The Biggest European Endpoint Security and EUC Event of 2025
IGEL welcomed customers, partners, and innovators to the ultimate gathering of cybersecurity and forward-thinking strategy. Leading minds exchanged expertise and insights on Zero Trust Architecture, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT/OT Convergence, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Sovereignty, and ROI.
This year, participants engaged in thought provoking keynotes and breakout sessions from leading innovators in Cybersecurity, Cloud, Saas, DaaS, and endpoint devices.
Thank you to our Diamond and Platinum sponsors and attendees for your contribution.
Huge Reveals. Major Momentum.
Now & Next Miami 2026
Fontainebleau, Miami Beach
March 30 - April 2, 2026
Day 1, Part 1
- IGEL CEO Klaus Oestermann welcomes attendees to IGEL Now & Next, and how Now & Next will explore the future of secure endpoints, how to stay ahead of the technology curve with IGEL’s partnerships, innovative solutions, and new IGEL Technology Professional Program (ITP).
- Learn how IGEL and Microsoft’s groundbreaking innovations in AI, disaster recovery, and cloud desktops collectively provide industry-leading protection, agility, and cost savings.
Day 1, Part 2
- IGEL CTO Matthias Haas discusses platform innovation, security, and application delivery with the IGEL Secure Endpoint OS Platform.
- Jason Mafera, IGEL’s Healthcare Field CTO, shares insights on business continuity and disaster recovery, focusing on rapidly restoring endpoints with IGEL Dual Boot™, managed at scale.
- Emanuel Pirker, IGEL’s Field CTO, addresses contact center challenges and highlights IGEL’s partnership with Sanas, alongside Sanas CEO Sharath Narayana, who shares how human-centered AI is transforming the customer experience.
Day 1, Part 3
- IGEL CTO Matthias Haas discusses VDI and DaaS in the manufacturing industry. He invites Maik Hudak, Head of IT Services at Audi AG, who shares how IGEL and Omnissa Horizon improve endpoint security and efficiency, and Matt Coppinger, CTO EMEA at Omnissa, who explains the company’s AI-driven platform for secure, streamlined virtual desktops.
- Gurinder Raju, Director of Streaming Services at AWS, describes how AWS ensures business continuity and security with solutions like Amazon WorkSpaces and Zero Trust, highlighting partnerships with IGEL for resilient, flexible user experiences.
- Kurt Tomaschko, Regional Director DACH Region for Island explains that traditional IT and security infrastructures are complex and can negatively impact the end user, highlighting that the Island Enterprise Browser simplifies access, reduces infrastructure, and offers a more secure, user-friendly experience.
Day 1, Part 4
- IGEL CTO Matthias Haas introduces the IGEL Adaptive Secure Desktop™ Persona Support, showcasing how role-based Zero Trust dynamically personalizes shared devices for each user while ensuring security and privacy at login and logout.
- John Walsh, IGEL Field CTO for Critical Sectors, explains how IGEL’s Active UMS serves as a control plane, enabling Zero Trust enforcement, policy orchestration, and IT/OT convergence, supported by robust integration with partner ecosystems, including Cisco and Honeywell.
- David Creedy, Director of Product Management at Zscaler, shares insights on the partnership with IGEL, highlighting seamless endpoint-to-cloud security via the Zero Trust Exchange and new solutions like browser isolation and client connector for unified, user-friendly protection across devices.
Day 2, Part 1
- IGEL CTO Matthias Haas announces major updates to the IGEL App Creator Portal, featuring a modern interface, new My App storage, and streamlined workflows for app submissions. He introduced the Recipe Marketplace for community integrations, a migration tool from Stratodesk No Touch OS to IGEL OS, and details on the Palo Alto Prisma Access browser integration for better security with IGEL OS.
- Praveen Gnanapragasm, VP of Product Management at IGEL, introduces IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) SaaS, a secure, scalable cloud management tool that simplifies onboarding and management of thousands of devices. He also unveiled IGEL Insights™, a platform that gives endpoints a “voice” by combining system data with management insights, enhancing visibility and partner integrations.
Day 2, Part 2
- Gretchen Irion, Senior Director, Commercial Desktops and Cloud Client Solutions, HP Inc., shares how HP’s partnership with IGEL is shaping the future of work through security-first, AI-enabled thin clients. She highlighted HP’s innovations in secure, performance-driven, and sustainable endpoint devices for industries such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector, emphasizing HP’s focus on empowering users with flexible, remote-managed technology designed for today’s workflows and environmental needs.
- Ian Simpson, EMEA Head of Software Business and Sales at Lenovo, highlights Lenovo’s software-led approach, explaining how Lenovo devices preloaded with IGEL OS offer exceptional security through features such as a read-only Linux operating system and ThinkShield BIOS/firmware protections. He emphasized the growing role of AI PCs and local AI workloads, noting Lenovo’s investment in both full-featured AI PCs and thin clients designed for flexibility, performance, and robust endpoint security.
- Jörg Schmidt, Head of Cloud Europe, LG Electronics, emphasizes LG’s reliable and sustainable approach to hardware, highlighting a broad portfolio of desktops, all-in-ones, and mobile thin clients—especially for healthcare and security-sensitive environments. He noted the inclusion of features like FIDO2-ready embedded ID readers and easy manageability.
Day 2, Part 3
- IGEL CTO Matthias Haas highlights IGEL Managed Hypervisor™, offering secure, flexible edge virtualization for legacy and mission-critical systems. He notes the new immutability mode that restores OS to a known good state on reboot and enhances security. He also introduces IGEL Managed Containers for secure application isolation in OT/IoT environments.
- Jeff Ulatoski, Director of Product Management at Omnissa, introduces Omnissa’s AppVolumes integration with IGEL Managed Hypervisor, which enables consistent application delivery and lifecycle management across virtual and physical Windows environments. He highlights features like zero-downtime app updates, user choice of application versions, and seamless real-time feedback for app owners.
Day 2, Part 4
- Praveen Gnanapragasm, VP of Product Management at IGEL, discusses the shift to ARM architecture in enterprise devices, focusing on security and manageability challenges versus x86. He introduced IGEL OS for ARM, offering enterprise security, manageability, and performance, enabling new OT/IoT use cases across industries like retail and healthcare.
- Emmanuel Pirker, IGEL’s Field CTO, introduces IGEL AI Armor™, a new layer for IGEL OS designed to protect and govern AI workflows using Zero Trust principles, centralized policies, and compliance templates. The solution aims to help organizations securely enable local AI usage while maintaining compliance and control.
Day 2, Part 5
- A panel moderated by IGEL CISO Andreas Makowski featuring Dr. Heiner Genzken, Dr. Markus Lebrecht, Bernd Rodler, and Thomas Walloschke, discusses secure modernization and digital sovereignty in EMEA. Key focus areas include the adoption of open, user-friendly architectures, such as distributed data centers and confidential computing. The panel emphasizes the importance of industry-government collaboration and explores Europe’s challenges and opportunities in AI and secure data infrastructure.
Day 2, Part 6
- IGEL CEO Klaus Oestermann closes the event by expressing gratitude to attendees and sponsors, reflecting on the high energy and valuable networking during the conference, ends the conference by recapping the announcements and innovations that IGEL is bringing to the EUC and Endpoint Security.
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