Speaker Biography

Ben Westgarth

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer

Department 13

Ben is the CEO and CTO of Department 13 International - an Australian counter-drone company producing technology and solutions for Defence, Government, and commercial entities to monitor and protect their airspace against unwanted drones. Ben has been with the company since 2021 and commenced his combined role at the start of 2024. Ben has over 25 years of commercial and government experience in technical engineering leadership roles specialising in analogue and digital signal processing in the audio and radio frequency domains