Jörg is Partner of KPMG in the service line (IT) Advisory and is responsible in Germany for the service area Security, Privacy, Continuity, an area, in which the employees mainly deal with different aspects of information security. Jörg Asma integrated the German practice into the certification services of KPMG Audit Plc 4 years ago, so that today certifications can be performed world wide by KPMG for different ISO Standards, amongst others ISO/IEC27001. He is a member of working...
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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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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....
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Gerry is responsible for sales, marketing and business development for the Americas region. In addition, he contributes to product strategy and manages Axiomatics’ global partner relations. Prior to joining Axiomatics, Gerry was Vice President and Service Director for Burton Group’s identity management practice. He covered topics such as authorization, federation, identity and access governance, user provisioning and other IdM topics. In 2007, he facilitated the first ever XACML...
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Maurizio Griva is a manager at Concept Reply with the responsibility of business development and funded research projects in the areas of Cloud computing platforms and the Internet of Things. He has previously spent the last 10 years in managing large software projects as operations manager, quality and IT manager at Motorola.
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Henk is responsible for Security Sales in Europe. He is an information security professional with over 24 years’ experience in IT sales and services. He joined CA Technologies’ IT Security team in 2010 to help the organization extend its growth in the identity and access management sector across distributed, virtual, and cloud environments. Henk has an illustrious history of producing results through new sales and business development both in the Netherlands and across Europe. In...
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Wolfgang Hirsch is responsible for worldwide consulting and solutions business in the field of IT security (e.g. identity and access management, biometrics) at Siemens IT Solutions and Services. He was previously in charge of global sales at the Public and Social Administration Business Segment, in which capacity he also represented the IT service provider in various workgroups at the European level. In his career at Siemens to date, he has also held numerous posts in consulting and sales....
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Prof. Dr. Friedrich Holl is professor for office communication and administration automation, author and editor of many works in the IT Security and Safety area, director of the "Institute of Security and Safety (ISS)" at the FH Brandenburg and accredited German and European data protection expert, as well as director of the Master's degree program "Security Management" at the FH Brandenburg. In the last years he has worked on diverse projects in corporate security, PKI...
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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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Nishant Kaushik is Lead Strategist for Identity & Access Management at Oracle. In his current role, Nishant is responsible for driving innovation in Oracle's industry leading identity management solutions. He has over 10 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 on twitter...
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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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Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Prior to KuppingerCole, Martin wrote more than 50 IT-related books and is known  as a widely-read columnist and author of technical articles and reviews in some of the most prestigious IT magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is also a well-established speaker and moderator at seminars and...
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Laurent Liscia, Ph.D., Executive Director at OASIS, provides leadership, operational oversight, and strategic vision for the consortium. He represents OASIS in the international arena, serving as an advocate for open standards in matters of policy and adoption. Laurent also develops new opportunities to extend the breadth and depth of future OASIS work. Prior to joining OASIS, he co-founded several Web-related companies, including Traackr and Webmotion. Laurent served as a Media...
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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.
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Emilio Mordini is an MD (University of Rome La Sapienza) and MAPhil (Pontifical University S.Thoma). He is a psychoanalyst and founding director of the Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship. He was partner of the Psychoanalytic Institute for Social Research (1986-2001), professor of bioethics in the Medical School of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1994-2005), member (1994-2000) and secretary (2000-2004) of the Bioethical Commission of the Italian National Research Council.He is...
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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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Prof. Dr. Reinhard Posch is member of many professional societies: IEEE, ACM, OCG (member of the board of the Austrian Computer Society), OGI (Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Informatik), ACONET, OeMG (Oesterreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft),  GME (Microelectronic society) etc. He was the Austrian representative in IFIP TC6 (Communication) as well as IFIP TC11 (Computer Security). Besides this Reinhard Posch is member of the Working group on Security of payment...
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Rolf von Roessing, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, is president of Forfa, a consultancy in Germany. He is also a retired partner and now executive advisor at KPMG Germany. Von Roessing has been a member of ISACA since 1997. He is international vice president of ISACA, a member of the IT Governance Institute Board of Trustees, a member of the Framework Committee and is active in the German and Austrian chapters of the association. In 2005, Von Roessing was invited to join ISACA’s Global Security...
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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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Lothar Wieske is Enterprise Architect for Innovation Management at DB Systel GmbH (Deutsche Bahn AG). In his current work he identifies sound principles for the adoption of cloud computing and architects comprehensive solutions. In the past he served as project leader and chief architect in large international projects for IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. His key topics are cloud/mobile/social computing as well as agile techniques in development and operations.
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