James Hadley
Chief Executive Officer
Immersive Labs
James Hadley founded Immersive Labs in 2017 to help organizations build confidence in the cyber knowledge, skills, and judgment of their entire workforce. The idea came from his time teaching GCHQ’s cyber school, where he noticed traditional training methods suited neither the people nor pace of cybersecurity. He developed the Immersive Labs platform to address this problem by using data to allow human capabilities to be measured, mapped to risk, and optimized in line with a security strategy for the first time. With fast-growing global operations, the company now helps some of the largest and most prestigious organizations in the world build cyber resilience and reinforce crisis response using the power of their entire workforce.
Jess Burn
Senior Analyst
Forrester
Jess is a senior analyst at Forrester serving security and risk (S&R) professionals. She contributes to Forrester’s research on the role of the CISO with a focus on security talent management. Additionally, Jess covers incident response and crisis management, email security, and attack surface management. Prior to her analyst role, Jess spent eight years as a principal advisor on Forrester’s Security & Risk Council. In this role, she was a trusted partner to a network of CISOs and S&R leaders, making and communicating critical decisions about investments in their programs. Before she was an advisor, Jess led a Forrester Consulting practice focused on helping tech and service providers with their business and go-to-market strategies. Jess holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications, with concentrations in English and marketing, from the University of Connecticut.