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...

Peter joint T-Systems in 2009. He leads the global Portfolio & Offering Management group for IT Services and for Cloud Computing within T-Systems International GmbH and is based in Munich.

Peter works in the IT Industry since 1991. He started as an IT-Freelancer and ran his own business for four years. He was CFO of a service company before he joined Siemens in 1997. He held several VP positions with Strategy & Controlling, Sales and Delivery. In 2007 he became CTO as well as member...

With more than 16 years of experience in IT, Joe Baguley has extensive field experience in deploying and managing large-scale infrastructures. He regularly writes and presents on the key challenges facing companies globally in an increasingly complex and integrating world. Based in the UK as CTO Europe, Joe is responsible for driving product strategy for Quest’s global accounts and territories outside of North America with Quest’s product teams and sales management.

Prior to joining...

Drew Barkiewicz is Vice President of E&O, Cyber and New Media Liability. He is the founder of The Hartford’s business to insure the systemic risks and liabilities associated with The Internet, Technology, Cloud Computing, and Social Media. He is a Board Member of ORMA and is an advisor to the World Economic Forum’s council on the Future of the Internet. He is also a board council member of the Ponemon Institute and Cloud Connect, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen...

Ron van Beers works as programme manager at Achmea Netherlands. Ron studied industrial engineering, and has 15 years of experience as an IT and management consultant for Cap Gemini and Gemini Consulting. Many international assignments include work for Mars Europe, Fresenius, Elf Atochem, BASF, Roche and others.

Started working for the Achmea Group in 2000. Has worked on large-scale and complex business change projects and transformations, mainly related to post-merger integration and IT...

Head of OpenTrust strategic marketing and planning, he is responsible for all international marketing operations, product management and alliances.He has over 10 years experience in global market development and product management in IT security, creating strategic value propositions for IT solutions for both B2C and B2B markets.He holds a Masters in Marketing (UK) and a Doctorate in International Relations (France).

Rüdiger Berdt is Managing Director and Cef Architect and has more than fifteen years experience as an IT strategy and architecture consultant including: plan & design, innovation, content development and quality management. He has over 10 years experience in architecting, implementing, consolidating, deploying and migrating of a large number of different user management systems on large accounts.

Prior to joining Oxford Computer Group, he was an Solution...

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...

Ronny Bjones currently is working for Microsoft Corporate as senior architect in the identity & security division. Ronny joined Microsoft in 2002 to contribute in trustworthy computing. Later he became the EMEA security lead for Microsoft’s enterprise business. He has 27 years of experience in ICT, 21 of those in security.

Ronny published QuEST together with several industry specialists in the subject of electronic signatures. The book is a comprehensive guide on how to implement...

Werner Braun born 1964, Siemens IT-Solutions and Services, Global Headquarter Public Sector, Director of Business Development for Electronic ID and Border Control Solutions,1991 masters degree in computer science (Diplom-Informatiker)
Since 1991 with Siemens AG
Since 1995 versatile responsibilities in the IT-security area for smart card, PKI, RFID and identity management products and solutions for projects in all relevant sectors, i.e. public sector, health care, enterprises, communications...

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

Philippe Clément is Head of Identity Marketing in Orange-France Telecom's Strategic Marketing Division. Philippe defines and implements the group strategy for Orange's Identity ecosystem, and manages the implementation program across Europe.

Pamela Dingle is a Senior Technical Architect within the Office of the CTO at Ping Identity. Pamela has a long history with Identity Management, working as an implementer and moving into architecture and strategy over 10 years of evolution of systems such as directories, application servers, web access management systems, provisioning, and now federation. Pamela is also on the board of directors of both the Information Card Foundation and the OpenID Foundation and runs the Pamela Project, an open...

Shlomi Dinoor serves as VP Emerging Technologies at Cyber-Ark, tasked to research, identify and propose future growth engines based on innovative technologies all with the goal of expanding company's long term offering. Shlomi spearheads Cyber-Ark Labs, Cyber-Ark's innovation center, with mission to design ways to introduce novel solutions to new high value markets and enhance Cyber-Ark's market leadership.

Shlomi brings over 12 years of experience delivering enterprise software solutions to...

Blake is currently the product manager responsible for Intel SOA products. As a product manager at Sarvega, he was deeply involved in the development of their flagship XML security, routing and acceleration appliance products. Blake was a specialist in applied cryptography applications at RSA Security and was a frequent speaker at many RSA conferences throughout the US and Europe. Blake is an established author who wrote the first book on XML Security and co-authored SOA Demystified from Intel...

Tim Dunn is VP of CA's Security Management business in EMEA. Tim has over 20 years sales and Sales Management experience in the Enterprise Software Industry.

For the last 11 years Tim has focused on the Security Software Market, firstly for 3 years as UK Country Manager for Baltimore Technologies, then 7 years as VP for the Identity Management Business in EMEA for OpenNetwork Technologies and following acquisition, BMC.

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 –...

Vincent Etchebarne, who graduated from Telecom Sud Paris engineering school in 2006, has been working on Identity Management and Privacy related R&D projects during the last 4 years at Orange Labs.

Prof. Dr. Eberhard von Faber studied electrical engineering and got a doctor degree in the field of semiconductor physics. More than 18 years ago, he started his career as developer for security products. Then he moved to debis Systemhaus where he worked in various fields of security engineering and consulting. Former Head of the Evaluation Facility, he became responsible for security strategy and portfolio of T-Systems. Nowadays his workspace is Security Strategy and Executive Consulting. He is also...

Matthias Fischer is working as Technology Architect in the SAP Advisory practice of BearingPoint. His focus is amongst others on the project management of IT projects, definition of identity and access management strategies and the conception of IT architectures, especially for SAP NetWeaver and SAP GRC. Mr. Fischer was the project manager of the SAP GRC Access Control implementation project at BearingPoint.

With his working experience in the Identity Management area he was part of the design team for...

Ludovic Francesconi is in charge of R&D projects at Cartes Bancaires CB. Backed by a large banking community, Cartes Bancaires is one of the leading Card payment schemes in Europe, with 58 million active cards, and a prominent player in web payment. Beside the FC² project, Ludovic takes an active part in Acsel association’s identity management working group, which goal is to examine the conditions for implementing a trust framework for interoperable identity management.

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.

As president, Gerry Gebel is responsible for sales, customer support, marketing, and business development for the Americas region. In addition, he will contribute to product strategy and manage partner relationships for Axiomatics.

Prior to joining Axiomatics, Gebel was vice president and service director for Burton Group’s identity management practice. Gebel covered topics such as authorization, federation, identity and access governance, user provisioning and other IdM topics. Gebel...

As managing Director, Martin Geier is responsible for the sales and management strategy in Germany. Mr. Geier was previously Sales Director for Industry Vertical and Automation for HP. Prior to joining HP, Mr. Geier served as Country Manager and Sales Director South Germany for Mercury.

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 joined Microsoft’s Identity and Security Division in 2008.  He leads the End-to-End Scenarios team responsible for aligning value proposition to customers’ scenarios and delivering a cohesive customer experience across Microsoft’s Identity and Access products and services.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Dr. Rainer Janßen studied mathematics and computer science in Kiel and Kaiserslautern. In 1984 he joined the IBM Science Centre in Heidelberg, where he built up the research areas on scientific computing and super-computing. From 1993 he was Director of the IBM European Networking Centre in Heidelberg, focussing on research, development and customer pilot projects around the information highway.

Since July 1997 he manages the central division information technology of Munich Re and as...

Mathias Kaldenhoff, Director Sales Oracle Large Accounts Fusion Middleware and Public Services Germany  is working as functional leader for the whole middleware stack at Oracle Corp. since 2007. His main responsibility in middleware is german sales but is also responsible for any information exchange and IT-strategy in collaboration with Oracle development (U.S.) and Oracle Product Management (U.S.).

Mr. Kaldenhoff joined Oracle Corp. in 1997 after several operational positions at german...

Nishant Kaushik is Principal Architect for Identity Management at Oracle. In his current role, Nishant is responsible for driving innovation in Oracle’s industry leading identity management solutions. He has 9 years of experience in this industry architecting and delivering market leading products. Nishant is also an active member of the identity management community, regularly contributing his thoughts and ideas through his blog at blog.talkingidentity.com, and participating in various...

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...

Heiko Klarl works as a Security Consultant for iC Consult GmbH in the area of Identity Management on innovative solutions. He successfully accomplished several Identity Management projects in different domains like banking and logistics.

His research interests focus on the integration of access control requirements in business process modelling as well as on closing the gap between business and IT.

Andreas is responsible for the Service Lifecycle Management (SLcM) portfolio at Hewlett Packard in Germany. SLcM optimizes the planning and operational activities of IT service providers or IT departments. The goal is to reduce IT costs and increase the service quality at the same time to make IT a business supporting partner.

With his working experience in the SLcM area and a history as a SAP solution architect he was part of the design team for HPs brand new "SLcM Framework for SAP...

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.

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...

Works for DigiNotar BV Internet Trust Services and other companies. Specializes on identity management. For 8 years worked on the national authentication service for higher education. Is active in linking identity management specialists on a national and international scale. Worked as an IT auditor, head of security and controller with KPMG, the Dutch National Computer centre and Rabo bank on topics regarding authentication, information security and controlling. Took part in the DigiD user board and...

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.

As the Technical Director, Europe for Layer 7 Technologies, Francois Lascelles advises global corporations and governments in designing and implementing secure SOA and cloud based solutions. Francois joined Layer 7 in its first days back in 2002 and has been contributing ever since to the development of the SecureSpan SOA infrastructure product line. Francois is co-author of Prentice Hall¹s upcoming SOA Security book.

Layer 7 Technologies is an Enterprise SOA and Cloud infrastructure...

Simon Leutner studied Business Informatics at University of Regensburg. He now works at the hospital of the University of Munich. Currently he is engaged as deputy project manager and systems engineer for the faculty wide IDM project.

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...

Peter Ligezinski has designed and implemented a number of complete IT solutions for financial institutions, ranging from simple current accounts keeping and administration to complex investment banking and mutual fund administration. Before Allianz, Ligezinski had worked for Citibank and the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen, in addition to running his own software development firm. Currently he is the IT head at Allianz Investmentbank AG in Vienna, where he’s been responsible for the complete...

Volkhard Lorenz is responsible for the world-wide business in the Compliance intelligence area. The according Siemens product suite includes Compliance Helpdesk solutions, Compliance & Audit Solutions Authorization & Segregation of Duty as well as Identity and Master Data Management. He puts a particular focus on resource management and partner management for the several projects at Siemens and external compliance programs. Additional responsibilities are Learning Solution and Changemanagement...

Douwe Lycklama is founding partner of Innopay (www.innopay.com) an independent consulting firm specialized in payments and related transaction services. Douwe is one of the thought leaders in ‘networked services’ like e-payments, e-invoicing, e-identity, m-payments, cards and SEPA, shaping breakthrough business and market innovations, standards and schemes. Innopay works for major international financial institutions and corporates, developing products, businesses and strategies. Innopay...

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...

Dr. Barbara Mandl is Senior Manager of DAIMLER AG, responsible for the Global Daimler IT-Organization: CoC Identity and Access Management. 

Dr. Barbara Mandl’s career lead her through various Telecommunication and IT organizations. Among those were leading Management Positions as Chief Engineer at Nortel and at an ASP in Germany. Her career has been focusing on security. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics.

Lorenzo Mastropietro holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and brings 20 years of experience in IT infrastructures and networks management for manufacturing companies.

In the last years he also got responsibilities in IT security management for big organizations. He is now responsible for IT Infrastructures and IT Security for Piaggio Group worldwide and with his team has the governance of IT services and defines the platforms and the standards for Piaggio IT.

Stuart McRae is part of IBM Software Group's World-Wide technical evangelism team, responsible for articulating IBM's vision for Collaboration & Social Networking within the enterprise. He is technical sponsor for key IBM's relationship with key customers in North East Europe providing deep technical, business and market knowledge, as well as supporting in marketing events and analyst/press briefings. Prior to his current role, Stuart has worked in Technical Sales, Business Transformation and...

David Miller is Chief Security Officer for Covisint, where he is responsible for internal and external system architecture security issues for e-business exchange. In addition, Miller directs the identity management offering at Covisint, which currently secures access for automotive, healthcare , energy and government customers.

Miller is a security thought leader and was recently named by FORTUNE magazine as an “identity visionary.” He also is a published author and was named to the...

Abdi Mohammadi received a Diploma in "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology" from Univercity of Applied Sciences München, Germany in 1992. He is currently Principal Field Technologist 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...

Dr. Andreas Neumann provides long-year experiences in national and international projects with strong focus on Identity and User Management. Within this area he has intensively worked on business side topics like strategic analysis, scoping, role management and stakeholder integration as well as on the management of implementation projects based on different technologies. As Logica Practice Manager Security Andreas Neumann is the German responsible for coordinating IdM activities within Logica....

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...

Michael Pauly works at T-Systems as a consultant focusing on Dynamic Services and Cloud Computing. Since 2005 he has been responsible for the positioning and development of new dynamic ICT services into successful marketable solutions for both large as well as medium-sized business customers. Furthermore, he acts as a T-Systems-spokesman for Cloud Computing.

After his PhD studies in the field of electrical engineering and information technology 1998 at Technical University Aachen (RWTH), he...

Alberto Pricoli has over 12 years of experience in IT security with main focus in network and security and authentication services/methods is heading at Arcot business development, sales and pre-sales for Central Europe, South + East Europe, CIS – Countries.

Besides he is a key account manager for global accounts and expert in 3Dsecure and cloud identity management as well as in realizable and convenient strong authentication methods.

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)...

Drummond Reed ( xri.net/=drummond.reed ) is Executive Director of the Information Card Foundation ( www.informationcard.net ) and the Open Identity Exchange ( www.openidentityexchange.org ). He is also co-chair of two OASIS Technical Committees: XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier;

Mr. Andreas Reisen is the Head of the "Passports and ID Documents, Identification Systems" Division within the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, a position he has held since September 2005. Mr. Reisen’s responsibilities include the Federal biometrics strategy, the government’s e-card strategy and current projects such as the introduction ofelectronic ID cards. He successfully introduced the first and second generation ePassports in Germany in November 2005 and November...

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...

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...

Dirk van Rooy has been working for the European Commission since 1993, in the Directorate-General Information Society and Media and its predecessors. Dirk van Rooy’s main area of responsibility is the coordination of activities in the ICT research program, where he is Head of Sector in trust and security, focusing on technologies for identity management, privacy enhancing technologies and secure information management. Earlier areas of work have included software and services, including open...

David De Roure is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. A founding member of the School's Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, he leads the e-Research activities and is a Director of the Pervasive Systems Centre.

Closely involved in the UK e-Science programme, David is National Strategic Director of e-Social Science, Chair of OMII-UK and a Co-Director of e-Research South. His work focuses on creating new...

Information Security Services (ISS) / Business Continuity Managment (BCM)

• Information Security- & IT-Audits
• Information Security & Policies
• Information Security Consulting
• Coodination of Information Security Officers in Daimler Trucks and Buses IT Unit
• IT-Service Continuity Management
• IT-Process Analysis & Modelling

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....

Joined Aladdin in 1999. Prior to taking on the role of the Director Channel Sales for EMEA in SafeNet, Peter Schill built up the channel in the German speaking region, and since 2006 lead the Enterprise Sales Team for DACH and Scandinavia.

CISSP
Leading the work group eSecurity, BDOA e.V.  (Bundesverband der Dienstleister für Online-Anbieter e.V.)

Mike has been an entrepreneur and directory services specialist for over 10 years. He was a speaker at LDAPCon 2009. He is the founder of Gluu, a federated identity service provider, and XRI registrar.

Marc Sel is Director in the “Enterprise Advisory” Department within PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1998. Prior he moved through positions with Texas Instruments, Alcatel and Esso.  In January 1989 he joined Coopers & Lybrand as a consultant.  After gradually building up experience by serving international clients, he now takes on a role of “Security & Technology” Director in Belgium. He specialises in security management, technology and cryptography.  He...

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...

Henrik has responsibilities in developing application architectures, application target maps and does more hands-on solutions in complex strategic IT development projects. Main competence area is turning business requirements into different levels of architectures. Henrik has worked both in supplier and customer organizations in different roles. This has influenced on his working methods and has been the main reason behind his studies contract management in agile and incremental software development,...

Jürgen Skerhut has extensive experience in Enterprise Security Consulting and Integration within BMW Group IT. Earlier he worked as a Research Assistant and Security Consultant. As the responsible project manager he lead the successful BMW multi-year implementation and international rollout of the new central Identity and Access Management Solution for BMW Group.

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...

Martin Spitzenberger works for the ICT unit of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Among other tasks he is involved with the eID infrastructure (portal federation), the central directory service and base registers of the Austrian administration. At the European level he is representing the Federal Chancellery in the SPOCS project.

Nicola Stein is responsible for the enterprise information management in the German Aerospace Center (DLR). During the last six years Nicola developed and implements a strategy for identity management in DLR.

Mr. Stewart joined MFC after six years at Intel Corporation, where he held senior positions in both finance and marketing. At Intel, Stewart was responsible for strategic analysis and financial controls for delivering best in class information technology solutions in areas including PC clients, wireless networking, remote access/VPN and telephony. Stewart is a frequent speaker at industry events due to his expertise in financial analysis of business technology decisions and ROI of information...

Rolf Strehle has a degree in Computer Science and over 18 years of experience as founder and manager of IT-Security companies. He is accredited auditor for ISO/IEC 27001 at BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) and consults customers in the areas of IT-Security and Data Protection as CEO of ditis, a security company in Ulm, Germany. Furthermore he is responsible for the worldwide IT-Security strategies as CISO of VOITH AG, an international manufacturing company with over...

Dr. Walter Swoboda is CIO of the hospital of the University of Munich. He is also a associate professor for medical processing management at University of Applied Sciences in Neu-Ulm. He is member of GMDS (German Medical Informatics Group) and GI (German Informatics Group). His main area is medical informatics, especially planning and implementing computer-driven clinical processes. In the field of medicine, data security and data privacy pose big challenges.

Nino Talian graduated at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 2006, and is working as a Solution Architect for King ICT, one of the leading system integrators in Croatia.

His involvements are in presales, requirement analysis, designing and implementing IT management security solutions, including identity and access management, single sign-on, provisioning, role engineering, policy enforcement, authentication and authorization management. Nino was a technical leader in...

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...

Jean-Pierre Tual is currently Director, Industrial Relations, in the Technology and Innovation Department of Gemalto. He is especially in charge of the corporate strategy for developing R&D collaborative projects in all business areas of the Company. He has been especially involved in the setting-up and management of large projects related to Digital identity, Security and Embedded SW for SIM/UICC or smart-cards. He was formerly VP R&D of the smart-card operations of Schlumberger SEMA...

After completing his electrical engineering studies, including his Doctorate from Hanover University, Dr. Uwe Vehlies worked for a consulting company, focussed on SAP solutions. Thereafter, he was a long-standing employee at IBM and was, for example, responsible for Second-Level-Support in the SAP sphere for various Outsourcing customers. Since the middle of 2006 he has been active as senior IT coordinator for Hannover Rückversicherung AG, with particular responsibility for Identity management...

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...

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...

Dr. Johannes Wiele works as Director Business Consulting for Defense AG in Germany. Before joining this company, he worked as a journalist specialised on IT security topics and acted as a speaker and moderator at international and German IT security conferences.

Johannes Wiele also acts as a part time teacher in the areas of psychology of information security and social engineering countermeasures at the University of Munich and as a an associate lecturer at Karlshochschule International...

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.

Dr Gary Wills is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Gary works in a multidisciplinary environment. Gary graduated from the University of Southampton with an Honours degree in electromechanical engineering, and then a PhD in Industrial hypermedia systems. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institute of Engineering Technology and a Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy.  He is also a visiting professor at the Cape Peninsular University of...