Speakers

Jan. 2019–today. Managing Director / Geschäftsführer (Sprecher), Verimi GmbH Jan. 2015–Dez. 2018. Managing Director / Geschäftsführer (Sprecher), / Miles & More - Lufthansa Group July 2009–Dez. 2014. VP PAYBACK International, PAYBACK - American...

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...

Austin leads the sales and strategic partnership efforts at SecurEnds. He has a diverse background aligning multiple business units in various industries to create cohesive technology strategies. His career has consisted of consulting and advocating disruptive processes to expedite digital...

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...

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...

Dr. Harry Behrens, Head of the Daimler Mobility Blockchain Factory, is a veteran Blockchain evangelist. He has been actively involving himself in Blockchain since 2012. In 2016 he co-founded the DFS Blockchain swarm and initiated the development of the smartVIN ® Blockchain platform. Before...

Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect for Auth0. Before Auth0, he had a lengthy career with Microsoft, where Vittorio worked with Fortune 100 and Global 100 companies, including working on Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory team as principal program manager focusing on the developer...

With more than 10 years’ experience in product leadership roles, Danna Bethlehem currently leads product marketing for Thales’s authentication and access management solutions. Prior to joining Thales, Danna held product leadership positions in several startups ranging from financial...

Moritz von Bonin heads the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Solutions department at DB Systel, the IT provider & Digital Partner of Deutsche Bahn AG, the largest mobility and logistics provider in Europe. Moritz has more than 10 years’ experience in the mobility...

Marcel is an IT security specialist with strong consulting and architecture background. Experienced in presales, consultancy, architecture and project management. Specialties: Security, identity and access management, mobile device management, datacenters, next gen firewalling, application...

Sina Brandstetter is a software engineer and technical lead of an international development team, focusing on Natural Language Processing and automation. She holds a Bachelor in Business Information Management from Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart and a Master in...

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...

Bart is a sales engineer at heart with extensive experience leading high performance international pre-sales teams, solution architecture, IT consultancy and project management. Specialties: IT Security, Pre-Sales, Solution Engineering, Security Architecture, Audit and Compliance, Enterprise...

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...

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...

Bob holds a deep understanding and knowledge of the healthcare supply chain, including compliance issues, current standards and technologies. His ability to harness his expertise and innovate around the complexities of regulatory compliance, cross-industry operations and emerging technology, has...

I am following the data as a VP of Innovation in Revelock (formerly buguroo). Behavioural biometrics, ethical data processing and continuous authentication is my current focus. I am a Security geek with a strong belief that changing the World to make it better is possible. I have...

Nathanael is a CyberSecurity visionary who’s spent the last decade focused on improving the security posture of the identity by integrating Cyber signals into the authentication and authorization processes.  Over the last two decades he’s honed his product and scalability...

Linden Dawson is an identity industry practitioner and international speaker on human rights, privacy, user experiences, ethics and emerging identity & access management technology. With diverse experience spanning both the public and private sectors, Linden offers a practical perspective on...

Vice President, IT Global Secure Supply Chain at AmerisourceBergen Corporation. With over 38 years of experience in the wholesale distribution business, Jeff has held positions of increasing responsibility in finance, procurement, contracts and chargebacks as well as Information Technology....

Adrian Doerk is a trained IT-Systems Electrician with strong focus on decentralized architecture.  He's a vivid learner about the Identity space and facilitates communication for the Lissi initiative and other international stakeholders. 

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...

Kim is the Architect for the Decentralized Credentials Consortium, a university-led effort to design a digital verifiable credentials infrastructure. Kim is an expert and leader in the emerging decentralized identity space, driving standards and implementations through direct technical...

Andre Durand is a twelve year veteran of the enterprise software industry, a recognized leader in the identity industry and a pioneer behind the concepts of the digital identity network. In addition to his role as CEO of Ping Identity, Mr. Durand co-founded and co-chairs Digital ID World , the...

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...

Heather  Leigh Flannery is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health, a spin-off from ConsenSys AG effective March 2nd, 2020. She chairs the IEEE SA Open P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in healthcare and life sciences), served as FY19 and '20...

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...

Allan Foster is currently VP Global Partner Success. He’s helped build ForgeRock into a multinational identity software vendor with offices on four continents. Allan’s deep technical knowledge has been well used in all aspects of the business while at ForgeRock, with responsibilities...

Tippu Gagguturu is an accomplished technology executive, serial entrepreneur and current co-founder and CEO of SecurEnds, a cloud-based Identity Management company. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Atlanta, SecuEnds provides a portfolio of SaaS products that help global organizations with...

Ian Glazer is the Senior Vice President for 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...

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...

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...

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,...

Raj is a Project Manager at KuppingerCole and manages projects associated with transformative technologies such as AI, Blockchain, and Cybersecurity. Prior to joining KuppingerCole, Raj was an Investment Analyst at a top-tier venture capital fund and also gained international experience at a...

In his role as Senior Cybersecurity Architect and Key Expert for Authorization Technologies and IAM at Siemens, Jan is focusing on IAM research, IAM knowhow dissemination, IAM strategy definition and implementation of innovative, best practice compliant IAM concepts for IT and (I)OT within...

Stefan Hessel is Attorney-at-Law (Germany) and Associate in the Cybersecurity & Data Protection Team at reuschlaw Legal Consultants in Saarbrücken.

David has more than 15 years of extensive experience in the cyber security industry. He is currently supporting Enterprise businesses across EMEA with individual blueprints for an effective security program.

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...

Product development: usability & user research for web, mobile and other information product design, information architectures and user experience, interaction design, taxonomies & folksonomy schemas, data quality, data models, algorithm development for social search. Work closely with...

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...

Andrew Hughes CISM CISSP has been providing IM/IT consulting services for over 20 years with a focus on security, privacy and digital identity operations, strategy and policy. He brings Canadian perspectives on identity, privacy and public policy to his clients and colleagues. Since 2013 he has...

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...

Mr. Ihalainen has extensive information security background having worked for organizations like SSH Communication Security, Ubisecure, EU Commission, Gemalto, and GlobalSign. During his career, he has participated in cutting edge initiatives and digital identity programs in various roles. He's...

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...

Julien Jaouen is Head of Identity Management for Airbus, a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. Jaouen has 10 years of Identity & Access Management (IAM) experience, and has held various roles ranging from service delivery manager to project manager before...

After graduating in Business Administration from Technical University of Munich, Georg worked as manager for a large German retailer and as product owner for a supply chain managment IT provider. Joining Spherity as first employee in 2018, he is today responsible for industry solutions built on...

Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1 st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years. As CIO he was working on major IT Transformation, IT Strategy, Change Management and Governance...

David Kessler is a co-owner and the President of Legisym. He has a very diverse background with over 27 years of experience in technology and business management. David began his technology career in database design, networking and Web development. After transitioning to the ERP systems world,...

Dr. Karsten Kinast, LL.M., Attorney at Law (Germany), is founding Partner of the Law Firm “Kinast & Partner” with an exclusive focus on Data Protection Law and IT-Law. He holds a Master of Laws Degree in European Legal Informatics and  serves as external Data Protection...

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...

Alexander hat einen Hintergrund von über 20 Jahren in Direct-Touch-Vertriebspositionen in der IT-Sicherheit. Er hat in seinen früheren Engagements wie TC TrustCenter, HID Global, Bluecoat und Digital Guardian zu einem fundamentalen Wachstum beigetragen. Darüber hinaus...

Konstantin Krasovsky has more than 15 years of experience in business development. For the last 5 years, he has been leading strategic partnership efforts at Indeed Identity, the cybersecurity solutions vendor based in Lithuania which operates in EMEA and APAC regions. The main...

Christina is Co-Founder and Product Manager at meshcloud. Christina is very passionate about cloud technologies and loves to accompany digital transformation projects in large enterprises. She studied Computer Science and Business at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany as well as the...

Manoj is a thought and practice leader in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) space. As a security professional, Manoj not only has hands-on experience in consulting with clients on their IAM challenges but also in also leading global IAM programs as part of broader cloud and digital...

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...

Vadim Lander is currently the ​​​​Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer for Symantec Identity Security at Broadcom. Vadim is a recognized IAM expert, having architected, developed, and led multiple, highly scalable IAM solutions to become industry leaders. He was the architect...

In December 2020 Thom joined SentinelOne as a global Security Advocate. Thom established himself as CISO at large global organisations, having founded their security teams and services from the ground up. He also founded (TL)2 Security, an international strategic information security...

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...

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...

In his role of Head of Technology and Innovation in the Siemens IT Strategy, Dimitri is responsible for development of disruptive IT services and digitalization enablement. He leads the architecture team in the Siemens Zero Trust program and manages implementation of strategic IT/OT...

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...

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....

Graduated in Chemical Engineering from Widener University, with 34 years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical industry in Engineering, QA, Supply chain and Manufacturing sites. I have been involved in Serialization Globally since 2005 starting with the California Serialization regulation and...

Bryan Meister has worked within the IT organization for Yahoo, and now Verizon Media for almost 10 years and has held multiple roles - from Help Desk, program and product management, and operations with a focus on improving internal identity, access management, and user lifecycle operations....

Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt joined KuppingerCole in January 2021 as Advisor & Analyst. Prior to this, he worked for various management consultancies, primarily advising major banks on challenges related to the IT security infrastructure topic of identity and access management (IAM). His focus...

Helge Michael is a Program Manager at the Main Incubator, the research and development unit of Commerzbank. His focus is on digital platforms, blockchain, crypto-assets and digital identities. He currently heads the cross industry project "IDunion", which is funded by the BMWi and aims to build...

Gena Morgan has been with GS1 and GS1 US for 22 years playing a key role in many industry initiatives. As a strategic consultant, Gena has worked with various industries, consortiums and technical communities in defining requirements, developing technical interface standards and guidelines,...

Yuval is a security professional with more than 20 years of experience in the business. He is currently leading all global strategy and go-to-market activities for CyberArk around ‘Identity Security’.

Maxine Most - @cmaxmost -  founding Principal of Acuity Market Intelligence, is recognized as the definitive authority on global biometrics market development. Throughout her 30-year career, Ms. Most has evangelized emerging technology on five continents.  Since 2001, she has focused...

Nick is Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, a community for all those involved in the ID sector to connect and collaborate, developing the guidance needed for inter-operable, trusted identities. Through OIX’s definition of, and education on, Trust Frameworks we create...

Anett Mádi-Nátor has more than a decade of experience in strategic and administrative layers of information security and cyber defence both as a private sector subject matter expert and as a government representative. She is now responsible for Strategic Business Development at a...

Deepak Nayak currently serves as the Identity and Privacy platforms Architect for Verizon Media building solutions at internet scale for consumer identity and user data privacy. He is a seasoned software architect with 18+ years of software development and architecture experience covering a wide...

Eric has more than 35 years of industry experience spanning a variety of senior roles in various technology and financial services companies. In his current role, he is responsible for driving WSO2’s technical vision and helping to promote the adoption of products and projects, with a...

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...

Ms. Rebecca Nielsen is an Identity and Access Management (IAM) architect with over 25 years of experience including IAM strategy development, program management, and business development. She currently works for PKH Enterprises where she provides strategy support to the U.S. Department of...

Is a Business Manager responsible for Digital Identity projects, solutions and portfolio in the field of CIAM, B2C and B2B. He also has a long background on design and architecture of identity and access management solutions with variety of technologies and customers in e.g. retail and finance...

Len is a subject matter expert in multiple disciplines both Cyberark and Third Party. International Security Presenter / Speaker / Analyst, White Hat Hacker with more than 12 years of hands-on experience in the security business.

Dr. Oliver Nuernberg holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Würzburg, Germany, and has worked in Pharmaceutical IT for 23 years. Oliver joined SAP in 1997 and held various positions in Life Sciences Solution Management as well as Development. Oliver took over the responsibility...

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...

Fabrice Perrin joined AXA in 2015. After having managed the GDPR compliance of the group, he is now in charge of the simplification of the identity management. Fabrice is also deputy director of the Global Program department

Sylvie Pflitsch ist seit 2007 bei Bosch Sicherheitssysteme GmbH. Dort verantwortet sie die Bereiche Business Intelligence, IAM, zentrales Stammdatenmanagement und Automatisierung & AI. Davor arbeitete sie bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung, wo sie bei der Digitalisierung der...

John Phillips is an expert in Self-Sovereign Identity and leads the 460degrees Ventures, Emerging Technology and Education practices. John believes that Self Sovereign Identity represents a better model for digital trust for people, organisations, and things on a global scale. He sees SSI as...

With nearly two decades of experience in application, network, and data security, David Pignolet founded SecZetta in 2006, assembling a highly-experienced team and securing strategic partnerships to address a growing need for better IT security and identity and access management in...

Filipe has been working as Principal Security Engineer and Security Researcher at Zup Innovation, Global Research Manager at Hacker Security, Staff of DEFCON Group São Paulo-Brazil, he hastalked in Security events in US, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Brazil and others...

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...

Ruth has been involved in the Internet Technical Community (ICANN, RIRs and ccTLDs) for 15 years and she has broad experience on international and multi-stakeholder cooperation model, Internet governance policy and public affairs. She joined Kantara in 2014.

Dr. Murthy Rallapalli is a technical leader at IBM focused on Cloud security, Quantum computing, and IBM Cloud for Financial Services based NIST & regulatory controls. He specializes in data science predictive models in health care and financial industries. His industry...

Dr. JR Reagan is the CEO of IdeaXplorer Global providing Korean Technology Insights to the world’s best companies. He is a UNDP Global Policy Network (GPN) Expert for Digital Transformation and teaches as a Guest Lecturer for the South Korea Ministry of the Interior and Safety - Local...

Dr. Olaf Reinhold is a project manager and Board Member of the Social CRM Research Center e.V. in Leipzig. His research interests are CRM, with a special focus on social media, community management, CRM technology, and Social CRM analytics. He is also co-chair of the iCRM workshop series...

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...

Cory is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Communication Design (Docent/Associate Professor in Summer 2021) at Linköping University (Sweden) in the Department of Science and Technology, and the Founder of the Nordic Privacy Center (nordicprivacy.org). He is an invited expert in...

Mr. Darran Rolls is a research and advisory Fellow at Kuppinger Cole. He has a long history in Identity Management and Security at companies ranging from Tivoli Systems - IBM, Waveset Technologies, Sun Microsystems and SailPoint Technologies. Over the past 20...

Scott Rose works as a computer scientist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).  Scott works on Internet infrastructure protection research and Internet protocol research. Scott is the editor of several IETF network protocol specifications and the author of several...

Miikka Sainio, CTO, SSH.COM: Miikka guides the software architecture and development at SSH.COM. He has over 20 years of experience in IT industry, building teams and developing products in startups and large enterprises.

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 security architect and delivery lead with over eighteen years of experience of various information security related roles. Primarily focused on security architecture and digital identity including global scale customer, privileged and internal IAM systems using...

24 years of IT experience with Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Systems Development; Security and Development Book Writer; Identity Management Projects in companies like CA, IBM, Novell, Claro and Tim Celular;

Olivier Schraner is the CTO for Infrastructure and Security at UBS.  In this role, he's responsibile for all aspects of IT infrastructure and security, including Cloud, end user services, data centers, network and automation technologies. Olivier joined UBS in 2015 as the Head of...

Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cybersecurity 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...

Jackson began his identity management career as an early employee at Toronto-based Zoomit Corp., the pioneer in the development of meta-directory products who Microsoft acquired in 1999. While at Microsoft, he was responsible for product planning and marketing around Microsoft’s identity...

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...

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...

Paweł Skrzypek is a highly experienced architect of ICT systems, with extensive knowledge of machine learning and Big Data solutions. Chief Multi-Cloud architect, working on http://www.melodic.cloud project and other Cloud Computing projects, focusing on multi-cloud and serverless...

Isabella founded ErnieApp in 2017, one year ahead of GDPR entering into force, with the conviction that only a user-consent-centric internet model could resolve the conundrum of how privacy, innovation, and competition in a digital connected society heading toward AI and IoT could coexist...

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...

A highly strategic, technical and commercially astute executive. Jason has over 20 years of experience of starting, growing and managing businesses. The last 10 years of which have been with data businesses. Prior to joining Meeco, Jason led a global project within Experian as part of their...

Shaped by an extensive career in banking & IT environments, Berno Snijder developed broad knowledge and expertise in  the IT security domain. As lead Identity & Access Management at ABN AMRO he is responsible for the direction the bank is heading with respect to customer and...

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. Carsten Stöcker is co-founder and CEO of Spherity.  Spherity is building decentralized digital identity management solutions to power the fourth industrial revolution. Carsten Stöcker is a physicist by training with a Ph.D. from the University of  Aachen . He serves...

Andy is a passionate information security professional with more than two decades of experience in the industry

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...

Dave is a co-chair of the Financial API Working Group at the OpenID Foundation, working on open standards for financial APIs, and is the technical representative for the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA). He also represents FDATA within the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA)...

Elif Kocaoglu Ulbrich is the founder of Berlin-based Contextual Solutions, specialized in FinTech and LegalTech, and a published author. She has a background in law (qualified lawyer) and business. Elif is the Germany representative for Fintech Istanbul, contributes to several blogs, and is the...

Neeme Vool is currently working as Software Engineer and Architect in the Digital Identity department at Swedbank. Small and professional team is implementing IAM processes for the whole big enterprise. Before taking challenges in Swedbank 6 years ago, worked from developer to CTO in Estonian...

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. Donnie Wendt is a Principal Security Engineer on Mastercard's Security Research Team. He has been active in the security automation community for several years and is a recognized thought leader in the field. Donnie led Mastercard's involvement in an integrated pilot of the Integrated...

Sadrick Widmann is Chief Product Officer of cidaas, the first cloud identity and access management developed and hosted in Germany. He knows and understands the requirements that come with a digitalised world and helps customers build identity-based business models. He holds a Bachelor of...

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...

  Kristina  works as an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft Corp. Her current focus lies in securing governance and interoperability among multiple decentralized identity implementations as well as building a path towards adoption of decentralized identity...

Frances is a seasoned marketing strategist and business development professional with over 25 years of experience with start-up and scale-up companies, primarily focused on biometrics and digital identity, fintech, data and analytics and cybersecurity. Frances has led marketing and strategy...