Speakers

John is the lead member of the outbound product management team that drives sales and adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Oracle Fusion Middleware is the fastest growing product line at Oracle, with over $1B in revenue in FY 2006. ...

Martin Andersen is „Senior Consultant IT Compliance” at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf. He is working on processes mainly focussed on the Identity Management area, including handling of identity data, role models and secure provisioning. He gained experience from projects...

Jörg is Partner of KPMG in the service line (IT) Advisory and is responsible in Germany for the service area Security, Privacy, Continuity, an area, in which the employees mainly deal with different aspects of information security. Jörg Asma integrated the German practice into the...

After completing his Universtiy degree in Business Administration (Betriebswirtschaft), Roland Awischus has been active in IT Business for over 30 years. Within Roland’s role at Schumann Unternehmensberatung AG and Systor GmbH & Co KG, he has lead several IT projects at various...

Abbie is an executive architect well versed in Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA), Identity Management, Web Services Security, Software Design, Data Encryption, Project Manager, Product Development and R&D. Subject Matter expert in Integrated Identity Infrastructure that includes IDM,...

Steffen Baumann, Solution Architect at IBSolution GmbH, studied Computer Science and Economics at the university of cooperative education in Stuttgart. He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1999 as a Technology Consultant in the area of IT Service Management and IT infrastructure Management. After that...

Hans-Ottmar Beckmann, Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik und CISO der Volkswagen AG sowie Leiter Informatikzentrum Konzern

Vittorio Bertocci is an Architect Evangelist in the service of Windows Server Evangelism for Microsoft. He is based in Redmond, Washington. He works with Fortune 100 and major G100 enterprises worldwide, helping them to stay ahead of the curve and take advantage of the latest unreleased...

Roland Blach is a senior scientist at the Competence Centre for Virtual Environments of Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart. He has finished his studies in control engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 1992 and works since 1993 in the field of VR. He is one of the architects of the VR system...

Stuart has spent 18 years in IT, of which 10 years have been with CGI (formerly AMS) in a variety of roles encompassing technical and functional architecture, project management, offering development and pre-sales (on one occasion all of these at once). He was a founding member of the AMS...

Eric Brouwer is working at ICTU, the Dutch governmental organization to perform ICT-projects in order to maximize the government's IT objectives through collaborating with authorities, and is specialized in Identity Management. In recent years, he has improved the e-collaboration within the...

Peter is founder and currently Managing Director of Pensive, a software solutions company for information-driven enterprise, based in Brussels, Belgium. He is also a member of the Board of directors of OASIS – the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems –...

Kim is Architect of Identity in the Identity Division at Microsoft, where he champions the emergence of a privacy-enhancing Identity Metasystem reaching across technologies, industries, vendors, continents, and cultures.

Dr. Ramaswamy Chandramouli is the Director –Personal Identity Verification Program, NIST and an Adjunct Associate Professor in University of Maryland, University College. He has more than 20 years of experience in the design, development of IT solutions for government and industry. He...

Mark has worked on Sun's LDAP directory products since 2001. Mark has played many important roles in the development of Sun's Directory Server and currently leads Sun's Directory Integration Team, a branch of Directory engineering devoted to providing engineering help where it makes sense...

Adrian has been at the ISF since 1999 and is responsible for both program and project management across a range of information security issues. He has delivered both managerial and technical projects for the ISF, focusing on topics such as information security management; the role and skills of...

Christine Deger holds the position of a department manager for IT networking services an IT security at GaVI. Since 3,5 Years she leads this unit and serves with her team the operational IT-Security Infrastructure for all GaVI customers. Her focus is on Integration of Business processes into...

Dr. Martin Dehn serves as Manager Consulting & Professional Services and Senior Solution Architect for KOGIT GmbH. His responsibilities for the Professional Services team include Customers Consultancy and the creation of Design and Concepts for Identity Management solutions. He joined KOGIT...

Joost van Dijk is technical product manager for the Authentication and Authorisation services of SURFnet, the Dutch national computer network for higher education and research.

Stefan is responsible for advising customers, partners and Oracle organisations on I&AM solutions and architecture across EMEA. He has been working in the areas of Identity and Access management for about 6 years, joining Oracle with the acquisition of Oblix. He has a track record for...

Benjamin Drisch studied computer science at University Dortmund. Working as Senior Security Consultant for cryptovision since 2002, Benjamin Drisch has led various eID and company ID projects; he is furthermore responsible for cryptovision's eID products and solutions as Product Manager since...

Teodor Dumitrescu is in charge of the development of DirX, the identity and access management product suite of Siemens (http://www.siemens.com/iam). Teodor has been closely involved for more than twenty years with the directory, identity management and security activities at Siemens. He has...

Stina Ehrensvard is the CEO and Founder of Yubico, and co-inventor of the YubiKey – a small device that makes strong two-factor authentication easy and affordable for everyone. She is visionary IT entrepreneur with proven track records of creating and bringing new technology innovations to...

Sabine Erlinghagen is responsible for the world-wide business with DirX, the Siemens product suite for Identity & Access Management as well as for the Siemens biometric products. She puts a particular focus on leveraging IAM for core industry and administration processes. Prior to this...

Reinhard Falke has been working for the Freudenberg Group since 1970, responsible in various positions, mostly in the logistics area as an operations or project manager. From 1997 to 2001 he was responsible to set up and to run EDI and e-business services for the Freudenberg Group. From 2001 to...

Johannes Feulner, born in 1963, founded the software company fun communications GmbH after studying computer science and musical education in Karlsruhe. As managing director, he and his company played a significant role in designing the Internet services provided by T-Online. Today, he is...

Position in firm Rob is the EMA Partner in Charge of the IT Advisory Practice at KPMG. The EMA Practice represents over 3,500 staff, a business with fees in excess of US$600,000 million. Rob also leads the ITA practice in the Netherlands and is member of the Advisory leadership team in the...

Frank is the CISO and global head of Information Security at Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) with more than 300000 employees. He is also program manager of the CyberSecurity@DB transformation program since 2018. In his capacity he is responsible for all aspects of Information and Cyber Security...

Fulup Ar Foll holds a master from French Military School in Computer Science. Before joining Sun he was a research engineer for 10 years on distributed technologies for the French Department of Defense and he taught Internet and Java technologies during 6 years at South Brittany University. For...

Tobias, focused on access management solutions, launched several successful federation projects in the last years. He also supports the SESAM-Project, which is standardizing federation services for the automotive industry.

Finn Frisch has more than 20 years of managerial and experience from information security management and related technologies. Finn is currently responsible for Business Development at Axiomatics AB, a company dedicated to XACML based technologies. Before joining Axiomatics, Finn held management...

Jens Fromm is head of the research group eIdentity and leading numerous industry and research projects for one of the largest European research associations the Fraunhofer Society. His research focus at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS is on sociological and...

Matthew Gardiner is a Director working in the Security business unit at CA Technologies. He is a recognized industry leader in the security & Identity and Access Management (IAM) markets worldwide. He is published, blogs, and is interviewed regularly in leading industry media on a wide range...

Dr. Peter Gergen is a presales specialist for SAP NetWeaver Identity Management solutions and has been responsible for the sales support of the SAP NetWeaver Identity Management division within SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG since January 2008. Before joining SAP, Dr. Gergen worked for...

Ariel joined Microsoft’s Identity and Security Division in 2008.  He leads the End-to-End Scenarios team responsible for aligning value proposition to customers’ scenarios and delivering a cohesive customer experience across Microsoft’s Identity and Access products and...

Seasoned Security & Information Risk professional with 19 years experience of business development, consulting, pre-sales, project and product management in the IT industry. 10 year track record working in the Identity Management field with in-depth expertise of technologies including...

Markus Groh joined Deutsche Bank 1991, since 2001 he is working in the IT Security Domain, with focus on IT Security Architecture and Security Governance. In 2008 he joined the project Gatekeeper, Deutsche Bank’s global initiative for recertification of user accounts and user access...

In addition to project management experience in a wide variety of national and international projects, his special focus lies in the analysis, development and introduction of new technologies for the range of services in the Internet online mass market. Along with actual product development,...

After graduation in Physics & Linguistics, Chris Harvison has worked as a developer and architect for solutions running on Mainframe systems, handheld devices and just about everything in-between. He has spent the last 11 years at Scotiabank and currently works in the Architecture Office as...

Paul Heiden (1967) is BHOLD Company’s founder and CEO. Paul started his career as an officer of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps specialized in mountain and arctic warfare. Having obtained a master degree in Dutch and Roman law, Paul became legal counsel at KPN, the Dutch...

Wolfgang Heidmann is responsible for the delivery of IT-Services to all pupils, teachers and staff in the City of Munich and for the design of the underlying infrastructure. To fulfill the service delivery portfolio in an efficient manner, the Department of Education is using Identity Management...

Jürgen Hein is chief architect of the identity and access management at Bayer HealthCare. He is responsible for design, architecture and the operative IAM system at Bayer HealthCare. He has been working as it-consultant, service delivery manager, service level manager and project manager...

Peter Heintzen leads the Oracle Identity Access Management presales team in Western Continental Europe. Since June 2006 he has been responsible for the Oracle Security Portfolio with focus on Identity Access Management.

Fabian Hermann is a researcher and consultant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Germany) in the field of human-computer interaction and usability engineering. Since 2008 he is the project coordinator for the Fraunhofer Challenge Project “augmented identity”...

John heads the Identity & Access Management Services in the Netherlands as well in the EMA region. John is specialized in both audit and advisory services in the field of identity and access management, user management, provisioning, authorization management, role based access control, role...

Klaus Hild beschäftigt sich seit 1988 in verschiedenen Rollen (als Admin, Programierer, Consultant) mit den Technologien von Novell/NetIQ. Seit 2005 arbeitet er als Systems Engineer bei Novell/NetIQ in Deutschland. In dieser Rolle verantwortet er die Unterstützung des Vertriebs mit...

Markus Hoffmeister was 18 when he founded his first company where he sold self-developed accounting software to construction companies and medical practices. While studying mathematics, he and his partners jointly set up the Media Factory that dealt with production and sales of Multimedia...

Niels is Director Market Development IAM at Beta Systems Software. He is a globally recognized IAM thought leader in the market and a very experienced Manager with balanced business and technical acumen. He received his diploma in electronic engineering at Technische Unversität Berlin and...

Jules graduated in applied economics. Since 2003, he is head of Inspection line at Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg

Wolfgang Jodl works as a Solution Architect for the central IT department at BMW Group. In his function he is responsible for BMW´s global directory services, identity infrastructures and federation services. For Odette he is managing the "Services Standards for the Automotive"...

Michael B. Jones is a Standards Architect at Microsoft. He is an editor of the OpenID Connect specifications, several IETF OAuth specifications, including JSON Web Token (JWT) , the IETF JOSE (JSON cryptography) specifications, and the FIDO 2.0 specifications.  He serves on the...

Audun Josang is Professor of Informatin Security at the University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in BRisbane, Australia. Before that he was Research Leader of IT security at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre in Brisbane and also worked for Acatel...

Dave spent 10 years as a network manager, ending up as Information Services Manager for the former Thomas-Conrad Corporation (now part of Compaq ). In 1987, he was a founding SysOp of Novell's Novell Support Connection service on Compuserve and served as the first president of the Association...

Sampo Kellomäki is the chief architect of Symlabs Federated Identity Access Manager , Directory Extender 3.0 and co-founder of Symlabs. He is the main driving force behind the creation of Directory Extender 3.0 and the suite of solutions built around it. Prior to founding Symlabs, he held...

Berthold studied economics and computer science at the University of Nürnberg and graduated in 1988. Berthold has been with Deutsche Bank AG since 2002 where he performed in different roles: CIO for access channels or major IT Transformation, IT Strategy, Change Management and Governance...

Ralf Knöringer is the head of the competence center IAM at Atos which includes the global responsibility for the DirX product suite. Ralf has more than 20 years of professional experience in the international security market. His main focus areas are Identity and Access Management, GRC and...

Jochen Koehler is the Regional Director for the DACH region at CyberArk. Jochen brings with him over 13 years of experience within the IT industry with a proven track record of successful go-to-market strategies for innovative IT solutions, especially in Identity Management and the IT security...

André Koot is Security Manager at a large Dutch insurance company and responsible for strategic security policy and security architecture. He has been involved in Information Security for 15 years and is the chief editor for the Dutch magazine Informatiebeveiliging ("Information...

André Kudra is project manager of Deutsche Bank's project "Gatekeeper", a global initiative that coordinates the user account and access rights recertification of more than 500 business-critical applications. Since 2006, he has been supporting Deutsche Bank in different project...

Dr. Kuhlmann plays a key role in the continued development Omada’s solutions, including the award-winning Omada Identity Manager solution that is built entirely on the Microsoft platform and integrates with Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager to provide a robust solution for Compliance...

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...

Jürgen’s goal is to turn neXus into the number one in identity management for converged access. As founder and CEO of vps ID Systems, Jürgen has comprehensive experience in both the logical and physical access segments. As a mastermind in the ID sector and more than 20 years of...

Liam joined eBay in May of 2002, where he was Security Architect in the Architecture group. He served as Chief Security Architect for eBay marketplaces and consulted for marketplaces adjacencies. He created the security framework for the Java platform, Payment Gateway, Billing, and Customer...

Philip Lieberman, founder and president of Lieberman Software, has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry. In addition to his proficiency as a software engineer, Mr. Lieberman is an astute entrepreneur able to perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill...

K-P joined is responsible for centralized identity lifecycle and access management solution, that controls access rights to over 200 applications in in Nokia and to more than 150.000 access roles in these. Before joining Nokia in 2005, K-P had worked 10 yeas as management consultant as well as...

Karin Loleit has more than ten years experience in IT-security and IT-security management. From 2000 until March 2009 she managed complex IT-security projects with BDG GmbH & Co KG, where she worked as a Senior Security Consultant. In April 2009 she joined the team of Nexus Technology GmbH...

Christoph, a mathematician turned computer scientist, is Research and Technology Manager of Pensive S.A. He did his doctorate at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, working about cryptography and computer algebra; during that time he was also involved in several PKI development...

Dr. Klaus Lüttich has been working for bos since 2007 in the area of authentication and identity management. Since 1999 bos is a software enterprise that develops and implements e-government solutions. Our main focus is on secure data transport and digital signatures.

Olivier Maas is working for Atos Worldline's R&D department as a project manager on digital identity management. He is designing innovative implementation of IM technology applied on secure payments and services. On the FC² project he is responsible for managing the relationship with the...

Eve Maler is a Distinguished Engineer in PayPal’s Identity Services group, where she drives the development of security and identity strategies for enabling consumer choice in permissioning of personal data sharing. Eve was one of the inventors of XML; she also co-founded the SAML...

Jürgen Mannheim has been EMEA Business Development Manager for Covisint a subsidiary of Compuware Cooperation since December 2008. Prior joining Covisint Mannheim worked as Business Development Manager Automotive and as Regional Manager Systems Engineering for Sun Microsystems in Germany....

After graduating in Electrical Engieering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen/Nuremberg, Thomas Mansyreff worked as a system engineer in the communications division of Siemens. From January 2000 to September 2004 he introduced IAM solutions for various customers as a Consultant for...

Upendra Mardikar has over 17 years of experience holding senior management and chief technology positions in financial services and computer industries. With patents issued to his credit, Mardikar is an expert in Information and Application Security and has been a speaker at various industry...

Tobias has been developer at the Computing Center (URZ) University of Basel, Switzerland since 2003. Project-leader IDM migration, working on web-applications, federative SSO.

Vesna Martinovic is currently Head of IT process management unit in Komercijalna Banka, Serbia's largest bank. She is with Komercijalna Banka for over 10 years where she began her career as db administrator, and developed to the system architect and project manager. Vesna’s major...

Ian McCaw is Managing Director of IM Global, a specialist European consultancy that has delivered some of the largest Identity Management implementations over the last 5 years. Ian was Technical Director for Thor Technologies, Identity Management Director at Oracle and been pivotal in managing...

James McGovern is an industry thought blogger and Enterprise Architect for The Hartford. He is the co-author of the bestselling books: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall) and Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (Springer). James is a frequent speaker at industry...

Director, Managed Identity Business in Europe, Middle East & Africa for Global Transaction Services at Citi. Sabine joined the Citi Technology organisation in 2000, as a Senior Programme Manager, responsible for a number of regional business initiatives. In 2006, Sabine moved to the EMEA...

Prateek Mishra, PhD, is director of identity management standards at Oracle Corporation. He has been active in the development of identity management standards over the past decade and played a key role in the creation of the SAML standard. At Oracle, he leads a team of architects focusing on...

Abdi Mohammadi received a Diploma in "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology" from Univercity of Applied Sciences München, Germany in 1992. He is currently Principal Field Technologist  at Sun Microsystems. He led courses for CAD/CAE, UNIX, TCP/IP networking,...

After graduating in Computer Science in 1989, Michael first worked as research engineer, consultant, and project manager at Siemens Corporate Research and Technology and then since 2007 at Nokia Siemens Networks. He is a security expert with more than 10 years experience on the variuos aspects...

Anthony Nadalin is a partner architect in the Government Engagement Team leading the Standards and Public Policy practice. Anthony had spent the last 27 years with IBM where he was the Chief Security Architect responsible for the security strategy for software group products. Anthony...

Axel was a founder and board member of the Information Card Foundation and he served on the board of the OpenID Foundation. His dayjob allows him to work on user-centric identity, enterprise identity management and identity in service architectures. He contributes to W3C working groups and OIDF...

Alberto Ocello is a CrossIdeas founder and Chief Executive Officer. He was formerly the General Manager at Engiweb Security where he designed and led the product innovation of the IDEAS platform. Prior to Engiweb, Alberto served as Chief Architect on application security and military security...

Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity and Security Management Group. He is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for identity-enabled and Open Source technologies. Dale was the lead designer and implementor of Novell Directory...

Christian (born 1976) is the Director of Product Management – Oracle Fusion Middleware in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is working for Oracle Development since beginning of 2007. In this Role he is the local representative of Oracle's Identity & Access Management & IoT...

Pat Patterson is a principal engineer in Sun Microsystems' identity management product group. Pat has been working on Internet security and identity management since 1997, joining Sun in 2000 as an engineering manager in the Trustbase secure Web services team. After a four-year stint in product...

Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus is KuppingerCole Scientific Advisor and a former KuppingerCole Senior Analyst. Sachar was 8 years with SAP in leading security positions, responsible for Secure Software Development, Security Product Management, and Security of the Corporation (Chief Security Officer). He...

Dr. Oliver Pfaff holds architectural responsibility and is the head of a development team charged with the conceptual design and realization of a security product for SOA environments. Oliver's team is appointed with several deliverables including the Siemens realization of the security...

Darren Platt is CTO of Symplified and a recognized expert on identity management. He co-authored the AuthXML specification, which was the precursor to the SAML identity federation standard. He has served as Senior Director of Technology for Ping Identity where he managed the company’s...

Ludovic Poitou is the OpenDS community manager and a directory architect at Sun Microsystems. Ludo has been involved with directory services since 1991 and has been developing Sun's directory products since 1995. Mr Poitou is a regular presenter of LDAP, directory services, and OpenDS at...

Michel is a world-renowned software developer, and a serial entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of Radiant Logic. In the IAM space, he is the co-inventor of the virtual directory category and context representation/semantics in Identity Management and Databases, holding multiples patents....

Andrea Pugnaloni is Key Account Manager at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Energy&Utilities Division, and is responsible for sales and pre-sales activities of the Engineering Group for the ENEL customer. In 1983 he obtained a master degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of...

Brian Puhl is a Principal Enterprise Architect for Microsoft IT’s Identity & Access Management team. He is responsible for strategy and architecture of internal IAM technologies servicing Microsoft’s 250,000 users, as well as supporting customer and partner facing businesses as...

Rakesh Radhakrishnan is a Sr. Principle Architect in the Communications Market Area of Sun. He has covered Telecom Companies, Network Equipment Providers (NEP), Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Service Provider accounts in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America. He has over 15 years of...

Thomas Reeb ist seit 1. Februar 2008 Vorstand Marketing Sales der econet AG. Daneben entwickelt Thomas Reeb ROI-Modelle und statistische Methoden für Data-Mining-Anwendungen. Vor seinem Eintritt in das Unternehmen war Thomas Reeb von 1992-95 IT-Consultant bei Cosmos Consulting. Ab...

Joerg Resch is Co-Founder & Managing Director at KuppingerCole. He looks back on over 20 years of experience in Identity Management related projects and their implementation in large corporations. His areas of expertise are blockchain and digital transformation.

Klaus Reuther joined KOGIT GmbH in 2005, where he serves as a Solution Architect. His responsibilities within the Professional Services team include Customer Consultancy as well as Design and Implementation of IAM solutions. With KOGIT, he worked in a number of large customers’...

Eleni Richter is chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at EnBW. She is responsible for design and architecture of a next generation identity management system at EnBW. She has been working as it-security manager, it-consultant, it-system designer and project...

Bavo is an architect with a special interest for identity management, enterprise architecture and information security. In these subject fields he is currently working on identity relationship modeling, authorization architectures and defining criteria for resilient architectures. Bavo has...

Erik Rissanen is the CTO of Axiomatics AB, a Swedish company specializing in attribute based access control based on the XACML standard. Erik Rissanen has many years of experience in XACML and is the editor for the upcoming 3.0 version of the standard.

Lise has got 10 years of experience in IT Service Management and holds a master in Business Administration & Information Technology. Have within the last 3,5 years focused on the corporate solution for Identity Management including License Management within ECCO Sko A/S.

Sebastian Rohr has been active as author of multiple articles, reviews and essays on all kinds of security topics. Having a ten year record in IT with a background in network & systems management, network security and PKI he started his career with Siemens ICN in 1998. To get a deeper...

Mr. Darran Rolls is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer and at SailPoint, where he is responsible for directing the company’s technology strategy and security operations.  Mr. Rolls has a long history in identity management and security at companies...

Dr. Ron Rymon serves as Vice President for Strategy, in CA Security Business Unit since 2008. Prior to CA, Ron was Founder of Eurekify, the pioneer and leading provider of role & compliance management solutions, where he filled management roles ranging from R&D, to product management, to...

Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He has been an early participant of decentralization movements such as the Federated Social Web, Respect Network, and...

John Sabo is Director, Global Government Relations for CA, Inc., providing expertise in the use of security and privacy technologies in trusted infrastructures. Mr. Sabo is very active in industry-focused cyber security and critical infrastructure protection initiatives. He is a board member...

Babak Sadighi has a PhD in Computer Science from Department of Computing, Imperial College, London. He was   until august 2008, a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and the leader of Computer Security Laboratory at that institute. Babak has many years of R&D...

Anil Saldhana is the lead security architect at the JBoss Division of Red Hat Inc. He is a frequent speaker at conferences/workshops on topics related to Security. He represents Red Hat Inc on security related committees at the W3C, Oasis and the Java Community Process (JCP). He is the co-chair...

Wolfgang Schlegel is member of the board at MODCOMP Consulting AG. He has more than 20 years of experiences in directory based networks and Identity Management. He was involved into many projects as consultant for architecture and directory design as well as responsible for directories in Merger...

Jan Schmidt is working in the field of IT Security since his studies at the University of Saarland where he did his diploma thesis on electronic payment systems in 1998. Jan Schmidt has held positions at Siemens-Nixdorf, debis and Sirrix. At T-Systems Jan Schmidt is working as Senior Consultant,...

Ben has 6 years experience as an IT specialist. During the last 3 years he was within the security sector, mainly in the area of Identity and Access Management. During his career, he gained experience in the design and implementation of it-architectures, proposal preparation and international...

Carsten Schwarz studied computer science at University Bonn and Humboldt-University Berlin, and mathematics in Hagen. He has a strong background in the fields of smartcards and cryptography and is currently a Product Architect at Bundesdruckerei GmbH, being responsible for SW-Platforms and...

Ludwig Seitz has a PhD in Computer Science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Lyon, France. He was a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) until June 2008 when he joined Axiomatics. His research interests are access control, information...

Jackson Shaw is Senior Director of Product Management for One Identity, the Identity & Access Management (IAM) business of Quest Software. Prior to Quest, Jackson was an integral member of Microsoft’s IAM product management team within the Windows Server Marketing group at Microsoft....

Steve defines the vision and overall business strategy for UnboundID. He is inter-nationally recognized as a trusted adviser on identity and security issues for Global 100 companies. At Sun Microsystems, he served as Technical Director and Chief of Staff for the Identity Management product...

Mike Small is the retired director of security management strategy of CA, where he was responsible for the technical strategy for CA's security management software product line within Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mike did work for CA between 1994 and 2009, where he developed CA’s...

Marco Smeja, born 1973; the business data processing specialist started his career at Novell. He held several positions in marketing, sales and business development. He completed several trainings and has comprehensive management experiences in national and international sales teams. Equipped...

Dr. Jürgen Spitzner worked since 1992 at Novell and other companies in the area of User- and Identity & Security Management. He occupied different positions as trainer, consultant, practice lead, manager for the network & server department and IT-architect in several branches of...

Chris Sullivan, Vice President of Customer Solutions, heads both the Solutions Engineering and Customer Management areas for Courion Corporation. Chris is also responsible for building a sales consulting capability and defining and institutionalizing implementation methodologies to ensure...

Deepak Taneja is the Founder and CTO of Aveksa, a security compliance software company. Prior to founding Aveksa, he was CTO and VP of Engineering at Netegrity. In this role, he was instrumental in growing the company into the market leader in Identity and Access Management. Previously he...

Han Tanis has the Dutch nationality and studied Health Policy and Management and Architecture at the universities of Rotterdam and Delft. J.E.P. (Han) Tanis (1973) worked at OZ Health Insurance successively as Financial analyst, manager Knowledge Center and manager ICT. In 2002 he was appointed...

Paul Trevithick is the CEO of Azigo (formerly known as Parity), a company committed to simplifying and securing life on the Internet by giving people more control over their digital footprint: their accounts, profiles, and relationships with friends and businesses they trust. Azigo also offers...

Peter has been internationally active for over 20 years as a consultant, architect and program manager in the IT integration field, particularly on identity management and SOA. He is the author of several publications, including a book on identity management. He frequently speaks at seminars...

Marc is CEO and Founder of TrustBuilder Corporation, recently transformed into a product company from IAM integrator SecurIT, with over 30 years of experience in ICT with large organizations around networking, systems development and infrastructure solutions. Prior to creating SecurIT in 1999,...

Giovanni Verhaeghe is Director Market & Product Strategy at VASCO Data Security. Giovanni joined VASCO in 2000 and held different global management positions within the company including Project Management, Product Management and Market & Product Strategy. Prior to VASCO Data Security...

Erich Vogel Computacenter AG & Co oHG has been responsible for the Identity Management Consulting group of Computacenter Germany for the past 7 years. He is leading a team of 21 consultants offering supplier independent consulting for IAM solutions and has been in the market since the...

Marko Vogel is a Partner in KPMG’s Cyber Security practice in Germany and has over fifteen years of experience conducting Advisory engagements related to Information Security, Cyber Security, Security Risk Management and Privacy. Prior to working with KPMG, Marko worked as an IT Security...

Eric Voss is Vice President of Partner Sales, AXSionics AG, Biel, Switzerland. During his professional lifetime he spent 10 years in the German Airforce being a Technlcal Officer for the Tornado Fighter Aircraft. While in the forces he studied Aerospace Engineering in the Armed Forces...

Eckhard Völcker began his career as independent software developer in 1981. In 1983 , he joined Philips Kommunikations AG, serving the company as a product manager. He was also a technical supervisor for CPS System Integration in Berlin, the managing director of Krone Netzwerkservices, and...

2002: Graduation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich Since 2003: Employment at Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing) Since 2004: Project Manager Public Key Infrastrukture of the Bavarian Public...

Marina Walser (born 1967) holds the position of Director Business Development, Identity & Security Management. In this role she leads the development of strategic partnerships with Consulting, Implementation and Technology Partners in EMEA. This includes the identification of potential...

Dr. Horst Walther, born 1951 in Berlin, works as a interim manager, management consultant and independent technical advisor for more than 30 years. His expertise focuses on the business to technology interface. At KuppingerCole he covers the domain of IAM-processes, roles, rules & policies...

Steffo Weber currently works as an architect (Identity Management) at Sun. Steffo studied Computing Sciences in Bonn and Dortmund, Germany and holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science. He started as a security specialist at debis IT Security Sevices in 1997. In 2000 he started working for...

Patrick Wehinger joined KOGIT in 2004 where he serves as a Solution Architect. His responsibilities within the Professional Services team include Customers Consultancy, Development of Design and Concepts for Identity Management Solutions as well as Implementation of these. With KOGIT, he...

Peter Weierich, born in 1964, studied Computer Science and Medical Informatics in Erlangen. Since 2006 he is Head of Marketing and Sales at Völcker Informatik AG.

Rudolf Wildgruber, graduated in computer science at the Technical University Munich in 1980 and worked for nearly 10 years for a medium-sized HW/SW manufacturer as systems engineer. From October 1991 until February 2004 he worked as project manager in the Directory and Metadirectory development...

29 Years of experience in communications technology for various international operators and suppliers. Besides various consulting activities we are currently in the process of funding a company to assert trust to all kinds of communication related identities.