Duncan Brown is associate vice president, European Security Practice, at IDC EMEA and leads the firm’s security research program in Europe. He specializes in providing strategic advice to his clients, informing and validating their corporate, product, and marketing plans. Brown is an expert in analyzing the security market globally, and his list of security-related clients includes enterprises, central banks, government organizations, and security product suppliers and services providers. Brown’s expertise spans the gamut of security topics including incident response, threat intelligence, and global privacy issues. He established and leads IDC’s coverage of the global impact of the GDPR, the RPEC (ePrivacy Directive update) and NIS Directive on technology companies and their customers. His analysis and opinions are widely sought by industry leaders and investors, while his comments on industry trends and developments frequently appear in the leading business and trade publications.

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With a deep interest in law, technology and business strategy, Sofia Edvardsen engages passionately in understanding and explaining the world’s emerging legal regulatory landscape for technologies. How can businesses prepare today for the regulations of the future? What should be done short term to position the industry for the long term considering what rules that then will apply?

With extensive experience as an attorney, she has worked closely with a wide range of organisations. That enables her to provide practical and realistic solutions to emerging legal challenges, also aiming to help make the right decisions based on an understanding of what is possible today and what the future might bring. She is the founding partner of Sharp Cookie Advisors (https://www.sharpcookie.se/en), a technology and digitization law firm based in Stockholm, Sweden. In her role there she represents sellers and buyers of cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models), software licensing and other technology transactions.

She also holds the role as Data Protection Officer for several global companies as well as start-ups. In addition, she provides services to Data Protection Programs for health care providers and companies in media, marketing, retail and tech. Sofia also leads the Swedish chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). In that role, she facilitates the development of privacy-enhancing practices for the Swedish industry and the public sector.

Sofia Edvardsen graduated from School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and has a degree from Chalmers University of Technology. She is a certified privacy professional and holds a CIPP/E certification. She has served as in-house legal counsel of a global telecom company, in-house legal counsel at a technology investment fund and as a lawyer in the Stockholm and London offices of Baker McKenzie law firm.

Jake Moore, Crime Enthusiast and Cybersecurity Advisor, brings a unique edge to the digital security realm. As well as conducting research and analysis into the latest cybersecurity and AI threats, he also regularly comments on a range of cybersecurity and AI stories in the press for outlets such as BBC, Sky News and CNN. Jake previously worked in the police force for 14 years in the Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime Unit. He investigated 100s of crimes and spent much of his time in Crown Court producing digital evidence for an abundance of different offences ranging from fraud to murder. Leveraging this experience, he now guides businesses and employees in bolstering their cybersecurity by blending real-world crime-fighting insights, using artificial intelligence and social engineering techniques with advanced digital security strategies to combat evolving cyber threats.