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The new year is several weeks old, so it is safe to say that many of our New Year resolutions have fallen by the wayside. Despite the limited success of our personal resolutions, the new year is a great time to take stock, look ahead, and plan to make 2020 the best year yet. Thinking about our industry as a whole, we asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What should be the security industry’s “New Year’s resolution?” 

ONVU Technologies, the provider of empathy-led solutions in the surveillance, learning and retail industries, announced that Simon Pearson has joined the Group as VP Commercial. In this role, Pearson will have revenue responsibility for the Group businesses, Oncam, ONVU Learning and ONVU Retail. He will bring cohesion, direction and overall strategic vision to the sales and marketing activities across the group to help propel the Group into its next stage of growth. Pearson is an experienced technologist and commercial leader, with more than 20 years of experience in the strategic growth of entrepreneurial technology companies, creating, selling and deploying enterprise software solutions to customers in the government, healthcare, retail, banking, telecoms and education sectors. Strategic partnership “I’m delighted to be joining the ONVU Tech team at what I believe is a very exciting time in the company’s development. Its market-leading technologies deliver a compelling offering to our target industries, and the passionate leadership team is well-positioned to execute on this significant opportunity,” said Pearson. “We truly believe in delivering significant value through our strategic partnerships, ensuring that our platforms remain leaders in the marketplace and number one choice for end users.” “We are absolutely thrilled to have Simon as part of the management team,” said Scott Brothers, COO, ONVU Technologies. “His role is a first for our business and we're excited by what an integrated commercial team can bring in terms of growth, focus, go-to-market strategy and collaboration. Simon’s acumen puts him in the perfect position to bring vision to the commercial functions and play a key part in contributing to ONVU Tech’s mission, which is building empathy-led products, created by industry experts to solve real-world problems.”

The new year comes with new opportunities for the security industry, but what technologies will dominate our discussions in 2020? Topics such as artificial intelligence (AI) and HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) became familiar in conversations during 2019, and they are likely to dominate our thoughts again in the new year. But other buzzwords are also gaining steam, such as “blockchain” and “frictionless access control.” Connectivity and the cloud will also be timely technology topics as the industry evolves. We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What technology buzz will dominate the security industry in 2020?