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....

Henning Arendt is owner of @bc®, an independent Business Consultancy for Financial Services and Biometrics Advisory, since 1998. He was the previous chair of the European Finance Forum and supported several EU projects e.g. as member of the CoMiFin (Communication middleware for Monitoring...

Alexei is an analyst with specific focus on cybersecurity. His deep technical understanding allows him to support customers even with complex architectural and security challenges. Previously he has served as KuppingerCole's CTO. After graduating with an MSc degree in Mathematics and...

Guy Balzam has over 12 years of experience in IT and Information Security. In his past roles Guy specialized in enterprise security, managed the ELAL airlines IT security unit and led their PCI certification process. With his vast knowledge of identity and access management Guy is now a...

YOHAN BENIZRI is an associate in Sidley’s Brussels office and a member of the firm’s International Trade and Competition practices. He advises multinational companies, governments and trade associations on international trade, investment and competition matters, with a focus on the...

Ronny Bjones currently is working for Microsoft Corporate as senior architect in the identity & security division. Ronny joined Microsoft in 2002 to contribute in trustworthy computing. Later he became the EMEA security lead for Microsoft’s enterprise business. He has 27 years of...

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...

Salah Bohoudi studied Electrical Engineering and computer science in Deft Technical university. Since then he has worked in the IT Industry for more than 15 years in a variety of different information security roles. In the first half of his career Salah worked at AtosEuroponext leading the...

John Bradley is an Identity Management subject matter expert and IT professional with a diverse background. Mr. Bradley has over 15 years experience in the information technology and identity management field. Mr. Bradley advises Government Agencies and commercial organizations on the policy and...

Joni builds diplomatic and collaborative relationships within and across communities of interest. She participates in international organizations and industry standards committees including: OECD ITAC, ISOC, IEEE, OASIS SSTC, ISO SC27 WG5, and ITU-T SG17 Q6. She has served as the NSTIC / IDESG...

As the creator of breakthrough concepts like NetWare Open Systems, The Network Services Model, metadirectory, and The Internet Services Model, Craig Burton is one of the leading visionaries and analysts in the computing industry. He is a frequently consulted expert on new technologies and the...

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...

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.

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...

Andreas Carlsson, Product Manager Authentication and Cloud Services at Nordic Edge.  Andreas Carlsson is the Product Manager for Nordic Edge Authentication and Nordic Edge Cloud Services and has long experience of large security frameworks and authentication as a service. Prior to Nordic...

David is Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent in Canterbury and leads the Information Systems Security Research Group there.

Haydar Cimen is the Global Director Security Services at KPN Corporate Market. KPN provides global security consulting and managed security services through a set of modular offers. Haydar is a security professional and is in the security industry for over 15 years. During his tenure he held...

With about 15 years’ experience on telecom Industry Giovanni Ciminari is now Security Engineering Director in Telecom Italia. His responsibility spans from IT to Network Security both for internal and public services. In the past he was OSS Operations Manager and ICT System Engineer

As the global head of Security Operations for one of the Netherland's largest banks, Cornelissen is responsible for providing strategic Security Operations solutions and services to the Rabobank International Wholesale and International Retail and Rural Business, and oversees a team to ensure...

Founder Edentiti Adjunct Associate Professor University of Canberra PhD, MSc, BE His paper Emergent Properties of User Managed Access to Personal Information is now available for free download.

Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd, providing high-level advice to private sector and public sector organisations on building trust through excellent data governance, particularly in their collection and use of personal information. He is also...

Scott L. David is a partner in the K&L Gates LLP law firm. Scott provides legal advice regarding compliance with privacy and data security laws; structuring of online contracts, terms of use, privacy policies and electronic payment and tax administration systems; networked data risk and...

Marnix works at ENISA on cloud security and smartphone security. He has a degree in Theoretical Physics and a PhD degree in Computer science. His PhD thesis proposes new, more flexible, access control for collaborative work environments such as medical health record systems.   Before...

Trey Drake: Trey Drake is an Architect and a founder of UnboundID, and a key participant in the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) initiative. Prior to UnboundID, Trey was Senior Staff Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, serving as community leader for Sun's OpenDS directory server...

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...

Julia Ecker is a consultant, assigned to the Process and Quality Team of Siemens Corporate IT – HR Solutions. Within Siemens CIT Julia Ecker has gained deep knowledge in the field of Identity and Access Management. She specializes in service, communication and project management activities...

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...

Dr. Alea Fairchild is a Vice President & Principal Analyst for Technology Infrastructure Strategy, Legacy Optimization, and EMEA policy. Fairchild provides strategy and counsel to key Constellation client types: Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, investment analysts, VCs,...

With 15+ years of experience in the Identity and Access Management solutions, currently working for CA as a product manager for CA Role& Compliance Manager.

I am an independent strategist delivering innovative business models that are based on our data. With over twenty years of professional delivery capability with leading brands, high growth companies and in venture capital, I bring board level executive experience crossing digital, web, telecoms,...

Fulup Ar Foll joined KuppingerCole in 2012 as a Senior Analyst. Besides his very strong background in large scale and high performance identity and access management, as well as information security architecture, Fulup´s research focus is related to consumer and citizen identity, mobile...

Luke is a member of the cyber resilience a dvi sory team at Alix Partners and has worked with many of the world’s leading companies and government organisations. His work has included risk-management,  incident response, threat analysis,  transaction services,...

Allan Foster is a founding member of ForgeRock, bringing skills in the entire Identity management space. He has proven skills in Access Management, Federation, and Portal Architectures. Allan is based in Portland, Oregon in the USA, and has worked with the ForgeRock products, as well as prior...

Eric Fulton is a specialist in network penetration testing and web application assessments. His clients have included Fortune 500 companies, international financial institutions, global insurance firms, government entities, telecommunications companies, as well as world-renowned academic and...

Marcel van Galen is a visionair, a creator, an inspirator and an idealist. After building several businesses in communication and IT, he and his team started with developing Qiy as an independent utility on which people can create their own secure and intelligent space to be able to interact...

Matthew Gardiner is a senior manager at RSA Security and is currently focused on the evolution of security management & compliance in general and SIEM solutions in particular. For the past 10+ years Matthew has focused on identity & access management, Web access management, identity...

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...

Patrick Graber is Senior Security Consultant at ICT Security Services of Business Customers for Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd. Patrick Graber completed his studies in Electrical Engineering at the ETH in Zurich. He then started working in the field of ICT Security in several companies for over...

Robert Griffin is Chief Security Architect at RSA, the Security Division of EMC, where he is responsible for technical architecture and strategy. He is particularly active in RSA’s initiatives regarding virtualization, cloud computing and IT consumerization, including as part of the VCE...

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...

Thomas Gundel is partner at IT Crew - an independent Danish IT consulting company that works primarily for the Danish Government on digitization of the public sector.   His areas of expertise cover identity and access management, federations, PKI, security, risk analysis and cloud...

Dr. Mohamed Hamdi (PhD, habilitation) co-authored more than 80 scientific publications published in international journals and conferences. He is the chair of the 'Cloud security' industry forum in the IEEE ICC'12 conference (Ottawa, Canada). He has also chaired and co-chaired international...

Mat drives product strategy and innovation for SailPoint. With ten years is experience in identity management, he is an active participant in the identity management community, contributing in the areas of identity governance, user provisioning, role management, and SPML.  At Sun...

Nicole has lead access and identity management intiatives for JISC for 10 years and is responsible for establishing the largest SAML-based federation in the education and research sector. Nicole acts as a consultant for both the Shibboleth initiative and REFEDS - Research and Education...

John Harrison is the CEO, of PIB-d Ltd, a joint-venture between the UK’s Higher Education sector (as represented by JISC and the University of Hertfordshire) and the founders of his original start-up, Edentity Ltd. PIB-d’s remit is to organise a pilot, in which a university will...

Roland Hedberg has received one Master degree in Biology and Chemistry from Umeå University, Sweden and another in Mechanical Engineering from Luleå Technical University, Sweden. He is senior researcher at ICT Services and System Development (ITS), Umeå University, Sweden. His...

Dr. Markus Held joined BaFin in early 2010. Since then, he has worked on fundamental issues in the supervision of IT-security, IT-infrastructures and IT-Governance in banks. On behalf of BaFin, he also accompanied several IT assessments of German banks by the Deutsche Bundesbank. In October,...

Mireille Hildebrandt started her academic life with a taste of cultural anthropology, later switching to law. She took her law degree from Leyden University in the Netherlands and defended her PhD thesis in the philosophy of criminal law at Erasmus University Rotterdam, integrating legal...

Dr. Hladjk's practice focuses on all aspects of German and European data protection and IT security law. Dr. Hladjk regularly advises multinational companies on German, pan-European and international data protection compliance projects, in particular regarding global strategies for data...

Jaap-Henk Hoepman is senior scientist computer security, privacy and identity management at TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. He also holds an associate professor position at the Digital Security group of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences of the...

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...

Dr. Stephan Humer is Research Director/Adjunct Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, one of the oldest and most renowned Universities in Germany. Several other involvements e.g. at the University of Potsdam and the Technical University of Berlin complete his commitment to serve as a...

Gershon Janssen is an independent consultant and member of the OASIS Open Standards Group. Gershon has a background in software and infrastructure architecture, distributed systems and integration technologies. Gershon works predominantly on projects, designing and building complex information...

Clemens Jochum studied Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Munich. After earning his PhD in 1978, he spent four years in scientific research at the University of Washington in Seattle, the last two of them as Director of the Laboratory for Chemometrics. He also teaches Information...

Kurt Johnson is responsible for Courion's strategic direction, product management, and securing and managing Courion's alliances and partnerships. Previously, Johnson was vice president of the service management strategies program at META Group, a leading industry research organization. He was a...

Michael B. Jones is a Standards Architect at Microsoft. He is an editor of the OpenID Connect specifications, several IETF OAuth specifications, including JSON Web Token (JWT) , the IETF JOSE (JSON cryptography) specifications, and the FIDO 2.0 specifications.  He serves on the...

Steve Jones is the author of Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies and Capgemini's sponsor for OASIS membership.  In 2007 Steve led the development and release of a joint Capgemini and Google solution based on Google Apps and has been a regular writer on cloud, SaaS and the business adoption...

Dr. Dawn Jutla is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary researcher and full professor in the Department of Finance, Information Systems, and Management Science at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies,...

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....

Michael Kleinhenz is the Lead Architect at tarent AG, an IAM solution provider located in Bonn, Germany. He holds a degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern and is responsible for technology and partner strategy at tarent. He lead and designed several projects in the...

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...

Jochen Koehler is the Regional Director for the DACH region at CyberArk. Jochen brings with him over 13 years of experience within the IT industry with a proven track record of successful go-to-market strategies for innovative IT solutions, especially in Identity Management and the IT security...

Dr. Ioannis Krontiris is a senior researcher in the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He holds a PhD in computer science from Mannheim University, Germany, an MSc in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon...

Mr. Alexander Kuehnemann studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich. He started his career as multiproject manager for different IT international projects. With his move to T-Systems International GmbH he was responsible for the setup and rollout of an T-Systems wide Identity...

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...

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...

Ian Lamont is a manager in the Security Operations Centre of BMW. He is a key member of the Security Workgroup of the Open Data Center Alliance where, as well as driving the generation of the Identity Management Usage Cases, has played a leading role in all of the security related work of the...

Herbert Leitold received his masters in telecommunication and informatics in 1996. From 1990 to 1994 he worked as a test technician at austriamicrosystems. Herbert has been research assistant at the Graz University of Technology from 1996 to 2001. Since 2001 he is site manager of the Secure...

Technical Coordinator of the GINI-SA project, on behalf of IKED. GINI-SA is a Support Action for the European Commission which aims to analyse how a Personalized Identity Management (PIM) ecosystem in which individuals can manage their own digital identities and control the exchange of their...

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...

Maarten Louman is an innovator by heart. He is partner at Qiy and responsible for innovation and business development. He joined Qiy in 2007 to help develop Qiy as an Independent Trust Framework for Guaranteed Digital Identities.

Hassan Maad, born in 1964, is Chief Operating Officer of Evidian. Prior to his appointment, he joined the senior management team of Evidian as Vice-President of Business Development, following the acquisition of Enatel by Evidian in September 2005. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...

Calum Macleod is Director EMEA for Venafi Inc., and with over 30 years’ experience in the IT industry, has have been involved in leading edge technologies and developments in the industry for many years. He is also a regular contributor to journals such as Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance...

As an infrastructure architect in the enterprise networking field since 1994, Bruce possesses in-depth experience in all facets of Identity & Access Management which include enterprise provisioning, access certification, password and credential management, as well as privileged access...

Dr Maciej Machulak specializes in security, privacy and trust in the Cloud as well as in personal data management. He is the founder and CEO of Cloud Identity Limited where he works with his team on research and development of innovative identity management and privacy solutions that allow...

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...

Susan Morrow is Head of Research and Development at Avoco Secure Ltd. Susan is involved in the design of Cloud based, verified, consumer identities for use by governments and commercial organizations. She has She is involved in the Kantara Initiative and in particular the UMA protocol - User...

Steve Moyle is the CTO for the Oracle Database Firewall. He is the originator of the Database Firewall, having researched the Database Firewall's intelligent machine learning approaches at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He has spent the last seven years developing the Database...

Anthony Nadalin is a partner architect in the Government Engagement Team leading the Standards and Public Policy practice. Anthony had spent the last 27 years with IBM where he was the Chief Security Architect responsible for the security strategy for software group products. Anthony participates...

Andrew Nash is Director of Identity Products at Google and a board member of the Open Identity Exchange. Formerly he was Director of Identity Services at PayPal and was CTO at Sonoa Systems and Reactivity working on XML and Web Services appliances. As Director of Technologies at RSA Security,...

Axel Nennker is employed by a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom "Telekom Innovation Laboratories", short T-Labs. The focus of his current work for T-Labs is the Future Mobile Wallet that integrates user identity, payment, ticketing etc on mobile devices with hardware (SIM/UICC) security support and...

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...

Alberto Ocello is a CrossIdeas founder and Chief Executive Officer. He was formerly the General Manager at Engiweb Security where he designed and led the product innovation of the IDEAS platform. Prior to Engiweb, Alberto served as Chief Architect on application security and military security...

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...

ALJOSA PASIC current position is Public Sector Director of Atos Research & Innovation (ARI), based in Madrid, Spain. He graduated Information Technology at Electro technical Faculty of Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and has been working for Cap Gemini (Utrecht, The...

Christian (born 1976) is the Director of Product Management – Oracle Fusion Middleware in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is working for Oracle Development since beginning of 2007. In this Role he is the local representative of Oracle's Identity & Access Management & IoT...

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...

Brendan M. Peter currently serves as Director of Global Government Relations for CA Technologies, and has more than 15 years of senior-level experience in public policy, business development, and government affairs. Brendan focuses on public sector public policy issues globally, with particular...

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)...

Dr. Stefan Pühl is product manager for Cloud Services in EMEA and a member of Dell's global cloud offering PMO that manages, develops, and implements the cloud service portfolio. Prior he was a program manager leading global service delivery projects. Stefan Pühl joined Dell through...

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...

Drummond Reed is co-founder and CEO of the Respect Network and co-author of the Respect Trust Framework, the first user-centric trust framework listed with the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). Drummond has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004, where Privacy by Design...

Mr. Regamey is since 2006 the Chief Information Officer of the CHUV, a 1’400 bed university hospital in Switzerland. Prior to this position he had been in charge of the IT R&D department of an insurance company, and occupied various positions in the management board of several Swiss...

Sebastian Rohr has been active as author of multiple articles, reviews and essays on all kinds of security topics. Having a ten year record in IT with a background in network & systems management, network security and PKI he started his career with Siemens ICN in 1998. To get a deeper...

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...

Christine Runnegar is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Internet Society, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her current areas of interest include online IPR issues, privacy and data protection. Christine contributes to the OECD’s work on privacy through the Internet Technical Advisory Committee...

Fabrizio Russo holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Trento and brings 24 years of experience in IT for Public Administration. In the last 6 years he was responsible for the IT Project Management & Control for Trento Autonomous Province administration (Northern Italy),...

Markus Sabadello has been working as a consultant and developer for several companies in the Internet identity community since 2007 and is familiar with a wide range of paradigms and technologies that are being used in this space. With an educational background in computer science as well as...

Nick has 14 years of professional experience with server infrastructure in the educational and manufacturing industries. As a Team Lead, Server Infrastructure Architect on Teleflex’s Infrastructure Delivery team, he has been instrumental in the design and deployment of global enterprise...

John Sabo is Director, Global Government Relations for CA, Inc., providing expertise in the use of security and privacy technologies in trusted infrastructures. Mr. Sabo is very active in industry-focused cyber security and critical infrastructure protection initiatives. He is a board member...

Nat Sakimura is the research lead on Digital Identity at Nomura Research Institute (NRI). He has been working on digital identity and privacy for the past decade. His main theme cosinstently has been to empower the people with the digital identity so that they can live happily and peacefully in...

Anil Saldhana is the lead security architect at the JBoss Division of Red Hat Inc. He is a frequent speaker at conferences/workshops on topics related to Security. He represents Red Hat Inc on security related committees at the W3C, Oasis and the Java Community Process (JCP). He is the co-chair...

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...

Ulrich Schulz is a seasoned Identity Service expert with Radiant Logic, consulting customers across the entire lifecycle of their identity management initiatives. He complements his skills with expertise in Cloud Computing and Business Process Management. Ulrich is a holder of the globally...

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...

Jackson Shaw is Senior Director of Product Management for Dell Software Group’s Identity and Access Management product line. He joined Dell as part of the Quest Software acquisition. Prior to Quest, Jackson was an integral member of Microsoft’s Identity & Access Management...

Jane Siegel is a Senior Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus where she teaches courses about IT-enabled Service Management and participates in research to define meaningful, useful measures of service performance and quality. She is a founding co-director of...

David Simonsen, born 1973 in Copenhagen. Manager of WAYF since it started as a research network project in 2005. Employed by the Danish government agency for Library and Media. 2010 member of the TERENA networking conference program committee 2009 - member of the...

Prabath Siriwardena is the Director of Security Architecture at WSO2 Inc. He is a member of OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) TC,OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC, OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC, OASIS Identity in the Cloud TC and OASIS Cloud...

Mike Small is the retired director of security management strategy of CA, where he was responsible for the technical strategy for CA's security management software product line within Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mike did work for CA between 1994 and 2009, where he developed CA’s...

Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO, OMG OMG manages the Cloud Standards Customer Council Full Bio and Photos available at http://www.omg.org/~soley/ As Chairman and CEO of OMG®, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. An...

Travis Spencer is a Senior Technical Architect reporting to Ping Identity’s CTO. He has over a decade of application development experience which includes the design of large-scale service-oriented and federated systems. His experience federating SaaS offerings with some of the...

Provide thought leadership on trust frameworks, privacy, identity, and security to governments and corporations. Conceptualized the Trust Framework Meta Model to provide a systems engineering baseline for the development of trust frameworks that will allow them to inter-operate. Have multiple...

Deepak Taneja is the Founder and CTO of Aveksa, a security compliance software company. Prior to founding Aveksa, he was CTO and VP of Engineering at Netegrity. In this role, he was instrumental in growing the company into the market leader in Identity and Access Management. Previously he...

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...

Don is President and Chairman of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) a non-profit organization of leaders from competing sectors, including enterprise, data services, telecommunications, consulting services, SaaS, banking, retail and government. OIX is helping to build solutions to roadblocks for...

Andy Thurai is Chief Architect and CTO of Application Security and Identity Products with Intel, where he is responsible for architecting SOA, Cloud, Governance, Security, and Identity solutions for their major corporate customers. In his role he is responsible for helping Intel/McAfee...

Jürgen Urbanski is Vice President of Cloud Architectures, Cloud Technologies and Enabling Platforms at Deutsche Telekom. As the technical lead on Deutsche Telekom’s four-member Cloud Leadership Team, he is accountable for driving the transformation of ICT services production towards...

Marc Vael, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CISSP, is a director of ISACA and managing director at Valuendo. He has more than 15 years of experience in evaluating, designing, implementing and monitoring solutions on risk and information security management, incident and business continuity management, data...

Marco Venuti is responsible for leading and developing the CrossIdeas technology partner ecosystem. Prior to joining CrossIdeas, Marco served for 3 years as EMEA Compliance Management lead for Novell, where he was instrumental to the design and development of Novell's EMEA...

Academic Studies of economics at Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (Dipl.-Volkswirt) and of business management at distance university Hagen (Dipl.-Kaufmann). Officer of carrer at the Federal Armed Forces of Germany, in the last position as S6-Officer responsible...

As Senior Director Edwin is responsible for Professional Services within Everett and acts as chairman of the Knowledge Management Team. He performs the Senior Supplier role in key projects as well.

Paul Walker is a subject matter expert on identity and access management having over 15 years industry experience working in security. Paul has practical experience covering a wide range of security disciplines and today briefs customers as they strive for efficiency, increased security and...

Colin holds leadership positions across the consortium space in Information Security and Trusted Identity - particularly where policy, strategy and technology plays into cloud, big data, government transformation and in the broader macro economic challenges facing the internet. In OASIS, he sits...

Dr. Horst Walther, born 1951 in Berlin, works as a interim manager, management consultant and independent technical advisor for more than 30 years. His expertise focuses on the business to technology interface. At KuppingerCole he covers the domain of IAM-processes, roles, rules & policies...

As Vice President of Marketing, Gregory is responsible for Venafi product, solution channel, field and web marketing, global branding and demand generation. Gregory joined Venafi in 2008. Prior to Venafi, Gregory oversaw marketing for Identity and Workgroup solutions at Novell. Gregory holds a...

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.

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...

Kick Willemse (1973) is an international expert in the field of digital identity and electronic signatures. From his experience, he is actively involved in national and international developments for the E-recognition of consumers and businesses on the Internet. Since 2011 he is a boardmember of...

Steven is the CEO of 3scale networks - a company which provides API infrastructure to more than 70 leading open APIs worldwide and has offices in Barcelona, Spain, London, UK and Sunnyvale California. 3scale's infrastructure helps it's customers to manage access to their own and customer data to...

Phil Windley is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kynetx. Kynetx provide a cloud-based application platform that is uniquely architected to use events, personal data, and APIs to create social products and services. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young...

Wolfgang Zwerch was born 1971 and studied computer science at the university of applied science in Augsburg. He has experience in different areas of IT for more than 18 years. Before joining Munich Re he worked for CSC as an IT Security and Identity Management leading consultant for nearly 10...