Discover | Connect | Protect

OCTOBER 16, 2025

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Informanix Discover is an annual one-day event designed to connect IT professionals across sectors, with a special focus on cybersecurity and digital resilience. This conference offers a dynamic platform where innovation meets expertise - bringing together a community of industry leaders, technologists, and cybersecurity specialists eager to collaborate, share insights, and invest in smarter, safer tech solutions.

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October 16, 2025 | Victoria Inn Hotel & Conference Center, Winnipeg, MB

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Yiannis Vassiliades

Zscaler

Yiannis Vassiliades

Zscaler

CISO in Residence, Zscaler

Yiannis Vassiliades is currently serving as CISO in Residence at Zscaler, the global leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust IT Transformation. With over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Yiannis has been deeply committed to productizing transformative technologies that align with organizations’ strategic cybersecurity and risk objectives. He began his career specializing in Resilience and Disaster Recovery before diversifying his expertise to encompass various cybersecurity domains such as Security Analytics, Data Protection, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), and Cyber Risk Management. Yiannis has held leadership roles in prominent enterprises including IBM, Raytheon, and CA Technologies (acquired by Broadcom), as well as contributing to the growth of emerging companies from their seed stages to acquisition. Prior to joining Zscaler, Yiannis served as the Chief Product Officer at Ostrich Cyber-Risk, where he spearheaded the development and launch of cyber risk quantification solutions. Before that, he played a founding role in establishing and expanding the MDR division at Sophos, which has since become the largest MDR service provider with over 20,000 customers. Yiannis holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from University of Maryland and earned his MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Andrew Mundell

Sophos

Andrew Mundell

Sophos

Director, Solutions Engineering, Sophos

Andrew Mundell, Director, Solutions Engineering at Sophos, focuses on threat prevention and investigation technologies. Andrew provides security teams and CISOs from wide-ranging industries with practical, real-world advice on preventing, detecting and responding to the latest cybersecurity threats. Prior to joining Sophos in 2008, Andrew held positions overseeing infrastructure and innovation technologies at the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications and infrastructure engineering for a leading global provider of Information Services.

Topic: The Hidden Architecture of Cybercrime

We often talk about threats in terms of dollars lost, data stolen, or headlines made. But the real threat lives deeper—in the structure, the strategy, and the growing ambition of the actors behind the screen. Today’s cybercriminals don’t just encrypt files; they build economies, launder, influence, and forge alliances that stretch across borders and industries. In this talk, we’ll peel back the layers of modern cybercrime and explore how loosely affiliated hackers have evolved into organized syndicates. These groups operate more like multinational corporations than rogue disruptors—complete with HR departments, recruitment pipelines, insider relationships, and state protections.

PRESENTERS

Christian Warnett

Sophos

Christian Warnett

Sophos

Global Solution Lead, Sophos

Christian Warnett is the Global Solution Lead at Sophos, where he helps organizations understand, manage, and reduce cyber risk. He works closely with teams to develop comprehensive defense strategies that empower them to prevent, detect, and respond to today’s evolving cybersecurity threats. With over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, Christian brings deep expertise in Information Security, Networking, Telecommunications, ICS/OT, and Cloud technologies. Prior to joining Sophos, he led security, network, and infrastructure initiatives across both higher education and aerospace sectors, including key roles at the University of Manitoba.

Ring Readiness - Defending Your Organization

Christian will talk through his time as a customer, moving to SecureWorks and now Sophos and how we can help customer prepare for when the bad folks come knocking ….

Jonathan Eliud Gomez

IPSUM Technology

Jonathan Eliud Gomez

IPSUM Technology

Jonathan Eliud Gomez and Humberto Daniel Gomez join us from IPSUM Technology in Mexico City. For the last 15 years they have helped clients transform their IT service operations with the ServiceNow platform including over 70 satisfied clients and over 180 successful implementation projects completed in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile). ServiceNow named IPSUM Technology the Best Service Partner in 2016 and Rising Star Partner of the Year in 2024 and it remains one of the top ServiceNow partners with the largest number of consultants in Mexico and Latin America specialized in the different solutions of the ServiceNow platform.

TOPIC: From 27 Hours to 1 Second: A Blueprint for Autonomous Cybersecurity Defense Powered by ServiceNow

Join our breakfast keynote speakers Jonathan Eliud and Daniel Gomez from IPSUM Technology in Mexico City as they deep dive into how Banco Davivienda (Colombia's third largest bank) levered ServiceNow to transform its cybersecurity model from reactive to hyper-proactive. Learn how they moved from 300 to 15,000+ alerts/month, slashed incident resolution from over a day to just one second, and deployed a ‘SOCless’ architecture with automation, machine learning, and continuous workflows. For cybersecurity professionals and IT managers ready to evolve their SOC, this is your chance to see a blueprint for the future of autonomous cybersecurity defense.

Humberto Daniel Gomez

IPSUM Technology

Humberto Daniel Gomez

IPSUM Technology

Stephanie Moan

Lenovo

Stephanie Moan

Lenovo

Solutions Architect, LENOVO CANADA

Stephanie Moan is a Solution Architect at Lenovo Canada, where she supports enterprise and public sector organizations across Western Canada. She specializes in datacenter infrastructure, hybrid cloud architectures and solution-selling approaches, helping customers align technical architectures with business outcomes. With over a decade of experience in technical sales and solution design, Stephanie has held senior roles at value-added resellers and other OEMs where she led large-scale RFP initiatives, delivered enterprise solutions, and consistently surpassed multimillion-dollar revenue targets. She brings a unique blend of technical depth and business acumen, enabling her to translate complex architectures into clear value propositions that resonate with both executives and technical stakeholders. She holds certifications in VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Lenovo Data Center, Veeam, and Red Hat, and is an active participant in leadership initiatives such as the Women in Lenovo Leadership Mentoring Academy. Outside of work, Stephanie can often be found standing in rivers of Squamish, fully immersed in the thrill of fly fishing. Her passion for the sport takes her well beyond local waters, fueling adventures that lead her to explore unique fisheries around the world.

Ron Pluchinski

Arctic Wolf

Ron Pluchinski

Arctic Wolf

Senior Solutions Engineer, ARCTIC WOLF

Topic: Navigating the Human-AI Partnership to Achieve Security Operations Success

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a new concept or technology in the world of cybersecurity. It’s been iterated and utilized by security professionals for decades. But as both cybersecurity technology and cyber threats continue to advance, AI is being adopted by organizations at a rapid pace, all of whom seek to harness AI’s power to automate, advance, and empower their security. Arctic Wolf will discuss how we see potential for customers to leverage these technologies to achieve their security outcomes.

Mike Hodder

Rubrik

Mike Hodder

Rubrik

Enterprise Account Executive, RUBRIK

Topic: A Distributed Crisis: The Blueprint for Unbreakable Resilience

Nilesh Chauhan

Abnormal AI

Nilesh Chauhan

Abnormal AI

Solutions Engineer, ABNORMAL AI

Our guest speaker, Nilesh Chauhan from Vancouver, brings 20+ years in IT and a decade in cybersecurity Solutions Engineering. His presentation will demonstrate how phishing has evolved—and how Abnormal AI stops it.

Presentation: Malicious vs Defensive: Defending Against Modern Attacks

In this session, we'll highlight how Abnormal AI protects against the new wave of advanced BEC attacks and show a live demo demonstrating both the detection power and the clear visibility our platform provides.

Daemon Behr

Nutanix

Daemon Behr

Nutanix

Advisory Architect, NUTANIX

Daemon Behr is an Advisory Architect at Nutanix. He has 25+ years of industry experience working with global financial services organizations, large enterprises, and government organizations. He has taught courses on infrastructure design and security at multiple Colleges and Universities, is a published author, and has presented at many industry conferences across Canada and the United States. Currently, he provides strategic guidance for organizations adopting and scaling Artificial Intelligence in their environments.

Girish Sharma

Ingram Micro

Girish Sharma

Ingram Micro

Azure Solutions Engineer, INGRAM MICRO

Girish Sharma is a Cloud Engineer with 12 years of experience in cloud solutions and nearly 20 years working with Microsoft technologies. He specializes in designing and implementing scalable cloud architectures and enjoys helping organizations make the most of their digital transformation journeys.

Len Rosenberg

CYE

Len Rosenberg

CYE

Sales Engineer at CYE

Mr. Len Rosenberg is a seasoned cybersecurity and sales engineering leader with over 20 years of experience spanning global enterprises, innovative startups, and government organizations. He has held senior leadership roles at Forescout Technologies, Illumio, Palo Alto Networks, and Siemplify (acquired by Google Cloud), where he built world-class sales engineering teams, managed Fortune 100 accounts, and drove product innovation. At Cylera, he served as Principal Solution Architect, advancing cybersecurity in highly regulated industries, and earlier in his career he supported mission-critical cybersecurity and intelligence initiatives for government organizations. Mr. Rosenberg now serves as a Sales Engineer at CYE, leveraging his deep technical expertise and leadership background to help organizations translate complex security challenges into measurable business outcomes.

Mike Bujara

WIZ

Mike Bujara

WIZ

Director, Solutions Engineering at Wiz

Experienced technology professional with over 20 years of expertise in virtualization, cloud computing, enterprise systems, and solutions architecture. Mike specializes in delivering demonstrations, architectural designs, and proof of concepts to drive innovative cloud and virtualization solutions.
His career spans roles at leading technology companies, including Google, Nutanix, VMware, and CA Technologies. At Nutanix, he spent seven years as a Pre-Sales Engineer focusing on private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, infrastructure, and disaster recovery as a service. His work at VMware involved virtual desktop solutions and enterprise management, while at CA, he specialized in enterprise server management, performance optimization, and business continuity/disaster recovery strategies. Mike's expertise encompasses a broad range of specialties such as VDI, hybrid cloud deployments, server virtualization, storage management, IAAS, DAAS, and capacity planning. He has a proven track record in both pre-sales consulting and post-sales implementation, developing tailored architectures and solutions to meet complex client needs.

Topic: Wiz Hybrid Cloud: Command Your Entire Cloud Ecosystem, from a Single Pane of Glass

Imagine a single control panel that gives you a complete, real-time view of all your assets, no matter where they live—your data center, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Wiz Hybrid Cloud is that command center, providing a unified management plane that brings order and security to a chaotic landscape.

Kyle Molotkin

Informanix Technology Group

Kyle Molotkin

Informanix Technology Group

CEO, Informanix Technology Group Inc.

Kyle Molotkin is a change leader focused on improving business processes through innovation and technology. Kyle’s success stems from his focus on strong interpersonal relationships, customer service, and an ability to garner an in-depth understanding of business requirements. His technical background allows him to keep IT infrastructure, operations, and application services in lock step with changing market trends and business needs. As the CEO of Informanix Technology Group, he has led the firm through 7 first responder ransomware attack recoveries. When not dealing with cyber emergencies, he helps his clients recognize opportunities for positive change in their organizations and leverages leading technology solutions to address business challenges.

Juan Saldivar

Informanix Technology Group

Juan Saldivar

Informanix Technology Group

Juan Saldivar, an award-winning business technology consultant and Director of IT Advisory Services at Informanix Technology Group, has over 20 years of experience helping organizations drive technological change and achieve their strategic goals. As a former president of the Project Management Institute Manitoba Chapter, Juan has been at the forefront of advancing the profession in Manitoba for more than a decade and has been a guest speaker at various local conferences and events.

Topic: "This is Not Your Parents' PMO": The Scalable Managed PMO-as-a-Service Solution.

Project Management is undergoing a transformational shift due to global macroeconomic events such as Artificial Intelligence, rapid technological change, changes in demographics, an imminent global workforce shortage, and a shift towards 'Value-based' services. We will explain why Traditional PMOs fail 71% of the time and a new approach that will enable organizations, from small to large enterprises, to capitalize on project value with a scalable, cost-effective, and risk-based solution: the PMO-as-a-Service.

Yanik Sourisseau

Informanix Technology Group

Yanik Sourisseau

Informanix Technology Group

Topic: "This is Not Your Parents' PMO": The Scalable Managed PMO-as-a-Service Solution.

Project Management is undergoing a transformational shift due to global macroeconomic events such as Artificial Intelligence, rapid technological change, changes in demographics, an imminent global workforce shortage, and a shift towards 'Value-based' services. We will explain why Traditional PMOs fail 71% of the time and a new approach that will enable organizations, from small to large enterprises, to capitalize on project value with a scalable, cost-effective, and risk-based solution: the PMO-as-a-Service.

Corina Ramirez

Informanix Technology Group

Corina Ramirez

Informanix Technology Group

Corina Ramirez designs, builds, and advises on ServiceNow ITSM solutions, combining business analysis, platform administration, and workflow development. She has delivered dozens of live demonstrations and earned a reputation as a trusted advisor to teams seeking scalable, user-friendly solutions. Known for simplifying complex processes and connecting people across organizations, Corina transforms everyday IT service delivery into seamless, efficient experiences.

Topic: A Day in the Life - ServiceNow ITSM in Action

What does IT service management look like when it’s powered by the ServiceNow platform? In this live demo, you’ll experience a “day in the life” of ITSM on ServiceNow, following a scenario-driven walkthrough of common processes like incident, request, knowledge, and change. You’ll see how ServiceNow simplifies everyday tasks, connects teams seamlessly, and empowers organizations with the Now Platform as a true “platform of platforms.” This session highlights practical ITSM capabilities while showcasing how ServiceNow can create better experiences for both IT staff and end-users.

Markus Erkelenz

Informanix Technology Group

Markus Erkelenz

Informanix Technology Group

Markus Erkelenz is a seasoned technology leader with 25+ years of experience advising organizations on digital transformation and change management across diverse industries. He currently serves as Practice Lead, Project and Business Transformation at Informanix Technology Group. As President of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Manitoba (CMC-Manitoba) and former Principal Consultant at two consulting firms, Markus combines extensive advisory and leadership experience with active contributions to the professional community through guest lectures and industry conference participation.

Topic: Ready, Set, AI: Discover Your Enterprise Readiness