Speakers

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...

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...

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...

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 joined KuppingerCole in 2012 as a Senior Analyst. Besides his very strong background in large scale and high performance identity and access management, as well as information security architecture, Fulup´s research focus is related to consumer and citizen identity, mobile...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Jeff Stollman is a polymath and futurist with a broad range of senior-level experience across sectors, departments, and national boundaries. A visionary leader experienced in applying leading-edge technology to design innovative solutions, Mr. Stollman has been working in the blockchain arena...

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...