Speakers

Ed Ackerman currently serves as Director of Alliances and Partnerships at Onfido. He joined the company in 2016 as Head of Client Management and has been instrumental in driving the company's commercial strategy and revenue growth. Prior to Onfido, Ed led a high performing team as Head of UK...

Etienne Bertou is a system architect and intrapreneur with over a decade of professional experience in web technology and high tech product development. In recent years he focussed on scaling Philips Hue, the largest connected lighting system in the world, from a venture to the system it is...

Ralph Bragg is a Technology Consultant and Raidiam Senior Partner with over 10 years of experience focusing on implementation, system and enterprise architecture primarily for large financial services organisations. Ralph is presently engaged at OpenBanking Ltd in a Senior Technology position...

Roland Bühler is focused on technology consulting and project management in the marketing and media sector. He is helping companies to automate marketing and to create digital customer journey maps. Considering privacy and information security aspects is mandatory in his area of activity....

Melissa Carvalho, RBC Global Cyber Security Vice President, leads the bank’s Enterprise and Customer Identity Management group, a team of over 200 security professionals providing cyber solutions and services for RBC’s 80,000 employees and 16 million clients. Melissa is a...

Head of Innovation & Data at Talmundo, a cloud software solution for intuitive employee onboarding. Previous to her current role, Christina led Marketing at Talmundo, building brand strategy and marketing team from the ground up from an early-stage startup into the private equity-backed...

Andrew Churchill has over 20 years experience working in security within Government, Industry and Academia, in particular cyber security and financial crime. He has led the cyber crime task force and co-ordinated security technology requirements for HMG, acted as subject matter expert on a...

Vic Cooper is a person who is passionate about building better contact centers. He has 20 years of experience as an architect, programmer and consultant working for a diverse set of large enterprises such as Sutter Health, Intuit, Peoplesoft/Oracle, Capella University. He is a proud member of...

Lubna is an internationally known executive, systems designer and industry expert recognized for her unique blend of foresight and delivery in high growth markets. As a futurist who inspires new thinking and disruptive business models, she created and writes about the Allternet -a visionary...

Web developer with 18 years of experience. Shifting focus towards the blockchain. Fierce believer in open-source software. I'm not the guy you'll find at some Fortune 500 company. I love building things up from the ground. For all the companies and projects I've been involved in, I played an...

Yoti is an identity checking system that allows organisations to verify who people are, online and in person. We are a team of 250 in London with over 5 million installs of the Yoti app, following our launch in November 2017.  Julie leads policy and government relations and Yoti’s...

Yvo van Doorn is a technical expert for Auth0 customers seeking to understand the benefits of identity and cloud. He has more than a decade of system administration experience, and manually built and configured bare-metal servers for the first part of his career. Prior to Auth0, Yvo was mission...

Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of  Meeco ; a personal data platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust  Katryna has been pioneering personal data rights since 2002, when she envisioned a time when...

Todd Etchieson is Senior Director of Product for Akamai Identity Cloud (formerly Janrain) where he leads Product Management, Training, and Documentation. He has 27 years of experience as an engineer, product marketer, and product manager in high tech environments including...

Allan Foster is currently VP Global Partner Success. He’s helped build ForgeRock into a multinational identity software vendor with offices on four continents. Allan’s deep technical knowledge has been well used in all aspects of the business while at ForgeRock, with responsibilities...

Ian Glazer is the VP, Identity Product Management, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards work. Prior to that, he was a research vice president and agenda manager on the Identity and Privacy Strategies team at...

Christian Goy, is the co-founder and managing director of the Behavioral Science Lab. Business transformation and innovation leader, opera-lover, former professional athlete, two-time Hall of Fame inductee, and sub-four-minute miler, Christian was raised in East Germany, overcame adversity and...

I'm passionate about technology and its potential to improve lives and the world we live in. MIRACL specialises in identity and transaction authentication as a service. It offers the most secure yet intuitive way of users proving their identity online while making their transactions both...

Esther Hoeksema is responsible for marketing at iWelcome. As a marketeer she is very interested in the consumer side of Identity Management, zooming in on the ideal customer journey, preference management and GDPR requirements. As such, she has been heavily involved in iWelcome’s GDPR...

Dan Johnson is vice president, Identity Products for Mastercard based in London. He is a key leader in Mastercard’s initiative to create an effective, efficient and principled model of digital identity in an increasingly connected world. His team is helping to define how a person’s...

Dr. Karsten Kinast, LL.M., Attorney at Law (Germany), is founding Partner of the Law Firm “Kinast & Partner” with an exclusive focus on Data Protection Law and IT-Law. He holds a Master of Laws Degree in European Legal Informatics and  serves as external Data Protection...

Mikko Koivisto is a Lead Service Designer and Customer Experience Director of Hellon. Mikko has over fifteen years of experience in designing award-winning services and omnichannel customer experiences across multiple sectors. He is an expert of design leadership, customer value-driven service...

Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Prior to KuppingerCole, Martin wrote more than 50 IT-related books and is known  as a widely-read columnist...

Emma Lindley is an advisor on digital identity and co-founder of Women in Identity a not for profit organisation focused on developing talent and diversity in the identity industry.  Over a career of 16 years in identity Emma has held various roles, most recently as Head of Identity and...

Ian Mann, RBC Global Cyber Security Senior Director, leads the bank's Enterprise and Customer Identity and Access Management (IAM) Strategy, Solution Architecture, Design and Process Services team.  He is responsible for defining and executing on the bank’s vision for IAM services...

John Marsden is head of Fraud and Authentication for EMEA at iovation. For over 20 years John has been at the leading edge of e-commerce, helping clients to navigate the risks and customer experience challenges involved in safely transacting with customers in the digital channels. From the early...

David is a consultant specialized in identity and access management for the last 8 years. He supports major companies in their digital transformation by helping them rethink their authentication and identity management services, from the framing phase to the operational...

Rob is a result driven Identity & Access Management (I&AM) architect and CEO of Booleans. His daily operation is based on his expertise and passion for digital identity. “My inner need for solving my customers’ identity challenges, drives me during every project we as...

Dr Rachel O’Connell, founder & CEO of TrustElevate, which provides secure authentication and authorisation for under 16 year olds. Dr O'Connell is one of the preeminent authorities on electronic identification and age verification and is the author of a technical standard entitled PAS...

As a Blockchain expert and advisor, Dean Rakic accompanies customers in their digital transformation processes. He looks back on many years of experience in architecture for the processing of large amounts of data, especially in the healthcare environment. His professional focus is...

As Lead Advisor and Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole, Matthias oversees the KuppingerCole advisory team, acts as lead advisor in various customer advisories and also provides research in his areas of expertise.  Based on a combined education in economics and IT, Matthias has been working as...

Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva”, is a world renowned thought-leader and advisor to Multinational Corporations and Elite Law Firms for handling data privacy and electronic evidence in high-stakes civil litigation. Ms. Reynolds is an internationally published author, highly sought...

Justin Richer is a security architect, software engineer, standards editor, and service designer with over fifteen years of industry experience. He is the lead author of OAuth2 In Action from Manning Publications and contributor to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Justin was the editor of the...

Kaveen works for the Financial Solutions team at WSO2. He focuses on the development efforts of WSO2 Open Banking. Kaveen holds a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Informatics Institute of Technology affiliated with University of Westminster, London.

Samuel Rowe is a Research and Policy Executive at Yoti.  He develops innovative policy in response to complex domestic and international regulatory frameworks.  He chairs the techUK Digital Identity Working Group and Yoti’s internal Ethics & Trust Committee.  He also...

Richard Sand, CEO of IDF Connect, is reinventing web access management for the modern era. He is the primary architect of SSO/Rest™, a universal REST solution for single sign-on, authentication, and access management that can protect critical systems both on-premises and in the Cloud....

Martin Sandren is a CISSP and SABSA certified security professional with over fifteen years of experience of various information security related roles. Primarily focused on security architecture and identity and access management including large scale (20+ million users) customer IAM and...

Kathrin Schürmann is a lawyer and partner at the tech law firm SCHÜRMANN ROSENTHAL DREYER lawyers and specializes in the digital business. Her main areas of practice are data protection & competition law, she focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, E-Commerce and many more.

John Erik Setsaas is VP of Identity and Innovation at Signicat. He is responsible for ensuring that Signicat’s digital identity services are at the forefront of innovation, whilst solving the needs of customers, partners and end users. With over 20 years’ experience in...

James Tuffery is an Australian, technology enthusiast who spent his first 8 years in the States after graduating from college, working in tech and real estate-based startups in New York. During this time James built out a new telecommunications business in NY, ran North American...

Jo Vercammen is the CTO of Meeco; a personal data & distributed ledger platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust. In 2017, Jo co-founded Juru; a Belgium based start-up developing an identity platform using...

Georg is the Head of Business Development at Passbase. Previously he was investing in the future of the European technology ecosystem as a venture analyst at Seedcamp & building product in fintech superstars TransferWise & Monese. He's passionate about behavioural methods used for...

Dr. Zacharias Voulgaris was born in Athens, Greece. He studied Production Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Crete, shifted to Computer Science through a Masters in Information Systems & Technology (City University of London), and then to Data Science through a PhD on...

Colin is the Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative Inc, the globally acknowledged thought leader and emerging practice resource centre for federated digital identity, access and consent-based information sharing. Colin's combined public and private sector background in online identity and...

Hans Zandbelt is CTO at ZmartZone IAM. He holds an MSc. degree in Computer Science, Tele-Informatics and Open Systems from Twente University (1993). He has over 20 years experience as a technical leader in research and innovation projects, including digital identity initiatives. In 2007 he...

Joe is a Solutions Architect with Ping Identity specializing in IDaaS, MFA, and API Security. He also has considerable expertise with complex hybrid architecture implementations for workforce and customer identities. Before Ping, Joe worked as a IT consultant in the big four as well as...