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Hammad Ul Haq Abbasi
Software Architect
EmpowerID
Hammad Ul-Haq Abbasi is an accomplished Software Architect at EmpowerID, with a deep-rooted background in the tech industry for over 14 years. His career highlights include significant...
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Michael Adams
Founder
Quali-Sign
Michael Adams is the founder of Quali-Sign Ltd, which has built a mobile wallet prototype for Qualified Electronic Signatures, e-ID, SCA and CBDC. Michael is a member of the Bank of England CBDC...
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Ali Adnan
Co-founder
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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Sray Agarwal
Senior Director
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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Rohit Agnihotri
Sr. Director IAM
Northwestern Mutual
With over 15 years of deep-seated expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), Rohit has cultivated a reputation as an authority in both product development, consulting, thought leadership...
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Dr. Ignacio Alamillo-Domingo
Advisor
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. Maryleen Amaizu
AI Scientist & Educator
Alan Turing Institute, BPP University
Dr. Maryleen is an AI Scientist & Educator, passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the ever-evolving world of data and AI. Her expertise has been globally...
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Joe Andrieu
Founder and President
Legendary Requirements
Joe Andrieu is founder and president of Legendary Requirements, where he helps companies deeply understand the human requirements for identity systems, with a focus on decentralized approaches that...
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Austin Arensberg
Head of Okta Ventures
Okta Ventures
Venture investor with focus on early stage startups based in San Francisco. I lead Okta Ventures overseeing the fund to invest in startups enabled by privacy, identity, and security. Investments...
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Warwick Ashford
Senior Analyst
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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Dr. Jean-Daniel Aussel
Head of Standardization
Thales DIS
Jean-Daniel Aussel is Head of Standardization at Thales Digital Identity and Security, where he is driving the standardization strategy for different market segments since 2015. Recently,...
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Marie Austenaa
Head of Digital Identity
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
CTO
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
Digital Identity Innovations Technical Lead
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
Technical Regional Manager
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
Tribe Lead Digital Identities
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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David Baier
Solution Architect
Ping Identity
Since 2022 David Baier is part of the EMEA solution architects team. David uses his over 10 years experience in IT sector and Digital Transformation to help prospects find their fitting solution...
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Anne Bailey
Analyst
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
IAM Lead
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
Lead Analyst & CTO
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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Dirk Balfanz
Software Engineer
Google
Dirk Balfanz is a software engineer in Google’s Security Team, focusing on user authentication. He is currently working on strengthening authentication on the Web...
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Dr. Abbie Barbir
Co-founder and Board member
ADIA and FIDO Alliance
Abbie Barbir serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of identity management, mobile devices and authentication. Abbie has extensive experience in identity and access management. Abbie is...
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Paul Bastian
Senior Innovation Developer
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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Wadiha El Batti
Product Management Director
WALLIX
As Head of Product Management at WALLIX, Wadiha El Batti is responsible for the overall WALLIX portfolio which covers Access Management, Privileged Account and Session Management and Identity...
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Matthias Bauer
Sr. Manager, Software Development
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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Ivo van Bennekom
EMEA Impact Center Leader Digital Identity
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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Manuel Benz
Chief Technical Officer
CodeShield
As the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of CodeShield, Manuel Benz spearheads efforts to strengthen IAM privilege escalation detection in cloud infrastructures. In his academic journey at...
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Dominik Beron
founder/CEO
walt.id
Dominik Beron is the founder/CEO of walt.id, an open source company that is building decentralized identity solutions for businesses and governments. Over the last years, he also served as an...
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Matthew Berzinski
Senior Product Management Director
Ping Identity
As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the PingIdentity product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and...
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Anil Bhandari
Chief Mentor & Thought Leader
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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Francois Blanc
Managing Director
Amadeus's Travel ID
Prior to his current role, Francois built new digital businesses in the Telecom and Banking sector, for both large companies, like Santander and Orange, and as an entrepreneur. In...
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John Bradley
Distinguished Architect
Yubico
Mr. 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...
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Dr. Rob Brand
Senior Policy Officer, Directorate Digital Economy
Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Rob Brand is a Senior Policy Officer in the Directorate for Digital Economy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. In line with his active involvement in realising the eIDAS...
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Robin Brandenbusch
Director
Stephens
Robin Brandenbusch is a Director in Investment Banking at Stephens with a focus on software/technology. Prior to joining Stephens, Robin was in the M&A, Corporate and Leveraged Finance team at...
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Charlotte von der Brelie
Grants Development Consultant
Grants Office Europe
Charlotte von der Brelie is a Grants Development Consultant at Grants Office Europe, specialised in National and European funds in Germany. Charlotte has a strong international relations and...
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Joni Brennan
President
Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada
Joni Brennan is the President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). Building upon 15 years of hands on experience in Identity Access Management innovations and industry...
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Dr. Pablo Breuer
President
DISARM Foundation & Representative of OASIS DAD-CDM
Dr. Pablo Breuer is an Executive at a publicly traded Fortune 50 company. A 22-year veteran of the Navy, Pablo’s tours included top-level positions at U.S. Special Operations Command Donovan...
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Markus Broman
IAM Process Manager
Swedbank
Markus is on a mission to make identity matter to achieve business outcomes. Focussing on People, Process & Technology factors is fundamental to achieve strategic business objectives. He has...
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David Brossard
Chief Technology Officer
Axiomatics AB
In his role as CTO, David drives the technology vision and strategy for Axiomatics based on both identity and access management (IAM) market trends as well as customer feedback. He also leads the...
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Matthias Buchhorn-Roth
Product Lead
Cofinity-X
My team and I operate the data space for the Catena-X global automotive supply chain network, addressing pressing challenges such as carbon emissions, sustainable resource management, comprehensive...
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Daniel Buchner
Head of Decentralized Identity
Block
Daniel leads Decentralized Identity at Block. Prior to Block, he founded the Decentralized Identity program at Microsoft after spending his early career at Mozilla leading its Developer...
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Juliana Cafik
Identity Standards Architect
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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Frank Cardello
Executive Advisor, Decentralized Identity
Ping Identity
Frank is an executive with extensive experience in security, identity management, AI/ML, messaging and media/entertainment industries. In his current role as an Executive Advisor at Ping Identity,...
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Joseph Carson
Chief Security Scientist & Advisory CISO
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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Wayne Chang
CEO
SpruceID
Wayne Chang is the CEO of SpruceID, a technology company with the mission to let users control their identity and data across all their digital interactions. SpruceID provides open-source...
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Larry Chinski
Vice President of Global IAM Strategy
One Identity
Larry Chinski is Global Vice President of Global IAM Strategy at One Identity. He is responsible for the overall field execution (both inbound and outbound) for One Identity as it relates to...
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Kay Chopard
Executive Director
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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Wenjing Chu
Senior Director of Technology Strategy
Futurewei Technologies
Wenjing leads Futurewei’s technology strategy and collaborates with various open source communities and organizations to advance digital trust in the age of Artificial Intelligence. He is an...
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Debora Comparin
Standardization Expert
Member, Secure Identity Alliance (SIA)
Debora Comparin is Standardization Expert at Thales Digital Identity & Security, founder and chair of the OSIA Initiative, co-founder of SIDI Hub and Advisory Board member of the Linux...
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Adam Cooper
Director
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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Richard. J. Cordes
Researcher
Cognitive Security and Education Forum | BlockScience
R.J. Cordes is a researcher and social systems engineer focused on sensemaking, knowledge and information management, and team facilitation. He regularly contributes to and helps facilitate...
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Wim Coulier
eIDAS expert
Belgian Mobile ID
Wim is involved for more than 20 years in trust services and electronic signature projects. Wim started in this area at a Certificate Authority creating at measure solutions for customers up to the...
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Stephen Curran
Board of Trustees Chair
Sovrin Foundation
Stephen Curran is the Sovrin Foundation’s Board of Trustees Chair, and has worked with, and volunteered at, the non-profit Foundation for the almost 7 years that the Sovrin MainNet global...
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Sam Curren
Deputy CTO
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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Fadi Daood
Manager
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.
Executive Director - Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative
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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Julie Dawson
Director of Regulatory & Policy
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. Dominik Deimel
Founder and CEO
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
Research Analyst
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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Misha Deville
Co-Founder
Mailchain
Misha is a co-founder of Mailchain, enabling secure communication between decentralised identifiers. She works with companies that are driving innovation in web3 and in traditional organisations to...
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Shashank Dhariwal
Technical Architect
Continental AG
Shashank Dhariwal is an AI Specialist with 9+ years of experience. After specializing in biometrics at the University of Southampton, he worked extensively in the biometrics domain with various...
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Sanjay Dharwadker
Digital Identity Expert
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Sanjay Dharwadker is the Senior Digital Identity Officer in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) based in Copenhagen. He also works on global identity standards...
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Joost van Dijk
Developer Advocate
Yubico
Joost van Dijk is a developer advocate at Yubico. As the inventor of the YubiKey, Yubico makes secure login easy and available for everyone. Joost focuses on securing digital identities and...
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Pamela Dingle
Director of Identity Standards
Microsoft
Pamela Dingle has 20 years of experience in implementation and architecture of identity standards for web access management, provisioning, and federation. As Director of Identity Standards at...
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Adrian Doerk
Co-Founder
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
CEO & Founder
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
Co-founder & CTO
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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Wiebke Drebenstedt
Partner
Cybrex GmbH
For over 14 years, I’ve been dedicated to Identity and Access Management. After earning my Master’s in strategic management I entered the regulated IT Management arena in the financial sector....
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Sebastian Drees
Head of EMEA
IndyKite
A seasoned communicator, evangelist and pioneer in the industry, Sebastian is currently responsible for running Sales in the EMEA region at IndyKite, after a long and successful stint at...
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Kim Hamilton Duffy
Executive Director
Decentralized Identity Foundation
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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Lynn Parker Dupree
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Lynn Parker Dupree, leader of the firm’s privacy practice, focuses on privacy compliance, governance, and counseling for clients navigating the dynamic legal and regulatory privacy landscape....
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Fabian Eberle
COO & Co-Founder
Keyless Technologies
Fabian Eberle is Co-Founder and COO at Keyless Technologies, the leader in privacy-preserving biometric authentication. Fabian founded Keyless alongside world renowned security and privacy experts,...
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Chris Eckl
Chief Trust Officer
Condatis
Chris Eckl is Condatis’s Chief Trust Officer and Sitekit’s CTO, dedicated to driving innovation in the Identity sector. Chris was initial architect for Sitekit’s product suite (eRedbook, Self...
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Fraser Edwards
CEO & co-founder
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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Christina Eggert
Security Consultant
IBM
Christina Eggert is a Security Consultant with focus on Identity and Access Management. In her role, she has been keen on investigating, improving, and enhancing the identity and access management...
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Sebastian Elfors
Senior Architect
IDnow
In his current role as a Senior Architect at IDnow, Sebastian is a member of CEN TC/224, ETSI ESI, FIDO Alliance, IATA OneID, Linux Foundation, OpenWallet Foundation and W3C, where he has...
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Ravi Erukulla
VP of Analyst Relations and Customer Advocacy
Saviynt
Ravi Erukulla is a long-time identity and security enthusiast and is particularly passionate about simplifying the way identity and security products are built and adopted. Ravi brings two decades...
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John Ferris
Regional Ecosystem Manager
Ulster Bank
John’s professional journey began with a foray into coding for a healthcare tech company in Pittsburgh, setting the stage for a dynamic career marked by versatility and innovation. Transitioning...
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Dr. Daniel Fett
Security and Standardization Expert
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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Arno Fiedler
Owner & Managing Director
Nimbus
Arno Fiedler is founder and managing director of Nimbus Technologieberatung GmbH. His leadership defines the vision and integrity which are synonymous with the Nimbus name, and every completed...
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Paul Fisher
Lead Analyst
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
Principal
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
Executive Director
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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George Fletcher
Identity Standards Architect
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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Manu Fontaine
Founder and CEO
Hushmesh
Manu Fontaine is the Founder and CEO of Hushmesh, the public benefit corporation developing and operating the Mesh. You can think of the Mesh as a global information space, like the Web, but with...
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Dominic Forrest
CTO
iProov
Dominic is responsible for the design and development of iProov’s cloud-based infrastructure. Prior to taking up his role with iProov in 2013, Dominic was the Senior Vice President of...
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Allan Foster
Chief Evangelist
Identity Evangelist
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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Andreas Freitag
Co-CEO
Procivis AG
Andreas worked for over 20 years in the Consulting and IT Projectmanagement space. 5 years ago he discovered decentralized identities and made it to his major focus. Last year he was appointed as...
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Daniel Friedman
Co-Founder and President
Active Inference Institute
I am a co-founder and current President of the Active Inference Institute, an educational non-profit dedicated to learning and applying Active Inference.With COGSEC I am working...
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Joran Frik
Senior Manager
Deloitte
Joran is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Digital Identity team with over 9 years of experience. He specializes in digital identity from a strategic perspective, with a passion for citizen and...
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Naohiro Fujie
General Manager
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
IAM Global Product Manager
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
Director of Marketing
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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Matthew Gardiner
Product Manager
Proofpoint
Matthew Gardiner has more than 20 years’ experience as a technical product & marketing executive with enterprise focused IT security products, starting with Netegrity and now working on...
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Yasin Garip
Advisor
KuppingerCole
Yasin, holding a Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics from the University of Mannheim, began exploring Identity and Access Management (IAM) while working as a student at a leading payment...
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Franklin Garrigues
Vice President, External Ecosystems
TD Bank Group
I lead the External Ecosystems team at TD and we are responsible for future-proofing the bank. The External Ecosystems team: Elevates TD’s partnerships and strategic relationships across the...
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James Garza
CEO
Trillium Capital Ltd.
James Garza has over two decades of experience providing exceptional financial services, during which he has gained extensive industry knowledge in a variety of capacities. James believes that...
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Dr. Paolo Gasti
Associate Professor & CTO
New York Institute of Technology, Keyless
Dr. Paolo Gasti is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the New York Institute of Technology and the Co-Founder and CTO at Keyless. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Gasti’s...
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Marc Geer
Senior Global Operations Director
Fragomen
Marc is Senior Global Operations Director for Fragomen with over 20 years’ experience in the immigration sector. A mechanical engineer by profession, Marc works directly with the firm’s...
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Darrell Geusz
Product Lead, Neo
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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Ian Glazer
Founder
Weave Identity
Ian Glazer is an accomplished IT Thought Leader and Product Management Executive with extensive experience in identity management, privacy, compliance, and access governance. He is a strategic...
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Craig Glogower
Director IGA Solutions
Aquera
Craig Glogower has over 20 years of experience leading Identity Programs in large global and national corporate environments. His passion is focused on solving complex identity challenges and...
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Damian Glover
Senior Director of Communications
Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
Damian is Senior Director of Communications at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and also co-chairs DIF’s Internet of Things (IoT) Special Interest Group. Damian has a background in...
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Michael Goldrich
Founder & Chief Advisor | Author
Vivander Advisors
As the founder and chief advisor of Vivander Advisors, Michael J. Goldrich excels in crafting digital and AI strategies that drive transformative growth and enhance overall business value. As the...
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Daniel Goldscheider
Founder and ED
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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Boris Goranov
CEO
Ubiqu
Boris Goranov is involved in security since 1999, as a white hack hacker , hacking smart cards at The TNO Institute. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Delft...
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Matt Graves
Identity and Privacy Evangelist
OpenText Cybersecurity
With over three decades of experience in information security, Matt stands as an experienced cybersecurity leader with a diverse background across industries such as financial services, retail...
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Philipp von Grawert
Managing Director
Stephens
Philipp von Grawert is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Stephens with a focus on software/technology. Prior to joining Stephens, Philipp was a member of the corporate finance team at...
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Lana Grechko
Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager
Okta
Lana Grechko is a Senior Principal Program Manager and Portfolio Lead at Okta. In this capacity, she’s focusing on ensuring Okta products and systems meet Federal Security Standards such as...
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Josh Green
Technical Strategist
Cisco
Josh has been working in the identity and authentication security space for nearly 15 years; 8 of them with Cisco. He’s passionate about finding new solutions that improve security and user...
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Olaf Grewe
Product Lead Digital Identity & Access
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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Tomas Gustavsson
Chief PKI Officer
Keyfactor
At Keyfactor, Tomas Gustavsson is the chief public key infrastructure (PKI) officer. Tomas joined Keyfactor following the company’s acquisition of PrimeKey. At PrimeKey, he was the Chief...
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Stephen Haartman
Project Lead
Gen
Stef Haartman is managing Gen’s participation in the EWC eIDAS Large Scale pilot project. Gen is a Cybersecurity multinational striving for digital freedom around the world, actively...
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Mark Haine
Director
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
Ph.D. Student
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
CTO
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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Manuel Heinkel
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Manuel is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with software companies in Germany to build innovative and secure applications in the cloud. With his expertise in security and...
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Gal Helemski
Co-Founder & CPO
PlainID
Gal Helemski is co-founder and CTO/CPO at PlainID and a highly recognized and acclaimed cyber security expert. She plays a key role at PlainID as a strategic leader, visionary and evangelist while...
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Reed Henry
CEO and Co-Founder
Aquera
Reed has a history of defining new innovative products and taking them to market with his background in product management, marketing, sales, professional services, business development, and...
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Dr. Ulrich Herberg
Distinguished Architect in Identity
eBay
Dr. Ulrich Herberg is a Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of Identity at eBay, leading the company on all topics related to Identity, such as two-factor authentication, IAM, user...
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Dr. Moritz Heuberger
Advisor
German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
In the Department for Digital Identities and Authentication at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, Dr. Moritz Heuberger is responsible for the European dimension of digital...
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Gail Hodges
Executive Director
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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Yvonne Hofstetter
CEO and Managing Director
21strategies
Yvonne Hofstetter, 1966, lawyer and essayist, started her IT career in 1999 for a US software provider and with Distributed Artificial Intelligence. In 2020, she co-founded 21strategies and has...
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Oliver Holle
Co-Founder
Speedinvest
With more than 15 years of entrepreneurial experience in the mobile and internet industries and 12 years as co-founder of Speedinvest, Oliver Holle is a leading expert in Europe’s technology...
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John Horn
Director, Cybersecurity Practice
Datos Insights
John Horn leads the Cybersecurity practice at Datos Insights, which provides valuable cybersecurity and identity research, insights, and advisory services to financial services firms. In...
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Dr. Alen Horvat
CTO
Netis
Digital identity architect designing and building verifiable credentials exchange frameworks. Designed trust models for Verifiable Credentials issuer, and verifiers and introduced...
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Azita Hosseini-Nejad
Product Owner
esatus AG
Azita holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science with a focus on IT Management and has gained over 10 years of experience in the IT sector. At esatus she has successfully contributed to...
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Andrew Hughes
VP of Global Standards
FaceTec
Andrew Hughes has been consulting and working on standardization of digital credentials, face biometric verification, mobile driving licenses, identity and access management, and information...
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Riley Hughes
CEO
Trinsic
Riley is a leader in the self-sovereign identity (SSI) community. As the second employee hired at the Sovrin Foundation, Riley established and led several teams. He started Trinsic to...
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Stephen Hutchinson
Director of Security Architecture
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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Rainer Hörbe
Senior Manager
KPMG
Rainer has been involved in Identity and Access Management (IAM) since 2000, working in various roles such as architect, policy writer, software developer, and security consultant. He has...
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Marina Iantorno
Research Analyst
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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Vincenzo Iozzo
CEO
SlashID
CEO and Co-founder of SlashID. Previously, Founder & CEO of IperLane (acquired by Crowdstrike). Vincenzo is a Committee Member of the Black Hat Conference Board and was an Associate Researcher...
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Puria Izady
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Puria is a Solutions Architect at AWS, helping software companies in Germany build innovative SaaS solutions. With a background in machine learning and generative AI, he brings technical expertise...
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Ben Jackson
CRO
OwnID
After honing his skills in various sales roles, Ben’s career reached a pivotal point when he joined Gigya, a pioneering company in the field of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM). As...
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Ashish Jain
Chief Product Officer
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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Igor Janicijevic
Principal Engineer, Digital Access
National Australia Bank
Igor Janicijevic is Principal Engineer at National Australia Bank (NAB), where he focuses on digital identity and access management. Prior to NAB he spent 15 years at SecureNet / Betrusted /...
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Adeel Javaid
Identity Management Engineer
EmpowerID
With 15 years of dedicated experience in the cybersecurity realm, I have cultivated a deep expertise in security engineering, compliance, and DevSecOps. My career journey has been marked by a...
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Linda Jeng
Founder & CEO
Digital Self Labs
Linda Jeng is the Founder & CEO of Digital Self Labs, a regulatory, policy & tech advisory firm. She is also a Visiting Scholar on Financial Technology and Adjunct Professor of Law at...
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Anil John
Technical Director
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Anil John is a Public Interest Technologist specializing in information security, privacy, competition and innovation. He helps organizations and leaders gain clarity and understanding on complex...
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David Johnson
Lead Consultant
iC Consult
David Johnson is a seasoned Identity and Access Management (IAM) professional with over 15 years of experience in the field. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and has been...
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Dr. Michael B. Jones
Building the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer
Self-Issued Consulting
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) and...
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Loffie Jordaan
Business Solutions Architect
AAMVA - American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Loffie Jordaan is a Business Solutions Architect at AAMVA. He currently focuses on digital identity management, including mobile driver’s licenses and the ecosystem required to make them...
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Xavier Juredieu
COO
Archipels
Xavier Juredieu is the COO at Archipels, a web 3 company offering decentralized identity services for businesses and public institutions. Over the past year, he is acting as a member of the EWC...
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Pushpalanka Mankotte Kankanamalage
Senior Software Engineer IAM
Zalando
Pushpalanka is a software engineer with over a decade of experience in identity and access management. At WSO2, she worked on the Identity Server product and contributed to various customer...
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Hosho Karasawa
Director
NTT Digital
Expert in new business development, with extensive experience in launching businesses that leverage emerging technologies such as Web3, AI, and new reality. Strong background in global business...
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Pieter Kasselman
Identity Standards Architect
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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Nishant Kaushik
CTO
Uniken
Nishant Kaushik is the CTO of Uniken, the first security platform that tightly integrates identity, authentication and channel security. He brings over 15 years of experience in the identity...
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Jason Keenaghan
Director of Product Management
Thales
Jason Keenaghan is the Director of Product Management for Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision and delivering on the strategy of a unified...
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Tuukka Kekarainen
Identity and Access Management Architect, CISSP
Wärtsilä
Tuukka’s IT career started 25 years ago as a web application developer where he got to work with LDAPs and implemented self-registration, authentication, and access management solutions for a...
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Mike Kiser
Director, Strategy and Standards
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
Chief Marketing and Sales Officer
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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Dr. Valentin Knobloch
Founding Partner & Legal Counsel
Souschef Ventures
Valentin is a founding partner of Souschef Ventures, Europe’s first venture capital fund aiming to foster technology adoption, digitalisation and innovation within the restaurant sector. He is...
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Alexander Koch
VP Sales EMEA
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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Hed Kovetz
CEO & Co-Founder
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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Antoni Kozelski
CEO & Co-founder
Vstorm.co
Startup-minded serial tech entrepreneur, CEO & Co-founder at Vstorm - custom LLM-enabled software development company. Working globally, with a focus on Western Europe and the USA. Since 2017...
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Arkadiusz Krowczynski
Senior Solution Engineer
Okta
Arkadiusz Krowczynski is a Senior Solution Engineer at Okta with more than 20 years IT experience.With an always positive mindset Arkadiusz is driven by sharing knowledge and building trust and...
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Kevin Kruse
IGA Lead
Banking Circle
Veteran professional in the Identity Verse both from tecnical and conceptual perspective. Passionate about customer POV to the topic of owning, evolving and living with an IGA platform.
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Dr. Andre Kudra
CIO
esatus AG
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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Janne Kuparinen
Manager
SOK
Currently working as Tech Lead at S Group’s IAM Program. Helping S Group with IAM, PAM, security and cloud related projects. Before I joined SOK again, I was leading Nordcloud’s Digital...
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Martin Kuppinger
Principal Analyst
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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Jānis Lacis
Authentication Group Manager
If P&C Insurance
More than a decade ago started as a passionate developer discovering everything there is to explore. Throughout the years took many challenges to work for accounting, finance, learning, insurance,...
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Vedran Lalic
Head of Office at European Parliament
European Parliament
Vedran Lalic is a Head of cabinet of a Member of the European Parliament and a policy adviser in the European Parliament. Since 2021, he has served as the European Parliament’s lead technical...
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Nick Lambert
CEO
Dock Labs AG
Nick Lambert is CEO at Dock Labs AG. An experienced and commercially aware Director with 8+ years of leading high performing multidisciplinary teams within the technology sector. His key skills...
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Emilie van der Lande
Cyber Risk Consultant
Independent
Emilie combines expertise in Digital Identity, Data Privacy, and Cyber Strategy, offering a multifaceted perspective at the crossroads of technology, law, and business. Emilie is equipped with a...
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Robert Lapes
Enterprise Architect - Identity and Cyber Specialist
Defence Digital, UK Ministry of Defence
Robert Lapes is Identity & Cyber Specialist at the UK Ministry of Defence. He was head of identity advisory services in Capgemini’s IAM practice in the UK. He is a chartered engineer...
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Alejandro Leal
Research Analyst
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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Sharon Leu
Executive in Residence
Jobs for the Future
Sharon Leu is an Executive in Residence at JFFLabs at Jobs for the Future, a national nonprofit driving the design and scale of technology-enabled approaches to promoting economic advancement....
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Dr. Rolf Lindemann
Vice President Products
Nok Nok Labs
Dr. Rolf Lindemann is responsible for the development and strategy of the company’s products and solutions. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in product management, R&D and...
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Wim van der Lingen
Architect of border innovation
Ministry of Justice and Security, the Netherlands
Wim van der Lingen has a career in improving government performance through the use of information technology. Educated in both business and public administration, he has worked on many projects...
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Dr. Torsten Lodderstedt
Lead Architect for Germany’s EU Digital Identity Wallet
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is a Digital Identity Architect with more than 15 years experience in developing and running large scale consumer identity services. He currently works for the German...
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Thomas Lohninger
Executive Director
epicenter.works – for digital rights
Thomas was a programmer and anthropologist in his former life. Digital rights had been his hobby until it became a job when he intensively accompanied the EU Net Neutrality Regulation as Policy...
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Laurent Loup
Senior Product Manager
SICPA SA
In 2016, Laurent joined SICPA Identity & Document Security division as a product manager responsible for SICPA Digital Trust Suite (SICPA SSI platform). He has worked in corporate strategy in...
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David Luna
Senior Product Architect
Ping Identity
David Luna brings over a decade of hands-on and leadership experience in digital identity and access management. David serves in a leadership position as Product Architect and Subject Matter Expert...
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David Magård
Senior Advisor & AI Lead
Swedish Companies Registration Office
David Magård is working as senior advisor and AI lead Swedish Companies Registration Office, Sweden. David holds a LL.M and has worked several of years at the Swedish Government Offices with...
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Gerald Maier
IAM architect
BMW AG
Gerald Maier has been responsible for enterprise IAM solutions at BMW for more than 10 years. As IAM architect he is focusing on creating large scale, secure, standardized, highly automated and...
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Sameer Makladeh
Senior Data Scientist
Silverfort
Sameer is experienced data scientist holding a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Information Systems from the Technion and a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from SCE, contributing to...
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Eve Maler
Digital identity futurist and strategist
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
Trust Services Director
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
Open Source Project Leader, Digital Identity Expert
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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Jeff Margolies
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Saviynt
Jeff Margolies is the Chief Product and Strategy Officer of Saviynt where he leads strategy, technology partnerships, and corporate development. As a member of the executive team, Jeff works...
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Francesco Antonio Marino
Innovation Manager and Solution Artichect
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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Gabriel Marquie
Digital ID Subject Matter Expert
IATA
Gabriel Marquie is the digital identity subject matter expert at IATA, the International Airline Trade Association, where he leads the developments to enable a trusted open ecosystem of sellers and...
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Henk Marsman
Principal Consultant
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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Pedro Martinez
Business Owner of Digital Banking for Identity and Access Management
Thales
Pedro Martinez is the Business Owner of Digital Banking for Identity and Access Management at Thales. He is focused on business strategy and roadmap development, as well as ecosystem alliance for...
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Pedro Martins
Lead Solution Architect
LastPass
Originally from Portugal – Pedro has been an IT professional for >20 years in multiple areas (Development, Support, Sales, Marketing, Security and Consulting). Pedro is currently the Lead...
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Anishma Mavuram
Product Manager
EmpowerID
Anishma Mavuram, an accomplished professional with over six years in Identity and Access Management (IAM), specializes in integrating enterprise systems like SAP and Adobe Experience...
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Justin McCarthy
Co-founder and CTO
strongDM
Justin McCarthy is the co-founder and CTO of strongDM. He originally developed empathy for Operations as a founding and pager-carrying member of many operations and data teams. As an Executive, he...
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Trent McConaghy
Founder
Ocean Protocol
I started my career by doing AI research for national defense in the 1990s, while still an undergraduate [paper 1][paper 2]. Then, in my first startup (ADA), we explored the relation between human...
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Steven McCown
Chief Architect
Anonyome Labs
Steven McCown is a Chief Architect at Anonyome Labs and conducts R&D for security and privacy technologies, including: encrypted messaging, decentralized identity, reusable credentials,...
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Franziska Meilhammer
Product Owner
tibe.io / Lindner AG
Through many years of working within the construction industry, which includes several years in the UK, I have gained a broad view of its challenges and specific domain knowledge. In the...
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Hila Meller
Co-Founder | President
Leading Cyber Ladies | Fingerprints
A savvy public speaker and an advocate for diversity in tech. Co-founder of Leading Cyber Ladies, a global movement promoting diversity in Cyber Security. Recognized as a subject matter expert by...
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Thierry Meritan
Professional Services Manager
Netwrix
Thierry Meritan is a passionate IT professional dedicated to leveraging technology to benefit both businesses and individuals. He began his career in the field of Information Systems, starting as a...
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Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt
Lead Advisor
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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Wim Mintiens
Managing Partner
Trust Agency
Wim has over 30 years of experience in providing trust services (PKI) and electronic signature services. He started his career as a project manager for government and defence projects at a Belgian...
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Anthony Moillic
Director, Solutions Engineering EMEA & APAC
Netwrix
Anthony is Director of Solutions Engineering EMEA & APAC at Netwrix. With more than 25 years experience in the IT industry and a deep knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem, Anthony is highly...
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Dr. Beatrice Moissinac
Staff Threat Intelligence & AI Researcher
Okta
Béatrice Moissinac is a Staff Data Scientist at Okta. She holds two Masters, and a PhD in Computer Science, and joined Okta in 2021. Her main focus is applied AI research to Identity...
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Mirko Mollik
PhD student in Verifiable Credentials, DIDs and DLTs
Fraunhofer FIT
Mirko is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Fraunhofer FIT, specializing in enhancing privacy for individuals in the realm of verifiable credentials. Holding a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, he has...
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Dr. Francesca Morpurgo
Municipal Councillor and Senior researcher
CyberEthics Lab. and City of Rome
Francesca Morpurgo (she, her) holds a degree in Philosophy, with a thesis in Logic, and a PhD in Logic and Epistemology from the Sapienza University of Rome, where she researched the creation and...
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Nick Mothershaw
Chief Identity Strategist
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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Stéphane Mouy
President
SGM Consulting
Stéphane MOUY is the founder and president of SGM Consulting, a digital transition consultancy focusing on digital identity, e-trust services and eKYC processes for the financial services...
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Anirban Mukherji
Founder & CEO
miniOrange
Chief Architect and CEO of miniOrange which is a 12 year old company in Identity and Access Management with 25000 customers in more than 60 countries. The company miniOrange is based in India and...
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Thomas Müller-Lynch
Global Director Digital Identities
Siemens AG
Thomas joined Siemens 24 years ago. During this time, he took over various IT positions covering web, document management and during the last 10 years IT infrastructure technologies. Now as...
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Sanjay Nadimpalli
Founder and CEO
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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Chikako Nagaoka
Project Assistant Professor
Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS), National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Researcher related to the promotion of Open Education and the use of micro-credentials, Ph.D.
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Sid Nagavarapu
Senior Customer Experience Manager
Schneider Electric
Sid is a Senior Customer Experience Manager - Responsible for Web platforms in Schneider Electric. Have been in identity space and exploring authorization platforms for our scale at Schneider...
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Ramesh Narayanan
CTO
MOSIP
Ramesh serves as the CTO at MOSIP (mosip.io) an open source non-profit program where he is instrumental in creating products for foundational identity (Mosip Identity), Digital Identity (eSignet)...
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Jonathan Neal
Field CTO
Saviynt
With over 30 years IT experience, 20 of which specialising in Identity and Access Management, Jonathan is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Saviynt. Based in the UK, Jonathan has...
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Mike Neuenschwander
VP KuppingerCole US and Global Head of Research Strategy
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Mike has 25 years of experience in identity, access management, privacy, and security technologies, stemming from his time at Novell (now OpenText) where he introduced some of the first identity...
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Dr. Andrew Newell
Chief Scientific Officer
iProov
Andrew joined iProov from University College London where he was a Research Fellow in both the Department of Computer Science and CoMPLEX. His PhD and subsequent published research focused on...
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Rintaro Okamoto
Team Leader of Business Development for Digital Identity
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP)
Rintaro is the Head of Business Development for Decentralized Identity at DNP. He started new product development in 2019, while engaging in client consulting around digital transformation....
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Roger Olivieira
Co-Founder
Ver.iD
Roger Olivieria is co-founder of Ver.iD, a SaaS that streamlines integration of decentralized Identity apps for online businesses. Our developer-friendly platform lets companies...
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Alex Olivier
Cofounder & CPO
Cerbos
Alex Olivier is the CPO and Co-founder at Cerbos. He has designed enterprise solutions from the ground up as an engineer, consultant, tech lead and product manager, always with an eye on the...
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Takuya Omura
Managing Director of the Business Development Office
MUFG group
Takuya Omura, is the Managing Director of the Business Development Office, part of the Corporate Planning Division, for the MUFG group in Japan, and holds a BA in Political Science from Gakushuin...
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Rob Otto
EMEA CTO
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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Darrell O’Donnell
CEO
Continuum Loop Inc.
Darrell is a technology company founder, executive, investor, and advisor. He helps large and small organizations to operationally deploy emerging technologies. He is focused on solving problems of...
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Michael D. Palage
Chief Trust Officer
InfoNetworks
I am an intellectual property attorney and an information technology consultant. I have been actively involved in Internet Governance and ICT issues over the last twenty years. During this time, I...
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Steve Pannifer
CEO
Consult Hyperion
Steve is CEO at Consult Hyperion, a leading independent payments and identity consulting firm. He has extensive experience advising payment schemes, banks, governments and vendors around the world...
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Konstantin Papaxanthis
Group CEO & Founder
Scytáles AB
Founder and CEO of Scytáles AB, the frontrunner in secure digital identity solutions, with the vision to build trust in the digital world and generate social and economic benefits to society...
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Patrick Parker
Founder and CEO
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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Raj Patil
SSI Solutions Architect
Hypermine
Raj Patil, an SSI Solutions Architect at Hypermine, is deeply engaged in the realm of digital identity solutions. With a strong foundation in software engineering and a natural inclination for...
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Prof. Dr. Ronald Petrlic
Professor
TH Nürnberg
Dr. Ronald Petrlic is a professor of information security at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology. In his research, he is dealing with cybersecurity and technical data protection. At the moment,...
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Andreas Philipp
Senior Business Development Manager, IoT
Keyfactor
Andreas Philipp is a Senior IoT Business Development Manager at Keyfactor. With a degree in communications engineering, he started his career more than 30 years ago as a developer in the area of...
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John Phillips
Co-Founder
Sezoo
John Phillips is an expert in Digital Trust frameworks (including Self-Sovereign Identity), is a co-founder of Sezoo, and leads the 460degrees Ventures, Emerging Technology and Education...
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Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Senior Incident Response Lead
Semperis
Jorge de Almeida Pinto is a Senior Incident Response Lead working for Semperis helping customers proactively and reactively to be and remain secure. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2006, and has...
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Andreas Plies
CEO and Co-Founder
AUTHADA GmbH
Andreas Plies is CEO and Co-Founder of AUTHADA GmbH since the founding in 2015, a leading eID provider of German identity ecosystem and designer of next generation identification solutions in line...
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Sayantan Polley
Senior Principal
Technology Risk Partners
Mr. Sayantan Polley (MSc.) is an AI researcher and cyber-security innovator. His ongoing Ph.D. at Uni Magdeburg, Germany, lies in the intersection of Explainable AI, ethical use of AI, application...
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Dima Postnikov
Head of Identity Strategy and Architecture
ConnectID
Experienced Identity Architect focusing on anything identity, privacy, trust ecosystems design and identity standards development.
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Suprit Pradhan
Project Manager
National Digital Identity Project of Bhutan, Druk Holding and Investment
Suprit Pradhan has been the Project Manager of the NDI Project of Bhutan under Druk Holdings and Investments (DHI) since 2020. With over 13 years of corporate experience, he has honed expertise in...
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Adam Preis
Director Solution Marketing
Ping Identity
Adam Preis is a Director of Product and Solution Marketing at Ping Identity, operating out of the U.K. with a global remit for financial services and authorisation. Adam brings over 12 years...
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Nick Price
Co-chair
DIF Hospitality & Travel SIG
Nick Price is the founder of Netsys Technology, a software development and technology consulting company focused on digital innovation for the hospitality and travel sectors. Nick, a...
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Andre Priebe
Chief Technology Officer
iC Consult Group GmbH
Andre Priebe serves as the Chief Technology Officer at iC Consult Group, a vendor-independent system integrator specializing in Identity & Access Management, with a global team of over 800...
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Aishwarya Rai
Product Manager
Sofy.AI
I am Aishwarya Rai, a Product Manager with over 5+ years of expertise in AI, Cloud, SaaS & EdTech products. Currently, I drive product strategy at a leading AI-testing SaaS platform in the USA....
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Rupesh Ramachandran
Head of Technology
National Australia Bank
Rupesh has more than twenty years’ of industry experience spanning enterprise application development, consulting, and support. He has extensive experience and an active interest in Information...
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Craig Ramsay
Senior Solution Architect
Omada
Craig is a Senior Solution Architect at Omada with over a decade of experience in the Identity & Access Management (IAM) field. Having started his career as a Computer Science graduate in 2008,...
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Janice Raposo
Grants Development Associate
Grants Office Europe
Janice Raposo works as a Grants Development Associate at Grants Office Europe, where she specializes in securing European and national funding for projects in Portugal. Her main responsibility is...
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Rolf Rauschenbach
Information Officer E-ID
Federal Office of Justice, Switzerland
Rolf Rauschenbach acts as Information Officer of the E-ID-program of the Federal Government of Switzerland. Prior to this engagement, he worked as consultant, project lead and chief sales officer...
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Drummond Reed
Director of Trust Services
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
Head of Advisory
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
Co-Founder
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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Justin Richer
Independent Consultant, Founder
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
Chief Architect
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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Stephanus Rieger
Product Owner
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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Sebastian Rodriguez
VP of Product
Polygon Labs
I am a tech professional with a diverse background spanning various sectors and company types. My journey has taken me from the agile world of startups, where rapid innovation is the norm, to the...
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Claus Nørklit Roed
Director
PwC Denmark
Claus is a member of the cybersecurity unit at PwC Denmark, where he heads the Identity and Access management team working with IAM from strategy through execution. Claus is a senior IT...
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Geraint Rogers
Market SME: Identity, Fraud and Financial Crime
Daon
Geraint is Daon’s Market SME for Identity, Fraud and Financial crime, believing that technology should be a force for good; digitally enabling quality experience underpinned by fast,...
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Sebastian Rohr
CTO
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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Leandro Rometsch
PhD Student
Technical University Darmstadt
Leandro studied Computer Science with a focus on IT Security and is currently pursuing a PhD with the Chair of Implementation Security at Darmstadt Technical University. His primary research...
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Paolo De Rosa
Policy Officer
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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Dr. Andrea Rossi
IAMONES.ai
Founder
Andrea Rossi is a recognized subject matter expert in the Identity & Cybersecurity industries. In 2024 Mr. Rossi co-founded Iamones.ai, aiming to radically simplify and innovate Identity &...
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Dr. Kevin Roundy
Security and AI Researcher
Andromeda Security
Kevin Alejandro Roundy received a Ph.D. from Wisconsin in 2012, upon which he joined Symantec/Norton Research. In 2023 he left to join Andromeda Security. His career has focused on applying Machine...
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Woody Rousseau
CTO & Cofounder
Sipios
Woody is the CTO and cofounder of Sipios, the FinTech focused branch of the Theodo group. He leads tech and product experts designing and implementing innovative applications and architectures in...
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Dr. Lukas Ruf
Group Chief Inf. Security & Risk Officer
Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund
Dr. Lukas Ruf is the Group Chief Security & Risk Officer of Migros, globally. Prior to joining Migros, he worked as a security and strategy consultant at Consecom AG, specializing in...
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Adam Rusbridge
Senior Product Manager
Ping Identity
Adam Rusbridge is Senior Product Manager for Ping’s Authorisation products, with 20 years of experience leading the development and growth of products that govern secure access to resources....
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Loren Russon
SVP Product & Technology Alliances
Ping Identity
SVP of Product & Technology Alliance - Loren has managed product development and marketing activities for security and identity management product lines for 20+ years. Throughout his...
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André Röder
CEO
KAPRION Technologies
André is co-founder and CEO at KAPRION Technologies. His focus is on business process automation in connection with secure digital identities, hardware-based security, decentralized IT...
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Markus Sabadello
CEO
Danube Tech
Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He is co-editor of...
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Gal Sadeh
Principal AI researcher
Silverfort
Gal is the principal AI researcher of Silverfort. He is responsible for big data analytics and developing AI engines. He joined Silverfort after working as a data scientist at CyberBit. Prior to...
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Nat Sakimura
Chairman
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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Vanessa Sanchez
Development consultant
Grants Office Europe
Vanessa Del Pozo Sánchez is one of the lead grants development consultants at Grants Office Europe. Driven by reason, analysis, and the disposition to help others, she takes pride in coming...
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Martin Sandren
IAM Product Lead
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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Klaeri Schelhowe
Managing Director
Scheddebrock Ltd.
With over two decades in executive roles with international corporates, Klaeri specialises in product identification and traceability, with a particular emphasis on the complexities of...
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Lilly Schmidt
Program Lead
Digitial Society Institute at ESMT Berlin
Lilly Schmidt is a Research Associate and Program Lead for the Digitial Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT, Berlin. Her main research focuses on technology politics and law with a focus on digital...
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Christoph Schneider
Head of IT Development and Operations
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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Dr. Emrys Schoemaker
Research Director
Caribou Digital
Emrys is a researcher and advisor in digital transformation and it’s implications in emerging economies. As Research Director at Caribou Digital and with affiliations at Graduate Institute...
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Max Schrems
Head of noyb.eu
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
Director in the Cybersecurity & Privacy
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
Field CTO International
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
Principal Business Consultant
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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Carlo Schüpp
VP Technology Strategy & Alliances
TrustBuilder
Carlo Schüpp 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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Dr. Giada Sciarretta
Researcher
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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Eric Scouten
Identity Standards Architect
Content Authenticity Initiative / Adobe
Eric joined the Content Authenticity Initiative at its inception in 2020 and now leads the Creator Assertions Working Group. The CAWG is defining a technical standard allowing digital credential...
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Rachelle Sellung
Senior Research Scientist
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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Didier Serra
Head of Digital Trust Services
Gen Digital
Didier Serra leads Gen Digital’s consumer-centric data exchange and digital trust services, encompassing the development of go-to-market and product strategies, implementation of commercial and...
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John Erik Setsaas
Director of Innovation
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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Daniel Du Seuil
Convenor
ESSIF
Daniel Du Seuil is the convenor of the European Self Sovereign Identity Framework (ESSIF) within the European Blockchain Partnership. This partnership of 30 EU Member States and...
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Ashish Shah
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Andromeda Security
Ashish is a product and GTM executive with 20+ years of experience across startups and large enterprises. Currently, he is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Andromeda Security....
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Yash Shah
CTO
Credence ID
Mr. Shah has over 20 years of technology executive experience in biometrics, large national ID programs and Digital ID technology. He has led product development from concept through design...
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Vlad Shapiro
Founder and CEO
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
Researcher
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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Erik Siebler
Digital Identity Capability Lead
DXC
Erik Siebler has joined DXC in 2010. Since 2013 he is working in the IT security domain. During the last decade he worked on several project in different roles, e.g. architect, implementer, project...
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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders
Consultant, Strategic Digital Identity
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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Mithun Singh
Product Adoption Manager IAM
Thales
Mithun Singh brings almost a decade of experience in Identity and Access Management including Fraud, Risk & Open Banking and is currently the Product...
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Mike Small
Senior Analyst
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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Jamie Smith
CEO and Founder
Customer Future Ltd.
Jamie is the CEO and Founder at Customer Futures Ltd. He has been working at the forefront of digital identity and customer-controlled personal data for nearly 15 years. He’s helped deliver digital...
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Wolfgang Sowarsch
Principal Sales Engineer
Commvault Systems GmbH
Wolfgang Sowarsch is a Principal Sales Engineer at Commvault. He works with customers of various shapes and sizes to build efficient and secure Data Management environments. As an IT veteran with...
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Arndt Spitzer
CEO and Identity Access Management Architect
ASCONSIT GmbH
After studying computer science and business administration, Arndt Spitzer was one of SAP’s first consultants for SAP Identity Management. He started his career in the Public-Key-Infrastructure...
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Bas Steen
Senior Manager
PwC
Bas Steen is Senior Manager Digital Identity at PwC Nederland. He is an Architect and Engineer with a passion for Identity and Access Management and DevOps related technologies. He leads the DevOps...
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Annet Steenbergen
Digital Identity and Seamless Travel
Independent Advisor
Since co-founding/initiating the Aruba Happy Flow project in 2013 after many years working in international border management, digital Identity and innovation for the travel eco-system has been at...
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Dr. Angelika Steinacker
CTO Identity & Access Management
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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Tim Stock
Cloud Solution Architect Security
Microsoft
As a Cloud Solution Architect within the Security, Compliance and Identity Area, Tim is leading the security footprint in Germany for the financial sector and design the next generation of Security...
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Hannes Stockner
Head of Data Integration
HTI Services
Hannes has worked as a Software Developer for various companies in Vienna, Hamburg, Zurich and London. His focus in the last years has been on developing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and...
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Michiel Stoop
Director Identity & Access Management
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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Maarten Stultjens
VP Global Enablement IAM
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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Jennifer Stähler
Head of Events
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Jennifer joined KuppingerCole in 2015. As Head of Events, she is responsible for the Events team that organizes live-, hybrid- and virtual Conferences worldwide, focusing on IT Security and...
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Dr. Carsten Stöcker
Co-founder and CEO
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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Dr. Muhammad Ihsan Haikal Sukmana
Chief Product Officer
Mitigant
Dr Muhammad Ihsan Haikal Sukmana is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mitigant, a cybersecurity startup focused on cloud security and cyber resilience. He received his doctorate at Hasso...
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Daniella Taveau
President
Bold Text Strategies
Daniella Taveau is a recognized expert in business strategy, trade, and regulation and President of Bold Text Strategies. Previously, she represented the United States at the World Trade...
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Dr. Lavanya Sita Tekumalla
ML Researcher
Andromeda Security
Lavanya Sita Tekumalla received a masters from the University of Utah in 2005 and Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the Indian Institute of Science in 2016. In her career spanning over 15 years, she...
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Nick Thorne
Retired UK Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
OIDF
A career diplomat, Nick Thorne served as UK Ambassador to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation and the other International Organisations in Geneva from 2003 until 2008, when he retired from...
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Andrew Tobin
Commercial Director, Europe, Digital Trust Services
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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Sandra Tobler
Chairwoman
Futurae Technolgies
Sandra is an entrepreneur who worked in the IT space for over 17 years. She worked for IBM in various international roles, then for different Swiss public entities to support companies with...
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John Tolbert
Lead Analyst
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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Samuel López Trenado
User Lifecycle Supervisor
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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Dr. Mihaela Ulieru
Founder and President
IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy
Founder and President IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy. Working with governments, international institutions, civil society and private sector partners to mitigate global challenges by...
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Dr. Pramod Varma
CTO
EkStep Foundation
Dr. Pramod Varma is the former Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India’s digital identity program that has successfully covered nearly 1.4 billion people. He was also the chief architect for various...
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Ulrike van Venrooy
Director
EY
Ulrike van Venrooy is an Associate Partner in EY’s cybersecurity practice. For more than 15 years she has been supporting her customers in transforming their identity and access management. She led...
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Marco Venuti
IAM Business Acceleration Director
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 Vereeken
Chief Product Officer
Meeco
Jan is the Chief Product Officer at Meeco where he is heading the development of Meeco’s Secure Value Exchange (SVX) platform; which enables enterprise partners to deploy and operate trusted...
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Hans-Robert Vermeulen
Identity Strategist
SailPoint
Hans-Robert is an Identity Strategist and evangelist for SailPoint. He has been with SailPoint for over twelve years and spends a lot of his time talking to prospects and customers on how an...
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Gregory Vigroux
Senior Product Line Manager
Thales
Gregory has more than 15 years international expertise in the IT & Identity sector and is currently product manager for FIDO & PKI authentication solutions in Thales’s Cloud...
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Tim Vogt
Distinguished Sales Engineer
Ping Identity
Tim Vogt is a Distinguished Sales Engineer at Ping Identity, specializing in consumer IoT, connected vehicles, and other critical digital identity and security scenarios for Europe’s largest...
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Thomas van Vooren
Director
PwC
Thomas is a Director in PwC’s Digital Identity Team in The Netherlands and part of the team’s leadership. He is a subject matter expert on Workforce Identity with over 20 years of experience in the...
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Kai Wagner
Head of Products & Partners
Procivis AG
Kai Wagner is Head of Products & Partners at Procivis in Zürich Switzerland. He has been actively involved in the international Decentralized Identity and Self-Sovereign Identity ecosystem...
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Meir Wahnon
Co-Founder
Descope
Meir is a co-founder at Descope, a drag-and-drop customer authentication and identity management platform. Before Descope, Meir served as Sr. Director of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks after the...
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Bela Waidelich
IAM Architect
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Bela is working in Global Cyber Security focusing on authentication within Mercedes-Benz AG. He is responsible for the architecture of Mercedes-Benz AG identity provider. Before he was...
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Fraser Wallace
Director of Marketing
IndyKite
Fraser has been involved in marketing in the IAM space for almost a decade, in communications, events, and brand, currently running the field marketing program at IndyKite. His focus is always on...
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Marie Wallace
Managing Director, Digital Identity Lead
Accenture
Marie has spent more than two decades applying AI to a variety of use cases with specific focus on computer-human interaction, starting with her early work on natural language processing to smart...
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Jianchao Wang
Director and Co-Founder
AltoSice
Jianchao Wang stands at the forefront of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, guiding AltoSice Cloud Solution from its early days as a promising startup to its current path towards becoming...
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Gillan Ward
Director
ID Crowd
Gillan is an expert in identity and trusted data who provides thought leadership, advisory services, and expert support to clients. He helps organisations to meet their objectives by ensuring they...
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Daniel Wasser, LL.M.
Attorney at Law / PhD Researcher
Rödl & Partner
Daniel Wasser, LL.M. is an Attorney at Law advising national as well as international corporations in every aspect of Employment Laws as well as (Employee) Data Protection Laws in Rödl &...
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Pieter Waterschoot
SME for IAM
Philips
Since 2021 Pieter is the SME for IAM within Philips in Group Security – Information Security. He specializes in IGA and in his position he is responsible for contributing to the Philips IAM...
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Marcel Wendt
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Digidentity B.V.
Marcel Wendt, CTO and Founder of Digidentity, is a serial entrepreneur known for his forward-thinking approach. Over the last decades, Marcel has gained recognition for his innovative thinking and...
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Sadrick Widmann
CEO
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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Dr. Phil Windley
Senior Software Development Manager
Amazon Web Services
Phil Windley is a Senior Software Development Manager at AWS Identity. He is also the co-founder and organizer of the Internet Identity Workshop. He was previously an Enterprise Architect and...
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Rainer Witzgall
CRO, Security Evangelist
Veridium
Rainer Witzgall brings over 15 years of expertise in Cybersecurity and Identity and Access Management to his role as the global Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Veridium. He leads the customer-facing...
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Eric Woodruff
Sr. Cloud Security Architect
Semperis
Throughout his 23-year career in the IT field, Eric has sought out and held a diverse range of roles, including technical manager in the public sector, Sr. Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, and...
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John Wunderlich
Chief Privacy Officer
JLINC Labs
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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Torsten Wunderlich
Principal Engineer
Zalando SE
Torsten is a principal engineer at Zalando focussing on fine-grained authorization and developer experience. With more than 15 years of experience as a software engineer and more than 8 years...
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Lucy Yang
Managing Partner
Identity Woman in Business
Lucy is the Managing Partner of Identity Woman in Business, a boutique consultancy in decentralized identity that serves a global clientele. She also independently consults with the United Nations...
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Kristina Yasuda
Identity System Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation
Kristina is an Identity System Architect at SPRIND - German Federal Agency of Disruptive Innovation. Previously she worked as an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft, known for her work...
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Hakan Yildiz
Decentralized Digital Identity Architect
Accenture
I am a Digital Identity Architect specializing in Decentralized Digital Identities (DDI), also known as Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI). I assist organizations across various sectors to integrate...
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Kaliya Young
Founding Partner
Identity Woman in Business
Kaliya Young, known as Identity Woman, is a world leading expert and active community builder in user-centric and decentralized identity. Kaliya co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop in 2005,...
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Yaron Zehavi
Senior Enterprise Architect
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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Frances Zelazny
Co-Founder & CEO
Anonybit
Frances is a seasoned marketing strategist and business development professional with over 25 years of experience with start-up and scale-up companies, primarily focused on biometrics and digital...
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Kai Zenner
Head of Office for MEP Axel Voss
European Parliament
Digital enthusiast focusing on AI, data and the EU’s digital transition. Soft spot for interinstitutional reforms and the ’Better Regulation Agenda’. Cooperative and pragmatic approach, always...
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Hammad Ul Haq Abbasi
Software Architect
EmpowerID
Hammad Ul-Haq Abbasi is an accomplished Software Architect at EmpowerID, with a deep-rooted background in the tech industry for over 14 years. His career highlights include significant...
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Michael Adams
Founder
Quali-Sign
Michael Adams is the founder of Quali-Sign Ltd, which has built a mobile wallet prototype for Qualified Electronic Signatures, e-ID, SCA and CBDC. Michael is a member of the Bank of England CBDC...
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Ali Adnan
Co-founder
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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Sray Agarwal
Senior Director
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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Rohit Agnihotri
Sr. Director IAM
Northwestern Mutual
With over 15 years of deep-seated expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), Rohit has cultivated a reputation as an authority in both product development, consulting, thought leadership...
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Dr. Ignacio Alamillo-Domingo
Advisor
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. Maryleen Amaizu
AI Scientist & Educator
Alan Turing Institute, BPP University
Dr. Maryleen is an AI Scientist & Educator, passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the ever-evolving world of data and AI. Her expertise has been globally...
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Joe Andrieu
Founder and President
Legendary Requirements
Joe Andrieu is founder and president of Legendary Requirements, where he helps companies deeply understand the human requirements for identity systems, with a focus on decentralized approaches that...
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Austin Arensberg
Head of Okta Ventures
Okta Ventures
Venture investor with focus on early stage startups based in San Francisco. I lead Okta Ventures overseeing the fund to invest in startups enabled by privacy, identity, and security. Investments...
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Warwick Ashford
Senior Analyst
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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Dr. Jean-Daniel Aussel
Head of Standardization
Thales DIS
Jean-Daniel Aussel is Head of Standardization at Thales Digital Identity and Security, where he is driving the standardization strategy for different market segments since 2015. Recently,...
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Marie Austenaa
Head of Digital Identity
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
CTO
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
Digital Identity Innovations Technical Lead
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
Technical Regional Manager
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
Tribe Lead Digital Identities
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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David Baier
Solution Architect
Ping Identity
Since 2022 David Baier is part of the EMEA solution architects team. David uses his over 10 years experience in IT sector and Digital Transformation to help prospects find their fitting solution...
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Anne Bailey
Analyst
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
IAM Lead
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
Lead Analyst & CTO
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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Dirk Balfanz
Software Engineer
Google
Dirk Balfanz is a software engineer in Google’s Security Team, focusing on user authentication. He is currently working on strengthening authentication on the Web...
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Dr. Abbie Barbir
Co-founder and Board member
ADIA and FIDO Alliance
Abbie Barbir serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of identity management, mobile devices and authentication. Abbie has extensive experience in identity and access management. Abbie is...
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Paul Bastian
Senior Innovation Developer
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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Wadiha El Batti
Product Management Director
WALLIX
As Head of Product Management at WALLIX, Wadiha El Batti is responsible for the overall WALLIX portfolio which covers Access Management, Privileged Account and Session Management and Identity...
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Matthias Bauer
Sr. Manager, Software Development
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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Ivo van Bennekom
EMEA Impact Center Leader Digital Identity
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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Manuel Benz
Chief Technical Officer
CodeShield
As the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of CodeShield, Manuel Benz spearheads efforts to strengthen IAM privilege escalation detection in cloud infrastructures. In his academic journey at...
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Dominik Beron
founder/CEO
walt.id
Dominik Beron is the founder/CEO of walt.id, an open source company that is building decentralized identity solutions for businesses and governments. Over the last years, he also served as an...
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Matthew Berzinski
Senior Product Management Director
Ping Identity
As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the PingIdentity product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and...
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Anil Bhandari
Chief Mentor & Thought Leader
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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Francois Blanc
Managing Director
Amadeus's Travel ID
Prior to his current role, Francois built new digital businesses in the Telecom and Banking sector, for both large companies, like Santander and Orange, and as an entrepreneur. In...
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John Bradley
Distinguished Architect
Yubico
Mr. 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...
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Dr. Rob Brand
Senior Policy Officer, Directorate Digital Economy
Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Rob Brand is a Senior Policy Officer in the Directorate for Digital Economy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. In line with his active involvement in realising the eIDAS...
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Robin Brandenbusch
Director
Stephens
Robin Brandenbusch is a Director in Investment Banking at Stephens with a focus on software/technology. Prior to joining Stephens, Robin was in the M&A, Corporate and Leveraged Finance team at...
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Charlotte von der Brelie
Grants Development Consultant
Grants Office Europe
Charlotte von der Brelie is a Grants Development Consultant at Grants Office Europe, specialised in National and European funds in Germany. Charlotte has a strong international relations and...
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Joni Brennan
President
Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada
Joni Brennan is the President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). Building upon 15 years of hands on experience in Identity Access Management innovations and industry...
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Dr. Pablo Breuer
President
DISARM Foundation & Representative of OASIS DAD-CDM
Dr. Pablo Breuer is an Executive at a publicly traded Fortune 50 company. A 22-year veteran of the Navy, Pablo’s tours included top-level positions at U.S. Special Operations Command Donovan...
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Markus Broman
IAM Process Manager
Swedbank
Markus is on a mission to make identity matter to achieve business outcomes. Focussing on People, Process & Technology factors is fundamental to achieve strategic business objectives. He has...
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David Brossard
Chief Technology Officer
Axiomatics AB
In his role as CTO, David drives the technology vision and strategy for Axiomatics based on both identity and access management (IAM) market trends as well as customer feedback. He also leads the...
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Matthias Buchhorn-Roth
Product Lead
Cofinity-X
My team and I operate the data space for the Catena-X global automotive supply chain network, addressing pressing challenges such as carbon emissions, sustainable resource management, comprehensive...
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Daniel Buchner
Head of Decentralized Identity
Block
Daniel leads Decentralized Identity at Block. Prior to Block, he founded the Decentralized Identity program at Microsoft after spending his early career at Mozilla leading its Developer...
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Juliana Cafik
Identity Standards Architect
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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Frank Cardello
Executive Advisor, Decentralized Identity
Ping Identity
Frank is an executive with extensive experience in security, identity management, AI/ML, messaging and media/entertainment industries. In his current role as an Executive Advisor at Ping Identity,...
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Joseph Carson
Chief Security Scientist & Advisory CISO
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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Wayne Chang
CEO
SpruceID
Wayne Chang is the CEO of SpruceID, a technology company with the mission to let users control their identity and data across all their digital interactions. SpruceID provides open-source...
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Larry Chinski
Vice President of Global IAM Strategy
One Identity
Larry Chinski is Global Vice President of Global IAM Strategy at One Identity. He is responsible for the overall field execution (both inbound and outbound) for One Identity as it relates to...
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Kay Chopard
Executive Director
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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Wenjing Chu
Senior Director of Technology Strategy
Futurewei Technologies
Wenjing leads Futurewei’s technology strategy and collaborates with various open source communities and organizations to advance digital trust in the age of Artificial Intelligence. He is an...
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Debora Comparin
Standardization Expert
Member, Secure Identity Alliance (SIA)
Debora Comparin is Standardization Expert at Thales Digital Identity & Security, founder and chair of the OSIA Initiative, co-founder of SIDI Hub and Advisory Board member of the Linux...
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Adam Cooper
Director
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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Richard. J. Cordes
Researcher
Cognitive Security and Education Forum | BlockScience
R.J. Cordes is a researcher and social systems engineer focused on sensemaking, knowledge and information management, and team facilitation. He regularly contributes to and helps facilitate...
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Wim Coulier
eIDAS expert
Belgian Mobile ID
Wim is involved for more than 20 years in trust services and electronic signature projects. Wim started in this area at a Certificate Authority creating at measure solutions for customers up to the...
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Stephen Curran
Board of Trustees Chair
Sovrin Foundation
Stephen Curran is the Sovrin Foundation’s Board of Trustees Chair, and has worked with, and volunteered at, the non-profit Foundation for the almost 7 years that the Sovrin MainNet global...
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Sam Curren
Deputy CTO
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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Fadi Daood
Manager
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.
Executive Director - Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative
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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Julie Dawson
Director of Regulatory & Policy
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. Dominik Deimel
Founder and CEO
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
Research Analyst
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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Misha Deville
Co-Founder
Mailchain
Misha is a co-founder of Mailchain, enabling secure communication between decentralised identifiers. She works with companies that are driving innovation in web3 and in traditional organisations to...
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Shashank Dhariwal
Technical Architect
Continental AG
Shashank Dhariwal is an AI Specialist with 9+ years of experience. After specializing in biometrics at the University of Southampton, he worked extensively in the biometrics domain with various...
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Sanjay Dharwadker
Digital Identity Expert
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Sanjay Dharwadker is the Senior Digital Identity Officer in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) based in Copenhagen. He also works on global identity standards...
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Joost van Dijk
Developer Advocate
Yubico
Joost van Dijk is a developer advocate at Yubico. As the inventor of the YubiKey, Yubico makes secure login easy and available for everyone. Joost focuses on securing digital identities and...
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Pamela Dingle
Director of Identity Standards
Microsoft
Pamela Dingle has 20 years of experience in implementation and architecture of identity standards for web access management, provisioning, and federation. As Director of Identity Standards at...
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Adrian Doerk
Co-Founder
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
CEO & Founder
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
Co-founder & CTO
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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Wiebke Drebenstedt
Partner
Cybrex GmbH
For over 14 years, I’ve been dedicated to Identity and Access Management. After earning my Master’s in strategic management I entered the regulated IT Management arena in the financial sector....
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Sebastian Drees
Head of EMEA
IndyKite
A seasoned communicator, evangelist and pioneer in the industry, Sebastian is currently responsible for running Sales in the EMEA region at IndyKite, after a long and successful stint at...
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Kim Hamilton Duffy
Executive Director
Decentralized Identity Foundation
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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Lynn Parker Dupree
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Lynn Parker Dupree, leader of the firm’s privacy practice, focuses on privacy compliance, governance, and counseling for clients navigating the dynamic legal and regulatory privacy landscape....
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Fabian Eberle
COO & Co-Founder
Keyless Technologies
Fabian Eberle is Co-Founder and COO at Keyless Technologies, the leader in privacy-preserving biometric authentication. Fabian founded Keyless alongside world renowned security and privacy experts,...
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Chris Eckl
Chief Trust Officer
Condatis
Chris Eckl is Condatis’s Chief Trust Officer and Sitekit’s CTO, dedicated to driving innovation in the Identity sector. Chris was initial architect for Sitekit’s product suite (eRedbook, Self...
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Fraser Edwards
CEO & co-founder
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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Christina Eggert
Security Consultant
IBM
Christina Eggert is a Security Consultant with focus on Identity and Access Management. In her role, she has been keen on investigating, improving, and enhancing the identity and access management...
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Sebastian Elfors
Senior Architect
IDnow
In his current role as a Senior Architect at IDnow, Sebastian is a member of CEN TC/224, ETSI ESI, FIDO Alliance, IATA OneID, Linux Foundation, OpenWallet Foundation and W3C, where he has...
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Ravi Erukulla
VP of Analyst Relations and Customer Advocacy
Saviynt
Ravi Erukulla is a long-time identity and security enthusiast and is particularly passionate about simplifying the way identity and security products are built and adopted. Ravi brings two decades...
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John Ferris
Regional Ecosystem Manager
Ulster Bank
John’s professional journey began with a foray into coding for a healthcare tech company in Pittsburgh, setting the stage for a dynamic career marked by versatility and innovation. Transitioning...
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Dr. Daniel Fett
Security and Standardization Expert
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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Arno Fiedler
Owner & Managing Director
Nimbus
Arno Fiedler is founder and managing director of Nimbus Technologieberatung GmbH. His leadership defines the vision and integrity which are synonymous with the Nimbus name, and every completed...
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Paul Fisher
Lead Analyst
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
Principal
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
Executive Director
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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George Fletcher
Identity Standards Architect
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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Manu Fontaine
Founder and CEO
Hushmesh
Manu Fontaine is the Founder and CEO of Hushmesh, the public benefit corporation developing and operating the Mesh. You can think of the Mesh as a global information space, like the Web, but with...
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Dominic Forrest
CTO
iProov
Dominic is responsible for the design and development of iProov’s cloud-based infrastructure. Prior to taking up his role with iProov in 2013, Dominic was the Senior Vice President of...
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Allan Foster
Chief Evangelist
Identity Evangelist
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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Andreas Freitag
Co-CEO
Procivis AG
Andreas worked for over 20 years in the Consulting and IT Projectmanagement space. 5 years ago he discovered decentralized identities and made it to his major focus. Last year he was appointed as...
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Daniel Friedman
Co-Founder and President
Active Inference Institute
I am a co-founder and current President of the Active Inference Institute, an educational non-profit dedicated to learning and applying Active Inference.With COGSEC I am working...
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Joran Frik
Senior Manager
Deloitte
Joran is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Digital Identity team with over 9 years of experience. He specializes in digital identity from a strategic perspective, with a passion for citizen and...
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Naohiro Fujie
General Manager
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
IAM Global Product Manager
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
Director of Marketing
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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Matthew Gardiner
Product Manager
Proofpoint
Matthew Gardiner has more than 20 years’ experience as a technical product & marketing executive with enterprise focused IT security products, starting with Netegrity and now working on...
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Yasin Garip
Advisor
KuppingerCole
Yasin, holding a Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics from the University of Mannheim, began exploring Identity and Access Management (IAM) while working as a student at a leading payment...
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Franklin Garrigues
Vice President, External Ecosystems
TD Bank Group
I lead the External Ecosystems team at TD and we are responsible for future-proofing the bank. The External Ecosystems team: Elevates TD’s partnerships and strategic relationships across the...
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James Garza
CEO
Trillium Capital Ltd.
James Garza has over two decades of experience providing exceptional financial services, during which he has gained extensive industry knowledge in a variety of capacities. James believes that...
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Dr. Paolo Gasti
Associate Professor & CTO
New York Institute of Technology, Keyless
Dr. Paolo Gasti is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the New York Institute of Technology and the Co-Founder and CTO at Keyless. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Gasti’s...
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Marc Geer
Senior Global Operations Director
Fragomen
Marc is Senior Global Operations Director for Fragomen with over 20 years’ experience in the immigration sector. A mechanical engineer by profession, Marc works directly with the firm’s...
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Darrell Geusz
Product Lead, Neo
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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Ian Glazer
Founder
Weave Identity
Ian Glazer is an accomplished IT Thought Leader and Product Management Executive with extensive experience in identity management, privacy, compliance, and access governance. He is a strategic...
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Craig Glogower
Director IGA Solutions
Aquera
Craig Glogower has over 20 years of experience leading Identity Programs in large global and national corporate environments. His passion is focused on solving complex identity challenges and...
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Damian Glover
Senior Director of Communications
Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
Damian is Senior Director of Communications at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and also co-chairs DIF’s Internet of Things (IoT) Special Interest Group. Damian has a background in...
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Michael Goldrich
Founder & Chief Advisor | Author
Vivander Advisors
As the founder and chief advisor of Vivander Advisors, Michael J. Goldrich excels in crafting digital and AI strategies that drive transformative growth and enhance overall business value. As the...
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Daniel Goldscheider
Founder and ED
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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Boris Goranov
CEO
Ubiqu
Boris Goranov is involved in security since 1999, as a white hack hacker , hacking smart cards at The TNO Institute. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Delft...
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Matt Graves
Identity and Privacy Evangelist
OpenText Cybersecurity
With over three decades of experience in information security, Matt stands as an experienced cybersecurity leader with a diverse background across industries such as financial services, retail...
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Philipp von Grawert
Managing Director
Stephens
Philipp von Grawert is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Stephens with a focus on software/technology. Prior to joining Stephens, Philipp was a member of the corporate finance team at...
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Lana Grechko
Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager
Okta
Lana Grechko is a Senior Principal Program Manager and Portfolio Lead at Okta. In this capacity, she’s focusing on ensuring Okta products and systems meet Federal Security Standards such as...
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Josh Green
Technical Strategist
Cisco
Josh has been working in the identity and authentication security space for nearly 15 years; 8 of them with Cisco. He’s passionate about finding new solutions that improve security and user...
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Olaf Grewe
Product Lead Digital Identity & Access
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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Tomas Gustavsson
Chief PKI Officer
Keyfactor
At Keyfactor, Tomas Gustavsson is the chief public key infrastructure (PKI) officer. Tomas joined Keyfactor following the company’s acquisition of PrimeKey. At PrimeKey, he was the Chief...
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Stephen Haartman
Project Lead
Gen
Stef Haartman is managing Gen’s participation in the EWC eIDAS Large Scale pilot project. Gen is a Cybersecurity multinational striving for digital freedom around the world, actively...
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Mark Haine
Director
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
Ph.D. Student
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
CTO
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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Manuel Heinkel
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Manuel is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with software companies in Germany to build innovative and secure applications in the cloud. With his expertise in security and...
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Gal Helemski
Co-Founder & CPO
PlainID
Gal Helemski is co-founder and CTO/CPO at PlainID and a highly recognized and acclaimed cyber security expert. She plays a key role at PlainID as a strategic leader, visionary and evangelist while...
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Reed Henry
CEO and Co-Founder
Aquera
Reed has a history of defining new innovative products and taking them to market with his background in product management, marketing, sales, professional services, business development, and...
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Dr. Ulrich Herberg
Distinguished Architect in Identity
eBay
Dr. Ulrich Herberg is a Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of Identity at eBay, leading the company on all topics related to Identity, such as two-factor authentication, IAM, user...
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Dr. Moritz Heuberger
Advisor
German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
In the Department for Digital Identities and Authentication at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, Dr. Moritz Heuberger is responsible for the European dimension of digital...
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Gail Hodges
Executive Director
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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Yvonne Hofstetter
CEO and Managing Director
21strategies
Yvonne Hofstetter, 1966, lawyer and essayist, started her IT career in 1999 for a US software provider and with Distributed Artificial Intelligence. In 2020, she co-founded 21strategies and has...
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Oliver Holle
Co-Founder
Speedinvest
With more than 15 years of entrepreneurial experience in the mobile and internet industries and 12 years as co-founder of Speedinvest, Oliver Holle is a leading expert in Europe’s technology...
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John Horn
Director, Cybersecurity Practice
Datos Insights
John Horn leads the Cybersecurity practice at Datos Insights, which provides valuable cybersecurity and identity research, insights, and advisory services to financial services firms. In...
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Dr. Alen Horvat
CTO
Netis
Digital identity architect designing and building verifiable credentials exchange frameworks. Designed trust models for Verifiable Credentials issuer, and verifiers and introduced...
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Azita Hosseini-Nejad
Product Owner
esatus AG
Azita holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science with a focus on IT Management and has gained over 10 years of experience in the IT sector. At esatus she has successfully contributed to...
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Andrew Hughes
VP of Global Standards
FaceTec
Andrew Hughes has been consulting and working on standardization of digital credentials, face biometric verification, mobile driving licenses, identity and access management, and information...
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Riley Hughes
CEO
Trinsic
Riley is a leader in the self-sovereign identity (SSI) community. As the second employee hired at the Sovrin Foundation, Riley established and led several teams. He started Trinsic to...
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Stephen Hutchinson
Director of Security Architecture
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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Rainer Hörbe
Senior Manager
KPMG
Rainer has been involved in Identity and Access Management (IAM) since 2000, working in various roles such as architect, policy writer, software developer, and security consultant. He has...
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Marina Iantorno
Research Analyst
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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Vincenzo Iozzo
CEO
SlashID
CEO and Co-founder of SlashID. Previously, Founder & CEO of IperLane (acquired by Crowdstrike). Vincenzo is a Committee Member of the Black Hat Conference Board and was an Associate Researcher...
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Puria Izady
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Puria is a Solutions Architect at AWS, helping software companies in Germany build innovative SaaS solutions. With a background in machine learning and generative AI, he brings technical expertise...
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Ben Jackson
CRO
OwnID
After honing his skills in various sales roles, Ben’s career reached a pivotal point when he joined Gigya, a pioneering company in the field of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM). As...
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Ashish Jain
Chief Product Officer
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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Igor Janicijevic
Principal Engineer, Digital Access
National Australia Bank
Igor Janicijevic is Principal Engineer at National Australia Bank (NAB), where he focuses on digital identity and access management. Prior to NAB he spent 15 years at SecureNet / Betrusted /...
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Adeel Javaid
Identity Management Engineer
EmpowerID
With 15 years of dedicated experience in the cybersecurity realm, I have cultivated a deep expertise in security engineering, compliance, and DevSecOps. My career journey has been marked by a...
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Linda Jeng
Founder & CEO
Digital Self Labs
Linda Jeng is the Founder & CEO of Digital Self Labs, a regulatory, policy & tech advisory firm. She is also a Visiting Scholar on Financial Technology and Adjunct Professor of Law at...
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Anil John
Technical Director
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Anil John is a Public Interest Technologist specializing in information security, privacy, competition and innovation. He helps organizations and leaders gain clarity and understanding on complex...
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David Johnson
Lead Consultant
iC Consult
David Johnson is a seasoned Identity and Access Management (IAM) professional with over 15 years of experience in the field. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and has been...
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Dr. Michael B. Jones
Building the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer
Self-Issued Consulting
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) and...
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Loffie Jordaan
Business Solutions Architect
AAMVA - American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Loffie Jordaan is a Business Solutions Architect at AAMVA. He currently focuses on digital identity management, including mobile driver’s licenses and the ecosystem required to make them...
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Xavier Juredieu
COO
Archipels
Xavier Juredieu is the COO at Archipels, a web 3 company offering decentralized identity services for businesses and public institutions. Over the past year, he is acting as a member of the EWC...
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Pushpalanka Mankotte Kankanamalage
Senior Software Engineer IAM
Zalando
Pushpalanka is a software engineer with over a decade of experience in identity and access management. At WSO2, she worked on the Identity Server product and contributed to various customer...
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Hosho Karasawa
Director
NTT Digital
Expert in new business development, with extensive experience in launching businesses that leverage emerging technologies such as Web3, AI, and new reality. Strong background in global business...
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Pieter Kasselman
Identity Standards Architect
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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Nishant Kaushik
CTO
Uniken
Nishant Kaushik is the CTO of Uniken, the first security platform that tightly integrates identity, authentication and channel security. He brings over 15 years of experience in the identity...
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Jason Keenaghan
Director of Product Management
Thales
Jason Keenaghan is the Director of Product Management for Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision and delivering on the strategy of a unified...
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Tuukka Kekarainen
Identity and Access Management Architect, CISSP
Wärtsilä
Tuukka’s IT career started 25 years ago as a web application developer where he got to work with LDAPs and implemented self-registration, authentication, and access management solutions for a...
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Mike Kiser
Director, Strategy and Standards
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
Chief Marketing and Sales Officer
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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Dr. Valentin Knobloch
Founding Partner & Legal Counsel
Souschef Ventures
Valentin is a founding partner of Souschef Ventures, Europe’s first venture capital fund aiming to foster technology adoption, digitalisation and innovation within the restaurant sector. He is...
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Alexander Koch
VP Sales EMEA
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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Hed Kovetz
CEO & Co-Founder
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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Antoni Kozelski
CEO & Co-founder
Vstorm.co
Startup-minded serial tech entrepreneur, CEO & Co-founder at Vstorm - custom LLM-enabled software development company. Working globally, with a focus on Western Europe and the USA. Since 2017...
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Arkadiusz Krowczynski
Senior Solution Engineer
Okta
Arkadiusz Krowczynski is a Senior Solution Engineer at Okta with more than 20 years IT experience.With an always positive mindset Arkadiusz is driven by sharing knowledge and building trust and...
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Kevin Kruse
IGA Lead
Banking Circle
Veteran professional in the Identity Verse both from tecnical and conceptual perspective. Passionate about customer POV to the topic of owning, evolving and living with an IGA platform.
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Dr. Andre Kudra
CIO
esatus AG
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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Janne Kuparinen
Manager
SOK
Currently working as Tech Lead at S Group’s IAM Program. Helping S Group with IAM, PAM, security and cloud related projects. Before I joined SOK again, I was leading Nordcloud’s Digital...
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Martin Kuppinger
Principal Analyst
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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Jānis Lacis
Authentication Group Manager
If P&C Insurance
More than a decade ago started as a passionate developer discovering everything there is to explore. Throughout the years took many challenges to work for accounting, finance, learning, insurance,...
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Vedran Lalic
Head of Office at European Parliament
European Parliament
Vedran Lalic is a Head of cabinet of a Member of the European Parliament and a policy adviser in the European Parliament. Since 2021, he has served as the European Parliament’s lead technical...
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Nick Lambert
CEO
Dock Labs AG
Nick Lambert is CEO at Dock Labs AG. An experienced and commercially aware Director with 8+ years of leading high performing multidisciplinary teams within the technology sector. His key skills...
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Emilie van der Lande
Cyber Risk Consultant
Independent
Emilie combines expertise in Digital Identity, Data Privacy, and Cyber Strategy, offering a multifaceted perspective at the crossroads of technology, law, and business. Emilie is equipped with a...
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Robert Lapes
Enterprise Architect - Identity and Cyber Specialist
Defence Digital, UK Ministry of Defence
Robert Lapes is Identity & Cyber Specialist at the UK Ministry of Defence. He was head of identity advisory services in Capgemini’s IAM practice in the UK. He is a chartered engineer...
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Alejandro Leal
Research Analyst
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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Sharon Leu
Executive in Residence
Jobs for the Future
Sharon Leu is an Executive in Residence at JFFLabs at Jobs for the Future, a national nonprofit driving the design and scale of technology-enabled approaches to promoting economic advancement....
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Dr. Rolf Lindemann
Vice President Products
Nok Nok Labs
Dr. Rolf Lindemann is responsible for the development and strategy of the company’s products and solutions. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in product management, R&D and...
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Wim van der Lingen
Architect of border innovation
Ministry of Justice and Security, the Netherlands
Wim van der Lingen has a career in improving government performance through the use of information technology. Educated in both business and public administration, he has worked on many projects...
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Dr. Torsten Lodderstedt
Lead Architect for Germany’s EU Digital Identity Wallet
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is a Digital Identity Architect with more than 15 years experience in developing and running large scale consumer identity services. He currently works for the German...
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Thomas Lohninger
Executive Director
epicenter.works – for digital rights
Thomas was a programmer and anthropologist in his former life. Digital rights had been his hobby until it became a job when he intensively accompanied the EU Net Neutrality Regulation as Policy...
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Laurent Loup
Senior Product Manager
SICPA SA
In 2016, Laurent joined SICPA Identity & Document Security division as a product manager responsible for SICPA Digital Trust Suite (SICPA SSI platform). He has worked in corporate strategy in...
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David Luna
Senior Product Architect
Ping Identity
David Luna brings over a decade of hands-on and leadership experience in digital identity and access management. David serves in a leadership position as Product Architect and Subject Matter Expert...
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David Magård
Senior Advisor & AI Lead
Swedish Companies Registration Office
David Magård is working as senior advisor and AI lead Swedish Companies Registration Office, Sweden. David holds a LL.M and has worked several of years at the Swedish Government Offices with...
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Gerald Maier
IAM architect
BMW AG
Gerald Maier has been responsible for enterprise IAM solutions at BMW for more than 10 years. As IAM architect he is focusing on creating large scale, secure, standardized, highly automated and...
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Sameer Makladeh
Senior Data Scientist
Silverfort
Sameer is experienced data scientist holding a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Information Systems from the Technion and a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from SCE, contributing to...
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Eve Maler
Digital identity futurist and strategist
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
Trust Services Director
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
Open Source Project Leader, Digital Identity Expert
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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Jeff Margolies
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Saviynt
Jeff Margolies is the Chief Product and Strategy Officer of Saviynt where he leads strategy, technology partnerships, and corporate development. As a member of the executive team, Jeff works...
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Francesco Antonio Marino
Innovation Manager and Solution Artichect
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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Gabriel Marquie
Digital ID Subject Matter Expert
IATA
Gabriel Marquie is the digital identity subject matter expert at IATA, the International Airline Trade Association, where he leads the developments to enable a trusted open ecosystem of sellers and...
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Henk Marsman
Principal Consultant
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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Pedro Martinez
Business Owner of Digital Banking for Identity and Access Management
Thales
Pedro Martinez is the Business Owner of Digital Banking for Identity and Access Management at Thales. He is focused on business strategy and roadmap development, as well as ecosystem alliance for...
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Pedro Martins
Lead Solution Architect
LastPass
Originally from Portugal – Pedro has been an IT professional for >20 years in multiple areas (Development, Support, Sales, Marketing, Security and Consulting). Pedro is currently the Lead...
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Anishma Mavuram
Product Manager
EmpowerID
Anishma Mavuram, an accomplished professional with over six years in Identity and Access Management (IAM), specializes in integrating enterprise systems like SAP and Adobe Experience...
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Justin McCarthy
Co-founder and CTO
strongDM
Justin McCarthy is the co-founder and CTO of strongDM. He originally developed empathy for Operations as a founding and pager-carrying member of many operations and data teams. As an Executive, he...
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Trent McConaghy
Founder
Ocean Protocol
I started my career by doing AI research for national defense in the 1990s, while still an undergraduate [paper 1][paper 2]. Then, in my first startup (ADA), we explored the relation between human...
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Steven McCown
Chief Architect
Anonyome Labs
Steven McCown is a Chief Architect at Anonyome Labs and conducts R&D for security and privacy technologies, including: encrypted messaging, decentralized identity, reusable credentials,...
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Franziska Meilhammer
Product Owner
tibe.io / Lindner AG
Through many years of working within the construction industry, which includes several years in the UK, I have gained a broad view of its challenges and specific domain knowledge. In the...
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Hila Meller
Co-Founder | President
Leading Cyber Ladies | Fingerprints
A savvy public speaker and an advocate for diversity in tech. Co-founder of Leading Cyber Ladies, a global movement promoting diversity in Cyber Security. Recognized as a subject matter expert by...
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Thierry Meritan
Professional Services Manager
Netwrix
Thierry Meritan is a passionate IT professional dedicated to leveraging technology to benefit both businesses and individuals. He began his career in the field of Information Systems, starting as a...
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Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt
Lead Advisor
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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Wim Mintiens
Managing Partner
Trust Agency
Wim has over 30 years of experience in providing trust services (PKI) and electronic signature services. He started his career as a project manager for government and defence projects at a Belgian...
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Anthony Moillic
Director, Solutions Engineering EMEA & APAC
Netwrix
Anthony is Director of Solutions Engineering EMEA & APAC at Netwrix. With more than 25 years experience in the IT industry and a deep knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem, Anthony is highly...
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Dr. Beatrice Moissinac
Staff Threat Intelligence & AI Researcher
Okta
Béatrice Moissinac is a Staff Data Scientist at Okta. She holds two Masters, and a PhD in Computer Science, and joined Okta in 2021. Her main focus is applied AI research to Identity...
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Mirko Mollik
PhD student in Verifiable Credentials, DIDs and DLTs
Fraunhofer FIT
Mirko is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Fraunhofer FIT, specializing in enhancing privacy for individuals in the realm of verifiable credentials. Holding a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, he has...
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Dr. Francesca Morpurgo
Municipal Councillor and Senior researcher
CyberEthics Lab. and City of Rome
Francesca Morpurgo (she, her) holds a degree in Philosophy, with a thesis in Logic, and a PhD in Logic and Epistemology from the Sapienza University of Rome, where she researched the creation and...
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Nick Mothershaw
Chief Identity Strategist
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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Stéphane Mouy
President
SGM Consulting
Stéphane MOUY is the founder and president of SGM Consulting, a digital transition consultancy focusing on digital identity, e-trust services and eKYC processes for the financial services...
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Anirban Mukherji
Founder & CEO
miniOrange
Chief Architect and CEO of miniOrange which is a 12 year old company in Identity and Access Management with 25000 customers in more than 60 countries. The company miniOrange is based in India and...
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Thomas Müller-Lynch
Global Director Digital Identities
Siemens AG
Thomas joined Siemens 24 years ago. During this time, he took over various IT positions covering web, document management and during the last 10 years IT infrastructure technologies. Now as...
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Sanjay Nadimpalli
Founder and CEO
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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Chikako Nagaoka
Project Assistant Professor
Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS), National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Researcher related to the promotion of Open Education and the use of micro-credentials, Ph.D.
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Sid Nagavarapu
Senior Customer Experience Manager
Schneider Electric
Sid is a Senior Customer Experience Manager - Responsible for Web platforms in Schneider Electric. Have been in identity space and exploring authorization platforms for our scale at Schneider...
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Ramesh Narayanan
CTO
MOSIP
Ramesh serves as the CTO at MOSIP (mosip.io) an open source non-profit program where he is instrumental in creating products for foundational identity (Mosip Identity), Digital Identity (eSignet)...
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Jonathan Neal
Field CTO
Saviynt
With over 30 years IT experience, 20 of which specialising in Identity and Access Management, Jonathan is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Saviynt. Based in the UK, Jonathan has...
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Mike Neuenschwander
VP KuppingerCole US and Global Head of Research Strategy
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Mike has 25 years of experience in identity, access management, privacy, and security technologies, stemming from his time at Novell (now OpenText) where he introduced some of the first identity...
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Dr. Andrew Newell
Chief Scientific Officer
iProov
Andrew joined iProov from University College London where he was a Research Fellow in both the Department of Computer Science and CoMPLEX. His PhD and subsequent published research focused on...
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Rintaro Okamoto
Team Leader of Business Development for Digital Identity
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP)
Rintaro is the Head of Business Development for Decentralized Identity at DNP. He started new product development in 2019, while engaging in client consulting around digital transformation....
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Roger Olivieira
Co-Founder
Ver.iD
Roger Olivieria is co-founder of Ver.iD, a SaaS that streamlines integration of decentralized Identity apps for online businesses. Our developer-friendly platform lets companies...
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Alex Olivier
Cofounder & CPO
Cerbos
Alex Olivier is the CPO and Co-founder at Cerbos. He has designed enterprise solutions from the ground up as an engineer, consultant, tech lead and product manager, always with an eye on the...
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Takuya Omura
Managing Director of the Business Development Office
MUFG group
Takuya Omura, is the Managing Director of the Business Development Office, part of the Corporate Planning Division, for the MUFG group in Japan, and holds a BA in Political Science from Gakushuin...
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Rob Otto
EMEA CTO
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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Darrell O’Donnell
CEO
Continuum Loop Inc.
Darrell is a technology company founder, executive, investor, and advisor. He helps large and small organizations to operationally deploy emerging technologies. He is focused on solving problems of...
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Michael D. Palage
Chief Trust Officer
InfoNetworks
I am an intellectual property attorney and an information technology consultant. I have been actively involved in Internet Governance and ICT issues over the last twenty years. During this time, I...
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Steve Pannifer
CEO
Consult Hyperion
Steve is CEO at Consult Hyperion, a leading independent payments and identity consulting firm. He has extensive experience advising payment schemes, banks, governments and vendors around the world...
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Konstantin Papaxanthis
Group CEO & Founder
Scytáles AB
Founder and CEO of Scytáles AB, the frontrunner in secure digital identity solutions, with the vision to build trust in the digital world and generate social and economic benefits to society...
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Patrick Parker
Founder and CEO
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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Raj Patil
SSI Solutions Architect
Hypermine
Raj Patil, an SSI Solutions Architect at Hypermine, is deeply engaged in the realm of digital identity solutions. With a strong foundation in software engineering and a natural inclination for...
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Prof. Dr. Ronald Petrlic
Professor
TH Nürnberg
Dr. Ronald Petrlic is a professor of information security at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology. In his research, he is dealing with cybersecurity and technical data protection. At the moment,...
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Andreas Philipp
Senior Business Development Manager, IoT
Keyfactor
Andreas Philipp is a Senior IoT Business Development Manager at Keyfactor. With a degree in communications engineering, he started his career more than 30 years ago as a developer in the area of...
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John Phillips
Co-Founder
Sezoo
John Phillips is an expert in Digital Trust frameworks (including Self-Sovereign Identity), is a co-founder of Sezoo, and leads the 460degrees Ventures, Emerging Technology and Education...
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Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Senior Incident Response Lead
Semperis
Jorge de Almeida Pinto is a Senior Incident Response Lead working for Semperis helping customers proactively and reactively to be and remain secure. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2006, and has...
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Andreas Plies
CEO and Co-Founder
AUTHADA GmbH
Andreas Plies is CEO and Co-Founder of AUTHADA GmbH since the founding in 2015, a leading eID provider of German identity ecosystem and designer of next generation identification solutions in line...
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Sayantan Polley
Senior Principal
Technology Risk Partners
Mr. Sayantan Polley (MSc.) is an AI researcher and cyber-security innovator. His ongoing Ph.D. at Uni Magdeburg, Germany, lies in the intersection of Explainable AI, ethical use of AI, application...
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Dima Postnikov
Head of Identity Strategy and Architecture
ConnectID
Experienced Identity Architect focusing on anything identity, privacy, trust ecosystems design and identity standards development.
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Suprit Pradhan
Project Manager
National Digital Identity Project of Bhutan, Druk Holding and Investment
Suprit Pradhan has been the Project Manager of the NDI Project of Bhutan under Druk Holdings and Investments (DHI) since 2020. With over 13 years of corporate experience, he has honed expertise in...
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Adam Preis
Director Solution Marketing
Ping Identity
Adam Preis is a Director of Product and Solution Marketing at Ping Identity, operating out of the U.K. with a global remit for financial services and authorisation. Adam brings over 12 years...
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Nick Price
Co-chair
DIF Hospitality & Travel SIG
Nick Price is the founder of Netsys Technology, a software development and technology consulting company focused on digital innovation for the hospitality and travel sectors. Nick, a...
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Andre Priebe
Chief Technology Officer
iC Consult Group GmbH
Andre Priebe serves as the Chief Technology Officer at iC Consult Group, a vendor-independent system integrator specializing in Identity & Access Management, with a global team of over 800...
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Aishwarya Rai
Product Manager
Sofy.AI
I am Aishwarya Rai, a Product Manager with over 5+ years of expertise in AI, Cloud, SaaS & EdTech products. Currently, I drive product strategy at a leading AI-testing SaaS platform in the USA....
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Rupesh Ramachandran
Head of Technology
National Australia Bank
Rupesh has more than twenty years’ of industry experience spanning enterprise application development, consulting, and support. He has extensive experience and an active interest in Information...
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Craig Ramsay
Senior Solution Architect
Omada
Craig is a Senior Solution Architect at Omada with over a decade of experience in the Identity & Access Management (IAM) field. Having started his career as a Computer Science graduate in 2008,...
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Janice Raposo
Grants Development Associate
Grants Office Europe
Janice Raposo works as a Grants Development Associate at Grants Office Europe, where she specializes in securing European and national funding for projects in Portugal. Her main responsibility is...
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Rolf Rauschenbach
Information Officer E-ID
Federal Office of Justice, Switzerland
Rolf Rauschenbach acts as Information Officer of the E-ID-program of the Federal Government of Switzerland. Prior to this engagement, he worked as consultant, project lead and chief sales officer...
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Drummond Reed
Director of Trust Services
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
Head of Advisory
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
Co-Founder
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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Justin Richer
Independent Consultant, Founder
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
Chief Architect
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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Stephanus Rieger
Product Owner
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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Sebastian Rodriguez
VP of Product
Polygon Labs
I am a tech professional with a diverse background spanning various sectors and company types. My journey has taken me from the agile world of startups, where rapid innovation is the norm, to the...
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Claus Nørklit Roed
Director
PwC Denmark
Claus is a member of the cybersecurity unit at PwC Denmark, where he heads the Identity and Access management team working with IAM from strategy through execution. Claus is a senior IT...
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Geraint Rogers
Market SME: Identity, Fraud and Financial Crime
Daon
Geraint is Daon’s Market SME for Identity, Fraud and Financial crime, believing that technology should be a force for good; digitally enabling quality experience underpinned by fast,...
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Sebastian Rohr
CTO
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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Leandro Rometsch
PhD Student
Technical University Darmstadt
Leandro studied Computer Science with a focus on IT Security and is currently pursuing a PhD with the Chair of Implementation Security at Darmstadt Technical University. His primary research...
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Paolo De Rosa
Policy Officer
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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Dr. Andrea Rossi
IAMONES.ai
Founder
Andrea Rossi is a recognized subject matter expert in the Identity & Cybersecurity industries. In 2024 Mr. Rossi co-founded Iamones.ai, aiming to radically simplify and innovate Identity &...
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Dr. Kevin Roundy
Security and AI Researcher
Andromeda Security
Kevin Alejandro Roundy received a Ph.D. from Wisconsin in 2012, upon which he joined Symantec/Norton Research. In 2023 he left to join Andromeda Security. His career has focused on applying Machine...
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Woody Rousseau
CTO & Cofounder
Sipios
Woody is the CTO and cofounder of Sipios, the FinTech focused branch of the Theodo group. He leads tech and product experts designing and implementing innovative applications and architectures in...
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Dr. Lukas Ruf
Group Chief Inf. Security & Risk Officer
Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund
Dr. Lukas Ruf is the Group Chief Security & Risk Officer of Migros, globally. Prior to joining Migros, he worked as a security and strategy consultant at Consecom AG, specializing in...
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Adam Rusbridge
Senior Product Manager
Ping Identity
Adam Rusbridge is Senior Product Manager for Ping’s Authorisation products, with 20 years of experience leading the development and growth of products that govern secure access to resources....
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Loren Russon
SVP Product & Technology Alliances
Ping Identity
SVP of Product & Technology Alliance - Loren has managed product development and marketing activities for security and identity management product lines for 20+ years. Throughout his...
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André Röder
CEO
KAPRION Technologies
André is co-founder and CEO at KAPRION Technologies. His focus is on business process automation in connection with secure digital identities, hardware-based security, decentralized IT...
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Markus Sabadello
CEO
Danube Tech
Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He is co-editor of...
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Gal Sadeh
Principal AI researcher
Silverfort
Gal is the principal AI researcher of Silverfort. He is responsible for big data analytics and developing AI engines. He joined Silverfort after working as a data scientist at CyberBit. Prior to...
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Nat Sakimura
Chairman
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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Vanessa Sanchez
Development consultant
Grants Office Europe
Vanessa Del Pozo Sánchez is one of the lead grants development consultants at Grants Office Europe. Driven by reason, analysis, and the disposition to help others, she takes pride in coming...
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Martin Sandren
IAM Product Lead
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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Klaeri Schelhowe
Managing Director
Scheddebrock Ltd.
With over two decades in executive roles with international corporates, Klaeri specialises in product identification and traceability, with a particular emphasis on the complexities of...
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Lilly Schmidt
Program Lead
Digitial Society Institute at ESMT Berlin
Lilly Schmidt is a Research Associate and Program Lead for the Digitial Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT, Berlin. Her main research focuses on technology politics and law with a focus on digital...
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Christoph Schneider
Head of IT Development and Operations
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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Dr. Emrys Schoemaker
Research Director
Caribou Digital
Emrys is a researcher and advisor in digital transformation and it’s implications in emerging economies. As Research Director at Caribou Digital and with affiliations at Graduate Institute...
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Max Schrems
Head of noyb.eu
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
Director in the Cybersecurity & Privacy
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
Field CTO International
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
Principal Business Consultant
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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Carlo Schüpp
VP Technology Strategy & Alliances
TrustBuilder
Carlo Schüpp 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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Dr. Giada Sciarretta
Researcher
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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Eric Scouten
Identity Standards Architect
Content Authenticity Initiative / Adobe
Eric joined the Content Authenticity Initiative at its inception in 2020 and now leads the Creator Assertions Working Group. The CAWG is defining a technical standard allowing digital credential...
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Rachelle Sellung
Senior Research Scientist
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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Didier Serra
Head of Digital Trust Services
Gen Digital
Didier Serra leads Gen Digital’s consumer-centric data exchange and digital trust services, encompassing the development of go-to-market and product strategies, implementation of commercial and...
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John Erik Setsaas
Director of Innovation
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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Daniel Du Seuil
Convenor
ESSIF
Daniel Du Seuil is the convenor of the European Self Sovereign Identity Framework (ESSIF) within the European Blockchain Partnership. This partnership of 30 EU Member States and...
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Ashish Shah
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Andromeda Security
Ashish is a product and GTM executive with 20+ years of experience across startups and large enterprises. Currently, he is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Andromeda Security....
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Yash Shah
CTO
Credence ID
Mr. Shah has over 20 years of technology executive experience in biometrics, large national ID programs and Digital ID technology. He has led product development from concept through design...
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Vlad Shapiro
Founder and CEO
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
Researcher
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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Erik Siebler
Digital Identity Capability Lead
DXC
Erik Siebler has joined DXC in 2010. Since 2013 he is working in the IT security domain. During the last decade he worked on several project in different roles, e.g. architect, implementer, project...
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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders
Consultant, Strategic Digital Identity
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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Mithun Singh
Product Adoption Manager IAM
Thales
Mithun Singh brings almost a decade of experience in Identity and Access Management including Fraud, Risk & Open Banking and is currently the Product...
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Mike Small
Senior Analyst
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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Jamie Smith
CEO and Founder
Customer Future Ltd.
Jamie is the CEO and Founder at Customer Futures Ltd. He has been working at the forefront of digital identity and customer-controlled personal data for nearly 15 years. He’s helped deliver digital...
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Wolfgang Sowarsch
Principal Sales Engineer
Commvault Systems GmbH
Wolfgang Sowarsch is a Principal Sales Engineer at Commvault. He works with customers of various shapes and sizes to build efficient and secure Data Management environments. As an IT veteran with...
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Arndt Spitzer
CEO and Identity Access Management Architect
ASCONSIT GmbH
After studying computer science and business administration, Arndt Spitzer was one of SAP’s first consultants for SAP Identity Management. He started his career in the Public-Key-Infrastructure...
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Bas Steen
Senior Manager
PwC
Bas Steen is Senior Manager Digital Identity at PwC Nederland. He is an Architect and Engineer with a passion for Identity and Access Management and DevOps related technologies. He leads the DevOps...
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Annet Steenbergen
Digital Identity and Seamless Travel
Independent Advisor
Since co-founding/initiating the Aruba Happy Flow project in 2013 after many years working in international border management, digital Identity and innovation for the travel eco-system has been at...
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Dr. Angelika Steinacker
CTO Identity & Access Management
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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Tim Stock
Cloud Solution Architect Security
Microsoft
As a Cloud Solution Architect within the Security, Compliance and Identity Area, Tim is leading the security footprint in Germany for the financial sector and design the next generation of Security...
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Hannes Stockner
Head of Data Integration
HTI Services
Hannes has worked as a Software Developer for various companies in Vienna, Hamburg, Zurich and London. His focus in the last years has been on developing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and...
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Michiel Stoop
Director Identity & Access Management
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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Maarten Stultjens
VP Global Enablement IAM
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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Jennifer Stähler
Head of Events
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Jennifer joined KuppingerCole in 2015. As Head of Events, she is responsible for the Events team that organizes live-, hybrid- and virtual Conferences worldwide, focusing on IT Security and...
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Dr. Carsten Stöcker
Co-founder and CEO
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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Dr. Muhammad Ihsan Haikal Sukmana
Chief Product Officer
Mitigant
Dr Muhammad Ihsan Haikal Sukmana is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mitigant, a cybersecurity startup focused on cloud security and cyber resilience. He received his doctorate at Hasso...
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Daniella Taveau
President
Bold Text Strategies
Daniella Taveau is a recognized expert in business strategy, trade, and regulation and President of Bold Text Strategies. Previously, she represented the United States at the World Trade...
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Dr. Lavanya Sita Tekumalla
ML Researcher
Andromeda Security
Lavanya Sita Tekumalla received a masters from the University of Utah in 2005 and Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the Indian Institute of Science in 2016. In her career spanning over 15 years, she...
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Nick Thorne
Retired UK Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
OIDF
A career diplomat, Nick Thorne served as UK Ambassador to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation and the other International Organisations in Geneva from 2003 until 2008, when he retired from...
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Andrew Tobin
Commercial Director, Europe, Digital Trust Services
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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Sandra Tobler
Chairwoman
Futurae Technolgies
Sandra is an entrepreneur who worked in the IT space for over 17 years. She worked for IBM in various international roles, then for different Swiss public entities to support companies with...
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John Tolbert
Lead Analyst
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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Samuel López Trenado
User Lifecycle Supervisor
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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Dr. Mihaela Ulieru
Founder and President
IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy
Founder and President IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy. Working with governments, international institutions, civil society and private sector partners to mitigate global challenges by...
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Dr. Pramod Varma
CTO
EkStep Foundation
Dr. Pramod Varma is the former Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India’s digital identity program that has successfully covered nearly 1.4 billion people. He was also the chief architect for various...
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Ulrike van Venrooy
Director
EY
Ulrike van Venrooy is an Associate Partner in EY’s cybersecurity practice. For more than 15 years she has been supporting her customers in transforming their identity and access management. She led...
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Marco Venuti
IAM Business Acceleration Director
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 Vereeken
Chief Product Officer
Meeco
Jan is the Chief Product Officer at Meeco where he is heading the development of Meeco’s Secure Value Exchange (SVX) platform; which enables enterprise partners to deploy and operate trusted...
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Hans-Robert Vermeulen
Identity Strategist
SailPoint
Hans-Robert is an Identity Strategist and evangelist for SailPoint. He has been with SailPoint for over twelve years and spends a lot of his time talking to prospects and customers on how an...
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Gregory Vigroux
Senior Product Line Manager
Thales
Gregory has more than 15 years international expertise in the IT & Identity sector and is currently product manager for FIDO & PKI authentication solutions in Thales’s Cloud...
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Tim Vogt
Distinguished Sales Engineer
Ping Identity
Tim Vogt is a Distinguished Sales Engineer at Ping Identity, specializing in consumer IoT, connected vehicles, and other critical digital identity and security scenarios for Europe’s largest...
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Thomas van Vooren
Director
PwC
Thomas is a Director in PwC’s Digital Identity Team in The Netherlands and part of the team’s leadership. He is a subject matter expert on Workforce Identity with over 20 years of experience in the...
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Kai Wagner
Head of Products & Partners
Procivis AG
Kai Wagner is Head of Products & Partners at Procivis in Zürich Switzerland. He has been actively involved in the international Decentralized Identity and Self-Sovereign Identity ecosystem...
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Meir Wahnon
Co-Founder
Descope
Meir is a co-founder at Descope, a drag-and-drop customer authentication and identity management platform. Before Descope, Meir served as Sr. Director of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks after the...
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Bela Waidelich
IAM Architect
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Bela is working in Global Cyber Security focusing on authentication within Mercedes-Benz AG. He is responsible for the architecture of Mercedes-Benz AG identity provider. Before he was...
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Fraser Wallace
Director of Marketing
IndyKite
Fraser has been involved in marketing in the IAM space for almost a decade, in communications, events, and brand, currently running the field marketing program at IndyKite. His focus is always on...
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Marie Wallace
Managing Director, Digital Identity Lead
Accenture
Marie has spent more than two decades applying AI to a variety of use cases with specific focus on computer-human interaction, starting with her early work on natural language processing to smart...
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Jianchao Wang
Director and Co-Founder
AltoSice
Jianchao Wang stands at the forefront of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, guiding AltoSice Cloud Solution from its early days as a promising startup to its current path towards becoming...
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Gillan Ward
Director
ID Crowd
Gillan is an expert in identity and trusted data who provides thought leadership, advisory services, and expert support to clients. He helps organisations to meet their objectives by ensuring they...
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Daniel Wasser, LL.M.
Attorney at Law / PhD Researcher
Rödl & Partner
Daniel Wasser, LL.M. is an Attorney at Law advising national as well as international corporations in every aspect of Employment Laws as well as (Employee) Data Protection Laws in Rödl &...
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Pieter Waterschoot
SME for IAM
Philips
Since 2021 Pieter is the SME for IAM within Philips in Group Security – Information Security. He specializes in IGA and in his position he is responsible for contributing to the Philips IAM...
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Marcel Wendt
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Digidentity B.V.
Marcel Wendt, CTO and Founder of Digidentity, is a serial entrepreneur known for his forward-thinking approach. Over the last decades, Marcel has gained recognition for his innovative thinking and...
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Sadrick Widmann
CEO
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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Dr. Phil Windley
Senior Software Development Manager
Amazon Web Services
Phil Windley is a Senior Software Development Manager at AWS Identity. He is also the co-founder and organizer of the Internet Identity Workshop. He was previously an Enterprise Architect and...
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Rainer Witzgall
CRO, Security Evangelist
Veridium
Rainer Witzgall brings over 15 years of expertise in Cybersecurity and Identity and Access Management to his role as the global Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Veridium. He leads the customer-facing...
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Eric Woodruff
Sr. Cloud Security Architect
Semperis
Throughout his 23-year career in the IT field, Eric has sought out and held a diverse range of roles, including technical manager in the public sector, Sr. Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, and...
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John Wunderlich
Chief Privacy Officer
JLINC Labs
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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Torsten Wunderlich
Principal Engineer
Zalando SE
Torsten is a principal engineer at Zalando focussing on fine-grained authorization and developer experience. With more than 15 years of experience as a software engineer and more than 8 years...
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Lucy Yang
Managing Partner
Identity Woman in Business
Lucy is the Managing Partner of Identity Woman in Business, a boutique consultancy in decentralized identity that serves a global clientele. She also independently consults with the United Nations...
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Kristina Yasuda
Identity System Architect
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation
Kristina is an Identity System Architect at SPRIND - German Federal Agency of Disruptive Innovation. Previously she worked as an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft, known for her work...
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Hakan Yildiz
Decentralized Digital Identity Architect
Accenture
I am a Digital Identity Architect specializing in Decentralized Digital Identities (DDI), also known as Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI). I assist organizations across various sectors to integrate...
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Kaliya Young
Founding Partner
Identity Woman in Business
Kaliya Young, known as Identity Woman, is a world leading expert and active community builder in user-centric and decentralized identity. Kaliya co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop in 2005,...
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Yaron Zehavi
Senior Enterprise Architect
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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Frances Zelazny
Co-Founder & CEO
Anonybit
Frances is a seasoned marketing strategist and business development professional with over 25 years of experience with start-up and scale-up companies, primarily focused on biometrics and digital...
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Kai Zenner
Head of Office for MEP Axel Voss
European Parliament
Digital enthusiast focusing on AI, data and the EU’s digital transition. Soft spot for interinstitutional reforms and the ’Better Regulation Agenda’. Cooperative and pragmatic approach, always...
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