security professionals and runs the country's largest security event, the Australian Cyber Conference (CyberCon), held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre each October. It also runs one-day state conferences under the SEC banner: PerthSEC, AdelaideSEC, BrisSEC, DarwinSEC and others, typically at a city hotel. Between conferences, AISA branches hold monthly member meetings in each capital, including a regular Victorian branch meeting in Melbourne and an ACT branch meeting in Canberra, and the online branch runs webinars on current topics. Membership is not required to attend most branch events.

2 conferences, 6 events

ASIAL

The Australian Security Industry Association Limited represents security businesses across Australia, running major industry exhibitions and conferences.

AUSCERT

AusCERT is Australia's pioneering cyber emergency response team, based at the University of Queensland, and has run the AusCERT Cyber Security Conference on the Gold Coast every year since 2002. The conference runs over several days in May with tutorials, a two-day main programme, a members' day and a well-known social programme, and attracts a mix of practitioners, researchers and vendors. Tickets are paid, with member and early-bird rates. AusCERT also runs member-only briefings and webinars through the year for its subscribing organisations.

Australian Space Cyber Forum

The Australian Space Cyber Forum is an annual conference on the cyber security of space systems, held at the Adelaide Convention Centre in June. It brings together the space industry, defence, government and security researchers to cover satellite and ground-segment security, supply-chain assurance and the policy settings around space infrastructure. The fifth forum runs in 2027. The programme is a mix of keynotes, panels and technical presentations over one or two days, with sponsorship from space and defence companies. Adelaide is the natural home given the concentration of space agencies and companies at Lot Fourteen.

1 conference

Aventedge

Event management company specialising in technology and cybersecurity conferences across the Asia-Pacific region.

BCSM

The Brisbane Cyber Security Meetup is a community group bringing together cybersecurity enthusiasts and professionals for regular talks and networking.

BIAPAC

Business Intelligence Asia-Pacific organises leadership summits and conferences focused on technology, data, and cybersecurity for senior executives.

BSides

Security BSides is a volunteer-run, community-organised conference format that began in the United States and now runs in cities across the world. In this directory the BSides organiser page groups the Australian and wider Asia-Pacific editions: BSides Canberra, the largest volunteer-run security conference in Australia, which fills the National Convention Centre each September; BSides Perth at the UWA Business School in November; BSides Brisbane at QUT Gardens Point in July; and editions in Kathmandu and Mussoorie. BSides Sydney and BSides Melbourne are listed under their own names. Tickets are cheap or free, talks are chosen by open call for papers, and villages and capture-the-flag events run alongside the main track.

5 conferences

BSides/CSides

Community-organised security events combining the BSides and CSides formats for informal, collaborative security knowledge sharing.

Black Hat

Black Hat is the long-running series of technical security conferences known for its briefings and multi-day trainings. Black Hat Asia runs at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore in the first half of each year, with two days of briefings on new vulnerability research and offensive and defensive techniques, preceded by paid training courses, plus an arsenal of open-source tools and a business hall. Black Hat India, launched in Bengaluru, is listed under its own organiser name. Briefings passes are paid and priced for corporate budgets, with early registration discounts.

1 conference

Brightstar

Brightstar is a New Zealand conference producer whose security events are the National Cyber Security Summit, held at Tākina in Wellington each March, and the New Zealand Cyber Security Risk Conference, held at the New Zealand International Convention Centre in Auckland in August. Both are one or two-day conferences for security, risk and technology leaders in New Zealand government and industry, with local case studies, panels and pre-conference workshops. Tickets are paid, with public-sector and early-bird rates. Brightstar confirms venues and dates well ahead, and both 2027 editions are already listed.

2 conferences

CS4CA

Cyber Security for Critical Assets (CS4CA) runs summits on securing operational technology and critical infrastructure, bringing IT and OT security leaders together with asset owners in energy, water, mining, manufacturing and transport. The APAC edition runs in Singapore each April, and the ANZ edition in Perth in February, with the 2027 Perth summit at Crown Perth. Programmes are built around case studies from asset owners, panels on regulation and resilience, and closed roundtables, over two days. Tickets are paid, with reduced rates for end-user asset owners and higher rates for solution providers.

1 conference

CS4CA/ISMG

Joint events by Cyber Security for Critical Assets and Information Security Media Group, covering critical infrastructure protection and enterprise security.

Clutch Events

Clutch Events is a Melbourne-based conference producer that runs a rotating series of one-day security summits in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore. Its themes repeat each year: Identity World (identity and access management), Data Protection & Security, AI Security & Governance, and Secure Software & AppSec. Venues are consistent too, with Doltone House Hyde Park and ICC Sydney in Sydney, Collins Square and the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, and the Concorde Hotel in Singapore. Most editions are free for practitioners and end users, with vendors funding the programme through sponsorship. Expect a single track of practitioner talks, panels and a sponsor exhibition, finishing in the late afternoon.

11 conferences

Corinium

Corinium Global Intelligence produces invitation-style executive conferences for security leaders under the CISO brand: CISO Canberra, CISO Sydney, CISO Brisbane, CISO New Zealand in Auckland and CISO Singapore, plus sector spin-offs such as OT Security Sydney, AppSec & DevSecOps Sydney and an online CISO FSI ANZ forum for financial services. Events are one or two days at a central hotel or, in Sydney, Royal Randwick Racecourse, with panels of practising CISOs, closed-door roundtables and a sponsor floor. Passes are free or discounted for qualifying end-user security leaders and paid for vendors. Corinium publishes next-year dates early, so the 2027 editions are already listed.

3 conferences

CrikeyCon

CrikeyCon is Brisbane's grassroots security conference, run by volunteers since 2014 and now in its twelfth year. It is a single-day, single-track event each April with talks selected by open call for papers, a capture-the-flag competition and a strong social programme, and it deliberately keeps ticket prices low so students and newcomers can attend. Speakers range from well-known Australian researchers to first-time presenters, and the community feel is the point. Venue and ticket details for CrikeyCon 12 in 2027 are confirmed by the organisers closer to the date and updated here when published.

1 conference

Cyber Risk Meetup

DefenceIQ

Defence iQ, part of IQPC, produces conferences for the defence and national security community, and its Australian event is Secure Australia, held in Canberra each November. The conference covers cyber and information security in a defence and sovereign-capability context, with speakers from the Australian Defence Force, government agencies and defence industry. It is a two-day conference with a sponsor exhibition, aimed at defence and government security leaders and the companies that supply them. Tickets are paid, with government and military rates.

1 conference

Evanta (Gartner)

Evanta, a Gartner company, runs peer-led CISO Executive Summits in Melbourne and Sydney each November. The Melbourne summit is held at the Crown Conference Centre and the Sydney summit at the Hilton Sydney. Both are one-day, invitation-only gatherings for CISOs and senior security executives from large organisations, built around executive boardrooms, peer discussions and a small number of sponsor-hosted sessions. There is no public ticket sale; attendance is by application through the Evanta community, and vendors participate as partners. The listing here gives the date and venue so leaders can request an invitation in time.

2 conferences

Exito Media

Exito Media Concepts is a B2B event organiser producing cybersecurity and technology summits across the Asia-Pacific region.

Federation University

Federation University Australia is a public university with campuses in regional Victoria, hosting cybersecurity research events and academic conferences.

Focus Network

Focus Network is a B2B events company producing executive-level summits and roundtables on cybersecurity, cloud, and digital transformation in APAC.

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Forefront Events

Forefront Events produces the Cyber Resilience Summit series, a one-day executive conference that travels through the Australian states and into New Zealand and Singapore. Editions run in Sydney (NSW), Melbourne (VIC), Brisbane (QLD), Perth (WA), Auckland and Singapore, usually at a central hotel such as the Hilton Sydney. The format mixes keynotes from CISOs and public-sector security leaders with roundtables and sponsor-led sessions, and attendance is aimed at security and technology leaders rather than hands-on practitioners. Dates and venues for later editions are often announced only a few months out, so the listing for each city is re-checked monthly and updated when the organiser publishes details.

7 conferences

Gartner

Gartner runs the Security & Risk Management Summit series for security and risk leaders, with Asia-Pacific editions in Sydney at ICC Sydney in March, Mumbai at the Grand Hyatt in March, and Tokyo at the Grand Nikko Daiba in July. The programme is built around Gartner analyst sessions, one-on-one analyst meetings, peer roundtables and a large vendor exhibition, and is aimed at CISOs and their direct reports rather than hands-on engineers. Tickets are paid and sit at the premium end of the market, with early-bird pricing and group rates. Gartner also owns Evanta, whose CISO Executive Summits are listed separately.

3 conferences

GovWare

GovWare is Singapore's largest cybersecurity trade event and the anchor of Singapore International Cyber Week, held at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre each October. It combines a conference programme for government and enterprise security leaders with a large exhibition floor of regional and international vendors, plus co-located events run by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. Conference passes are paid, with free or discounted exhibition access. Its scale and the government presence make it the main annual meeting point for the Southeast Asian security industry.

1 conference

Hack The Box

Hack The Box is the gamified cybersecurity training platform, and its community meetups in Australia and New Zealand are hands-on sessions rather than talks. Hack The Box New Zealand runs a monthly meetup in Auckland at AUT, where attendees work through platform challenges together, share techniques and help newcomers get started. Sessions are free, informal and open to anyone from students to experienced penetration testers. Each meetup is numbered and announced on Meetup a few weeks ahead, and the next one is listed here with its room and time.

1 event

IBR Conferences

IBR Conferences organises professional development events and conferences across multiple sectors including cybersecurity in Australia.

IGRNET

IGRNET produces conferences focused on information governance, risk management, and compliance for Australian organisations.

ISACA

ISACA is the international association for IT governance, risk, audit and security professionals, and its Australian and New Zealand chapters run a steady programme of local events. The Melbourne chapter hosts evening sessions and webinars on topics such as third-party risk, zero trust and AI governance, often at member firms' offices on Collins Street. The Wellington chapter holds monthly meetings and an annual Education Day with workshops in November. Separate chapter pages exist for ISACA Perth, which runs the SecureIT conference each October, and ISACA Hyderabad, which runs the Fusion annual conference. Most chapter events are open to non-members and count towards CPE.

1 conference, 9 events

Kawaiicon

Kawaiicon is New Zealand's largest hacker conference and the successor to Kiwicon, run by the same crew in Wellington. It fills the Michael Fowler Centre for two days late each year with a single track of talks that range from serious vulnerability research to the deliberately absurd, plus training days beforehand and a social programme that is as much the event as the talks. Tickets are cheap for a conference of its size and sell out, with reduced rates for students and the unwaged. Kawaiicon 4 runs in 2026.

1 conference

Melbourne OT Cybersecurity

Melbourne OT Cybersecurity is a community meetup for people working in operational technology and industrial control system security across utilities, manufacturing, transport and critical infrastructure. It runs a quarterly Community Night at the Melbourne Multicultural Hub on Elizabeth Street, with two or three practitioner talks, a call for speakers before each session and networking afterwards. Attendance is free and open to anyone with an interest in OT security, including IT security staff moving into the field. Sessions are announced on Meetup a few weeks ahead, and each upcoming night is listed here with its date and venue.

2 events

Momentum Media

Momentum Media is an Australian media company producing events, publications, and digital content across legal, finance, and cybersecurity sectors.

NZITF

The New Zealand Internet Task Force promotes internet security and trust in New Zealand, organising the annual NetHui and cybersecurity community events.

Public Sector Network

Public Sector Network runs the Government Cyber Security Showcase, a free-to-attend conference for public servants that rotates through Australian and New Zealand capitals. The Federal edition in Canberra each October is the largest, held at the National Convention Centre, with state editions in Melbourne (Victoria), Adelaide (South Australia), Perth (Western Australia) and Wellington (Aotearoa) through the year. Sessions are pitched at government security, risk and digital leaders, with agency case studies alongside vendor presentations. Attendance is free for government employees; vendors attend as sponsors. Dates for the state editions are usually confirmed a few months ahead and are re-checked monthly here.

5 conferences

SANS Institute

The SANS Institute is the largest provider of hands-on cybersecurity training, and its Australian events are week-long training weeks rather than conferences. SANS Sydney runs at Cliftons in September, SANS Melbourne at Oakwood Premier in Southbank in October and SANS Canberra at the Novotel in November, each offering a selection of its GIAC-aligned courses in person and live online. A Women in Cyber training event runs in Sydney in March. Courses are paid and priced per seat, with early-bird discounts, and most weeks include free evening talks and NetWars tournaments that anyone can register for.

4 conferences

Safeguarding Australia

Safeguarding Australia, now operating as the Australian Security Research Centre, runs the Safeguarding Australia Summit in Canberra each October. The summit is a national security and resilience conference that covers cyber security alongside critical infrastructure protection, counter-terrorism and emergency management, with speakers from federal agencies, state governments and research bodies. It is held at the Commonwealth Club and runs over one or two days with an invited and paid audience of government, defence and industry security professionals.

1 conference

SecTalks

SecTalks is a community-run security meetup with chapters in Australian cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart. Each chapter meets roughly monthly for a talk or two followed by a hands-on capture-the-flag challenge, with the winner presenting the solution at the next session. Meetups are free, hosted at member companies' offices, and pitched at everyone from students to senior practitioners. Because chapters set their own dates on Meetup, each upcoming SecTalks session is listed here individually with its venue and time.

Terrapinn

Terrapinn is an international events company, and its Australian technology event with a security stream is Tech in Gov, held at the National Convention Centre Canberra each August. Tech in Gov is a large conference and exhibition for the federal and ACT public sector covering digital transformation, data and cyber security, with free attendance for government employees and paid passes for industry. Sessions run across several stages alongside an exhibition floor, and the cyber security stream features agency CISOs and the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

1 conference

UQ Cyber

The University of Queensland's cybersecurity initiative, hosting research events, workshops, and community engagement in cyber security.