SMBiT Professionals
Melbourne Chapter
Next meeting
Wednesday
30th September 2026
SMBiT Professionals Melbourne Chapter meets on the last Wednesday of the month
Dinner
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Main Event
7:00pm-9:30pm
Stay a while afterwards and have a drink and a chat
Location
Bells Hotel
Main Hall, Level 2, 157 Moray Street, South Melbourne Parking along Tope Street or Coventry Street
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Registration
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Alex Slade & Dominic Codsi
Alex Slade from A Corp Computers will be joined by Dominic Codsi from TrendAI where they will discuss how the cyber landscape has shifted over the past 15 years and why MSPs and vendors must evolve alongside each other. The key talking points will be centered on how confidently managing cyber risk overtime, improving vulnerability scanning and patch prioritization, and the importance of vendor integration and tool consolidation in today's world.
Fractional Leadership: Creating Better Outcomes for MSPs and Their Clients
Daniel Buckton
The presentation will explore how fractional CTO and CISO services can complement MSPs by helping clients establish clearer ownership, governance, priorities and budgets around technology and cyber risk. The fractional adviser supports the client without replacing or competing with the MSP’s technical role.
A key theme is that outsourcing technology does not transfer the client’s business risk to the MSP. Clients remain responsible for their risk decisions, while MSPs remain accountable for their agreed scope and service delivery. Independent advice can help both parties understand these responsibilities and work together more effectively.
Deidentified examples from an electrical maintenance business, a data-centre backup power manufacturer and a commercial cleaning business will demonstrate how technology governance, cyber risk and critical infrastructure supply-chain expectations increasingly affect SMBs.
Regulatory content will be brief and practical, covering CIRMP, proposed SOCI reforms affecting some MSPs and providers, and the current ransomware/cyber-extortion payment reporting obligation for businesses over $3 million annual turnover. The distinction between these requirements will also be clarified.
Round Table Discussion
Open Forum
... issues, ideas, highs, lows, great tools you have found, bring them to the table!
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