Roy Adar is the Vice President of Product Management at CyberArk Software. In his role he is responsible for CyberArk'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....

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...

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...

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...

Kim is Architect of Identity in the Identity Division at Microsoft, where he champions the emergence of a privacy enhancing Identity Metasystem reaching across technologies, industries, vendors, continents and cultures.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus is KuppingerCole Scientific Advisor and a former KuppingerCole Senior Analyst. Sachar was 8 years with SAP in leading security positions, responsible for Secure Software Development, Security Product Management, and Security of the Corporation (Chief Security Officer). He...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...