Captain Matthew Jefferies joined the Army as a Combat Engineer in 2001. He was posted to the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment were he completed the Army Year 12 Equivalency Course and was accepted at Duntroon. After graduation he transferred to the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and has been posted to the Army Logistics Training Centre, 1st Command Support Regiment, Special Air Service Regiment, 1st Armoured Regiment and is currently serving at the Australian Headquarters Joint Operations …

William F Owen is a military writer, critic and defence technology journalist, living and working in Israel. He joined the British Army in 1980 and served in both regular and territorial infantry battalions, as well as the Intelligence Corps, until 1993. He has since worked on defence projects in the Middle and Far East, as well as West Africa. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree by Research at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. … William F …

Ross Buckley is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and an Australia21 Fellow in the research network on ‘Enhancing Australia’s Security and Prosperity in the 21st Century’. He is the founding Series Editor of the Global Trade Law Series of Kluwer of The Hague, and Series Co-Editor of Kluwer’s International Banking and Finance Law Series. He has written extensively, mostly on international finance law. He has also consulted to the US Department of Justice, the US …

LT Benjamin Kohlmann is an F/A-18 flight instructor based out of MCAS Miramar in San Diego. He has more than 1100 hours in all models of the Hornet and Super Hornet (A-F) and over 360 carrier landings. He is also the founder of Disruptive Thinkers, a San Diego based, crowdsourced think tank, focused on linking intellectually curious military officers with successful civilian entrepreneurs. He is enthralled by unorthodox solutions and people who have been wildly successful despite breaking with the status …

Warrant Officer Class One David Ashley is the Command Sergeant Major of Forces Command. … David Ashley …

Ms Courtney Stewart is Senior Managing Consultant OCRT Consulting. Ms Courtney Stewart has over 20 years of national security experience in government, industry, and think tanks. Courtney is regularly invited to speaker and commentate on deterrence matters in the Indo-Pacific. She previously served as the US Department of Defense (DoD) Policy Exchange Officer to Australian DoD Strategic Policy Division. In the Pentagon she worked in the offices of Nuclear and Missile Defense, East Asia, Nuclear Matters, …

Dr Josh Healy is an Associate Professor at the Business School, University of Sydney and an expert in the future of work. His research spans employee wellbeing, labour market dynamics, and the workplace impacts of new technologies. Collaborating with a diverse range of industry partners, Dr Healy has examined enduring and emerging issues including job quality, workforce participation, gig work, workforce ageing, workplace leadership, and organisational performance, showing how these factors intersect in …

Dr Jamie Freestone is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. He currently works on the philosophy of autonomous systems. He is also an Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) Fellow investigating the viability of LLMs in military contexts. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, where he also completed his PhD. … Jamie …

Lance Corporal Adriaan Van Staden enlisted in the Australian Army Reserves in 2019. Originally posted to the 9th Battalion Royal Queensland Regiment, he is now serving in the 16th Battalion Royal Western Australia Regiment. Adriaan is interested in the development of warfare in modern conflicts, especially the use of drones and artificial intelligence. … Adriaan van …

Brad West is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. His recent publications include Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History (2022 Palgrave) and the co-edited collections Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture (2021, Springer) and The New Australian Military Sociology (2024, Berghahn). He is the founding co-Director (with Cate Carter) of the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group (MOCS), …