Paul Woo

Microsoft, Enterprise Security Executive

As a Security Specialist, Paul leads Microsoft Australia enterprise security business for New South Wales FSI, orchestrating virtual teams to advance relationship and motion with CISO and their team by providing insights and solutions that help them confidently and securely move to the cloud. Paul joined Microsoft in 2016 as an experienced information security professional bringing more than 20 years of industry experience. Past role in Microsoft include cross functional technical specialist for Microsoft cybersecurity solutions and services across Australia and New Zealand. Before Microsoft, Paul was with Symantec for nearly a decade and in various roles including regional principal consultant delivering enablement and advisory services to different countries and verticals across Asia. This include pentest, vulnerability assessment, and technical control delivery such as DLP, SIEM and EPP. He later progressed as a consulting services manager, responsible for growing the security services business in his territory. He also held other roles at Symantec including Enterprise Security Architect and Senior Principal Systems Engineer. Prior to Symantec, he was attached with IBM Security and Privacy team for over 5 years delivering numerous projects of all sizes to both public and private sectors. This include designing, building and maintaining turn key Identity and Access Management solutions, firewalls, IPS, SEG, antimalware and other security controls. He also ran penetration tests as an IBM Ethical Hacker. Paul earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Portsmouth, UK and has completed professional and technology courses including CISSP and ITIL certifications.

Halim Santoso

Microsoft, Head of Business Development

Halim Santoso is the Head of Business Development at Microsoft-Asia where he leverages the Microsoft security platform to develop profitable business partnerships across the region: including practice builds and joint GTMs. Halim Santoso has held multiple roles including technical consultations to regional leadership where he most recently built and led a successful APAC channel pre-sales org in Symantec. Halim Santoso helps enterprise customers and partners to develop effective IT security strategies and solutions to address the evolving threat landscape. Halim is an advocate of Cyber Security and he actively participates in industry events and partnerships.

Alex Bogart-King

Epiq, Area Director, South Asia-Pacific

Alex Bogart-King is the Area Director covering the South Asia-Pacific region. In this role, Alex works closely with GC’s, CLO’s and Legal Operations Professionals from large corporations as well as Principals, Managing Partners and Legal Technology Professionals from law firms. Alex has an innate ability to connect business and law firm value with legal technology transformation, creating better outcomes not only for the lawyer’s themselves, but for the wider organisation they work within. Alex has over 7 years experience in legal technology, most recently driving the launch of a start-up which pioneered enterprise legal operations across Asia-Pacific. He started his career as a civil engineer and a professional athlete and holds an MBA and Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Victoria University.

Miles Watson

Information Governance Specialist