Konstantin Rychkov is a senior research analyst for security software in the European software and infrastructure team. His primary area of focus, interest, and passion is security software, in which he has accumulated expertise through years of standardized and custom research, constant market monitoring, and frequent communication with software companies. He plays a leading role in the biggest security consulting projects done by IDC globally.

He also supports the European Software and Services Group in the broader quantitative software research and semi-annual data reconciliation and plays a key part in ongoing data collection and modeling, content development, analysis, and quality assurance.

For his industry knowledge and vision, he was invited to join the Software & Information Industry Association in 2013 to participate as a judge for software awards in security, cloud, and ERM.

Before joining IDC in 2010, he gained wide experience in consulting and analysis during his tenure as a manager of the intangible assets valuation department of the Flagman Company in his native Russia. Prior to that, he worked as a sales manager responsible for development of the distribution chain and sales expansion.

Petteri Pesonen is the owner of a large technology platform used for publishing the web site of City of Helsinki and offering digital services for 300 000 registered users. Responsibilities include incident, change, service request, security and other service management processes. Petteri also work as the project manager for technology upgrade projects and as an architect with business in order to find technical solutions that meet business needs.

Petteri also enjoys finding technical solutions that are simple, clear, secure and make people happy. Being surrounded by professional people to learn from is a great source of inspiration.

Tobias vetää Helsingin toimistomme Tietosuoja ja yksityisyydensuoja -ryhmää.

Tobiaksella on mittava kokemus tietosuojaan ja yksityisyyden suojaan liittyen, ja hän on perehtynyt syvällisesti muun muassa uusia tuotteita ja palveluja koskevien tietosuojakysymysten ratkaisemiseen, organisaatioiden tietosuojakäytäntöihin ja sopimusneuvotteluihin. Lisäksi hän on avustanut niin kotimaisia kuin kansainvälisiäkin organisaatioita compliance-asioissa, mukaan lukien globaalit tiedonhallintastrategiat, kansainväliset tiedonsiirrot ja tietosuoja-asetusten noudattaminen paikallisesti.

Ennen aloittamistaan Bird & Birdillä vuonna 2016 Tobias toimi Senior Legal Counsel - lakimiehenä Microsoftin ja Nokian palveluksessa vastaten yritysten yksityisyys- ja tietosuoja-asioista. Hän toimi organisaatioissa myös tietosuoja-asioista vastaavana kouluttajana, ja johti hiljattain kansainvälistä tiimiä tietosuojailmoitusten koordinointiin liittyvässä laajassa hankkeessa.

Laaja-alaisen tietosuojaosaamisen lisäksi Tobias on myös kokenut luennoija ja toiminut Helsingin yliopistossa jo vuosien ajan opetustehtävissä, vastaten opetuksesta ja luennoinnista yli 20 eri kurssilla mukaan lukien eurooppaoikeus, tietosuojalainsäädäntö, kansainvälinen kauppaoikeus sekä kansainvälinen välimiesoikeus. Saksalaisen oikeustieteen tutkinnon lisäksi Tobias on suorittanut oikeustieteen tohtorin tutkinnon Helsingin yliopistossa.

Tobias on suosittu ja kysytty puhuja tietosuoja-asioihin liittyvissä alan konferensseissa sekä Suomessa että muualla Euroopassa. Hän on International Association of Privacy Professionalsin Euroopan neuvottelukunnan jäsen ja toimii myös yhteisön varapuheenjohtaja Helsingin KnowledgeNet –verkostossa. Tobiaksella on Privacy Professional CIPP / E -sertifikaatti . Hänelle on myönnetty arvostettu kansainvälisen IAPP:n (Association of Privacy Professionals) Fellow of Information Privacy –sertitikaatti (FIP).Tobias on myös aktiivinen kirjoittaja, ja julkaissut lukuisia tietosuojalainsäädäntöä käsitteleviä monogrammeja ja artikkeleita alan johtavissa julkaisuissa.

Saksaa äidenkielenään puhuva Tobias työskentelee sujuvasti myös suomeksi, englanniksi ja ranskaksi.

Staffan Truvé is the co-founder and CTO of Recorded Future. He has co-founded over fifteen software companies, including visualization pioneer Spotfire (acquired by Tibco) and Appgate (now Cryptzone) for network security. Staffan holds a PhD in computer science from Chalmers University of Technology. He has been a visiting Fulbright Scholar at MIT. His research interests include threat intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and information visualization. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Fredrik Forslund serves as Vice President, Enterprise & Cloud Erasure Solutions for Blancco, a division of Blancco Technology Group. Bringing close to 20 years of experience from the data erasure industry, he previously founded SafeIT Security, a security software company focusing on encryption and selective data erasure. With a keen eye for streamlining corporate IT security efficiencies and maintaining compliance with data privacy legislation, he is often regarded as a trusted advisor among customers. Prior to joining Blancco, he served as a Management Consultant for McKinsey & Company. Having lived and worked in the U.S., South East Asia, South America and Europe, Forslund understands the operational, financial and cultural nuances of driving global business growth. When he’s not guiding customers through data erasure, or working with Blancco’s internal teams, he can be found speaking at industry conferences across the world.

Mikko Takala vetää Suomen Check Pointilla yritysasiakkaiden myyntitiimiä. Tällä hetkellä hän on työskennellyt 5 vuotta Check Pointilla ja kaiken kaikkiaan Mikolla on kokemusta IT-alasta yli 10 vuotta.

Ennen Check Pointille siirtymistä Mikko työskenteli energiasektorilla ja vastasi tuotantokriittisten verkkoympäristöjen arkkitehtuurista, tietoturvasta ja järjestelmien jatkuvuudesta.

Adenike (Nikki) Cosgrove is the Cybersecurity Strategist for international markets at Proofpoint, where she drives product marketing strategy across European and Asia Pacific markets. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management, data privacy, and compliance.

 Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research and Canalys, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.

Ms. Cosgrove is a regular speaker at key conferences including the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in the US and Japan, the Evanta CIO Executive Summit, it-sa Germany, ISMS Spain and Hacking Human Nature live. Ms. Cosgrove’s subject matter expertise has also been featured in Business Reporter, Computer Business Review, Computing, Forbes, Intelligent CISO, SC Magazine UK, GovInfo, and iTWire.

Ms. Cosgrove holds a Masters of Research, Telecommunications from UCL (University College London) and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Engineering from the University of Hull. 

Jakob Jantzen joined IDC in 2010 and is employed as the Nordic Conference Manager. Jakob is responsible for IDC’s Nordic conferences and events, ranging from small round table discussions to larger expo-style conferences. Responsibilities include delegate and partner management.

Moreover, Jakob is responsible for IDC’s Running Club, established in 2014, coaching the weekly run, though the streets of Copenhagen.

Jakob holds a M.Sc. in Economics and Marketing from Copenhagen Business School.

Aleksei holds both technical and managerial background with almost 10 years of experience in IT Security field, focusing on network security, identity and access management, machine learning and automation techniques for infrastructure deployment. Aleksei’s main passion areas are Network Security, Security Automation and Orchestration, Threat Intelligence and User Behaviour Analytics.
During past few years he has been working as technical lead of the team, responsible for development and operations of various cyber security technologies in finance sector.

Nikolai has more 15+ years’ experience in a Cyber Security and IT Infrastructure. His main focuses are DevSecOps, CyberOps, Cyber Incident response, Security Architecture and Infrastructure solutions design. He is a huge fan of a cost optimization and a new technologies implementation based on a business cases, Agile@Scale principle and fast time to market approach. In past previous years he has been working as development manager for cyber defence centre in finance sector and his main responsibilities have been all cybersecurity operations (Security Operation Centre, cSIRT, Infrastructure Security, Identity and Access management teams and etc).

During his 30+ years in the IT industry, Ingvar’s focus was software and the integration of software components into customer solutions. Currently working at One Identity as a Principal Solutions Architect focusing on IAM in the North EMEA region, Ingvar’s primary responsibility included pre-sale support and technical architect/consultant.

Specialties: Areas of expertise are identity intelligence, i e compliance, federation and role management, access control systems, directory services, authentication services, PKI, visualization platforms, etc.