Dr. Carsten Bange is founder and managing director of the Business Application Research Center (BARC), an independent software market analyst and IT consulting company he founded in 1999. BARC offers a portfolio of in-depth software evaluations based on lab tests, conferences, consulting...

Ravi is currently a security architect in a large pharmaceutical company but in a previous role he setup both the IT Security Attack and Response Team as well as the Global Incident Organisation (which handled all major outages) for which there was a role of Manager on Duty who was trained in...

An internationally-recognized expert in security, privacy, cloud computing and identity management Dan Blum develops Security Architects Partners’ business partnerships, creates content and leads consulting engagements. He provide security workshops, assessments, architectures and custom...

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.

Brian has more than 20 years of senior level IT enterprise experience in a career that has spanned high-tech multi-nationals, including Amstrad plc, BBC Television and Xircom Inc.  He has held technical IT roles including International Operations Manager for Cidera Inc. and Global IT...

Henning Christiansen has more than 15 years of experience in Information Security and IT Risk Management. He is Chief Information Security Officer for Axel Springer SE (AS SE) since August 2012. Before his current assignment, he held a similar position at Bombardier Transportation (BT) for...

Stina Ehrensvard is the CEO and Founder of Yubico, and co-inventor of the YubiKey – a small device that makes strong two-factor authentication easy and affordable for everyone. She is visionary IT entrepreneur with proven track records of creating and bringing new technology innovations to...

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...

Ian Glazer is the Senior Director for Identity, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include product strategy and identity standards work. Prior to that, he was a research vice president and agenda manager on the Identity and Privacy Strategies team at Gartner where he oversaw the entire...

Isabel is the CISO for group BFA-Bankia. She has a career of more than 15 years in Information Security, keeping a strategic view of the business and managing the development of innovative ideas obtaining the best profits with minimum impact for the organizations. She is a certified security...

Paul Grassi is the Senior Standards and Technology Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He joined NIST in June 2014, to advance and accelerate the development and adoption of identity authentication and authorization related standards and technologies needed to...

Mia Harbitz is an identity management professional with extensive project management experience in developing countries. She is the former Lead Specialist in identity management and registries with a focus on governance for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and is presently...

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....

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...

Thom is the Director of Sapient’s Global Security Office, responsible for all aspects of delivery and internal security, risk and compliance, and business continuity across Sapient’s global operations. Having successfully built security and IT programmes from the ground up Thom...

Eve Maler is a renowned strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, access, security, and privacy, with particular focus on creating successful wide-scale ecosystems and fostering individual empowerment. Eve drives Identity Relationship Management innovation for...

Sebastien Meunier is a management consultant at the consulting firm Chappuis Halder & Co. (CH&Co) with more than 12 years of experience in leading business transformations at the intersection of Technology and Financial Services. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique (France) where he got...

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...

Dr. Sridhar Muppidi is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Identity & Access Management Solutions in IBM Security Systems. In this role, Sridhar drives IAM technical strategy, architecture and solutions including mobile security and cloud security. He is a...

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...

Flavius Plesu is an enthusiastic information security professional with over 10 years of Information Security experience in international markets, both public and private sector, within a variety of sectors such as Financial Services, Legal, Technology, Transport and Logistics, Government...

Jason leads Gigya's global marketing initiatives. He has experience in marketing technology platforms and applications for both start-ups and large enterprises. Most recently, Jason led marketing at DataSift, and prior to that led business intelligence and advanced analytics marketing efforts at...

Barry Scott is CTO of EMEA. An industry veteran with over 25 years’ experience working in the Windows, Unix and Linux space helping major organisations in almost every industry vertical. The last 9 years of Barry's career have been spent helping organisations manage their Identity...

Jackson Shaw has been involved with directory, meta-directory and security initiatives for twenty five 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 Dell’s suite of...

Paul is the CEO of the Global Identity Foundation, as well as a consulting CISO and was previously the Global CISO for AstraZeneca, Global CISO for ICI, Head of Information Security with a high security web hosting provider and Global Information Security Manager at Motorola. Paul co-founded...

John Worrall is the Chief Marketing Officer at CyberArk. He is responsible for the company’s global marketing efforts including product marketing, branding, corporate communications and all lead generation activities including the inbound, channels and field marketing. He brings over...