Ivana is an experienced cybersecurity professional with over eight years of experience in leading IT multinationals like Cisco Systems, CGI Belgium, and Sopra Steria. She leads Governance, Risk&Compliancw Practice in Sopra Steria, where she is responsible for helping shaping strategies, driving successful Client’s delivery and ensuring cybersecurity compliance implementation. She is specialized in providing cybersecurity compliance consulting services in Government Affairs domain, primarily for the EU bodies and Member States. Recognized as one among Top 50 Cyber Creators in Belgium 2024, Young ICT Lady of the Year 2022 Nominee and a Privacy Team of the Year 2023 Finalist, is a thought-leader about AI, Security-by-design, data security and privacy and regular conference speaker on aforementioned topics across EU.
Keynote/ public speaker/Lecturer:
-University of Alicante January 2025
-European Cyber Week November 2024, FR
- GoTech November 2024, Bucharest, RO
- 4th Cybersecurity Conference by ISACA Cyprus September 2024, Nicosia, CY
-Exchange London June 2024 (panelist), London, UK
- Keynote Cybersec Europe May 2024 Brussels, BE
- Keynote Bitdefender Konferencija o Kibernetickoj sigurnosti April 2024, Pula, HR
- University of Alicante January 2024 (guest lecturer)