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About Our Event

The COVID-19 pandemic means, like everyone else, we’ve had to swiftly change our plans. Our regular in-person event is now a virtual conference and, while it will be different, we’re excited about the opportunities it offers to help us spread the ITAM goodness even further than has been possible before.

We’ve widened the conference focus to EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) – now there’s no travel involved, everyone can attend Wisdom Online! As well as all the wonderful speakers we already had planned, our aim now is to have speakers and topics from various EMEA locations, covering topics relevant to different areas – and in local languages where possible too.

Our in-person training courses will be delivered online too. Dates for the Microsoft licensing and Audit Defence courses will be available for you to book ASAP.

We know that person-to-person networking is a big part of attending conferences and we’re doing everything we can to keep that going online via our conference platform.

ITAM is an ever-growing, and ever changing, discipline. There is always a new challenge around the corner – be that: 

  • New technologies like SaaS, IaaS, Containers, Internet of Things and more
  • Vendors with a new – or renewed – focus on software audits
  • Evolving license models, metrics, and rules from various vendors
  • Shifts in internal politics, focus and culture

As an ITAM professional, there are 2 key things to be aware of: you can never know everything and keeping up to date is key. However, keeping current can be difficult for 3 main reasons: 

  • Where do you focus?
  • Where do you find the information?
  • Where do you find the time?

And that’s where ITAM Review Wisdom aims to help.  

We talk with people all over the globe – software vendors, resellers, tool vendors, C-suite execs, SAM/HAM/ITAM professionals, consultants, analysts and more – as well as conduct our own extensive research, and this enables us to identify the critical areas for ITAM professionals. 

Each Wisdom conference is filled with carefully selected speakers whose topics and stories will help you grow and progress in your ITAM career – perhaps you’ll get that one piece of info you need to make a breakthrough, the knowledge to solve that tricky licensing problem, or the right way to engage your stakeholders – whatever it is, we help bring that information to you. 

While we can’t give you more time (if only we could!), we CAN ensure that your time spent with us at Wisdom will be as useful as possible. As well as the dozens of sessions, we make sure there’s plenty of opportunities to network with your peers, arrange 1-1 conversations with speakers, sponsors, and ITAM Review analysts via our online platform. 


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Our Speakers

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Aadil Nanji

Aadil Nanji

Research Director, Info-Tech Research Group

Aadil Nanji is a Research Director at Info-Tech Research Group focused on contract review and vendor management. He also has experience in the areas of IT asset management (ITAM), software asset management (SAM).
At Info-Tech, Aadil provides IT leaders with the guidance, analysis, and tools they need to ensure their technology contracts are thoroughly vetted, benchmarked, and optimized. Aadil is also focused on the development and delivery of research to assist our members with the various aspects of vendor management to help drive accountable partner relationships. He has experience reviewing top IT contracts across both the public and private sectors, and helps clients evaluate products, software licensing, and vendors when negotiating the optimal contract terms for their unique requirements. He also assists clients in developing their approach to software compliance defense actions, resulting in a defensible IT deployment environment.


Aadil Nanji

Research Director, Info-Tech Research Group




Rachel Ryan

Rachel Ryan

Global Head of ITAM, Danske Bank

With 20+ years working within IT covering Software Asset Managing and Software Licencing I have gained experience working in global organisation with complex environments. I specialise in building winning ITAM Functions and ITAM Programs to ensure organisations can optimise their Software Estate while minimising risk and maximising value. In my role at Danske Bank I work with teams in the UK, Copenhagen, Vilnius -Lithuania) and India.


Rachel Ryan

Global Head of ITAM, Danske Bank




Geoff Worsley

Geoff Worsley

Independent SAM Consultant

Geoff Worsley, described as a “SAM Veteran”, over 20 years in the SAM industry – Ex-Auditor with a Big 4, SAM Manager in the Oil and Gas industry, SAM Solution Designer, SAM Strategist. Now supporting a number of organisations across Pharma and Retail with SAM Strategy and Optimisation of software licenses.
He's qualified in many areas of mental and physical health, including youth and adult mental health first aid, awareness of mental health problems, life coaching, counselling skills, level 4 Suicide First Aid, level 3 personal training and one of only a handful of Suicide First Aid tutors in the country.


Geoff Worsley

Independent SAM Consultant




Nigel Hopkins

Nigel Hopkins

IT Capacity Manager, IKEA

Nigel has been working in the IT domain for over 30 years across a number of countries. A common theme over the years has been his focus on process efficiencies, optimisation and risk mitigation. A little under a decade ago, he became involved in understanding and reporting on the license footprint across the IKEA estate. Over the past 18 months, along with a small internal team and their primary vendor, he defined, implemented and continues to develop an agile approach to license management and compliance reporting which directly empowers stakeholders in the larger organisation, through highly focused engagements, to understand, control and improve their license footprint. “It is a passion for me and the team to add value to any company in need to receive the right guidance in SAP Software Licensing to secure compliance, cost reduction and future strategy.
He has already implemented a successful IT Asset Management structure in a number of organisations. He has also saved millions of pounds via contract renegotiation, internal audits and optimising existing licenses. He has previously held a number of SAM roles including SAM Evangelist, ITAM Director, Global Software Asset Manager, Software Asset Manager and Software Asset Analyst.
Whilst always looking to learn, he is very enthusiastic and passionate about software asset management, IT Asset Management, Mobile Asset Management and software licensing. If you want to get in touch with David then the best way to do so is at david.foxen@sambeast.co.uk.  


Nigel Hopkins

IT Capacity Manager, IKEA




Amit Verma

Amit Verma

Software Asset Expert, Philips

Amit Verma has almost 16 years of experience in the world of IT, Software asset management & licensing, having been both a SAM consultant and Microsoft licensing expert in Philips. He is a keynote speaker in various IT events held in India and globally, last year he was invited as an Independent speaker for SAM/Cloud challenges in the ITSMF Global conference held in Moscow Russia. This year he was nominated as the ITAM Professional of the year by ITAM Review.


Amit Verma

Software Asset Expert, Philips




Tommy Martinez

Tommy Martinez

Software Licensing & Asset Management Consultant, Cortex Consulting

Barry has worked in the IT industry for 20 years, with a decade in IT Asset Management.  He is an expert SAM consultant who has worked with multiple clients across a huge range of industry sectors. He specialises in data centre and infrastructure licensing, audit defence and processes across all platforms, and is a firm believer in simplifying software asset management. He is a tech geek at heart and is always looking to learn, whilst trying to help others.


Barry Pilling

Software Licensing & Asset Management Consultant, Cortex Consulting