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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Kay Chopard on Driving Digital Trust
by Andrea Beskers
Kay Chopard, Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative is to host a workshop entitled Driving Digital Trust on Monday, September 13 starting at 9:00 am at EIC 2021 . To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Kay some questions about Kantara’s planned workshop. Which audience do you hope to attract to the Kantara workshop? We really hope that a diverse audience will be attracted to the Kantara workshop. The reason I say that is - we're very focused, obviously in the work we do around identity, around assurance programs, around really developing...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Sadrick Widmann on the Truth About Identity
by Andrea Beskers
Sadrick Widmann, Chief Product Officer at Cidaas is to deliver a presentation entitled Give Me 10 Minutes, I'll Give You The Truth About Identity on Monday, September 13 starting at 20:00 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Sadrick some questions about his planned presentation. What do we miss when talking about identity management? When we talk about identity management, it is mainly about digital identities, for example, a user logging in to an e-commerce shop. But there are different qualities of users – we at cidaas like to...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Chris Owen on Identity Management
by Andrea Beskers
Chris Owen, Director of Product Management at Savyint is to deliver a presentation on Worlds Collide: The Importance of Convergence in IAM on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 8:30 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Chris some questions about his planned presentation. When worlds collide is an interesting subject. What does it actually mean and what is colliding?  Worlds colliding is essentially looking at the different markets that exist within the identity space. So in particular, if we take privileged access management (PAM) and...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Mike Kiser on Why Identity Is the New Blue
by Andrea Beskers
Mike Kiser, Senior Identity Strategist at SailPoint and passionate storyteller, is to deliver a presentation entitled Identity Is the New Blue on Monday, September 13 starting at 6:00 pm. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Mike some questions about his planned presentation. Why use the history of a color as an analogy for identity?  Great question. I think as I tend to think about identity and other technology and innovation, what fascinates me most is not even how much the technology works, but how it impacts society, how it impacts...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Graham Williamson on IoT Project Success
by Andrea Beskers
Graham Williamson, Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole, is to deliver a presentation entitled Meeting Expectations – 5 pillars for IoT project success on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 7:20 pm. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Graham some questions about his planned presentation. How would you describe the current state of the IoT industry sector? If there was one word to use to characterize the current state of the IT sector, it would be ‘exciting.’ The current situation we have is over the last few years, there has...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Vittorio Bertocci on Browser Changes Affecting Identity
by Andrea Beskers
Vittorio Bertocci, Principal Architect at Auth0, is to deliver a presentation entitled Browser Features vs. Identity Protocols: An Arms Race? on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 9:50 am. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Vittorio some questions about his planned presentation. Why are browser vendors introducing changes in their products that impact how we do identity today? Browser vendors really mean well. What they are doing is looking out for the users and we know that today, one of the big engines of the economy is the ability of...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Barbara Mandl & Dr. Angelika Steinacker on the Women in Identity Workshop
by Andrea Beskers
Women in Identity exists to foster new relationships and mentorship between women in technical fields and beyond. At EIC 2021 , Dr. Angelika Steinacker and Dr. Barbara Mandl will hold a pre-conference workshop on Monday, September 13 starting at 9:00 am. To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Angelika and Barbara some questions about their planned workshop. Which audience do you hope to attract for your joint workshop on Women in Identity? We are hoping for a very diverse audience. We are addressing everyone who is currently working or planning to work...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Annie Bailey on the Future of Artificial Intelligence
by Andrea Beskers
Annie Bailey, Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole, will host the Artificial Intelligence stream at European Identity and Cloud Conference 2021 . To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Annie some questions about the future of AI. What is AI's future?  We can think about the future of AI in three different ways. So we could of course think about it from the technological advancements, which are happening right now, and really speeding up at a rate that we haven't seen before. So there are advancements in AI in conversation and cognitive use cases, towards...