Pre-Conference Workshop - FIDO Authentication: Moving Beyond Passwords

As the Head of Operating System Security for Microsoft, Dave is responsible for implementing the Identity, Information Protection and Platform Security features In Azure and on devices running Windows. During his time at Microsoft, Dave has been responsible for security features in the...

Christiaan Brand co-founded financial services security firm, Entersekt in 2009. He has since moved to Google where he's part of their Security and Identity teams. Christiaan is a frequent industry commentator on all areas involving cyber-crime and cyber security and co-chair of the U2F...

Rajiv Dholakia is responsible for the development, marketing and strategy of the Nok Nok Labs’ products and solutions. Prior to Nok Nok Labs, Mr. Dholakia was VP & General Manager at Symantec, responsible for the operations of PGP TrustCenter, a Cloud-based platform for Identity,...

Hidehito Gomi is Senior Chief Researcher at Yahoo Japan Corporation. He has more than 20 years of research & development experience in artificial intelligence, information security, identity & access management, and context-aware computing. He has worked with security standard...

Derek Hanson is the Senior Director of Solutions Architecture and Standards for Yubico. Derek and his team are tasked with assisting organizations and standards bodies everywhere to develop and deploy authentication solutions utilizing the YubiKey.   

As a Facebook engineer, Brad brings wide-ranging, practical R&D experience with authentication and security technologies to the task of enabling online identity at the scale of billions

Recognized for technical knowledge and self-driven leadership with emphasis on exploring competitive advantage and growth opportunities using new and existing technologies. Strategically focused with good understanding of operational aspects of business and end-to-end network scope....

Manini is a Product Manager for the Azure Identity team. Since passwords are hard to remember and not secure, she owns the story around getting rid of them for our Microsoft. Manini is working on not only enabling cool passwordless solutions for Microsoft products but also working closely with...

Andrew Shikiar is the Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officerr at FIDO Alliance, a global consortium working to create open standards and an interoperable ecosystem for simpler, stronger user authentication.  He has deep experience in multi-stakeholder organizations, having...

Alex Takakuwa is a PhD student at the University of Washington. For the last six years he has been conducting research with the guidance of his renowned advisor, Professor Tadayoshi Kohno. During this time, he has done work related to driver privacy, signal processing, and authentication....

Background: John Tolbert is a Lead Analyst and Managing Director of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises cybersecurity and IAM vendors, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, regarding their product and...