Shane Boulden is a solution architect at Red Hat, supporting Fortune 500 companies and government organisations across Australia and the region to adopt open source technologies. He has contributed to security-focused open source projects like 'Compliance as Code', StackRox, and Keycloak, and is a contributing author to the second edition of "The Kubernetes Bible". Shane specialises in OpenShift and Enterprise Linux security and compliance, and his recent focus has been helping organisations adopt security policy-as-code with OpenShift. Ben Shepherd is an accomplished Solution Architect, having spent 15 years in the Australian Defence Force and holding over five years of technology and cyber security experience both in and out of uniform. He holds a Masters degree in Cybersecurity Operations and brings a security focus to technology capability discussions. He is particularly enthusiastic in taking technology to the edge, especially in austere and challenging environments with a focus on continual capability delivery.

Ben Shepherd has been around technology for a while; from flying the AP-3C Orion through to deploying containers. His background is in cyber security, and brings this passion to enabling tcapability while ensuring compliance.