Hans-Ottmar Beckmann, Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik und CISO der Volkswagen AG sowie Leiter Informatikzentrum Konzern
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Tim Cole, born in 1950, is an experienced publicist, book author and TV moderator in the field of eBusiness and IT security. As editor of the business magazine “Net Investor” he has a proven track record for journalistic objectivity, as well as the ability to critically evaluate the impact of technology on business processes and markets. His book “Management Challenge Security” (published in German by Carl Hanser) has become a standard textbook for non-technical...
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Andre Durand is a twelve year veteran of the enterprise software industry, a recognized leader in the identity industry and a pioneer behind the concepts of the digital identity network. In addition to his role as CEO of Ping Identity, Mr. Durand co-founded and co-chairs Digital ID World , the official identity industry conference and magazine. Prior to Ping Identity, Mr. Durand founded Jabber, Inc. , a leading global provider of in instant messaging and presence management platforms...
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A pioneer in the Internet sector and open source software community, Dick has been active in software development for nearly two decades. Prior to his work at Microsoft, Dick founded ActiveState in 1997 and Sxip Identity in 2005. Under his leadership as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in open source programming languages and anti-spam software and was acquired by UK-based software company, Sophos in 2003. His first commercial software work started in 1986 at Consumers Software where...
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Paul Heiden (1967) is BHOLD Company’s founder and CEO. Paul started his career as an officer of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps specialized in mountain and arctic warfare. Having obtained a master degree in Dutch and Roman law, Paul became legal counsel at KPN, the Dutch Telecommunications company. When KPN went public, he frequently encountered the problem of controlling access to confidential M&A information. In this period he developed the ideas and models that would become...
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Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Novell. He is responsible for Novell's technology direction, as well as leading Novell's product business units. Dr. Jaffe serves as a member of Novell's Worldwide Management Committee. After receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1979, Dr. Jaffe joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. During his tenure at IBM, he held a wide variety of technical and management...
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Bilhar is SVP for the eTrust Threat and Security Information Management Product Lines, these include anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, firewall, vulnerability management, policy compliance, security event management and network forensics. In this role, Bilhar has ownership of the product lines including product management, research and development and the CA threat response center. Bilhar joined CA in 2003, prior to April 2005, he served as VP of Product Management for the eTrust...
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Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus ist Chief Security Officer der SAP AG. In dieser Position ist er für SAP’s Strategie in den Bereichen Produkt- und Support-Sicherheit, Informations- und IT-Sicherheit und physische und organisatorische Sicherheit verantwortlich. Davor war er Leiter des Produktmanagements für Sicherheit der SAP AG und koordinierte Sicherheits- technologie, sichere Entwicklung und die Bearbeitung von Sicherheitsvorfällen für alle SAP Applikationen. Bevor er zur...
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Archie Reed is a HP Distinguished Technologist and Director of Strategy for HP’s Identity Management solutions. Archie is focused on identifying, predicting, and understanding the future direction and impact of technologies in the messaging, wireless, security and identity markets. Archie is a noted author and speaker at technical and analyst conferences. In addition to writing articles for various publications, he is a published author: "The Definitive Guide to Identity...
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Don Schmidt has been designing commercial system software for over 21 years. He is currently a Senior Program Manager in the Identity and Access Management Team in Redmond, where he drives the development of Active Directory Federation Services. Since joining Microsoft in 1995, Don has also been the Lead PM responsible for the design of Windows Server 2003 security features such as Forest Trust, Protocol Transition, Constrained Delegation and SID Filtering, plus the design of the Directory...
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Eckhard Völcker began his career as independent software developer in 1981. In 1983 , he joined Philips Kommunikations AG, serving the company as a product manager. He was also a technical supervisor for CPS System Integration in Berlin, the managing director of Krone Netzwerkservices, and a regional supervisor of Krone AG. In 1994, he co-founded Völcker Informatik GmbH to focus on the burgeoning technology supporting the automation of identity management and user provisioning. As...
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Alberto Yépez has been at the forefront of developing and taking security solutions to market. Yépez was formerly the co-founder, chairman and CEO of enCommerce, one of the first companies to develop Web single sign-on. After the merger in May 2000 with publicly listed Entrust, Inc, a leading provider of information security solutions, Yépez was appointed the co-CEO. Yépez later joined Thor Technologies, a leading provider of Identity Management solutions, as...
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