The event brings together customers, partners, and industry leaders to advance endpoint security, resilience, and secure workspace delivery.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IGEL®, a global software company delivering the IGEL Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform™, today announced it is bringing the IGEL Now & Next® Workspace & Endpoint Security Summit to Melbourne, Australia, for a showcase on September 17, 2026, at Park Hyatt Melbourne. The one-day program will bring together IT and security leaders to examine the endpoint security, resilience, and workspace delivery priorities shaping enterprise strategy across the region.
The Melbourne event extends IGEL's flagship Now & Next® series following its five-city European roadshow earlier this year. It arrives as organizations across healthcare, government, transportation, and critical infrastructure weigh the cost of replacing endpoint hardware against the need to keep operations running through disruption.
"What we are hearing from customers is consistent: organizations want stronger control at the endpoint, greater resilience when disruption occurs, and a practical path to support both current and emerging workspace models," said Klaus Oestermann, CEO of IGEL. "The Now & Next® summit roadshow is designed to bring those conversations closer to home, together with the customers and ecosystem partners, helping define the next phase of endpoint strategy."
The summit will bring together IGEL leaders, customers, and ecosystem partners to share perspectives on secure endpoint strategy, resilience, and the future of digital work. IGEL executives and technical leaders will anchor the program, with Klaus Oestermann, CEO, and Matthias Haas, Managing Director and CTO, leading sessions on IGEL strategy and the IGEL Adaptive Secure Desktop® in contact center and healthcare environments. Sterling Wilson, Field CTO for BC&DR, will address endpoint resilience and business continuity, while James Millington, Field CTO for Healthcare, EMEA, will explore clinical workspace delivery and IT/OT convergence.
Complementing the IGEL-led sessions, customers and ecosystem partners will bring real-world perspectives and expertise to the program, including event sponsors Nutanix, NVIDIA, Omnissa, and UltrArmor.
"As organizations rethink the endpoint as a more controlled, resilient, and centrally governed part of the security architecture, the discussion is shifting from device management alone to recovery, governance, and continuity," Oestermann added. "That is the conversation we want to lead in Melbourne."
The summit runs from morning sessions through the afternoon customer panel and networking happy hour at Park Hyatt Melbourne, 1 Parliament Square. Attendance is open to enterprise IT and security leaders across Australia and New Zealand.
To review the full agenda, explore speakers, and register, visit the event page.
About IGEL
IGEL® is a global software company delivering the IGEL Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform™, a trusted and governed endpoint platform for secure access to cloud, VDI, DaaS, SaaS, Secure Browsers, enterprise applications, as well as OT endpoints. At its foundation is IGEL OS, an immutable operating system that helps reduce endpoint attack surface, preserve a known-good endpoint state, and support secure access across distributed work environments. Through the IGEL Preventative Security Model®, the platform adds attested workload delivery, centralized governance, and contextual enforcement, aligning endpoint security with Zero Trust and SSE/SASE architectures from key IGEL Ready partners.
IGEL Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery™ (BC&DR) helps organizations restore secure access on Windows endpoints affected by ransomware, other cyberattacks, or outages. Founded in 2001, IGEL is headquartered in Germany with U.S. offices in San Francisco and Fort Lauderdale, working with an ecosystem of 130 leading technology brands. Learn more at www.igel.com.
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IGEL Brings Now & Next Workspace & Endpoint Security Summit to Melbourne, Australia
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Climbing icon Tommy Caldwell recently joined TORRAS for a father-son climb with his son Fitz on the Scimitar route near Lake Tahoe. Featuring TORRAS Q3 AIR PRO, the project opened into a candid conversation about resilience, fatherhood and the experiences that have shaped him over a lifetime of climbing.
Strength in Focus
For Tommy, who once saw climbing as the center of his life, losing a finger might have seemed like a nightmare. Yet even in that moment, he found a sense of possibility.
| "I felt uncertainty and fear, but I also felt strangely liberated. There were no expectations anymore—neither from me nor from anyone else. I was starting from the bottom, and every time I proved I could still do something, it was uplifting and invigorating." |
"I felt uncertainty and fear, but I also felt strangely liberated. There were no expectations anymore—neither from me nor from anyone else. I was starting from the bottom, and every time I proved I could still do something, it was uplifting and invigorating."
Despite the extraordinary climbs he went on to achieve after that, Tommy has never seen himself as a naturally gifted climber.
| "Over time, I realized that hard work could still take me to those places. I grew to love getting into the trench and digging a little every day. That process itself became fulfilling. I learned that I was good at focusing on something, being relentless, and moving steadily toward it—so I embraced that strength." |
"Over time, I realized that hard work could still take me to those places. I grew to love getting into the trench and digging a little every day. That process itself became fulfilling. I learned that I was good at focusing on something, being relentless, and moving steadily toward it—so I embraced that strength."
Recording on His Own Terms
Tommy and Kevin Jorgeson's historic Dawn Wall ascent brought their story to a global audience and changed the way Caldwell thought about sharing his experiences.
| "I began to understand that sharing could be meaningful. But I also learned when to put the phone down. At one point I dropped my phone off the wall, and it reminded me that if you become too absorbed in what people are saying, you can stop experiencing the thing itself. The balance matters." |
"I began to understand that sharing could be meaningful. But I also learned when to put the phone down. At one point I dropped my phone off the wall, and it reminded me that if you become too absorbed in what people are saying, you can stop experiencing the thing itself. The balance matters."
Today, Caldwell also captures moments on his own terms. During the climb with Fitz, the TORRAS Q3 Air Pro made it easier to record along the way.
| "I found myself belaying with one hand and recording with the other in a way I would not have felt comfortable doing before. I also clipped the ring to a carabiner on my rack, almost the same way I rack climbing gear. That was a pleasant surprise because it made the phone much faster to access than repeatedly sliding it in and out of a pocket." |
"I found myself belaying with one hand and recording with the other in a way I would not have felt comfortable doing before. I also clipped the ring to a carabiner on my rack, almost the same way I rack climbing gear. That was a pleasant surprise because it made the phone much faster to access than repeatedly sliding it in and out of a pocket."
Passing on Confidence
Scimitar marked one of Fitz's most challenging multi-pitch climbs yet. As he stays close to protect Fitz on the wall, Tommy takes an equally careful approach to fatherhood.
| "I did not want to force him to climb, even though in the back of my mind I hoped he might eventually see what I see in it. The challenge for me is to contain my enthusiasm and let his interest grow naturally, without tying it to ego or to other people's expectations of a professional climber's child." |
"I did not want to force him to climb, even though in the back of my mind I hoped he might eventually see what I see in it. The challenge for me is to contain my enthusiasm and let his interest grow naturally, without tying it to ego or to other people's expectations of a professional climber's child."
Asked what he ultimately hopes for Fitz, Caldwell does not prescribe a destination.
| "First of all, I want him to be his own person and find his own path. I know how to teach him to follow the path I took, but that is not necessarily the path he should take. "I want him to be confident and joyful—to see the world as a wonderful place, to meet people from many places, to notice beauty, and to move through life with openness." |
"First of all, I want him to be his own person and find his own path. I know how to teach him to follow the path I took, but that is not necessarily the path he should take.
"I want him to be confident and joyful—to see the world as a wonderful place, to meet people from many places, to notice beauty, and to move through life with openness."
For Caldwell, what gets passed on is not a path to follow, but the confidence to find one.
Shared Ground: Tommy Caldwell & TORRAS
The sense of focus Caldwell values is what he appreciates about TORRAS as a brand.
| "I think the biggest difference between TORRAS and other brands I've worked with is that they put so much energy into making just a few products very well. It's cool to see all that energy going into a few things and those things being really perfected." |
"I think the biggest difference between TORRAS and other brands I've worked with is that they put so much energy into making just a few products very well. It's cool to see all that energy going into a few things and those things being really perfected."
The connection feels even closer through a shared relationship with climbing.
| "It was exciting to see TORRAS's connection to climbing. There are people within the company who are climbers, and TORRAS supports climbing gyms. Anything close to the climbing world means a lot to me." |
"It was exciting to see TORRAS's connection to climbing. There are people within the company who are climbers, and TORRAS supports climbing gyms. Anything close to the climbing world means a lot to me."
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Strength From Within: A TORRAS Conversation with Tommy Caldwell
