About the Speaker
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    Michael Schofield
    Director, Field Product Specialist - AI Security PM, Zscaler

    Experienced and highly-motivated technology leader, with great business acumen and people skills and more than 20 years of IT and Technology experience. Confident and experienced in providing technical leadership, mentoring, consultancy, pre-sales activities, solution design, project management, training, implementation and support of both enterprise and service provider environments.

    • Knowledgeable in multiple Cybersecurity areas including SASE, Zero Trust, SecOps, Risk Management, Data Protection, Gen AI Protection, Proxies, Firewalls, EDR, Identity Access Management and compliance.
    • Experienced with Networking technologies and solutions including Routing, Switching, LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, WLAN, IoT and mobile.
    • An extensive knowledge of data center, DR, BCP and multi-cloud environments including compute, storage, private, hybrid and public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
    • Experienced in Service Provider Networking environments including Routing Protocols, Ethernet, Optical, MPLS, Metro Ethernet, Internet Peering and Broadband Technologies.
    • Working with account leaders and sales teams on strategies, proposals and opportunities.
    • Experienced in working as a Public Speaker, Technical Advisor, Consultant and Technical Architect to customers and partners.
    • Experienced in Leading teams of technical staff including developing, coaching, hiring and day-to-day management.

    Accreditations: MSc, BSc, AWS ASA, AWS CDA, CAPM, JNCIE, JNCIP-E, CCNP, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, SCSA