Thursday, November 13th, 2025
Driving Secure SASE Adoption: Aligning Business Goals, Networking & Eliminating AI Blindspots
6:00 - 8:30pm CET | Frankfurt, Germany.
Event Overview
SASE transformation is often seen as a technical shift, but in truth it’s a business strategy. At its core, it aims to reduce risk, optimise delivery, cut costs, and increase sales – all with the ultimate goal of improving profit margins. This convergence of networking and security is driving users to combine SD-WAN, remote access, and cloud-delivered protection into a single platform that replaces multiple point products.
The success of such transformation lies in its ability to securely integrate operations, deliver strong user experience, and remain flexible enough to leverage AI to enhance business outcomes. At the same time, it must also provide the ability to control AI use within the enterprise, ensuring compliance and governance to reduce – not increase – risk.
How is your enterprise approaching SASE today? Are you realising measurable business benefits from it? How are you balancing the need to harness AI for agility with the responsibility to govern and secure its use?
Among the discussion points:
- How SASE fits into modern security strategy to support the business, and cost optimisation
- The business value of SASE transformation and making the case to the board
- Employing AI to optimise efficiency – while implementing AI controls to maintain security
- How networking and security converge in SASE to deliver unified access, visibility and control
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Moderator
Tony Morbin
Executive Editor
ISMG
Alexander Huffer
Partner
Deloitte
Mathias Widler
VP DACH
Netskope
Speakers
Register for this session to join subject matter experts and peers as we explore the business case for SASE transformation as part of modern security strategy – enabling cost optimisation, reducing risk, and ensuring future-ready platforms.
This session will be:
- Chatham house rule
- Peer driven
- Pitch free
Subject matter expert
Bob Gilbert
Vice President, GTM Strategy and Chief Evangelist
Netskope
Damian Chung is a cybersecurity leader with over 25 years of security and IT experience.As VP of Cyber Defense, Damian oversees the global SOC, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Operational Threat Intelligence/Detection. He also leads the Netskope Customer Zero program. He is working on deeper AI integrations for many security operational tasks to improve response and remediation metrics, reduce risk, and stay ahead of attackers.Before Netskope, Chung was head of Cybersecurity Engineering/Architecture at Dignity Health, where he implemented multiple cybersecurity controls and helped mature their security program by developing a healthcare-focused security roadmap. Additionally, Damian has held the role of VP of IT, Cloud Security & Compliance for a healthcare technology company where he built a HIPAA-compliant cloud service. Damian has an MSc from Arizona State.
Subject matter expert
Justin Rowe
Managing Director
Deloitte
Aaron works with large financial institutions in North America, Europe, and the UK to ensure they are able to safely and securely use Google Cloud for their critical workloads. Aaron has significant experience in the implementation and configuration of Google Cloud security products, and leads the development of technical solutions to meet stringent customer requirements. Aaron has been at Google for 7 years, beginning in the Professional Services Organization, specializing in security. Prior to Google, Aaron worked as a data scientist in Cyber Risk at Deloitte.
Aaron also holds a PhD in experimental condensed matter physics from the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
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Venue
Frankfurt, Germany.
Venue to be announced.
Underwritten by
Deloitte helps clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. It invests in outstanding people of diverse talents and backgrounds and empowers them to achieve more than they could elsewhere. Deloitte’s work combines advice with action and integrity.
Netskope is a leader in modern security, networking, and analytics for the cloud and AI era. The unique architecture of its Netskope One platform enables customers to protect data, reduce risk, simplify infrastructure, and optimize performance from anywhere.
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