Mr Christopher Anthony is a Director in the Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) Division at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). The division is responsible for building the cyber resilience of the Nation’s essential services across 11 CII sectors covering government, utilities, transport and services clusters. He works with sectoral regulators to strengthen the cyber resilience of CIIs, to promote confidence building measures and to deepen the public-private partnership between the government and CII stakeholders.

Christopher has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, technology governance, risk management, resilience, and compliance. Prior to joining CSA, he was in the private sector for a US listed multi-national corporation.

Rowan Macfarlane is a Principal Industrial Consultant at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, where he performs architectural assessments, network vulnerability assessments, compromise assessments, tabletop exercises and a range of other customer-facing activities.

Rowan has over 15 years of experience in OT cyber security, having worked in both operations and consulting. During this time, Rowan has:

Commissioned and operated two LNG plants
Helped define and build operational OT support teams
Led design and implementation of a ‘zones and conduits’ network architecture
Designed and built OT management zones, monitoring, and secure remote access systems
Built OT risk management and assurance practices
Performed technical penetration tests for various industries in the Asia Pacific region.

Conor McLaren is the International Intel Analysis Practice Lead at Dragos, where he focuses on enhancing the value of the intelligence service offering and guides an incredibly talented team of intel analysts in the APAC region. Conor also specialises in the research and analysis of a plethora of adversarial threat activity relevant to ICS/OT organisations in the APAC region. Conor has an immense passion for threat intelligence due to its profound impact on shaping business decisions, organisational security strategy and aiding frontline defenders.

Before joining Dragos, Conor worked as a cybersecurity professional in a diverse range of sectors, including resources, fast-moving consumer goods, government, technology, and consulting. Most recently, Conor was a Senior Threat Response Analyst at Crowdstrike's OverWatch Elite team, performing sector-specific and hypothesis-driven threat hunts for a range of global organisations.

Conor possesses an unwavering commitment to developing innovative solutions to adapt to the ever-changing threat landscape and ensuring the protection and forewarning of our nation's most critical assets.

Volven D’Souza is a Principal Solutions Architect focussed on industrial cybersecurity for Dragos since March 2020, where he collaborates with customers across APAC to build solutions to defend against cyber threats that could impact the safety and resiliency of industrial systems.

Volven has over 20+ years of proven experience working with big 4 consulting firms, global system integrators and Oil and Gas operator delivering consulting, risk and compliance, architecture, solution design, implementation and project management services specifically in security, networks and infrastructure problem areas.