Eri Kejser is the CISO of FORCE Technology and brings with her 15 years of experience working her way through IT from doing front-end development, to backend, to now securing enterprise infrastructure & cloud systems. Having successfully traversed several aspects of a business through the eyes of an end user and into leadership, the primary focus for Eri is to drive compliance and risk management into people, processes and technology while maintaining an innovative drive and enabling cutting-edge technologies. In her current role, she is busy building security into the business strategies for space technology, power-to-X, maritime, energy infrastructure.

As research director for IDC’s European Security practice, Joel Stradling leads the content and analyst team for tracking the European security segment. His main focus area is the integration of network plus security and evolution of network architectures towards software-defined secure access.

Stradling has 20 years of experience as an analyst of international managed enterprise network and IT services. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences talking about emerging technologies in B2B enterprise network and IT and wholesale carrier-to-carrier services. Joel is a well-known and highly regarded expert in the industry, offering insight and advice to C-level executives on technology competitive landscapes and emerging technologies, such as SD-WAN, 5G, SDN/NFV, and cyber-security.

As senior research manager for IDC’s European Security group, Romain has a specific focus on network security and the security technologies linked to the extended enterprise such as IoT, Edge and IT/OT convergence. He closely monitors the development, evolution, and penetration of these technologies and the approaches vendors are taking to stimulate adoption both at channel and end-user level.

Romain manages the IDC security appliance market tracker for the Europe, which provides market size, vendor share and forecasts for network security products such as unified threat management (UTM), firewall, IDP and content management (web and Messaging) appliances.

Romain also co-leads the European Future of Operations practice, looking at the shift in operational mindset for European organizations to a market-driven outlook that is leveraging digital capabilities to build a resilient organization. Romain has a specific interest in the role of security as business enabler for IT/OT integrations strategies.

Romain joined IDC from a manufacturing industry company, where he specialized in market research consultancy. Within this role he handled go-to-market projects for a variety of products and vendors, focusing on the French and Italian markets.