Introducing our panellists
Here are the senior thought leaders at the 2025-26 Federal ICT and Digital Budget Breakfast Briefing
Mark Sawade
Chief Information Officer, Enterprise Solutions & Technology Group, Australian Taxation Office
Mark is a passionate, committed, and respected technology leader in government with close to 25 years of experience leading policy, strategy, data, digital, and technology delivery functions across government.
Mark currently serves as the Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer at the Australian Taxation Office. In this role, Mark provides leadership and strategic direction for the broad technology ecosystem, ensuring support for the agency’s tax, super and registry systems in a rapidly changing digital landscape. He works in close partnership with senior business leaders to ensure that we are taking advantage of the most innovative trends in technology to best support taxpayers, tax agents, ATO staff, and the community.
Prior to his current role, Mark was the First Assistant Secretary and Chief Information Officer at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, preceded by previous senior executive leadership roles at the Department of Education, Australian Bureau of Statistics, ComSuper, and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
Judy Hurditch
Principal Analyst, Intermedium
Judy was a Deputy Commissioner of Taxation when she left the Australian Public Service and was responsible for a range of major ICT-dependent program reforms, including the implementation of the Tax File Number System.
She has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and founded Intermedium in 2004, as a specialist researcher of Australian public sector use of digital and ICT.
As an independent industry analyst, she has an extensive understanding of key technology and digitisation issues facing senior government decision-makers.
