Palo Alto Networks × Innovatus Media · ANZ Spring 2026
AI agents are entering the enterprise faster than the controls around them. A closed-door dinner series for the security leaders deciding what happens next, across six cities this spring.
The conversation
Enterprises across Australia and New Zealand are moving from AI pilots to AI agents: software that acts, remediates and transacts on their behalf. At the same time, adversaries are automating the full attack chain. The gap between the two is now a board-level question, and it is widening at machine speed.
Over a three-course dinner, twelve senior security leaders will work through what this actually changes: how far autonomous remediation should be allowed to go, who owns the security of the AI your business is building, and whether a consolidated platform reduces risk or simply concentrates it.
The conversation runs under Chatham House rules, chaired to keep it honest and moving, with peers who hold the same accountabilities you do.
Talking points
Attacks are now automated end to end. Response, in most enterprises, is not. Where does autonomous remediation earn a place in production, and where does a human stay in the loop by design rather than by habit?
Prompt injection, data poisoning and runtime risk are no longer research topics: they are live exposure in enterprise AI applications. Who owns the security of an agent that can act on your systems?
CPS 230, the SOCI Act and mandatory ransomware payment reporting in Australia. Tightening privacy expectations in New Zealand. Board accountability for cyber resilience is rising faster than most security budgets.
ANZ security teams run lean in one of the tightest talent markets in the world. Does consolidating the security estate onto a platform buy back capacity, or trade one kind of risk for another?
The format
This is a working dinner, not an event. Conversation is chaired, not presented, and it runs through all three courses. Everything said stays in the room under Chatham House rules.
Seats are held for CISOs, CIOs and heads of security operations from enterprises across the region. Attendance is complimentary and by invitation only.
Choose your city
Fortnightly Wednesday evenings, September to November 2026. Venues are being confirmed city by city and will be shared with confirmed guests first.
Your hosts
Palo Alto Networks is the global cybersecurity leader, securing enterprises with a consolidated platform built on Precision AI. From autonomous security operations with Cortex to protecting the AI systems enterprises are building, the company works with organisations across Australia and New Zealand to defend at the speed attackers now move.
Innovatus Media produces closed-door, peer-to-peer roundtables for C-suite audiences across ANZ, SEA, EMEA and North America. Every dinner is chaired, curated and kept deliberately small, so senior leaders can speak plainly with peers who carry the same accountabilities. The series is led by Matt Egan, Managing Director, Sydney.
Register
Tell us who you are and which dinner suits. Seats are limited to twelve per city and confirmed personally by the Innovatus team.
Registering interest carries no obligation. If your preferred city fills, we will offer the nearest alternative date.
If you would like to know more about the conversation, the room, or whether this series is right for you, the Innovatus team will come straight back to you.