Speakers
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John Aisien Vice President of Product Management Oracle Corporation 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. |
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DI Dr. Werner Aumayr CIO AMAG Austria Metall AG Studium der Techn. Mathematik und Informatik an der TU Wien und allgemein beeideter und gerichtlich zertifizierter Sachverständiger für Informationstechnologie, blickt auf eine langjährige Tätigkeit in verschiedenen Führungspositionen in der IT-Industrie zurück. Seit 2001 ist er als CIO in weltweit operierenden Unternehmensgruppen, gegenwärtig bei der AMAG Group tätig. |
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Drew Bartkiewicz Vice President The Hartford Financial Services Group 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... |
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Martin Baumann Enterprise Architekt Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Bayern Nach Abschluss des Studiums der Informatik 1986 in Stuttgart arbeitete Herr Baumann mehrere Jahre als Softwareentwickler und –architekt bei den Firmen Siemens und Ixos in München. Seit 1999 widmet er sich neben der Software-, insbesondere auch der Systemarchitektur und dem Betrieb sicherheitskritischer Anwendungen im Internet – zunächst bei einem „dot-com spinoff“ und seit 2003 bei der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung Bayerns (KVB). Als Enterprise-Architekt... |
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Michael Bischof Senior Consultant KOGIT GmbH Michael Bischof ist Dipl. Betriebswirt (BA) Fachrichtung Wirtschaftsinformatik und arbeitet als Senior Consultant bei der KOGIT GmbH. Stationen seiner bisherigen Karriere waren Sun Microsystems und die Robert Bosch GmbH. Sein Arbeitsschwerpunkt liegt in Beratung, Konzeption, Aufbau und Betrieb von komplexen Softwaresystemen wie Identity Management, Portalen, Secure Remote Access und Access Management. Seit einiger Zeit beschäftigt sich Michael Bischof intensiv mit Fragestellungen zum Thema... |
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Michael Boehnke Program Manager SAP Deutschland Michael Böhnke ist Dipl. Betriebswirt (BA, Wirtschaftsinformatik) und seit 2002 im Vertrieb der SAP Deutschland tätig. Zur Zeit verantwortet er im Bereich Business Development unter anderem das Thema „Neuer Personalausweis“ . In diesem Zusammenhang erarbeitet er eine Lösung für SAP Kunden, die gekoppelt mit SAP Identity Management eine Abbildung der Prozesser ermöglicht. |
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Kim Cameron Chief Architect of Identity in the Security Division Microsoft 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, |
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Tim Cole Kuppinger Cole 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 managers involved... |
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Tim Dunn Vice President - Security Business Unit CA 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. |
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André Durand Founder & CEO Ping Identity 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,... |
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Sabine Erlinghagen Vice President & General Manager Identity Management & Biometrics Siemens IT Solutions and Services 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 –... |
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Prof. Dr. Eberhard von Faber Security Strategy and Executive Consulting T-Systems 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... |
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Felix Gaehtgens Senior Analyst Kuppinger Cole 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... |
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Gerry Gebel President Axiomatics Americas 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... |
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Thomas Groth Application Support Identity Management Berliner Stadtreinigung |
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John Hermans Associate Partner KPMG Current Job Roles and Responsibilities |
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Niels von der Hude Senior Manager Beta Systems Software 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... |
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Dr. Rainer Janßen CIO Munich Re 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... |
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Dr. Michael Karger Wendler Tremml Rechtsanwaelte Dr. Michael Karger verfügt als Partner der Kanzlei Wendler Tremml München über langjährige Beratungserfahrung im IT-Recht und im Datenschutzrecht. Er ist Fachanwalt für Informationstechnologierecht und für Verwaltungsrecht und als Dozent an der Deutschen AnwaltAkademie für IT-Recht Beim Experten-Blog des Verlags C.H. Beck betreut er den |
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Dave Kearns Identity Expert & Writer Network World 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... |
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Rainer Knorpp Devoteam Rainer Knorpp (39) ist seit 2004 für das Unternehmen tätig. Als Market Manager Security Solutions ist er verantwortlich für die Weiterentwicklung des Service Offering Portfolio, die Betreuung des Partnernetzwerkes sowie in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Sales-Team für die Neukundengewinnung. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte ist dabei die Überführung von technologischen Ansätzen in business-orientierte Lösungen.Vor seinem Wechsel zu Danet war Rainer... |
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Dr. Martin Kuhlmann Lead Solution Consultant (D-A-CH) Omada 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... |
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Martin Kuppinger Kuppinger Cole 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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Fiete Leske Senior Consultant – Compliant Identity Management Acando |
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Peter Ligezinski CIO Allianz Investmentbank AG 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... |
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Dale Olds Distinguished Engineer Novell 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... |
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Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus Senior Analyst Kuppinger Cole 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, responsible for... |
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Lutz Reinhard Henkel Herr Lutz Reinhard ist Manager im Bereich des Identity and Access Managements. Diese Aufgabe nimmt er seit 2004 im Unternehmen Henkel wahr und verantwortet das globale User Management. |
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Marco Rohrer CEO ipg ag Marco Rohrer ist Mitbegründer und CEO der ipg ag Schweiz. Er absolvierte ein Fachhochschul-Studium in Betriebswirtschaft und weist über 10 Jahre Erfahrung in der IT-Branche aus. Die ipg ag ist fokussiert auf die IT-Sicherheit und bietet Gesamtlösungen für Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Identity Management & Provisioning und Privilegiertes Account Management. |
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Darran Rolls Chief Technology Officer Sailpoint 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 Provisioning Markup... |
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Dr. Dirk van Rooy Head of Sector, Trust and Security European Commission, DG Information Society and Media 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... |
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Rossa ISM Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Rossa ist Geschäftsführer des Instituts für System-Management mit Sitz im Nordosten von Rostock. Seine 20 Mitarbeiter entwickeln technische Lösungen, wie Unternehmen ihre IT- und Geschäftsprozesse weitgehend automatisieren können. Das Institut (iSM) konzentriert sich als Technologie-Unternehmen auf den Bereich IT-Security und IT-Organisation. Durch seine qualifizierte Beratung und die Entwicklung von Softwaresys-temen konnte... |
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Matthias Schabl Senior Analyst Kuppinger Cole See https://www.xing.com/profile/Matthias_Schabl or submitted CV |
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Richard Sharp Director of Software Production, XenServer Group Citrix Systems 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 design,... |
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Jackson Shaw Active Directory, Identity Management Expert Quest Software 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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Roland Stahl Henkel Seit vielen Jahren in der IT tätig, war ich ab 2002 Projektleiter für die Ablösung der Eigententwicklung durch eine gekaufte Lösung. Seit der Inproduktionsnahme der Henkel Identity Management Lösung im Februar 2005 bin ich für den Teil "User-Provisioning" verantwortlich für den Betrieb und die Weiterentwicklung. Seit 2008 auch für das "Henkel Meta Directory". |
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Christian Ströbel Stadtwerke München Herr Christian Ströbel ist seit 2002 im Bereich Identity Management tätig und verantwortet diesen Bereich seid 2006. Zu seiner Aufgabe gehört sowohl die Produktverantwortung des Identity Management Systems als auch die Benutzerpflege im Active Directory und die User Management in diversen externen Softwareprodukten. |
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Dr. Michael Tobias Geschäftsführer P3 Ingenieurgesellschaft Herr Dr. Michael Tobias promovierte 1997, nach seinem Maschinenbaustudium an der RWTH Aachen, an dem Fraunhofer Institut für Produktionstechnologie im Bereich Qualitäts- und Prozessmanagement. Zum Ende der Promotionszeit stieg er als Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter bei der 1996 gegründeten P3 Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH ein. Nach den positiven Ergebnissen der Startphase wurde das Unternehmen durch die vier Gründer über die Automobilindustrie insbesondere in dem... |
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Marko Vogel IAM Lead Manager, IT Advisory KPMG 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... |
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Eckhard Völcker Vorstandsvorsitzender Völcker Informatik AG 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... |
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Dr. Horst Walther Partner Kuppinger Cole Dr. Horst Walther, born 1951 in Berlin, works as a management consultant and independent technical advisor for more than 30 years. His expertise focuses on the business to technology interface. At Kuppinger, Cole he covers the domain of IAM-processes, roles, rules & policies and the management of IAM-projects. |
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Peter Weierich Voelcker Informatik 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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Rudolf Wildgruber Director Product Management Identity and Access Management Siemens AG 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. |









































