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Hammad Ul Haq Abbasi
Software Architect
EmpowerID
Hammad Ul-Haq Abbasi is an accomplished Software Architect at EmpowerID, with a deep-rooted background in the tech industry for over 14 years. His career highlights include significant...
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Soujanya Ain
Senior Product Marketing Manager
GitGuardian
Soujanya Ain is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at GitGuardian, where she bridges deep technical insight with strategic storytelling to drive the future of secrets security and machine...
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Sergio Albea
Security Architect /Enginner
SWITCH
With over 15 years of experience, I have immersed myself in the dynamic field of security, focusing on diverse IT landscapes and ensuring robust protection against threats and vulnerabilities. My...
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Deniz Algin
Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
Deniz joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as an Advisor in August 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from the University of Applied Science and Arts in Hannover....
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Bjarke Alling
Principal Advisor
Epical Group
Principal Advisor with the Nordic Digital Trust consulting company Epical. Prior chair and member of the National Danish Cybersecurity Council and prior chair of the IT Security Committee at The...
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Janak Amarasena
Technical Lead
WSO2
Janak is a Technical Lead at WSO2, specializing in the design and development of WSO2’s Identity and Access Management products. With over six years of experience in the IAM domain, he is dedicated...
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Warwick Ashford
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Dr Paul Ashley
CTO
Anonyome Labs
Dr Paul Ashley is CTO at Anonyome Labs. The company brings technology to everyday users that allow them to interact online and offline in safety, privacy and control. Paul’s responsibilities...
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Marie Austenaa
Head of Digital Identity
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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Ayelet Avni
VP Product Managment
Ping Identity
Ayelet Avni leads Identity Trust services at Ping Identity, overseeing Strong Authentication, Risk and Fraud, Identity Verification, and Decentralized Identity solutions. With over 20 years of...
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Alexandre Babeanu
Lead Product Manager, Access Management
Indykite
Alex is a seasoned expert with nearly a decade of experience in leveraging graph databases for Identity and Access Management (IAM). As a certified graph and IAM consultant, he has successfully...
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David Baier
Solution Architect
Ping Identity
Since 2022 David Baier is part of the EMEA solution architects team. David uses his over 10 years experience in IT sector and Digital Transformation to help prospects find their fitting solution...
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Alexei Balaganski
Lead Analyst & CTO
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Ankur Banerjee
Co-chair of Technical Steering Committee
Decentralized Identity Foundation
Ankur is an engineering and product management leader with deep expertise in digital identity and decentralised systems. He has a solid background in software development innovation as a...
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Paul Bastian
Senior Innovation Developer
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
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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Manmeet Bawa
Partner Director Product Management
Microsoft
Manmeet Bawa is Director of Product Management in Microsoft’s Identity and Network Access division. She leads the team responsible for the strategy and delivery of Entra ID Governance,...
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Ivo van Bennekom
EMEA Impact Center Leader Digital Identity
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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Matthew Berzinski
Senior Product Management Director
Ping Identity
As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the PingIdentity product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and...
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Andrea Beskers
Senior Project Manager Events
KuppingerCole Analysts
Andrea Beskers joined KuppingerCole’s Events Team as Project Manager in June 2021, with a focus on Content and Agenda. In March 2022 she was promoted to Senior Project Manager in Event...
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Alexander G. Bielowski
Lead Architect – EUDI Programme NL
Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations
Alexander Bielowski started his career as university teacher, research assistant and jr. coordinator of the project E-Culture Net under the 5th Framework Programme. Over the years, he worked as...
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Christian Bormann
Architect Identity & Cryptography
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Christian Bormann is an architect for digital identity and cryptography, currently working for the german EU Digital Identity Wallet project. With an MSc in Computer Science from RWTH...
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Kai Boschert
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Sam Brackenridge
Global Product Manager
Vodafone Group
Sam has spent the last 4 years developing a Managed Security Service portfolio to serve SMB customers, with a focus on IAM. As part of this, Sam’s led the successful development of AI initiatives...
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John Bradley
Distinguished Architect
Yubico
Mr. Bradley is an Identity Management subject matter expert and IT professional with a diverse background. Mr. Bradley has over 15 years experience in the information technology and identity...
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Nicole Breyer
Product Manager
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Nicole holds a Master’s degree in Digital Innovation (ICT) and has over 8 years of experience building and scaling digital products across startups and companies like SIXT, Dell EMC and...
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Tobin Broadfoot
Product Director
Keyless
Tobin is an experienced product leader with deep expertise in product management, fintech, and identity & fraud prevention. As Product Director at Keyless, he drives innovation in...
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David Brossard
Chief Technology Officer
Axiomatics AB
In his role as CTO, David drives the technology vision and strategy for Axiomatics based on both identity and access management (IAM) market trends as well as customer feedback. He also leads the...
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Andrew Bud
Founder & CEO iProov
iProov Ltd
Andrew is a technology entrepreneur and leader with a career spanning more than 30 years. He founded iProov in 2011 to solve the growing issue of establishing trust online, and how people can...
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Mark Medum Bundgaard
Chief Product Officer
Partisia
Mark is the Chief Product Officer at Partisia, an innovative Software company from Denmark developing Privacy Enhancing Technology.Mark has extensive experience with distributed systems in...
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Dr. Vladimir Bunic
Global Cyber Physical Security Expert
Nestlé
Vladimir Bunic, Ph.D., is a distinguished Converged Security Expert at Nestlé, based in Barcelona, Spain. With a robust background in cybersecurity, physical security, and risk management,...
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Marc Bütikofer
Head of Innovation
Airlock by Ergon Informatik AG
Marc Bütikofer is Head of Innovation for the Airlock Security products from Ergon Informatik. After graduating from ETH Zurich with a degree in computer science, he joined Ergon Informatik AG...
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Dr. Jonathan Care
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Jonathan Care is an expert in Cybersecurity and fraud Detection and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He regularly advises cybersecurity industry leaders on strategic growth and has worked...
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Joseph Carson
Chief Security Researcher
Wiretrap
Joseph Carson is an award-winning cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 30 years’ experience in enterprise security specialising in blockchain, endpoint security,...
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Luigi Castaldo
Director Business Unit Wallet Ecosystem & Certified Communication
Namirial
Luigi Castaldo serves as the Director of the Business Unit Wallet Ecosystem & Certified Communication at Namirial - a pan-European Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP), where he leads the...
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Osman Celik
Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Brian Chappell
CPO
One Identity
Brian joined One Identity in March 2023 and is responsible for the overall product strategy and execution. During a 35-year career, Brian has held senior roles in a number of companies from small...
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Prem Cherklevich
CEO
Relock
Prem is the CEO and co-founder of Relock, the passive authentication company. Relock’s new technology allows CISOs to make all their users, internal and external, phishing- and session hijacking...
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Lalit Choda
Founder
Non-Human Identity Management Group
Lalit Choda is the founder of the Non-Human Identity Mgmt Group where he evangelises and influences the industry around NHI risks. Lalit has unique hands on 25+ years practitioner experience,...
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Kay Chopard
Executive Director
Kantara Initiative
Ms. Kay Chopard is the Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a unique global ‘commons’ that operates conformity assessment,...
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Wenjing Chu
Senior Director of Technology Strategy
Futurewei Technologies
Wenjing leads Futurewei’s technology strategy and collaborates with various open source communities and organizations to advance digital trust in the age of Artificial Intelligence. He is an...
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Bartosz Cieszewski
Solutions Architect
Secfense
Bartosz Cieszewski is an established Solutions Architect at Secfense. With a background from Kazimierz Wielki University and the Maritime Academy in Gdynia, and over a decade of experience in the...
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Adam Cooper
Director
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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Florin Coptil
Digital Identities & Organisation Wallet Expert
Robert Bosch GmbH
Florin Coptil is an expert in digital identities and organizational wallets at Robert Bosch GmbH, with over 25 years of experience in software product development and business development across...
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Andrea D'Intino
CEO and Co-Founder
Forkbomb B.V.
CEO and Co-Founder of Forkbomb B.V.. Passionate about cryptography and digital identity, I specialize in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and EUDI-ARF. My work spans PQC transitions, digital...
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Konrad Degen
Product Manager Digital Identities
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Konrad Degen is a Product Manager in the German EUDI Wallet project at the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. In this role, he focuses on the economic and organizational design of...
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Dr. Dominik Deimel
Managing Director
Wallet Experts GmbH
As the former founder of comuny, a start-up with its own wallet application and board member of the digital identities working group at bitkom, I have been working on the topic of decentralised...
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Nitish Deshpande
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Fabrice Deval
Founder & Managing Director
CornerStone Consulting
From the onset of my career, I’ve always loved to explore, fix and build. This applies not only to forging trust-based relationships and helping organizations navigating the rapidly changing...
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Sanjay Dharwadker
Digital Identity Expert
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Sanjay Dharwadker is the Senior Digital Identity Officer in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) based in Copenhagen. He also works on global identity standards...
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Gal Diskin
VP, Identity Threat & Research
Delinea
Gal is the Head of Delinea Labs (the research arm of Delinea) and VP Product management for threat products. Previously, he co-founded Authomize and served as its CTO. Gal is an expert in...
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Adrian Doerk
Co-Founder
Lissi
With over a decade of expertise in digital wallets, specializing in the European digital identity wallet (EUDI-Wallet) under eIDAS 2.0 regulation, I create innovative solutions that enhance...
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Erick Macedo Domingues
Country Manager - Brazil Manager
Raidiam
Erick, a recipient of the DIAF Vittorio Bertocci Award, is a digital identity professional with global experience developing and implementing data-sharing ecosystems. Since 2020, while at...
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Katryna Dow
CEO & Founder
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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Petr Dvorak
CEO
Wultra s.r.o.
Petr Dvorak is the founder and CEO of Wultra, a cybersecurity company that delivers modern, post-quantum authentication systems for the banking and fintech sectors. Before embarking on his...
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Fabian Eberle
COO & Co-Founder
Keyless
Fabian Eberle is Co-Founder and COO at Keyless, the leader in privacy-preserving biometric authentication. Fabian founded Keyless alongside world renowned security and privacy experts, its patented...
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Fraser Edwards
CEO & co-founder
cheqd
Fraser Edwards is pioneering the development of the cheqd network that empowers businesses to create and leverage digital credentials while addressing the commercial challenges of self-sovereign...
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Stina Ehrensvärd
Co-Founder
Yubico
Stina Ehrensvard is the CEO and Founder of Yubico, and co-inventor of the YubiKey – a small device that makes strong two-factor authentication easy and affordable for everyone. She is...
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Anders Eknert
Developer Relations Lead
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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Richard Esplin
Member
DIF Community Member
Richard Esplin is a seasoned product leader specializing in digital identity, open source software, and enterprise solutions. Currently serving as Head of Product at Dock, he leads product...
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Dani Estermann
Head of Product Management
Airlock by Ergon Informatik AG
Dani Estermann has been working with application security for 15 years. As a former software engineer, he knows how difficult it is to write secure applications. As a technical consultant and...
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Grant Evans
SVP Europe
Arcon
Grant heads the European region for Arcon. He has previously held strategic leadership positions at Novell, NetIQ, Saviynt & Sailpoint.
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Anna Fernezian
Senior Product Manager - IAM Services
IBM Security Services
Anna Estadt Fernezian has been in the identity and access management industry for over 20 years with experiences in commercial and global identity solutions including 10 years in product/services...
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Dr. Daniel Fett
Identity Solution Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
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
Lead Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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
Principal
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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Allan Foster
Chief Evangelist
Identity Evangelist
Allan Foster helped build ForgeRock into a multinational identity software vendor culminating with its listing on the NYSE in Sept 2021. Allan’s deep technical knowledge was well used in all...
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Andreas Freitag
Co-CEO
Procivis AG
Since 2018, Andreas directed his focus towards Decentralized Identities, displaying a deep commitment to cutting-edge technological advancements. Andreas was appointed as co-CEO at Procivis AG...
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Hideaki Furukawa
Senior Security Consultant
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd
Actively contributing as a Senior Security Consultant at Nomura Research Institute Ltd, proficiently skilled in areas encompassing digital identity and digital trust.
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Diego Galletti
Enterprise Architect
Quad
Diego is an Expert Enterprise Architect at Quad, a U.S.-based company offering integrated services from creative production to data-driven media management, serving over 2,700 clients. He has over...
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Mihails Galuška
Global IAM Product Manager
If P&C Insurance
Since 2021, Mihails has managed the portfolio of customer and partner identity-related services for If P&C Insurance, the largest insurance group in the Nordics and Baltics. He leads the...
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Elizabeth Garber
Founder
Humanitech Consulting
Elizabeth Garber is an entrepreneur and thought leader working towards human-centric, rights-enhancing identity ecosystems. She has led three collaborations focused on high-trust, globally...
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Ing. Robert Garskamp
IAM Manager
Alliander
With the enormous speed of technological digitalisation transformation nowadays, Robert believes that it will influence, constitute and shape our society where you are able to control your identity...
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Darrell Geusz
Product Lead, Neo
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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Ian Glazer
Founder
Weave Identity
Ian Glazer is the Vice President of Product Strategy at SGNL. Prior to joining SGNL, Ian founded the advisory services firm, Weave Identity. Previously in his career, Ian was the Senior Vice...
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Daniel Goldscheider
Founder and ED
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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Boris Goranov
CEO
Ubiqu
Boris Goranov is involved in security since 1999, as a white hack hacker, hacking smart cards at The TNO Institute. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Delft...
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Benoit Grangé
Chief Technology and Product Officer
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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Matt Graves
Identity and Privacy Evangelist
OpenText Cybersecurity
With over three decades of experience in information security, Matt stands as an experienced cybersecurity leader with a diverse background across industries such as financial services, retail...
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Martin Greck-Riederer
Enterprise Process Owner Identity Management
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Martin Greck-Riederer is working as Enterprise Process Owner for Identity Management at Boehringer Ingelheim (a large pharmaceutical company). In this position he is responsible to design...
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Guido Grillenmeier
Principal Technologist
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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Nigel Guest
Head of Identity & Access Management
Lonza AG
Originally from the UK, Nigel brings over 20 years of expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), shaped by a development and architectural background. Having spent two decades in Sweden and...
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Priya Guliani
CEO
EarthID
Priya Guliani is the CEO of EarthID, a multi-award-winning cybersecurity platform specializing in decentralized identity and fraud prevention. She also serves as the EMEA Director for the...
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Jason Gzym
VP Solutions Engineering and Advisory
Pathlock
Jason has over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity field and currently leads the global solution engineering and advisory teams at Pathlock. He has a rich background that includes senior...
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Jaye Hackett
CTO
Vouchsafe
Jaye is a co-founder of Vouchsafe, a tech-for-good company building inclusive identity verification.They are a designer and technologist familiar with large-scale digital trust systems, including...
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Mark Haine
Director
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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Dennis Hannemann
Head of Regulatory Strategy & Digital Identity (EUBW)
Bundesanzeiger Verlag - Germany‘s Company Register and Use Case Lead of WE BUILD Consortium
Dennis Hannemann has been working for Bundesanzeiger Verlag since 2016 and is currently responsible a.o. for the introduction of digital organisazitonal identities and the European Business Wallet...
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Andrew Hartnett
CTO
One Identity
I’m a Software Engineering Executive, Product Owner, and Transformation Leader who builds world-class development organizations that bring innovative cloud, security, and data...
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Joseph Heenan
Standards Specialist & Certification Director
OpenID Foundation
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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Manuel Heinkel
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Manuel is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with software companies in Germany to build innovative and secure applications in the cloud. With his expertise in security and...
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Gal Helemski
Co-Founder & CPO
PlainID
Gal Helemski is co-founder and CTO/CPO at PlainID and a highly recognized and acclaimed cyber security expert. She plays a key role at PlainID as a strategic leader, visionary and evangelist while...
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Ulrich Herberg
Senior Director of Engineering
eBay
Ulrich Herberg is a Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of Identity at eBay, leading the company on all topics related to Identity, such as two-factor authentication, IAM, user...
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Klaus Hild
Manager Advisory Engineering
SailPoint Technologies
Klaus Hild has been involved in the constant changes in the identity and access management environment since the late 1990s. In various roles, he has initiated numerous customer projects, described...
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Andrew Hindle
Founder & CEO
Hindle Consulting
Andrew is an independent consultant focusing on digital identity, privacy, cyber security, and corporate governance. He is the Identiverse Conference Chair, serves as a non-executive member of the...
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Christina Hirsch
Executive Vice President & President of the Board of Digital Trust Business
Swisscom
Christina has more than 20 years management experience including for Swisscom, Vodafone and Sony. Christina has led in both operational and strategic areas including Digital Transformation, Digital...
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Gail Hodges
Executive Director
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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John Horn
Director, Cybersecurity Practice
Datos Insights
John Horn leads the Cybersecurity practice at Datos Insights, which provides valuable cybersecurity and identity research, insights, and advisory services to financial services firms. In...
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Jeff Hu
Founder & CEO
Turing Space
CEO & Founder of Turing Space. Dialogue Speaker at United Nations Social Forum Geneva 2023. MEng’20 at UC Berkeley IEOR FinTech and Scholar at Blockchain X-Lab. GGLI Fellow Teaching at Hosei...
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Andrew Hughes
VP of Global Standards
FaceTec
Andrew Hughes has been consulting and working on standardization of digital credentials, face biometric verification, mobile driving licenses, identity and access management, and information...
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Steve Hutchinson
Director of Security Architecture
Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo
Steve “Hutch” Hutchinson is the Director of Security Architecture at MUFG. After cutting his teeth in C/C++ software development and network engineering, Hutch spent a decade as an...
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Yasuyuki Imai
Senior Product Manager of Business Development for DID/VC
MUTB
Yasuyuki Imai is the Head of Business Development for Decentralized Identifier and Verifiable Credential at MUTB. Starting in 2022, he was focusing on DID/VC, conducting research, technical PoC,...
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Vincenzo Iozzo
CEO
SlashID
Vincenzo Iozzo is the CEO and Co-founder of SlashID, a leading identity-security company. Prior to SlashID, he founded Iperlane, a mobile-security company acquired by CrowdStrike in 2017. While...
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Rew Islam
Director of Innovation
Dashlane
Rew is the Director of Product Innovation at Dashlane, with over 20 years of software development experience. After a decade at Dashlane working on mobile apps, he now leads projects focussed on...
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Puria Izady
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Puria is a Solutions Architect at AWS, helping software companies in Germany build innovative SaaS solutions. With a background in machine learning and generative AI, he brings technical expertise...
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Jihyun Jang
Head of Overseas Business and Business Planning
Lordsystem
Jihyun is the Head of Overseas Business and Business Planning at Lordsystem. She has led multiple government projects in collaboration with organizations such as the Korea Tourism Organization and...
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Santhosh Jayaprakash
Founder & CEO
Unosecur
Santhosh is the founder of Unosecur, a next-gen cybersecurity startup focused on protecting enterprises from identity-based threats in the cloud era. A serial tech entrepreneur by passion, Santhosh...
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Alastair Johnson
Member
DIF Community Member
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
Principal
Self-Issued Consulting
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) and...
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Lee Jones
Business Development Manager
Kantara Initiative
Certified Privacy Professional, Incident Manager and Auditor with over 25yrs experience in FTSE 100 Blue Chip Organization.
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Cor de Jonge
Teamlead & Business Owner PKI & Chair ICAO PKD
Judicial Information Service, Ministry of Justice and Security & ICAO
I’m leading the PKI expertise team of the Judicial Information Service of the Ministry of Security and Justice – the only PKI expertise team of the Dutch government. I’m...
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Loffie Jordaan
Business Solutions Architect
AAMVA - American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Loffie Jordaan is a Business Solutions Architect at AAMVA. He currently focuses on digital identity management, including mobile driver’s licenses and the ecosystem required to make them...
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Diana Jovin
Chief Marketing Officer
Teleport
Diana Jovin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Teleport, where she is championing the vision of Infrastructure Identity and its foundational impact on delivering trusted computing in distributed...
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Malte Kahrs
Founder & CEO
MTRIX GmbH
Malte Kahrs is the founder and managing director of MTRIX GmbH, a company that is supporting businesses in the selection, implementation, and operation of authentication solutions since 2006,...
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Jason Keenaghan
Director of Product Management
Thales
Jason Keenaghan is the Director of Product Management for Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision and delivering on the strategy of a unified...
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Mike Kiser
Director, Strategy and Standards
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
CEO
Nexis
Dr. Heiko Klarl is the CEO of Nexis and a distinguished expert in Identity and Access Management (IAM) with 20 years of experience. With a strong background in cybersecurity, Heiko excels in...
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Grace Klutke
Associate Director of Programs
The Global Pro Bono Bar Association & The OpenID Foundation
Grace Klutke is a United States lawyer passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and human rights. As a recipient of the Kim Cameron Award, Grace is devoted to exploring digital...
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Dr. Silvia Knittl
Director Cyber & Privacy
PwC GmbH WPG
Dr. Silvia Knittl is a Director at PwC Germany in the Cyber & Privacy domain and leads the EMEA community of Enterprise Security Architects and develops innovative solutions for...
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Hed Kovetz
CEO & Co-Founder
Silverfort
Hed Kovetz is the CEO & Co-Founder of Silverfort, the provider of the Silverfort Identity Security Platform. Prior to founding Silverfort, Hed served in product management positions at Verint,...
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Micha Kraus
Senior Innovation Developer
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Micha Kraus is a computer scientist (M.Sc) and a longtime member of the innovation department at Bundesdruckerei. He drives solutions for the mobile use of secure digital identities, focusing on...
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Arkadiusz Krowczynski
Principal Product Acceleration Specialist
Okta
With 25 years of IT experience, Arkadiusz is a product and security strategist at Okta. As a Principal Product Acceleration Specialist and veteran global speaker, he now focuses on the next...
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Lisa Kuo
Senior Product Manager
Rabobank
Lisa is a seasoned professional with over 12 years of experience in IAM. She is currently working as a Senior Product Manager in Rabobank with a focus on NHI management. Throughout her career,...
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Janne Kuparinen
Tech Lead, IAM
SOK
Currently working as Tech Lead at S Group’s IAM Program. Helping S Group with IAM, PAM, security and cloud related projects. Before I joined SOK again, I was leading Nordcloud’s Digital...
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Martin Kuppinger
Principal Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Nick Lambert
CEO
Dock Labs AG
Nick Lambert has been working in the technology sector his entire career and specifically focussed on distributed technology since 2011. Nick is the CEO and co-founder of Dock Labs, the...
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Jost Langheinrich
Product Manager Digital
SRG SSR
Jost Langheinrich currently serves as Product Manager Digital at SRG SSR since January 2023. Prior experience includes a tenure at SWR from October 2008 to January 2023, where Jost held multiple...
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Alejandro Leal
Lead Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
Background and Education Alejandro holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Security from Jagiellonian University in Poland and a Master’s degree in Technology...
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Jon Lehtinen
General Manager
UberEther
Jon Lehtinen has 20 years of experience practicing identity security in large corporations like General Electric and Thomson Reuters, as well as within IAM security vendors such as Okta. He builds...
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Herbert Leitold
Director
A-SIT
Herbert Leitold is Director of A-SIT, Secure Information Technology Center Austria, a public funded association advising the public sector on information security. He has 25+ years’...
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Jörg Lenz
Head of Marketing and Communication
Namirial
Jörg Lenz is Head of Marketing and Communication at Namirial, one of the leading global providers of qualified trust services and electronic signature workflows. Since 1999, he has been...
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Slávek Licehammer
Head of Engineering
Evolveum
Slávek Licehammer is the Head of Engineering at Evolveum, the creator of the leading open source identity governance and administration (IGA) platform, midPoint. With more than a decade of...
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Roni Lichtman
Project Lead
OWASP Foundation
Roni Lichtman is the Project Leader of the OWASP Non-Human Identities (NHI) Top 10 project, an initiative addressing the security challenges of non-human identities. With a background as a senior...
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Dr. Rolf Lindemann
Vice President Products
Nok Nok Labs
Dr. Rolf Lindemann is responsible for the development and strategy of the company’s products and solutions. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in product management, R&D and...
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Jan Lindquist
CEO and Data Privacy Technical Advisor
Linaltec
Jan Lindquist has been involved since 2018 in development of next generation consent and certification based on distributed ledger (blockchain) with full transparency and accountability towards the...
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Karima Lippert
Product Owner Communication | EUDI Wallet
PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH WPG
Karima is an expert in change management and strategic communication with a strong focus on digital transformation. In recent years, she has helped shape key digital identity projects such as...
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Tim Lipphardt
Head of Consulting
amiconsult GmbH
Tim heads the consulting department of amiconsult, a full-service provider in the field of Identity and Access Management. For the past eight years, he has been helping organisations set their IAM...
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Dr. Torsten Lodderstedt
Project Lead for Germany’s EU Digital Identity Wallet
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is a Digital Identity Architect with more than 15 years experience in developing and running large scale consumer identity services. He currently works for the German...
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Timm Lotter
Head of Solution Engineering
Unosecur
As Head of Solution Engineering at Unosecur, Timm has over ten years of experience in identity security. He is passionate about combating identity-based attacks, which account for a staggering 80%...
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Laurent Loup
Market Sector Senior Manager – Identity
SICPA SA
In 2016, Laurent joined SICPA Identity & Document Security division as a product manager responsible for SICPA Digital Trust Suite (SICPA SSI platform). He has worked in corporate strategy in...
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Anna Lyubchenko
Senior Manager, NL Domain Lead in CIAM
PwC
As NL CIAM Domain lead of PwC’s Digital Identity Team, Anna helps shape and execute strategies in the Dutch market and across Europe. With a team of highly intelligent and experienced...
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David Magård
Senior Advisor
Swedish Companies Registration Office
David Magård is working as senior advisor and AI lead Swedish Companies Registration Office, Sweden. David holds a LL.M and has worked several of years at the Swedish Government Offices with...
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Timo Majaneva
IAM architect, Identity and Device Management
SOK AID
I am an Identity and Access Management (IAM) architect with a strong passion for designing secure and scalable solutions that empower both businesses and individuals to achieve their goals with...
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Eve Maler
Digital identity futurist and strategist
Venn Factory
Eve is a globally recognized pioneer in identity and access management and standards, with roots in semi-structured data modeling and the API economy and a passion for fostering successful...
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Viky Manaila
President
Cloud Signature Consortium
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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Henk Marsman
Principal Consultant
SonicBee
Henk Marsman is both independent researcher as well as principal consultant at SonicBee. Having spend over 20 years in cybersecurity and specifically identity and access management he still advises...
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Ricardo Martins
CEO
Cloudcomputing
Ricardo Martins is the CEO of Cloudcomputing, where he leads a highly specialized team dedicated to securing identity journeys, with offices in London, Madrid, and Lisbon. He also serves on the...
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Steven McCown
Chief Architect
Anonyome Labs
Steven McCown is a Chief Architect at Anonyome Labs and conducts R&D for security and privacy technologies, including: encrypted messaging, decentralized identity, reusable credentials,...
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Hila Meller
Co-Founder Leading Cyber Ladies
President and CRO iC Consult
A savvy public speaker and an advocate for diversity in tech. Co-founder of Leading Cyber Ladies, a global movement promoting diversity in Cyber Security. Recognized as a subject matter expert by...
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Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt
Lead Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Bartosz Miazga
Security Architect
BNP Paribas Bank Polska
Bartosz Miazga is a Security Architect at BNP Paribas Bank Polska with a strong background in cybersecurity, authentication mechanisms, and web security. A graduate of the Military University...
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Navroop Mitter
CEO
ArmorText
Navroop Mitter is the CEO and founder of ArmorText. Before founding ArmorText, Navroop was a senior manager at Accenture’s North American Security Practice, specializing in governance, risk,...
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Mirko Mollik
Identity Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
With a strong background in cybersecurity, Mirko first founded a startup focused on verifiable credentials, laying the groundwork for secure digital identity solutions. After a brief period as a...
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Sanjay Nadimpalli
Founder and CEO
Tuebora Inc
Sanjay is the Founder and CEO of Tuebora and stimul8.ai, where he is driving the transformation of Identity and Access Management through AI-driven design and execution platforms. He brings a deep...
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James Naughton
Head of Schenker Identity Management Service (SIMS)
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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Jonathan Neal
SVP Solutions Engineering
Saviynt
With over 30 years IT experience, 20 of which specialising in Identity and Access Management, Jonathan is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Saviynt. Based in the UK, Jonathan has...
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Kamy Ng
Global IAM Lead
ABB
Kamy Ng has spent over 20 years navigating the world of information risk management and cybersecurity, with the last six years deeply focused on Identity and Access Management (IAM). She has...
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Thorsten Niebuhr
CEO
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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Samir Nigam
Director
Trevonix
Samir Nigam is a seasoned IT Security technology leader with over 20 years of experience in enterprise security and identity management. He has held key leadership roles at major financial...
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Sergius Nolle
Senior UX-Engineer
youniqx Identity AG
With my 30+ years of hands on expertise in user experience. In close partnership with David Herbst i’m a co-creator of intuitive wallet solutions — including Austria’s eAusweise...
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Kari Nousiainen
Lead, Cyber security IAM
Fortum Oyj
Kari Nousiainen has special expertise in the development of Identity Security services, enabling transactions in online services on behalf of the organization. He has versatile work experience in...
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Rintaro Okamoto
Team Leader of Business Development for Digital Identity
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP)
Rintaro is the Head of Business Development for Decentralized Identity at DNP. He started new product development in 2019, while engaging in client consulting around digital transformation....
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Alex Olivier
Cofounder & CPO
Cerbos
Alex Olivier is the Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos, an open-source authorization platform, and co-chair of the OpenID AuthZEN working group, which standardizes fine-grained authorization. He...
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Takuya Omura
Managing Director of the Business Development Office
MUFG group
Takuya Omura, is the Managing Director of the Business Development Office, part of the Corporate Planning Division, for the MUFG group in Japan, and holds a BA in Political Science from Gakushuin...
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Prosper Onyenkwere
Data Specialist
RAD5 Tech Hub
Prosper Onyenkwere is a Data Specialist, AI Ethics Enthusiast and also a Trainer, having worked as a SQL Server Database Administrator for more than 5 years, resorted to training over 100+...
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Joe Palmer
Chief Innovation Officer
iProov
Joe leads iProov’s Innovation Team and is responsible for extending iProov’s technologies to new use cases and industries. He joined iProov in 2011 as employee number two. As Technical...
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Steve Pannifer
CEO
Consult Hyperion
Steve is CEO at Consult Hyperion, a leading independent payments and identity consulting firm. He has extensive experience advising payment schemes, banks, governments and vendors around the world...
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Patrick Parker
Founder and CEO
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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John Peart
Assistant Director, Market Oversight and Integrity
Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
John Peart is a civil servant working for the UK Government, specialising in digital and technology policy. Since joining the UK Civil Service in 2013, John has worked in a variety of policy and...
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Manish Kumar Periwal
Senior Security Engineer
Norges Bank Investment Management
Manish currently works as Senior Security Engineer at Norges Bank Investment Management (Oljefondet). He brings over a decade of expertise in the IT industry. His specialization in Application...
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Thomas Pielczyk
Head of Product Management & Electronic Signature, Vice-chair CSC Technical Committee
intarsys GmbH / procilon GROUP GmbH
Thomas Pielczyk is Head of Product Management & Electronic Signature at procilon GROUP GmbH. Beyond, he is an authorized signatory of intarsys GmbH, a subsidiary of the procilon GROUP, where he...
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Fatema Pirone
Head, Verified Product
Interac
With over 20 years of experience in the financial services and technology sectors, Fatema brings a wealth of expertise in leading innovative product strategies, digital transformation, and...
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Dima Postnikov
Head of Identity Strategy and Architecture
ConnectID
Experienced Identity Architect focusing on anything identity, privacy, trust ecosystems design and identity standards development.
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Andre Priebe
Chief Technology Officer
iC Consult Group GmbH
Andre Priebe serves as the Chief Technology Officer at iC Consult Group, a vendor-independent system integrator specializing in Identity & Access Management and Identity Security with a global...
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Christie Pugh
Customer Success Manager
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Martin Raepple
Technical Program Manager
Microsoft
Martin has over 25 years of experience in various roles and industries. At Microsoft he focuses on solution architectures and integration scenarios between Microsoft’s and SAP’s Cloud identity and...
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Drummond Reed
Member
DIF Community Member
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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Tyler Reese
Senior Director Product Management
Netwrix
With more than two decades in the software security industry, Tyler Reese is extremely familiar with the rapidly evolving identity and security challenges that businesses face. Currently, he is...
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Matthias Reinwarth
IAM Practice Director
KuppingerCole Analysts
Matthias is IAM Practice Director. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias coordinates communication and exchange within the...
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Justin Richer
Founder
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
Chief Architect
EnBW
Eleni Richter is working as chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at a large German energy supplier (EnBW AG) and as part-time lecturer in IAM and Cyber Security...
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Jerry Rijnbeek
VP of Security Technology
Rubrik
Jerry Rijnbeek is VP of Security Technology at Rubrik and has been architecting enterprise ICT infrastructures for over 20 years combined with building territories for start-up technology...
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Sebastian Rodriguez
Strategy Advisor
Privado.ID
I am a tech professional with a diverse background spanning various sectors and company types. My journey has taken me from the agile world of startups, where rapid innovation is the norm, to the...
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Sebastian Rohr
CTO
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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Rogério A Rondini
Senior Manager
PwC
Rogério is a Digital Identity leader and Principal Identity & Solution Architect at PwC Netherlands, boasting over 25 years of experience in IT, including 15 years focused on Digital...
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Carsten Rosche
Desk Officer
Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Community
Carsten Rosche is computer scientist and is currently working as a desk officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Since 2008 he has been part of several projects fostering the digital...
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Andrea Rossi
President
IAMONES.ai
Andrea Rossi is a recognized subject matter expert in the Identity & Cybersecurity industries. In 2024 Mr. Rossi co-founded Iamones.ai, aiming to radically simplify and innovate Identity &...
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Adam Rusbridge
Group Product Manager
Ping Identity
Adam Rusbridge is Senior Product Manager for Ping’s Authorisation products, with 20 years of experience leading the development and growth of products that govern secure access to resources....
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Loren Russon
SVP Product & Technology Alliances
Ping Identity
SVP of Product & Technology Alliance - Loren has managed product development and marketing activities for security and identity management product lines for 20+ years. Throughout his...
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Markus Sabadello
CEO
Danube Tech
Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He is co-editor of...
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Nat Sakimura
Chairman
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 frequently used international standards such as...
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Martin Sandren
IAM Product Lead
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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Andreas Frey Sang
Product Strategy Officer
Federal Office of Justice, Switzerland
Andreas Frey Sang is a digital strategist specializing in the transformation of public sector infrastructure, with a focus on the intersection of user experience, legislation, and technology. As...
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Volker Schimmel
Head of the Global Data Service
UNHCR - The United Nations Refugee Agency
Volker Schimmel holds an MSc in International Relations and Conflict Studies. Having worked on conflict and displacement in London, he joined the UN in 2003 starting with UNHCR in the Great Lakes....
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Jan Schmitz-Hermes
Managing Director
L21s GmbH
Jan is a seasoned IT-Architect working on digital processes primarily in the insurance and financial services industry.Jan is an advocate for open source software. During his career, he helped...
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Max Schrems
Head of noyb.eu
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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Ingo Schubert
Field CTO International
RSA Security
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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Dieter Schuller
VP of Sales and Business Development
Radiant Logic
For over 30 years, Dieter has been helping enterprises map technology to solve business problems. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Radiant Logic, he works with organizations...
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Michael Schwartz
Founder / CEO
Gluu, Inc.
Mike is the Founder/CEO of Gluu, and leads the Linux Foundation Janssen Project. He is the co-author of the book ’Securing the Perimeter’, Apress 2018, about how to use open source IAM tools. In...
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Julian Schwarzkopf
Information Security Officer
Trade Republic
As Information Security Officer at Trade Republic, Julian Schwarzkopf drives the strategic development of the company’s information security program during a period of rapid international...
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Christopher Schütze
Chief of Advisory and CISO
KuppingerCole Analysts
Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cyber Security and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. In 2023 he was promoted to Chief of Advisory and CISO....
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Vlad Shapiro
Founder and CEO
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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Ace Shim
CEO
Hopae
Ace Shim is redefining identity verification. His mission stems from personal struggles as an international student in the U.S., facing constant barriers from broken identity systems. Now, as...
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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders
Consultant, Strategic Digital Identity
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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Mithun Singh
Product Adoption Manager IAM
Thales
Mithun Singh brings almost a decade of experience in Identity and Access Management including Fraud, Risk & Open Banking and is currently the Product Adoption Manager for IAM business line at...
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Mike Small
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Charlene Spasic
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
Charlene Spasic joined KuppingerCole and is a Senior Advisor. Prior to this, she was primarily focusing on IAM from a functional perspective aiming to build the bridge between business and IT...
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Tim Speelman
Policy Officer Digital Identity
Netherlands Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Tim Speelman is a computer science graduate from TU Delft, specializing in digital identity. With a software engineering background, he has been working since 2021 at the Dutch Ministry of the...
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Annet Steenbergen
Digital Identity and Seamless Travel
Independent Advisor
Since co-founding/initiating the Aruba Happy Flow project in 2013 after many years working in international border management, digital Identity and innovation for the travel eco-system has been at...
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Dr. Angelika Steinacker
CTO, CoE IAM, IBM Consulting
IBM
Angelika is a seasoned professional with more than 30 years of experience in the Cybersecurity industry, with a particular emphasis on Identity & Access Management (IAM) for more than two...
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Rolf Steinbrück
Senior Solutions Engineer
Yubico
Rolf Steinbrück is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Yubico, where he has been working for the past four years. He brings over 30 years of experience in IT security, cryptography, Identity &...
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Wolfgang Studier
Team Lead Identity Management in the Department Secure Systems Engineering
Fraunhofer AISEC
Wolfgang Studier has been a security expert in the Secure Systems Engineering department at Fraunhofer AISEC since 2018. He earned his master’s degree in computer science with a focus on IT...
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Jennifer Stähler
Head of Events & Marketing
KuppingerCole Analysts
Jennifer has been with KuppingerCole since 2015. As Head of Marketing & Events, she leads both teams and is responsible for strategy development and performance tracking. She oversees marketing...
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Prof. Dr. Shigeya Suzuki
Project Professor
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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Kevin Switala
Strategic Sales
Okta
Kevin Switala is responsible for strategic sales in the DACH region, and collaborates with the regional team to gain market share, build the partner network, and expand local brand awareness. He...
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Patrick Teichmann
Lead Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
Patrick Teichmann joined KuppingerCole as a Lead Advisor in November 2024. With a strong background in Identity and Access Management, he specializes in aligning business needs with technical...
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Henrique Teixeira
SVP Strategy
Saviynt
Henrique Teixeira is a seasoned leader with over 25 years in identity and cybersecurity. As Senior Vice President of Strategy at Saviynt, he drives innovative, cloud-first solutions in...
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Jerome Thorstenson
Identity & Access Management Architect
Salling Group A/S
Jerome Thorstenson is an IAM Architect with a long history of figuring things out the hard way - so you don’t have to. With 20+ years in tech and security, he currently leads identity at...
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John Tolbert
Director Cybersecurity Research
KuppingerCole Analysts
John Tolbert is Director Cybersecurity Research of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises cybersecurity and...
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Samuel López Trenado
User Lifecycle Supervisor
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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Paul Twomey
Co-Chair
Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE)
Experienced CEO in Internet, New Technology and Technology Policy enterprises. Globally distributed!. Very regularly traveling in US, Europe and Asia. Founding figure and former CEO of ICANN,...
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Jan Vereecken
Chief Product Officer
Meeco
Jan is the Chief Product Officer at Meeco where he is heading the development of Meeco’s Secure Value Exchange (SVX) platform; which enables enterprise partners to deploy and operate trusted...
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Fabiane Vieira
Participant Success Product Lead
Open Finance Brazil
Fabiane Vieira has been working on the implementation of the Open Finance in Brazil since the start. She was part of the first working groups, interacting with the banks and the regulator in making...
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Alex de Vries
Tribe Architect IAM
Rabobank
Pushing the needle on IAM and architectures! Enabling organizational IAM as a Service where machines, employees and third parties are all served equally. Managing, designing, and shaping the...
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Meir Wahnon
Co-Founder
Descope
Meir is a co-founder at Descope, a drag-and-drop customer authentication and identity management platform. Before Descope, Meir served as Sr. Director of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks after the...
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Paul Walker
Field Strategist
Omada
Paul Walker is a seasoned cybersecurity expert with over 30 years of global experience, specializing in Identity & Access Management (IAM). He has held leadership roles spanning multiple...
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Naotaka Watanabe
General Manager of Secure ID Development Department
Toppan Edge Inc.
After joining the company, for 14 years he was engaged in the development of issuance systems for ID cards and health insurance cards. After obtaining the PMP certification from PMI USA, he took...
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Alex Weinert
Chief Product Officer
Semperis
Chief Product Officer for Semperis, focused on hybrid identity security and organizational resilience. Former VP Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, leading team that protected billions of...
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Marcel Wendt
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Digidentity B.V.
Marcel Wendt, CTO and Founder of Digidentity, is a serial entrepreneur known for his forward-thinking approach. Over the last decades, Marcel has gained recognition for his innovative thinking and...
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Gabriel Wepfer
Deputy CEO
SECURIX
Gabriel Wepfer is the Deputy CEO at SECURIX, a company specializing in identity, cyber, and people security. In his role, he drives strategic business development and sales of innovative security...
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Sadrick Widmann
CEO
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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Tom Wijnen
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Worldline
Tom has 24 years of experience in product management and development within the payments industry, specifically in the interbank and corporate-to-bank space. In recent years, he has focused on...
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Felix Witt
CTO
WedaCon
Felix Witt is the CTO of WedaCon, bringing 15 years of expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM). He specializes in designing and delivering tailor-made IAM solutions that enhance security,...
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Eric Woodruff
Chief Identity Architect
Semperis
Throughout his 25-year career in the IT field, Eric has sought out and held a diverse range of roles. Currently the Chief Identity Architect for Semperis; Eric previously was a member of the...
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Dietmar Wyhs
Director Sales CEEME
SSH Communications Security
Dietmar brings over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than a decade dedicated to IT security. During this time, he has successfully worked across various domains, including...
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Kristina Yasuda
Identity System Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Kristina is a Product Owner at SPRIND - German Federal Agency of Disruptive Innovation. Previously she worked as an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft. She is known for her work on...
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Thomas Zarnhofer
IAM Lead
SPAR ICS
Thomas is the Identity & Access Management lead at SPAR ICS which is the IT division of the SPAR Austria group. He is responsible for strategic planning and governance for IAM as crucial...
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Andreas Zickner
Senior Consultant
MediaMarktSaturn Technology
Visionary and enthusiastic Senior Solution Architect specializing in Identity Governance and Administration Solutions. Passionate about bridging the gap between technical development and business...
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Dr. Lisa Zimmermann
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Maxizoo Pet Retail
Lisa has two lovely dogs, a PhD in Astrophysics and over 11 years of experience in building and maintaining corporate IAM landscapes in different industry sectors. First hand experiences in the...
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Roman Zoun
Value Stream Lead Digital Wallet
Swisscom AG
Roman has been leading the Digital Wallet Value Stream at Swisscom since 2024. With extensive expertise in Identity & Access Management, Information Security, and Artificial Intelligence, he...
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Tobias Zügel
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Maxizoo Pet Retail
Tobias is a distinguished professional with over two decades of experience in IAM, primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Since 2013, he has worked extensively with Microsoft 365 and...
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Hammad Ul Haq Abbasi
Software Architect
EmpowerID
Hammad Ul-Haq Abbasi is an accomplished Software Architect at EmpowerID, with a deep-rooted background in the tech industry for over 14 years. His career highlights include significant...
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Soujanya Ain
Senior Product Marketing Manager
GitGuardian
Soujanya Ain is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at GitGuardian, where she bridges deep technical insight with strategic storytelling to drive the future of secrets security and machine...
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Sergio Albea
Security Architect /Enginner
SWITCH
With over 15 years of experience, I have immersed myself in the dynamic field of security, focusing on diverse IT landscapes and ensuring robust protection against threats and vulnerabilities. My...
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Deniz Algin
Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
Deniz joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as an Advisor in August 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from the University of Applied Science and Arts in Hannover....
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Bjarke Alling
Principal Advisor
Epical Group
Principal Advisor with the Nordic Digital Trust consulting company Epical. Prior chair and member of the National Danish Cybersecurity Council and prior chair of the IT Security Committee at The...
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Janak Amarasena
Technical Lead
WSO2
Janak is a Technical Lead at WSO2, specializing in the design and development of WSO2’s Identity and Access Management products. With over six years of experience in the IAM domain, he is dedicated...
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Warwick Ashford
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Dr Paul Ashley
CTO
Anonyome Labs
Dr Paul Ashley is CTO at Anonyome Labs. The company brings technology to everyday users that allow them to interact online and offline in safety, privacy and control. Paul’s responsibilities...
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Marie Austenaa
Head of Digital Identity
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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Ayelet Avni
VP Product Managment
Ping Identity
Ayelet Avni leads Identity Trust services at Ping Identity, overseeing Strong Authentication, Risk and Fraud, Identity Verification, and Decentralized Identity solutions. With over 20 years of...
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Alexandre Babeanu
Lead Product Manager, Access Management
Indykite
Alex is a seasoned expert with nearly a decade of experience in leveraging graph databases for Identity and Access Management (IAM). As a certified graph and IAM consultant, he has successfully...
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David Baier
Solution Architect
Ping Identity
Since 2022 David Baier is part of the EMEA solution architects team. David uses his over 10 years experience in IT sector and Digital Transformation to help prospects find their fitting solution...
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Alexei Balaganski
Lead Analyst & CTO
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Ankur Banerjee
Co-chair of Technical Steering Committee
Decentralized Identity Foundation
Ankur is an engineering and product management leader with deep expertise in digital identity and decentralised systems. He has a solid background in software development innovation as a...
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Paul Bastian
Senior Innovation Developer
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
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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Manmeet Bawa
Partner Director Product Management
Microsoft
Manmeet Bawa is Director of Product Management in Microsoft’s Identity and Network Access division. She leads the team responsible for the strategy and delivery of Entra ID Governance,...
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Ivo van Bennekom
EMEA Impact Center Leader Digital Identity
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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Matthew Berzinski
Senior Product Management Director
Ping Identity
As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the PingIdentity product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and...
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Andrea Beskers
Senior Project Manager Events
KuppingerCole Analysts
Andrea Beskers joined KuppingerCole’s Events Team as Project Manager in June 2021, with a focus on Content and Agenda. In March 2022 she was promoted to Senior Project Manager in Event...
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Alexander G. Bielowski
Lead Architect – EUDI Programme NL
Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations
Alexander Bielowski started his career as university teacher, research assistant and jr. coordinator of the project E-Culture Net under the 5th Framework Programme. Over the years, he worked as...
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Christian Bormann
Architect Identity & Cryptography
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Christian Bormann is an architect for digital identity and cryptography, currently working for the german EU Digital Identity Wallet project. With an MSc in Computer Science from RWTH...
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Kai Boschert
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Sam Brackenridge
Global Product Manager
Vodafone Group
Sam has spent the last 4 years developing a Managed Security Service portfolio to serve SMB customers, with a focus on IAM. As part of this, Sam’s led the successful development of AI initiatives...
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John Bradley
Distinguished Architect
Yubico
Mr. Bradley is an Identity Management subject matter expert and IT professional with a diverse background. Mr. Bradley has over 15 years experience in the information technology and identity...
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Nicole Breyer
Product Manager
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Nicole holds a Master’s degree in Digital Innovation (ICT) and has over 8 years of experience building and scaling digital products across startups and companies like SIXT, Dell EMC and...
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Tobin Broadfoot
Product Director
Keyless
Tobin is an experienced product leader with deep expertise in product management, fintech, and identity & fraud prevention. As Product Director at Keyless, he drives innovation in...
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David Brossard
Chief Technology Officer
Axiomatics AB
In his role as CTO, David drives the technology vision and strategy for Axiomatics based on both identity and access management (IAM) market trends as well as customer feedback. He also leads the...
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Andrew Bud
Founder & CEO iProov
iProov Ltd
Andrew is a technology entrepreneur and leader with a career spanning more than 30 years. He founded iProov in 2011 to solve the growing issue of establishing trust online, and how people can...
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Mark Medum Bundgaard
Chief Product Officer
Partisia
Mark is the Chief Product Officer at Partisia, an innovative Software company from Denmark developing Privacy Enhancing Technology.Mark has extensive experience with distributed systems in...
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Dr. Vladimir Bunic
Global Cyber Physical Security Expert
Nestlé
Vladimir Bunic, Ph.D., is a distinguished Converged Security Expert at Nestlé, based in Barcelona, Spain. With a robust background in cybersecurity, physical security, and risk management,...
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Marc Bütikofer
Head of Innovation
Airlock by Ergon Informatik AG
Marc Bütikofer is Head of Innovation for the Airlock Security products from Ergon Informatik. After graduating from ETH Zurich with a degree in computer science, he joined Ergon Informatik AG...
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Dr. Jonathan Care
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Jonathan Care is an expert in Cybersecurity and fraud Detection and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He regularly advises cybersecurity industry leaders on strategic growth and has worked...
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Joseph Carson
Chief Security Researcher
Wiretrap
Joseph Carson is an award-winning cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 30 years’ experience in enterprise security specialising in blockchain, endpoint security,...
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Luigi Castaldo
Director Business Unit Wallet Ecosystem & Certified Communication
Namirial
Luigi Castaldo serves as the Director of the Business Unit Wallet Ecosystem & Certified Communication at Namirial - a pan-European Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP), where he leads the...
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Osman Celik
Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Brian Chappell
CPO
One Identity
Brian joined One Identity in March 2023 and is responsible for the overall product strategy and execution. During a 35-year career, Brian has held senior roles in a number of companies from small...
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Prem Cherklevich
CEO
Relock
Prem is the CEO and co-founder of Relock, the passive authentication company. Relock’s new technology allows CISOs to make all their users, internal and external, phishing- and session hijacking...
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Lalit Choda
Founder
Non-Human Identity Management Group
Lalit Choda is the founder of the Non-Human Identity Mgmt Group where he evangelises and influences the industry around NHI risks. Lalit has unique hands on 25+ years practitioner experience,...
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Kay Chopard
Executive Director
Kantara Initiative
Ms. Kay Chopard is the Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a unique global ‘commons’ that operates conformity assessment,...
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Wenjing Chu
Senior Director of Technology Strategy
Futurewei Technologies
Wenjing leads Futurewei’s technology strategy and collaborates with various open source communities and organizations to advance digital trust in the age of Artificial Intelligence. He is an...
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Bartosz Cieszewski
Solutions Architect
Secfense
Bartosz Cieszewski is an established Solutions Architect at Secfense. With a background from Kazimierz Wielki University and the Maritime Academy in Gdynia, and over a decade of experience in the...
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Adam Cooper
Director
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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Florin Coptil
Digital Identities & Organisation Wallet Expert
Robert Bosch GmbH
Florin Coptil is an expert in digital identities and organizational wallets at Robert Bosch GmbH, with over 25 years of experience in software product development and business development across...
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Andrea D'Intino
CEO and Co-Founder
Forkbomb B.V.
CEO and Co-Founder of Forkbomb B.V.. Passionate about cryptography and digital identity, I specialize in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and EUDI-ARF. My work spans PQC transitions, digital...
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Konrad Degen
Product Manager Digital Identities
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Konrad Degen is a Product Manager in the German EUDI Wallet project at the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. In this role, he focuses on the economic and organizational design of...
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Dr. Dominik Deimel
Managing Director
Wallet Experts GmbH
As the former founder of comuny, a start-up with its own wallet application and board member of the digital identities working group at bitkom, I have been working on the topic of decentralised...
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Nitish Deshpande
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Fabrice Deval
Founder & Managing Director
CornerStone Consulting
From the onset of my career, I’ve always loved to explore, fix and build. This applies not only to forging trust-based relationships and helping organizations navigating the rapidly changing...
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Sanjay Dharwadker
Digital Identity Expert
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Sanjay Dharwadker is the Senior Digital Identity Officer in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) based in Copenhagen. He also works on global identity standards...
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Gal Diskin
VP, Identity Threat & Research
Delinea
Gal is the Head of Delinea Labs (the research arm of Delinea) and VP Product management for threat products. Previously, he co-founded Authomize and served as its CTO. Gal is an expert in...
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Adrian Doerk
Co-Founder
Lissi
With over a decade of expertise in digital wallets, specializing in the European digital identity wallet (EUDI-Wallet) under eIDAS 2.0 regulation, I create innovative solutions that enhance...
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Erick Macedo Domingues
Country Manager - Brazil Manager
Raidiam
Erick, a recipient of the DIAF Vittorio Bertocci Award, is a digital identity professional with global experience developing and implementing data-sharing ecosystems. Since 2020, while at...
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Katryna Dow
CEO & Founder
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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Petr Dvorak
CEO
Wultra s.r.o.
Petr Dvorak is the founder and CEO of Wultra, a cybersecurity company that delivers modern, post-quantum authentication systems for the banking and fintech sectors. Before embarking on his...
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Fabian Eberle
COO & Co-Founder
Keyless
Fabian Eberle is Co-Founder and COO at Keyless, the leader in privacy-preserving biometric authentication. Fabian founded Keyless alongside world renowned security and privacy experts, its patented...
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Fraser Edwards
CEO & co-founder
cheqd
Fraser Edwards is pioneering the development of the cheqd network that empowers businesses to create and leverage digital credentials while addressing the commercial challenges of self-sovereign...
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Stina Ehrensvärd
Co-Founder
Yubico
Stina Ehrensvard is the CEO and Founder of Yubico, and co-inventor of the YubiKey – a small device that makes strong two-factor authentication easy and affordable for everyone. She is...
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Anders Eknert
Developer Relations Lead
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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Richard Esplin
Member
DIF Community Member
Richard Esplin is a seasoned product leader specializing in digital identity, open source software, and enterprise solutions. Currently serving as Head of Product at Dock, he leads product...
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Dani Estermann
Head of Product Management
Airlock by Ergon Informatik AG
Dani Estermann has been working with application security for 15 years. As a former software engineer, he knows how difficult it is to write secure applications. As a technical consultant and...
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Grant Evans
SVP Europe
Arcon
Grant heads the European region for Arcon. He has previously held strategic leadership positions at Novell, NetIQ, Saviynt & Sailpoint.
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Anna Fernezian
Senior Product Manager - IAM Services
IBM Security Services
Anna Estadt Fernezian has been in the identity and access management industry for over 20 years with experiences in commercial and global identity solutions including 10 years in product/services...
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Dr. Daniel Fett
Identity Solution Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
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
Lead Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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
Principal
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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Allan Foster
Chief Evangelist
Identity Evangelist
Allan Foster helped build ForgeRock into a multinational identity software vendor culminating with its listing on the NYSE in Sept 2021. Allan’s deep technical knowledge was well used in all...
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Andreas Freitag
Co-CEO
Procivis AG
Since 2018, Andreas directed his focus towards Decentralized Identities, displaying a deep commitment to cutting-edge technological advancements. Andreas was appointed as co-CEO at Procivis AG...
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Hideaki Furukawa
Senior Security Consultant
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd
Actively contributing as a Senior Security Consultant at Nomura Research Institute Ltd, proficiently skilled in areas encompassing digital identity and digital trust.
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Diego Galletti
Enterprise Architect
Quad
Diego is an Expert Enterprise Architect at Quad, a U.S.-based company offering integrated services from creative production to data-driven media management, serving over 2,700 clients. He has over...
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Mihails Galuška
Global IAM Product Manager
If P&C Insurance
Since 2021, Mihails has managed the portfolio of customer and partner identity-related services for If P&C Insurance, the largest insurance group in the Nordics and Baltics. He leads the...
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Elizabeth Garber
Founder
Humanitech Consulting
Elizabeth Garber is an entrepreneur and thought leader working towards human-centric, rights-enhancing identity ecosystems. She has led three collaborations focused on high-trust, globally...
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Ing. Robert Garskamp
IAM Manager
Alliander
With the enormous speed of technological digitalisation transformation nowadays, Robert believes that it will influence, constitute and shape our society where you are able to control your identity...
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Darrell Geusz
Product Lead, Neo
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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Ian Glazer
Founder
Weave Identity
Ian Glazer is the Vice President of Product Strategy at SGNL. Prior to joining SGNL, Ian founded the advisory services firm, Weave Identity. Previously in his career, Ian was the Senior Vice...
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Daniel Goldscheider
Founder and ED
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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Boris Goranov
CEO
Ubiqu
Boris Goranov is involved in security since 1999, as a white hack hacker, hacking smart cards at The TNO Institute. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Delft...
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Benoit Grangé
Chief Technology and Product Officer
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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Matt Graves
Identity and Privacy Evangelist
OpenText Cybersecurity
With over three decades of experience in information security, Matt stands as an experienced cybersecurity leader with a diverse background across industries such as financial services, retail...
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Martin Greck-Riederer
Enterprise Process Owner Identity Management
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Martin Greck-Riederer is working as Enterprise Process Owner for Identity Management at Boehringer Ingelheim (a large pharmaceutical company). In this position he is responsible to design...
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Guido Grillenmeier
Principal Technologist
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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Nigel Guest
Head of Identity & Access Management
Lonza AG
Originally from the UK, Nigel brings over 20 years of expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), shaped by a development and architectural background. Having spent two decades in Sweden and...
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Priya Guliani
CEO
EarthID
Priya Guliani is the CEO of EarthID, a multi-award-winning cybersecurity platform specializing in decentralized identity and fraud prevention. She also serves as the EMEA Director for the...
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Jason Gzym
VP Solutions Engineering and Advisory
Pathlock
Jason has over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity field and currently leads the global solution engineering and advisory teams at Pathlock. He has a rich background that includes senior...
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Jaye Hackett
CTO
Vouchsafe
Jaye is a co-founder of Vouchsafe, a tech-for-good company building inclusive identity verification.They are a designer and technologist familiar with large-scale digital trust systems, including...
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Mark Haine
Director
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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Dennis Hannemann
Head of Regulatory Strategy & Digital Identity (EUBW)
Bundesanzeiger Verlag - Germany‘s Company Register and Use Case Lead of WE BUILD Consortium
Dennis Hannemann has been working for Bundesanzeiger Verlag since 2016 and is currently responsible a.o. for the introduction of digital organisazitonal identities and the European Business Wallet...
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Andrew Hartnett
CTO
One Identity
I’m a Software Engineering Executive, Product Owner, and Transformation Leader who builds world-class development organizations that bring innovative cloud, security, and data...
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Joseph Heenan
Standards Specialist & Certification Director
OpenID Foundation
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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Manuel Heinkel
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Manuel is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with software companies in Germany to build innovative and secure applications in the cloud. With his expertise in security and...
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Gal Helemski
Co-Founder & CPO
PlainID
Gal Helemski is co-founder and CTO/CPO at PlainID and a highly recognized and acclaimed cyber security expert. She plays a key role at PlainID as a strategic leader, visionary and evangelist while...
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Ulrich Herberg
Senior Director of Engineering
eBay
Ulrich Herberg is a Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of Identity at eBay, leading the company on all topics related to Identity, such as two-factor authentication, IAM, user...
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Klaus Hild
Manager Advisory Engineering
SailPoint Technologies
Klaus Hild has been involved in the constant changes in the identity and access management environment since the late 1990s. In various roles, he has initiated numerous customer projects, described...
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Andrew Hindle
Founder & CEO
Hindle Consulting
Andrew is an independent consultant focusing on digital identity, privacy, cyber security, and corporate governance. He is the Identiverse Conference Chair, serves as a non-executive member of the...
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Christina Hirsch
Executive Vice President & President of the Board of Digital Trust Business
Swisscom
Christina has more than 20 years management experience including for Swisscom, Vodafone and Sony. Christina has led in both operational and strategic areas including Digital Transformation, Digital...
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Gail Hodges
Executive Director
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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John Horn
Director, Cybersecurity Practice
Datos Insights
John Horn leads the Cybersecurity practice at Datos Insights, which provides valuable cybersecurity and identity research, insights, and advisory services to financial services firms. In...
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Jeff Hu
Founder & CEO
Turing Space
CEO & Founder of Turing Space. Dialogue Speaker at United Nations Social Forum Geneva 2023. MEng’20 at UC Berkeley IEOR FinTech and Scholar at Blockchain X-Lab. GGLI Fellow Teaching at Hosei...
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Andrew Hughes
VP of Global Standards
FaceTec
Andrew Hughes has been consulting and working on standardization of digital credentials, face biometric verification, mobile driving licenses, identity and access management, and information...
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Steve Hutchinson
Director of Security Architecture
Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo
Steve “Hutch” Hutchinson is the Director of Security Architecture at MUFG. After cutting his teeth in C/C++ software development and network engineering, Hutch spent a decade as an...
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Yasuyuki Imai
Senior Product Manager of Business Development for DID/VC
MUTB
Yasuyuki Imai is the Head of Business Development for Decentralized Identifier and Verifiable Credential at MUTB. Starting in 2022, he was focusing on DID/VC, conducting research, technical PoC,...
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Vincenzo Iozzo
CEO
SlashID
Vincenzo Iozzo is the CEO and Co-founder of SlashID, a leading identity-security company. Prior to SlashID, he founded Iperlane, a mobile-security company acquired by CrowdStrike in 2017. While...
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Rew Islam
Director of Innovation
Dashlane
Rew is the Director of Product Innovation at Dashlane, with over 20 years of software development experience. After a decade at Dashlane working on mobile apps, he now leads projects focussed on...
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Puria Izady
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Puria is a Solutions Architect at AWS, helping software companies in Germany build innovative SaaS solutions. With a background in machine learning and generative AI, he brings technical expertise...
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Jihyun Jang
Head of Overseas Business and Business Planning
Lordsystem
Jihyun is the Head of Overseas Business and Business Planning at Lordsystem. She has led multiple government projects in collaboration with organizations such as the Korea Tourism Organization and...
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Santhosh Jayaprakash
Founder & CEO
Unosecur
Santhosh is the founder of Unosecur, a next-gen cybersecurity startup focused on protecting enterprises from identity-based threats in the cloud era. A serial tech entrepreneur by passion, Santhosh...
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Alastair Johnson
Member
DIF Community Member
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
Principal
Self-Issued Consulting
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) and...
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Lee Jones
Business Development Manager
Kantara Initiative
Certified Privacy Professional, Incident Manager and Auditor with over 25yrs experience in FTSE 100 Blue Chip Organization.
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Cor de Jonge
Teamlead & Business Owner PKI & Chair ICAO PKD
Judicial Information Service, Ministry of Justice and Security & ICAO
I’m leading the PKI expertise team of the Judicial Information Service of the Ministry of Security and Justice – the only PKI expertise team of the Dutch government. I’m...
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Loffie Jordaan
Business Solutions Architect
AAMVA - American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Loffie Jordaan is a Business Solutions Architect at AAMVA. He currently focuses on digital identity management, including mobile driver’s licenses and the ecosystem required to make them...
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Diana Jovin
Chief Marketing Officer
Teleport
Diana Jovin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Teleport, where she is championing the vision of Infrastructure Identity and its foundational impact on delivering trusted computing in distributed...
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Malte Kahrs
Founder & CEO
MTRIX GmbH
Malte Kahrs is the founder and managing director of MTRIX GmbH, a company that is supporting businesses in the selection, implementation, and operation of authentication solutions since 2006,...
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Jason Keenaghan
Director of Product Management
Thales
Jason Keenaghan is the Director of Product Management for Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision and delivering on the strategy of a unified...
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Mike Kiser
Director, Strategy and Standards
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
CEO
Nexis
Dr. Heiko Klarl is the CEO of Nexis and a distinguished expert in Identity and Access Management (IAM) with 20 years of experience. With a strong background in cybersecurity, Heiko excels in...
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Grace Klutke
Associate Director of Programs
The Global Pro Bono Bar Association & The OpenID Foundation
Grace Klutke is a United States lawyer passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and human rights. As a recipient of the Kim Cameron Award, Grace is devoted to exploring digital...
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Dr. Silvia Knittl
Director Cyber & Privacy
PwC GmbH WPG
Dr. Silvia Knittl is a Director at PwC Germany in the Cyber & Privacy domain and leads the EMEA community of Enterprise Security Architects and develops innovative solutions for...
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Hed Kovetz
CEO & Co-Founder
Silverfort
Hed Kovetz is the CEO & Co-Founder of Silverfort, the provider of the Silverfort Identity Security Platform. Prior to founding Silverfort, Hed served in product management positions at Verint,...
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Micha Kraus
Senior Innovation Developer
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Micha Kraus is a computer scientist (M.Sc) and a longtime member of the innovation department at Bundesdruckerei. He drives solutions for the mobile use of secure digital identities, focusing on...
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Arkadiusz Krowczynski
Principal Product Acceleration Specialist
Okta
With 25 years of IT experience, Arkadiusz is a product and security strategist at Okta. As a Principal Product Acceleration Specialist and veteran global speaker, he now focuses on the next...
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Lisa Kuo
Senior Product Manager
Rabobank
Lisa is a seasoned professional with over 12 years of experience in IAM. She is currently working as a Senior Product Manager in Rabobank with a focus on NHI management. Throughout her career,...
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Janne Kuparinen
Tech Lead, IAM
SOK
Currently working as Tech Lead at S Group’s IAM Program. Helping S Group with IAM, PAM, security and cloud related projects. Before I joined SOK again, I was leading Nordcloud’s Digital...
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Martin Kuppinger
Principal Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Nick Lambert
CEO
Dock Labs AG
Nick Lambert has been working in the technology sector his entire career and specifically focussed on distributed technology since 2011. Nick is the CEO and co-founder of Dock Labs, the...
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Jost Langheinrich
Product Manager Digital
SRG SSR
Jost Langheinrich currently serves as Product Manager Digital at SRG SSR since January 2023. Prior experience includes a tenure at SWR from October 2008 to January 2023, where Jost held multiple...
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Alejandro Leal
Lead Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
Background and Education Alejandro holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Security from Jagiellonian University in Poland and a Master’s degree in Technology...
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Jon Lehtinen
General Manager
UberEther
Jon Lehtinen has 20 years of experience practicing identity security in large corporations like General Electric and Thomson Reuters, as well as within IAM security vendors such as Okta. He builds...
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Herbert Leitold
Director
A-SIT
Herbert Leitold is Director of A-SIT, Secure Information Technology Center Austria, a public funded association advising the public sector on information security. He has 25+ years’...
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Jörg Lenz
Head of Marketing and Communication
Namirial
Jörg Lenz is Head of Marketing and Communication at Namirial, one of the leading global providers of qualified trust services and electronic signature workflows. Since 1999, he has been...
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Slávek Licehammer
Head of Engineering
Evolveum
Slávek Licehammer is the Head of Engineering at Evolveum, the creator of the leading open source identity governance and administration (IGA) platform, midPoint. With more than a decade of...
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Roni Lichtman
Project Lead
OWASP Foundation
Roni Lichtman is the Project Leader of the OWASP Non-Human Identities (NHI) Top 10 project, an initiative addressing the security challenges of non-human identities. With a background as a senior...
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Dr. Rolf Lindemann
Vice President Products
Nok Nok Labs
Dr. Rolf Lindemann is responsible for the development and strategy of the company’s products and solutions. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in product management, R&D and...
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Jan Lindquist
CEO and Data Privacy Technical Advisor
Linaltec
Jan Lindquist has been involved since 2018 in development of next generation consent and certification based on distributed ledger (blockchain) with full transparency and accountability towards the...
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Karima Lippert
Product Owner Communication | EUDI Wallet
PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH WPG
Karima is an expert in change management and strategic communication with a strong focus on digital transformation. In recent years, she has helped shape key digital identity projects such as...
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Tim Lipphardt
Head of Consulting
amiconsult GmbH
Tim heads the consulting department of amiconsult, a full-service provider in the field of Identity and Access Management. For the past eight years, he has been helping organisations set their IAM...
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Dr. Torsten Lodderstedt
Project Lead for Germany’s EU Digital Identity Wallet
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is a Digital Identity Architect with more than 15 years experience in developing and running large scale consumer identity services. He currently works for the German...
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Timm Lotter
Head of Solution Engineering
Unosecur
As Head of Solution Engineering at Unosecur, Timm has over ten years of experience in identity security. He is passionate about combating identity-based attacks, which account for a staggering 80%...
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Laurent Loup
Market Sector Senior Manager – Identity
SICPA SA
In 2016, Laurent joined SICPA Identity & Document Security division as a product manager responsible for SICPA Digital Trust Suite (SICPA SSI platform). He has worked in corporate strategy in...
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Anna Lyubchenko
Senior Manager, NL Domain Lead in CIAM
PwC
As NL CIAM Domain lead of PwC’s Digital Identity Team, Anna helps shape and execute strategies in the Dutch market and across Europe. With a team of highly intelligent and experienced...
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David Magård
Senior Advisor
Swedish Companies Registration Office
David Magård is working as senior advisor and AI lead Swedish Companies Registration Office, Sweden. David holds a LL.M and has worked several of years at the Swedish Government Offices with...
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Timo Majaneva
IAM architect, Identity and Device Management
SOK AID
I am an Identity and Access Management (IAM) architect with a strong passion for designing secure and scalable solutions that empower both businesses and individuals to achieve their goals with...
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Eve Maler
Digital identity futurist and strategist
Venn Factory
Eve is a globally recognized pioneer in identity and access management and standards, with roots in semi-structured data modeling and the API economy and a passion for fostering successful...
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Viky Manaila
President
Cloud Signature Consortium
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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Henk Marsman
Principal Consultant
SonicBee
Henk Marsman is both independent researcher as well as principal consultant at SonicBee. Having spend over 20 years in cybersecurity and specifically identity and access management he still advises...
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Ricardo Martins
CEO
Cloudcomputing
Ricardo Martins is the CEO of Cloudcomputing, where he leads a highly specialized team dedicated to securing identity journeys, with offices in London, Madrid, and Lisbon. He also serves on the...
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Steven McCown
Chief Architect
Anonyome Labs
Steven McCown is a Chief Architect at Anonyome Labs and conducts R&D for security and privacy technologies, including: encrypted messaging, decentralized identity, reusable credentials,...
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Hila Meller
Co-Founder Leading Cyber Ladies
President and CRO iC Consult
A savvy public speaker and an advocate for diversity in tech. Co-founder of Leading Cyber Ladies, a global movement promoting diversity in Cyber Security. Recognized as a subject matter expert by...
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Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt
Lead Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Bartosz Miazga
Security Architect
BNP Paribas Bank Polska
Bartosz Miazga is a Security Architect at BNP Paribas Bank Polska with a strong background in cybersecurity, authentication mechanisms, and web security. A graduate of the Military University...
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Navroop Mitter
CEO
ArmorText
Navroop Mitter is the CEO and founder of ArmorText. Before founding ArmorText, Navroop was a senior manager at Accenture’s North American Security Practice, specializing in governance, risk,...
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Mirko Mollik
Identity Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
With a strong background in cybersecurity, Mirko first founded a startup focused on verifiable credentials, laying the groundwork for secure digital identity solutions. After a brief period as a...
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Sanjay Nadimpalli
Founder and CEO
Tuebora Inc
Sanjay is the Founder and CEO of Tuebora and stimul8.ai, where he is driving the transformation of Identity and Access Management through AI-driven design and execution platforms. He brings a deep...
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James Naughton
Head of Schenker Identity Management Service (SIMS)
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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Jonathan Neal
SVP Solutions Engineering
Saviynt
With over 30 years IT experience, 20 of which specialising in Identity and Access Management, Jonathan is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Saviynt. Based in the UK, Jonathan has...
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Kamy Ng
Global IAM Lead
ABB
Kamy Ng has spent over 20 years navigating the world of information risk management and cybersecurity, with the last six years deeply focused on Identity and Access Management (IAM). She has...
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Thorsten Niebuhr
CEO
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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Samir Nigam
Director
Trevonix
Samir Nigam is a seasoned IT Security technology leader with over 20 years of experience in enterprise security and identity management. He has held key leadership roles at major financial...
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Sergius Nolle
Senior UX-Engineer
youniqx Identity AG
With my 30+ years of hands on expertise in user experience. In close partnership with David Herbst i’m a co-creator of intuitive wallet solutions — including Austria’s eAusweise...
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Kari Nousiainen
Lead, Cyber security IAM
Fortum Oyj
Kari Nousiainen has special expertise in the development of Identity Security services, enabling transactions in online services on behalf of the organization. He has versatile work experience in...
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Rintaro Okamoto
Team Leader of Business Development for Digital Identity
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP)
Rintaro is the Head of Business Development for Decentralized Identity at DNP. He started new product development in 2019, while engaging in client consulting around digital transformation....
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Alex Olivier
Cofounder & CPO
Cerbos
Alex Olivier is the Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos, an open-source authorization platform, and co-chair of the OpenID AuthZEN working group, which standardizes fine-grained authorization. He...
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Takuya Omura
Managing Director of the Business Development Office
MUFG group
Takuya Omura, is the Managing Director of the Business Development Office, part of the Corporate Planning Division, for the MUFG group in Japan, and holds a BA in Political Science from Gakushuin...
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Prosper Onyenkwere
Data Specialist
RAD5 Tech Hub
Prosper Onyenkwere is a Data Specialist, AI Ethics Enthusiast and also a Trainer, having worked as a SQL Server Database Administrator for more than 5 years, resorted to training over 100+...
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Joe Palmer
Chief Innovation Officer
iProov
Joe leads iProov’s Innovation Team and is responsible for extending iProov’s technologies to new use cases and industries. He joined iProov in 2011 as employee number two. As Technical...
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Steve Pannifer
CEO
Consult Hyperion
Steve is CEO at Consult Hyperion, a leading independent payments and identity consulting firm. He has extensive experience advising payment schemes, banks, governments and vendors around the world...
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Patrick Parker
Founder and CEO
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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John Peart
Assistant Director, Market Oversight and Integrity
Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
John Peart is a civil servant working for the UK Government, specialising in digital and technology policy. Since joining the UK Civil Service in 2013, John has worked in a variety of policy and...
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Manish Kumar Periwal
Senior Security Engineer
Norges Bank Investment Management
Manish currently works as Senior Security Engineer at Norges Bank Investment Management (Oljefondet). He brings over a decade of expertise in the IT industry. His specialization in Application...
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Thomas Pielczyk
Head of Product Management & Electronic Signature, Vice-chair CSC Technical Committee
intarsys GmbH / procilon GROUP GmbH
Thomas Pielczyk is Head of Product Management & Electronic Signature at procilon GROUP GmbH. Beyond, he is an authorized signatory of intarsys GmbH, a subsidiary of the procilon GROUP, where he...
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Fatema Pirone
Head, Verified Product
Interac
With over 20 years of experience in the financial services and technology sectors, Fatema brings a wealth of expertise in leading innovative product strategies, digital transformation, and...
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Dima Postnikov
Head of Identity Strategy and Architecture
ConnectID
Experienced Identity Architect focusing on anything identity, privacy, trust ecosystems design and identity standards development.
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Andre Priebe
Chief Technology Officer
iC Consult Group GmbH
Andre Priebe serves as the Chief Technology Officer at iC Consult Group, a vendor-independent system integrator specializing in Identity & Access Management and Identity Security with a global...
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Christie Pugh
Customer Success Manager
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Martin Raepple
Technical Program Manager
Microsoft
Martin has over 25 years of experience in various roles and industries. At Microsoft he focuses on solution architectures and integration scenarios between Microsoft’s and SAP’s Cloud identity and...
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Drummond Reed
Member
DIF Community Member
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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Tyler Reese
Senior Director Product Management
Netwrix
With more than two decades in the software security industry, Tyler Reese is extremely familiar with the rapidly evolving identity and security challenges that businesses face. Currently, he is...
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Matthias Reinwarth
IAM Practice Director
KuppingerCole Analysts
Matthias is IAM Practice Director. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias coordinates communication and exchange within the...
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Justin Richer
Founder
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
Chief Architect
EnBW
Eleni Richter is working as chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at a large German energy supplier (EnBW AG) and as part-time lecturer in IAM and Cyber Security...
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Jerry Rijnbeek
VP of Security Technology
Rubrik
Jerry Rijnbeek is VP of Security Technology at Rubrik and has been architecting enterprise ICT infrastructures for over 20 years combined with building territories for start-up technology...
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Sebastian Rodriguez
Strategy Advisor
Privado.ID
I am a tech professional with a diverse background spanning various sectors and company types. My journey has taken me from the agile world of startups, where rapid innovation is the norm, to the...
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Sebastian Rohr
CTO
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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Rogério A Rondini
Senior Manager
PwC
Rogério is a Digital Identity leader and Principal Identity & Solution Architect at PwC Netherlands, boasting over 25 years of experience in IT, including 15 years focused on Digital...
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Carsten Rosche
Desk Officer
Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Community
Carsten Rosche is computer scientist and is currently working as a desk officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Since 2008 he has been part of several projects fostering the digital...
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Andrea Rossi
President
IAMONES.ai
Andrea Rossi is a recognized subject matter expert in the Identity & Cybersecurity industries. In 2024 Mr. Rossi co-founded Iamones.ai, aiming to radically simplify and innovate Identity &...
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Adam Rusbridge
Group Product Manager
Ping Identity
Adam Rusbridge is Senior Product Manager for Ping’s Authorisation products, with 20 years of experience leading the development and growth of products that govern secure access to resources....
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Loren Russon
SVP Product & Technology Alliances
Ping Identity
SVP of Product & Technology Alliance - Loren has managed product development and marketing activities for security and identity management product lines for 20+ years. Throughout his...
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Markus Sabadello
CEO
Danube Tech
Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He is co-editor of...
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Nat Sakimura
Chairman
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 frequently used international standards such as...
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Martin Sandren
IAM Product Lead
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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Andreas Frey Sang
Product Strategy Officer
Federal Office of Justice, Switzerland
Andreas Frey Sang is a digital strategist specializing in the transformation of public sector infrastructure, with a focus on the intersection of user experience, legislation, and technology. As...
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Volker Schimmel
Head of the Global Data Service
UNHCR - The United Nations Refugee Agency
Volker Schimmel holds an MSc in International Relations and Conflict Studies. Having worked on conflict and displacement in London, he joined the UN in 2003 starting with UNHCR in the Great Lakes....
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Jan Schmitz-Hermes
Managing Director
L21s GmbH
Jan is a seasoned IT-Architect working on digital processes primarily in the insurance and financial services industry.Jan is an advocate for open source software. During his career, he helped...
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Max Schrems
Head of noyb.eu
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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Ingo Schubert
Field CTO International
RSA Security
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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Dieter Schuller
VP of Sales and Business Development
Radiant Logic
For over 30 years, Dieter has been helping enterprises map technology to solve business problems. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Radiant Logic, he works with organizations...
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Michael Schwartz
Founder / CEO
Gluu, Inc.
Mike is the Founder/CEO of Gluu, and leads the Linux Foundation Janssen Project. He is the co-author of the book ’Securing the Perimeter’, Apress 2018, about how to use open source IAM tools. In...
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Julian Schwarzkopf
Information Security Officer
Trade Republic
As Information Security Officer at Trade Republic, Julian Schwarzkopf drives the strategic development of the company’s information security program during a period of rapid international...
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Christopher Schütze
Chief of Advisory and CISO
KuppingerCole Analysts
Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cyber Security and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. In 2023 he was promoted to Chief of Advisory and CISO....
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Vlad Shapiro
Founder and CEO
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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Ace Shim
CEO
Hopae
Ace Shim is redefining identity verification. His mission stems from personal struggles as an international student in the U.S., facing constant barriers from broken identity systems. Now, as...
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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders
Consultant, Strategic Digital Identity
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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Mithun Singh
Product Adoption Manager IAM
Thales
Mithun Singh brings almost a decade of experience in Identity and Access Management including Fraud, Risk & Open Banking and is currently the Product Adoption Manager for IAM business line at...
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Mike Small
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole Analysts
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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Charlene Spasic
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
Charlene Spasic joined KuppingerCole and is a Senior Advisor. Prior to this, she was primarily focusing on IAM from a functional perspective aiming to build the bridge between business and IT...
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Tim Speelman
Policy Officer Digital Identity
Netherlands Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Tim Speelman is a computer science graduate from TU Delft, specializing in digital identity. With a software engineering background, he has been working since 2021 at the Dutch Ministry of the...
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Annet Steenbergen
Digital Identity and Seamless Travel
Independent Advisor
Since co-founding/initiating the Aruba Happy Flow project in 2013 after many years working in international border management, digital Identity and innovation for the travel eco-system has been at...
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Dr. Angelika Steinacker
CTO, CoE IAM, IBM Consulting
IBM
Angelika is a seasoned professional with more than 30 years of experience in the Cybersecurity industry, with a particular emphasis on Identity & Access Management (IAM) for more than two...
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Rolf Steinbrück
Senior Solutions Engineer
Yubico
Rolf Steinbrück is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Yubico, where he has been working for the past four years. He brings over 30 years of experience in IT security, cryptography, Identity &...
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Wolfgang Studier
Team Lead Identity Management in the Department Secure Systems Engineering
Fraunhofer AISEC
Wolfgang Studier has been a security expert in the Secure Systems Engineering department at Fraunhofer AISEC since 2018. He earned his master’s degree in computer science with a focus on IT...
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Jennifer Stähler
Head of Events & Marketing
KuppingerCole Analysts
Jennifer has been with KuppingerCole since 2015. As Head of Marketing & Events, she leads both teams and is responsible for strategy development and performance tracking. She oversees marketing...
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Prof. Dr. Shigeya Suzuki
Project Professor
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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Kevin Switala
Strategic Sales
Okta
Kevin Switala is responsible for strategic sales in the DACH region, and collaborates with the regional team to gain market share, build the partner network, and expand local brand awareness. He...
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Patrick Teichmann
Lead Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts
Patrick Teichmann joined KuppingerCole as a Lead Advisor in November 2024. With a strong background in Identity and Access Management, he specializes in aligning business needs with technical...
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Henrique Teixeira
SVP Strategy
Saviynt
Henrique Teixeira is a seasoned leader with over 25 years in identity and cybersecurity. As Senior Vice President of Strategy at Saviynt, he drives innovative, cloud-first solutions in...
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Jerome Thorstenson
Identity & Access Management Architect
Salling Group A/S
Jerome Thorstenson is an IAM Architect with a long history of figuring things out the hard way - so you don’t have to. With 20+ years in tech and security, he currently leads identity at...
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John Tolbert
Director Cybersecurity Research
KuppingerCole Analysts
John Tolbert is Director Cybersecurity Research of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises cybersecurity and...
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Samuel López Trenado
User Lifecycle Supervisor
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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Paul Twomey
Co-Chair
Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE)
Experienced CEO in Internet, New Technology and Technology Policy enterprises. Globally distributed!. Very regularly traveling in US, Europe and Asia. Founding figure and former CEO of ICANN,...
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Jan Vereecken
Chief Product Officer
Meeco
Jan is the Chief Product Officer at Meeco where he is heading the development of Meeco’s Secure Value Exchange (SVX) platform; which enables enterprise partners to deploy and operate trusted...
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Fabiane Vieira
Participant Success Product Lead
Open Finance Brazil
Fabiane Vieira has been working on the implementation of the Open Finance in Brazil since the start. She was part of the first working groups, interacting with the banks and the regulator in making...
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Alex de Vries
Tribe Architect IAM
Rabobank
Pushing the needle on IAM and architectures! Enabling organizational IAM as a Service where machines, employees and third parties are all served equally. Managing, designing, and shaping the...
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Meir Wahnon
Co-Founder
Descope
Meir is a co-founder at Descope, a drag-and-drop customer authentication and identity management platform. Before Descope, Meir served as Sr. Director of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks after the...
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Paul Walker
Field Strategist
Omada
Paul Walker is a seasoned cybersecurity expert with over 30 years of global experience, specializing in Identity & Access Management (IAM). He has held leadership roles spanning multiple...
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Naotaka Watanabe
General Manager of Secure ID Development Department
Toppan Edge Inc.
After joining the company, for 14 years he was engaged in the development of issuance systems for ID cards and health insurance cards. After obtaining the PMP certification from PMI USA, he took...
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Alex Weinert
Chief Product Officer
Semperis
Chief Product Officer for Semperis, focused on hybrid identity security and organizational resilience. Former VP Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, leading team that protected billions of...
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Marcel Wendt
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Digidentity B.V.
Marcel Wendt, CTO and Founder of Digidentity, is a serial entrepreneur known for his forward-thinking approach. Over the last decades, Marcel has gained recognition for his innovative thinking and...
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Gabriel Wepfer
Deputy CEO
SECURIX
Gabriel Wepfer is the Deputy CEO at SECURIX, a company specializing in identity, cyber, and people security. In his role, he drives strategic business development and sales of innovative security...
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Sadrick Widmann
CEO
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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Tom Wijnen
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Worldline
Tom has 24 years of experience in product management and development within the payments industry, specifically in the interbank and corporate-to-bank space. In recent years, he has focused on...
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Felix Witt
CTO
WedaCon
Felix Witt is the CTO of WedaCon, bringing 15 years of expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM). He specializes in designing and delivering tailor-made IAM solutions that enhance security,...
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Eric Woodruff
Chief Identity Architect
Semperis
Throughout his 25-year career in the IT field, Eric has sought out and held a diverse range of roles. Currently the Chief Identity Architect for Semperis; Eric previously was a member of the...
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Dietmar Wyhs
Director Sales CEEME
SSH Communications Security
Dietmar brings over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than a decade dedicated to IT security. During this time, he has successfully worked across various domains, including...
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Kristina Yasuda
Identity System Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Kristina is a Product Owner at SPRIND - German Federal Agency of Disruptive Innovation. Previously she worked as an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft. She is known for her work on...
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Thomas Zarnhofer
IAM Lead
SPAR ICS
Thomas is the Identity & Access Management lead at SPAR ICS which is the IT division of the SPAR Austria group. He is responsible for strategic planning and governance for IAM as crucial...
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Andreas Zickner
Senior Consultant
MediaMarktSaturn Technology
Visionary and enthusiastic Senior Solution Architect specializing in Identity Governance and Administration Solutions. Passionate about bridging the gap between technical development and business...
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Dr. Lisa Zimmermann
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Maxizoo Pet Retail
Lisa has two lovely dogs, a PhD in Astrophysics and over 11 years of experience in building and maintaining corporate IAM landscapes in different industry sectors. First hand experiences in the...
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Roman Zoun
Value Stream Lead Digital Wallet
Swisscom AG
Roman has been leading the Digital Wallet Value Stream at Swisscom since 2024. With extensive expertise in Identity & Access Management, Information Security, and Artificial Intelligence, he...
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Tobias Zügel
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Maxizoo Pet Retail
Tobias is a distinguished professional with over two decades of experience in IAM, primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Since 2013, he has worked extensively with Microsoft 365 and...
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