ANZPIT Conference 2025 | Queensland Parliament

Visit and learn

8 - 10 October 2025

Wednesday 8 October 2025-Dealing with today’s challenges

Time	Activity	Venue
8.30am	Tea, coffee on arrival	Premiers’ Hall
8:30am-9:00am	Arrival and check-in	Annexe foyer
Welcome to Queensland
9:00am-9:10am	Welcome and Housekeeping James Rasmussen, Head of IT, Queensland	Premiers’ Hall
9:10am-9:40am	Unicameral Parliaments – What’s so different? Neil Laurie, Clerk of the Parliament and CEO, Queensland	Premiers’ Hall
9:40am-10:15am	Tour the Queensland Parliamentary Precinct Rebecca Quinnell, Leader Education & Liaison, Queensland	Precinct
10:15am-10:30am	Morning tea served with tea, coffee Collect your food and drinks for the next session	Speakers’ Hall
Cybersecurity and AI-Today’s big challenges
10:30am-11:00am	Engaging with the public and remaining cyber safe Caroline Auty, Head of Corporate Relations, United Kingdom	Premiers’ Hall
11:00am-11:30am	200,000 Committee Submissions in 3 hours Josh Sinclair, Chief Information Officer and Andrew Howard, Product Owner, Digital Experience Team, New Zealand
11:30am-12:30pm	ASD’s Government Uplift Program Nick Kent, Director Government Uplift, Australian Signals Directorate
12:30pm-1:30pm	Lunch and networking	Level 3 Colonnade (Speakers’ Green)
1:30pm-2:30pm	Roundtable: Cybersecurity – What is it that keeps you awake at night? This will be a facilitated conversation to invite participants to discuss key issues, initiatives they are working on, thoughts you want to share or ideas you want to explore. Facilitator: Carmel King, ICT Contracts and Planning Manager, Queensland Possible topics for discussion: Where is your current focus? Network segmentation-does it matter anymore? Managing BYOD devices-Do you know where your data is? End Point Protection-stopping contagion before it spreads. Information Classification and data handling-sharing has responsibilities. Members travelling overseas	Premiers’ Hall
Jurisdictional Updates
2:30pm-2:45pm	Jurisdictional Update – Queensland James Rasmussen, Head of IT	Premiers’ Hall
2:45pm-3:00pm	Jurisdictional Update – New South Wales Toby Loo, Director IT Services and CIO and Danielle Schefer, Director Digital Transformation	Premiers’ Hall
3:00pm-3:45pm	Afternoon tea served with tea, coffee	Speakers’ Hall
3:45pm-4:00pm	Jurisdictional Update –Victoria Damon Burgess, Deputy CIO, Architecture and Strategy	Premiers’ Hall
Cybersecurity and AI-Today’s big challenges (continued)
4:00pm-5:00pm	Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence – opportunities, risks and threats This will be a facilitated conversation to invite participants to discuss key issues, initiatives they are working on, thoughts you want to share or ideas you want to explore. Facilitator: Danielle Schefer, Director Digital Transformation, New South Wales Possible topics for discussion: Microsoft Copilot-coming to your environment, ready or not. Frameworks and policies-what do you have in place? User education-knowing how and when to use it. Pilots and trails-what have you done? Grounding and guidance-how do you start out?	Premiers’ Hall
5:00pm	Formal program ends Hot desking available in room until 6pm	Premiers’ Hall
5:00pm-6:00pm	Pre-dinner drinks Delegate pays	Lucinda Bar
6:00pm-8:00pm	Conference Dinner-3 course alternate drop	Strangers’ Restaurant

Thursday 9 October 2025-Connecting People to Parliament

Time	Activity	Venue
8.30am	Tea, coffee on arrival	Premiers’ Hall
Parliamentary House systems - Journey so far
09:00am-9:20am	Queensland update: Petitions Silke Flechsig, Project Manager and Grace Harrison, Project Support Officer	Premiers’ Hall
9:20am-9:40am	New Zealand update Andrew Howard, Product Owner, Digital Experience Team
9:40am-10:05am	New South Wales update Danielle Schefer, Director Digital Transformation Michael MacFarlane, Senior Program Manager PIMS Evolution Ann Luu, Senior Program Manager Web Ecosystem Modernisation Program
10:05am-10:30am	South Australia Update Andrew Cole, Leader of Hansard
10:30am-11:00am	Morning tea served with tea, coffee	Speakers’ Hall
Engaging People outside the Parliamentary Precinct
11:00am-11:30am	Leveling Up Engagement— Powering Parliamentary Participation through Minecraft Maria Mead, Parliamentary Education Officer, Queensland	Premiers’ Hall
11:30am -12:30pm	Engaging with constituents Danielle Forsyth, Managing Director, Elected Technologies	Premiers’ Hall
12:30pm-1:30pm	Lunch and networking	River Deck
1:30pm-2:30pm	Roundtable: Digitally enabling Electorate Offices This will be a facilitated conversation to invite participants to discuss key issues, initiatives they are working on, thoughts you want to share or ideas you want to explore. Facilitator: James Rasmussen, Head of IT, Queensland Possible topics for discussion: What services do you provide Electorate Offices? What issues are they coming to you with? Where are the gaps? Members data is not corporate data, how do we manage from a cyber point-of-view? Is there more that we can do? What technologies are they asking for? Is our involvement consistent with today’s cyber threat landscape? How do you manage connectivity?	Premiers’ Hall
Jurisdictional Updates
2:30pm-2:45pm	Jurisdictional Update –South Australia Peter Evans, Manager PNSG	Premiers’ Hall
2:45pm-3:00pm	Jurisdictional Update –Western Australia Bobby Cureton, Acting Chief Information Officer	Premiers’ Hall
3:00pm-3:30pm	Afternoon tea served with tea, coffee	Speakers’ Hall
3:30pm-3:45pm	Jurisdictional Update –Northern Territory Caroline Williams, Executive Director Parliamentary Support	Premiers’ Hall
3:45pm-4:00pm	Jurisdictional Update –Australian Capital Territory Kaleem Munir, IT Service Coordinator	Premiers’ Hall
Points of interest
4:00pm-5:00pm	Stream 1 ICT Asset Management (1 hr) Peter Evans,Manager PNSG and Leah Guidace, Team Leader Technology Services, South Australia	Premiers’ Hall
4:00pm-5:00pm	Stream 2 CrowdStrike to Microsoft Defender transition (30mins) Wyatt Mola, Manager, Security Operations, New South Wales Do more with less (30 mins) Mitch Kemp, Program Delivery Manager, Queensland	Speakers’ Hall
5:00pm	Formal program ends Hot desking available in room until 6pm	Premiers’ Hall
6:00pm-8:00pm	Optional conference dinner at Ryan’s on the Park Delegate pays	130 William St, Brisbane City QLD 4000

Friday 10 October 2025-Stronger together

Time	Activity	Venue
8.30am	Tea, coffee on arrival	Premiers’ Hall
Jurisdictional Updates
9:00am-9:15am	Jurisdictional Update –Australian (Federal) Monique Morgan, Assistant Secretary, CISO	Premiers’ Hall
9:15am-9:30am	Jurisdictional Updates –New Zealand Josh Sinclair, Chief Information Officer
9:30am-9:45am	Jurisdictional Updates –United Kingdom (UK) Caroline Auty, Head of Corporate Relations and Avinash Dussaram, Head of Member Services (Lords)
9:45am-10:00am	Conference photo	Internal steps at Old House entrance
10:00am-10:30am	Morning tea served with tea, coffee	Speakers’ Hall
Stronger together
10:30am-12:00pm	Roundtable: Opportunities for collaboration This will be a facilitated conversation to invite participants to discuss key issues, initiatives they are working on, thoughts you want to share or ideas you want to explore. Facilitator: Mitch Kemp, Program Delivery Manager, Queensland Possible topics for discussion: Historically, Australian Parliaments have built their own bespoke systems. When and where does this make sense? Should we be looking to work together? What would need to align if we were to share and collaborate? Is co-development even possible? What would be the hurdles to overcome?	Premiers’ Hall
	Deep-dive look into Queensland’s AV systems Michael Hermann, AV Services Coordinator and Ric Zattera, AV Project Manager	Tour around the Precinct
	Connected conversations A time for you to complete conversations that you started with someone and wanted finish, or spending time with a Queensland Service Area Lead (Hansard, Committees, Property and Facilities, etc.) that a Queensland representative pre-arranged for you in the days prior.	Speakers’ Hall
12:00pm-12:30pm	Conference wrap-up and handover James Rasmussen, Head of IT, Queensland	Premiers’ Hall
12:30pm-1:30pm	Lunch and Darts Competition	River Deck
Optional-Explore Brisbane
2:00pm-4:00pm	Walking and CityCat tour of Brisbane (Optional)	Southbank + CityCat + Brisbane Riverside