13-14 May 2026, Sydney

Day One – Wednesday 13 May 2026

 

8.30       Registration opens

 

9.00       Opening remarks from conference chair

 

9.10       International Keynote Address:
Strengthening Interagency Collaboration Through Secure Data 

• Constructing your fraud data sharing around current key threats
• Navigating the key obstacles in data sharing for fraud control
• Refining your fraud data sharing and analysis process according to each threat
• Designing an effective multi-agency fraud network across government

Mark Astley, Director of NAFN, National Anti-Fraud Network Data & Intelligence Services (UK)

 

10.10    Working effectively within interagency taskforces to combat fraud and corruption

• Designing your interagency collaboration effectively before work begins
• Ensuring your cross-agency teams have rapport and communication capabilities
• Aligning the mindsets and goals of counterfraud teams from multiple industries
• Navigating privacy and security limitations between key agencies

Timothy Underhill, Detective Superintendent Economic, Corporate Crime and Corruption (EC3), Australian Federal Police

 

10.50     Morning coffee break

 

11.20    Private Sector Guest Presentation:
Investigating instances of corrupt and fraudulent activity effectively

• Collaborating effectively with other fraud control functions throughout your investigation
• Managing key data and evidence effectively for maximum effectiveness
• Navigating the pressures of an investigation on both the investigators and suspects
• Ensuring your investigation approach keeps pace with a rapidly changing landscape

Joel Williams, General Manager Regulation and Government Affairs, Tabcorp

 

12.00    Developing an integrity culture that resonates across your organisation

• Establishing foundational values and policies around fraud and corruption
• Bridging communication gaps between business areas through meaningful consultation
• Undertaking constructive counterfraud actions that resonate with your teams
• Working effectively with key business units to produce meaningful collaborative strategies and training

Jade Maskiewicz, Disclosures and Investigations Coordinator, Central Coast Council

 

12.40    Lunch break

 

13.40    Improving reporting rates of potential fraud and corruption red flags

• Building effective processes and technology to improve automatic detection
• Developing productive relationships with key stakeholders to improve reporting rates
• Fostering a culture of integrity that meaningfully engages your teams and line leaders
• Developing avenues for enthusiastic and meaningful disclosures
• Collaborating effectively with line leaders to apprehend potential threats on all levels of the organisation

Shane Lysons-Smith, Chief Audit Executive, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry

 

14.20    Managing the fraud and corruption risks inherent in contractor relationships

• Establishing the responsibilities of the contractor and your organisation clearly
• Minimising potential security risks around contractor engagements
• Working alongside other business functions to ensure best-practice contractor engagement
• Responding effectively to realised fraud risk involving contracting parties

Benjamin Hallam, Senior Manager Fraud and Corruption Prevention and Investigations, Sydney Metro

 

15.00    Afternoon tea break

 

15.30    Ensuring your fraud and corruption controls minimise Conflict of Interest risks

• Ensuring conflict-of-interest policies are clear and easily accessible
• Reporting potential violations of COI policy constructively
• Collaborating with key business areas to design COI policy that complements your fraud and corruption control strategy
• Embedding COI concerns within your detection function

Sheryn Anderson, Manager Integrity, Victoria Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action 

 

16.10   Challenging the problem of organisational siloing for an effective fraud and corruption response

• Developing a useful understanding of the causes of siloing in your organisation and the greater public service
• Understanding your risk profile effectively throughout the organisation
• Designing effective governance and accountability systems that work across business units
• Providing integrity leadership to effect real and lasting change in your workplace
• Utilising active management and monitoring to counter fraud and corruption into the future

Ralph Esther, Manager Procurement and Governance, Blacktown City Council
Peter Thompson, Coordinator Audit and Risk, Blacktown City Council

 

16.50    Closing Remarks from Chair

 

17.00    End of Conference Day One and Networking event

 

Day Two – Thursday 23 October 2025

 

8.00       Registration opens

 

8.25       Opening remarks from Chair

 

8.30   International Keynote Address:
Combatting technologically-enabled fraud threats based on key trends – HMRC’s Perspective

• Engaging with the unique challenges of organised crime and external fraud actors
• Investigating potential instances of fraud effectively across organisations
• Ensuring your fraud control strategy efficiently prevents and detects fraud
• Introducing new technologies and tools within your organisational fraud strategy
• Organising effective counterfraud and AML strategies and teams

De Quincey Bailey LLB, Senior Investigation Officer, Illicit Finance Lead, His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (UK)

 

9.30     International Keynote Address:
Minimising organisational vulnerability to cybersecurity threats

• Collaborating with internal and external experts to tighten cybersecurity measures
• Minimising incidents by targeting human error in cyberfraud
• Allocating responsibilities and network controls to slow malicious fraud actors
• Adjusting your approach to digital fraud and corruption depending on the sensitivity of particular finances and data

Mark Rysanek, Cyber Liaison Officer – Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Consulate General of Canada

 

10.30    Morning coffee break

 

11.00  Regulator Case Study Session
Managing Conflict-of-Interest governance effectively to mitigate misconduct – learnings from ICAC NSW

• Evaluating endemic failures of conflict-of-interest processes
• Designing your governance levers to act on COI effectively
• Ensuring that COI breach reporting is effectively integrated within organisational practices
• Navigating realised COI violations to minimise risks to your organisation and teams

Barry Davidow, Senior Corruption Prevention Officer, Independent Commission Against Corruption NSW
Mali Dillon, Senior Corruption Prevention Officer,Independent Commission Against Corruption NSW

 

11.40  Utilising new technology to dramatically empower your fraud and corruption response

• Selecting the most effective technology available for your counterfraud teams
• Producing outstanding controls and culture with support from technological solutions and dashboards
• Increasing detection rates for fraud and corruption with sophisticated data and management technology
• Empowering your investigative function with key tools and software

Frank Trimboli, Senior Manager Intelligence and Detection, Victoria Department of Justice and Community Safety 

 

12.20    Lunch Break

 

13.20  Private Sector Case Study
Implementing practical controls to maximise data security

• Designing your data fraud controls in consideration of recent incidents and case studies
• Creating practical controls on data security processes that require zero technology
• Implementing technology-led controls and mitigation strategies for data fraud risks
• Collaborating effectively with teams and leaders to ensure best practice

Samuel Stuart, Director, Services Business Lead – Security Solutions, Mastercard

 

 

14.00    Maximising key resources to build the capabilities of your fraud and corruption team

• Modelling and visualising key data to communicate the importance of counterfraud and anticorruption initiatives
• Communicating effectively with time-poor executive leaders and stakeholders
• Combining governance and ethics concerns with a convincing business case for fraud and corruption control
• Developing a strong case for fraud and corruption control with support from committees and other organisational allies

Joanna Virtue, Assistant Secretary Fraud Prevention and Anti-Corruption Branch, Attorney General’s Department

 

 

14.40    Afternoon tea break

 

15.10  Mitigating the risk of supplier fraud and insider corruption within your procurement function

• Targeting key procurement records and data for telling irregularities and red flags
• Establishing effective policies and procedures as well as a clear risk management strategy
• Assisting regulators and stakeholders to combat fraud and corruption in procurement
• Reinforcing your procurement fraud control strategy with awareness and training programs
• Sharing policies and expectations for integrity in procurement with suppliers and contractors

Marea Getsios, Procurement and Contracts Manager, Inner West Council

 

15.50  Preparing your organisation to control modern fraud and corruption threats in the age of agentic AI

• Understanding how agentic AI changes the fraud landscape — from isolated AI tools to autonomous, goal-driven systems operating across organisational boundaries
• Constructing a counter-fraud strategy that accounts for AI agents that can plan, adapt, collaborate, and persist over time
• Working productively with internal and external AI experts to detect, red-team, and contain agent-enabled fraud and corruption
• Designing controls, governance, and socio-technical systems to reduce the effectiveness of AI-driven and agent-orchestrated threats
• Ensuring your approach can keep pace with increasingly autonomous and sophisticated AI systems, not just today’s models

Dr Sharif Abuadbba, Team Leader Distributed Systems Security, AI & Cybersecurity, CSIRO’s Data61

 

16.30      Closing remarks from chair and End of Conference Day Two