John is the lead member of the outbound product management team that drives sales and adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Oracle Fusion Middleware is the fastest growing product line at Oracle, with over $1B in revenue in FY 2006.  It covers multiple solution areas, including J2EE, Portal, SOA, Identity Management, Service Delivery Platform and Business Intelligence. John represents the Fusion Middleware development...
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Kim joined Microsoft in 1999 when it bought the ZOOMIT Corporation . As VP of Technology at ZOOMIT , he had invented metadirectory technology and built the first shipping product. Before that he led ZOOMIT’s development team in producing a range of SMTP, X.400, X.500, and PKI products. Kim grew up in Canada, attending King’s College at Dalhousie University and l’Université de Montréal. He has won a number of industry awards, including Digital Identity...
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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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Dr. Martin Dehn serves as Manager Consulting & Professional Services and Senior Solution Architect for KOGIT GmbH. His responsibilities for the Professional Services team include Customers Consultancy and the creation of Design and Concepts for Identity Management solutions. He joined KOGIT in 2004. Prior to his deployment for KOGIT, Dr. Martin Dehn served for various companies where he gained experience in LDAP – and Metadirectory technology. With KOGIT, he worked in a number of...
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Sabine Erlinghagen is responsible for the world-wide business with DirX, the Siemens product suite for Identity & Access Management as well as for the Siemens biometric products. She puts a particular focus on leveraging IAM for core industry and administration processes. Prior to this responsibility, she was in charge of the Siemens IT portfolio for the Public Sector. Amongst other responsibilities in this role, she shaped the Siemens IT Solutions strategy and portfolio for EU...
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Position in firm Rob is the EMA Partner in Charge of the IT Advisory Practice at KPMG. The EMA Practice represents over 3,500 staff, a business with fees in excess of US$600,000 million. Rob also leads the ITA practice in the Netherlands and is member of the Advisory leadership team in the Netherlands. Relevant Experience Rob has a career spanning more than 22 years in IT advisory and assurance. His specialisations include IT governance, IT attestation. IT internal and external audit...
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Dr. Peter Gergen is a presales specialist for SAP NetWeaver Identity Management solutions and has been responsible for the sales support of the SAP NetWeaver Identity Management division within SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG since January 2008. Before joining SAP, Dr. Gergen worked for about 6 years as project manager for directory and identity management projects at Sun Microsystems. During this period he was also responsible for the implementation of the worldwide largest...
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Seasoned Security & Information Risk professional with 19 years experience of business development, consulting, pre-sales, project and product management in the IT industry. 10 year track record working in the Identity Management field with in-depth expertise of technologies including Directories, PKI, Identity Management, Access Management, Smartcards, Biometrics and Federated Identity. Specialties: Information Security, Identity Management, Identity Processes, PKI, Network...
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After graduation in Physics & Linguistics, Chris Harvison has worked as a developer and architect for solutions running on Mainframe systems, handheld devices and just about everything in-between. He has spent the last 11 years at Scotiabank and currently works in the Architecture Office as an Enterprise Architect. Chris has led several leading-edge initiatives at Scotiabank including the first use of web-services within Scotiabank and the “.Net” early adopters program. More...
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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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Niels von der Hude is Senior Manager Product Management and PreSales for the line of business DCI/IdM. In this role, he is responsible for the overall porfolio management for the infrastructure and security software products of Beta Systems. Born in 1968, he received his diploma in electronic engineering at Technische Unversität Berlin in 1993. In 2000, Niels von der Hude passed the 'General Management Programme' at INSEAD. After ten years of work in telecommuncation business, where...
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Jules graduated in applied economics. Since 2003, he is head of Inspection line at Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg
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Audun Josang is Professor of Informatin Security at the University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in BRisbane, Australia. Before that he was Research Leader of IT security at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre in Brisbane and also worked for Acatel Telecom in Belgium and Telenor in Norway. Professor Josang has a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a Masters in Information Security from Royal Holloway College in London.
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Dave spent 10 years as a network manager, ending up as Information Services Manager for the former Thomas-Conrad Corporation (now part of Compaq ). In 1987, he was a founding SysOp of Novell's Novell Support Connection service on Compuserve and served as the first president of the Association of NetWire SysOps. He's a past recipient of NetWare Users International's Nuggie award for "outstanding contributions." Dave was formerly Technical Editor of Networking Solutions magazine....
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Berthold Kerl joined Deutsche Bank in 2002. As global head of Access Systems he delivered together with his global team IT solutions and services for Deutsche Banks multi national Trade and Cash Management clients. He also had responsibility for various strategic initiatives such as IT strategy, organisational restructuring and post merger integration. Since 2006 he is in charge to drive the Governance of Identity and Access Management within Deutsche Bank.
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Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Senior Partner at Kuppinger Cole and Partner. He has a long-year history in Identity Management, starting in the early days of Novell NetWare, LAN Manager at other network systems. He has written roundabout 50 IT books and uncounted articles in IT magazines. Beyond Identity Management, he has a strong background in application architecture and in many other of today’s most important IT topics like BSM, SOA, ESBs, and more.
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Eve Maler is a Distinguished Engineer in PayPal’s Identity Services group, where she drives the development of security and identity strategies for enabling consumer choice in permissioning of personal data sharing. Eve was one of the inventors of XML; she also co-founded the SAML effort and has made major leadership, technical, and educational contributions to many other standards and technical communities. In recent times she has focused primarily on consumer trust, privacy,...
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Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus is Senior Analyst at Kuppinger Cole and at the same time CEO of a small, high-profile management consultancy for security. Besides this, he is honorary professor for Security Management at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. He is a member of a number of advisory boards, among others, of RISEPTIS, the Advisory Baord for Research and Innovation on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Information Society. He was 8 years with SAP in leading security positions,...
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Michel is a world-renowned developer, researcher and entrepreneur who most recently founded Radiant Logic, a software company focused on integrating Directory Services (LDAP), XML and databases to enable companies to easily locate and combine information housed in disparate databases and better manage e-business. Prior founding Radiant Logic in 1995, Prompt served as Senior Vice President of Client/Server Technology at Knowledgeware, now known as Sterling Software. In 1986, Prompt founded...
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Rolls directs the continued development and communication of SailPoint's technology strategy and vision. Previously, Rolls was a member of the CTO's office at Sun Microsystems and led strategic technology and industry standards initiatives at Waveset Technologies. A respected contributor to several international XML standards initiatives, he served as Chair of the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee and in that capacity led a two-year industry effort to develop the Service...
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Jackson Shaw has been involved with directory, meta-directory and security initiatives for almost twenty years. He has spoken at various industry events and writes a popular identity management blog. Jackson oversees product direction, strategy and go-to-market activities for Quest’s suite of Active Directory management products.
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Mike Small is the retired director of security management strategy of CA, where he was responsible for the technical strategy for CA's security management software product line within Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mike did work for CA between 1994 and 2009, where he developed CA’s identity and access management strategy for distributed systems. This strategy led to the developments and acquisitions that contributed to CA’s current IAM product line. He is a frequent speaker...
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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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Marina Walser (born 1967) holds the position of Director Business Development, Identity & Security Management. In this role she leads the development of strategic partnerships with Consulting, Implementation and Technology Partners in EMEA. This includes the identification of potential partners, building relationships to the decision makers, setting up solid business plans and managing these partners on an EMEA level. She supports the country managers and partner executives in EMEA to...
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