Beyond Compliance: How Records, Data Governance & Cyber Converge | Presented By Dave Turner

3.30pm – 3.55pm AEDT, 21 October 2026 ‐ 25 mins

Stream 1 | The Palladium Stage

Records management has long been positioned as a compliance-driven function-essential, but often underfunded, undervalued, and disconnected from strategic decision-making.

This session challenges that paradigm.

As organisations face increasing pressure from cyber threats, AI adoption, regulatory scrutiny and data sprawl, the traditional boundaries between records management, data governance and cyber security are rapidly dissolving. What emerges is a new discipline: information management as a strategic capability.

This presentation explores how records management can evolve into a central pillar of organisational resilience and intelligence by integrating:

• Data governance frameworks that classify, measure and prioritise information assets
• Cybersecurity principles that treat information as both an asset and an attack surface
• Practical, scalable approaches to understanding what information exists, where it lives and what risk or value it holds

Through real world scenarios and a live presentation, attendees will see how to:

• Rapidly assess information environments with minimal tooling
• Identify high-risk and high-value data using simple scoring models
• Transform records tasks into proactive risk and insight engines

Attendees will leave with a clear, actionable framework to reposition records management-from a cost centre to a driver of value, insight and organisational control.

This session is designed for practitioners ready to move compliance and into strategic impact.

Speakers

Dave Turner

Senior Records and Information Governance Advisor, Bradfield Development Authority

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Dave Turner

Senior Records and Information Governance Advisor, Bradfield Development Authority

Dave Turner is an information and data governance specialist focused on transforming how organisations manage information to gain clearer business insights. He began his career as a network security engineer and has represented Australia as part of the Five Eyes Alliance, heavily focussed on information systems and critical infrastructure against advanced cyber threats. An ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and ISO27001 Lead Auditor & Implementer, Dave has become fascinated in the merging of traditional records management with modern data governance practices – reframing it from a compliance function into a powerful capability for managing risk, enabling insight and driving organisational value.

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