Keren Elazari is an internationally recognized security analyst, researcher, author, and speaker. Since 2000, Keren has worked with leading Israeli security firms, government organizations, Global big 4, and Fortune 500 companies. She spent years as an officer with the IDF Intelligence Branch and has a master's degree in security studies and political science from Tel Aviv University.

Keren covers emerging security technologies as an independent strategic analyst and advisor. In 2014, Keren became the first Israeli woman to speak at the prestigious TED Conference. Keren's talk has been viewed by millions, translated to 30 languages, and chosen for TED's 'Most Powerful Ideas'. In 2020, Keren's TED talk is still one of TED's most-watched talks on the topic of security and hacking.

Keren is currently a senior researcher at the Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University. Keren is also the founder of Israel's largest security community event, BSidesTLV, part of the global SecurityBSides movement, and the Leading Cyber Ladies, a global professional network for Women in Cyber Security.

Associate Research Director Mark Child of IDC’s European Security Group leads the group’s Endpoint Security and Identity & Digital Trust research for both Western Europe and Central & Eastern Europe. He monitors developments in security technologies and strategies as organizations address the challenges of evolving business models, IT infrastructure, and cyberthreats. Mark’s coverage includes in-depth security market studies, end-user research, white papers, and custom consulting. Mark Child supports IDC’s global products, including Security Trackers, Security Spending Guides, and Security FutureScapes. He is a regular speaker at IDC events across Europe, including European Security Road Shows and the CISO Summit.

Filippo Cassini joined Fortinet in 2003 and has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, IT and security industries. He leads the Presales Consultants team which engages with Fortinet's top Telco customers around the world.

Before becoming Fortinet’s Vice President of Worldwide Consulting Systems Engineering, Filippo held positions as Security Products System Engineer at Exclusive Networks, a pan-european security products distributor, and also worked as LINUX security consultant and engineer. Filippo holds an engineering degree.

As an experienced senior executive with a proven track record in sales and business development, Lizzie joins forces with the regional management team to spearhead Fortinet’s growth and market share expansion across the region.

She joined Fortinet from F5, where she spent 15 years and held a series of sales leadership roles, initially as Sales Director for Southern Europe and later senior vice president of sales for EMEA. Prior to F5, Lizzie worked at Nortel Networks for 10 years, as the International Sales Director, where she focused on integrating the company’s regionally developed enterprise telecommunication products into Nortel’s global channel sales engagement.

Pablo Molinero joined Fortinet in 2020 as Sr. Director Product Management of the Telco Vertical. Pablo brings a wealth of experience from over 18 years in the Telecommunications industry.

Before joining Fortinet, he held product management and pre-sales manager positions at Ericsson. Pablo likes understanding complex problems and then explaining them in a didactical way, as he is also a part-time lecturer at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Pablo holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and 4 M.Sci. from US, France and Spain. He holds 11 patents.

Kash Valji is a Director of Consulting Systems Engineering (EMEA and APAC). He has more than 20 years of experience in the Cyber security industry. His focussed areas include; authentication, threat intelligence, denial of service and malware analysis. Kash has a BA honours degree in Information Systems and Masters of Science in Distributed Computing Systems from the University of Greenwich.

Ronen Shpirer is leading Fortinet’s solutions marketing for the mobile networks operator (MNOs) segment, with emphasis on security’s role and solutions for innovative public and private 5G infrastructure and services. Ronen has over 30 years of international pre-sales and marketing experience in networking and security in the service provider and enterprise markets. 

Prior to joining Fortinet, Ronen worked for several leading networking and VAS companies including Motorola, Nortel Networks, and Cisco Systems.

Ronen holds degrees in Business Administration and Sociology. Mr. Shpirer is based at Fortinet’s EMEA headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Trevor Rodriguez is Global VP of Advanced Technical Support, as well as all Japan and European Services, at Fortinet. He has 25 years’ experience across the network security hardware/software industry, focused on Carrier Service Providers.

After graduating from an MBA from the University of Toronto, he went on to  a variety of Services leadership functions including; Technical Support, Professional Services and Services Sales and Marketing. Trevor has lived across the world in Japan, Singapore, EMEA and in the Americas and currently resides in the UK.

Richard has over 15 years’ experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry. Richard leads our CTO function where the product management and solution architecture teams reside. Alongside designing customer solutions, the team own the Digital Space technology strategy and work with all other areas of the business to create a cohesive technology roadmap that has our customers’ needs at the heart of its construction.

Richard has worked in customer service, delivery, presales and product management positions for small companies and some of the largest companies in the world. Before joining Digital Space Richard held the position of Solutions & Strategy Director at Daisy Corporate Services. Richard has experience in running cross function improvement programs and creating high functioning product development teams.
 

Rita joined the Orange Business product team in 2023 as Product Manager, in charge of developing Flexible SD-WAN with Fortinet. She is closely working with Fortinet, an Orange key partner, and coordinating stakeholders in engineering, operations, business planning, sourcing & supply chain for the creation of value-added services around the SD-WAN technology.

Prior to this, Rita worked as a strategic account manager for large accounts, leveraging the Orange Business portfolio to key customers, meeting critical needs for their businesses, thus building strong and lasting relationships based on trust.
 

Mark is an experienced product leader with over 20 years’ experience leading products and product development teams within Connectivity, Security and Unified Communications products. Whilst at Vodafone, he has helped to establish Vodafone Business as a Global Networks and Software Defined Networks/SASE leader, growing at nearly 2 x the market, led the co-creation and development of Vodafone’s first Mobile Private Network offer, as well as UCaaS products such as MS Teams Direct Routing. He has been successful throughput his career developing compelling product visions, executing on product plans and board papers. Mark has an MBA from the Henley Management College in the UK.

Andreina is Product Manager and Product Owner of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) within the Evolution Platform program at Orange Business since January 2023. She works closely with Fortinet to develop, integrate, and implement SASE solution and coordinates the different interactions with key stakeholders. She also works with Orange SDWAN teams to drive convergence and create more value by delivering an enriched value proposition to Orange Business customers.

Prior to this position, Andreina worked as a Product Manager for SME Orange Business market. She led the strategy of high-end offers’ portfolio evolution aiming to keep value and revenues while maintaining a good customer experience and NPS. She’s been working in Orange Groupe on various business segments, including product management, strategy and digital.
 

Jonas is a passionate cybersecurity professional with more than eight years of expertise in networking and security. Jonas loves technology and lives in Asia's technology capital Singapore.

He is a digital native who is interested in offensive security and cyber. In his role at Fortinet, he works in a strategic engagement team. They combine data science with security strategy and facilitate tactics to support security portfolio planning. Jonas specializes in industry threat expertise with in-depth knowledge in threat intelligence, exploits, penetration testing, machine learning, and advanced malware concepts. As a cybersecurity expert, Jonas advises and engages clients and executive leaders on solution strategies in several industry segments. He works closely with FortiGuard Labs and Fortinet System Engineering to respond to advanced threats as they break – and proactively plans to stay ahead of the curve

Amit have 20 years+ experience in IT & Security Services Sector. Amit joined Fortinet EMEA team in 2019 and has responsibility to develop MSSP footprint with Tier 1 Carriers & Partners, and build a successful strategy with the sales team to grow faster our revenue.

Prior to Fortinet, Amit spend 12+ years with a Platinum Partner in UK as a Sales Manager ‘Fortinet Specialist’ and he also worked with Tata Infotech (TCS) System Integration Division. Amit holds a B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from The Open University, UK.

As Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Patrick is responsible for creating and evangelizing key messages about Fortinet’s cyber security solutions. Prior to joining Fortinet, over the course of the past 30 years, he has worked for a number of small to medium size organizations as well as larger companies such as Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, Hughes Network Systems, and Comtech Mobile Data Communications in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, holding a range of senior-level international sales and marketing roles. Patrick received his technical training while serving in the US Navy. Patrick is based at Fortinet’s EMEA facilities in Sophia Antipolis, France.
 

Antoine joined Fortinet in 2019 to lead the OT strategy and revenue growth in EMEA. With 25 years’ experience in product management, engineering, sales and marketing, Antoine mostly worked for industrial clients together with Fortinet, General Electric, ALSTOM, and Altran.
In his product management roles for Control vendors, he was leading the digital solution portfolio including the M&D as well as Cyber Security products and services solutions.

Antoine participated to several global events as a speaker and panelist. He is contributor into industrial cybersecurity working group, he is a certified Global Industrial Cyber Professional (GIAC-GICSP) trained at SANS institute, he holds a MSc of Telecom & IT and an MBA.

A native of Paris, he lived in several countries to finally settle in Zurich area in Switzerland, where he enjoys spending quality time with his wife and two kids.

Ricardo is a risk management expert and digital transformation strategist with extensive experience in large-scale change programs. He is passionate about helping businesses succeed in the digital age and has developed a deep understanding of NIS2 and other cybersecurity frameworks which he used to advise during his consulting career.

Ricardo's recent book, "Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption," offers valuable insights into how organizations can develop effective risk management and compliance programs that align with NIS2. He has led successful projects for large tier 1 financial services organizations in EMEA and leverages his strengths in Strategic, Achiever, Ideation, Command, and Competition to navigate the complexities of cybersecurity frameworks and support digital transformation initiatives.

Based in Dubai (UAE), Apollinaire is in charge of developing Fortinet’s Public Cloud business in the Middle East.

Previous to Fortinet, Apollinaire worked for Tata Communications where he led a team of Solutions Architects covering the company’s full portfolio of managed services, including Hybrid Clouds, Security, Networking and Unified Communications.

Other experience includes several years with Cisco in the Emerging Markets, where Apollinaire occupied various roles in the area of Collaboration technologies: Sr Manager Consulting Systems Engineers, Regional CTO and Sales Lead. He has a solid experience in Communications Technologies, after 11 years at Nortel Networks, where he was a Partner Manager, a Systems Engineer and a Senior Systems Engineer Manager.

Apollinaire holds a Masters in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.