Sydney

March 31, 2026
Hyatt Regency
161 Sussex Street, Sydney NSW 2000

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Sydney

Leverage AI & Cisco Data Fabric to move faster, defend the unknown.

The AI era demands faster detection, smarter decisions, and stronger resilience. Exploding, siloed data makes consolidation tough. Organisations need a unified platform to harness data at scale, provide context, and power intelligent, autonomous actions.​ ​

Join us at Splunk Go to unveil innovations securing, observing, and optimising the entire AI stack. Explore expert-led Keynote, Deep Dive, and Breakout sessions showcasing solutions like the Cisco Data Fabric, Machine Data Lake, and AI-native capabilities (e.g., AI Canvas). Gain unmatched visibility, security, and control to build resilience for AI, with AI.

It's Your Chance To:

  • See how AI & data deliver resilience for AI, with AI
  • Leverage latest AI innovations & Cisco Data Fabric to move faster, defend the unknown
  • Discover how agentic AI transforms your SOC: faster detection, smarter investigations, automated response
  • Unlock agentic observability harness AI to prevent user-impacting issues, understand business impact
  • Connect with peers, share challenges, and gain immediately implementable strategies

Discover how Splunk empowers digital resilience at agentic speed.

Agenda

8:45 - 9:30

Registration

9:30 - 9:50

Welcome and Opening

9:50 - 10:30

Keynote: Powering Digital Resilience at Agentic Speed

Speaker: Brad Murphy, VP Platform Engineering l Splunk

At .conf25, we unveiled a vision: an agentic AI-ready world powered by machine data, driven by intelligence and defined by digital resilience. But the AI era can’t happen without you: the SecOps, ITOps, and engineers who fight outages, stop threats and keep critical systems running when the world accelerates at agentic speed.

In this keynote, we’ll showcase how Splunk and Cisco are coming together to secure and optimize the entire AI stack- from infrastructure to data, from applications to decisions- so you can build digital resilience for AI, with AI. Because when every second counts, your data and what you can do with it defines your resilience.

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10:30 - 10:50

Panel: Customer Insights on AI-Driven Security & Operations

Speakers:
Rochana Attale Senior Manager – Emerging Tech and Engineering Services l Coles
Gaston De Arriba, GM Technology & Service Operations l TPG Telecom
Santosh Balaranganathan, Principal Engineer l Atlassian
Sarah Sloan, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, APAC l Cisco

10:50 - 11:20

Morning Tea

11:20 - 11:50

Accelerating Cloud Journeys: Building Digital Resilience with Splunk and AWS

Speaker: William Garcia, Senior Partner Solutions Architect l AWS

Organisations today face mounting challenges in securing their cloud environments while maintaining complete visibility across their infrastructure. This presentation explores how the strategic partnership between Splunk and AWS delivers digital resilience through unified security operations and observability. Drawing on 14+ years of collaboration, Splunk and AWS have created deeply integrated solutions that help organisations prevent major issues, remediate faster, and adapt quickly to evolving threats. Learn how this partnership addresses critical challenges including AWS utilisation, compliance, security posture, cloud migration, and application delivery.

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11:50 - 12:20

Deep Dive: Unlocking Cross-Domain Operational Intelligence in the Agentic AI era

Speaker: Kunal Mukerjee, CTO SVP, Products & Technology l Splunk

In the Agentic AI era, organizations need more than raw data, they need unified intelligence at scale. As machine data explodes, the next-generation Splunk platform, powering Cisco Data Fabric architecture, transforms your data architecture into a true force multiplier. Unlock your data’s full potential, wherever it resides, with AI-driven management for real-time visibility, powerful analytics, and robust governance. See how enriching and activating machine data delivers AI-ready intelligence, fueling breakthrough innovation and a sustainable competitive edge.

Experience how seamless AI-first experiences boost productivity, enable smarter decision-making, and streamline your operations, making your data the foundation for operational excellence. See how your data can become the catalyst for operational intelligence, fueling AI-driven insights and future-ready success across your entire organization.

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12:20 - 13:20

Lunch and Networking

13:30 - 14:00

CyberCX: From Poisoned Search to Stinging Payload: Hunting Bumblebee with Splunk

Speaker: Fariha Uddin, SOC Manager l CyberCX

In this session, hear from a CyberCX SecOps manager unpack a real-life Bumblebee malware incident that slipped in via an SEO‑poisoned search result and established command‑and‑control. Will share how the attackers blended in using living‑off‑the‑land techniques, DLL side‑loading, and DGA‑driven infrastructure, and how our analysts turned fragmented telemetry in Splunk into a rapid, decisive response. A collaborative presentation with insights on the controls, visibility, and SOC tradecraft required to spot similar campaigns before they become full‑scale crises.

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Dipole: From Monitoring to AI-Driven Digital Resilience: Unifying Security, Observability and Network Intelligence

Speaker: Ravi Teja J, Director Splunk Practice l Dipole

Traditional monitoring tools cannot keep pace with today’s complex digital environments. In this session, Dipole Group will demonstrate how organisations are transitioning from siloed monitoring approaches to AI-driven digital resilience frameworks that unify security, observability, and network intelligence across IT and OT. Through real-world examples, we will explore how the Splunk platform enables enterprises to correlate operational data, detect anomalies faster, and build resilient, AI-ready operations.

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AC3: Operational Excellence through AI Ops in Splunk

Speaker: Cameron Eagleton, Sales Specialist l AC3

14:05 - 14:35

Build an Agentic-Ready SOC​

Security in the AI era isn’t just about moving fast—it’s about moving fast on purpose. In this demo-led breakout, you’ll see how Splunk and Cisco power the Agentic SOC with unified visibility, adaptive automation, and AI-driven intelligence to stay one step ahead of threats.​ ​

We’ll focus on the must-have prerequisites in Splunk Enterprise Security 8.4: getting your data and context right, applying UEBA-style behavioral analytics, and maturing Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) by using finding-based detections so you’re working with crisp signals—not chaos. You’ll leave with a practical “agentic-ready” checklist you can take straight back to your SOC.​

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Unlock Agentic Observability

Real-Time Insights, Real Business Impact​

Down time? Over it. In the complex landscape of modern applications and AI-driven operations, traditional observability falls short. Splunk provides the observability solution needed to keep AI systems performant and to operate AI safely and effectively, from infrastructure to inference to user experience.

Experience live demos that show how Splunk powers agentic observability, giving you end-to-end visibility and control across the full AI applications stack.

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Unlocking the power of the Splunk Platform's AI & Recent Releases​

The latest and greatest releases and AI features for the Splunk Platform​

There's been a whole lot of cool stuff recently released in the Splunk Platform – join us to hear about the latest and greatest developments, features and functionality. From Splunk 10 to Edge Processor, Agent Management, Dashboard Studio and more!​

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14:40- 15:10

Run an Agentic-Ready Investigation​

Once your SOC is agentic-ready, it’s time to put it to work. This demo-led session shows how Splunk and Cisco bring the Agentic SOC to life in Splunk Enterprise Security 8.4, using AI-driven intelligence and adaptive automation to speed up investigations—without taking the wheel away from your analysts. ​

We’ll walk an alert through triage, scoping, enrichment, and evidence capture, then show how it all feeds into smarter decisions and cleaner handoffs. Expect live demos of the newest innovations, including advanced AI agents for security analytics,—helping you detect faster, decide smarter, and defend with confidence.​

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Observing AI Applications

As AI agents become embedded in customer applications, they introduce new layers of complexity across infrastructure, inference, and user workflows. In this session, see how Splunk Observability provides end-to-end visibility into agentic applications, from system performance and model latency to decision workflows and user impact.
Discover how to monitor reliability, cost, and operational risk across the full AI stack, ensuring your intelligent systems remain performant, measurable, and production ready

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Cisco Data Fabric and the Splunk Platform now​

A deeper dive into the CDF and what you can do in the Splunk platform.​​

You’ve heard announcements about the Cisco Data Fabric – come and dive in as we show you the latest CDF functionality that you can use in Splunk in areas like Federated Search, Data Management and Data Replay.

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15:10 - 16:40

Networking Reception

15:15 - 15:45

Art of the Possible in AI with Splunk:

Leveraging the power of Splunk for AI​

Join us for an interactive session where we explore the "art of the possible" using Splunk’s Artificial Intelligence capabilities. Come grab a drink and some food, unwind with the team, and experience firsthand how AI can transform your operations.

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Gaston De Arriba

General Manager Technology & Service Operations

TPG Telecom

Santosh Balaranganathan

Principal Engineer

Atlassian

Kunal Mukerjee

CTO SVP, Products & Technology

Splunk

Brad Murphy

VP Platform Engineering

Splunk

Sarah Sloan

Sarah Sloan

Head of Cybersecurity Policy, APAC

Cisco

William Garcia

Senior Partner Solution APJ Infrastructure Global ISVs

AWS

Fariha Uddin

SOC Manager

CyberCX

Ravi Teja J

Director, Splunk Practice

Dipole

Kacie Osora

Senior Security Solutions Architect APJC

Splunk

Kate Hymers

Kate Hymers

Senior Manager Observability Solutions Architects

Splunk

Zina Ratko

Zina Ratko

Staff Solutions Architect, Observability

Splunk

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