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John is the lead member of the outbound product management team that drives sales and adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Oracle Fusion Middleware is the fastest growing product line at Oracle, with over $1B in revenue in FY...
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Joe Andrieu is the Founder and CEO of SwitchBook, a user-centric Search startup based in Santa Barbara, California.

Joe started Switchbook in 2006. Prior to SwitchBook, Joe served as Technology Director at NavExcel, a UK-based adware company and...
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Dennis has 25 years experience in IT and has worked in a diversity of business environments, like government, utilities, insurance companies and large manufacturing multinationals. His current job is Lead Architect in the group Corporate Functions at the Corporate IT department of Philips...
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Born in northern Germany Prof. Bergh studied medicine and mathematics in Hannover. During his studies he stayed for a research period in the Medical Image Processing Laboratory, Department of Radiological Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). After graduating from...
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After graduating from the Royal Institute of Technology 1986 in Stockholm Petter has been active in the IT-Industry. Petter has held positions at Cap Gemini, debis, Compaq and SmartTrust. Since 2003 Petter is with Microsoft Germany and currently holds a position as a Senior Technology...
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As Managing Partner of iC Consult GmbH, which is specialized in the Integration of Identity Management Solutions into Applications and Service Oriented Architectures, Mr. Biermann is working on the Development of the Security Platform for a huge Automotive Company and he designed a new...
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Wolfgang Boehmer works as an external scientist at the TU-Darmstadt presently. His research focus on risk and security-management systems and their analytical description as well as their modeling with mathematical methods with MATHEMATICA. As a free Consultant he supports companies from...
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Michael Boley ist seit über 15 Jahren in der IT Branche aktiv. Nach einigen Jahren in der Softwareentwicklung mit dem Schwerpunkt Teilnehmerverwaltung in Telekommunikationsnetzen und Netzwerkaufbau im Rahmen der deutschen Einheit, mehr als fünf Jahren als...
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Ingrid Brunner ist als IT- Projektmanager bei der Österreichischen Post tätig. In dieser Funktion begleitet sie den Fachbereich bei der Spezifikation für neue Applikationen und betreut die Umsetzung des Vorhabens.2004 wurde sie mit der Leitung des Projekt...
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Thorsten Butschke serves as Senior Software Consultant at KOGIT GmbH. He is counselling the customers during the implementation of Identity Management projects and is engaged in the implementation of the solution.

Thorsten Butschke is working for the company since 2004. The key aspects...
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Kim Cameron is Chief Architect of Identity in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, where he works on the evolution of MORE 

Ga-Lam Chang graduated in the field of IT and commerce with a certificate of the chamber of commerce and industry in 1995. Being responsible for the division network services, consisting of 36 employees, for a very successful mid-size German company he consults companies like Siemens...
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Dr. Chaudry holds a doctorate degree in Medicine, a MSc in Health Care anagement and a MSc in Information Systems. Dr. Chaudry is registered with the UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals as a level 3 Health nformatics Specialist. He is a professional member of the British Medical...
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Marc Van Coillie is working within EIfEL and previously as an external consultancy for Orange labs on several projects related to interoperability and digital identity with the use of Liberty Alliance or OpenID.

Marc Van Coillie is member of IEEE LTSC (Learning Technologies Sub...
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Holger Dambeck, born in 1969, studied physics, worked 3 years as a journalist for c't/Heise Online, since 2003 science and IT writer for SPIEGEL ONLINE

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Mike Davies is Marketing Director for VeriSign in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Davies joined VeriSign from Visa Europe, where he was marketing network services to Visa member banks. Previously, he was at Thales, where he helped lead the rollout of Smart cards primarily into the...
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Stefan is responsible for advising customers, partners and Oracle organisations on I&AM solutions and architecture across EMEA. He has been working in the areas of Identity and Access management for about 6 years, joining Oracle with the acquisition of Oblix. He has a track record for...
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Teodor Dumitrescu is in charge of the development of DirX, the identity and access management product suite of Siemens (http://www.siemens.com/iam).

Teodor has been closely involved for more than twenty years with the directory, identity management and security activities at Siemens. He...
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Oliver is currently head of Corporate Security at Bwin Entertainment AG, one of the largest online gaming companies. He has been working in the security field for more that 10 years in Africa, Eastern Europe and Austria both in the ISP as well as in the Banking field.

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Felix Gaehtgens is Senior Analyst and Partner at Kuppinger Cole + Partner since January 2008. Before, was the chief architect of Symlabs Directory Extender 3.0, partner and co-founder of Symlabs. His responsibilities included management of Symlab´s flagship DE product, pre-sales efforts...
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Before co-founding Brainloop Oliver was responsible for European sales at Commerce One. Prior to that he led the European sales efforts for Actra Business Systems (a Netscape/GE joint venture) and managed the European OEM sales for Netscape Communications. Oliver serves on the board of Munich...
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Marne E. Gordan is the GRC Market Manager for IBM’s Tivoli Software Division, where she is responsible for maintaining intelligence on prevalent regulations and standards related to information security and IT governance.

With over 10 years of experience in electronic and retail...
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Ariel Gordon is a Principal Architect at Microsoft in the Identity and Strategy Division. Ariel is one of the industry pioneers in Identity and Access Management. In his previous position, he built Orange-France Telecom’s Identity platform into a world-class leading service with 100+...
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Seasoned Security & Information Risk professional with 19 years experience of business development, consulting, pre-sales, project and product management in the IT industry.

10 year track record working in the Identity Management field with in-depth expertise of technologies...
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BiTKOO’s co-founder and CEO, sold his first software product at age 14. After several years as President of a successful US construction company, he moved to the Walt Disney Company. There Doron developed his professional passion: software security.  His first project...
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In addition to project management experience in a wide variety of national and international projects, his special focus lies in the analysis, development and introduction of new technologies for the range of services in the Internet online mass market.

Along with actual product...
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Melvis Hadzic (1974) Principal Sales Consultant IAM on Oracle Identity and Role Management, member of the West Continent Europe team.

As former BHOLD functional consultant, Melvis is specialized on Role management, process driven authorizations, attestation, assessments on...
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Current Job Roles and Responsibilities
John heads the Identity & Access Management Services in the Netherlands as well in the EMA region. John is specialized in both audit and advisory services in the field of identity and access management, user management, provisioning,...
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Mr. Jasuja is responsible for driving Oracle’s go-to-market strategy for its identity management business. This responsibility encompasses product management, security standards participation, partner and sales enablement, as well as development of Oracle’s directory services...
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Dave spent 10 years as a network manager, ending up as Information Services Manager for the former Thomas-Conrad Corporation (now part of Compaq). In 1987, he was a founding SysOp of Novell's Novell Support Connection service on Compuserve and served as the...
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Sampo Kellomäki is the chief architect of Symlabs Federated Identity Access Manager , Directory Extender 3.0 and co-founder of Symlabs. He is the main driving force behind the creation of Directory Extender 3.0 and the suite of solutions built around it. Prior to founding Symlabs, he held...
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Berthold Kerl joined Deutsche Bank in 2002. As global head of Access Systems he delivered together with his global team IT solutions and services for Deutsche Banks multi national Trade and Cash Management clients. He also had responsibility for various strategic initiatives such as IT...
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MR Dr. Oswald Kessler, was born 1954 in Austria. Since 1974 he is officer in the Ministry of the Interior in Austria. From 1974 to1980 he served as a police officer at the police headquarter of Vienna, from 1980 to 1982 after degree of University of law he was senior police officer in Vienna....
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Gil Kirkpatrick is chief technology officer for NetPro and a Directory Services MVP. He is also the founder of the popular Directory Experts Conference and the author of Active Directory Programming (Macmillan).

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Dion Kotteman has an extensive IT- and security experience within financial institutions, as well as in not–for–profit organisations. He nowadays holds a position as programme director at ING’s banking department and executes global programmes in Identity- and Access...
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Michael looks back on more than 15 years of broad IT experience as he has worked in IT industry and for a reinsurance company in the IT department. He is specialized in information security risk management, service organization and IT strategy. He used to work as project manager, architect...
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Dr. Kuhlmann plays a key role in the continued development Omada’s solutions, including the award-winning Omada Identity Manager solution that is built entirely on the Microsoft platform and integrates with Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager to provide a robust solution for Compliance...
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Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Senior Partner at Kuppinger Cole and Partner. He has a long-year history in Identity Management, starting in the early days of Novell NetWare, LAN Manager at other network systems. He has written roundabout 50 IT books and uncounted articles in IT magazines....
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Walter Kuron, 44, arbeitet seit über 20 Jahren in der IT. Seit 2001 arbeitet er beim IZB im Bereich Revision und Audit.
Ende 2006 wurde er intern mit der Duchführung eines IDM-Projektes beauftragt. Das Ziel war, eine zentrale Verwaltung von Identitäten und Berechtigungen zu...
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After his PhD in Experimental Physics, Bob Lannoy started as an IT consultant at Smals in 2000. As a member of the research department he focused on Identity Management as one of his core research topics. He has published several internal reports on the subject for Smals and its government...
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In February 2005 Johannes Lechner joined Premiere Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG, the leading premium TV provider in Germany and Austria, and has held the position of Director IM Service Management since then. He was appointed Group IT Security Officer the same year. His prime objectives are...
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Dr. Klaus Lüttich has been working for bos since 2007 in the area of authentication and identity management.
Since 1999 bos is a software enterprise that develops and implements e-government solutions. Our main focus is on secure data transport and digital signatures.

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• 1999 - 2002 University of Cooperative Education Horb a.N. (Dipl. Ing. (BA) )
• 2002 - 2004 University of Ulm (Dipl. Inf.)
• 1999 - 2003 System / Software Engineer at a Software Vendor
• 2003 - 2005 CTO at a Software Vendor
• 2005...
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Francesco has been working for CSI Piemonte since 2000. Starting as a Java developer, he became Team Leader and System Architect in 2001. During 2002, when CSI Piemonte was involved in the first wave of e-Government services in Italy, he worked in team with another J2EE architect to provide...
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Antonio Navarro joined Symlabs as a partner in May 2001. He now serves as president and chief executive officer. His responsibilities include setting strategic direction for the company and asserting its leadership in directory infrastructure and MORE 

Steve Neville joined Entrust in 1999, and has played a consistent leadership role in Entrust's product evolution and innovation. Working closely with customers and key departments such as R&D, sales, & marketing, Steve is passionate about ensuring that Entrust fields market-driven,...
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Christian is a member of the EMEA outbound Product Management team that drives sales and adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of leading, standards-based and customer-proven software products that...
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Dr. Oliver Pfaff holds architectural responsibility and is the head of a development team charged with the conceptual design and realization of a security product for SOA environments. Oliver's team is appointed with several deliverables including the Siemens realization of the security...
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Massimiliano Pianciamore graduated at Politecnico di Milano. He joined CEFRIEL in 1999. He has several years of experience in modeling, developing and integrating complex software architectures and middleware platforms. Since 2004 he has been involved in various italian e-Government projects...
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Prof. Dr. Reinhard Posch is member of many professional societies: IEEE, ACM, OCG (member of the board of the Austrian Computer Society), OGI (Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Informatik), ACONET, OeMG (Oesterreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft),  GME (Microelectronic...
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Brian is a Technology Architect on the Microsoft IT Identity and Access Management team.  He started with Microsoft in 2001 as a Active Directory engineer in Microsoft IT, and has worked on the internal deployment of identity solutions ever since.  Prior to working for Microsoft, he...
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Dr. Bruno Quint is one of the founders and Managing Director of CORISECIO GmbH. CORISECIO is leading provider of security solutions for SOA products.

Bruno Quint is working for more than twenty years in the IT industry. From Software Development up to Executive Board positions he held...
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Sebastian Rohr has been active as author of multiple articles, reviews and essays on all kinds of security topics. Having a ten year record in IT with a background in network & systems management, network security and PKI he started his career with Siemens...
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Dr. Ron Rymon serves as Vice President for Strategy, in CA Security Business Unit since 2008. Prior to CA, Ron was Founder of Eurekify, the pioneer and leading provider of role & compliance management solutions, where he filled management roles ranging from R&D, to product management,...
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Siegfried Schallenmueller is President of the subdivision Professional Services & Solution Management with Siemens Enterprise Communications headquarters based in Munich, Germany. In this position he is responsible for the development of communication-related professional services and...
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Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author (with fellow Berkman Fellow David Weinberger and others) of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and one of the world's best-known and widely read bloggers. His work as a journalist, speaker and advocate of the Internet led to a Google-O'Reilly Open...
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Anton Shmagin is a security architect working for the United Nations Development Programme, one of the largest UN agencies with the offices in more than 145 countries in the world. He oversees the UNDP Identity Management initiative and played a leading role in the UN's inter-angency...
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Mike Small is the retired director of security management strategy of CA, where he was responsible for the technical strategy for CA's security management software product line within Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mike did work for CA between 1994 and 2009, where he developed CA’s...
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Volker Smid serves as President, General Manager of Novell EMEA. He is responsible for the full range of Novell's sales and consulting business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Smid was named general manager for Central Europe for Novell in May 2005, responsible for Novell's...
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Born in northern Germany, Dr. Soddemann studied physics and mathematics in Paderborn and Freiburg. Soon his focus was in the emerging field of cross disciplinary computational sciences.

He continued his research in that field at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz....
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Dr. Martin Stemplinger has been working in the IT sector for 13 years and for 10 years in the IT security field. Since 2001 he is head of IT Security architecture in HVB Information Services the IT service provider of HVB where his responsiblities include security governance, network and...
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Chris Sullivan, Vice President of Customer Solutions, heads both the Solutions Engineering and Customer Management areas for Courion Corporation. Chris is also responsible for building a sales consulting capability and defining and institutionalizing implementation methodologies to ensure...
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Named one of Infoworld's Top 25 CTO's of 2006, David has more than 20 years of experience in developing advanced imaging software and systems for high security, high-availability systems. Prior to founding Imprivata he developed biometric applications for government programs and web-based...
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Marko leads the Identity and Access Management (IAM) services of KPMG Germany. Marko is specialized in both audit and advisory services in the field of identity and access management, user management, provisioning, authorization management, role based access control, role engineering,...
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Friedel is working for the automotive industry since the early 1990s and is actively involved in this industry’s e-business standardization. On behalf of his clients he supports the activities of NIFIS (gIAM), ODETTE and the association of the automotive industry in Germany...
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As Unit Leader at E.ON´s IT service company Sven Wahler has been responsible for projects in the area or SAP roles management and GRC. Before joining E.ON, Sven worked as a leader for technical audits (SAS 70, SOX) at Ernst & Young, so that he got to know GRC from both sides - as an...
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Marina Walser (born 1967) holds the position of Director Business Development, Identity & Security Management. In this role she leads the development of strategic partnerships with Consulting, Implementation and Technology Partners in EMEA. This includes the identification...
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Herr Dr. Horst Walther ist Partner bei Kuppinger Cole + Partner. Er beschäftigt sich im Rahmen seiner Beratungstätigkeit schwerpunktmäßig mit der Beratung zu strategischen Identity Management Ansätzen sowie deren Umsetzung und Audit.

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Frank Wendiggensen is Project Manager at RWE IT GmbH. With an IT-consultancy background Frank fulfilled various senior roles within information management and strategy in different business units of RWE Group.

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Ralf Wiesmann joined CGI in March 2007 and is responsible for CGI's mobility practice in Central Europe. Ralf and his team help customers to analyse and implement their mobile business opportunities in the consumer and in the enterprise space. This incorporates consumer solutions, like mobile...
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Rudolf Wildgruber, graduated in computer science at the Technical University Munich in 1980 and worked for nearly 10 years for a medium-sized HW/SW manufacturer as systems engineer. From October 1991 until February 2004 he worked as project manager in the Directory and Metadirectory...
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Robin Wilton is part of a team in Sun´s Chief Technology Office, whose role is to look outwards (at Sun's relationships with strategic business partners) and inwards across the Sun product lines – seeking to maximise Sun's added value in all areas of identity management through...
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Egidio (Edge) is the Global Partner in Charge of the IT Advisory Practice at KPMG.  The Global Practice represents over MORE