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Ali Adnan
Authlete, Inc.
Ali Adnan is a co-founder of Authlete, Inc. and also serves on the board of directors. For nearly 30 years, Ali has led the operation and growth of innovative technology companies in senior...
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Roland Adrian
Verimi GmbH
Roland Adrian (50) is Managing Director and CEO of Verimi GmbH in Berlin, a multi-joint venture of 26 shareholders from the German business community. Verimi develops and operates the Verimi ID...
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Armand Adriano
IAMTEAM
Armand Adriano is a proven Information Security Leader with 25+ years as a focused Identity and Access Management (IAM) professional working with government and private organizations in optimizing...
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Sray Agarwal
Fractal AI
Sray Agarwal has applied AI and analytics from Financial Services to Hospitality and has led the development of Responsible AI framework for multiple banks in the UK and the US. after completing...
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Babar Khan Akhunzada
SecurityWall
Babar Khan Akhunzada is a 23-year-old cyber wizard, Founder & CEO of SecurityWall - Stacked on AI & Big Data technology to help enterprises and individuals enhance security capabilities...
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Dr. Ignacio Alamillo-Domingo
Logalty Prueba por Interposicion SL
Ignacio is a Doctor in Law (UMU), with a PhD thesis related to the eIDAS Regulation, and holds a Degree in Law (UNED), a Diploma of Advanced Studies (UAB) and a Master in introduction to...
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Dr. Michael Amanfi
EmpowerID
Dr. Amanfi is a highly accomplished and respected expert in the field of cloud computing. He holds a Doctorate in Management and an MS in Information Technology Management from Grand Canyon...
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Moritz Anders
PwC
Moritz Anders ist Partner und Experte für Cyber Security bei PwC Deutschland. Seit mehr als 15 Jahren berät er zu und implementiert Identity & Access Management-Lösungen in...
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Lasse Andresen
IndyKite
A powerhouse of creativity and enthusiasm, Lasse is a perpetual entrepreneur, transforming ideas into thriving, disruptive businesses. In his most recent startup venture, Lasse is founder and CEO...
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Harm Jan Arendshorst
iLabs Technologies
Digital Transformation, Digital Identity & IoT Security / Privacy & Trustworthy AI Specialist with more than 25 years experience in building trustworthy and inclusive digital ecosystems...
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Warwick Ashford
KuppingerCole
Warwick Ashford is a Senior Analyst who researches cybersecurity and identity-related topics, including emerging technologies and trends. He has been writing IT news and analysis as a journalist...
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Anders Askasen
Okta
As Director of Technical Solutions for the EMEA region, Anders is responsible for building Okta’s strategy in all things identity management in the region, with a focus on customer...
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Marie Austenaa
Visa Europe
Marie Austenaa, Head of Digital Identity at Visa Europe and Board Chair of the Open Wallet Foundation at the Linux Foundation, is a highly experienced speaker and expert in digital identity and...
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Alexandre Babeanu
3Edges
Alex has been involved in Graphs and Graph databases for Identity and Access Management for almost 10 years. As a graph-certified and IAM-accredited consultant, he has implemented solutions for...
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Daniel Bachenheimer
Accenture
Daniel Bachenheimer, an Electrical Engineer by training, is Accenture’s Digital Identity Innovations technical lead and has been designing and delivering solutions for various clients for...
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Reto Bachmann
One Identity
Reto Bachmann is Technical Regional Manager Austria, Switzerland and Middle East at One Identity. Reto Bachmann has over 25 years of experience in IT, and over 15 years in IAM and cyber security....
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Dirk Backofen
T-Systems International GmbH
Dirk Backofen is the Tribe Lead Digital Identities of T-Systems International GmbH. In this role Dirk is accountable for a new Business Unit including all technologies like SSI, eID, Smart eID and...
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Espen Bago
Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV)
Espen Bago has been setting up Identity programs involving Identity and Access since 2010 and was an Identity and Access engineer for a decade before that. He is a founding member of the IDPro,...
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Anne Bailey
KuppingerCole
Annie Bailey is an analyst covering emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, and helps synthesize the implications for companies, industries, and markets. She holds a...
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Abhinav Bajaj
Delivery Hero SE
Abhinav has over a decade experience in conceptualising, designing, implementing & managing IAM solutions across industry verticals. AB has been working with Delivery Hero for the last 5 years+...
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Alexei Balaganski
KuppingerCole
Alexei is an analyst with specific focus on cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. At KuppingerCole, he covers a broad range of security-related topics: from database, application and API...
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Rajan Barara
Entrust
Rajan Barara is Director of Product Management for Identity at Entrust. In this webinar, he will speak about passwordless experience and what organizations should look for in a passwordless...
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Paul Bastian
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Paul is an expert on digital identity management at Bundesdruckerei. His focus is on identity credentials, wallet security, holder binding, device binding and initial trust for the upcoming...
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Matthias Bauer
One Identity
Matthias Bauer is the Senior Manager of Product Development for Identity Manager and Senior architect for Identity Governance solutions. Prior to One Identity, Matthias was at Dell Security and...
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Roland Baum
umbrella.associates GmbH
Roland Baum is Founder of German Start-Up umbrella.associates and architect of several enterprise ID and IGA environments. As a tech savvy wizard of OpenSource tools and data analysis, he combines...
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Dr. Harry Behrens
bloXmove.com
Harry is the CTO and co-founder of bloXmove and has been working in the software and internet industry for more than 20 years. He has been involved with the topic of blockchain and DLT since...
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Felix Behringer
Deutsche Kreditbank AG
Felix Behringer is a certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with 7+ years of experience in IT Security. Felix leads the implementation of Privileged Access Managements (PAM) at Deutsche...
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Ivo van Bennekom
PwC
Ivo leads the PwC Digital Identity Impact Center for the EMEA region. Ivo has over 15 years of experience within the digital technology space, with a specific focus on global identity market...
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Dr. George Beridze
Accenture
Security Consulting Manager in the Information Technology and Services industry. Specializing in Identity & Access Management. Ph.D. in Natural Sciences and certified Project and Process...
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Vittorio Bertocci
Okta
Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect in Okta and host of the Identity, Unlocked podcast. A veteran of the identity industry, with more than 20 years of hands-on experience, he helped usher...
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Matthew Berzinski
ForgeRock
 As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the ForgeRock product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and...
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Anil Bhandari
ARCON TechSolutions
Anil Bhandari is an inspired innovator, technologist, and thought leader in Information Risk Management. He serves as a Mentor & Thought Leader and provides his invaluable insights for the...
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Reidar J. Boldevin
PwC
I have an IT career spanning twenty years. Throughout that time I’ve been a consultant focusing on solutions for the financial industry, government and public organizations and the defence...
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Katarina Bolemant
Evolveum
Katarina Bolemant is one of the founding members of Evolveum, the vendor of the leading open source IGA platform midPoint. Katarina has been a crucial part of midPoint’s development ever...
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Fabian Bormann
Cardano Foundation
Fabian Bormann is a blockchain enthusiast and open-source advocate, currently serving as Team Lead for ’Ecosystem Architecture and Engineering’ at the Cardano Foundation. With a strong background...
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Kai Boschert
KuppingerCole
Kai Boschert joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as Advisor in September 2021. Background & Education: Kai is holding a master’s degree in management and technology with focus on...
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Michael Breier
Cygna Labs
Michael has 25+ years of experience in different IT management areas such as System-, Network-, Least Privilege- and Privileged Access Management as well as Active Directory and Cloud Security...
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Tom Bruggeman
DPG Media
Tom is working as an IT Area Manager for DPG Media. As part of his role he manages a number of development teams, one of which is the Identity team responsible for development and rollout of DPG’s...
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Jonas Brännvall
BankID
Jonas Brannvall, Head of International Business Expansion at BankID, leads the strategic initiative to enable BankID to grow into new markets. BankID is the leading digital identity solution in...
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Matthias Buchhorn-Roth
In Transition
I am an accomplished data ecosystem expert, specializing in the development of sovereign data collaboration solutions across various industries. As an active member of the Eclipse DataSpace...
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Andrew Bud
iProov
Andrew founded iProov in 2011. He is an experienced technology entrepreneur and leader, with a career spanning thirty years in mobile. In 1999 he founded mBlox, which became the world’s...
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Jordan Burris
Socure
Jordan Burris is the Vice President for Public Sector Strategy at Socure. In this role, he partners with government leaders to develop and scale Socure’s public sector offerings for identity...
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Trevor Butterworth
indicio
Trevor Butterworth has spent two decades looking at how data is used and communicated in society, first as a journalist, then as founding director at a think tank, and now as co-founder and VP for...
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Robert Byrne
One Identity
Rob Byrne, a field strategist at One Identity, has worked in IT for more than 15 years in various roles – including development, consulting and technical sales – the majority of his...
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Benjamin Bönisch
ETO GRUPPE TECHNOLOGIES
Benjamin Bönisch is VP Strategy & Corporate Development at ETO GRUPPE and manages all Venture projects. Venture is the testing ground ETO has created to successfully and sustainably meet...
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Juliana Cafik
Microsoft
Juliana shows 27+ years of Architecting & Implementing Solutions & Products for Financial Services to enable non-repudiation, security and compliance including PCI DSS, EMV, KYC, NFC,...
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Joseph Carson
Delinea
Joseph Carson is an award-winning cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise security specialising in blockchain, endpoint security,...
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Melissa Carvalho
Royal Bank of Canada
Melissa Carvalho, RBC Global Cyber Security Vice President, leads the Cyber security Planning office and the bank’s Global Identity and Access Management group, providing cyber solutions and...
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Osman Celik
KuppingerCole
Osman joined KuppingerCole as Research Analyst in March 2022. Osman holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Koc University, Turkey, and Master of Management (Track in IT Management)...
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Dr. David Chadwick
Truetrust Ltd
David runs his own consultancy company, Truetrust Ltd. Prior to this he was Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent, and then CEO of Verifiable Credentials Ltd (VCL), a...
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Kay Chopard
Kantara Initiative
Ms. Kay Chopard is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a unique global ‘commons’ that operates...
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Louise Cole
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Louise Cole is the Head Customer Experience and Facilitation for the International Air Transport Association (IATA). In this role, Louise has responsibility for the IATA Passenger Facilitation...
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Adam Cooper
ID Crowd
Adam is an identity standards expert, policy lead, and enterprise architect with over 30 years of experience in innovation and service transformation. Having played a leading role in the...
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Dr. Jordi Cuesta
Evidian
With more than 20 years of experience on the IAM market, Jordi is heading the IAM Evidian Product Line with specific responsibility for the offers Identity Governance & Administration and...
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Sam Curren
Indicio
Sam Curren is the Senior Systems Architect and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Indicio. Sam oversees the direction of Indicio’s open source contributions and guides architecture of...
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Sal D'Agostino
IDmachines
Recognized for his leadership on critical cyber-physical matters of security, identity, and privacy confronting the world, Sal is active in standards for physical and logical security and privacy...
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Heather Dahl
Indicio
Heather is Co-founder and CEO of Indicio, the market leading developer of enterprise-class verifiable data solutions that optimize your existing systems ensuring digital privacy, efficiency, and...
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Fadi Daood
PWC
Fadi Daood, an experienced Information Security architect specializing in identity and access management, leads PwC’s Zero Trust Practice in PwC EMEA.
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Dr. Scott David, LL.M.
University of Washington - APL
Scott David, J.D., LL.M., is the Executive Director - Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative (IRSIRI) at the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory and was...
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Thomas Davies
KPMG Canada
Thomas is a Partner in KPMG in Canada’s Cyber Security practice and leads the Risk Consulting Managed Services. Over the past 20 years, Thomas has built cyber security practices and capabilities...
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Julie Dawson
Yoti
Yoti is a digital identity technology company that makes it safer for people to prove their age or identity. They provide verification solutions across the globe, spanning identity verification,...
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Dr. Maarten Decat
Elimity
Maarten is Elimity’s founder and CEO. Maarten is a highly-skilled Identity and Access Management professional with a history of working in, amongst others, the financial services industry and...
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Konrad Degen
Verimi GmbH
Konrad Degen is a Senior Corporate Development Manager at Verimi GmbH, a leading ID-Wallet provider in Germany, and responsible for the public sector activities including the ID-Wallet...
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Dr. Dominik Deimel
comuny
As an entrepreneur and expert in digital change management, Dominik Deimel has many years of experience in accompanying change processes in companies and their transformation into digital...
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Nitish Deshpande
KuppingerCole
Nitish joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG in February 2022 as a Research Analyst. Education: Master of International Business and Engineering from SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany Bachelor of...
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Thomas Detzner
Microsoft
Thomas Detzner is a Principal Product Manager on the customer success team in the Microsoft Identity and Network access divisions Identity Architecture team. He spends most of his time working with...
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Samuel Devasahayam
Microsoft
Samuel Devasahayam has spent 25 years at Microsoft delivering solutions to help you protect your organization by securing access to the connected world for all users, devices and services across...
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Abdou-Naby Diaw
Lufthansa Group
Abdou-Naby Diaw (50) has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of IT Cross Functional Processes of Lufthansa Group as of 1 January 2018. He is in charge of the Cyber...
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Niels van Dijk
SURF
Niels van Dijk is a Technical Product Manager working in Trust & Identity at SURF, the Dutch National Research and Educational Network. In this role he is responsible for development and...
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Adrian Doerk
Lissi
With over a decade of expertise in digital wallets, specializing in the European digital identity wallet (EUDI-Wallet) under eIDAS 2.0 regulation, I create innovative solutions that enhance...
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Katryna Dow
Meeco
Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco; a personal data platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust ...
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Gert Drapers
Aserto
Gert Drapers is the co-founder and CTO of Aserto.com, leading technology implementation and strategy. A widely recognized expert in the data and developer space, Gert has built and operated various...
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Ward Duchamps
Thales Digital Identity and Security
Ward Duchamps, who brings over two decades of experience in Identity and Access Management, currently serves as the Director of Strategy & Innovation for the Identity & Access Management...
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Kim Hamilton Duffy
Centre Consortium
Kim Hamilton Duffy is Executive Director of Decentralized Identity Foundation. She is passionate about creating innovative and human-centered solutions that unlock new opportunities for individuals...
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Fraser Edwards
cheqd
Fraser Edwards, co-founder and CEO at cheqd, has spearheaded its journey to provide cutting-edge identity solutions that cater to the ever-evolving digital landscape. He is a regular speaker at...
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Charlie Egan
Styra
Charlie has been working with in the Cloud Native space since 2018. He currently works as a Developer Advocate at Styra and on the OPA project. Charlie is interested in authentication and...
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Anders Eknert
Styra
Anders Eknert has a long background in software development and security. Previously in his career, Anders focused primarily on identity systems. He has spent more recent years in the emerging...
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Michael Engle
1Kosmos
Michael (Mike) Engle is a proven information technology executive, leader, and entrepreneur. He is an expert in information security, business development, and product design/development. He...
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Tilman Epha
XM Cyber
Tilman Epha is Sales Director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at XM Cyber, based in Munich. Tilman Epha has been working in the IT industry for more than 23 years. After studying economics in...
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Sebastien Faivre
Brainwave GRC
Sebastien is Chief Technical Officer and co-founder at Brainwave GRC, responsible for product vision, features and design. Sebastien is a seasoned Product Management expert with more than 20 years...
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Dr. Xinxin Fan
IoTeX
Dr. Xinxin Fan is the Head of Cryptography at IoTeX, a Silicon Valley-based technology platform that empowers the emerging machine economy with innovative combination of blockchain and IoT. He is...
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Alexis Faulkner
Nevis
Alexis Faulkner is leading the authentication and passwordless products at Nevis, focusing on the FIDO standards and helping transition clients into a passwordless future. With a background in...
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Dr. Daniel Fett
Authlete
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science for the development of new methods for analyzing the security of web standards. Leveraging this background, he has worked for the past several years to...
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Paul Fisher
KuppingerCole
Paul Fisher is a Lead Analyst who researches primarily on cybersecurity and identity and access management (IAM). He also studies trends in AI, IoT and data governance for different industry...
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Heather Flanagan
Spherical Cow Consulting
Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership...
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Judith Fleenor
Trust Over IP Foundation
The mission of the Trust Over IP Foundation (ToIP) is to simplify and standardize how trust is established over a digital network or using digital tools. The ToIP collaborative community focuses on...
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Niels Flensted-Jensen
Criipto
Niels lives in Denmark and has worked in the identity space in the Nordics for 15+ years. He has participated in and observed the all-encompassing digitization of both government and private sector...
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George Fletcher
Capital One
George Fletcher currently serves as the Identity Standards Architect for Capital One supporting the partner and consumer sides of the business. He is a seasoned software architect with 25+ years of...
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Allan Foster
Emeritus
Allan Foster has helped build ForgeRock into a multinational identity software vendor with offices on four continents. Allan’s deep technical knowledge has been well used in all aspects of...
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Liv Freihow
Bank ID Bankaxept
Liv is SVP for New Growth at Bank ID Bankaxept , the Norwegian payment and ID company. She was previously Head of Policy at the tech association ICT-Norway, and has been a central figure in the...
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Naohiro Fujie
Itochu Techno Solutions
Naohiro Fujie, General Manager at ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation(CTC),  has spent more than 20 years in the IT industry and primary focused on Digital Identity. Since 2021, he has been...
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Mihails Galuška
If P&C Insurance
Since 2021 managing the portfolio of customer and partner identity related services across If P&C Insurance - the largest insurance group in Nordic countries with operations also in Baltics....
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Elizabeth Garber
OpenID Foundation
Elizabeth Garber is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of IDPartner, a startup that puts people in control of their digital identities. Her background includes leading the Open Digital Trust...
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Daniel Gasteiger
Procivis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gasteiger/ Daniel Gasteiger has worked in financial services for more than 20 years. Starting as an FX trader at Credit Suisse, he later joined UBS to work with hedge...
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Omri Gazitt
Aserto
Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his third entrepreneurial venture. He’s spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer and infrastructure...
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Gerry Gebel
Strata Identity, Inc
Gerry is a recognized leader in the identity management space. His accomplished career spans over two decades in which he has been instrumental in providing requirements definition, architecture...
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Darrell Geusz
Ping Identity
Darrell Geusz has 25 years of experience in identity, credentialing and access management (ICAM) systems and solutions for both the public and private sector. Darrell managed...
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Fawaz Ghali
Hazelcast
Fawaz Ghali is a Principal Developer Advocate at Hazelcast with 20+ years of experience in software development, machine learning and real-time intelligent applications. He holds a PhD in Computer...
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Ian Glazer
IDPro
Ian Glazer is the Senior Vice President for Identity Product Management, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards...
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Wolfgang Goerlich
Cisco
J. Wolfgang Goerlich is an Advisory CISO for Cisco Secure. Prior to this role, he led IT and IT security in the healthcare and financial services verticals. Wolfgang has held VP positions at...
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Daniel Goldscheider
OpenWallet Foundation
Daniel is Founder and ED of OpenWallet Foundation, a consortium of companies and non-profit organisations collaborating to drive global adoption of open, secure and interoperable digital...
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Amit Goyal
PwC
Amit is the Practice lead for PwC EMEA IAM DevOps practice and is based in Amsterdam. Amit has nearly fifteen years of experience under his belt helping customers solve problems in the Identity...
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Tomasz Gramza
OLX Group
Tomasz Gramza is an experienced identity specialist and the Principal Engineer in OLX Group Europe – one of the world’s fastest-growing networks of trading platforms used by over 300...
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Benoit Grangé
Omada
Benoit brings over 25 years of experience in leading teams to build world-class products and services focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience and security. Benoit is a technology...
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Olaf Grewe
National Australia Bank
Olaf Grewe has been in and around the identity space for a little under a decade. His overall attitude is best described as a kid in a candy store with so many problems to solve, incredibly...
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Guido Grillenmeier
Semperis
Guido Grillenmeier is the Principal Technologist of Semperis in EMEA. Based in Germany, Guido has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for 12 years. He spent 20+ years at HP/HPE as Chief...
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Ilya Gubarev
Siemens AG
Ilya Gubarev is Chief Digital Software Architect of Siemens Large Drives Applications *. Additionally he is heading Architecture and Release Train department as part of software organization...
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Morey J. Haber
BeyondTrust
Morey J. Haber is the Chief Security Advisor at BeyondTrust. As the Chief Security Advisor, Morey is the lead identity and technical evangelist at BeyondTrust. He has more than 25 years of IT...
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Mark Haine
OpenID Foundation
Mark is an engineer and entrepreneur who has focussed his career on building solutions that enable business and mitigate risk in financial services. At the start of 2020 Mark founded...
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Fabian Hauck
University of Stuttgart
Fabian Hauck has several years of experience building prototypes for high-security identity attestation. The insights gained from implementing OpenID for Verifiable Credentials standards...
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Joseph Heenan
Authlete Inc
Joseph is a software engineer & architect with over 25 years’ experience, who started writing mobile apps before mobile apps existed. He contributes to IETF and OpenID Foundation working...
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Dasun Hegoda
ICTA
Dasun is specialized in Enterprise Application Development (EAD) with many years of industry experience in the field of IT and the digital arena. After years of experience in different roles, he...
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Henk van der Heijden
Hub Security
Mr. Henk van der Heijden is an IT and information security professional with over 35 years’ experience in IT (Security) sales and services. Henk is VP Sales and Global Head of the Cyber...
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Gal Helemski
PlainID
Gal is a recognized specialist in cyber security with specific focus on identity and access management. In the past 16 years she has defined solutions to customers, wrote the project specs,...
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Richard Hill
KuppingerCole
Richard Hill is Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole. He has 20 years of experience as an Identity & Access Management Solutions Architect, Systems Designer, and Engineer in the Aerospace,...
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Gail Hodges
OpenID Foundation
The OpenID Foundation is a non-profit global standards body that seeks to help people assert their identity wherever they choose by leading the global community in creating identity standards that...
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Gerald Horst
PwC
Gerald Horst joined PwC in 2016 as Partner and is leading PwC Europe’s Digital Identity team. Before joining PwC, Gerald held an executive position for over 15 years at Everett, a consulting...
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Philip Hoyer
Okta
Philip Hoyer has spent the last 20+ years in identity and technology leadership roles as a CTO and VP of Engineering at Videojet Technologies, HID Global and ActivIdentity. He has in-depth...
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Andrew Hughes
Ping Identity
Andrew Hughes CISM CISSP is Director of Identity Standards at Ping Identity. He is a digital identity strategist contributing to international standards development. He works with international...
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Stephen Hutchinson
Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo
Steve “Hutch” Hutchinson is the Director of Security Architecture at MUFG. After cutting his teeth in C/C++ software development and network engineering, Hutch spent a decade as an...
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Måns Håkansson
Indykite
Måns is a long-time veteran in the IAM space. In the last few years, he has been focused on authorization management working for companies such as PlainID and Axiomatics. Before that, he held...
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Heiko Hütter
Service Layers
Heiko Hütter is CEO of Service Layers, which provides a globally distributed, highly scalable Identity & Access Management Platform in a Private Software as a Service Model. This platform...
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Marina Iantorno
KuppingerCole
Marina joined KuppingerCole as a Research Analyst in April 2022. Her main areas of expertise are Business, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Background & Education Marina holds a...
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Petteri Ihalainen
National Cyber Security Centre, Finland
Mr. Ihalainen has extensive information security background having worked for organizations like SSH Communication Security, Ubisecure, EU Commission, Gemalto, and GlobalSign. During his career, he...
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Brian Iverson
Tuebora Inc.
Brian brings over 25 years of experience in identity and access management strategy and deployment. Brian spent the bulk of his career working in professional services at KPMG, where he led...
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Ashish Jain
Arkose Labs
is a product leader with 25+ years of experience, strong engineering background, and deep expertise in identity, security, and consumer fraud. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Arkose Labs...
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Alastair Johnson
Nuggets
As an entrepreneur and innovator, Alastair believes that verified decentralized self-sovereign identity is transforming the relationships between individuals and institutions they interact with. He...
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Dr. Michael B. Jones
OpenID Foundation
Michael B. Jones is on a quest to build the Internet’s missing identity layer. He is an editor of the OpenID Connect specifications, IETF OAuth specifications, including JSON Web Token (JWT)...
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Benoît Jouffrey
Thales Digital Identity & Security
Benoît is actually the CTO of Thales Digital Identity & Security.   He is in charge of the worldwide technical and innovation strategic plan and overall engineering...
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Alfredo Luiz dos Santos Junior
Farfetch
24 years of IT experience with Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Systems Development;Security and Development Book Writer;Identity Management Projects in companies like CA, IBM, Novell, Claro...
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Gustaf Kaijser
SlashID
Gustaf Kaijser has experience from over 50 implementations of PBAC solutions from his time as Sales Director EMEA at Axiomatics (XACLM) and Styra (OPA). He currently works at Head of Sales...
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Krishna Balan Kannappan
KONE
16+ years of experience in Information Technology and worked on various technology frameworks and domains. Have extensive experience in Identity Access management domain. Having worked with many...
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Pieter Kasselman
Microsoft
Pieter Kasselman is a member of Microsoft’s Identity Standards team where he focus on developing standards to address the most important problems in the field of identity. Pieter has over 25 years’...
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Andrzej Kawalec
Vodafone Business
Andrzej Kawalec is the Head of Security at Vodafone Business. Andrzej manages Vodafone Business’ global portfolio of security offerings. An inspirational and creative leader in the use of...
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Berthold Kerl
KuppingerCole
Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years....
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Suresh M. Khadakbhavi
Digi Yatra Foundation
CEO of Digi Yatra Foundation, an organization that provides Identity Credentials creation and sharing service for passengers, airports, airlines and others across India to enable a seamless,...
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Mike Kiser
SailPoint
Mike Kiser has held a panoply of industry positions over the past 20 years—from the Office of the CTO to Security Strategist to Security Analyst to Security Architect—that might imply...
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Dr. Heiko Klarl
iC Consult
Dr. Heiko Klarl has been in Identity and Access Management for more than fifteen years. He is driven by the motivation to bridge the gap between business and IT in order to create holistic...
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Dennis Kniep
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Dennis is the Domain Architect of Identity and Access Management. He has a background as a software engineer and spent a decade as lead developer in IAM and security projects.  
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Dr. Silvia Knittl
PwC GmbH WPG
Dr. Silvia Knittl is Director at PwC Germany in the Cyber & Privacy domain with a strong focus on  Enterprise Security Architecture as well as Identity & Access Governance. She...
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Alexander Koch
Yubico GmbH
Alexander is VP of sales in EMEA overseeing the DACH and CEE regions for Yubico. He is a technology industry veteran with over 20 years experience in enterprise technology, IT security, and strong...
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André Koot
SonicBee
André Koot is a Principal Consultant and Access Strategist at SonicBee. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of information security, and as an economist he practices this...
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Hed Kovetz
Silverfort
Hed Kovetz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Silverfort, the provider of the Unified Identity Protection platform. Prior to founding Silverfort, Hed served in product management positions at Verint,...
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Dr. Andre Kudra
IT Security Association Germany (TeleTrusT)
On a mission for decentralized identity & bit-heat confidential cloud. Decentralization visionary. Passion for information security since turn of millennium. Business-driven yet tech-savvy...
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Martin Kuppinger
KuppingerCole
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...
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Vadim Lander
Broadcom Software, IMS Division
Vadim Lander is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer for Symantec Identity Security at Broadcom. Vadim is a recognized IAM expert, having...
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James Lapalme
Entrust
James Lapalme is the VP/GM of Entrust. Before that, he was the CRO/SVP of Leonovus Inc. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Business Development at WinMagic.
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Alec Laws
IDENTOS
Alec Laws has led Spoke Technologies development and technology practice for 5 years and is currently IDENTOS Chief Technology Officer. With 10 years of experience as a talented mobile developer...
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Alejandro Leal
KuppingerCole
Alejandro joined KuppingerCole as a Research Analyst in December 2021. His main areas of expertise include digital transformation in the public and private sector, managing business in...
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Sarah Lefavrais
Thales
Sarah Lefavrais leads technology alliances within Thales’s IAM product marketing team. For the past several years, she has been fully involved in the Go to Market activities of Thales...
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Emma Lindley
Women in Identity, Caf
Emma Lindley is Managing Director of International Expansion for CAF a digital identity company located in Brazil, USA and UK. She is also co-founder and Chair of Women in Identity a not-for-profit...
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Stefan Lindner
ABB
Stefan Lindner, Global Identity and Access Manager, has approximately 20 years’ experience with ABB, focused strongly on implementation of ITSM frameworks for country, regional and global...
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Dr. Huan Liu
Cash App (Block Inc)
Huan Liu is the Head of Access Management for Cash App, the #1 financial app in the US. His team is responsible for AuthN and AuthZ and many foundation services such as Session and Passcode. Prior...
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Dr. Torsten Lodderstedt
yes IDP GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is managing director at yes with more than 15 years experience in running large scale consumer identity services. In his previous positions, he helped organisations in...
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Tobias Looker
MATTR
Tobias is the CTO at MATTR. He has an engineering background and a passion for the digital identity and cybersecurity industry. He contributes to multiple emerging standards including the OpenID...
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Parya Lotfi
DuckDuckGoose
Parya is the co-founder of DuckDuckGoose and has a background in systems engineering and policy analysis. By combining her technical skills with her knowledge of Grand Challenges, she applies an...
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Michael Maier
iC Consult
Michael Maier is an experienced IAM consultant at iC Consult, the leading provider of identity and access management. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, he has a proven track record...
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Eve Maler
Venn Factory
Eve is a globally recognized pioneer in identity and access management and standards, with roots in semi-structured data modeling and the API economy and a passion for fostering successful...
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Viky Manaila
Intesi Group
Viky Manaila is an international expert in the field of electronic signatures, digital identity and digital transformation processes, who has successfully promoted the electronic business globally....
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Giuseppe De Marco
Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale
Giuseppe is an expert in Digital Identities, Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures and trust ecosystems, with a solid background in software development, systems administration and...
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Francesco Antonio Marino
Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS)
As an Innovation Manager and Solution Architect with a specific emphasis on Digital Identity, I bring over 15 years of experience in research and developing innovative digital products to the...
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Henk Marsman
SonicBee
Henk Marsman is both independent researcher as well as principal consultant at SonicBee. Having spend over 20 years in cybersecurity and specifically identity and access management he still advises...
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Yaron Mazor
EffectiveIT
Yaron Mazor is an independent cybersecurity strategy consultant and architect with core experience in leading global PAM & MFT projects. Yaron founded EffectiveIT, a successful Israel-based...
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Patrick McBride
Beyond Identity
Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and...
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Tal Melamed
Contrast Security
With more than 15 years’ experience in Application and Serverless Security, Tal recently co-founded CloudEssence, a cloud-native Application Security company that was acquired by Contrast Security...
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Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt
KuppingerCole
Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt joined KuppingerCole in January 2021 as Advisor & Analyst. Prior to this, he worked for various management consultancies, primarily advising major banks on challenges...
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Matteo Midena
Monokee
I’m Matteo Midena, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in September 2022 at Padua University with a degree of 110/110. I’m passionate about Web3, Cryptography and Decentralized...
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Jelle Millenaar
Impierce Technologies
Jelle is a Self-Sovereign Identity expert with the goal to make SSI technology accessible to all. As the former Lead of Identity at the IOTA Foundation, he led the team and architectural design of...
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Simon Molitor
Digitalsocial.ID
Simon is a 26 year old entrepreneur and co-founder of his company digitalsocial.id as well as a business student at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He spent the past years working in a...
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Kelly Moosman
ForgeRock
Kelly Moosman is a seasoned community builder and currently serves as the Director of Community Engagement for ForgeRock, a leading identity and access management software company. In this role,...
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Leonardo Morales
Siemens AG
Leonardo Morales is an IT Solution Architect and lead of Identity Lifecycle Management at Siemens AG. As an Architect with focus on Identity Lifecycle he is working in different areas from the...
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Michael Lind Mortensen
Bankdata
Michael is a leader in one of Denmark’s biggest banking consortiums, Bankdata, managing zero-trust decentralized authorization for 8 member banks and 2000+ APIs. Michael has also been a board...
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Nick Mothershaw
The Open Identity Exchange
Nick is Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, a community for all those involved in the ID sector to connect and collaborate. Together we develop the guidance needed for...
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Fouad Mulla
Devoteam
Fouad is Cloud Security Lead Consultant in Devoteam with over 10 years of professional experience in the digital and software industry at global corporations, Fouad helped many businesses to govern...
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Patrick Münch
Mondoo
Patrick knows Security inside out. He is incredibly skilled at protecting and hacking every system he gets his hands on. His passion is hacking hardware and software as well as securing...
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Sanjay Nadimpalli
Tuebora Inc
Sanjay established Tuebora with a strong conviction in the power of Machine Learning and Natural Language interfaces in IAM, aiming to slash costs, enhance organizational efficiency, bolster...
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Steffen Nagel
Frankfurter Volksbank
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James Naughton
DB Schenker
James leads DB Schenker’s global identity and access management team, delivering solutions to the IAM challenges of the logistics industry. His passion for creating usable software...
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Dr. Kim Nguyen
D-Trust GmbH
Dr. Kim Nguyen studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Göttingen (Germany) and Cambridge (UK) and received a Ph.D. in mathematics for his work on the relation between...
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Thorsten Niebuhr
WedaCon
With nearly 30 years experience in IT and in the fields of Directory Technologies, Identity Management and Data Privacy, Thorsten is a recognized expert in our industry. As a technical trainer,...
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Nick Nikols
OpenText I Cybersecurity
Nick has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry both in developing industry leading Identity and Cybersecurity solutions and as an industry analyst conducting research and...
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Steinar Noem
Udelt AS
  I am a programmer at heart but spend my days on the softer parts of development. I work with enterprise/ecosystem architecture and business requirements related to digital identity in the...
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Huzefa Olia
1Kosmos
Huzefa is a leader in Identity & Access Management with twenty years of experience in running various roles across multiple software organizations. Prior to joining 1Kosmos, Huzefa led the...
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Rob Otto
Ping Identity
Rob is a Principal Architect for Ping Identity in the UK and also the EMEA representative to the Ping Identity CTO Office. Rob has 20 years experience in identity and access management. He has...
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Patrick Parker
EmpowerID
Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID, a company specializing in Identity and Access Management for over 20 years. He pioneered the unique use of Role and Attribute-Based Access...
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Andreas Pellengahr
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Andreas is passionately coordinating the IAM team in the Technology Office. He believes that Identities, Credentials and Authentication should be self-hosted and not in a cloud system.
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Filipi Pires
senhasegura
I’ve been working as Security and Threat Researcher and Cybersecurity Advocate at senhasegura, Founder at Black&White Technology, Snyk Ambassador, Application Security Specialist and...
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Shikha Porwal
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Starting from a technical background in SSO testing, Shikha shifted to the planning design and analysis part of the IAM development life cycle. She joined KuppingerCole in 2021 after completing her...
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Dima Postnikov
ConnectID
Experienced Identity Architect focusing on anything identity, privacy, trust ecosystems design and identity standards development. 
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John Pritchard
Radiant Logic
John is Chief Product Officer at Radiant Logic, responsible for the company’s global product vision and leading engineering, product and design. John joined Radiant Logic from Okta, where he...
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Denny Prvu
Royal Bank of Canada
Denny Prvu has been fortunate enough to work around the world with public and private sector organizations as a strategist, architect, and communicator on identity, security, and privacy topics for...
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Christie Pugh
KuppingerCole
Christie joined KuppingerCole in December 2022 as the Digital Products Manager. She is passionate about setting her colleagues, partners, and customers up for success by providing them with the...
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Aarthi Raghavendra
EmpowerID
Aarthi Raghavendra is a seasoned software architect and product manager with over 10 years of experience in the industry. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of...
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Akarshi Rastogi
KONE
Akarshi Rastogi ia a Code-savvy security engineer seeking to build secure, scalable solutions, with a passion for cybersecurity. Unlocking the possibilities of technology with 7+ years of...
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Drummond Reed
Gen Digital
Drummond has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Gen Digital, previous Avast after their acquisition of...
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Matthias Reinwarth
KuppingerCole
Matthias is Head of Advisory and oversees and leads the KuppingerCole advisory team. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias...
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Joerg Resch
KuppingerCole
Joerg Resch is Co-Founder at KuppingerCole. He looks back on over 20 years of experience in Digital ID related projects and their implementation in  organizations. His areas of...
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Michael Ribaudo
CyberIAM
Michael co-founded CyberIAM to pursue his passion for cybersecurity by providing solutions and professional services to many enterprise organisations, to ensure the success of their IAM and PAM...
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Justin Richer
Bespoke Engineering, LLC
Justin Richer is a security architect, software engineer, standards editor, and systems designer with over two decades of industry experience. He is the lead author of OAuth2 In Action and...
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Eleni Richter
EnBW
Eleni Richter is working as chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at a large German energy supplier (EnBW AG) and as part-time lecturer in IAM and Cyber Security...
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Manfred Rieck
Deutsche Bahn AG
In 2019, Manfred Rieck set the course for Deutsche Bahn on quantum by founding a research group for quantum technologies. The group concentrates on the industrial usage of quantum computers for...
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Stephanus Rieger
BMW AG
Stephanus Rieger is an accomplished Product Owner at BMW AG, responsible for Identity and Access Management (IAM) products and services. With over a decade of experience in the field of...
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René Rindermann
E.ON
René Rindermann joined E.ON in 2000 after completing his Business Economics Studies, majoring in Business Information Systems. He worked as a Consultant, Sales Controller and Head of...
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Zaïda Rivai
Danube Tech GmbH
Zaïda Rivai is a highly skilled data scientist with a strong track record in the field. Currently working at Danube Tech GmbH, she leads the analyses of Global Decentralised Identifier (DID)...
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Luigi Rizzo
Cloud Signature Consortium
Luigi Rizzo studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Padua, Italy, where he received his master’s degree in 1988. Later he focused on the fields of security, cryptography, PKI,...
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Bryn Robinson-Morgan
Mastercard
Bryn Robinson-Morgan has worked at the forefront of digital transformation and consumer led innovation for over 20 years. He is a key influencer for how people transact and interact in the digital...
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Sebastian Rohr
umbrella.associates GmbH
While Sebastian has been known as author of multiple articles, reviews and essays on all kinds of Identity and Security topics, he has more recently made a name for himself as being the...
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Darran Rolls
KuppingerCole / Cloud 10
Mr. Darran Rolls is a research and advisory Fellow at KuppingerCole and an independent consulting advisor. He has a long history in Identity Management and Security at companies...
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Carla Roncato
Watchguard
Carla Roncato is WatchGuard’s Vice President of Identity. She is an industry expert in identity management, access management, open identity standards, data security, privacy, and zero-trust...
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Paolo De Rosa
European Commission
As a Policy Officer at the European Commission, I lead the development and deployment of the European Digital Identity and Trust Services Framework and the implementation of the eIDAS Regulation....
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Tess Rutgers van Rozenburg - Rottier
Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Tess Rutgers van Rozenburg - Rottier is currently working as a strategic advisor for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the European Commission and various larger and...
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Nat Sakimura
OpenID Foundation
Nat Sakimura is a well-known identity and privacy standardization architect and the Chairman of the OpenID Foundation. He is a co-author of many frequently used international standards such as...
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Martin Sandren
IKEA
Martin Sandren is a security architect and delivery lead with over eighteen years of experience of various information security related roles. Primarily focused on security architecture and digital...
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Frank Schmaering
Saviynt
Frank Schmaering is an experienced speaker and tech enthusiast who specialises in IGA, GRC, PAM and authentication topics. He speaks passionately about identity governance, identity modernisation...
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Philipp Schneidenbach
Ventum Consulting
Philipp Schneidenbach is working as Principal at Ventum Consulting in Munich. He specialises in the area of IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture and IT Service Management.Mr. Schneidenbach was...
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Christoph Schneider
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
Christoph Schneider is Head of IT Development and Operations at the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). In June 2017, Christoph joined the International Organization for...
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Max Schrems
Privacy Advocate
Chairman and founder of noyb, a ’privacy enforcement platform’ that brings data protection cases to the courts under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Schrems first came to notoriety as an...
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Sven Schreyer
PwC
Sven Schreyer is Director in the Cybersecurity & Privacy practice at PwC Germany and leads a team of experts in the area of Identity & Access Management (IAM) and IT Security. He has over...
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Ingo Schubert
RSA
Ingo Schubert joined RSA almost two decades ago and dealt with cryptographic toolkits and PKI until he discovered the identity and access management parts of RSA’s portfolio. His main...
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Steffen Schwalm
msg systems ag
Mr. Schwalm staudied Information Science and has been working for over 14 years in Management- and Technology Consulting in high regulated industries. Since October 2022 he is leading digital...
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Ina Schäfer
N3K
Ina Schäfer is a valuable asset to the N3K/Cygna Group, bringing with her over 17 years of experience in brand awareness and marketing. She is highly respected by both clients and employees...
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Carlo Schüpp
TrustBuilder
Carlo Schupp has a wealth of experience in security. At the beginning of this century, at the Belgian security scale up Ubizen, he built one of the first SaaS platforms in the world to analyze...
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Christopher Schütze
KuppingerCole
Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cybersecurity and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Cloud Security at an auditing...
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Dr. Giada Sciarretta
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Giada Sciarretta is a researcher of the Security & Trust research unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She obtained her MSc in mathematics at the University of Trento in 2012 and received her...
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Rachelle Sellung
Fraunhofer IAO
Rachelle Sellung is a Senior Scientist Researcher in the Identity Management Competence Team at Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart, Germany. She conducts socio-economic and user experience research on a...
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Fady Semaan
Capital One
Fady Semaan, Managing Vice President, Software Engineering, oversees Consumer Identity which is the foundation for every digital experience and interaction that customers have with Capital One. His...
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John Erik Setsaas
Tietoevry Banking
With over 25 years’ experience in digital identity, John Erik Setsaas is a pioneer in this space. He is a prolific speaker at fintech industry events around the world including Money20/20...
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Omer Shafiq
Nordivo
Omer is a tech architect turned entrepreneur with experience in digital identity ecosystems and a strong focus on self-sovereign identity. He has worked with various public and private sector...
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Vlad Shapiro
Costidity Inc
Vladislav is driven by a deep curiosity for understanding human behavior; especially at the intersection of technology and decision-making. A noted expert in IGA, Vlad is a founder of Costidity...
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Dr. Amir Sharif
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Amir Sharif is a researcher in the Security & Trust Research Unit of the Cybersecurity Center at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. He earned his Ph.D. in Secure and Reliable Systems from...
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Jackson Shaw
Clear Skye
Jackson began his identity management career as an early employee at Toronto-based Zoomit Corp., the pioneer in the development of meta-directory products who Microsoft acquired in 1999. While at...
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Patrick Shirazi
Swedbank
Patrick is the head architect of security at Swedbank. In this role, Patrick is leading the design of various IT solutions in Identity and Access Management, Cryptography, and Cybersecurity to make...
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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders
Independent
Jacoba is a digital identity expert, eager to make digital life better and a lot more secure than it is today. Keynote speaker at international IAM congresses and teacher of masterclasses. ...
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Andreas Sigurdsson
ZADA
Andreas Sigurdsson is the Founder and CEO of ZADA Solutions, a decentralised identity network and ecosystem in Southeast Asia. As an independent SSI Ecosystem, ZADA enables a unique cross-border...
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Anmol Singh
Microsoft
Anmol Singh is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft and brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience focused on IAM and related security technologies. Through his career, Singh has...
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Mike Small
KuppingerCole
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,...
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Markus Soppa
Filancore
Markus Soppa is Managing Director and co-founder of Filancore GmbH, which offers solutions for decentralized identities around the Internet of Things. Previously, as Chief Development Officer at...
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Annet Steenbergen
Government of Aruba
Annet Steenbergen is co-founder/initiator of the Aruba Happy Flow project for the Government of Aruba. The Happy Flow project was the first single token initiative that created a seamless flow of...
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Dr. Angelika Steinacker
IBM Security Services EMEA
Angelika has extensive experience in Security and Identity & Access Management. She has been working in the security industry for over 30 years and with a focus on IAM for 20 years. In her...
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Rolf Steinbrück
Yubico
Rolf Steinbrück is a Senior Solutions Engineer in DACH and CEE at Yubico. Before joining the company, Rolf worked at Sophos for over 17 years. There, he was responsible as Professional...
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Michiel Stoop
Philips
Michiel Stoop is since 2015 Director Identity and Access management in Philips Group Security – Information Security and has over 10 years’ experience in the domain Identity and Access...
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Allen Storey
Intercede
Allen has 30 years IT experience, including roles at Prima Software Solutions, Labinal Group and Corah Plc, with more than 20 years focusing on digital identity. As Chief Product Officer for...
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Maarten Stultjens
Thales Digital Identity and Security
Maarten is VP Global Enablement IAM at Thales Digital Identity and Security. He has a passion for identity and access management (IAM) and information security. On a daily basis he is in close...
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Dr. Carsten Stöcker
Spherity
Dr. Carsten Stöcker is co-founder and CEO of Spherity. Spherity is building decentralized digital identity management solutions to power the fourth industrial revolution.Carsten...
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Prof. Dr. Shigeya Suzuki
Keio University
Shigeya Suzuki is a researcher with expertise in computer networks, distributed systems, and software development. He is an active member of W3C’s DID and VC WG and is one of the key designers of...
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Dr. Evelyne Sørensen, LL.M.
activeMind.legal
Dr. Evelyne Sørensen, LL.M. specializes in international data protection law. As a business lawyer at the law firm activeMind.legal she enables international groups and companies to handle...
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Oliver Terbu
Spruce Systems, Inc.
Oliver Terbu holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Technical University of Graz. He has been working in the Digital Identity space for about a decade and was involved as chair, lead editor,...
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Don Thibeau
OpenID Foundation
Don Thibeau serves on the Board of the OpenID Foundation, a non-profit, standards development organization committed to international interoperable technical standards. He was OIDF’s...
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Ricky Thiermann
Spherity
Ricky Thiermann is product owner with a great interest in green innovation topics and particularly decentralized identities. At Spherity he is dealing with the new standards of decentralized...
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Andrew Tobin
Gen Digital
Andrew Tobin specialises in digital wallet strategy and innovation. At Evernym he was part of the team that defined and built self-sovereign identity tooling for everyone. He has been a key leader...
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John Tolbert
KuppingerCole
  John Tolbert is a Lead Analyst and Managing Director of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises...
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Alastair Treharne
Beruku Identity / UK Government advisor on digital identity
Alastair is an expert advisor on digital identity with a background in business, political and security risk, working on UK and international initiatives across the humanitarian, development,...
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Thomas Treml
Microsoft
Thomas Treml leads Technology and Strategy in Public Sector Microsoft Germany, he joined Microsoft in 2007. Educated in Sociology and Computer Science, he spent his entire professional career in...
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Samuel López Trenado
Holcim Emea Digital Center
Samuel is a cybersecurity professional passionate about the Identity and access management subjects. During his professional career in Holcim, he worked several years in the directories...
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Atul Tulshibagwale
SGNL
Atul is a federated identity pioneer and the inventor of the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP), forming the basis of the Shared Signals and Events working group in the OpenID Foundation,...
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Aubrey Turner
Ping Identity
Aubrey Turner has extensive background successfully delivering strategic, enterprise cyber security solutions to Fortune 1000 companies that addresses business problems, strengthens organizations,...
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Mayur Upadhyaya
Contxt
Mayur is the CEO of Contxt, a privacy layer for customer identity. Previously he was AVP Identity Cloud at Akamai technologies where he led the former Janrain team after acquisition. In 2014 he...
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Marco Venuti
Thales
Marco Venuti is IAM Enablement and Acceleration Director at Thales Group. Marco has 20+ years of direct experience in Identity & Security, having worked for multiple solution vendors in Sales...
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Jan Verbeek
Gemeente Den Haag
Jan is a Senior Business / IT architect with extensive experience in the IT Sector, both nationally and internationally. He gained his experience in government orginazations and business. Jan is...
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Bastiaan Verdonk
Quest Software
Bastiaan is an avid computer expert with over 28 years in the IT industry, with a special focus on Active Directory and the evolving state of cyber security. He has a varied technology background...
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Cristiana Vicovan
EmpowerID
Cristiana is an accomplished professional with a strong background in both chemistry and technology. She holds an MS in Chemistry, with a focus on green chemistry and sustainable materials, and...
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Helene Vigue
GSMA
Helene Vigue is Identity and Data Director at the GSMA. Since 2014 she has been assisting mobile operators worldwide with their mobile identity initiatives. Her purpose is to connect the mobile...
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Martina Vollmer
Microsoft
Martina Vollmer is a Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering for Identity and Power Platform at Microsoft, with combining security and automation with low/no code development. Her background in...
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David Waite
Ping Identity
David is a Principal Architect at Ping Identity. He has 20 years experience in the identity space, focused mostly on federated and decentralized identity technologies. His current focus is on...
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Dr. Horst Walther
SiG software Integration
Dr. Horst Walther is Managing Director at the SiG Software Integration GmbH. He has been active as an interim and turnaround manager and consultant for IT security and compliance issues in the...
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Dr. Sarah Walton
Women in Identity
Executive Lead for Women in Identity, Sarah is a researcher, consultant, author, coach with thirty years’ experience in digital. Since 1994 Sarah has worked in digital internationally...
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Sadrick Widmann
cidaas
Sadrick Widmann joined the company to transform his management and IT talent into a compelling and intelligent customer solution. As the CEO of Widas ID, together with Yael Widmann he is...
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Klaas Wierenga
GÉANT
Klaas is Chief Information & Technology Officer, at GÉANT, the association of European National Research and Education Networks. He is responsible for the “above-the-net”...
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Graham Williamson
KuppingerCole
Graham Williamson is a senior Analyst at KuppingerCole. Graham has practical experience in the identity management and access control industry having completed assignments in the academic,...
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Candace Worley
Ping Identity
Candace Worley joined Ping Identity as Chief Product Officer (CPO) in May of 2020. As CPO, she is responsible for advancing global product vision, leading technical product innovation efforts and...
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Dr. Dirk Woywod
Verimi
Dr. Dirk Woywod has been Managing Director and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Verimi GmbH since 2018 a leading ID-Wallet provider in Germany. After completing his PhD in theoretical physics at...
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John Wunderlich
John Wunderlich & Associates
John Wunderlich is a data protection professional and expert witness who has worked and consulted about privacy, data protection, and security for over 20 years in multiple jurisdictions. He has...
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Stefan Würtemberger
Marabu Inks
Stefan Würtemberger is employed at Marabu GmbH & Co. KG, where he is Vice President Information Technology and responsible for Global IT. Previously, he was Chief Digital Officer and CIO...
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Mehmet Yaliman
Ping Identity
After studying Bioinformatics, Mehmet found himself as a developer, and shortly thereafter he changed his focus to the Identity space, where has been working for over a decade now, spending time in...
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Kristina Yasuda
Microsoft
Kristina is an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft, known for her work on standards in decentralized identity ecosystem: as an editor of OpenID for Verifiable Credentials specifications in...
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Dr. Mattia Zago
Monokee
Mattia Zago holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Murcia, Spain, with particular dedication in Machine Learning applications to cybersecurity; he works at Monokee (Rovereto, Italy)...
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Yaron Zehavi
Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Yaron Zehavi has 20 years of experience designing and developing technology solutions. Yaron has been focused on the financial services sector since 2004. Yaron is Customer IAM...
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Gerhard Zehethofer
Secret Double Octopus
Gerhard is passionate about technology and the role it can play in improving people’s lives. As a digital identity native, he is focusing on helping organizations to solve the identity access...
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Erik van Zuuren
Trustcore.EU, Solvay.EDU
Erik has years of experience/expertize in amongst others: Governance/Risk/Compliance, eGovernment/eBusiness/eBanking, Trust Services and Trusted/Trustworthy (eco-)systems, Enterprise (Security)...
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