Analyst Series
Live Analyst Series
IDC Dinner Series, Toronto ON
Ruth Chris
Oct 12, 2023
Toronto ON
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET
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Speaker
Lars Goransson
Managing Director, IDC Canada & Latin America
Lars Goransson is responsible for IDC's Canadian and Latin America operation as Managing Director. IDC LA and Canada's product and services offerings provide the IT community with market intelligence and market based research across the value continuum of budgeting & planning, marketing awareness and lead generation, and measurement and performance management. Prior to his role as Managing Director, Lars has held a number of senior analyst and management roles since joining IDC in 1996, most recently as General Manager & Group VP. Previously, Lars managed IDC Canada’s Custom Solutions Group providing proprietary advisory services to Canadian clients. Lars started his career with IDC in the IT outsourcing space and successfully built a very a large IT Services Research Group in Canada. Mr. Goransson is a graduate of the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Lars is a board member at the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC).
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Agenda
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5:30 pm
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Event begins |
Cocktails served. Dinner courses dropped between p...resentations.
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6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
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IDC Analyst Speaker |
About IDC International Data Corporation (IDC) is ...the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC’s analysis and insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading tech media, data and marketing services company. To learn more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com. Follow IDC on Twitter at @IDC and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the IDC Blog for industry news and insights: http://bit.ly/IDCBlog_Subscribe
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6:20 pm - 6:40 pm
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Arctic Wolf |
Arctic Wolf® is the market leader in security oper...ations. Using the cloud-native Arctic Wolf® Platform, we help organizations end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service. Arctic Wolf solutions include Arctic Wolf® Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Managed Risk, Managed Cloud Monitoring and Managed Security Awareness —each delivered by the industry’s original Concierge Security® Team. Highly-trained Concierge Security experts work as an extension of internal teams to provide 24x7 monitoring, detection, and response, as well as ongoing risk management to give organizations the protection, resilience and guidance they need to defend against cyber threats.
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6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
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Suse |
SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, s...ecure enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in Business-critical Linux, Enterprise Container Management and Edge solutions, and collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere – from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond.SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, giving customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow.
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7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
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HCLSoftware |
HCLSoftware delivers digital+ economy solutions th...at fulfill the transformative needs of our clients around the world. Our focus areas include Enterprise Security; Digital Transformation; Data, Analytics, & Insights; and AI & Intelligent Automation. Visit us at hcl-software.com.
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7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
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Zerto |
Achieving an Uninterrupted Business with the Zerto... PlatformZerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by eliminating the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption with a simple, scalable IT Resilience Platform.
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7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
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Box |
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Content Cloud, a sin...gle platform that empowers organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide. Visit box.com to learn more.
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8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
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Check Point |
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a leadin...g provider of cyber security solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally. Its solutions protect customers from cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks. Check Point offers a multilevel security architecture that defends enterprises’ cloud, network and mobile device held information, plus the most comprehensive and intuitive one point of control security management system. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.
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8:30 pm
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Dessert, drinks, & networking |
