Brenton Johnson

Speaking

Brenton is one of the Australian channel's most engaging speakers - a natural storyteller with an entertaining, high-energy style that is always insightful, occasionally provocative, and never boring. He takes half a dozen good ideas and distils them into one compelling position a whole room can act on.

Brenton Johnson speaking on stage to a theatre audience

Topics

AI

What AI actually changes for small and mid-sized organisations - and what it doesn't. Practical adoption stories from the front line of a managed IT provider using AI daily, without the vendor hype.

Cyber Security

Making security make sense for business owners, boards, and the people who have to live with it. From SME threat realities to fixing the adversarial relationship between IT and security providers.

Culture

What would Biggie do? How golden age hip-hop and country values built an IT company culture that clients rave about - and why authentic values beat "integrity" posters every time.

Leadership

Building teams on strengths, leading with vulnerability-based trust, and working yourself out of the critical path. Lessons from every mistake a founder can make.

Past engagements

Securing your domain and DNS: A practical guide to modern web protection

AISA Australian Cyber Conference · Melbourne · October 2026 (upcoming) · with Patrick Kissane, Burger IT

Why People and Relationships are the Real Future of MSP

MSP Mastery: Ctrl-Alt-Deliver podcast · June 2026 · S1E44

Unite and Conquer: Fixing the adversarial relationship between your IT and cybersecurity service providers

AISA Australian Cyber Conference · Melbourne · October 2023 · with Corch, Shogun Cybersecurity

Speaker - Australian Cyber Conference

AISA · October 2019

Need to Know podcast - co-host

with Robert Crane (CIAOPS) · 18 months of episodes on Microsoft cloud and the channel

Cyber security workshops - Bendigo Small Business Festival

2018 · practical cyber awareness for small business owners

Small business digital mentor - Digital Solutions program

2022 · government-backed digital mentoring

SMB IT Professionals

Regular presenter and long-time community member

To enquire about availability, connect on LinkedIn.

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