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Sopra Steria, a major Tech player in Europe with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognised for its consulting, digital services and solutions. It helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. The Group provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. In 2024, the Group generated revenues of €5.8 billion. At Sopra Steria, our mission is to guide our customers, partners and employees towards bold choices by leveraging digital technology to build a positive future for all. We believe in technology, but also in our ability to use our collective intelligence to help the world move forward. Together we are building a decisively promising future by delivering tangible results: lasting solutions that have a positive impact and fully integrate interactions between the digital world and society. We offer all our employees the opportunity to grow and improve their skills through a variety of experiences with top European companies.

In 1999, Matthieu Courtecuisse founded Sia with a vision that would redefine management consulting for the digital age. While traditional consulting firms were built on legacy models, Sia was 'born digital' - a deliberate choice to create a new kind of consulting group that could help organizations navigate unprecedented technological change. From its origins in France, the company recognized early on that the digital revolution would require more than just strategy; it would demand a fundamental rethinking of how businesses transform. Over the past two decades, Sia has evolved into a global force with 3,000 consultants across 48 offices in 19 countries, pioneering what they call 'Consulting 4.0' - an approach that augments traditional consulting with data science, creativity, and artificial intelligence. Today, Sia's mission has crystallized around being 'optimists for change,' reflecting their core belief that successful transformation requires both technical expertise and a fundamentally positive outlook on what businesses can achieve. The firm's comprehensive ecosystem includes strategy and management consulting, AI solutions through Heka, experience design via SiaXperience, specialized life sciences consulting through Sia/LBG, and leadership coaching through Uside. Their 'Consulting for Good' initiative demonstrates a commitment to being purpose-driven, integrating corporate social responsibility across climate, social responsibility, and ethics. With approximately 1,000 blue-chip and big tech clients, Sia continues to prove that a consultancy born in the digital era can deliver superior value while helping clients not just navigate change, but benefit from it.

Encora is a global digital engineering company that helps enterprises become faster and hyper-adaptive through industry contextual services across AI, Data, and Cloud. Born in Silicon Valley in 2005, the company has evolved from serving digital natives to transforming large-scale enterprises with a human-led, AI-executed operating model. With over 9,000 associates across 47+ offices worldwide, Encora delivers innovation acceleration and modernization services including Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering. The company composes nearshore alignment and offshore scale through AIVA, their OS for composability, enabling clients to reconfigure in real time and ship products and services faster with higher quality and lower risk. Encora partners with technology leaders like Microsoft and AWS, and has earned specializations including Microsoft Cloud Security and recognition as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner. Their mission-driven approach focuses on creating measurable business outcomes at the convergence of data, cloud, and AI for over 500 digital natives and enterprises across industries like HiTech, Healthcare, Retail & CPG, BFSI, Travel, Hospitality & Logistics, Telecom & Media, Automotive, and Energy & Utilities.

NHA operates the largest allied health certification infrastructure in the United States, having processed over 1.25 million professional certifications since 1989. The organization develops and administers nationally accredited examinations across eight clinical and administrative healthcare professions - medical assistant, phlebotomy technician, pharmacy technician, billing and coding specialist, and others serving the operational backbone of U.S. healthcare delivery. The threat model here is competency verification at scale: ensuring that allied health workers meet standardized benchmarks before they enter high-stakes clinical and administrative environments where errors compound quickly. The technical work centers on psychometrics and assessment design - building exam instruments that reliably measure competency across diverse candidate populations and evolving healthcare practices. NHA's exam development process involves item analysis, reliability testing, and ongoing validity studies to maintain accreditation standards and defend against legal or professional challenges. Preparation materials and learning solutions are built around these assessments, creating a closed-loop system where training content directly maps to certification requirements. NHA functions as a subsidiary of Assessment Technologies Institute, LLC, positioning it within a broader educational technology and workforce development operation. The organization partners with educational institutions and healthcare employers to embed certification pathways into training programs, effectively controlling both sides of the credentialing equation. Geographic presence is U.S.-focused, reflecting the domestic scope of allied health workforce regulation and the state-specific requirements that shape healthcare staffing pipelines.

TOMRA is a global leader in reverse vending, recycling, and sensor-based sorting solutions that drive the circular economy and maximize resource recovery. Founded in 1972 by brothers Petter and Tore Planke from Asker, Norway, TOMRA invented the world's first automated reverse vending machine, revolutionizing how beverage containers are collected and recycled. Today, the company operates through four business divisions - Collection, Sorting, Food, and Mining - providing technology-led solutions across multiple industries. With approximately 87,000 installations in over 60 markets worldwide, TOMRA's reverse vending machines collect over 50 billion drink containers annually. The company's mission is to transform how society obtains, uses, and reuses the planet's resources to enable a world without waste, backed by 5,000-10,000 employees across its global operations.

Talan is a global technology and consulting group operating across 21 countries with over 7,000 consultants. The firm delivers data analytics, custom platform development, and digital transformation projects spanning Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Under CEO Philippe Cassoulat, the company structures its technical practice around consulting and problem-solving engagements that require custom platform work and data infrastructure - projects where security posture isn't an add-on but a foundational constraint. The company's technical domains center on data analytics, custom platform development, and enterprise-scale digital transformation. For security professionals, this translates to environments where threat models shift project to project: multi-tenant platform architectures, cross-border data compliance regimes, and client infrastructures at varying maturity levels. The scale - 7,000+ consultants distributed globally - means exposure to diverse technical stacks and regulatory frameworks, from GDPR implementations in Europe to sector-specific compliance across continents. Talan operates what it calls "Curious Minds," an internal community focused on exploration and innovation, alongside a training catalogue accessible from day one. The culture signals emphasize autonomy, continuous learning, and cross-functional collaboration - language that, in practice, matters most when security teams need to influence architecture decisions early or negotiate trade-offs with delivery timelines. The firm describes employees as "global citizens," which in operational terms means working across time zones and adapting security practices to different regulatory and infrastructure contexts.