BARCELONA 2026
Speakers Barcelona 2026
Marina Nogales
Glonbal Head of Cyber Identify & Protect
Unilever
Marina Nogales is Global Head of Cyber Identify & Protect at Unilever, responsible for leading global cyber capabilities at one of the world's largest consumer goods companies. Throughout her career, she has built and scaled high-performing cybersecurity functions, driven large-scale transformation programmes, and championed international collaboration to strengthen cyber resilience across financial services and investigation sectors. Marina is widely recognised for her ability to combine business leadership, operational excellence and innovation to deliver measurable security outcomes.
Carlos Valderrama
Global Head of Security
Operations
Straumann Group
Carlos is a Global Cybersecurity Strategic Leader, currently Head of Security Operations for a CHF 2.5B MedTech enterprise. With 25+ years in the field, he's built security operations that span EMEA, North America, and APAC - responding to incidents in seconds, not hours, while keeping pace with NIS2, GDPR, ISO 27001, DORA, and HIPAA. What sets Carlos apart is the ability to bridge deep technical expertise with boardroom fluency, translating cyber risk into language that drives real business decisions, without losing sight of the people and culture that make security actually work.
Marlany Naidoo
CISO
PayRetailers
Equipped with equal parts strategic foresight and hands-on operational experience, Marlany brings 25+ years across payments, financial services, and retail. Her take: compliance isn't a checkbox - it's a conversation between risk and possibility.
Jay Meier
Chief Identity Technology Strategist
FaceTech
Jay is an award-winning financial securities analyst and subject matter expert in identity access management, credentialing, and biometrics.
He is also the author of -Secure Credentialing & Identification-, a landmark deep-dive into identity, biometrics & cryptography
Andrew Wurster
Head of Cyber Security
Urban Sports Club
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Barcelona - Thursday 17 September 2026
Almanac, Azimuth Rooftop Bar, Barcelona
Doors open 16:30 | Event starts 17:00
Sponsors Barcelona 2026
BERLIN 2026
Speaker Berlin 2026
Julian Schwarzkopf
Julian Schwarzkopf is an information security expert with over a decade of experience in regulated industries. He started his career at KPMG before joining Trade Republic as its first information security hire, building the function from the ground up during hyper-growth. By the time he left as CISO, the bank served 10 million customers across 18 countries. Today, he is co-founder of VGLNT, a company specialized in compliance software and services for highly regulated companies.
He'll be speaking on:
Regulatory Complexity at Scale: Why It’s Growing, What it Means for Our Organizations and How We Make it Actionable
A quick exploration of why regulatory requirements keep multiplying as our companies grow, what it actually takes to translate that regulation into our specific business context, and how to turn it into requirements our business teams can act on.
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Berlin 13th October 2026
Sorrel
Pannierstr. 40
12047 Berlin
Sponsor
VGLNT was founded in 2025 in Berlin with the mission to enable regulated organizations to run compliance processes effortlessly through full and automated integration into their tech stack.
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LONDON 2026
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London - 9th December 2026
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DRESDEN 2026
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Dresden - December 2026
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