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+ million managed identities across Europe. As a key spokesperson for Orange, he unveiled several of their innovations at Industry Events including support of OpenID and LiveID inbound federation at the European Identity Conference in April 2008. Ariel specializes in optimizing customer journeys and UX through Identity lifecycles.