13.30pm - 13.45pm Presentation Details As enterprises adopt AI, technology professionals face the critical task of safeguarding these systems. Security and compliance risks frequently stall adoption from experimentation to production usage. We delve into the safety and security of generative AI-powered solutions so attendees learn about immediate threats like training data poisoning, adversarial testing, data leaks, and prompt hacking. Understand how model providers, cloud providers such as Oracle Cloud, and companies adopting AI can mitigate risk and promote secure AI adoption.
Biography
Prasanna is the Chief Architect for the Oracle Defence and National Security team. This team of industry experts partner with our largest customers in the region on their transformation journey to ensure holistic and exceptional long-term business value realisation
He brings over 24 years experience engaging with senior executives across multiple industries including Defence and National Security defining and leading technology strategy, architecture, transformation and governance multiple industries globally and in Australia including defence and national security.
He is a champion for social initiatives and a strong advocate for diversity & inclusion.

14.00pm - 14.15pm
Presentation Details
The Defence Strategic Review brought into sharp focus the fact that Australia is in the middle of an evolving and challenging strategic environment, made even more uncertain by rapid technological development. The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) is designed to turn innovative technologies into capabilities to help take defence further and faster towards addressing these threats.
ASCA addresses Defence’s highest strategic priorities with a different mindset. We will harness and partner with some of the best minds in the country from industry and academia to rapidly solve Defence’s challenges. This will ensure game-changing ideas are developed into capabilities that give the ADF an asymmetric advantage.
Join Professor Michelle Gee to hear about how ASCA will deliver against current and future Defence Challenges through facilitating the ongoing supply of ideas and technologies within the innovation system and how you can get involved.
Biography
PROF Gee has over 25 years’ experience in translational research and development leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation, including portfolios across higher education, industry and manufacturing. Her previous experience includes working in Defence Industry working with Boeing as liaison and strategist for external research partnerships and has a passion for supporting the growth of the technology sector and its talent pipeline.
PROF Gee joined Defence in 2022 as the Chief Technology Officer, Innovation and Strategic Research, in Defence Science Technology Group, providing contribution to the development of government programs and policy, responsible for the leadership and development of an integrated strategic technology development program to build Defence capability. She is now an Assistant Secretary within the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA)
PROF Gee is the Founding Director of the Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence and Aerospace Research Centre at RMIT University and is highly cited for her research and development and holds several patents, inventions, awards and distinctions.