Keynote Speakers

Mo Ahddoud is a security expert who is currently serving as the Chief Information Security Officer at SGN, which manages and operates over 74,000 km of gas mains and services in Scotland and the south of England. Prior to coming to SGN, Mo acted as the International IT Security Lead at NBC...

Carmine has been InfoCert’s Chief Innovation Officer since 2015 where he’s responsible for Innovation, Marketing, Compliance, New Products Development, Strategic Planning and International development. In June 2017 Carmine was elected Deputy Chairman of the Board of...

Ian Bailey was appointed as the Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Information Officer for the Justice Sector on Dec 11, 2017. Previously Ian was Assistant Deputy Minister for the Office of the Chief Information Officer and oversaw the delivery of all IT shared services for the BC Government...

Heiko Beier is an expert in Smart Data, semantic Information- and Knowledge Management, as well as an entrepreneur of the "early internet era", he is a highly-esteemed customer consultant when it comes to designing new digital business models out of content strategies and applications. Heiko...

Joni Brennan is the President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). Building upon 15 years of hands on experience in Identity Access Management innovations and industry standards development, Joni helps the DIACC to fulfill its vision of organizing Canadian market...

Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl is Head of the Department of Information Systems Engineering & Financial Management at the University of Augsburg since August 1994. Moreover, he is the Academic Director of the Research Center Finance & Information Management funded by the Bavarian State...

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.

Joy Chik is Corporate Vice President for the Identity Division in Microsoft’s Cloud + Enterprise group.  Her teams are responsible for Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Account (MSA), Microsoft Graph, Information Protection and Forefront Identity Management suites...

Dr. Torsten George is a product evangelist at Centrify and frequent speaker on cyber security, identity and access management, as well as risk management strategies worldwide. He regularly provides commentary and byline articles for media outlets, covering topics such as data breaches, incident...

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...

As Microservices Evangelist, Tim Hobbs promotes and coordinates container-ready IAM and DevOps initiatives for iC Consult and its customers. Tim is the Cloud Architect for the iC Consult Group company Service Layers, providing customized IAM as a cloud service. Tim has nearly 20 years of...

Jeff Jonas is an acclaimed data scientist and privacy champion at the forefront of solving some of the world’s most complex business and big data challenges. Jonas is the creator of entity resolution systems that extract useful intelligence from tsunamis of data. Formerly an IBM Fellow and...

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...

Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is CTO of yes.com, a startup building an identity scheme for banks and their customers. Before joining yes.com, he served for a decade in different roles at Deutsche Telekom’s identity team, building and operating large-scale consumer identity services. In his...

Eve Maler (@xmlgrrl) is VP of Innovation & Emerging Technology in ForgeRock's Office of the CTO. She is a renowned strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a focus on fostering successful ecosystems and individual empowerment. Eve...

René is a senior manager in the Identity team of PwC Europe with almost 10 years of experience as an Identity Architect and an early adopter of blockchain technology. He believes in taking a holistic view at the adoption of technology bringing together stakeholders from different...

Dr. Sridhar Muppidi is an IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer in IBM Security Systems. He leads the technical strategy, architecture and Research for IBM Security, focused on Digital Identity & Fraud Protection, Identity & Access Management, Application & Data, Mobile & Cloud...

Ralf Oestereich is on a mission to transform enterprises and to support individuals in our digital era. Trained in computer science and economy he gained unique insights in over 20+ years working in and on transformations of companies like SIEMENS, ATOS and IBM. His experiences include the...

Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID, founded in June of 2004. Mr. Parker studied the intersection of role-based access control and workflow automation after extensive leadership in the development of innovative SharePoint web parts to securely delegate administration and...

Naresh Persaud is the Senior Director of Security at CA Technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in security and identity management across roles encompassing engineering, architecture and business development. As a solutions architect and product manager, he has devoted much of his...

Lukas Praml holds a Master’s degree from the University of Vienna and held different positions in project management and business development while he implemented the new Austrian passport with integrated chip in a leading position and simultaneously added the ability to personalize ID...

Jason leads Gigya's global marketing initiatives. He has experience in marketing technology platforms and applications for both start-ups and large enterprises. Most recently, Jason led marketing at DataSift, and prior to that led business intelligence and advanced analytics marketing efforts at...

Markku Rossi has close to 25 years of software engineering and architecture experience. At SSH.COM he is responsible for R&D and directs the company’s technology strategy. Markku has extensive knowledge and experience with SSH Communications Security products, having served the company...

Doc Searls is author of  The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge  (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), co-author of  The Cluetrain Manifesto  (Basic Books, 2000 and 2010), one of the world's best-known and widely read bloggers and tweeters, and...

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....

Jacoba Sieders is an all-round digital identity- and information security expert. She has 18 years of experience in consultancy, development and strategy in the area of digital identity and Access Control. Before joining ABNAMRO as the leading expert for digital identity and access control...

Christopher has 15 years of experience leading adoption of virtualization and cloud technologies in highly regulated environments across healthcare and telecom. Christopher is currently Senior Architect in T-Mobile's Cloud Center of Excellence, where he drives research and development of...