John is the lead member of the outbound product management team that drives sales and adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Oracle Fusion Middleware is the fastest growing product line at Oracle, with over $1B in revenue in FY 2006.  It covers multiple solution areas, including J2EE, Portal, SOA, Identity Management, Service Delivery Platform and Business Intelligence. John represents the Fusion Middleware development...
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Kim joined Microsoft in 1999 when it bought the ZOOMIT Corporation . As VP of Technology at ZOOMIT , he had invented metadirectory technology and built the first shipping product. Before that he led ZOOMIT’s development team in producing a range of SMTP, X.400, X.500, and PKI products. Kim grew up in Canada, attending King’s College at Dalhousie University and l’Université de Montréal. He has won a number of industry awards, including Digital Identity...
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Tim Cole, born in 1950, is an experienced publicist, book author and TV moderator in the field of eBusiness and IT security. As editor of the business magazine “Net Investor” he has a proven track record for journalistic objectivity, as well as the ability to critically evaluate the impact of technology on business processes and markets. His book “Management Challenge Security” (published in German by Carl Hanser) has become a standard textbook for non-technical...
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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.
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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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Sabine Erlinghagen is responsible for the world-wide business with DirX, the Siemens product suite for Identity & Access Management as well as for the Siemens biometric products. She puts a particular focus on leveraging IAM for core industry and administration processes. Prior to this responsibility, she was in charge of the Siemens IT portfolio for the Public Sector. Amongst other responsibilities in this role, she shaped the Siemens IT Solutions strategy and portfolio for EU...
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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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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 Excellence for Identity and Access...
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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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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...
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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 Senior Partner at Kuppinger Cole and Partner. He has a long-year history in Identity Management, starting in the early days of Novell NetWare, LAN Manager at other network systems. He has written roundabout 50 IT books and uncounted articles in IT magazines. Beyond Identity Management, he has a strong background in application architecture and in many other of today’s most important IT topics like BSM, SOA, ESBs, and more.
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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...
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Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity and Security Management Group. He is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for identity-enabled and Open Source technologies. Dale was the lead designer and implementor of Novell Directory Services (NDS) and Novell eDirectory from 1990 to 2000. He is listed as an inventor on 11 patents and has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. His recent...
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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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Rolls directs the continued development and communication of SailPoint's technology strategy and vision. Previously, Rolls was a member of the CTO's office at Sun Microsystems and led strategic technology and industry standards initiatives at Waveset Technologies. A respected contributor to several international XML standards initiatives, he served as Chair of the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee and in that capacity led a two-year industry effort to develop the Service...
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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,...
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Richard is Director of Software Production for the XenServer Engineering group within Citrix. He was previously a Principal Engineer at XenSource where he led a development team and made a significant personal contribution to the XenServer codebase. Richard has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and has held research positions at Intel and AT&T Laboratories, authoring over 30 publications and patents in the fields of compiler implementation, programming language...
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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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Peter Weierich, born in 1964, studied Computer Science and Medical Informatics in Erlangen. Since 2006 he is Head of Marketing and Sales at Völcker Informatik AG.
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