Speakers

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...

Martin Andersen is „Senior Consultant IT Compliance” at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf. He is working on processes mainly focussed on the Identity Management area, including handling of identity data, role models and secure provisioning. He gained experience from projects which covered the introduction of a metadirectory solution, provisioning and PKI processes. His current key activities concentrate on efficient identity solutions, combining process requirements from the...

After completing his Universtiy degree in Business Administration (Betriebswirtschaft), Roland Awischus has been active in IT Business for over 30 years. Within Roland’s role at Schumann Unternehmensberatung AG and Systor GmbH & Co KG, he has lead several IT projects at various customers.

Within the scope of operating systems, databases and project management, Roland has been actively involved with IBM, Management Consultants, and Insurance organizations. Since 1990, he has been...

Steffen Baumann, Solution Architect at IBSolution GmbH, studied Computer Science and Economics at the university of cooperative education in Stuttgart. He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1999 as a Technology Consultant in the area of IT Service Management and IT infrastructure Management. After that he has become a core team member of the SAP XI integration competence center team. Subsequently, Steffen joined IBSolution in August 2006 in the SAP NetWeaver Area with strong focus on SAP PI and SAP MDM. With...

Hans-Ottmar Beckmann, Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik und CISO der Volkswagen AG sowie Leiter Informatikzentrum Konzern

Vittorio Bertocci is an Architect Evangelist in the service of Windows Server Evangelism for Microsoft. He is based in Redmond, Washington. He works with Fortune 100 and major G100 enterprises worldwide, helping them to stay ahead of the curve and take advantage of the latest unreleased technologies. In the past two years, he helped many customers all around the world to design and develop solutions based on technologies such as Identity and Access Management, Windows CardSpace, Windows Communication...

Roland Blach is a senior scientist at the Competence Centre for Virtual Environments of Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart. He has finished his studies in control engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 1992 and works since 1993 in the field of VR. He is one of the architects of the VR system Lightning and has participated in many industrial and research projects. His research interests are software arcitectures for interactive realtime systems, 3D interaction, projection based display systems and...

Eric Brouwer is working at ICTU, the Dutch governmental organization to perform ICT-projects in order to maximize the government's IT objectives through collaborating with authorities, and is specialized in Identity Management. In recent years, he has improved the e-collaboration within the Dutch ministries by introducing Identity Management and the possibilities of smartcards. As from 2009 he participates in the deployement of a secure smartcard for physical access control as well as logical access...

Peter is founder and currently Managing Director of Pensive, a software solutions company for information-driven enterprise, based in Brussels, Belgium. He is also a member of the Board of directors of OASIS – the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems – the global consortium that is advancing open standards for the Information Society.

Peter has 25-years experience working in European public institutions. He is currently on unpaid leave from the...

Kim Cameron is Chief Architect of Identity in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, where he works on the evolution of Active Directory, Federation Services,

Mark has worked on Sun's LDAP directory products since 2001. Mark has played many important roles in the development of Sun's Directory Server and currently leads Sun's Directory Integration Team, a branch of Directory engineering devoted to providing engineering help where it makes sense outside the engineering organization. In that role Mark and his team have worked on some of the largest LDAP implementations in the world ranging in size from 7M to 85M users.

Adrian has been at the ISF since 1999 and is responsible for both program and project management across a range of information security issues. He has delivered both managerial and technical projects for the ISF, focusing on topics such as information security management; the role and skills of the CISO and CSO; key performance measures; and mobile computing, instant messaging and patch management.

Adrian’s prior experience covers the creation and implementation of project management...

Christine Deger holds the position of a department manager for IT networking services an IT security at GaVI. Since 3,5 Years she leads this unit and serves with her team the operational IT-Security Infrastructure for all GaVI customers. Her focus is on Integration of Business processes into IT-Services and on building a secure and performant Infrastructure. This means low costs and most effectfully handling of the efforts the customers have. From 1991 until 2001 Christine Deger was Part of the...

Joost van Dijk is technical product manager for the Authentication and Authorisation services of SURFnet, the Dutch national computer network for higher education and research.

Stefan is responsible for advising customers, partners and Oracle organisations on I&AM solutions and architecture across EMEA. He has been working in the areas of Identity and Access management for about 6 years, joining Oracle with the acquisition of Oblix. He has a track record for client-server and 3-tier software development projects of more than 15 years and a business background, having studied economics with a specialization on the financial sector.

Benjamin Drisch studied computer science at University Dortmund. Working as Senior Security Consultant for cryptovision since 2002, Benjamin Drisch has led various eID and company ID projects; he is furthermore responsible for cryptovision's eID products and solutions as Product Manager since 2007.

Teodor Dumitrescu is in charge of the development of DirX, the identity and access management product suite of Siemens (http://www.siemens.com/iam).

Teodor has been closely involved for more than twenty years with the directory, identity management and security activities at Siemens. He has been the architect and project manager in charge of Siemens’ X.500/LDAP effort and helped establish DirX as a leading directory product. He has overseen the expansion of DirX to a full IAM product line...

Stina Ehrensvard, award winning IT-innovator and product designer with a high creative drive. Former Founder and VP Marketing of Cypak, the innovator of the RFID based "Paperboard Computer". Awarded by Fortune Magazine and the European Commission Excellence in IT Innovation. Selected by the swedish IT Industry as IT personality of the year 2005.

Stina's current innovation, the Yubikey - The Key to the Cloud - has broken the relationship between complexity, cost and security. In...

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 Directives –...

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...

Frank Fischer has been responsible for security within IBM Germany since 2008. Besides strategic consulting, Frank and his Team are responsible for the design and implementation of software and hardware solutions as well as operational security.

Tobias, focused on access management solutions, launched several successful federation projects in the last years. He also supports the SESAM-Project, which is standardizing federation services for the automotive industry.

Finn Frisch has more than 20 years of managerial and experience from information security management and related technologies. Finn is currently responsible for Business Development at Axiomatics AB, a company dedicated to XACML based technologies. Before joining Axiomatics, Finn held management positions in companies such as RSA Security, FoxT and Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services.

Finn is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and has hands-on related experience from Identity...

Jens Fromm is head of the research group eIdentity and leading numerous industry and research projects for one of the largest European research associations the Fraunhofer Society. His research focus at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS is on sociological and technical trust relations, electronic identities and technical and organizational interoperability.

As the head of the Test- and Demonstrationcenter German eID (Test- und Demonstrationszentrum neuer...

Felix Gaehtgens is Senior Analyst and Partner at Kuppinger Cole + Partner since January 2008. Before, was the chief architect of Symlabs Directory Extender 3.0, partner and co-founder of Symlabs. His responsibilities included management of Symlab´s flagship DE product, pre-sales efforts and developing strategic channel partnerships. He also helped their largest customers solve challenges in directory and identity management deployments.

Mr. Gaehtgens has more than 16 years of high-tech...

Matthew Gardiner is a senior principal of Product Marketing at CA and is a recognized industry leader in the security management and IAM markets worldwide. He is published and interviewed regularly in leading industry media on a wide range of IAM and security-related topics and is a member of the Liberty Alliance’s board of directors. Matthew has a BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania and an SM in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

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 directory...

Ariel Gordon is a Principal Architect at Microsoft in the Identity and Strategy Division. Ariel is one of the industry pioneers in Identity and Access Management. In his previous position, he built Orange-France Telecom’s Identity platform into a world-class leading service with 100+ million managed identities across Europe. As a key spokesperson for Orange, he unveiled several of their innovations at Industry Events including support of OpenID and LiveID inbound federation at the European...

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...

Markus Groh joined Deutsche Bank 1991, since 2001 he is working in the IT Security Domain, with focus on IT Security Architecture and Security Governance.
In 2008 he joined the project Gatekeeper, Deutsche Bank’s global initiative for recertification of user accounts and user access rights in IT applications. Markus holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Saarbrücken.

In addition to project management experience in a wide variety of national and international projects, his special focus lies in the analysis, development and introduction of new technologies for the range of services in the Internet online mass market.

Along with actual product development, Michael Gärtner also contributes to the subject of identity management for the online mass market by giving lectures at national and international conferences, as well as those organized within the...

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 recently,...

Wolfgang Heidmann is responsible for the delivery of IT-Services to all pupils, teachers and staff in the City of Munich and for the design of the underlying infrastructure. To fulfill the service delivery portfolio in an efficient manner, the Department of Education is using Identity Management for its 150.000 users to deliver it´s services.

Wolfgang Heidmann has been working for the City of Munich in his current position for 9 years. The City of Munich supports one of the largest...

Jürgen Hein is chief architect of the identity and access management at Bayer HealthCare. He is responsible for design, architecture and the operative IAM system at Bayer HealthCare. He has been working as it-consultant, service delivery manager, service level manager and project manager at Bayer for more than 10 years

Peter Heintzen leads the Oracle Identity Access Management presales team in Western Continental Europe. Since June 2006 he has been responsible for the Oracle Security Portfolio with focus on Identity Access Management.

Fabian Hermann is a researcher and consultant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Germany) in the field of human-computer interaction and usability engineering. Since 2008 he is the project coordinator for the Fraunhofer Challenge Project “augmented identity” developing a user centric approach for digital identity. In several research and industrial projects he works on user-centered design, innovative user interfaces, interaction design, and socio-economic and...

Current Job Roles and Responsibilities
John heads the Identity & Access Management Services in the Netherlands as well in the EMA region. John is specialized in both audit and advisory services in the field of identity and access management, user management, provisioning, authorization management, role based access control, role engineering, authentication management, public key infrastructures (PKI) and information security. John is one of the founders of the specialized European Center of...

Markus Hoffmeister was 18 when he founded his first company where he sold self-developed accounting software to construction companies and medical practices. While studying mathematics, he and his partners jointly set up the Media Factory that dealt with production and sales of Multimedia CD-ROMs, web portals, web shops and the like. When this company was sold, his professional focus for the next two years lay on process analysis and workflow systems for venture capital companies. From these...

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 he...

Jules graduated in applied economics. Since 2003, he is head of Inspection line at Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg

Michael B. Jones is Director of Identity Partnerships at Microsoft.  He serves on the boards of the Information Card Foundation and the OpenID Foundation and serves as an editor for the OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability TC.  He was a researcher at

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...

Sampo Kellomäki is the chief architect of Symlabs Federated Identity Access Manager , Directory Extender 3.0 and co-founder of Symlabs. He is the main driving force behind the creation of Directory Extender 3.0 and the suite of solutions built around it. Prior to founding Symlabs, he held various positions such as chief software engineer, network security administrator, as well as independent consultancy to telcos, financial and academic institutions, OEMs, and to the national newspaper...

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.

MR Dr. Oswald Kessler, was born 1954 in Austria. Since 1974 he is officer in the Ministry of the Interior in Austria. From 1974 to1980 he served as a police officer at the police headquarter of Vienna, from 1980 to 1982 after degree of University of law he was senior police officer in Vienna. From 1982 to 1995 he changed to the secret service of Austria where 1987 he became chief of operational forces and 1990 chief of the service. 1995 he switched as chief of the IT department in the Ministry of...

Jochen Koehler has been working for different IT-security consulting firms in the last 10 years, focussing on the preparation of the German speaking markets for innovative solutions. Since 2008 he is responsible for Business Development of Cyber-Ark in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

André Koot is Security Manager at a large Dutch insurance company and responsible for strategic security policy and security architecture. He has been involved in Information Security for 15 years and is the chief editor for the Dutch magazine Informatiebeveiliging ("Information Security") of the Dutch society of security professionals PvIB.

André Kudra is project manager of Deutsche Bank's project "Gatekeeper", a global initiative that coordinates the user account and access rights recertification of more than 500 business-critical applications. Since 2006, he has been supporting Deutsche Bank in different project roles. Before that he was a central member of the E-Government team of the State of Hesse, helping to implement the Hessian E-Government strategy. Dr. Kudra obtained his doctorate as well as his diploma from...

Dr. Kuhlmann plays a key role in the continued development Omada’s solutions, including the award-winning Omada Identity Manager solution that is built entirely on the Microsoft platform and integrates with Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager to provide a robust solution for Compliance Reporting and Advanced RBAC.

Since the 90s, Dr. Kuhlmann has been designing and implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions for global enterprises, while pioneering one of the earliest...

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.

Mr. Jürgen König is founder and Chief Executive Officer of vps ID Systeme GmbH, a leading European supplier of professional IT solutions for ID management. He is also Director of software engineering for the company.

Over the last fifteen years, Mr. König has led vps ID Systeme from serving a few key suppliers of access control systems to becoming a global provider of hardware-independent ID management software solutions. He identified early on the changing role of corporate ID...

Liam joined eBay in May of 2002, where he was Security Architect in the Architecture group. He served as Chief Security Architect for eBay marketplaces and consulted for marketplaces adjacencies. He created the security framework for the Java platform, Payment Gateway, Billing, and Customer Support systems. Liam also presents architecture presentations and labs at the eBay developer’s conference and will speak at industry forums throughout 2008.

In June 2007, he moved to Marketplaces...

K-P joined is responsible for centralized identity lifecycle and access management solution, that controls access rights to over 200 applications in in Nokia and to more than 150.000 access roles in these. Before joining Nokia in 2005, K-P had worked 10 yeas as management consultant as well as self employed consultant with numerous clients and business areas doing IT, processes and organization changes as well as strategy development projects.

Karin Loleit has more than ten years experience in IT-security and IT-security management. From 2000 until March 2009 she managed complex IT-security projects with BDG GmbH & Co KG, where she worked as a Senior Security Consultant. In April 2009 she joined the team of Nexus Technology GmbH in Berlin as a Technical Account Manager.

Christoph, a mathematician turned computer scientist, is Research and Technology Manager of Pensive S.A. He did his doctorate at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, working about cryptography and computer algebra; during that time he was also involved in several PKI development projects. At Worms University of Applied Sciences, Germany, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher and developer in TextGrid, a web service based community grid for the humanities funded by the German Federal Ministry...

Dr. Klaus Lüttich has been working for bos since 2007 in the area of authentication and identity management.
Since 1999 bos is a software enterprise that develops and implements e-government solutions. Our main focus is on secure data transport and digital signatures.

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, and...

Jürgen Mannheim has been EMEA Business Development Manager for Covisint a subsidiary of Compuware Cooperation since December 2008. Prior joining Covisint Mannheim worked as Business Development Manager Automotive and as Regional Manager Systems Engineering for Sun Microsystems in Germany. Mr. Mannheim has more than 16 years of high-tech experiences.

Covisint is the market's first provider of Identity Management software as a service. Covisint's delivery model offers speed-to-market and...

After graduating in Electrical Engieering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen/Nuremberg, Thomas Mansyreff worked as a system engineer in the communications division of Siemens. From January 2000 to September 2004 he introduced IAM solutions for various customers as a Consultant for Professional Services. Since Oktober 2004 Thomas Mansyreff has been working in the architecture and strategy department of the Siemens Healthcare headquarter. There he is responsible for IT infrastructure topics,...

Tobias has been developer at the Computing Center (URZ) University of Basel, Switzerland since 2003. Project-leader IDM migration, working on web-applications, federative SSO.

Vesna Martinovic is currently Head of IT process management unit in Komercijalna Banka, Serbia's largest bank.

She is with Komercijalna Banka for over 10 years where she began her career as db administrator, and developed to the system architect and project manager. Vesna’s major achievements are in area of eBank and core banking solutions, ITIL implementation and Identity and Security Management. She is working on centralized User management and automatization of Role based...

Ian McCaw is Managing Director of IM Global, a specialist European consultancy that has delivered some of the largest Identity Management implementations over the last 5 years. Ian was Technical Director for Thor Technologies, Identity Management Director at Oracle and been pivotal in managing the delivery of some of the largest implementations worldwide.

James McGovern is an industry thought blogger and Enterprise Architect for The Hartford. He is the co-author of the bestselling books: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall) and Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (Springer). James is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a chapter leader for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

Director, Managed Identity Business in Europe, Middle East & Africa for Global Transaction Services at Citi. Sabine joined the Citi Technology organisation in 2000, as a Senior Programme Manager, responsible for a number of regional business initiatives. In 2006, Sabine moved to the EMEA Cash Management Business and took regional Product Management responsibility for the Client Delivery channels, including the award winning Internet Banking platform Citidirect(r). Since 2008, Sabine has been...

Jörg Meinhardt is responsible for Helpdesk, Desktop Management and Collaboration Services. He is also responsible for defining Infrastructure Architecture and he is currently implementing Identity- / Service-Life-Cycle Management incl. internal Accounting.

Prateek Mishra, PhD, is director of identity management standards at Oracle Corporation. He has been active in the development of identity management standards over the past decade and played a key role in the creation of the SAML standard. At Oracle, he leads a team of architects focusing on infrastructure frameworks and standards for identity services. Most recently, he has been involved (with Phil Hunt) with the Identity Governance Framework (IGF) standard, which provides a declarative and...

Abdi Mohammadi received a Diploma in "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology" from Univercity of Applied Sciences München, Germany in 1992. He is currently Principal Engineer and Solution Architect at Sun Microsystems. He led courses for CAD/CAE, UNIX, TCP/IP networking, Routing, Firewall, Security and Messaging. He also was the cofounder of a system integration company in early 90s. At Sun as the lead architect, he designed higly scalable messaging and directory...

After graduating in Computer Science in 1989, Michael first worked as research engineer, consultant, and project manager at Siemens Corporate Research and Technology and then since 2007 at Nokia Siemens Networks. He is a security expert with more than 10 years experience on the variuos aspects of information and communication security. Michael is project manager for the security research activities in the Security Technologies group at Nokia Siemens Networks. His current work is focused on security...

Axel Nennker  is employed by Deutsche Telekom, Laboratories. This permits him to work on Information Cards, Security and Identity Management. In 2006 he joined the openinfocard project and is now the maintainer for it. Other open source projects that he runs are the identity selector that enables CardSpace for...

Alberto Ocello is General Director at Engiweb Security. He holds a master of Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome, Italy and brings more than 25 years of experience in the security software industry. Alberto Ocello began his career at Page Europa (GTE Group) working in various roles in security application development, starting as Chief Product Architect and moving on to several product development groups in international military security projects. Alberto then served as director of...

Christian is a member of the EMEA 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 a portfolio of leading, standards-based and customer-proven software products that spans a range of tools and services from J2EE and developer tools, to integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, content management and Identity Management. Christian's focus is Identity...

Pat Patterson is a principal engineer in Sun Microsystems' identity management product group. Pat has been working on Internet security and identity management since 1997, joining Sun in 2000 as an engineering manager in the Trustbase secure Web services team. After a four-year stint in product management, he returned to engineering early in 2005, focusing first on federation and identity-enabled Web services, then on the OpenSSO (http://opensso.org/) project and its...

Dr. Oliver Pfaff holds architectural responsibility and is the head of a development team charged with the conceptual design and realization of a security product for SOA environments. Oliver's team is appointed with several deliverables including the Siemens realization of the security subsystem for the eFA specification, a Web services-based system for the joint use of medical data objects across health care providers(www.fallakte.de). Right before that, he was...

Darren Platt is CTO of Symplified and a recognized expert on identity management. He co-authored the AuthXML specification, which was the precursor to the SAML identity federation standard. He has served as Senior Director of Technology for Ping Identity where he managed the company’s conformance services and PingTrust SOA security product. Previously he was vice president of engineering at Web access management pioneer Securant Technologies, where he managed development of the ClearTrust...

Ludovic Poitou is the OpenDS community manager and a directory architect at Sun Microsystems. Ludo has been involved with directory services since 1991 and has been developing Sun's directory products since 1995. Mr Poitou is a regular presenter of LDAP, directory services, and OpenDS at JavaOne, Sun CEC, Jazoon, LDAPCon, and other key forums. He also actively contributed to the development of LDAP standards at IETF and participated in the Directory Interoperability Forum of The Open Group. Ludo blogs...

Andrea Pugnaloni is Key Account Manager at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Energy&Utilities Division, and is responsible for sales and pre-sales activities of the Engineering Group for the ENEL customer.

In 1983 he obtained a master degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome and since then built up a 25 years experience in telecommunications and ICT industries.

In 1984 Andrea began his career at Selenia Spazio (Finmeccanica Group) working on satellite systems...

Rakesh Radhakrishnan is a Sr. Principle Architect in the Communications Market Area of Sun. He has covered Telecom Companies, Network Equipment Providers (NEP), Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Service Provider accounts in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America. He has over 15 years of experience and has an MBA (MIS) and MS (MIT). He is also the FAM Product Lead for the Software Sales Organization, in Sun. 25 years. Rakesh is also certified by The Open Group (on TOGAF 8), SEI (as a SW Architect)...

Daniel Raskin is the Chief Identity Strategist for Sun Microsystem's Identity Management portfolio. Previously, Daniel led the OpenSSO Enterprise product line and Sun's open source identity management strategy, played a key role in the development of the Java Enterprise System product strategy and helped define Sun's systems management marketing strategy. Prior to joining Sun, Daniel worked at CTB/McGraw-Hill developing research-based online assessment software for children and adults. In his career,...

Thomas Reeb ist seit 1. Februar 2008 Vorstand Marketing Sales der econet AG. Daneben entwickelt Thomas Reeb ROI-Modelle und statistische Methoden für Data-Mining-Anwendungen.

Vor seinem Eintritt in das Unternehmen war Thomas Reeb von 1992-95 IT-Consultant bei Cosmos Consulting. Ab 1996 wickelte er als freier Mitarbeiter für econet Projekte bei SNI und Siemens ab. 1998 konzipierte er gemeinsam mit der Werbeagentur Rempen&Partner...

Klaus Reuther joined KOGIT GmbH in 2005, where he serves as a Solution Architect. His responsibilities within the Professional Services team include Customer Consultancy as well as Design and Implementation of IAM solutions. With KOGIT, he worked in a number of large customers’ implementations, where he held the technical responsibility within KOGITs projects for "User Lifecycle Management", "Auditing", "Single Sign On" and "Federation". Klaus is a...

Eleni Richter is chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at EnBW. She is responsible for design and architecture of a next generation identity management system at EnBW.

She has been working as it-security manager, it-consultant, it-system designer and project manager at EnBW for 8 years. EnBW is the third largest energy supplier of Germany.

Bavo is an architect with a special interest for identity management, enterprise architecture and information security. In these subject fields he is currently working on identity relationship modeling, authorization architectures and defining criteria for resilient architectures.

Bavo has worked as a senior consultant in the field of architecture and identity management for the Belgian Novell office. Next he joined Ascure, as information risk management consultant, where he managed the...

Erik Rissanen is the CTO of Axiomatics AB, a Swedish company specializing in attribute based access control based on the XACML standard. Erik Rissanen has many years of experience in XACML and is the editor for the upcoming 3.0 version of the standard.

Lise has got 10 years of experience in IT Service Management and holds a master in Business Administration & Information Technology. Have within the last 3,5 years focused on the corporate solution for Identity Management including License Management within ECCO Sko A/S.

Sebastian Rohr has been active as author of multiple articles, reviews and essays on all kinds of security topics. Having a ten year record in IT with a background in network & systems management, network security and PKI he started his career with Siemens ICN in 1998. To get a deeper insight to wireless and mobile network security, he joined a newly founded reasearch group called SIMS at world famous Fraunhofer, establishing a research lab for seamless...

Dr. Ron Rymon serves as Vice President for Strategy, in CA Security Business Unit since 2008. Prior to CA, Ron was Founder of Eurekify, the pioneer and leading provider of role & compliance management solutions, where he filled management roles ranging from R&D, to product management, to business development. Ron founded Eurekify in 2002 to address market challenges concerning the implementation of role-based IT management. Using advanced pattern recognition technology, Eurekify was the first...

Markus Sabadello became involved in identity technologies about two years ago. He is a member of the OASIS XRI and XDI Technical Committees and of the Information Card Foundation. Generally most interested in the actual implementation of identity technologies, he is also a committer on the Higgins and OpenXRI open source projects.

John Sabo is Director, Global Government Relations for CA, Inc., providing expertise in the use of security and privacy technologies in trusted infrastructures.

Mr. Sabo is very active in industry-focused cyber security and critical infrastructure protection initiatives. He is a board member and past President of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC); member of the IT-Sector Coordinating Council, where he also serves on the Executive Committee; and...

Babak Sadighi has a PhD in Computer Science from Department of Computing, Imperial College, London. He was  until august 2008, a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and the leader of Computer Security Laboratory at that institute. Babak has many years of R&D experience in the field of access control and authorization management and he serves as a program committee member of several international conferences in this topic....

Anil Saldhana is the lead security architect at the JBoss Division of Red Hat Inc. He is a frequent speaker at conferences/workshops on topics related to Security. He represents Red Hat Inc on security related committees at the W3C, Oasis and the Java Community Process (JCP). He is the co-chair of the Oasis XSPA Technical Committee and a secretary of the Oasis SSTC (SAML).

Wolfgang Schlegel is member of the board at MODCOMP Consulting AG. He has more than 20 years of experiences in directory based networks and Identity Management. He was involved into many projects as consultant for architecture and directory design as well as responsible for directories in Merger & Acquisition of furtune1000 companies.

Jan Schmidt is working in the field of IT Security since his studies at the University of Saarland where he did his diploma thesis on electronic payment systems in 1998. Jan Schmidt has held positions at Siemens-Nixdorf, debis and Sirrix. At T-Systems Jan Schmidt is working as Senior Consultant, Project Manager and Trainer. His professional experience includes multiple projects on Public Key Infrastructures, Identity Management and Secure Communications within multinational companies.

Ben has 6 years experience as an IT specialist. During the last 3 years he was within the security sector, mainly in the area of Identity and Access Management. During his career, he gained experience in the design and implementation of it-architectures, proposal preparation and international team lead / project management.

Carsten Schwarz studied computer science at University Bonn and Humboldt-University Berlin, and mathematics in Hagen. He has a strong background in the fields of smartcards and cryptography and is currently a Product Architect at Bundesdruckerei GmbH, being responsible for SW-Platforms and Products.

Ludwig Seitz has a PhD in Computer Science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Lyon, France. He was a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) until June 2008 when he joined Axiomatics. His research interests are access control, information security, usable security, and privacy. Ludwig is the main author of SICSACML an open source implementation of the XACML 3.0 standard. At Axiomatics he works on customer...

Steve defines the vision and overall business strategy for UnboundID. He is inter-nationally recognized as a trusted adviser on identity and security issues for Global 100 companies. At Sun Microsystems, he served as Technical Director and Chief of Staff for the Identity Management product division, as well as Director of Global Engineering and Support for the Directory Server Product Family. At Netscape Communications, he was Sr. Product Manager for Directory and Security. He co-founded the OpenDS...

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 at IT...

Chris Sullivan, Vice President of Customer Solutions, heads both the Solutions Engineering and Customer Management areas for Courion Corporation. Chris is also responsible for building a sales consulting capability and defining and institutionalizing implementation methodologies to ensure customers realize rapid and lasting business results from their provisioning deployments. He applies best practices strategies developed from over 275 customer implementations and works directly with security and IT...

Han Tanis has the Dutch nationality and studied Health Policy and Management and Architecture at the universities of Rotterdam and Delft.

J.E.P. (Han) Tanis (1973) worked at OZ Health Insurance successively as Financial analyst, manager Knowledge Center and manager ICT. In 2002 he was appointed as  Director Finance and ICT. In 2004 he was appointed as member of the Board of Directors of OZ Health Insurance. OZ Health Insurance has been merged with CZ Health Insurance and in this new...

Paul Trevithick is the CEO of Azigo (formerly known as Parity), a company committed to simplifying and securing life on the Internet by giving people more control over their digital footprint: their accounts, profiles, and relationships with friends and businesses they trust. Azigo also offers services to businesses to enable them to create durable, digital relationships with their customers.

Azigo offerings are based on the open source Higgins (http://higgins-project.org) project co-founded by...

Upendra Mardikar has over 17 years of experience holding senior management and chief technology positions in financial services and computer industries. With patents issued to his credit, Mardikar is an expert in Information and Application Security and has been a speaker at various industry recognized conferences such as ITUG and OMG. Mardikar has worked with companies like PayPal, Visa, Wells Fargo, Banamex. With a strong blend of business and technical expertise, Mardikar offers great leadership,...

Marc Vanmaele is the Founder and Managing Director of SecurIT, located in the Benelux and specialised in Identity and Access Management since 1999. In addition to its System Integrators role, the company sells its own software products, such as its innovative TrustBuilder® Identity data Services solution, on a worldwide basis in close cooperation with a network of partners in many countries. More info on http://www.securit.biz. Marc has over 30 years of experience in ICT with large organisations....

Giovanni Verhaeghe is Director Market & Product Strategy at VASCO Data Security. Giovanni joined VASCO in 2000 and held different global management positions within the company including Project Management, Product Management and Market & Product Strategy. Prior to VASCO Data Security Giovanni worked for several years as an IT Manager for Vincotte, a company specialised in safety, quality and environmental services. Giovanni has been working for over 13 years in the Internet security market....

Erich Vogel Computacenter AG & Co oHG has been responsible for the Identity Management Consulting group of Computacenter Germany for the past 7 years. He is leading a team of 21 consultants offering supplier independent consulting for IAM solutions and has been in the market since the early days of Directory Services.

Marko leads the Identity and Access Management (IAM) services of KPMG Germany. Marko is specialized in both audit and advisory services in the field of identity and access management, user management, provisioning, authorization management, role based access control, role engineering, authentication and access management and information security.

Marko is a member of the specialized KPMG European Center of Excel-lence for Identity and Access Management and took active part in the de-velopment...

Eric Voss is Vice President of Partner Sales, AXSionics AG, Biel, Switzerland.

During his professional lifetime he spent 10 years in the German Airforce being a Technlcal Officer for the Tornado Fighter Aircraft. While in the forces he studied Aerospace Engineering in the Armed Forces University Munich.

1995 he joined CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) as Management consultant, led several public sector and defence projects in Germany and Austria, like Logistics management of depot level...

• 2002: Graduation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
• Since 2003: Employment at Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing)
• Since 2004: Project Manager Public Key Infrastrukture of the Bavarian Public Administration

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...

Steffo Weber currently works as an architect (Identity Management) at Sun. Steffo studied Computing Sciences in Bonn and Dortmund, Germany and holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science. He started as a security specialist at debis IT Security Sevices in 1997. In 2000 he started working for Sun Microsystems. Areas of work/expertise

• Highly scalable web-environments (LDAP, SMTP, IMAP, Netze, Load Balancing)
• IT security (ITSEC, Cryptography)
• Identity Management (Provisioning...

Patrick Wehinger joined KOGIT in 2004 where he serves as a Solution Architect. His responsibilities within the Professional Services team include Customers Consultancy, Development of Design and Concepts for Identity Management Solutions as well as Implementation of these. With KOGIT, he worked in a number of large customers’ implementations, where he was in charge of the technical responsibility for KOGITs projects for "User Lifecycle Management", "Audit, and Reporting"....

Rudolf Wildgruber, graduated in computer science at the Technical University Munich in 1980 and worked for nearly 10 years for a medium-sized HW/SW manufacturer as systems engineer. From October 1991 until February 2004 he worked as project manager in the Directory and Metadirectory development at Siemens Nixdorf and Siemens Communications. Since March 2004 Rudolf Wildgruber is in charge of the product management for Identity and Access Management at Siemens IT Solutions and Services.