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Simon Wood
Group CEO, Ubisecure

As Group CEO, Simon is responsible for planning, communicating and delivering Ubisecure’s overall vision and corporate strategy to enable the true potential of digital business through modern identity management solutions. Under Simon’s leadership, Ubisecure has become a European leader in the Identity & Access Management space, and guided the company to become the #1 issuer of verified organizations (Legal Entity Identifiers) globally.

Simon has a proven track record of scaling SaaS operations from early-stage startup to market leading services. Simon is a seasoned speaker and evangelist, especially around the business value derived from embracing organisation identity.

John Jellema
VP Product Management, Ubisecure

As VP Product Management, John is responsible for ensuring Ubisecure’s ongoing development of its Identity Platform, optimising the feature development while driving generational change across the IAM delivery platform. Since joining Ubisecure in 2017, John has refocused the cloud and on-premises delivered services to fulfil customer expectations across the Nordics.

Prior to joining Ubisecure, John worked for Verizon as a Global Security Product Manager, developing and managing its DDoS platform around the world. With more than 20 years experience in global product management, John is passionate about seamless technology integration. Standing on the shoulders of giants permits us to achieve greatness today and into the future.

Petteri Ihalainen
Senior Specialist at the National Cyber Security Centre
(part of Traficom)

Petteri Ihalainen has an extensive information security background, having worked for organisations like SSH, Ubisecure, the EU Commission, Gemalto and GlobalSign. During his career he has participated in advanced initiatives and digital identity programmes in various roles.

He’s currently working as a senior specialist at the National Cyber Security Centre of Finland (part of Traficom – the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency) in a team that supervises and advises organisations deploying digital identity solutions. Petteri also acts as one of the country’s representatives at the EU-level in eIDAS related tasks and programmes.

Juha Ollikka
Product Manager, Cloud Technologies, SD Worx

Juha Ollikka is Product Manager – Cloud Technologies at SD Worx. His role is focused on empowering customers across the Nordics and Central Europe with flexible and efficient technology solutions, and encompasses wide-ranging responsibilities to ensure that the customers’ needs are placed at the centre of a complex network of requirements from technology to compliance.

As a technology leader, he has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry with a multi-disciplinary background, including such areas as project management, process development, hosting solutions, and networking. He is often described as a team player, and willingly supports strategic partners to achieve mutual success.