Agenda
IT Security Summit
One Day Event
Registration and Welcome Coffee
IDC Opening
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President, Global Lead for Energy & Retail Insights and Industry Hub, IDC
IDC Keynote
Securing an AI-Powered Business – Navigating the New Frontier of Trust, Compliance & Innovation. European organizations are prioritizing investments in AI-powered security analytics, identity and access management (IAM), and managed detection and response (MDR) to stay ahead of threats while maintaining transparency, compliance, and ethical governance.
Joel Stradling | IDC
Senior Research Director, European Security
Joel Stradling
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.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:35 am
IDC Keynote
Securing an AI-Powered Business – Navigating the New Frontier of Trust, Compliance & Innovation. European organizations are prioritizing investments in AI-powered security analytics, identity and access management (IAM), and managed detection and response (MDR) to stay ahead of threats while maintaining transparency, compliance, and ethical governance.
Host Sponsor Session – Securing Your AI Transformation
AI-driven threats are accelerating the rise of automated attacks, requiring advanced detection, resilience, and adaptive security strategies to stay ahead.
Massimiliano Bossi
Strategic & Major Manager, Check Point
L’identità nell’era degli Agenti AI: fiducia, controllo e governance
Federico Carbone
Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Ping Identity
Alessandro Loukas
Security Senior Manager, Accenture
Guest Keynote Speaker – The next era of Zero Trust
Luca Della Giovanna
Chief Information Security Officer, Humanitas
The Cybersecurity Poverty Line: how AI is redefining the balance for everyone
In the context of the “Cybersecurity Poverty Line”, many organizations lack the resources and expertise needed to adequately defend themselves, while threats continue to evolve through AI. To address this challenge, an AI-native security platform is required — one that combines advanced automation with human expertise. In this way, even companies with limited resources can access advanced protection capabilities and reduce the cybersecurity gap.
Marco D’Elia
Country Manager, Sophos Italia
From defense to prediction: the future of cybersecurity
Cyber threats evolve at an unprecedented pace, and security strategies must anticipate them, not simply react. As new working models redefine the boundaries of the enterprise, organizations need smarter tools and a fundamentally different approach to protection: one that is dynamic, automated, and predictive.
This session explores how AI, automation, and threat intelligence work together to help organizations detect risks before they materialize, defend infrastructure in real time, and ensure operational continuity in a perimeter-less world.
Marco Frenquellucci
Group Leader, Italy, Service & Solution Group, Lenovo
Coffee Break and Visit to Expo Area
Guest Keynote Speaker – End user Interview
Cyber Resilience in Industrial Environments: From Data Protection to Business Continuity
Stefano Righetti
Head of IT Governance, Information Security & Strategy, Acciaierie d'Italia
Pensa come un avversario: Oltre il CTEM
Paolo Bufarini
Regional Sales Director, Horizon3.ai
Guest Keynote Speaker|Enduser Case Study
Inside the cyber defense of Milano Cortina 2026
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Giovanni Zanetti
Cybersecurity Operations Manager e Vicepresidente AIPSI, Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026
Evolving from Cyber Culture to Cyber Posture: Employee Security in the Age of AI
Giovanni Tosi
Enterprise Account Executive, Riot
IDC Connect
Each table is led by a moderator and includes a small group of pre-registered participants. All sessions take place simultaneously and focus on fostering interaction, sharing experiences, and peer discussion on topics relevant to various companies and industries.
- IDC Connect 1: API Security: The New Front Line in an Agentic World
- IDC Connect 2: Cybercrime as a Service: The Underground Economy in 2026
- IDC Connect 3: The Business of Breach: Reputational Risk and Shareholder Trust
- IDC Connect 4: Strategic Security Spending: Justifying and Optimizing Budgets
- IDC Connect 5: Identity, Access and Trust: From IAM to CNAPP
- IDC Connect 6: Security Operations & Analytics: Detect, Respond, Recover
- IDC Connect 7: AI, Agentic AI and Security: Tools, Threats and Trust
- IDC Connect 8: Emerging Architectures: Zero Trust, IT/OT Convergence, SASE… Building for the Future
- IDC Connect 9: Digital Sovereignty and Supply Chain Risk: Protecting the Extended Ecosystem
Networking Lunch and Visit to Expo Area
Guest Keynote Speaker – Digital sovereignty as a pillar of national security: the PSN model
Thomas Mascioli Colavecchi
Chief Information Security Officer, Polo Strategico Nazionale
Tech Panel Sponsor – Leadership, Culture and Talent: Making Security Everyone’s Business
- Securing the Core: Why Affordable, Immutable Storage is Everyone’s Responsibility with Wasabi
- The Centrality of Identity Security in Cyber Initiatives with One Identity
Lorenzo De Amici
Commercial Account Executive Italy, Wasabi
Massimiliano Micucci
Italy Sales Director, One Identity
Honorary Guest Speaker
Andrea Gilli
Senior Advisor Office of Undersecretary of Italian Defence & Lecturer in Strategic Studies, University of St Andrews