2024 Keynote Speaker

MARIA MACNAMARA

Maria is a member of the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of Serco, Chair of the Information Sharing Committee of the AUKUS Forum, an Industry Fellow at UTS, and a member of the University of Western Sydney Infrastructure Committee. She is a Non-Executive Director of Spark Festival and sits on the advisory boards of Social Value and Zitavi.

Maria is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Space Industry Association of Australia. Prior to that, she was the Director of Government Affairs and Innovation Strategy in Australia and New Zealand at Kyndryl and Chief Executive Officer of Advance.org, Australia’s global diaspora organisation. Maria was also an Adviser to Senator the Hon. Arthur Sinodinos AO.

She has served on the Advisory Council for the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, chaired the Strategy Board for the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience, and was a member of the Board of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Maria is a member of the International Women’s Forum (Australia) and the Royal Society (NSW) and was a founding member of the Montessori Children’s Foundation.

She has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney and completed the Deep Dive Program delivered by Tel Aviv University and the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce.