Roy Adar is the Vice President of Product Management at Cyber-ark Software. In his role he is responsible for Cyber-Ark's product management, product marketing and overall product strategy. Adar brings over 20 years of experience in technology, marketing and business strategy to this role. Previously at NICE Systems (Nasdaq: NICE) Adar held the position of Market Manager with product management and marketing responsibilities for the financial services vertical. In this role he was...
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Stephan Bohnengel has been working in IT for more than 12 years. Since 2006 Stephan works for VMware in various Pre-Sales roles, specializing the last 2 years on security. Prior to VMware he worked as an IT trainer, Consultant and Support Engineer for Server Based Computing, Firewalls and other security related vendors (Policy management, PKI, Encryption, Multi factor authentication). In his current role Stephan councils large VMware accounts in Central Europe, evangelizes virtual firewall...
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Jacques Bus was born in the Netherlands in 1947, and received his PhD in Science and Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. He worked as a researcher for 12 years and subsequently as research programme manager for 5 years at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam (NL). In 1988 he joined the European Commission and has worked in leading positions in various parts of the Research programmes ESPRIT and IST, including IT Infrastructure, Programme Management,...
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Nigel is President and CEO of Washington DC’s first independent think tank on science and technology policy - or the lack thereof - at the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. (C PET) where, in short, he stirs the hornet's nest to get people thinking! Until 2008, he was Research Professor and Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society. In 2003 he co-founded the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human...
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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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Andre Durand is a twelve year veteran of the enterprise software industry, a recognized leader in the identity industry and a pioneer behind the concepts of the digital identity network. In addition to his role as CEO of Ping Identity, Mr. Durand co-founded and co-chairs Digital ID World , the official identity industry conference and magazine. Prior to Ping Identity, Mr. Durand founded Jabber, Inc. , a leading global provider of in instant messaging and presence management platforms...
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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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Mr Grudzien studied electrical engineering at Berlin Technical University and business studies at the Berlin School of Economics. He holds a doctorate in the former subject. After working as a process engineer at Berlin’s water company and at Berlin Technical University’s Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management, Mr Grudzien joined the Association of German Banks in October 2001. He works in the Retail Banking and Banking Technology Department, where he is responsible...
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Dave spent 10 years as a network manager, ending up as Information Services Manager for the former Thomas-Conrad Corporation (now part of Compaq ). In 1987, he was a founding SysOp of Novell's Novell Support Connection service on Compuserve and served as the first president of the Association of NetWire SysOps. He's a past recipient of NetWare Users International's Nuggie award for "outstanding contributions." Dave was formerly Technical Editor of Networking Solutions magazine....
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Berthold Kerl studied economics and computer science in Nürnberg. Since then he has worked in the IT Industry for more than 20 years in a variety of different roles. In the first half of his career Berthold worked at CSC leading the SAP consulting practice for financial services industry. After joining Deutsche Bank in 2002 he has been working in various leadership roles covering the entire software development lifecycle as well as Sourcing/Outsourcing, IT Strategy and IT Governance....
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Ralf Knöringer is the head of the competence center IAM at Atos which includes the global responsibility for the DirX product suite. Ralf has more than 20 years of professional experience in the international security market. His main focus areas are Identity and Access Management, GRC and managed security services. In his management position, Ralf particularly drives the development of cloud-based IAM services and managed ISRM (Identity, Security and Risk Management) solutions . Before...
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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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Mike Neuenschwander is Sr. Director of Product Management for Oracle Identity Management, and is responsible for the strategic direction of the identity product line. Prior to joining Oracle, Mike was a Sr. Manager in the Accenture Information Security Practice. A recognized thought leader in the identity industry, Mike was previously VP and Research Director for Burton Group's Identity and Privacy Strategies Service, where his areas of focus were identity management, directory...
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Shirief Nosseir is EMEA product marketing director of security management solutions at CA Technologies. With 25 years in the software industry, Shirief’s experience ranges across the fields of security management, service and infrastructure management, application lifecycle management and business intelligence. This allows him to have insightful understanding of how to assist enterprises in developing business-oriented architectures, while melding traditionally disparate technologies...
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Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID, founded in June of 2004. Mr. Parker studied the intersection of role-based access control and workflow automation after extensive leadership in the development of innovative SharePoint web parts to securely delegate administration and self-service, large-scale ecommerce solutions, as well as workflow solutions for regulatory compliance. The lack of integration between these two disciplines was identified as an urgent market need and led to...
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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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Kai Rannenberg holds the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at the Goethe University in Frankfurt since 2002. Before he worked at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK focussing on "Personal Security Devices & Privacy Technologies". Kai studied at the TU Berlin and received his PhD at Freiburg University where he then coordinated the interdisciplinary "Kolleg Security in Communication Technology", sponsored by Gottlieb Daimler & Karl Benz...
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Jonathan has been a senior member of Quest’s team since 1999. Working with both the security and performance management product lines, he has designed, architected, and implemented solutions for the largest and smallest customers Quest has. When the Quest One Identity Solution was launched, Jonathan took the position as its chief evangelist. Now he directs all business development efforts for the growing IAM solution, working with partners, channels and building programs to raise...
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Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author (with fellow Berkman Fellow David Weinberger and others) of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and one of the world's best-known and widely read bloggers. His work as a journalist, speaker and advocate of the Internet led to a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator in 2005. In "The World is Flat", Thomas L. Friedman calls Doc "one of the most respected technology writers in America". Doc's long and varied professional history...
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James (Jim) Taylor is responsible for the overall product strategy, pricing and packaging and future direction for NetIQ's Identity and Security products. Jim has over 20 years of experience in the Identity and Security industry, working in a variety of roles from consulting to quality assurance. Prior to joining Novell, Jim was founder and CEO of Fortefi a company which specialized in Privileged Identity Management. Prior to Fortefi, Jim held positions within product management and sales...
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Peter Weierich, born in 1964, studied Computer Science and Medical Informatics in Erlangen. Since 2011 he is Senior Strategy Consultant at iC Consult GmbH. Before that, he was Head of Marketing and Sales at Völcker Informatik AG.
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