Speakers

Identity and privacy-preserving cryptography researcher at Edinburgh Napier University. I believe digital tools for relationship and information management that enable verification of the source, validity and integrity of communication have a key role to play in ensuring individual freedom is...

Sami is a software industry veteran with over 20 years of experience from global sales, business development, and product management. Sami knows SSH well, having worked at SSH in executive positions in 1998-2002 and 2012-2015 both in Finland and the US. Sami has also served as an executive,...

Dr. Guillaume Aimetti received his B.Sc. with honors in Music Systems Engineering from the University of the West of England and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield in 2011. His doctorate research involved applying Machine Learning techniques to the problem of...

James graduated from the University of St. Gallen and has more than 20 years of professional experience in the brand and retail sector focused on global marketing, product, sales and strategy roles at British American Tobacco, The Swatch Group and Swarovski. At present, James addresses...

I am a cybersecurity researcher, instructor, and technology geek. I am best known for my work on Program Analysis and Software Testing; however, I have also worked on Cryptography and Smart Contracts (see my Publications for more details). For the last 1 year, I have been working on my own...

Anne Bailey is an analyst covering emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, and helps synthesize the implications for companies, industries, and markets.She holds a Bachelor from Pacific Lutheran University, a Master’s Certificate from Johns Hopkins-Nanjing...

Emin is specialized in robotics process automation(RPA), lean six sigma, business process improvement techniques in the Global CoE department of ING. He is an expert on identity and access management, security guidelines of robot accounts and setting up global RPA policies within ING. Next to...

Alexei is an analyst with specific focus on cybersecurity. His deep technical understanding allows him to support customers even with complex architectural and security challenges. Previously he has served as KuppingerCole's CTO. After graduating with an MSc degree in Mathematics and...

Tim joined ForgeRock in February 2017, heading up the Telecoms & Media Industry practice globally. In 2019 he took over the helm running ForgeRock in the EMEA region. Tim has 30+ years experience working in technology orientated companies in a variety of senior management roles and...

Genc Begolli is a security expert with a proven track record in digital transformation. Within the AUDI security team he is responsible for the worldwide CIAM transformation program including innovations, business process alignment, new product integration and international rollout which are...

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Dr. George Beridze joined KuppingerCole in 2017. Currently he is a Practice Lead for Artificial Intelligence and also a Project Manager with the focus on AI, Cybersecurity and Blockchain Identity. George previously worked as a Research Scientist at various institutions in Germany and Europe. In...

Gerald  Beuchelt  as the Chief Information Security Officer at LogMeIn is responsible for the company’s  overall security, compliance, and technical privacy program.  With more than 20 years of experience working in information...

Sebastian Bickerle is a Software Engineer at main incubator GmbH, Commerzbank’s Research&Development Unit. For the last two years he’s been working in Commerzbank’s Blockchain Lab, where he actively developed several prototypes based on DLT technologies. Most of...

Richard Bird is the chief customer information officer for Ping Identity. He is a cyber security ambassador, identity-centric security expert, voice of the customer and an advisor to the global marketplace on solutions for the most challenging business issues faced in today’s world....

Marisa Monteiro Borsboom is the president of the Humanity of Things Agency and representing this same organization as a member of the CEPS Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity. Legal Entrepreneur - Founder and Partner  of the Inov@legal, in Portuguese Institute for...

Jan-Joost stumbled into IT almost 20 years ago, starting on a temp job for 5 days that lasted 7 years. During these 20 years he has been mostly on the functional and process side of things, having worked as tester, designer, information analyst, project manager, application manager, change...

Adam Bowering is a policy advisor who has been working for Claude Moraes MEP for four years, during his time as Vice-President of the S&D Group and Chair of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE). He advises on matters related to security and...

Andre is responsible for positioning SecureKey’s growth strategy, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and promoting demand for the company’s solutions globally. He serves as SecureKey’s digital identity evangelist. He has been recognized as a global leader in...

Mr. Bradley is an Identity Management subject matter expert and IT professional with a diverse background. Mr. Bradley has over 15 years experience in the information technology and identity management field. Mr. Bradley advises Government Agencies and commercial organizations on the policy and...

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...

Julien Bringer, PhD, is the CEO of KALLISTECH, expert consultant in security, cryptography, biometrics, identity, privacy, blockchain technologies and innovation, in particular on crypto/fintech, eHealth, identity and IoT areas. He has been one of the co-founders of SMART VALOR, a VC-backed...

As Director of Innovation within ATB Financial, Mike and the Innovation team are reimagining the future of ATB and how it can make banking work for Albertans. Mike currently leads ATB’s efforts around blockchain, where he actively is identifies and manages opportunities to pilot and...

Artur Burgardt as educated physicist is Managing Partner at CORE SE, a Technology Think Tank with focus on analysis of technological impact based on empirical learnings and market insights, management of business-critical technology transformations and assessment of technology-driven decisions...

Peter works for the Bosch Mobility Think Tank reporting to the Board of Management of the Bosch Group. He and his team are working on the future Connectivity Strategies for the Mobility Business Units of the Bosch Group and as consultants for the Executive Board. He has 25+ years of experience...

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....

Juan Caballero is an identity technologist who has spent years studying how identity systems can be built that decentralize power while honoring the data rights and obligations of individuals, organizations, legal persons, governments, and software. He has worked extensively in various sectors...

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

Joseph Carson is an award-winning cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise security specialising in blockchain, endpoint security, network security, application security & virtualisation, access controls and privileged account...

Prof David Chadwick has been working in identity management for over 20 years and has written over a 100 papers on the topic. He was the chief architect and designer of the PERMIS open source authorisation system that supported SAML and X.509 attribute certificates. More recently he has been an...

Joy Chik leads engineering for Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar Identity business that is building greater security and mobility into consumer and enterprise technologies that billions of people rely on every day . Since declaring itself a “mobile first, cloud first” company...

As Director of Strategy for WALLIX, Didier Cohen is responsible for developing strategic alliances for the group. He has spent most of his career in the IT & Telecommunications industry, holding executive positions in sales and marketing for companies such as Nokia and Oberthur Technologies...

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...

Adam Cooper is an identity standards expert, policy lead, and enterprise architect with over 25 years of experience in IT and digital disciplines. Adam is currently Chief Architect for ID2020 and a technical consultant to the World Bank ID4D programme, as well as acting in an advisory...

Marco is an Applied Technology Innovation Manager, responsible for exploring, engineering and implementing new technologies such as Blockchain, IoT and API Management. He has been with Novartis since 2005. For the last two years, his focus has been on Blockchain and exploring various use cases...

Heather C. Dahl is widely-respected as a thought leader in technology and media with over 25 years of strategic leadership experience in newsrooms, multinational corporations, and high-tech startups. Since becoming CEO in 2018, Heather has led the Sovrin Foundation through its most significant...

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...

Ewan Dawson is the Head of Engineering at Symphonic Software. He has 5 years experience building access control software, and developing integrated access control solutions for enterprise customers. In a previous career he worked in geoscience research and managed a global scientific data...

Pamela Dingle has 15 years of experience in implementation and architecture of identity standards for web access management, provisioning, and federation. As Director of Identity Standards at Microsoft, Pamela leads a team of experts dedicated to collaboration within the industry to imagine,...

David Doret is veteran cybersecurity and IAM expert. He held twice the CISO position, served as Corporate Risk Committee board member for financial institutions and spent several years leading a consulting practice for all sizes of clients in diverse industries. Today, he works as Deputy CISO...

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...

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...

Sara Farmer specializes in the marrying of identity governance strategy, implementation and subsequent evidencing as required by industry auditing trends. Sara has more than 15 years of experience in the Identity & Access Management space and has primarily focused on Access Operations...

Paul Fisher is a Senior Analyst who researches primarily on cybersecurity and identity and access management (IAM). He also studies trends in AI, IoT and data governance for different industry sectors including automotive. Paul is responsible for managing relevant quantitative research at...

George Fletcher currently serves as the Identity Standards Architect for Verizon Media Group supporting the partner and consumer sides of the business. He is a seasoned software architect with 25+ years of software development and architecture experience covering a wide variety of disciplines...

Fulup Ar Foll holds a Master in Computer Science from the Military French School ESAT. His career started with ten years of research on embedded operating systems. He then joined the Industry; taking on the technical direction of Wind-River in Europe before moving to Sun-Microsystems where he...

Dan is the Supply Chain Domain Architect at Novartis, responsible for IT standards and architecture direction as well as evaluation of emerging technologies. He has been at Novartis since 2002. He has 25 years of leadership and supply chain IT experience including the US Military, IT consulting,...

Naohiro Fujie, Deputy General Manager at ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation(CTC), has spent more than 17 years in the IT industry and primary focused on Enterprise Identity & Access Management and Enterprise Trust-Framework area including large scale auto-motive manufactor customer(330k+...

Evangelos (Vangelis) Gazis (PhD, MBA) is Chief Architect for IoT Security in Huawei’s Products and Solutions (P&S) organisation where he oversees the technology roadmap of common security capabilities for the IoT domain (i.e. IoT devices, IoT network, IoT gateways, and IoT cloud...

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...

Robin Goldstein is a Group Program Manager at Microsoft leading Customer Identity Access Management and B2B Collaboration for the Azure AD business. Formerly a Principal Engineering Manager in content and media services for the Windows and Devices Group, Robin was the first woman to serve in...

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...

Jennifer Haas joined KuppingerCole in 2015 and is Project Manager in the Event Management Team. She is responsible for different events with a topic focus on Consumer Identity and Marketing Technology, oversees the agenda and gets in contact with potential speakers.  Jennifer...

Hannes is an experienced analyst and researcher at Nixu Corporation focusing on consumer identity and access management. He is responsible for designing omnichannel digital identity solutions which bring real business value to customers eg. in retail, aviation, finance and government sectors.

Rolf is leading Swisscom's Identity and Access Management for the retail, business and wholesale customer segments and 3rd party sales channels. He developed the strategy and initiated the IAM program in 2016. He joined Swisscom in 2013 and transformed the mid-market segment form a...

Experienced IT professional with demonstrated leadership skills in program delivery and global strategic initiatives across different business environments in Europe, Asia and the US. Passionate about disruptive technologies (Blockchain, IoT, AI, big data, etc), transformational change, and...

Joseph is a seasoned software engineer & architect with over 25 years’ experience, who started writing mobile apps before mobile apps existed. In 2010 he co-founded a successful mobile software development consultancy based in Glasgow (UK). He is the Senior Architect at Authlete,...

Marcus Heizmann is Project Manager at Commerzbank’s inhouse consulting with a focus on digitization projects for corporate clients. For more than two years he is working at Commerzbank’s Blockchain/DLT Lab. Marcus’ focus topics in the Lab are cash/payments, capital markets and...

Gal is recognized as a specialist in cyber security with specific focus on identity and access management. In the past 16 years she has defined solutions to customers, wrote the project specs, technical documentation, presentations and training. Gal holds a B.Sc in Physics & Computer Science...

Richard Hill is Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole. He has 20 years of experience as an Identity & Access Management Solutions Architect, Systems Designer, and Engineer in the Aerospace, Manufacturing, and Social Networking industries. He is internationally known for his work on...

Andrew Hindle is an independent consultant specializing in digital identity, cybersecurity and privacy. He is a founding member of IDPro, for whom he serves on the Board and chairs the Editorial Committee. He participates as a voting member of the User-Managed Access Working Group at...

Bjorn Hjelm is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Verizon Corporate Technology organization with over 20 years of experience in network planning, architecture, and implementation of advanced communication systems. He is currently involved in various Mobile Identity projects as well as...

Gerald Horst joined PwC in 2016 as Partner and is leading PwC Europe’s Digital Identity team. Before joining PwC, Gerald held an executive position for over 15 years at Everett, a consulting and system integration firm specialized in IAM. Gerald is regarded as an authority on Consumer...

Hristomir has more than 13 years of experience in software development and architecture within different technological fields. For the past few years, he has been focusing on strategic implementations of the Microsoft Azure suite. These include designing different SaaS and PaaS solutions as well...

Riley Hughes is a leader in the self-sovereign identity community. As the second employee hired at the Sovrin Foundation, the leading governance influencer in the space, Riley established and led several teams. He started Streetcred ID to make implementing decentralized identity easy for...

Mika Huhtamäki,   Deputy Managing Director at Vastuu Group   of   Vastuu Group   Ltd,  is an innovative service development pioneer and sustainable data business enthusiast, responsible for developing and managing the public-private ecosystem in the real...

In 2019 Kashif Husain joined the Frankfurt office of Nomura, a Japan headquartered financial services group present in over 30 countries. In addition to his role as Information Security Officer, Kashif has also taken over Technology Governance responsibilities for the Continental European...

Steve “Hutch” Hutchinson is the Principal Identity Architect for GE Digital. After cutting his teeth in C/C++ software development and network engineering, Hutch spent a decade as an enterprise architect in the healthcare sector focused on security and network technologies. In his...

Martin Ingram is the Identity & Access Management Product Owner for RBS, in charge of transforming identity & access management for RBS to support new customer digital journeys and requirements such as PSD2.  Prior to RBS he has had a broad experience in security both from a...

Ph.D. in physics from TU München. 20+ years in cross-functional IT functions as CISO, CIO and consultant focussing on the business-IT transition. He initiated and took responsibility for several IGA and security projects in different companies, now working as a senior business advisor...

Léon Janson has been working within Risk management and IT at ING since the late nineties. He started at Credit Risk management where he developed and implemented a world-wide Credit Risk Reporting datawarehouse. Next he managed several IT Operations teams within the Retail bank. During...

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...

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...

John Jordan is the Executive Director of the BC Digital Trust Service. He is an experienced product executive and technology strategist with over 25 years of experience in both the private and public sectors. Currently, he is leading the Province of British Columbia’s participation in the...

Ishara is a senior technical lead and a key member of the WSO2 Identity Server team. He has been part of the WSO2 team for more than 8 years. Ishara specializes in the IAM domain. While providing technical leadership to the WSO2 Identity Server team, he works as an IAM advocate to WSO2 customers...

Nishant Kaushik is the CTO of Uniken, the first security platform that tightly integrates identity, authentication and channel security. He brings over 15 years of experience in the identity management industry architecting and delivering market leading products, with stints at Thor...

Alyssa Kelber is an Identity Engineer at Thomson Reuters; focusing on implementing enterprise SSO & MFA services. Alyssa has the unique experience of being trained on the job as an engineer, coming from a technical program management background. Alyssa is specifically interested in assisting...

Lukas is Co-Founder and CEO at Creatext , a Berlin-based natural language processing (NLP) company. Creatext develops automatic text writing software, which allows users to type in keywords and get back a full text talking about the entered keywords. Before Creatext, Lukas used statistics and...

Berthold studied economics and computer science at the University of Nürnberg and graduated in 1988. Berthold had 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...

Mike Kiser has held a panoply of industry positions over the past 20 years—from Security Strategist to Security Analyst to Security Architect. He has designed, directed, and advised on large-scale security deployments for a global clientele. He is currently in a long-term relationship with...

Dr. Heiko Klarl has been in Identity and Access Management for more than ten years. He is driven by the motivation to bridge the gap between business and IT in order to create holistic solutions spanning from the customer’s strategy to the technological implementation. He successfully...

Dr. Silvia Knittl is Senior Manager at PwC Germany in the Cyber Security domain with a strong focus on Identity & Access Governance. Her work covers digital identity strategy, roadmap and architecture design and data analysis. She has over 14 years of experience in IAM and started as an...

As Director of Partnerships, Holger is working with corporate partners to support IOTAs integration into proof of concepts as well as full product developments. Before joining the IOTA Foundation in 2018, he worked as Senior Director at Siemens and Atos to manage several global service deliveries.

Dr. Andre Kudra has 10+ years of in-depth professional experience in the information security sector, holding key roles in large-scale projects of major international organizations. He obtained his doctorate as well as his diploma in business administration from European Business School (EBS);...

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...

Teemu is the Nixu Cybersecurity lead IAM specialist focusing in consumer identity and access management. In his role he is responsible of designing and building omnichannel digital identity solutions which bring real business value to customers. Teemu has ten years of experience...

Robert Lapes is an Independent Identity Architect & Analyst. He was head of identity advisory services in Capgemini’s IAM practice in the UK. He is a chartered engineer with nearly 30 years of insight and lessons learnt in I.T. For more than ten years he has been working on assurance...

Kim works as a department manager at BEC a.m.b.a., a Danish, full-service IT house dating back to 1964. BEC has more than 50 years of experience in developing and operating IT systems for financial institutions operating in Denmark. Kim has more than 10 years of experience in management and...

Jon Lehtinen specializes in both the strategy and execution of Identity & Access Management transformation in global-scale organizations like General Electric, Apollo Education Group, and Thomson Reuters. He works to deliver Identity solutions that provide the bedrock for information...

Dave Lewis has over two decades of industry experience, including in IT security operations and management. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest and co-host of the Liquidmatrix podcast. Lewis serves on the advisory boards for Cortex Insight and Dateva Inc.

Ulrich Lichtenthaler is a Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at International School of Management (ISM) in Cologne, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. degree in technology management and further is an executive consultant, who has successfully completed over 20 digital transformation and AI...

Kurt Lieber is the CISO for Aetna, the Health Care Benefits division of CVS Health. In addition to his CISO responsibilities, he also has enterprise responsibility for Identity & Access Management, IT Hygiene and Third Party Risk Governance. Lieber has over 20 years of experience in...

Mark Lizar is a senior industry expert in consent, notice, global data protection and privacy law.  Mark works with industry groups and trade associations to create consent and notice standards that can be used globally. Co-Author of Consent Based Marketing, Editor and instigator of the...

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...

Darrell Long is VP of Product Management and Marketing at One Identity, leading the go-to market, marketing, product strategy and life-cycle efforts across the entire One Identity product portfolio. Darrell has over 25 years of experience in multiple industries and technologies, including...

Hugo brings 15 years of experience in delivering digital identity strategy and -solutions within retail banking, payments and telco’s. His key areas of expertise include omnichannel authentication, cross-channel fraud detection and digital onboarding. Hugo leads the Consumer Identity...

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...

Prof. Dr. Christoph von der Malsburg studied physics in Göttingen, Munich and Heidelberg and received his PhD there on his work at CERN in Geneva. After a longer period at the Neurobiology Department of the Max-Planck Institute in Göttingen, he taught as a Professor for Informatics and...

Sven is the leader of the platform team at Vipps. His job is to ensure that Vipps builds a solid, secure, and flexible foundation in Azure that the developers want to use. He has spoken at conferences like Microsoft Build, Javazone and various Meetup groups.

Dr. Barbara Mandl is a FOSTER FORE Advisor  with a focus on topics related to the CISO role in large enterprises. Her previous role was Group CISO at Daimler until May 2017; She was also responsible for Global Identity and Access Management at Daimler and Security Architecture. Dr....

Henk Marsman is Lead Product Manager for Identity and Access Management at Rabobank, a top three bank in the Netherlands. He’s responsible for the cohesion and service orientation of the IAM services and works with the IAM product owners in Rabobank to materialize the vision and strategy....

Multi-Year Experience in regulatory Identity & Access Management projects

Jelle Millenaar is focusing on the development and positioning of Digital Identity at the IOTA Foundation. ince discovering IOTA while working as an Innovation Consultant at VX Company, he has been active in the IOTA community. Leading a small team of trainees, they created several...

Frank works as IAM architect at BEC a.m.b.a., a Danish company that specializes in IT development and operations for the banking sector in Denmark. Frank is responsible for the access management process, automation, helping the business embrace identity and access management as well as making...

Mr. Moriyama is Senior Director of Product Innovation, Product Department at NTT DOCOMO, INC. and responsible for the innovation of its devices and platform software. He is also responsible for the partnerships that support NTT DOCOMO’s innovation goals, including those related to FIDO...

Dr. Sridhar Muppidi is an IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer at IBM Security. He leads the technical strategy, architecture and Research for IBM Security, focused on both securing digital transformations as well as security threat & fraud management. He is a technical leader with 20...

Sanjay founded Tuebora with the firm belief that application of Machine Learning and use of Natural Language interface to IAM can significantly reduce costs, boost organization productivity, enable better security and eliminate burden of administration.  His desire for innovation in this...

Michele Nati, PhD has 15 years of experience in the fields of data and IoT, working on research and development and recently on innovation in a number of roles, from Academia to SMEs to government organisations. During his career he pioneered and touched all the technologies and aspects that...

Thorsten has more than 20 years’ experience within the field of Directory Technologies, Identity Management and Data Privacy. As a technical trainer, consultant and developer he co-developed one of the first Identity Management Solutions which was fully driven by Entity-Relationship...

Dr. Manreet Nijjar is a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine at Health NHS trust and an NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow. He co-founded Truu a company that specialises in digital trust, credentialing and creating a digital passport for healthcare workers and a...

Matthieu is a member of Consensys strategic sales team, focused on building blockchain business networks with Enterprises and Governments. In addition, Matthieu is global advisor for payment initiatives.

Steve Pannifer is a director of Consult Hyperion as well as being an identity technology and security expert. Steve works with banks, mobile operators and leading technology companies on digital identity strategy covering all aspects of digital identity – commercial, technical and...

Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID and has over 20 years’ experience in identity management. With a research background in evolutionary biology and genetics, Mr. Parker applied scientific methods and principles to develop a novel role and attribute-based access control and...

Patricia is curious and fascinated with what is important to people, this has shaped her determination to help building a high-performance team, that makes a difference to people's lives. Known for helping, managing and supporting colleagues, Patricia worked 10 years in IT Operations Support...

Florian Pennings works for Microsoft as EU Cybersecurity Policy Manager. He believes that industry collaboration and multi-stakeholder management is important to ensure strong cybersecurity and that it requires constant engagement and open discussions. Before joining Microsoft, he worked at the...

I have been working as a Researcher and Cyber Security Evangelist, I worked for 4 years as a Cyber Security Specialist at Trend Micro in São Paulo-Brazil, also served as University Professor for Information Security Courses - Graduate and Postgraduate (FIAP/UNIBTA - Brazil). Postgraduate...

Andre Priebe is CTO of the iC Consult Group, a vendor-independent system integrator at the leading edge of Identity & Access Management. With more than 15 years of experience in managing IAM projects, he is responsible for product portfolio management and ensures that iC Consult continuously...

Xavier is Product Manager of the decentralized identity solution VidChain at Validated ID. Telecommunications Engineer at UPC Barcelona and Master of Information Security at Télécom Paris, he has more than 15 years of experience working in identity-related projects, from Security...

Lorenzo Pupillo is an Associate Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Cybersecurity @CEPS Initiative. In this role, he promotes research, events, collaborative efforts on the economics and policy of cybersecurity with the European institutions and other think tanks and universities...

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...

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...

Martyn Roberts is Founder, Technical Lead and product manager at Squareball, a product studio and consultancy from Berlin. He is leading teams who define, design and develop products, applications and digital services for startups as well as global organizations. His interests include...

Loren has spent his career working in Taiwan, Utah, California, Boston and Colorado building high-performing teams that plan, develop and deliver some of the best software and cloud services in the world. His broad functional expertise spans product lifecycle management, program management,...

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...

Nat Sakimura is a well-known identity and privacy standardization architect and the Chairman of the OpenID Foundation. He is a co-author of many of the frequently used international standards such as OpenID Connect, JWT, JWS, OAuth PKCE, etc. He is currently editing ISO/IEC 29184 Guidelines for...

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...

As a Sales Engineer on Customer Identity and Access Management, Oscar is a trusted advisor for Ubisecure partners and customers. With over 15 years in the technology arena, he has worked in information security, product management and business development roles. He is an active member of...

Mike J Schmidt is a senior SME in Identity and Access Management and global data protection. Mike works with clients in Financial Industry, Retail and Government to advise them in Data Privacy, Identity Management,  Cloud Authentication, and Privileged Access Management. Recently he is...

Born over 600 years ago in the highlands of southern Bavaria, Ingo had enough time to look into manual labor to quickly figure out that IT Security is the place to be. Over 16 years ago he joined RSA and did mostly identity and crypto stuff and now specializes in RSA SecurID Access. A...

Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cyber Security and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Cloud Security at an auditing company and working at two integrators for identity and access management. He has provided clients...

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 former...

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...

Gil Shulman is Illusive Networks’ VP of Products. Gil has over 20 years’ experience in the technology industry focusing on cyber defense. Before joining Illusive Networks, Gil worked with a wide variety of market-leading companies, from Check Point Software, where he led the...

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...

Mark De Simone is an energizing global CXO and entrepreneur for innovative businesses . He is leading the Industrial Cybersecurity Practice for the WALLIX focusing on vulnerability challenges of Industry 4.0 and the interaction between OT and IT in today’s factory environments. He is...

Prabath Siriwardena is the Senior Director of Security Architecture at WSO2 having more than 10 years of industry experience in designing and building critical Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure for global enterprises, including many Fortune 100/500 companies. Prabath spent...

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...

Ros Smith is Executive Product Manager for Identity and Access Management – she has worked at the BBC for 20 years starting off in the Production and Editorial side of the business, having been a Radio Producer for Science Radio, Woman’s Hour and The Big Toe Radio Show; Deputy Editor...

She has extensive IAM and security experience, with 30+ years in security, nearly 20 years with a focus on IAM. During her business life, she has participated in a variety of engagements at clients from different industries worldwide. She earned a diploma in Mathematics with a minor in Physics...

Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where she is the Deputy Director of the Digital Ethics Lab and is Faculty Fellow and Defence Science and Technology Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Her recent work focuses...

Don is President and Chairman of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) a non-profit organization of leaders from competing sectors, including enterprise, data services, telecommunications, consulting services, SaaS, banking, retail and government. OIX is helping to build solutions to roadblocks for...

Andrew Tobin ( European Managing Director,  Evernym) is a technology strategist. He has a history of delivering innovative technology solutions to complex business problems in the converging worlds of banking, mobile and identity markets. Right now he is working to change the way the...

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...

Mayur is a creative and customer-centric technologist. He joined Janrain in April 2013 and after three years of leading global Customer Success then became VP Europe. At Akamai, Mayur is mandated with driving the EMEA Identity business. Mayur starting his career as a full-stack developer at a...

From taking care of customer experience in real life to Design Thinking and UX in a digital world, for Sylvie Vandevelde, Head of Marketing & Communication at Belgian Mobile ID, the customer-user-citizen needs to be at the heart of the solution. Thanks to technology and...

Mr. Wahl has 25+ years’ experience in enterprise information assurance, specializing in identity and access management. He is co-author and editor of Internet directory protocol specifications, architect and designer of identity management products used by major companies and government...

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...

Dr. Horst Walther is Managing Director at the SiG Software Integration GmbH. He has been active as an interim and turnaround manager and consultant for IT security and compliance issues in the financial sector and the transport industry since 1984. Previously, he was Senior Analyst at...

Alex is the Director of Identity Security at Microsoft. Billions of users sign in to millions of apps almost 20B times a day on our identity platform; the Identity Security team protects them from unauthorized access, account takeover, and abuse. If you have signed into Xbox, Skype, Outlook,...

Julian’s career began at Apple in the late ‘80s where he worked on various advanced technology projects such as: the world’s first Set Top Box, launch of Newton [forerunner to the iPhone] in Europe, Internet games console and other. He left Apple to join AT&T...

Phil Windley is an Enterprise Architect in the Office of the CIO at Brigham Young University. A passionate tech educator, he is chair of the Sovrin Foundation, the co-founder and organizer of the Internet Identity Workshop, serves as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at BYU, writes the...

Before joining the identity and trusted platform Verimi in 2018 as Chief Technology Officer, Dirk Woywod held various positions (Director / VP) at Bundesdruckerei. Bundesdruckerei is Germany’s leading one-stop solution provider for secure identity management. Prior to his engagement at...

Stefan Würtemberger is employed at Marabu GmbH & Co. KG, where he is Vice President Information Technology and responsible for Global IT. Previously, he was Chief Digital Officer and CIO at Erwin Renz Metallwarenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG and took over the management responsibility...

Kamer is Chief Data Scientist (CDS) of an Anti-Money Laundering startup, hawk:AI. He was also CDS at ConnectedLife, a global All-in-One Smart Living & Healthcare Technology provider where he revolutionized the Parkinson's Disease treatment. He previously co-founded two AI startups...

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...

Gerhard is ForgeRock’s vice president for IoT and manufacturing. He is passionate about leveraging technology to improve people’s business and personal lives. Over the course of his career, Gerhard has had the opportunity to gain experience in a variety of industries and markets. In...