Speakers

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Joined the MS Identity team to lead product and development for an open source, blockchain-anchored, self-sovereign identity system. Through collaboration with developers, organizations, and agencies, as well as the open source community and standards bodies (e.g. W3C), we aim to introduce an...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Manreet Nijjar  is a UK physician specialising in Infectious Diseases and founder of Doctors Link. He has been working in frontline services in the NHS (National Health Service ) for 10 years and is driven by improving patient care and experience. In an era of digital transformation in...

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...

David Pollington is the Head of Services at the GSMA, providing technical & strategic steer on identity across a number of GSMA's programmes including Mobile Connect (a worldwide x-MNO authentication & identity initiative), IoT and RCS (business messaging). Prior to joining the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...