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A paradigm for unified delivery of IT services to the business demand, based on automated, policy-based management, and supported by the unification of heterogeneous multi-cloud multi-hybrid IT environments following a services-based approach. Businesses need to reinvent themselves continually in the Digital Age. Every business is a Digital Business today, that needs to deliver and improve Digital Services that differentiate it from the competition. This requires an IT that is built to deliver to the business demand in an agile, yet secure and well-controlled manner. This will work...

Doing IT right is the premise for delivering time-to-value in the Digital Journey. Success requires an agile IT for delivering secure Digital Services on time. Virtually all organizations have become digital at least to a certain extent in the past three decades since the World Wide Web (already an old-fashioned term) took off. But we are still on that journey. There is a good reason not to name this Digital Transformation, but Digital Journey. It is not about transforming from the analog to the digital state, but an ongoing journey. This journey is driven by ever-changing business...

Maarten Stultjens, VP Corporate Development at OneWelcome is to partake in a panel discussion entitled Identity, Privacy, Security - The European Perspective on Monday, September 13 starting at 15:50 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Maarten some questions about what he will bring to the panel. There are differences in Digital Identity between US and Europe. What is the bigger picture? Yeah, well, I think as the first step we have to look at some global initiatives that are taking place in business. And if I have to mention two...

Vadim Lander, Symantec Identity Management Security Chief Architect and CTO, Broadcom is to give a presentation entitled The Dawn of Digital IAM on Monday, September 13 starting at 17:40 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Vadim some questions about his presentation. How would you describe the state of identity today? I think in the identity management space today, we're seeing a number of challenges. Identity is often called the last perimeter or sometimes the only perimeter and now identity has become a highly critical component...

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...

Joni Brennan, President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada is to deliver a presentation entitled COVID Has Accelerated Public Demand for Digital ID on Monday, September 13 starting at 19:40 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Joni some questions about her planned presentation. In what ways has the pandemic impacted digital identity ecosystems? The pandemic has absolutely impacted digital ID ecosystems. It's done so in a number of ways, it's driven demand for people to start working from home, who hadn't before in...

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...

Dave Mason, Supply Chain Compliance and Serialization Lead at Novartis is to contribute to the panel entitled Futureproofing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Security on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 6:00 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Dave some questions about this panel. How can digital identity secure the pharmaceutical supply chain in the future? So what is going on in United States is there's a rule called drug supply security act. It is one of the only serialization acts in the world that requires change of ownership. It's...

The idea of low-code/no-code (LC/NC) application development seems to be extremely popular nowadays, to the point of it almost becoming a marketing buzzword similar, say, to “Zero Trust”. For decades, creating “proper” application software was a complex and tedious process that required qualified professional developers to produce even the smallest app. Organizations only had two choices: either purchase an existing off-the-shelf product from a software vendor or commission an internal or external development team to design, code, test, and deploy a custom...

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...