European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023

Armand Adriano

IAMTEAM

Armand Adriano is a proven Information Security Leader with 25+ years as a focused Identity and Access Management (IAM) professional working with government and private organizations in optimizing...

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Babar Khan Akhunzada

SecurityWall

Babar Khan Akhunzada is a 23-year-old cyber wizard, Founder & CEO of SecurityWall - Stacked on AI & Big Data technology to help enterprises and individuals enhance security capabilities...

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Dr. Ignacio Alamillo-Domingo

Ignacio is a Doctor in Law (UMU), with a PhD thesis related to the eIDAS Regulation, and holds a Degree in Law (UNED), a Diploma of Advanced Studies (UAB) and a Master in introduction to...

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Moritz Anders

PwC

Moritz Anders is a partner in the Cyber Security & Privacy practice at PwC Germany, where he is responsible for digital identity. As an expert in effective...

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Lasse Andresen

IndyKite

A powerhouse of creativity and enthusiasm, Lasse is a perpetual entrepreneur, transforming ideas into thriving, disruptive businesses. In his most recent startup venture, Lasse is founder and CEO...

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Warwick Ashford

KuppingerCole

Warwick Ashford is a Senior Analyst who researches cybersecurity and identity-related topics, including emerging technologies and trends. He has been writing IT news and analysis as a journalist...

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Alexandre Babeanu

3Edges

Alex has been involved in Graphs and Graph databases for Identity and Access Management for almost 10 years. As a graph-certified and IAM-accredited consultant, he has implemented solutions for...

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Daniel Bachenheimer

Accenture

Daniel Bachenheimer, an Electrical Engineer by training, is Accenture’s Digital Identity Innovations technical lead and has been designing and delivering solutions for various clients for...

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Espen Bago

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV)

Espen Bago has been setting up Identity programs involving Identity and Access since 2010 and was an Identity and Access engineer for a decade before that. He is a founding member of the IDPro,...

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Annie Bailey

KuppingerCole

Annie Bailey is an analyst covering emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, and helps synthesize the implications for companies, industries, and markets. She holds a...

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Abhinav Bajaj

Delivery Hero SE

I am working with Delivery Hero as an IAM lead. I’m passionate about Identity and have over 10 years of experience in Identity Security. I’ve expertise in the Identity & Access...

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Alexei Balaganski

KuppingerCole

Alexei is an analyst with specific focus on cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. At KuppingerCole, he covers a broad range of security-related topics: from database, application and API...

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Rajan Barara

Entrust

Rajan Barara is Director of Product Management for Identity at Entrust. In this webinar, he will speak about passwordless experience and what organizations should look for in a passwordless...

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Donna Beatty

Digital Identity

Transformational global product and strategy executive who drives trust in the digital marketplace through better identity, payment verification, and fraud technology strategies. Better identity...

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Dr. Harry Behrens

bloXmove.com

Harry is the CTO and co-founder of bloXmove and has been working in the software and internet industry for more than 20 years. He has been involved with the topic of blockchain and DLT since...

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Felix Behringer

Deutsche Kreditbank AG

Felix Behringer is a certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with 7+ years of experience in IT Security. Felix leads the implementation of Privileged Access Managements (PAM) at Deutsche...

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Ivo van Bennekom

PwC

Ivo leads the PwC Digital Identity Impact Center for the EMEA region. Ivo has over 15 years of experience within the digital technology space, with a specific focus on global identity market...

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Dr. George Beridze

Accenture

Security Consulting Manager in the Information Technology and Services industry. Specializing in Identity & Access Management. Ph.D. in Natural Sciences and certified Project and Process...

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Vittorio Bertocci

Okta

Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect in Okta and host of the Identity, Unlocked podcast. A veteran of the identity industry, with more than 20 years of hands-on experience, he helped usher...

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Anil Bhandari

ARCON TechSolutions

Anil Bhandari is an inspired innovator, technologist, and thought leader in Information Risk Management. He serves as a Mentor & Thought Leader and provides his invaluable insights for the...

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Reidar J. Boldevin

PwC

I have an IT career spanning twenty years. Throughout that time I’ve been a consultant focusing on solutions for the financial industry, government and public organizations and the defence...

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Jonas Brännvall

BankID

Jonas Brannvall, Head of International Business Expansion at BankID, leads the strategic initiative to enable BankID to grow into new markets. BankID is the leading digital identity solution in...

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Matthias Buchhorn-Roth

Microsoft

At Microsoft I help companies and organisations for their digital transformation, whereby I would be utilising my sound expertise in developing software products and IT projects, leading teams and...

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Robert Byrne

One Identity

Rob Byrne, a field strategist at One Identity, has worked in IT for more than 15 years in various roles – including development, consulting and technical sales – the majority of his...

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Benjamin Bönisch

ETO GRUPPE TECHNOLOGIES

Benjamin Bönisch is VP Strategy & Corporate Development at ETO GRUPPE and manages all Venture projects. Venture is the testing ground ETO has created to successfully and sustainably meet...

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Juliana Cafik

Microsoft

Juliana began her 27 years in the technology industry from a very different trajectory, building solutions for ski resorts to move more people up mountains simply, quickly, affordably and without...

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Joseph Carson

Delinea

Joseph Carson is an award-winning cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise security specialising in blockchain, endpoint security,...

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Melissa Carvalho

Royal Bank of Canada

Melissa Carvalho, RBC Global Cyber Security Vice President, leads the Cyber security Planning office and the bank’s Global Identity and Access Management group, providing cyber solutions and...

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Osman Celik

KuppingerCole

Osman joined KuppingerCole as Research Analyst in March 2022. Osman holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Koc University, Turkey, and Master of Management (Track in IT Management)...

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Dr. David Chadwick

Crossword CyberSecurity

David is R&D Director (Identiproof) at Crossword Cybersecurity PLC. David designed Identiproof, its W3C Verifiable Credentials product. David has been active in identity management for over 20...

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Kay Chopard

Kantara Initiative

Ms. Kay Chopard is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a unique global ‘commons’ that operates...

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Louise Cole

International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Louise Cole is the Head Customer Experience and Facilitation for the International Air Transport Association (IATA). In this role, Louise has responsibility for the IATA Passenger Facilitation...

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Adam Cooper

ID Crowd

Adam is an identity standards expert, policy lead, and enterprise architect with over 30 years of experience in innovation and service transformation. Having played a leading role in the...

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Fadi Daood

PWC

Fadi is a manager within PwC Digital Identity who focuses on Identity architecture. He has over 14 years of experience in cybersecurity, specifically identity and access management. He mainly...

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Dr. Scott David, LL.M.

University of Washington

Scott David, J.D., LL.M., is the Executive Director - Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative at University of Washington and was formerly the Executive Director of the Law,...

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Dr. Maarten Decat

Elimity

Maarten is Elimity’s founder and CEO. Maarten is a highly-skilled Identity and Access Management professional with a history of working in, amongst others, the financial services industry and...

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Nitish Deshpande

KuppingerCole

Nitish joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG in February 2022 as a Research Analyst. Education: Master of International Business and Engineering from SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany Bachelor of...

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Samuel Devasahayam

Microsoft

Samuel Devasahayam has spent 25 years at Microsoft delivering solutions to help you protect your organization by securing access to the connected world for all users, devices and services across...

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Abdou-Naby Diaw

Lufthansa Group

Abdou-Naby Diaw (50) has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of IT Cross Functional Processes of Lufthansa Group as of 1 January 2018. He is in charge of the Cyber...

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Adrian Doerk

neosfer

Adrian Doerk is specializing on digital Wallets for identity management. He build up the IDunion Consortia and manages the business development for Lissi. He is also sharing insights from the...

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Katryna Dow

Meeco

Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco; a personal data platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust ...

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Gert Drapers

Aserto

Gert Drapers is the co-founder and CTO of Aserto.com, leading technology implementation and strategy. A widely recognized expert in the data and developer space, Gert has built and operated various...

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Ward Duchamps

Thales Digital Identity and Security

Ward Duchamps has an extensive experience in Identity and Access Management. Currently, he serves as VP of strategic partnerships at OneWelcome. Ward was the founder and CEO of Scaled Access, a...

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Kim Hamilton Duffy

Centre Consortium

Kim is Director of Identity and Standards at Centre Consortium. Kim is an expert and leader in the emerging decentralized identity space, driving standards and implementations through direct...

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Michael Engle

1Kosmos

Michael (Mike) Engle is a proven information technology executive, leader, and entrepreneur. He is an expert in information security, business development, and product design/development. He...

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Sebastien Faivre

Brainwave GRC

Sebastien is Chief Technical Officer and co-founder at Brainwave GRC, responsible for product vision, features and design. Sebastien is a seasoned Product Management expert with more than 20 years...

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Dr. Xinxin Fan

IoTeX

Dr. Xinxin Fan is the Head of Cryptography at IoTeX, a Silicon Valley-based technology platform that empowers the emerging machine economy with innovative combination of blockchain and IoT. He is...

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Dr. Daniel Fett

Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science for the development of new methods for analyzing the security of web standards. Leveraging this background, he has worked for the past several years to...

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Paul Fisher

KuppingerCole

Paul Fisher is a Lead Analyst who researches primarily on cybersecurity and identity and access management (IAM). He also studies trends in AI, IoT and data governance for different industry...

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Heather Flanagan

Spherical Cow Consulting

Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership...

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Judith Fleenor

Trust Over IP Foundation

The mission of the Trust Over IP Foundation (ToIP) is to simplify and standardize how trust is established over a digital network or using digital tools. The ToIP collaborative community focuses on...

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George Fletcher

Capital One

George Fletcher currently serves as the Identity Standards Architect for Capital One supporting the partner and consumer sides of the business. He is a seasoned software architect with 25+ years of...

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Allan Foster

Chief 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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Mihails Galuška

If P&C Insurance

Since 2021 managing the portfolio of customer and partner identity related services across If P&C Insurance - the largest insurance group in Nordic countries with operations also in Baltics....

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Omri Gazitt

Aserto

Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his third entrepreneurial venture. He’s spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer and infrastructure...

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Gerry Gebel

Strata Identity, Inc

Gerry is a recognized leader in the identity management space. His accomplished career spans over two decades in which he has been instrumental in providing requirements definition, architecture...

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Fawaz Ghali

Hazelcast

Fawaz Ghali is a Principal Developer Advocate at Hazelcast with 20+ years of experience in software development, machine learning and real-time intelligent applications. He holds a PhD in Computer...

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Ian Glazer

IDPro

Ian Glazer is the Senior Vice President for Identity Product Management, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards...

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Wolfgang Goerlich

Cisco

J. Wolfgang Goerlich is an Advisory CISO for Cisco Secure. Prior to this role, he led IT and IT security in the healthcare and financial services verticals. Wolfgang has held VP positions at...

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Daniel Goldscheider

yes.com

Daniel is CEO of yes.com, an ecosystem of over 1,000 financial institutions and serves on the board of Valamar Riviera, the largest tourism company in Croatia. He is an avid advisor and...

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Amit Goyal

PwC

Amit is the Practice lead for PwC EMEA IAM DevOps practice and is based in Amsterdam. Amit has nearly fifteen years of experience under his belt helping customers solve problems in the Identity...

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Tomasz Gramza

OLX Group

Tomasz Gramza is an experienced identity specialist and the Principal Engineer in OLX Group Europe – one of the world’s fastest-growing networks of trading platforms used by over 300...

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Guido Grillenmeier

Semperis

Guido Grillenmeier is the Principal Technologist of Semperis in EMEA. Based in Germany, Guido has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for 12 years. He spent 20+ years at HP/HPE as Chief...

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Mark Haine

Considrd.Consulting Ltd

Mark is an engineer and entrepreneur who has focussed his career on building solutions that enable business and mitigate risk in financial services. At the start of 2020 Mark founded...

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Joseph Heenan

Authlete Inc

Joseph is a software engineer & architect with over 25 years’ experience, who started writing mobile apps before mobile apps existed. He contributes to IETF and OpenID Foundation working...

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Dasun Hegoda

ICTA

Dasun is specialized in Enterprise Application Development (EAD) with many years of industry experience in the field of IT and the digital arena. After years of experience in different roles, he...

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Gal Helemski

PlainID

Gal is a recognized specialist in cyber security with specific focus on identity and access management. In the past 16 years she has defined solutions to customers, wrote the project specs,...

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Richard Hill

KuppingerCole

Richard Hill is Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole. He has 20 years of experience as an Identity & Access Management Solutions Architect, Systems Designer, and Engineer in the Aerospace,...

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Gail Hodges

OpenID Foundation

Gail Hodges joined the OpenID Foundation as Executive Director in May 2021. She is also the Founder of the Future Identity Council, a global non-profit that seeks to empower citizens with...

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Gerald Horst

PwC

Gerald Horst joined PwC in 2016 as Partner and is leading PwC Europe’s Digital Identity team. Before joining PwC, Gerald held an executive position for over 15 years at Everett, a consulting...

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Andrew Hughes

Ping Identity

Andrew Hughes CISM CISSP is Director of Identity Standards at Ping Identity. He is a digital identity strategist contributing to international standards development. He works with international...

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Stephen Hutchinson

Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo

Steve “Hutch” Hutchinson is the Director of Security Architecture for the Mitsubishi Bank of Tokyo. After cutting his teeth in C/C++ software development and network engineering, Hutch...

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Marina Iantorno

KuppingerCole Analysts AG

Marina joined KuppingerCole as a Research Analyst in April 2022. Her main areas of expertise are Business, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Background and Education: Marina holds a...

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Petteri Ihalainen

National Cyber Security Centre, Finland

Mr. Ihalainen has extensive information security background having worked for organizations like SSH Communication Security, Ubisecure, EU Commission, Gemalto, and GlobalSign. During his career, he...

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Ashish Jain

Arkose Labs

is a product leader with 25+ years of experience, strong engineering background, and deep expertise in identity, security, and consumer fraud. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Arkose Labs...

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Dr. Michael B. Jones

Microsoft

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

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Alfredo Luiz dos Santos Junior

Farfetch

24 years of IT experience with Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Systems Development;Security and Development Book Writer;Identity Management Projects in companies like CA, IBM, Novell, Claro...

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Gustaf Kaijser

Styra

Gustaf Kaijser is the Head of EMEA at Styra, the creators and maintainers of Open Policy Agent (OPA). He brings 15+ years of experience from the security, software, telecom/mobility, and cloud/data...

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Krishna Balan Kannappan

KONE

16+ years of experience in Information Technology and worked on various technology frameworks and domains. Have extensive experience in Identity Access management domain. Having worked with many...

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Pieter Kasselman

Microsoft

Pieter Kasselman is a member of Microsoft’s Identity Standards team where he focus on developing standards to address the most important problems in the field of identity. Pieter has over 25 years’...

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Andrzej Kawalec

Vodafone Business

Andrzej Kawalec is the Head of Security Portfolio at Vodafone Business. Andrzej manages Vodafone Business’ global portfolio of security offerings. An inspirational and creative leader in the...

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Berthold Kerl

KuppingerCole

Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years....

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Mike Kiser

SailPoint

Mike Kiser has held a panoply of industry positions over the past 20 years—from the Office of the CTO to Security Strategist to Security Analyst to Security Architect—that might imply...

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Dr. Heiko Klarl

iC Consult Group

Dr. Heiko Klarl has been in Identity and Access Management for more than fifteen years. He is driven by the motivation to bridge the gap between business and IT in order to create holistic...

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Dr. Silvia Knittl

PwC GmbH WPG

Dr. Silvia Knittl is Director at PwC Germany in the Cyber & Privacy domain with a strong focus on Enterprise Security Architecture as well as Identity & Access Governance. She...

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Alexander Koch

Yubico

Alexander is VP of sales in EMEA overseeing the DACH and CEE regions for Yubico. He is a technology industry veteran with over 20 years experience in enterprise technology, IT security, and strong...

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André Koot

SonicBee

André Koot is a Principal Consultant and Access Strategist at SonicBee. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of information security, and as an economist he practices this...

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Hed Kovetz

Silverfort

Hed Kovetz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Silverfort, the provider of the Unified Identity Protection platform. Prior to founding Silverfort, Hed served in product management positions at Verint,...

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Dr. André Kudra

esatus AG

Information security is my passion since the turn of the millennium and I consider myself a decentralization visionary. With business diplomas plus a doctorate from European Business School (EBS)...

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Martin Kuppinger

KuppingerCole

Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Prior to...

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James Lapalme

Entrust

James Lapalme is the VP/GM of Entrust. Before that, he was the CRO/SVP of Leonovus Inc. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Business Development at WinMagic.

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Alejandro Leal

KuppingerCole

Alejandro joined KuppingerCole as a Research Analyst in December 2021. His main areas of expertise include digital transformation in the public and private sector, managing business in...

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Emma Lindley

Women In Identity

Emma Lindley is an advisor on digital identity and co-founder of Women in Identity a not for profit organisation focused on developing talent and diversity in the identity industry. Over a...

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Dr. Torsten Lodderstedt

yes IDP GmbH

Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is managing director at yes with more than 15 years experience in running large scale consumer identity services. In his previous positions, he helped organisations in...

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Parya Lotfi

DuckDuckGoose

Parya is the co-founder of DuckDuckGoose and has a background in systems engineering and policy analysis. By combining her technical skills with her knowledge of Grand Challenges, she applies an...

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Eve Maler

ForgeRock

Eve Maler is ForgeRock’s CTO. She is a globally recognized strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a passion for fostering successful...

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Viky Manaila

Intesi Group

Viky Manaila is an international expert in the field of electronic signatures, digital identity and digital transformation processes, who has successfully promoted the electronic business globally....

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Francesco Antonio Marino

Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS)

As an Innovation Manager and Solution Architect with a specific emphasis on Digital Identity, I bring over 15 years of experience in research and developing innovative digital products to the...

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Drs. Henk Marsman

SonicBee

Henk Marsman is independent researcher on Digital Identity and Ethics as well as principal consultant with SonicBee, an IAM Advisory Organization. Before that Henk was Global Service Owner Identity...

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Yaron Mazor

EffectiveIT

Yaron Mazor is an independent cybersecurity strategy consultant and architect with core experience in leading global PAM & MFT projects. Yaron founded EffectiveIT, a successful Israel-based...

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Patrick McBride

Beyond Identity

Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and...

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Tal Melamed

Contrast Security

With more than 15 years’ experience in Application and Serverless Security, Tal recently co-founded CloudEssence, a cloud-native Application Security company that was acquired by Contrast Security...

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Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt

KuppingerCole

Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt joined KuppingerCole in January 2021 as Advisor & Analyst. Prior to this, he worked for various management consultancies, primarily advising major banks on challenges...

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Jelle Millenaar

Impierce Technologies

Jelle is a Self-Sovereign Identity expert with the goal to make SSI technology accessible to all. As the former Lead of Identity at the IOTA Foundation, he led the team and architectural design of...

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Hisham Mir

SecurityWall

Hisham Mir is the co-founder and brain behind the SecurityWall tech stack. Hisham leads security operations and focuses on new research areas, especially DApps, Web3, and Smart Contracts. Hisham...

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Simon Molitor

digitalsocial.id

Simon is a 26 year old entrepreneur and co-founder of his company digitalsocial.id as well as a business student at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He spent the past years working in a...

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Leonardo Morales

Siemens AG

Leonardo Morales is an IT Solution Architect and lead of Identity Lifecycle Management at Siemens AG. As an Architect with focus on Identity Lifecycle he is working in different areas from the...

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Dr. Emilio Mordini

NORIA

Emilio Mordini is a clinical psychoanalyst, currently based in San Vito al Tagliamento (Italy). He is the Scientific Director of the Non-Profit Organization NORIA, which promotes and investigates...

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Nick Mothershaw

The Open Identity Exchange

Nick is Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, a community for all those involved in the ID sector to connect and collaborate, developing the guidance needed for inter-operable,...

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Fouad Mulla

Devoteam

Fouad is Cloud Security Lead Consultant in Devoteam with over 10 years of professional experience in the digital and software industry at global corporations, Fouad helped many businesses to govern...

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Patrick Münch

Mondoo

Patrick knows Security inside out. He is incredibly skilled at protecting and hacking every system he gets his hands on. His passion is hacking hardware and software as well as securing...

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Nick Nikols

CyberRes - A Micro Focus Line of Business

Nick has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry both in developing industry leading Identity and Cybersecurity solutions and as an industry analyst conducting research and...

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Huzefa Olia

1Kosmos

Huzefa is a leader in Identity & Access Management with twenty years of experience in running various roles across multiple software organizations. Prior to joining 1Kosmos, Huzefa led the...

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Patrick Parker

EmpowerID

Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID, a company specializing in Identity and Access Management for over 20 years. He pioneered the unique use of Role and Attribute-Based Access...

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David Pignolet

SecZetta

With nearly two decades of experience in application, network, and data security, David Pignolet founded SecZetta in 2006, assembling a highly-experienced team and securing strategic partnerships...

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Andre Priebe

iC Consult Group GmbH

Andre Priebe is Chief Technology Officer of the iC Consult Group, a vendor-independent system integrator specialized in Identity & Access Management with more than 500 employees around the...

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John Pritchard

Radiant Logic

John is Chief Product Officer at Radiant Logic, responsible for the company’s global product vision and leading engineering, product and design. John joined Radiant Logic from Okta, where he...

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Denny Prvu

Royal Bank of Canada

Denny Prvu has been fortunate enough to work around the world with public and private sector organizations as a strategist, architect, and communicator on identity, security, and privacy topics for...

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Akarshi Rastogi

KONE

Akarshi Rastogi ia a Code-savvy security engineer seeking to build secure, scalable solutions, with a passion for cybersecurity. Unlocking the possibilities of technology with 7+ years of...

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Drummond Reed

Avast

Drummond has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was...

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Matthias Reinwarth

KuppingerCole

Matthias is Head of Advisory and oversees and leads the KuppingerCole advisory team. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias...

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Justin Richer

Bespoke Engineering, LLC

Justin Richer is a security architect, software engineer, standards editor, and systems designer with over two decades of industry experience. He is the lead author of OAuth2 In Action and...

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Eleni Richter

EnBW

Eleni Richter is working as chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at EnBW and as lecturer in IAM at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She has been...

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Manfred Rieck

Deutsche Bahn AG

In 2019, Manfred Rieck set the course for Deutsche Bahn on quantum by founding a research group for quantum technologies. The group concentrates on the industrial usage of quantum computers for...

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René Rindermann

E.ON

René Rindermann joined E.ON in 2000 after completing his Business Economics Studies, majoring in Business Information Systems. He worked as a Consultant, Sales Controller and Head of...

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Zaïda Rivai

Danube Tech GmbH

Zaïda Rivai is a highly skilled data scientist with a strong track record in the field. Currently working at Danube Tech GmbH, she leads the analyses of Global Decentralised Identifier (DID)...

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Bryn Robinson-Morgan

Mastercard

Bryn Robinson-Morgan has worked at the forefront of digital transformation and consumer led innovation for over 20 years. He is a key influencer for how people transact and interact in the digital...

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Sebastian Rohr

umbrella.associates GmbH

While Sebastian has been known as author of multiple articles, reviews and essays on all kinds of Identity and Security topics, he has more recently made a name for himself as being the...

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Darran Rolls

KuppingerCole / Cloud 10

Mr. Darran Rolls is a research and advisory Fellow at KuppingerCole and an independent consulting advisor. He has a long history in Identity Management and Security at companies...

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Paolo De Rosa

Paolo is currently working as external consultant for the European Commision by developing the European Digital Identity Wallet. For the past 15 years Paolo has been designing and building secure...

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Martin Sandren

IKEA

Martin Sandren is a security architect and delivery lead with over eighteen years of experience of various information security related roles. Primarily focused on security architecture and digital...

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Philipp Schneidenbach

Ventum Consulting

Philipp Schneidenbach is working as Principal at Ventum Consulting in Munich. He specialises in the area of IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture and IT Service Management.Mr. Schneidenbach was...

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Christoph Schneider

Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Christoph Schneider is Head of IT Development and Operations at the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). In June 2017, Christoph joined the International Organization for...

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Olivier Schraner

UBS Business Solutions

Olivier Schraner is the CTO for Technology Services at UBS Business Solutions, covering all aspects of IT infrastructure and security across Cloud, hosting, end user and network services.

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Max Schrems

Privacy Advocate

Chairman and founder of noyb, a ’privacy enforcement platform’ that brings data protection cases to the courts under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Schrems first came to notoriety as an...

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Christopher Schütze

KuppingerCole

Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cybersecurity and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Cloud Security at an auditing...

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Dr. Giada Sciarretta

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Giada Sciarretta is a researcher of the Security & Trust research unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She obtained her MSc in mathematics at the University of Trento in 2012 and received her...

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Fady Semaan

Capital One

Fady Semaan, Managing Vice President, Software Engineering, oversees Consumer Identity which is the foundation for every digital experience and interaction that customers have with Capital One. His...

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John Erik Setsaas

With over 25 years’ experience in digital identity, John Erik Setsaas is a pioneer in this space. He is a prolific speaker at fintech industry events around the world including Money20/20...

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Omer Shafiq

Aurora Labz

Omer is a tech architect turned entrepreneur with experience in digital identity ecosystems and a strong focus on self-sovereign identity. He has worked with various public and private sector...

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Vlad Shapiro

Costidity Inc

Vladislav is driven by a deep curiosity for understanding human behavior; especially at the intersection of technology and decision-making. A noted expert in IGA, Vlad is a founder of Costidity...

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Dr. Amir Sharif

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Amir Sharif is a researcher in the Security & Trust Research Unit of the Cybersecurity Center of Fondazione Bruno Kessler. He received his Ph.D. in Secure and Reliable Systems from...

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Jackson Shaw

Clear Skye

Jackson began his identity management career as an early employee at Toronto-based Zoomit Corp., the pioneer in the development of meta-directory products who Microsoft acquired in 1999. While at...

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Patrick Shirazi

Swedbank AB

Patrick is the head architect of security at Swedbank. In this role, Patrick is leading the design of various IT solutions in Identity and Access Management, Cryptography, and Cybersecurity to make...

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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders

Independent

Jacoba is a digital identity expert, eager to make digital life better and a lot more secure than it is today. Keynote speaker at international IAM congresses and teacher of masterclasses. ...

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Andreas Sigurdsson

ZADA

Andreas Sigurdsson is the Founder and CEO of ZADA Solutions, a decentralised identity network and ecosystem in Southeast Asia. As an independent SSI Ecosystem, ZADA enables a unique cross-border...

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Anmol Singh

Microsoft

Anmol Singh is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft and brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience focused on IAM and related security technologies. Through his career, Singh has...

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Mike Small

KuppingerCole

Mike Small is the retired director of security management strategy of CA, where he was responsible for the technical strategy for CA’s security management software product line within Europe,...

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Markus Soppa

Filancore

Markus Soppa is Managing Director and co-founder of Filancore GmbH, which offers solutions for decentralized identities around the Internet of Things. Previously, as Chief Development Officer at...

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Annet Steenbergen

Government of Aruba

Annet Steenbergen is co-founder/initiator of the Aruba Happy Flow project for the Government of Aruba. The Happy Flow project was the first single token initiative that created a seamless flow of...

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Dr. Angelika Steinacker

IBM Security Services EMEA

Angelika has extensive experience in Security and Identity & Access Management. She has been working in the security industry for over 30 years and with a focus on IAM for 20 years. In her...

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Michiel Stoop

Philips

Michiel Stoop is since 2015 domain lead Identity and Access management in Philips Group Security – Information Security and has over 10 years’ experience in the domain Identity and...

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Maarten Stultjens

Thales Digital Identity and Security

Maarten is VP Global Enablement IAM at Thales Digital Identity and Security. He has a passion for identity and access management (IAM) and information security. On a daily basis he is in close...

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Dr. Carsten Stöcker

Spherity

Dr. Carsten Stöcker is co-founder and CEO of Spherity. Spherity is building decentralized digital identity management solutions to power the fourth industrial revolution.Carsten...

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Dr. Evelyne Sørensen, LL.M.

activeMind.legal

Dr. Evelyne Sørensen, LL.M. specializes in international data protection law. As a business lawyer at the law firm activeMind.legal she enables international groups and companies to handle...

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Don Thibeau

OpenID Foundation

Don Thibeau serves on the Board of the OpenID Foundation, a non-profit, international standards development organization committed to enabling, promoting and protecting open standards for identity...

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John Tolbert

KuppingerCole

Background: John Tolbert is a Lead Analyst and Managing Director of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises...

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Alastair Treharne

Beruku Identity / UK Government advisor on digital identity

Alastair is an expert advisor on digital identity with a background in business, political and security risk, working on UK and international initiatives across the humanitarian, development,...

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Thomas Treml

Microsoft

Thomas Treml leads Technology and Strategy in Public Sector Microsoft Germany, he joined Microsoft in 2007. Educated in Sociology and Computer Science, he spent his entire professional career in...

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Samuel López Trenado

Holcim Emea Digital Center

Samuel is a cybersecurity professional passionate about the Identity and access management subjects. During his professional career in Holcim, he worked several years in the directories...

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Atul Tulshibagwale

SGNL

Atul is a federated identity pioneer and the inventor of the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP), forming the basis of the Shared Signals and Events working group in the OpenID Foundation,...

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Mayur Upadhyaya

Contxt

Mayur is the CEO of Contxt, a privacy layer for customer identity. Previously he was AVP Identity Cloud at Akamai technologies where he led the former Janrain team after acquisition. In 2014 he...

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Marco Venuti

Thales Group

Marco Venuti is IAM Enablement and Acceleration Director at Thales Group. Marco has 20+ years of direct experience in Identity & Security, having worked for multiple solution vendors in Sales...

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Jan Verbeek

Gemeente Den Haag

Jan Verbeek is lead architect of the city of The Hague in the Netherlands.

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Heather Vescent

The Purple Tornado

Heather Vescent is a digital identity industry thought leader and futurist with more than a decade of experience delivering strategic intelligence consulting to governments, corporations and...

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Cristiana Vicovan

EmpowerID

Cristiana is an accomplished professional with a strong background in both chemistry and technology. She holds an MS in Chemistry, with a focus on green chemistry and sustainable materials, and...

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Helene Vigue

GSMA

Helene Vigue is Identity and Data Director at the GSMA. Since 2014 she has been assisting mobile operators worldwide with their mobile identity initiatives. Her purpose is to connect the mobile...

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Sadrick Widmann

cidaas

Sadrick Widmann joined the company to transform his management and IT talent into a compelling and intelligent customer solution. As the CEO of Widas ID, together with Yael Widmann he is...

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Graham Williamson

KuppingerCole

Graham Williamson is a senior Analyst at KuppingerCole. Graham has practical experience in the identity management and access control industry having completed assignments in the academic,...

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Candace Worley

Ping Identity

Candace Worley joined Ping Identity as Chief Product Officer (CPO) in May of 2020. As CPO, she is responsible for advancing global product vision, leading technical product innovation efforts and...

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Dr. Dirk Woywod

Verimi

Dr. Dirk Woywod has been Managing Director and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Verimi GmbH since 2018 a leading ID-Wallet provider in Germany. After completing his PhD in theoretical physics at...

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John Wunderlich

John Wunderlich & Associates

John Wunderlich is a data protection professional and expert witness who has worked and consulted about privacy, data protection, and security for over 20 years in multiple jurisdictions. He has...

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Stefan Würtemberger

Marabu Inks

Stefan Würtemberger is employed at Marabu GmbH & Co. KG, where he is Vice President Information Technology and responsible for Global IT. Previously, he was Chief Digital Officer and CIO...

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Kristina Yasuda

Microsoft

Kristina is an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft, known for her work on standards in decentralized identity ecosystem: as an editor of OpenID for Verifiable Credentials specifications in...

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Kamil Zacharski

Royal Bank of Canada

Kamil Zacharski is Senior Director of Identity and Access Management Engineering and Application Support at Royal Bank of Canada. In this senior leadership role, Kamil leads and manages the...

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Erik van Zuuren

Trustcore.EU, Solvay.EDU

Erik has years of experience/expertize in amongst others: Governance/Risk/Compliance, eGovernment/eBusiness/eBanking, Trust Services and Trusted/Trustworthy (eco-)systems, Enterprise (Security)...

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