Christian Herring is CTO - Federal, Defence and Intelligence at Microsoft Australia, where he leads the account technology and sales teams serving Australia's most strategically important government agencies. Based in Canberra, Christian and his team partner closely with federal departments and defence agencies, and Microsoft partners to accelerate digital transformation, modernise enterprise platforms, and harness the power of AI to improve government capability and citizen outcomes. With deep expertise across cloud strategy, enterprise sales, security, and AI adoption, Christian brings a practical and customer-focused perspective to some of Australia's most complex and sensitive technology programmes.