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Florian Jörgens was born in 1985 and began his career in computer science in 2002 with an apprenticeship as an information technology assistant. After a second apprenticeship as an IT specialist for system integration at Deutsche Telekom AG, he worked for four years at T-Systems International GmbH in application and system support, where he also obtained his Bachelor of Science in business informatics at FOM Düsseldorf. After switching to IT consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers and completing a Master of Science degree in IT management while working, Florian Jörgens worked for almost 3 years at E.ON in Essen as a manager, where he was responsible for the information security of the entire German sales department. Following this position, in March 2019 he assumed overall responsibility for the Group's information security as Chief Information Security Officer of LANXESS AG in Cologne. Florian Jörgens has been Chief Information Security Officer of the Vorwerk Group since July 2021. In addition to this activity, since his master's degree in 2015, he has worked as a lecturer, author and research assistant at various universities. He also gives specialist lectures on the topics of information security, awareness and cyber security. Florian Jörgens was awarded the Digital Leader Award in the ?Cyber Security? category by CIO magazine in September 2020.

Kevin Peacock is an experienced channel / key account manager with extensive experience in computer hardware. Currently Kevin is leading the way with chromeOS in the DACH region, helping enterprises with their modern day challenges like hybrid and remote work. In the past he has been responsible for helping partners and customers with their digital transformation with mobile device solutions from Zebra Technologies, Honeywell and Advantech. Starting his career over 10 years ago at Bechtle, he has worked with the leading IT OEMs like Lenovo and HP to offer the best mobile endpoint solutions on the market.

Chuks Ojeme; is an astute tactician, a certified high impact leader, (Cambridge institute of sustainability and leadership (CISL), a Certified digital risk expert, (Harvard University), an enterprise risk management expert, (University of Capetown), a Digital investigation and forensic computing expert, (University College, Dublin), Project Management profession (PMP - PMI Institute, USA), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH – EC-Council, USA), ………….. Over 15 years of experience in balancing agility with governance while building innovation, people, process, and a technology-focused digital security ecosystem. Engaged in providing transformation and strategic leadership in managing information security risks with regard to adaptive and proactive threat intelligence insights, risk appetite/tolerance adaption, technical and organizational countermeasures, etc. as the enterprise digital boundaries become blurred. • Judge of the top 100 global CISO • 2021 top 100 global CISO • Global Chief Information Security and compliance officer, Brenntag • Non-Exec Board Member CyberVolt • Co-Chair DACH-CISO, Evanta, a Gartner Company • Co-Author; Game on; leadership that last • Co-founder: Conscience Matters

Biography: Marc Linster is an internationally experienced software executive, with a history of leading development, service and support teams in the US, Europe, and Asia. Marc has a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science / Informatics from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Marc is Chief Technology Officer at EDB, and has a wealth of in-depth knowledge of the software business, including subscription based models, cloud based models, and agile development processes. His 9+ years of experience at EDB makes him an expert in the PostgreSQL landscape. Prior to joining EDB, Marc was leading the redesign of Polycom’s Video as a Service offering. As a change agent, visionary, and forward thinker Marc excels at building and maintaining cohesive cross functional relationships in order to solve diverse technology and business process issues to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. Marc is known for his drive, determination, willingness to challenge status quo, and outstanding leadership talents skills. Throughout his career, Marc has traveled extensively on work assignments in the UK, France, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea and the US.

Boris Ortolf is leading the Enterprise & Cyber Security division for Fujitsu in the DACH region. After graduating with an engineering degree in computer sciences in 2000, he worked as a systems engineer, application developer, and Head of IT in various industries. Among these being law firms and health care providers, handling delicate data. Not only running systems, but running them securely, became his goal. Since 2010 he has worked as CISO, Data Protection Officer and IT Security Consultant. His track record includes implementing effective security controls, developing compliant ISMSs and summoning capable security teams from thin air. With his family of five and some thousand pets, he’s living near Hamburg in the north of Germany.

Christian Kubik has been interested in IT for all of his life, and made his passion his profession for more than 20 years. As an advisory consultant he is repsonsible for the strategic alignment of technology and business outcomes for Commvault's largest clients. By leveraging his deep technical knowledge of the Commvault Data Management Platform, industry vertical understanding and exceptional presentation skills, he facilitates organizations to bridge the divide between their vision and technology.

Michael Dielman is a passionate and curious problem solver with a background working with early-stage container, Kubernetes, and DevOps technologies. Michael began his cloud journey in 2015 at Docker when container technology was still in its infancy. While at Docker Michael helped evangelize the merits of containers and DevOps ways of working and maintained a close pulse on the evolution of the orchestration and threat landscape. As a founding member of the Twistlock EMEA team back in 2018 he led the regional go-to-market strategy pre-acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. In his role at Wiz Michael again owns the go-to-market strategy for DACH and applies his experience working with large global brands to support their prioritization of risk using a combination of people, process, and technology.

Jered Markoff, MBA. Early in my career I co-founded an NGO that remains successful today. Since 2005 I worked for the World Health Organization with a focus on emergency management and technology innovation, I am currently Emergency Operations Chief Technology Officer.

Paul Mackay works within the Big Data team who are responsible for articulating the technology strategy for Cloudera in EMEA, working with counterparts globally, to ensure that the benefits of the Cloudera CDP platform is understood by both customers and business partners alike. As a broad theme, Mackay shows how the Cloudera data platform allows organisations to store, analyze, stream and ultimately derive value from data using solutions such as Data Warehouse and Machine learning, from the Edge to the DC to the Cloud.

Romain Picard is the Senior EMEA VP for Cloudera. In his role, Romain is responsible for the region’s field operations and strategy–working in partnership with customers on their data-driven transformation journeys. His vision and collaborative leadership style have helped to create a high performance culture across the business in EMEA and has driven strong commercial growth. Romain joined Cloudera in 2014 from SAP where he served as Hana Enterprise Cloud Global GTM. He has nearly twenty years’ experience in the technology industry, helping large enterprises drive strategic business value from data and the Cloud. Romain graduated from EDHEC Business School and Fachochschule Wiesbaden in Germany

Marco Moretti has held the position of Head of Innovation and Sustainability in the Enel Group’s Global Digital Solutions division since 2017. He joined Enel in 2009 and has occupied various positions in the company. He started in Rome as an International Regulatory Analyst and in 2012 he was selected as the Italian representative at Eurelectric, the European electricity industry association. This was as part of the Task Force on Market Design for the integration of Renewable Energy Sources. He then moved to Madrid and took part in successful negotiations for the setting of prices for Enel’s distribution subsidiaries in Latin America. In 2014 Marco started up the Business Development team in Mexico to promote new investment opportunities in the Central America region. He holds a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a Master’s in European Business from the ESCP Europe Business School.

Klaus-E. Klingner came to Allianz Technology SE (formerly AGIS) via the acquisition of Dresdner Bank in 2004. He was one of the first web application developers At Dresdner Bank, where he started in 1999. At Allianz Technology, he worked as part of the team introducing UC4, was part of the Lotus Notes Team, and later joined 3rd level support of the Managed File Transfer infrastructure. In 2013, he joined the oneWeb team as Project Lead and Technical Consultant. As IT Security was always one of his passions he took over as Divisional Security Officer for Digital Interaction in 2016. Since 2019 he has been part of the Security Awareness Working Group of the Allianz Group. He holds boths CISSP and CISM, and is also a certified Web Application Penetration Tester, ISO27001 Implementer, and Data Privacy Specialist. Klaus has also presented at several international events on the topic of Gamified Security Awareness Training for developers.

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security™ Company, delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises. Rubrik’s big idea is to provide data security and data protection on a single platform, including: Zero Trust Data Protection, ransomware investigation, incident containment, sensitive data discovery, and orchestrated application recovery. This means data is ready at all times so you can recover the data you need and avoid paying a ransom. Because when you secure your data, you secure your applications, and you secure your business. For more information please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter and Rubrik, Inc. on LinkedIn. (edited)

Murat is the Global Growth Leader in GE Healthcare, responsible for Edison digital health platform externalization and growth. He develops and executes growth strategies, establishes partnerships with vendors, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare solution providers to position the Edison digital health platform for success. He acts as a pivot between Regional and Business Units and bring customer & market insights, regional partnership opportunities to help drive Edison offering development and commercialization. He managed a global innovation and partnerships team who innovates Digital Health Solutions through co-development and validation partnerships in Digital Health Solutions, Analytics and AI. . Murat is an MIT Executive Program graduate, holds BSc in Computer Science and MBA. Throughout his career he has founded a digital startup company and performed several Business Leadership roles at Arthur Andersen, EY and GE Healthcare. Murat’s mission is helping community to solve their challenges through digital health technologies, to save and improve lives!

Born in 1965, maried, two children Education: Math.-techn. Assist.; Master in Computer Science (University RWTH Aachen, Germany); Certified Telecommunications manager (University of Ilmenau); Certified Data Privacy Officer (TÜV Nord, Germany) Profession: -1984-1997: experience in various IT roles within Insurance (started as Mainframe SW developer); DKV AG, Cologne. -1997-2001: Consultant & Project lead within Consulting firm; Mummert+Partner (today know as Sopra Steria Consulting, Hamburg) -2001-2018: Senior Manager/Authorized Officer within IT Company providing standard SW products to the Insurance industry with profit&loss responsibility; ISS Software GmbH (subsidiary of Sopra Steria Consulting), Hamburg -Since 2018: Head of Corporate IT at BDO Germany; since 2020 CIO of BDO Germany Hobbies: IT (since 1980), Riding, japanese martial arts & philosophy/Karate, reading SF&F, Music (Guitar, Harmonica) -Guest speaker in various ways (IT conferences, Univerities of Applied Studies)

I'm working in IT and Information & Cyber Security now for over 15 years and across the globe. I have worked on - secure application development, - building secure network infrastructures, - training and managing humans in Information and Cyber Security, - designing and realizing secure and legally compliant solutions, - hacking and testing systems and services, - leading and building security expert teams and groups (such as CERTs or Security Architecture teams etc.), - cooperating on security aspects in contract, demand and financial management - fully incorporating the whole topic of Information and Cyber Security into companies, corporations and their leadership and executive management. I have done this in a variety of companies from SMEs to big multi-national corporations in various locations around the world. Security is a standard in today’s world and everyone should implement it as much and best as possible. My goal is to help and guide this.

“Alexander Zhitenev is an IT and Information Security Executive with over 20 years of experience in IT, Information Security, and Risk management. Currently Alexander is working as group CISO at IFCO group, responsible for all aspects of information security and risk management across IFCO’s global business. In his prior roles Alexander worked for global, multi-billion companies as a: - Product Owner for IT security, endpoint management, and productivity tools - IT Solution and Enterprise Architect - Program and project manager Alexander has an MSc degree in Engineering and Information Security, and holds certifications in Information Security, Risk Management, Project and Program management, and IT Service operations.

Born in 1965, maried, two children Education: Math.-techn. Assist.; Master in Computer Science (University RWTH Aachen, Germany); Certified Telecommunications manager (University of Ilmenau); Certified Data Privacy Officer (TÜV Nord, Germany) Profession: -1984-1997: experience in various IT roles within Insurance (started as Mainframe SW developer); DKV AG, Cologne. -1997-2001: Consultant & Project lead within Consulting firm; Mummert+Partner (today know as Sopra Steria Consulting, Hamburg) -2001-2018: Senior Manager/Authorized Officer within IT Company providing standard SW products to the Insurance industry with profit&loss responsibility; ISS Software GmbH (subsidiary of Sopra Steria Consulting), Hamburg -Since 2018: Head of Corporate IT at BDO Germany; since 2020 CIO of BDO Germany Hobbies: IT (since 1980), Riding, japanese martial arts & philosophy/Karate, reading SF&F, Music (Guitar, Harmonica) -Guest speaker in various ways (IT conferences, Univerities of Applied Studies)

I'm working in IT and Information & Cyber Security now for over 15 years and across the globe. I have worked on - secure application development, - building secure network infrastructures, - training and managing humans in Information and Cyber Security, - designing and realizing secure and legally compliant solutions, - hacking and testing systems and services, - leading and building security expert teams and groups (such as CERTs or Security Architecture teams etc.), - cooperating on security aspects in contract, demand and financial management - fully incorporating the whole topic of Information and Cyber Security into companies, corporations and their leadership and executive management. I have done this in a variety of companies from SMEs to big multi-national corporations in various locations around the world. Security is a standard in today’s world and everyone should implement it as much and best as possible. My goal is to help and guide this.

“Alexander Zhitenev is an IT and Information Security Executive with over 20 years of experience in IT, Information Security, and Risk management. Currently Alexander is working as group CISO at IFCO group, responsible for all aspects of information security and risk management across IFCO’s global business. In his prior roles Alexander worked for global, multi-billion companies as a: - Product Owner for IT security, endpoint management, and productivity tools - IT Solution and Enterprise Architect - Program and project manager Alexander has an MSc degree in Engineering and Information Security, and holds certifications in Information Security, Risk Management, Project and Program management, and IT Service operations.

Dr. Anke Sax has more than 30 years’ experience in the financial sector, during which time she has been responsible for leading for the digital transformation of a number of prominent businesses. Most recently, she held the role of Chief Information Officer at Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank) in Frankfurt, having previously been Chief Information Officer at Daimler Financial Services in Stuttgart. She also held the role of CIO Commercial Banking at Commerzbank, where she was responsible for designing and optimising IT systems for payment transactions, financing and data management across the company’s private and corporate customer businesses.