Human Firewall Conference
2023

Ulrich Irnich

CIO and Modernization Garage Director, Vodafone Germany

Ulrich Irnich has been with Vodafone as CIO since 2020, responsible for the customer-centric IT orientation. Additionally he is also responsible for the global Modernization Garage to drive BSS modernization across VF. Before that, as CIO at Unitymedia, he was responsible for the agile transformation of IT and business. He transformed the company from a project-oriented to a product-centric organization. With the extensive telecommunications experience, he brings deep insights into business and digital transformation.

Sascha Lobo

Digital Entrepreneur, Author & Podcast host

Sascha Lobo, a digital entrepreneur, author, and podcaster, has been discussing the advantages and disadvantages of digitization since 2006, including through his weekly column on spiegel.de. He has been particularly interested in the field of artificial intelligence and its role in digital transformation for the past decade. Sascha currently resides in Berlin with his wife and two children, as well as in the vast world of the internet.

Photo credits © Anatol Kotte

Jamie Bartlett

Bestselling Author, Journalist and Tech Blogger

Jamie Bartlett is a prominent UK expert on politics and technology, focusing on cyber security, privacy online, new political movements, and internet cultures. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and authored three books, including „The Missing Cryptoqueen” which tells the unbelievable story of the rise, disappearance and fall of Dr. Ruja Ignatova and reveals how OneCoin became the biggest scam of the 21st century.

Bartlett is a technology blogger for the Spectator and a journalist for various publications, including The Sunday Times, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and The Telegraph. His TED talk “How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream” has been watched almost 5 million times. Bartlett also presented the BBC2 documentary series “The Secrets of Silicon Valley,” which explored the impact of technology on economies and politics and helped uncover the Cambridge Analytica scandal. He is the creator and host of the BBC podcast “The Missing Cryptoqueen,” which investigates topics such as online subcultures, hackers, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and the threat social media poses to democracy.

Inge van der Beijl

Human Resilience enabler & threat actor communications expert, Northwave

Meet Inge, an expert in cyber resilience. With her mission to make organizations more cyber resilient, Inge understands the importance of involving people in this process. She knows that the psychological factor in cybercrime has been neglected for too long, and she is determined to change that. Inge’s goal is to turn the people in your organization into a human sensor, enabling your staff to secure your organization. With degrees in Social & Organizations psychology and Change Management, and solid experience at research institute TNO, Inge has a strong scientific basis. Additionally, her practical side shines through her service in the military in Afghanistan and being a lead communicator in ransomware incidents. Inge currently is the Head of Expertise and Director Behaviour and Resilience at Northwave.

Dr. Niklas Hellemann

CEO of SoSafe

Niklas Hellemann is a studied psychologist, social engineering expert, and CEO at SoSafe. Before founding his own company, he worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group for six years in the areas of People and Organization. Besides his Ph.D. in Business Administration, Niklas studied psychology – which led him to the human approach in the tech-savvy cyber security market. In 2018, Niklas founded SoSafe together with Lukas and Felix to strengthen digital self-defense worldwide. Today, Niklas is engaged as a speaker on various stages worldwide, including the OMR Festival, the Web Summit, and the RSA Conference, where he talks about the pressing challenges of social engineering and the newest cybercrime developments.

Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir

Former CMO Palo Alto Networks, Board Member SoSafe

Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir held key leadership positions at Google, Palantir Technologies and Palo Alto Networks, where she most recently served as CMO. She holds a PhD in speech processing from Cambridge University, Machine Intelligence Lab, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Harvard University. As a board member at SoSafe, Zeynep applies her expertise and industry experience to help the Sosafe team increase awareness on human risk across enterprises.

Gonçalo Gaiolas

Chief Product Officer, SoSafe

Gonçalo Gaiolas – a computer scientist with extensive experience in the tech industry – joined SoSafe as Chief Product Officer in April 2023. During his more than 15 years in the B2B SaaS space, he has been committed to maintaining high standards in product development. Most recently, as CPO at low-code platform provider OutSystems, he was responsible for scaling the platform strategy and was leading developer and community relations. He is excited to meet security experts from all over Europe at the Human Firewall Conference and to jump into conversations about the latest trends that will inspire and inform the future development of the SoSafe product.

Florian Jörgens

Chief Information Security Officer, Vorwerk

Florian Jörgens is Chief Information Security Officer at Vorwerk Group, a family-owned company with more than 220,000 employees in 60 countries. As an expert in the field of information security, awareness, and cyber security, he gives lectures and keynotes and is active as an author as well as research assistant at various universities. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems and a Master’s in IT Management. Most recently, he held security leadership positions at energy provider E.ON and chemical developer and manufacturer LANXESS, where he was responsible for the entire group’s information security.