Frans van Ierland has over 34 years of experience working in various positions related to cybersecurity, identity, and data integration space with Fortune 500 companies such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies. As the Director of Technology and Innovation at Splunk, Frans provides valuable advice and guidance to executive teams, policymakers, and boards to help organizations get more value from data. Frans' goal is to drive simplification through innovation based on customer feedback and working backward from their requirements to deliver the desired outcome. He is currently working on cloud and edge data stream processing technologies and data analytics-driven security.

Frans has completed his education in Electric engineering from ITW, Personal Leadership from NCOI University of Applied Sciences, and Bedrijfskundige informatica (BI), Systeemontwikkeling en Programmeertalen, S,P, T Modules from Automatisering en Mechanisering van de Bestuurlijke Informatievoorziening. He has served several roles such as Company Owner at SecureWebSpace, Senior Security Strategist -EMEA Region at Splunk, Mentor and coach for Tech Startups/Scale-ups at STARTUP-COACH NL, and much more.