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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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Sergio Albea
Security Architect /Enginner
SWITCH
With over 15 years of experience, I have immersed myself in the dynamic field of security, focusing on diverse IT landscapes and ensuring robust protection against threats and vulnerabilities. My...
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Deniz Algin
Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Deniz joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as an Advisor in August 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from the University of Applied Science and Arts in Hannover....
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Bjarke Alling
Principal Advisor
Epical Group
Principal Advisor with the Nordic Digital Trust consulting company Epical. Prior chair and member of the National Danish Cybersecurity Council and prior chair of the IT Security Committee at The...
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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 Paul Ashley
CTO
Anonyome Labs
Dr Paul Ashley is CTO at Anonyome Labs. The company brings technology to everyday users that allow them to interact online and offline in safety, privacy and control. Paul’s responsibilities...
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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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Ayelet Avni
VP Product Managment
Ping Identity
Ayelet Avni leads Identity Trust services at Ping Identity, overseeing Strong Authentication, Risk and Fraud, Identity Verification, and Decentralized Identity solutions. With over 20 years of...
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Alexandre Babeanu
Lead Product Manager, Access Management
IndyKite
Alex is a seasoned expert with nearly a decade of experience in leveraging graph databases for Identity and Access Management (IAM). As a certified graph and IAM consultant, he has successfully...
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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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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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Arijit Banerjee
Identity Governance Platform - Product owner
BP Plc
With over 18 years of experience in the cyber space, I have managed complex global enterprise landscapes around IAM and participated in large-scale identity transformation programs where I have...
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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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Kai Boschert
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole
Kai Boschert joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as Advisor in September 2021. Background & Education: Kai is holding a master’s degree in management and technology with focus on...
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Sam Brackenridge
Global Product Manager
Vodafone Group
Sam has spent the last 4 years developing a Managed Security Service portfolio to serve SMB customers, with a focus on IAM. As part of this, Sam’s led the successful development of AI initiatives...
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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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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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Andrew Bud
Founder & CEO iProov
iProov
Andrew is a technology entrepreneur and leader with a career spanning more than 30 years. He founded iProov in 2011 to solve the growing issue of establishing trust online, and how people can...
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Dr. Vladimir Bunic
Global Cyber Physical Security Expert
Nestlé
Vladimir Bunic, Ph.D., is a distinguished Converged Security Expert at Nestlé, based in Barcelona, Spain. With a robust background in cybersecurity, physical security, and risk management,...
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Martin Cannard
VP of Product Strategy
Netwrix
Accomplished VP of Product Strategy at Netwrix with 30-year track record of success from startups to enterprise software organizations, Martin Cannard is specifically experienced in the privileged...
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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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Nathan Case
Independent
Driven Enterprise Security & Cloud Governance Executive with proven success building a strong culture of cyber resilience across teams, processes, programs, and technology. In each role, I act...
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Brian Chappell
VP of Product Management
One Identity
Brian joined One Identity in March 2023 and is responsible for the overall product strategy and execution. During a 35-year career, Brian has held senior roles in a number of companies from small...
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Lalit Choda
Founder
Non-Human Identity Management Group
Lalit Choda is the founder of the Non-Human Identity Mgmt Group where he evangelises and influences the industry around NHI risks. Lalit has unique hands on 25+ years practitioner experience,...
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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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Bartosz Cieszewski
Solutions Architect
Secfense
Bartosz Cieszewski is an established Solutions Architect at Secfense. With a background from Kazimierz Wielki University and the Maritime Academy in Gdynia, and over a decade of experience in the...
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Florin Coptil
Digital Identities & Organisation Wallet Expert
Robert Bosch GmbH
I work as an Expert in Digital Identities and Organizational Wallets at Robert Bosch GmbH, a multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Germany.In the last years, my focus...
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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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Konrad Degen
Product Manager Digital Identities
SPRIND GmbH
Konrad Degen is a Product Manager in the German EUDI Wallet project at the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. In this role, he focuses on the economic and organizational design of...
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Dr. Dominik Deimel
Managing Director
Wallet Experts GmbH
As the former founder of comuny, a start-up with its own wallet application and board member of the digital identities working group at bitkom, I have been working on the topic of decentralised...
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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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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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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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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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Burcu Ekiz
Identity Infrastructure Technologies Manager
Garanti BBVA Bank
Burcu is a dedicated identity access management professional with a development background. She has more than 14 years of experience with different companies. She is working at Garanti BBVA since...
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Chang Ellison
Identity Management Capability Manager
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Chang Ellison serves as the Identity Management Capability Manager at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In this role, she oversees the Enrollment, ID Proofing, and Vetting processes...
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Richard Esplin
Head of Product
Dock Labs AG
Richard Esplin is a seasoned product leader specializing in digital identity, open source software, and enterprise solutions. Currently serving as Head of Product at Dock, he leads product...
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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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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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Hideaki Furukawa
Senior Security Consultant
NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd.
Actively contributing as a Senior Security Consultant at NRI SecureTechnologies, proficiently skilled in areas encompassing digital identity and digital trust.
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Diego Galletti
Enterprise Architect
Quad
Diego is an Expert Enterprise Architect of Quad, a U.S.-based company offering integrated services from creative production to data-driven media management, serving over 2,700 clients. He has over...
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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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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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Ing. Robert Garskamp
IAM Manager
Alliander
With the enormous speed of technological digitalisation transformation nowadays, Robert believes that it will influence, constitute and shape our society where you are able to control your identity...
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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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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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Benoit Grangé
Chief Technology and Product Officer
Omada
Benoit brings over 25 years of experience in leading teams to build world-class products and services focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience and security. Benoit is a technology...
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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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Martin Greck-Riederer
Enterprise Process Owner Identity Management
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Martin Greck-Riederer is working as Enterprise Process Owner for Identity Management at Boehringer Ingelheim (a large pharmaceutical company). In this position he is responsible to design...
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Guido Grillenmeier
Principal Technologist
Semperis
Guido Grillenmeier is the Principal Technologist of Semperis in EMEA. Based in Germany, Guido has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for 12 years. He spent 20+ years at HP/HPE as Chief...
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Nigel Guest
Head of Identity & Access Management
Lonza AG
Originally from the UK, Nigel brings over 20 years of expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), shaped by a development and architectural background. Having spent two decades in Sweden and...
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Priya Guliani
CEO
EarthID
Priya Guliani is the CEO of EarthID, a multi-award-winning cybersecurity platform specializing in decentralized identity and fraud prevention. She also serves as the EMEA Director for the...
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Dick Hardt
Founder/CEO
Hello Identity Co-op
Dick Hardt is a visionary leader in the identity and access management space, with a career spanning groundbreaking contributions to technology and security. As the founder of Hellō Identity, Dick...
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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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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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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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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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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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Max Imbiel
Independent
Max Imbiel is considered one of Germany’s Top CISOs. He has been in the IT and Security business for nearly 20 years. He has built Security and Privacy processes, products and services throughout...
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Rew Islam
Director, Product Innovation
Dashlane
Rew is the Director of Product Innovation at Dashlane, with over 20 years of software development experience. After a decade at Dashlane working on mobile apps, he now leads projects focussed on...
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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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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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Cor de Jonge
Teamlead & Business Owner PKI & Chair ICAO PKD
Judicial Information Service, Ministry of Justice and Security & ICAO
I’m leading the PKI expertise team of the Judicial Information Service of the Ministry of Security and Justice – the only PKI expertise team of the Dutch government. I’m...
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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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Malte Kahrs
Founder & CEO
MTRIX GmbH
Malte Kahrs is the founder and managing director of MTRIX GmbH, a company that is supporting businesses in the selection, implementation, and operation of authentication solutions since 2006,...
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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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Berthold Kerl
CEO
KuppingerCole
Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years....
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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
CEO
Nexis
Dr. Heiko Klarl is the CEO of Nexis and a distinguished expert in Identity and Access Management (IAM) with 20 years of experience. With a strong background in cybersecurity, Heiko excels in...
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Dr. Silvia Knittl
Director Cyber & Privacy
PwC GmbH WPG
Dr. Silvia Knittl is Director at PwC Germany in the Cyber & Privacy domain with a strong focus on Enterprise Security Architecture as well as Identity & Access Governance. She...
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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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Ms. Kritika
Independent Researcher, India
Ms. Kritika is a distinguished researcher and dynamic keynote speaker, renowned for her innovative work at the convergence of cybersecurity, AI/ML, and neuroscience. With a distinguished body of...
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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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Er Balaji Nagaraj Kumar
Senior Product Manager
Volvo Cars
I am Balaji Nagaraj Kumar—a passionate human, engineer, and leader driven by innovation and intentional learning. As a Senior Product Manager at Volvo Cars, I manage Open Information...
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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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Alejandro Leal
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole
Background and Education Alejandro holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Security from Jagiellonian University in Poland and a Master’s degree in Technology...
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Herbert Leitold
Director
A-SIT
Herbert Leitold is Director of A-SIT, Secure Information Technology Center Austria, a public funded association advising the public sector on information security. He has 25+ years’...
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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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Brennan Lodge
Professor
New York University
Brennan Lodge is a cybersecurity expert with over 15 years of experience in data science, AI, and threat defense. As founder of Blodgic Inc. and a professor at NYU, he has led AI-centric...
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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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Anna Lyubchenko
Senior Manager, NL Domain Lead in CIAM
PwC
As NL CIAM Domain lead of PwC’s Digital Identity Team, Anna helps shape and execute strategies in the Dutch market and across Europe. With a team of highly intelligent and experienced...
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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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Timo Majaneva
IAM architect, Identity and Device Management
SOK AID
I am an Identity and Access Management (IAM) architect with a strong passion for designing secure and scalable solutions that empower both businesses and individuals to achieve their goals with...
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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
President
Cloud Signature Consortium
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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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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Justin McCarthy
Co-founder and CTO
strongDM
Justin McCarthy is the CTO and co-founder of StrongDM and the original author of its core protocol-aware proxy technology. With a career spanning engineering leadership in high-stakes e-commerce,...
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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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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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Navroop Mitter
CEO
ArmorText
Navroop Mitter is the CEO and founder of ArmorText. Before founding ArmorText, Navroop was a senior manager at Accenture’s North American Security Practice, specializing in governance, risk,...
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Mirko Mollik
Identity Architect
SPRIND GmbH
With a strong background in cybersecurity, Mirko first founded a startup focused on verifiable credentials, laying the groundwork for secure digital identity solutions. After a brief period as a...
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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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Thorsten Niebuhr
CEO
WedaCon
With nearly 30 years experience in IT and in the fields of Directory Technologies, Identity Management and Data Privacy, Thorsten is a recognized expert in our industry. As a technical trainer,...
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Kari Nousiainen
Manager
Fortum Oyj
Kari Nousiainen has special expertise in the development of Identity Security services, enabling transactions in online services on behalf of the organization. He has versatile work experience in...
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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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Prosper Onyenkwere
Data Specialist
RAD5 Tech Hub
Prosper Onyenkwere is a Data Specialist, AI Ethics Enthusiast and also a Trainer, having worked as a SQL Server Database Administrator for more than 5 years, resorted to training over 100+...
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Rob Otto
Field CTO
Ping Identity
Rob Otto is a Principal Architect at Ping Identity and the Field CTO for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With over 20 years of experience in identity and access management, Rob has...
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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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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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John Peart
Assistant Director, Market Oversight and Integrity
Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
John Peart is a civil servant working for the UK Government, specialising in digital and technology policy. Since joining the UK Civil Service in 2013, John has worked in a variety of policy and...
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Manish Kumar Periwal
Senior Security Engineer
Norges Bank Investment Management
Manish currently works as Senior Security Engineer at Norges Bank Investment Management (Oljefondet). He brings over a decade of expertise in the IT industry. His specialization in Application...
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Shikha Porwal
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Shikha Porwal is a Senior Advisor and Analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts since January 2021, specializes in IAM and some topics of Cybersecurity. She consults clients, contributes to research, and...
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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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Martin Raepple
Technical Program Manager
Microsoft
Martin has over 25 years of experience in various roles and industries. At Microsoft he focuses on solution architectures and integration scenarios between Microsoft’s and SAP’s Cloud identity and...
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Matthias Reinwarth
IAM Practice Director
KuppingerCole
Matthias is IAM Practice Director. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias coordinates communication and exchange within the...
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Joerg Resch
Innovation Manager
SPRIND GmbH
Jörg Resch ist Co-Founder & Managing Director bei KuppingerCole. Er blickt auf über 20 Jahre Erfahrung in Projekten im Bereich Identity Management und deren Umsetzung in großen...
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Justin Richer
CTO
UberEther
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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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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Dr. Rogério A. Rondini
Senior Manager
PwC
Rogério is a Digital Identity leader and Principal Identity & Solution Architect at PwC Netherlands, boasting over 25 years of experience in IT, including 15 years focused on Digital...
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Andrea Rossi
President
IAMONES.ai
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. 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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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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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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Volker Schimmel
Head of the Global Data Service
UNHCR - The United Nations Refugee Agency
Volker Schimmel holds an MSc in International Relations and Conflict Studies. Having worked on conflict and displacement in London, he joined the UN in 2003 starting with UNHCR in the Great Lakes....
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Jan Schmitz-Hermes
CEO
L21s GmbH
Jan is a seasoned IT-Architect working on digital processes primarily in the insurance and financial services industry.Jan is an advocate for open source software. During his career, he helped...
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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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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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Michael Schwartz
Founder / CEO
Gluu, Inc.
Mike is the Founder/CEO of Gluu, and leads the Linux Foundation Janssen Project. He is the co-author of the book ’Securing the Perimeter’, Apress 2018, about how to use open source IAM tools. In...
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Christopher Schütze
Chief of Advisory and CISO
KuppingerCole
Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cyber Security and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. In 2023 he was promoted to Chief of Advisory and CISO....
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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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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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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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Charlene Spasic
Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Charlene Spasic joined KuppingerCole as an Advisor in July 2023. Prior to this, she was primarily focusing on IAM from a functional perspective aiming to build the bridge between business and IT...
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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, CoE IAM, IBM Consulting
IBM
Angelika is a seasoned professional with more than 30 years of experience in the Cybersecurity industry, with a particular emphasis on Identity & Access Management (IAM) for more than two...
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Rolf Steinbrück
Senior Solutions Engineer
Yubico
Rolf Steinbrück is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Yubico, and holds more than 28 years of experience in the field of IT security, cryptography, Identity & Access Management and security...
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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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Patrick Teichmann
Lead Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Patrick Teichmann joined KuppingerCole as a Lead Advisor in November 2024. With a strong background in Identity and Access Management, he specializes in aligning business needs with technical...
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Henrique Teixeira
Senior Vice President Strategy
Saviynt
Henrique Teixeira is a seasoned leader with over 25 years in identity and cybersecurity. As Senior Vice President of Strategy at Saviynt, he drives innovative, cloud-first solutions in...
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Jerome Thorstenson
Identity & Access Management Architect
Salling Group A/S
Jerome Thorstenson is an Identity & Access Management (IAM) architect with over two decades of experience in IT security and enterprise solutions, but he’s not about buzzwords - he’s about...
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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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Paul Twomey
Co-Chair
Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE)
Experienced CEO in Internet, New Technology and Technology Policy enterprises. Globally distributed!. Very regularly traveling in US, Europe and Asia.
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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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Alex de Vries
Tribe Architect IAM
Rabobank
Pushing the needle on IAM and architectures! Enabling organizational IAM as a Service where machines, employees and third parties are all served equally. Managing, designing, and shaping the...
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Dr. Sarah Walton
Executive Lead
Women in Identity
Sarah is an independent digital consultant with 30 years experience working in digital. She’s researched and authored identity white papers and supported the digital transformation in health,...
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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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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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Dietmar Wyhs
Director Sales CEEME
SSH Communications Security
Dietmar brings over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than a decade dedicated to IT security. During this time, he has successfully worked across various domains, including...
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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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Andreas Zickner
Senior Consultant
MediaMarktSaturn Technology
Visionary and enthusiastic Senior Solution Architect specializing in Identity Governance and Administration Solutions. Passionate about bridging the gap between technical development and business...
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Dr. Lisa Zimmermann
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Maxizoo Pet Retail
Lisa has two lovely dogs, a PhD in Astrophysics and over 11 years of experience in building and maintaining corporate IAM landscapes in different industry sectors. First hand experiences in the...
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Tobias Zügel
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Tiernahrungs GmbH
Tobias is a distinguished professional with over two decades of experience in IAM, primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Since 2013, he has worked extensively with Microsoft 365 and...
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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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Sergio Albea
Security Architect /Enginner
SWITCH
With over 15 years of experience, I have immersed myself in the dynamic field of security, focusing on diverse IT landscapes and ensuring robust protection against threats and vulnerabilities. My...
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Deniz Algin
Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Deniz joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as an Advisor in August 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from the University of Applied Science and Arts in Hannover....
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Bjarke Alling
Principal Advisor
Epical Group
Principal Advisor with the Nordic Digital Trust consulting company Epical. Prior chair and member of the National Danish Cybersecurity Council and prior chair of the IT Security Committee at The...
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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 Paul Ashley
CTO
Anonyome Labs
Dr Paul Ashley is CTO at Anonyome Labs. The company brings technology to everyday users that allow them to interact online and offline in safety, privacy and control. Paul’s responsibilities...
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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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Ayelet Avni
VP Product Managment
Ping Identity
Ayelet Avni leads Identity Trust services at Ping Identity, overseeing Strong Authentication, Risk and Fraud, Identity Verification, and Decentralized Identity solutions. With over 20 years of...
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Alexandre Babeanu
Lead Product Manager, Access Management
IndyKite
Alex is a seasoned expert with nearly a decade of experience in leveraging graph databases for Identity and Access Management (IAM). As a certified graph and IAM consultant, he has successfully...
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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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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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Arijit Banerjee
Identity Governance Platform - Product owner
BP Plc
With over 18 years of experience in the cyber space, I have managed complex global enterprise landscapes around IAM and participated in large-scale identity transformation programs where I have...
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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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Kai Boschert
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole
Kai Boschert joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as Advisor in September 2021. Background & Education: Kai is holding a master’s degree in management and technology with focus on...
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Sam Brackenridge
Global Product Manager
Vodafone Group
Sam has spent the last 4 years developing a Managed Security Service portfolio to serve SMB customers, with a focus on IAM. As part of this, Sam’s led the successful development of AI initiatives...
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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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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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Andrew Bud
Founder & CEO iProov
iProov
Andrew is a technology entrepreneur and leader with a career spanning more than 30 years. He founded iProov in 2011 to solve the growing issue of establishing trust online, and how people can...
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Dr. Vladimir Bunic
Global Cyber Physical Security Expert
Nestlé
Vladimir Bunic, Ph.D., is a distinguished Converged Security Expert at Nestlé, based in Barcelona, Spain. With a robust background in cybersecurity, physical security, and risk management,...
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Martin Cannard
VP of Product Strategy
Netwrix
Accomplished VP of Product Strategy at Netwrix with 30-year track record of success from startups to enterprise software organizations, Martin Cannard is specifically experienced in the privileged...
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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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Nathan Case
Independent
Driven Enterprise Security & Cloud Governance Executive with proven success building a strong culture of cyber resilience across teams, processes, programs, and technology. In each role, I act...
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Brian Chappell
VP of Product Management
One Identity
Brian joined One Identity in March 2023 and is responsible for the overall product strategy and execution. During a 35-year career, Brian has held senior roles in a number of companies from small...
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Lalit Choda
Founder
Non-Human Identity Management Group
Lalit Choda is the founder of the Non-Human Identity Mgmt Group where he evangelises and influences the industry around NHI risks. Lalit has unique hands on 25+ years practitioner experience,...
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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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Bartosz Cieszewski
Solutions Architect
Secfense
Bartosz Cieszewski is an established Solutions Architect at Secfense. With a background from Kazimierz Wielki University and the Maritime Academy in Gdynia, and over a decade of experience in the...
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Florin Coptil
Digital Identities & Organisation Wallet Expert
Robert Bosch GmbH
I work as an Expert in Digital Identities and Organizational Wallets at Robert Bosch GmbH, a multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Germany.In the last years, my focus...
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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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Konrad Degen
Product Manager Digital Identities
SPRIND GmbH
Konrad Degen is a Product Manager in the German EUDI Wallet project at the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. In this role, he focuses on the economic and organizational design of...
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Dr. Dominik Deimel
Managing Director
Wallet Experts GmbH
As the former founder of comuny, a start-up with its own wallet application and board member of the digital identities working group at bitkom, I have been working on the topic of decentralised...
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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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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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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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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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Burcu Ekiz
Identity Infrastructure Technologies Manager
Garanti BBVA Bank
Burcu is a dedicated identity access management professional with a development background. She has more than 14 years of experience with different companies. She is working at Garanti BBVA since...
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Chang Ellison
Identity Management Capability Manager
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Chang Ellison serves as the Identity Management Capability Manager at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In this role, she oversees the Enrollment, ID Proofing, and Vetting processes...
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Richard Esplin
Head of Product
Dock Labs AG
Richard Esplin is a seasoned product leader specializing in digital identity, open source software, and enterprise solutions. Currently serving as Head of Product at Dock, he leads product...
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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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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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Hideaki Furukawa
Senior Security Consultant
NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd.
Actively contributing as a Senior Security Consultant at NRI SecureTechnologies, proficiently skilled in areas encompassing digital identity and digital trust.
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Diego Galletti
Enterprise Architect
Quad
Diego is an Expert Enterprise Architect of Quad, a U.S.-based company offering integrated services from creative production to data-driven media management, serving over 2,700 clients. He has over...
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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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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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Ing. Robert Garskamp
IAM Manager
Alliander
With the enormous speed of technological digitalisation transformation nowadays, Robert believes that it will influence, constitute and shape our society where you are able to control your identity...
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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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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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Benoit Grangé
Chief Technology and Product Officer
Omada
Benoit brings over 25 years of experience in leading teams to build world-class products and services focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience and security. Benoit is a technology...
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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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Martin Greck-Riederer
Enterprise Process Owner Identity Management
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Martin Greck-Riederer is working as Enterprise Process Owner for Identity Management at Boehringer Ingelheim (a large pharmaceutical company). In this position he is responsible to design...
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Guido Grillenmeier
Principal Technologist
Semperis
Guido Grillenmeier is the Principal Technologist of Semperis in EMEA. Based in Germany, Guido has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for 12 years. He spent 20+ years at HP/HPE as Chief...
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Nigel Guest
Head of Identity & Access Management
Lonza AG
Originally from the UK, Nigel brings over 20 years of expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), shaped by a development and architectural background. Having spent two decades in Sweden and...
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Priya Guliani
CEO
EarthID
Priya Guliani is the CEO of EarthID, a multi-award-winning cybersecurity platform specializing in decentralized identity and fraud prevention. She also serves as the EMEA Director for the...
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Dick Hardt
Founder/CEO
Hello Identity Co-op
Dick Hardt is a visionary leader in the identity and access management space, with a career spanning groundbreaking contributions to technology and security. As the founder of Hellō Identity, Dick...
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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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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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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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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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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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Max Imbiel
Independent
Max Imbiel is considered one of Germany’s Top CISOs. He has been in the IT and Security business for nearly 20 years. He has built Security and Privacy processes, products and services throughout...
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Rew Islam
Director, Product Innovation
Dashlane
Rew is the Director of Product Innovation at Dashlane, with over 20 years of software development experience. After a decade at Dashlane working on mobile apps, he now leads projects focussed on...
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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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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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Cor de Jonge
Teamlead & Business Owner PKI & Chair ICAO PKD
Judicial Information Service, Ministry of Justice and Security & ICAO
I’m leading the PKI expertise team of the Judicial Information Service of the Ministry of Security and Justice – the only PKI expertise team of the Dutch government. I’m...
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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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Malte Kahrs
Founder & CEO
MTRIX GmbH
Malte Kahrs is the founder and managing director of MTRIX GmbH, a company that is supporting businesses in the selection, implementation, and operation of authentication solutions since 2006,...
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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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Berthold Kerl
CEO
KuppingerCole
Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years....
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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
CEO
Nexis
Dr. Heiko Klarl is the CEO of Nexis and a distinguished expert in Identity and Access Management (IAM) with 20 years of experience. With a strong background in cybersecurity, Heiko excels in...
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Dr. Silvia Knittl
Director Cyber & Privacy
PwC GmbH WPG
Dr. Silvia Knittl is Director at PwC Germany in the Cyber & Privacy domain with a strong focus on Enterprise Security Architecture as well as Identity & Access Governance. She...
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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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Ms. Kritika
Independent Researcher, India
Ms. Kritika is a distinguished researcher and dynamic keynote speaker, renowned for her innovative work at the convergence of cybersecurity, AI/ML, and neuroscience. With a distinguished body of...
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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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Er Balaji Nagaraj Kumar
Senior Product Manager
Volvo Cars
I am Balaji Nagaraj Kumar—a passionate human, engineer, and leader driven by innovation and intentional learning. As a Senior Product Manager at Volvo Cars, I manage Open Information...
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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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Alejandro Leal
Senior Analyst
KuppingerCole
Background and Education Alejandro holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Security from Jagiellonian University in Poland and a Master’s degree in Technology...
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Herbert Leitold
Director
A-SIT
Herbert Leitold is Director of A-SIT, Secure Information Technology Center Austria, a public funded association advising the public sector on information security. He has 25+ years’...
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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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Brennan Lodge
Professor
New York University
Brennan Lodge is a cybersecurity expert with over 15 years of experience in data science, AI, and threat defense. As founder of Blodgic Inc. and a professor at NYU, he has led AI-centric...
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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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Anna Lyubchenko
Senior Manager, NL Domain Lead in CIAM
PwC
As NL CIAM Domain lead of PwC’s Digital Identity Team, Anna helps shape and execute strategies in the Dutch market and across Europe. With a team of highly intelligent and experienced...
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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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Timo Majaneva
IAM architect, Identity and Device Management
SOK AID
I am an Identity and Access Management (IAM) architect with a strong passion for designing secure and scalable solutions that empower both businesses and individuals to achieve their goals with...
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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
President
Cloud Signature Consortium
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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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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Justin McCarthy
Co-founder and CTO
strongDM
Justin McCarthy is the CTO and co-founder of StrongDM and the original author of its core protocol-aware proxy technology. With a career spanning engineering leadership in high-stakes e-commerce,...
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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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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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Navroop Mitter
CEO
ArmorText
Navroop Mitter is the CEO and founder of ArmorText. Before founding ArmorText, Navroop was a senior manager at Accenture’s North American Security Practice, specializing in governance, risk,...
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Mirko Mollik
Identity Architect
SPRIND GmbH
With a strong background in cybersecurity, Mirko first founded a startup focused on verifiable credentials, laying the groundwork for secure digital identity solutions. After a brief period as a...
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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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Thorsten Niebuhr
CEO
WedaCon
With nearly 30 years experience in IT and in the fields of Directory Technologies, Identity Management and Data Privacy, Thorsten is a recognized expert in our industry. As a technical trainer,...
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Kari Nousiainen
Manager
Fortum Oyj
Kari Nousiainen has special expertise in the development of Identity Security services, enabling transactions in online services on behalf of the organization. He has versatile work experience in...
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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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Prosper Onyenkwere
Data Specialist
RAD5 Tech Hub
Prosper Onyenkwere is a Data Specialist, AI Ethics Enthusiast and also a Trainer, having worked as a SQL Server Database Administrator for more than 5 years, resorted to training over 100+...
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Rob Otto
Field CTO
Ping Identity
Rob Otto is a Principal Architect at Ping Identity and the Field CTO for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With over 20 years of experience in identity and access management, Rob has...
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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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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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John Peart
Assistant Director, Market Oversight and Integrity
Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
John Peart is a civil servant working for the UK Government, specialising in digital and technology policy. Since joining the UK Civil Service in 2013, John has worked in a variety of policy and...
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Manish Kumar Periwal
Senior Security Engineer
Norges Bank Investment Management
Manish currently works as Senior Security Engineer at Norges Bank Investment Management (Oljefondet). He brings over a decade of expertise in the IT industry. His specialization in Application...
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Shikha Porwal
Senior Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Shikha Porwal is a Senior Advisor and Analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts since January 2021, specializes in IAM and some topics of Cybersecurity. She consults clients, contributes to research, and...
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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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Martin Raepple
Technical Program Manager
Microsoft
Martin has over 25 years of experience in various roles and industries. At Microsoft he focuses on solution architectures and integration scenarios between Microsoft’s and SAP’s Cloud identity and...
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Matthias Reinwarth
IAM Practice Director
KuppingerCole
Matthias is IAM Practice Director. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias coordinates communication and exchange within the...
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Joerg Resch
Innovation Manager
SPRIND GmbH
Jörg Resch ist Co-Founder & Managing Director bei KuppingerCole. Er blickt auf über 20 Jahre Erfahrung in Projekten im Bereich Identity Management und deren Umsetzung in großen...
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Justin Richer
CTO
UberEther
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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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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Dr. Rogério A. Rondini
Senior Manager
PwC
Rogério is a Digital Identity leader and Principal Identity & Solution Architect at PwC Netherlands, boasting over 25 years of experience in IT, including 15 years focused on Digital...
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Andrea Rossi
President
IAMONES.ai
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. 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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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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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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Volker Schimmel
Head of the Global Data Service
UNHCR - The United Nations Refugee Agency
Volker Schimmel holds an MSc in International Relations and Conflict Studies. Having worked on conflict and displacement in London, he joined the UN in 2003 starting with UNHCR in the Great Lakes....
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Jan Schmitz-Hermes
CEO
L21s GmbH
Jan is a seasoned IT-Architect working on digital processes primarily in the insurance and financial services industry.Jan is an advocate for open source software. During his career, he helped...
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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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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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Michael Schwartz
Founder / CEO
Gluu, Inc.
Mike is the Founder/CEO of Gluu, and leads the Linux Foundation Janssen Project. He is the co-author of the book ’Securing the Perimeter’, Apress 2018, about how to use open source IAM tools. In...
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Christopher Schütze
Chief of Advisory and CISO
KuppingerCole
Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cyber Security and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. In 2023 he was promoted to Chief of Advisory and CISO....
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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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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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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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Charlene Spasic
Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Charlene Spasic joined KuppingerCole as an Advisor in July 2023. Prior to this, she was primarily focusing on IAM from a functional perspective aiming to build the bridge between business and IT...
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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, CoE IAM, IBM Consulting
IBM
Angelika is a seasoned professional with more than 30 years of experience in the Cybersecurity industry, with a particular emphasis on Identity & Access Management (IAM) for more than two...
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Rolf Steinbrück
Senior Solutions Engineer
Yubico
Rolf Steinbrück is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Yubico, and holds more than 28 years of experience in the field of IT security, cryptography, Identity & Access Management and security...
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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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Patrick Teichmann
Lead Advisor
KuppingerCole Analysts AG
Patrick Teichmann joined KuppingerCole as a Lead Advisor in November 2024. With a strong background in Identity and Access Management, he specializes in aligning business needs with technical...
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Henrique Teixeira
Senior Vice President Strategy
Saviynt
Henrique Teixeira is a seasoned leader with over 25 years in identity and cybersecurity. As Senior Vice President of Strategy at Saviynt, he drives innovative, cloud-first solutions in...
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Jerome Thorstenson
Identity & Access Management Architect
Salling Group A/S
Jerome Thorstenson is an Identity & Access Management (IAM) architect with over two decades of experience in IT security and enterprise solutions, but he’s not about buzzwords - he’s about...
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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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Paul Twomey
Co-Chair
Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE)
Experienced CEO in Internet, New Technology and Technology Policy enterprises. Globally distributed!. Very regularly traveling in US, Europe and Asia.
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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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Alex de Vries
Tribe Architect IAM
Rabobank
Pushing the needle on IAM and architectures! Enabling organizational IAM as a Service where machines, employees and third parties are all served equally. Managing, designing, and shaping the...
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Dr. Sarah Walton
Executive Lead
Women in Identity
Sarah is an independent digital consultant with 30 years experience working in digital. She’s researched and authored identity white papers and supported the digital transformation in health,...
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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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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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Dietmar Wyhs
Director Sales CEEME
SSH Communications Security
Dietmar brings over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than a decade dedicated to IT security. During this time, he has successfully worked across various domains, including...
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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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Andreas Zickner
Senior Consultant
MediaMarktSaturn Technology
Visionary and enthusiastic Senior Solution Architect specializing in Identity Governance and Administration Solutions. Passionate about bridging the gap between technical development and business...
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Dr. Lisa Zimmermann
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Maxizoo Pet Retail
Lisa has two lovely dogs, a PhD in Astrophysics and over 11 years of experience in building and maintaining corporate IAM landscapes in different industry sectors. First hand experiences in the...
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Tobias Zügel
Senior Consultant IAM
Fressnapf Tiernahrungs GmbH
Tobias is a distinguished professional with over two decades of experience in IAM, primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Since 2013, he has worked extensively with Microsoft 365 and...
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