Name: European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023
Start: 2023-05-09T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-05-12T20:00:00+02:00

Ali Adnan

Authlete

Ali Adnan is Co-Founder of Authlete Inc., a pioneer in providing OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect implementation as a service, deployed by the world’s largest digital bank in Brazil and a...

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Roland Adrian

Verimi GmbH

Roland Adrian (50) is Managing Director and CEO of Verimi GmbH in Berlin, a multi-joint venture of 26 shareholders from the German business community. Verimi develops and operates the Verimi ID...

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Armand Adriano

IAMTEAM

Armand Adriano is a proven Information Security Leader with 25+ years as a focused Identity and Access Management (IAM) professional working with government and private organizations in optimizing...

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Sray Agarwal

Fractal AI

Sray Agarwal has applied AI and analytics from Financial Services to Hospitality and has led the development of Responsible AI framework for multiple banks in the UK and the US. after completing...

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Babar Khan Akhunzada

SecurityWall

Babar Khan Akhunzada is a 23-year-old cyber wizard, Founder & CEO of SecurityWall - Stacked on AI & Big Data technology to help enterprises and individuals enhance security capabilities...

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Dr. Ignacio Alamillo-Domingo

Logalty Prueba por Interposicion SL

Ignacio is a Doctor in Law (UMU), with a PhD thesis related to the eIDAS Regulation, and holds a Degree in Law (UNED), a Diploma of Advanced Studies (UAB) and a Master in introduction to...

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Dr. Michael Amanfi

EmpowerID

Dr. Amanfi is a highly accomplished and respected expert in the field of cloud computing. He holds a Doctorate in Management and an MS in Information Technology Management from Grand Canyon...

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Moritz Anders

PwC

Moritz Anders ist Partner und Experte für Cyber Security bei PwC Deutschland. Seit mehr als 15 Jahren berät er zu und implementiert Identity & Access Management-Lösungen in...

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Lasse Andresen

IndyKite

A powerhouse of creativity and enthusiasm, Lasse is a perpetual entrepreneur, transforming ideas into thriving, disruptive businesses. In his most recent startup venture, Lasse is founder and CEO...

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Harm Jan Arendshorst

iLabs Technologies

Digital Transformation, Digital Identity & IoT Security / Privacy & Trustworthy AI Specialist with more than 25 years experience in building trustworthy and inclusive digital ecosystems...

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Warwick Ashford

KuppingerCole

Warwick Ashford is a Senior Analyst who researches cybersecurity and identity-related topics, including emerging technologies and trends. He has been writing IT news and analysis as a journalist...

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Anders Askasen

Okta

As Director of Technical Solutions for the EMEA region, Anders is responsible for building Okta’s strategy in all things identity management in the region, with a focus on customer...

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Marie Austenaa

Visa Europe

Marie Austenaa, Head of Digital Identity at Visa Europe and Board Chair of the Open Wallet Foundation at the Linux Foundation, is a highly experienced speaker and expert in digital identity and...

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Alexandre Babeanu

3Edges

Alex has been involved in Graphs and Graph databases for Identity and Access Management for almost 10 years. As a graph-certified and IAM-accredited consultant, he has implemented solutions for...

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Daniel Bachenheimer

Accenture

Daniel Bachenheimer, an Electrical Engineer by training, is Accenture’s Digital Identity Innovations technical lead and has been designing and delivering solutions for various clients for...

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Reto Bachmann

One Identity

Reto Bachmann is Technical Regional Manager Austria, Switzerland and Middle East at One Identity. Reto Bachmann has over 25 years of experience in IT, and over 15 years in IAM and cyber security....

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Dirk Backofen

T-Systems

Dirk Backofen is the Tribe Lead Digital Identities of T-Systems International GmbH. In this role Dirk is accountable for the setup of a new Business Unit regarding all variants of Secure Identities...

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Espen Bago

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV)

Espen Bago has been setting up Identity programs involving Identity and Access since 2010 and was an Identity and Access engineer for a decade before that. He is a founding member of the IDPro,...

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Annie Bailey

KuppingerCole

Annie 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...

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Abhinav Bajaj

Delivery Hero SE

Abhinav has over a decade experience in conceptualising, designing, implementing & managing IAM solutions across industry verticals. AB has been working with Delivery Hero for the last 5...

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Alexei Balaganski

KuppingerCole

Alexei is an analyst with specific focus on cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. At KuppingerCole, he covers a broad range of security-related topics: from database, application and API...

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Rajan Barara

Entrust

Rajan Barara is Director of Product Management for Identity at Entrust. In this webinar, he will speak about passwordless experience and what organizations should look for in a passwordless...

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Paul Bastian

Bundesdruckerei

Paul is an expert on digital identity management at Bundesdruckerei. His focus is on identity credentials, wallet security, holder binding, device binding and initial trust for the upcoming...

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Matthias Bauer

One Identity

Matthias Bauer is the Senior Manager of Product Development for Identity Manager and Senior architect for Identity Governance solutions. Prior to One Identity, Matthias was at Dell Security and...

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Roland Baum

umbrella.associates GmbH

Roland Baum is Founder of German Start-Up umbrella.associates and architect of several enterprise ID and IGA environments. As a tech savvy wizard of OpenSource tools and data analysis, he combines...

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Dr. Harry Behrens

bloXmove.com

Harry is the CTO and co-founder of bloXmove and has been working in the software and internet industry for more than 20 years. He has been involved with the topic of blockchain and DLT since...

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Felix Behringer

Deutsche Kreditbank AG

Felix Behringer is a certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with 7+ years of experience in IT Security. Felix leads the implementation of Privileged Access Managements (PAM) at Deutsche...

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Ivo van Bennekom

PwC

Ivo leads the PwC Digital Identity Impact Center for the EMEA region. Ivo has over 15 years of experience within the digital technology space, with a specific focus on global identity market...

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Dr. George Beridze

Accenture

Security Consulting Manager in the Information Technology and Services industry. Specializing in Identity & Access Management. Ph.D. in Natural Sciences and certified Project and Process...

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Vittorio Bertocci

Okta

Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect in Okta and host of the Identity, Unlocked podcast. A veteran of the identity industry, with more than 20 years of hands-on experience, he helped usher...

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Matthew Berzinski

ForgeRock

As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the ForgeRock product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and...

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Anil Bhandari

ARCON TechSolutions

Anil Bhandari is an inspired innovator, technologist, and thought leader in Information Risk Management. He serves as a Mentor & Thought Leader and provides his invaluable insights for the...

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Reidar J. Boldevin

PwC

I have an IT career spanning twenty years. Throughout that time I’ve been a consultant focusing on solutions for the financial industry, government and public organizations and the defence...

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Katarina Bolemant

Evolveum

Katarina Bolemant is one of the founding members of Evolveum, the vendor of the leading open source IGA platform midPoint. Katarina has been a crucial part of midPoint’s development ever...

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Fabian Bormann

Cardano Foundation

Fabian Bormann is a blockchain enthusiast and open-source advocate, currently serving as Team Lead for ’Ecosystem Architecture and Engineering’ at the Cardano Foundation. With a strong background...

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Kai Boschert

KuppingerCole

Kai Boschert joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as Advisor in September 2021. Background & Education: Kai is holding a master’s degree in management and technology with focus on...

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Michael Breier

Cygna Labs

Michael has 25+ years of experience in different IT management areas such as System-, Network-, Least Privilege- and Privileged Access Management as well as Active Directory and Cloud Security...

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Tom Bruggeman

DPG Media

Tom is working as an IT Area Manager for DPG Media. As part of his role he manages a number of development teams, one of which is the Identity team responsible for development and rollout of DPG’s...

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Jonas Brännvall

BankID

Jonas Brannvall, Head of International Business Expansion at BankID, leads the strategic initiative to enable BankID to grow into new markets. BankID is the leading digital identity solution in...

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Matthias Buchhorn-Roth

In Transition

I am an accomplished data ecosystem expert, specializing in the development of sovereign data collaboration solutions across various industries. As an active member of the Eclipse DataSpace...

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Andrew Bud

iProov

Andrew founded iProov in 2011. He is an experienced technology entrepreneur and leader, with a career spanning thirty years in mobile. In 1999 he founded mBlox, which became the world’s...

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Jordan Burris

Socure

Jordan Burris is the Vice President for Public Sector Strategy at Socure. In this role, he partners with government leaders to develop and scale Socure’s public sector offerings for identity...

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Trevor Butterworth

indicio

Trevor Butterworth has spent two decades looking at how data is used and communicated in society, first as a journalist, then as founding director at a think tank, and now as co-founder and VP for...

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Robert Byrne

One Identity

Rob Byrne, a field strategist at One Identity, has worked in IT for more than 15 years in various roles – including development, consulting and technical sales – the majority of his...

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Benjamin Bönisch

ETO GRUPPE TECHNOLOGIES

Benjamin Bönisch is VP Strategy & Corporate Development at ETO GRUPPE and manages all Venture projects. Venture is the testing ground ETO has created to successfully and sustainably meet...

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Juliana Cafik

Microsoft

Juliana began her 27 years in the technology industry from a very different trajectory, building solutions for ski resorts to move more people up mountains simply, quickly, affordably and without...

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Joseph Carson

Delinea

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,...

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Melissa Carvalho

Royal Bank of Canada

Melissa Carvalho, RBC Global Cyber Security Vice President, leads the Cyber security Planning office and the bank’s Global Identity and Access Management group, providing cyber solutions and...

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Osman Celik

KuppingerCole

Osman joined KuppingerCole as Research Analyst in March 2022. Osman holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Koc University, Turkey, and Master of Management (Track in IT Management)...

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Dr. David Chadwick

Truetrust Ltd

David runs his own consultancy company, Truetrust Ltd. Prior to this he was Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent, and then CEO of Verifiable Credentials Ltd (VCL), a...

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Kay Chopard

Kantara Initiative

Ms. Kay Chopard is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a unique global ‘commons’ that operates...

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Louise Cole

International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Louise Cole is the Head Customer Experience and Facilitation for the International Air Transport Association (IATA). In this role, Louise has responsibility for the IATA Passenger Facilitation...

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Adam Cooper

ID Crowd

Adam is an identity standards expert, policy lead, and enterprise architect with over 30 years of experience in innovation and service transformation. Having played a leading role in the...

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Dr. Jordi Cuesta

Evidian

With more than 20 years of experience on the IAM market, Jordi is heading the IAM Evidian Product Line with specific responsibility for the offers Identity Governance & Administration and...

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Sam Curren

Indicio

Sam Curren is the Senior Systems Architect and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Indicio. Sam oversees the direction of Indicio’s open source contributions and guides architecture of...

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Sal D'Agostino

IDmachines

Recognized for his leadership on critical cyber-physical matters of security, identity, and privacy confronting the world, Sal is active in standards for physical and logical security and privacy...

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Heather Dahl

Indicio

Heather is Co-founder and CEO of Indicio, the market leading developer of enterprise-class verifiable data solutions that optimize your existing systems ensuring digital privacy, efficiency, and...

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Fadi Daood

PWC

Fadi Daood is an experienced Information Security architect leading PwC’s Zero Trust Practice in The Netherlands. Fadi is also an active member within PwC’s European Zero Trust community.

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Dr. Scott David, LL.M.

University of Washington

Scott David, J.D., LL.M., is the Executive Director - Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative at University of Washington and was formerly the Executive Director of the Law,...

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Thomas Davies

KPMG Canada

Thomas is a Partner in KPMG in Canada’s Cyber Security practice and leads the Risk Consulting Managed Services. Over the past 20 years, Thomas has built cyber security practices and capabilities...

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Julie Dawson

Yoti

Yoti is a digital identity technology company that makes it safer for people to prove their age or identity. They provide verification solutions across the globe, spanning identity verification,...

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Dr. Maarten Decat

Elimity

Maarten is Elimity’s founder and CEO. Maarten is a highly-skilled Identity and Access Management professional with a history of working in, amongst others, the financial services industry and...

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Konrad Degen

Verimi GmbH

Konrad Degen is a Senior Corporate Development Manager at Verimi GmbH, a leading ID-Wallet provider in Germany, and responsible for the public sector activities including the ID-Wallet...

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Dr. Dominik Deimel

comuny

As an entrepreneur and expert in digital change management, Dominik Deimel has many years of experience in accompanying change processes in companies and their transformation into digital...

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Nitish Deshpande

KuppingerCole

Nitish joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG in February 2022 as a Research Analyst. Education: Master of International Business and Engineering from SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany Bachelor of...

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Thomas Detzner

Microsoft

Thomas Detzner is a Principal Product Manager on the customer success team in the Microsoft Identity and Network access divisions Identity Architecture team. He spends most of his time working with...

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Samuel Devasahayam

Microsoft

Samuel Devasahayam has spent 25 years at Microsoft delivering solutions to help you protect your organization by securing access to the connected world for all users, devices and services across...

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Abdou-Naby Diaw

Lufthansa Group

Abdou-Naby Diaw (50) has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of IT Cross Functional Processes of Lufthansa Group as of 1 January 2018. He is in charge of the Cyber...

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Niels van Dijk

SURF

Niels van Dijk is a Technical Product Manager working in Trust & Identity at SURF, the Dutch National Research and Educational Network. In this role he is responsible for development and...

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Adrian Doerk

neosfer

Adrian Doerk is specializing on digital Wallets for identity management. He build up the IDunion Consortia and manages the business development for Lissi. He is also sharing insights from the...

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Katryna Dow

Meeco

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 ...

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Gert Drapers

Aserto

Gert Drapers is the co-founder and CTO of Aserto.com, leading technology implementation and strategy. A widely recognized expert in the data and developer space, Gert has built and operated various...

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Ward Duchamps

Thales Digital Identity and Security

Ward Duchamps has an extensive experience in Identity and Access Management. Currently, he serves as VP of strategic partnerships at OneWelcome. Ward was the founder and CEO of Scaled Access, a...

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Kim Hamilton Duffy

Centre Consortium

Kim is Director of Identity and Standards at Centre Consortium. Kim is an expert and leader in the emerging decentralized identity space, driving standards and implementations through direct...

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Fraser Edwards

cheqd

Fraser Edwards, CEO & co-founder at cheqd. Prior to cheqd, he has successfully led a digital identity pilot for the World Economic Forum, Dutch and Canadian governments. Fraser has patents in...

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Charlie Egan

Styra

Charlie has been working with in the Cloud Native space since 2018. He currently works as a Developer Advocate at Styra and on the OPA project. Charlie is interested in authentication and...

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Anders Eknert

Styra

Anders Eknert has a long background in software development and security. Previously in his career, Anders focused primarily on identity systems. He has spent more recent years in the emerging...

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Michael Engle

1Kosmos

Michael (Mike) Engle is a proven information technology executive, leader, and entrepreneur. He is an expert in information security, business development, and product design/development. He...

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Tilman Epha

XM Cyber

Tilman Epha is Sales Director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at XM Cyber, based in Munich. Tilman Epha has been working in the IT industry for more than 22 years. After studying economics in...

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Sebastien Faivre

Brainwave GRC

Sebastien is Chief Technical Officer and co-founder at Brainwave GRC, responsible for product vision, features and design. Sebastien is a seasoned Product Management expert with more than 20 years...

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Dr. Xinxin Fan

IoTeX

Dr. Xinxin Fan is the Head of Cryptography at IoTeX, a Silicon Valley-based technology platform that empowers the emerging machine economy with innovative combination of blockchain and IoT. He is...

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Alexis Faulkner

Nevis

Alexis Faulkner is leading the authentication and passwordless products at Nevis, focusing on the FIDO standards and helping transition clients into a passwordless future. With a background in...

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Dr. Daniel Fett

Authlete

Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science for the development of new methods for analyzing the security of web standards. Leveraging this background, he has worked for the past several years to...

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Paul Fisher

KuppingerCole

Paul Fisher is a Lead 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...

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Heather Flanagan

Spherical Cow Consulting

Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership...

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Judith Fleenor

Trust Over IP Foundation

The mission of the Trust Over IP Foundation (ToIP) is to simplify and standardize how trust is established over a digital network or using digital tools. The ToIP collaborative community focuses on...

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Niels Flensted-Jensen

Criipto

Niels lives in Denmark and has worked in the identity space in the Nordics for 15+ years. He has participated in and observed the all-encompassing digitization of both government and private sector...

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George Fletcher

Capital One

George Fletcher currently serves as the Identity Standards Architect for Capital One supporting the partner and consumer sides of the business. He is a seasoned software architect with 25+ years of...

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Allan Foster

Retired

Allan Foster has 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...

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Liv Freihow

Bank ID Bankaxept

Liv is SVP for New Growth at Bank ID Bankaxept , the Norwegian payment and ID company. She was previously Head of Policy at the tech association ICT-Norway, and has been a central figure in the...

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Naohiro Fujie

Itochu Techno Solutions

Naohiro Fujie, General Manager at ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation(CTC), has spent more than 20 years in the IT industry and primary focused on Digital Identity. Since 2021, he has been...

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Mihails Galuška

If P&C Insurance

Since 2021 managing the portfolio of customer and partner identity related services across If P&C Insurance - the largest insurance group in Nordic countries with operations also in Baltics....

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Elizabeth Garber

IDPartner

Elizabeth Garber is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of IDPartner, a startup that puts people in control of their digital identities. Her background includes leading the Open Digital Trust...

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Daniel Gasteiger

Procivis

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gasteiger/ Daniel Gasteiger has worked in financial services for more than 20 years. Starting as an FX trader at Credit Suisse, he later joined UBS to work with hedge...

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Omri Gazitt

Aserto

Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his third entrepreneurial venture. He’s spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer and infrastructure...

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Gerry Gebel

Strata Identity, Inc

Gerry is a recognized leader in the identity management space. His accomplished career spans over two decades in which he has been instrumental in providing requirements definition, architecture...

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Darrell Geusz

Ping Identity

Darrell Geusz has 25 years of experience in identity, credentialing and access management (ICAM) systems and solutions for both the public and private sector. Darrell managed...

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Fawaz Ghali

Hazelcast

Fawaz Ghali is a Principal Developer Advocate at Hazelcast with 20+ years of experience in software development, machine learning and real-time intelligent applications. He holds a PhD in Computer...

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Ian Glazer

IDPro

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...

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Wolfgang Goerlich

Cisco

J. Wolfgang Goerlich is an Advisory CISO for Cisco Secure. Prior to this role, he led IT and IT security in the healthcare and financial services verticals. Wolfgang has held VP positions at...

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Daniel Goldscheider

OpenWallet Foundation

Daniel is Founder and ED of OpenWallet Foundation, a consortium of companies and non-profit organisations collaborating to drive global adoption of open, secure and interoperable digital...

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Amit Goyal

PwC

Amit is the Practice lead for PwC EMEA IAM DevOps practice and is based in Amsterdam. Amit has nearly fifteen years of experience under his belt helping customers solve problems in the Identity...

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Tomasz Gramza

OLX Group

Tomasz Gramza is an experienced identity specialist and the Principal Engineer in OLX Group Europe – one of the world’s fastest-growing networks of trading platforms used by over 300...

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Benoit Grangé

Omada

Benoit brings over 25 years of experience in leading teams to build world-class products and services focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience and security. Benoit is a technology...

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Olaf Grewe

National Australia Bank

Olaf Grewe has been in and around the identity space for a little under a decade. His overall attitude is best described as a kid in a candy store with so many problems to solve, incredibly...

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Guido Grillenmeier

Semperis

Guido Grillenmeier is the Principal Technologist of Semperis in EMEA. Based in Germany, Guido has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for 12 years. He spent 20+ years at HP/HPE as Chief...

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Ilya Gubarev

Siemens AG

Ilya Gubarev is Chief Digital Software Architect of Siemens Large Drives Applications *. Additionally he is heading Architecture and Release Train department as part of software organization...

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Morey J. Haber

BeyondTrust

Morey J. Haber is the Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust. He has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and has authored four books: Cloud Attack Vectors, Privileged Attack Vectors, Asset...

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Mark Haine

OpenID Foundation

Mark is an engineer and entrepreneur who has focussed his career on building solutions that enable business and mitigate risk in financial services. At the start of 2020 Mark founded...

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Fabian Hauck

University of Stuttgart

I am highly motivated and I like to explore new technologies and open source projects. My interests are in the field of machine learning and cybersecurity. In my free time, I like to work on...

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Joseph Heenan

Authlete Inc

Joseph is a software engineer & architect with over 25 years’ experience, who started writing mobile apps before mobile apps existed. He contributes to IETF and OpenID Foundation working...

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Dasun Hegoda

ICTA

Dasun is specialized in Enterprise Application Development (EAD) with many years of industry experience in the field of IT and the digital arena. After years of experience in different roles, he...

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Henk van der Heijden

Hub Security

Mr. Henk van der Heijden is an IT and information security professional with over 35 years’ experience in IT (Security) sales and services. Henk is VP Sales and Global Head of the Cyber...

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Gal Helemski

PlainID

Gal is a recognized 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,...

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Richard Hill

KuppingerCole

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,...

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Gail Hodges

OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation is a non-profit global standards body that seeks to help people assert their identity wherever they choose by leading the global community in creating identity standards that...

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Gerald Horst

PwC

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...

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Philip Hoyer

Okta

Philip Hoyer has spent the last 20+ years in identity and technology leadership roles as a CTO and VP of Engineering at Videojet Technologies, HID Global and ActivIdentity. He has in-depth...

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Andrew Hughes

Ping Identity

Andrew Hughes CISM CISSP is Director of Identity Standards at Ping Identity. He is a digital identity strategist contributing to international standards development. He works with international...

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Stephen Hutchinson

Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo

Steve “Hutch” Hutchinson is the Director of Security Architecture for the Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo. After cutting his teeth in C/C++ software development and network engineering, Hutch...

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Måns Håkansson

Indykite

Måns is a long-time veteran in the IAM space. In the last few years, he has been focused on authorization management working for companies such as PlainID and Axiomatics. Before that, he held...

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Heiko Hütter

Service Layers

Heiko Hütter is CEO of Service Layers, which provides a globally distributed, highly scalable Identity & Access Management Platform in a Private Software as a Service Model. This platform...

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Marina Iantorno

KuppingerCole

Marina joined KuppingerCole as a Research Analyst in April 2022. Her main areas of expertise are Business, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Background and Education: Marina holds a...

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Petteri Ihalainen

National Cyber Security Centre, Finland

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...

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Brian Iverson

Tuebora Inc.

Brian brings over 25 years of experience in identity and access management strategy and deployment. Brian spent the bulk of his career working in professional services at KPMG, where he led...

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Ashish Jain

Arkose Labs

is a product leader with 25+ years of experience, strong engineering background, and deep expertise in identity, security, and consumer fraud. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Arkose Labs...

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Alastair Johnson

Nuggets

As an entrepreneur and innovator, Alastair believes that verified decentralized self-sovereign identity is transforming the relationships between individuals and institutions they interact with. He...

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Dr. Michael B. Jones

OpenID Foundation

Michael B. Jones is on a quest to build the Internet’s missing identity layer. He is an editor of the OpenID Connect specifications, IETF OAuth specifications, including JSON Web Token (JWT)...

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Benoît Jouffrey

Thales Digital Identity & Security

Benoît is actually the CTO of Thales Digital Identity & Security. He is in charge of the worldwide technical and innovation strategic plan and overall engineering...

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Alfredo Luiz dos Santos Junior

Farfetch

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...

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Gustaf Kaijser

SlashID

Gustaf Kaijser has experience from over 50 implementations of PBAC solutions from his time as Sales Director EMEA at Axiomatics (XACLM) and Styra (OPA). He currently works at Head of Sales...

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Krishna Balan Kannappan

KONE

16+ years of experience in Information Technology and worked on various technology frameworks and domains. Have extensive experience in Identity Access management domain. Having worked with many...

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Pieter Kasselman

Microsoft

Pieter Kasselman is a member of Microsoft’s Identity Standards team where he focus on developing standards to address the most important problems in the field of identity. Pieter has over 25 years’...

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Andrzej Kawalec

Vodafone Business

Andrzej Kawalec is the Head of Security Portfolio at Vodafone Business. Andrzej manages Vodafone Business’ global portfolio of security offerings. An inspirational and creative leader in the...

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Berthold Kerl

KuppingerCole

Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years....

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Suresh M. Khadakbhavi

Digi Yatra Foundation

CEO of Digi Yatra Foundation, an organization that provides Identity Credentials creation and sharing service for passengers, airports, airlines and others across India to enable a seamless,...

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Mike Kiser

SailPoint

Mike Kiser has held a panoply of industry positions over the past 20 years—from the Office of the CTO to Security Strategist to Security Analyst to Security Architect—that might imply...

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Dr. Heiko Klarl

iC Consult

Dr. Heiko Klarl has been in Identity and Access Management for more than fifteen years. He is driven by the motivation to bridge the gap between business and IT in order to create holistic...

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Dennis Kniep

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Dennis is the Domain Architect of Identity and Access Management. He has a background as a software engineer and spent a decade as lead developer in IAM and security projects.

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Dr. Silvia Knittl

PwC GmbH WPG

Dr. Silvia Knittl is Director at PwC Germany in the Cyber & Privacy domain with a strong focus on Enterprise Security Architecture as well as Identity & Access Governance. She...

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Alexander Koch

Yubico GmbH

Alexander is VP of sales in EMEA overseeing the DACH and CEE regions for Yubico. He is a technology industry veteran with over 20 years experience in enterprise technology, IT security, and strong...

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André Koot

SonicBee

André Koot is a Principal Consultant and Access Strategist at SonicBee. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of information security, and as an economist he practices this...

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Hed Kovetz

Silverfort

Hed Kovetz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Silverfort, the provider of the Unified Identity Protection platform. Prior to founding Silverfort, Hed served in product management positions at Verint,...

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Dr. André Kudra

IT Security Association Germany (TeleTrusT)

On a mission for decentralized identity & bit-heat confidential cloud. Decentralization visionary. Passion for information security since turn of millennium. Business-driven yet tech-savvy...

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Martin Kuppinger

KuppingerCole

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...

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Vadim Lander

Broadcom Software, IMS Division

Vadim Lander is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer for Symantec Identity Security at Broadcom. Vadim is a recognized IAM expert, having...

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James Lapalme

Entrust

James Lapalme is the VP/GM of Entrust. Before that, he was the CRO/SVP of Leonovus Inc. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Business Development at WinMagic.

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Alec Laws

IDENTOS

Alec Laws has led Spoke Technologies development and technology practice for 5 years and is currently IDENTOS Chief Technology Officer. With 10 years of experience as a talented mobile developer...

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Alejandro Leal

KuppingerCole

Alejandro joined KuppingerCole as a Research Analyst in December 2021. His main areas of expertise include digital transformation in the public and private sector, managing business in...

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Sarah Lefavrais

Thales

Sarah Lefavrais leads technology alliances within Thales’s IAM product marketing team. For the past several years, she has been fully involved in the Go to Market activities of Thales...

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Emma Lindley

Women in Identity, Caf

Emma Lindley is Managing Director of International Expansion for CAF a digital identity company located in Brazil, USA and UK. She is also co-founder and Chair of Women in Identity a not-for-profit...

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Stefan Lindner

ABB

Stefan Lindner, Global Identity and Access Manager, has approximately 20 years’ experience with ABB, focused strongly on implementation of ITSM frameworks for country, regional and global...

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Dr. Huan Liu

Cash App (Block Inc)

Huan Liu is the Head of Access Management for Cash App, the #1 financial app in the US. His team is responsible for AuthN and AuthZ and many foundation services such as Session and Passcode. Prior...

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Dr. Torsten Lodderstedt

yes IDP GmbH

Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is managing director at yes with more than 15 years experience in running large scale consumer identity services. In his previous positions, he helped organisations in...

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Tobias Looker

MATTR

Tobias is the CTO at MATTR. He has an engineering background and a passion for the digital identity and cybersecurity industry. He contributes to multiple emerging standards including the OpenID...

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Parya Lotfi

DuckDuckGoose

Parya is the co-founder of DuckDuckGoose and has a background in systems engineering and policy analysis. By combining her technical skills with her knowledge of Grand Challenges, she applies an...

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Michael Maier

iC Consult

Michael Maier is an experienced IAM consultant at iC Consult, the leading provider of identity and access management. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, he has a proven track record...

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Eve Maler

ForgeRock

Eve Maler is ForgeRock’s CTO. She is a globally recognized strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a passion for fostering successful...

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Viky Manaila

Intesi Group

Viky Manaila is an international expert in the field of electronic signatures, digital identity and digital transformation processes, who has successfully promoted the electronic business globally....

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Giuseppe De Marco

Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale

Giuseppe is an expert in Digital Identities, Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures and trust ecosystems, with a solid background in software development, systems administration and...

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Francesco Antonio Marino

Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS)

As an Innovation Manager and Solution Architect with a specific emphasis on Digital Identity, I bring over 15 years of experience in research and developing innovative digital products to the...

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Drs. Henk Marsman

SonicBee

Henk Marsman is independent researcher on Digital Identity and Ethics as well as principal consultant with SonicBee, an IAM Advisory Organization. Before that Henk was Global Service Owner Identity...

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Yaron Mazor

EffectiveIT

Yaron Mazor is an independent cybersecurity strategy consultant and architect with core experience in leading global PAM & MFT projects. Yaron founded EffectiveIT, a successful Israel-based...

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Patrick McBride

Beyond Identity

Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and...

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Tal Melamed

Contrast Security

With more than 15 years’ experience in Application and Serverless Security, Tal recently co-founded CloudEssence, a cloud-native Application Security company that was acquired by Contrast Security...

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Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt

KuppingerCole

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...

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Matteo Midena

Monokee

I’m Matteo Midena, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in September 2022 at Padua University with a degree of 110/110. I’m passionate about Web3, Cryptography and Decentralized...

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Jelle Millenaar

Impierce Technologies

Jelle is a Self-Sovereign Identity expert with the goal to make SSI technology accessible to all. As the former Lead of Identity at the IOTA Foundation, he led the team and architectural design of...

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Simon Molitor

Digitalsocial.ID

Simon is a 26 year old entrepreneur and co-founder of his company digitalsocial.id as well as a business student at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He spent the past years working in a...

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Kelly Moosman

ForgeRock

Kelly Moosman is a seasoned community builder and currently serves as the Director of Community Engagement for ForgeRock, a leading identity and access management software company. In this role,...

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Leonardo Morales

Siemens AG

Leonardo Morales is an IT Solution Architect and lead of Identity Lifecycle Management at Siemens AG. As an Architect with focus on Identity Lifecycle he is working in different areas from the...

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Michael Lind Mortensen

Bankdata

Michael is a leader in one of Denmark’s biggest banking consortiums, Bankdata, managing zero-trust decentralized authorization for 8 member banks and 2000+ APIs. Michael has also been a board...

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Nick Mothershaw

The Open Identity Exchange

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,...

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Fouad Mulla

Devoteam

Fouad is Cloud Security Lead Consultant in Devoteam with over 10 years of professional experience in the digital and software industry at global corporations, Fouad helped many businesses to govern...

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Patrick Münch

Mondoo

Patrick knows Security inside out. He is incredibly skilled at protecting and hacking every system he gets his hands on. His passion is hacking hardware and software as well as securing...

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Sanjay Nadimpalli

Tuebora Inc

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...

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Steffen Nagel

Frankfurter Volksbank

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James Naughton

DB Schenker

James leads DB Schenker’s global identity and access management team, delivering solutions to the IAM challenges of the logistics industry. His passion for creating usable software...

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Dr. Kim Nguyen

D-Trust GmbH

Dr. Kim Nguyen studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Göttingen (Germany) and Cambridge (UK) and received a Ph.D. in mathematics for his work on the relation between...

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Thorsten Niebuhr

WedaCon

With nearly 30 years experience in IT and in the fields of Directory Technologies, Identity Management and Data Privacy, Thorsten is a recognized expert in our industry. As a technical trainer,...

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Nick Nikols

OpenText I Cybersecurity

Nick has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry both in developing industry leading Identity and Cybersecurity solutions and as an industry analyst conducting research and...

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Steinar Noem

Udelt AS

I am a programmer at heart but spend my days on the softer parts of development. I work with enterprise/ecosystem architecture and business requirements related to digital identity in the...

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Huzefa Olia

1Kosmos

Huzefa is a leader in Identity & Access Management with twenty years of experience in running various roles across multiple software organizations. Prior to joining 1Kosmos, Huzefa led the...

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Rob Otto

Ping Identity

Rob is a Principal Architect for Ping Identity in the UK and also the EMEA representative to the Ping Identity CTO Office. Rob has 20 years experience in identity and access management. He has...

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Patrick Parker

EmpowerID

Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID, a company specializing in Identity and Access Management for over 20 years. He pioneered the unique use of Role and Attribute-Based Access...

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Andreas Pellengahr

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Andreas is passionately coordinating the IAM team in the Technology Office. He believes that Identities, Credentials and Authentication should be self-hosted and not in a cloud system.

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Filipi Pires

senhasegura

I’ve been working as Security and Threat Researcher and Cybersecurity Advocate at senhasegura, Founder at Black&White Technology, Snyk Ambassador, Application Security Specialist and...

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Shikha Porwal

KuppingerCole Analysts AG

Starting from a technical background in SSO testing, Shikha shifted to the planning design and analysis part of the IAM development life cycle. She joined KuppingerCole in 2021 after completing her...

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Dima Postnikov

ConnectID

Experienced Identity Architect focusing on anything identity, privacy, trust ecosystems design and identity standards development.

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John Pritchard

Radiant Logic

John is Chief Product Officer at Radiant Logic, responsible for the company’s global product vision and leading engineering, product and design. John joined Radiant Logic from Okta, where he...

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Denny Prvu

Royal Bank of Canada

Denny Prvu has been fortunate enough to work around the world with public and private sector organizations as a strategist, architect, and communicator on identity, security, and privacy topics for...

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Christie Pugh

KuppingerCole

Christie joined KuppingerCole in December 2022 as the Digital Products Manager. She is passionate about setting her colleagues, partners, and customers up for success by providing them with the...

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Aarthi Raghavendra

EmpowerID

Aarthi Raghavendra is a seasoned software architect and product manager with over 10 years of experience in the industry. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of...

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Akarshi Rastogi

KONE

Akarshi Rastogi ia a Code-savvy security engineer seeking to build secure, scalable solutions, with a passion for cybersecurity. Unlocking the possibilities of technology with 7+ years of...

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Drummond Reed

Gen Digital

Drummond has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Gen Digital, previous Avast after their acquisition of...

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Matthias Reinwarth

KuppingerCole

Matthias is Head of Advisory and oversees and leads the KuppingerCole advisory team. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias...

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Joerg Resch

KuppingerCole

Joerg Resch is Co-Founder & Managing Director at KuppingerCole. He looks back on over 20 years of experience in Identity Management related projects and their implementation...

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Michael Ribaudo

CyberIAM

Michael co-founded CyberIAM to pursue his passion for cybersecurity by providing solutions and professional services to many enterprise organisations, to ensure the success of their IAM and PAM...

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Justin Richer

Bespoke Engineering, LLC

Justin Richer is a security architect, software engineer, standards editor, and systems designer with over two decades of industry experience. He is the lead author of OAuth2 In Action and...

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Eleni Richter

EnBW

Eleni Richter is working as chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at EnBW and as lecturer in IAM at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She has been...

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Manfred Rieck

Deutsche Bahn AG

In 2019, Manfred Rieck set the course for Deutsche Bahn on quantum by founding a research group for quantum technologies. The group concentrates on the industrial usage of quantum computers for...

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Stephanus Rieger

BMW AG

Stephanus Rieger is an accomplished Product Owner at BMW AG, responsible for Identity and Access Management (IAM) products and services. With over a decade of experience in the field of...

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René Rindermann

E.ON

René Rindermann joined E.ON in 2000 after completing his Business Economics Studies, majoring in Business Information Systems. He worked as a Consultant, Sales Controller and Head of...

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Zaïda Rivai

Danube Tech GmbH

Zaïda Rivai is a highly skilled data scientist with a strong track record in the field. Currently working at Danube Tech GmbH, she leads the analyses of Global Decentralised Identifier (DID)...

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Luigi Rizzo

Cloud Signature Consortium

Luigi Rizzo studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Padua, Italy, where he received his master’s degree in 1988. Later he focused on the fields of security, cryptography, PKI,...

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Bryn Robinson-Morgan

Mastercard

Bryn Robinson-Morgan has worked at the forefront of digital transformation and consumer led innovation for over 20 years. He is a key influencer for how people transact and interact in the digital...

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Sebastian Rohr

umbrella.associates GmbH

While Sebastian has been known as author of multiple articles, reviews and essays on all kinds of Identity and Security topics, he has more recently made a name for himself as being the...

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Darran Rolls

KuppingerCole / Cloud 10

Mr. Darran Rolls is a research and advisory Fellow at KuppingerCole and an independent consulting advisor. He has a long history in Identity Management and Security at companies...

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Carla Roncato

Watchguard

Carla Roncato is WatchGuard’s Vice President of Identity. She is an industry expert in identity management, access management, open identity standards, data security, privacy, and zero-trust...

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Paolo De Rosa

Paolo is currently working as external consultant for the European Commision by developing the European Digital Identity Wallet. For the past 15 years Paolo has been designing and building secure...

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Tess Rutgers van Rozenburg - Rottier

Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy

Tess Rutgers van Rozenburg - Rottier is currently working as a strategic advisor for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the European Commission and various larger and...

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Nat Sakimura

OpenID Foundation

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...

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Martin Sandren

IKEA

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...

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Frank Schmaering

Saviynt

Frank Schmaering advises enterprises looking to modernise their IGA/IAM posture. He earned his technical stripes over 15+ years as a consultant in digital security/identity, authentication and...

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Philipp Schneidenbach

Ventum Consulting

Philipp Schneidenbach is working as Principal at Ventum Consulting in Munich. He specialises in the area of IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture and IT Service Management.Mr. Schneidenbach was...

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Christoph Schneider

Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Christoph Schneider is Head of IT Development and Operations at the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). In June 2017, Christoph joined the International Organization for...

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Max Schrems

Privacy Advocate

Chairman and founder of noyb, a ’privacy enforcement platform’ that brings data protection cases to the courts under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Schrems first came to notoriety as an...

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Sven Schreyer

PwC

Sven Schreyer is Director in the Cybersecurity & Privacy practice at PwC Germany and leads a team of experts in the area of Identity & Access Management (IAM) and IT Security. He has over...

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Ingo Schubert

RSA

Ingo Schubert joined RSA almost two decades ago and dealt with cryptographic toolkits and PKI until he discovered the identity and access management parts of RSA’s portfolio. His main...

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Steffen Schwalm

msg systems ag

Mr. Schwalm staudied Information Science and has been working for over 14 years in Management- and Technology Consulting in high regulated industries. Since October 2022 he is leading digital...

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Ina Schäfer

N3K

Ina Schäfer is a valuable asset to the N3K/Cygna Group, bringing with her over 17 years of experience in brand awareness and marketing. She is highly respected by both clients and employees...

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Carlo Schüpp

TrustBuilder

Carlo Schupp has a wealth of experience in security. At the beginning of this century, at the Belgian security scale up Ubizen, he built one of the first SaaS platforms in the world to analyze...

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Christopher Schütze

KuppingerCole

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...

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Dr. Giada Sciarretta

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Giada Sciarretta is a researcher of the Security & Trust research unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She obtained her MSc in mathematics at the University of Trento in 2012 and received her...

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Rachelle Sellung

Fraunhofer IAO

Rachelle Sellung is a Senior Scientist Researcher in the Identity Management Competence Team at Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart, Germany. She conducts socio-economic and user experience research on a...

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Fady Semaan

Capital One

Fady Semaan, Managing Vice President, Software Engineering, oversees Consumer Identity which is the foundation for every digital experience and interaction that customers have with Capital One. His...

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John Erik Setsaas

With over 25 years’ experience in digital identity, John Erik Setsaas is a pioneer in this space. He is a prolific speaker at fintech industry events around the world including Money20/20...

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Omer Shafiq

Nordivo

Omer is a tech architect turned entrepreneur with experience in digital identity ecosystems and a strong focus on self-sovereign identity. He has worked with various public and private sector...

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Vlad Shapiro

Costidity Inc

Vladislav is driven by a deep curiosity for understanding human behavior; especially at the intersection of technology and decision-making. A noted expert in IGA, Vlad is a founder of Costidity...

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Dr. Amir Sharif

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Amir Sharif is a researcher in the Security & Trust Research Unit of the Cybersecurity Center of Fondazione Bruno Kessler. He received his Ph.D. in Secure and Reliable Systems from...

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Jackson Shaw

Clear Skye

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...

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Patrick Shirazi

Swedbank

Patrick is the head architect of security at Swedbank. In this role, Patrick is leading the design of various IT solutions in Identity and Access Management, Cryptography, and Cybersecurity to make...

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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders

Independent

Jacoba is a digital identity expert, eager to make digital life better and a lot more secure than it is today. Keynote speaker at international IAM congresses and teacher of masterclasses. ...

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Andreas Sigurdsson

ZADA

Andreas Sigurdsson is the Founder and CEO of ZADA Solutions, a decentralised identity network and ecosystem in Southeast Asia. As an independent SSI Ecosystem, ZADA enables a unique cross-border...

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Anmol Singh

Microsoft

Anmol Singh is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft and brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience focused on IAM and related security technologies. Through his career, Singh has...

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Mike Small

KuppingerCole

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,...

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Markus Soppa

Filancore

Markus Soppa is Managing Director and co-founder of Filancore GmbH, which offers solutions for decentralized identities around the Internet of Things. Previously, as Chief Development Officer at...

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Annet Steenbergen

Government of Aruba

Annet Steenbergen is co-founder/initiator of the Aruba Happy Flow project for the Government of Aruba. The Happy Flow project was the first single token initiative that created a seamless flow of...

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Dr. Angelika Steinacker

IBM Security Services EMEA

Angelika has extensive experience in Security and Identity & Access Management. She has been working in the security industry for over 30 years and with a focus on IAM for 20 years. In her...

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Rolf Steinbrück

Yubico

Rolf Steinbrück is a Senior Solutions Engineer in DACH and CEE at Yubico. Before joining the company, Rolf worked at Sophos for over 17 years. There, he was responsible as Professional...

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Michiel Stoop

Philips

Michiel Stoop is since 2015 domain lead Identity and Access management in Philips Group Security – Information Security and has over 10 years’ experience in the domain Identity and...

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Allen Storey

Intercede

Allen has 30 years IT experience, including roles at Prima Software Solutions, Labinal Group and Corah Plc, with more than 20 years focusing on digital identity. As Chief Product Officer for...

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Maarten Stultjens

Thales Digital Identity and Security

Maarten is VP Global Enablement IAM at Thales Digital Identity and Security. He has a passion for identity and access management (IAM) and information security. On a daily basis he is in close...

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Dr. Carsten Stöcker

Spherity

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...

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Prof. Dr. Shigeya Suzuki

Keio University

Shigeya Suzuki is a researcher with expertise in computer networks, distributed systems, and software development. He is an active member of W3C’s DID and VC WG and is one of the key designers of...

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Dr. Evelyne Sørensen, LL.M.

activeMind.legal

Dr. Evelyne Sørensen, LL.M. specializes in international data protection law. As a business lawyer at the law firm activeMind.legal she enables international groups and companies to handle...

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Oliver Terbu

Spruce Systems, Inc.

Oliver Terbu holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Technical University of Graz. He has been working in the Digital Identity space for about a decade and was involved as chair, lead editor,...

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Don Thibeau

OpenID Foundation

Don Thibeau serves on the Board of the OpenID Foundation, a non-profit, standards development organization committed to international interoperable technical standards. He was OIDF’s...

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Ricky Thiermann

Spherity

Ricky Thiermann is product owner with a great interest in green innovation topics and particularly decentralized identities. At Spherity he is dealing with the new standards of decentralized...

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Andrew Tobin

Gen Digital

Andrew Tobin specialises in digital wallet strategy and innovation. At Evernym he was part of the team that defined and built self-sovereign identity tooling for everyone. He has been a key leader...

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John Tolbert

KuppingerCole

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...

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Alastair Treharne

Beruku Identity / UK Government advisor on digital identity

Alastair is an expert advisor on digital identity with a background in business, political and security risk, working on UK and international initiatives across the humanitarian, development,...

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Thomas Treml

Microsoft

Thomas Treml leads Technology and Strategy in Public Sector Microsoft Germany, he joined Microsoft in 2007. Educated in Sociology and Computer Science, he spent his entire professional career in...

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Samuel López Trenado

Holcim Emea Digital Center

Samuel is a cybersecurity professional passionate about the Identity and access management subjects. During his professional career in Holcim, he worked several years in the directories...

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Atul Tulshibagwale

SGNL

Atul is a federated identity pioneer and the inventor of the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP), forming the basis of the Shared Signals and Events working group in the OpenID Foundation,...

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Aubrey Turner

Ping Identity

Aubrey Turner has extensive background successfully delivering strategic, enterprise cyber security solutions to Fortune 1000 companies that addresses business problems, strengthens organizations,...

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Mayur Upadhyaya

Contxt

Mayur is the CEO of Contxt, a privacy layer for customer identity. Previously he was AVP Identity Cloud at Akamai technologies where he led the former Janrain team after acquisition. In 2014 he...

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Marco Venuti

Thales

Marco Venuti is IAM Enablement and Acceleration Director at Thales Group. Marco has 20+ years of direct experience in Identity & Security, having worked for multiple solution vendors in Sales...

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Jan Verbeek

Gemeente Den Haag

Jan is a Senior Business / IT architect with extensive experience in the IT Sector, both nationally and internationally. He gained his experience in government orginazations and business. Jan is...

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Bastiaan Verdonk

Quest Software

Bastiaan is an avid computer expert with over 28 years in the IT industry, with a special focus on Active Directory and the evolving state of cyber security. He has a varied technology background...

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Cristiana Vicovan

EmpowerID

Cristiana is an accomplished professional with a strong background in both chemistry and technology. She holds an MS in Chemistry, with a focus on green chemistry and sustainable materials, and...

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Helene Vigue

GSMA

Helene Vigue is Identity and Data Director at the GSMA. Since 2014 she has been assisting mobile operators worldwide with their mobile identity initiatives. Her purpose is to connect the mobile...

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Martina Vollmer

Microsoft

Martina Vollmer is a Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering for Identity and Power Platform at Microsoft, with combining security and automation with low/no code development. Her background in...

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David Waite

Ping Identity

David is a Principal Architect at Ping Identity. He has 20 years experience in the identity space, focused mostly on federated and decentralized identity technologies. His current focus is on...

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Dr. Horst Walther

SiG software Integration

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...

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Dr. Sarah Walton

International ID Code of Conduct Programme Manager, Women in Identity

Dr. Sarah Walton is a digital consultant, author, coach, and public speaker. She founded Counterpoint in 2003 to support organisations to become digital, innovate and grow. Since 1994, Sarah has...

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Sadrick Widmann

cidaas

Sadrick Widmann joined the company to transform his management and IT talent into a compelling and intelligent customer solution. As the CEO of Widas ID, together with Yael Widmann he is...

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Klaas Wierenga

GÉANT

Klaas is Chief Information & Technology Officer, at GÉANT, the association of European National Research and Education Networks. He is responsible for the “above-the-net”...

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Graham Williamson

KuppingerCole

Graham Williamson is a senior Analyst at KuppingerCole. Graham has practical experience in the identity management and access control industry having completed assignments in the academic,...

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Candace Worley

Ping Identity

Candace Worley joined Ping Identity as Chief Product Officer (CPO) in May of 2020. As CPO, she is responsible for advancing global product vision, leading technical product innovation efforts and...

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Dr. Dirk Woywod

Verimi

Dr. Dirk Woywod has been Managing Director and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Verimi GmbH since 2018 a leading ID-Wallet provider in Germany. After completing his PhD in theoretical physics at...

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John Wunderlich

John Wunderlich & Associates

John Wunderlich is a data protection professional and expert witness who has worked and consulted about privacy, data protection, and security for over 20 years in multiple jurisdictions. He has...

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Stefan Würtemberger

Marabu Inks

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...

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Mehmet Yaliman

Ping Identity

After studying Bioinformatics, Mehmet found himself as a developer, and shortly thereafter he changed his focus to the Identity space, where has been working for over a decade now, spending time in...

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Kristina Yasuda

Microsoft

Kristina is an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft, known for her work on standards in decentralized identity ecosystem: as an editor of OpenID for Verifiable Credentials specifications in...

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Dr. Mattia Zago

Monokee

Mattia Zago holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Murcia, Spain, with particular dedication in Machine Learning applications to cybersecurity; he works at Monokee (Rovereto, Italy)...

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Yaron Zehavi

Raiffeisen Bank International AG

Yaron Zehavi has 20 years of experience designing and developing technology solutions. Yaron has been focused on the financial services sector since 2004. Yaron is Customer IAM...

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Gerhard Zehethofer

Secret Double Octopus

Gerhard is passionate about technology and the role it can play in improving people’s lives. As a digital identity native, he is focusing on helping organizations to solve the identity access...

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Erik van Zuuren

Trustcore.EU, Solvay.EDU

Erik has years of experience/expertize in amongst others: Governance/Risk/Compliance, eGovernment/eBusiness/eBanking, Trust Services and Trusted/Trustworthy (eco-)systems, Enterprise (Security)...

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