Speakers @ IDM europe

Shashi P Singh, prior to joining ABN AMRO Bank, has worked in the R&D department of product-based companies like Philips, Verisign, RSA Security, Siemens, and Harman.

He comes with deep technical know-how in the Identity & Access Management space. He has in-depth skills in key management, authentication, authorization, encryption, Identity federation, and application security. He also comes in with rich experience in design as well as the implementation of complex IAM solutions enterprise-wide.

In addition, Shashi brings to the table hard negotiation skills which are key to ensuring Security is understood and taken up in the desired way for a product.

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 on attribute level within a secure and privacy-regulated basis.

As an expert for 10 plus years, Robert strives to share his knowledge and experience regarding several topics about digital Identity, security, privacy, mobility, risk management and compliance with several organisations in different sectors. He also advises and consults various organisations (in the public and private sector) related to digital identity.

Robert is Founder of the IDnext platform, a pan-European open and independent platform to support and facilitate innovative approaches in the world of the digital identity, creating awareness about digital identity, providing a knowledge and networking platform for experts in IT, Business and Marketers as a European centre of expertise.

Bruno has been immersed in the IAM world for more than 7 years, where he has implemented IAM solutions in Nestle, International Olympic Committee and now at Roche. He is responsible for the overall strategy for Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions, with an external user portfolio of more than 1 million customers worldwide.

Manjir is the technical Product Owner on IAM interfaces both technical and non-technical spanning the paradigm of project planning, IT strategy, IT roadmap and overall IAM management working closely with individual development teams and higher management for creating Nuuday’s IAM roadmap, implementation strategy, and design blueprint. He is
involved in all customer-facing channels protection web and mobile including both consumer, business and dealers, and creating Joiner/Mover/Leaver/ retainer/termination life cycle management for enterprise employees. He is also responsible for End to End API security orchestration based on various Gateway technologies along with Service Mesh sidecar (east-west orchestration).

Alan is a Technical Architect at One Identity with over 10 years’ experience in Identity and Access Management.

As a technical specialist in Privileged Access Management and Governance, Alan has worked with organizations across the globe to help them solve their unique challenges in achieving maturity in managing and governing privileged identities.

Having lived and worked in both the UK and Australia, consulting on projects for companies of all sizes across EMEA and Asia Pacific, Alan is an experienced international subject matter expert and has been a part of the IAM Pre-Sales team at Quest since 2012.

Jeremy Durand is a Solutions Engineer for the BeNeLux region. He is a trusted advisor and provides guidance to Okta customers and prospects for both Workforce and CIAM. He has 10+ years experience in Information Technology from development to solution design, bringing to Okta Identity and Access Management capabilities across many industries and organisations.

Martin Sandren is a security architect and product lead with over twenty years of experience of various information security related roles. Primarily focused on security architecture and digital identity including global scale customer, privileged and employee IAM systems using Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Sailpoint, saviynt, Forgerock, IBM and Oracle security stacks.

Experience includes architect, onshore and offshore team lead as well as individual developer. Wide international experience gained through having lived and worked in Sweden, Germany, UK, USA and the Netherlands. Martin is a frequent speaker at international conferences such as Consumer Identity World, MyData and European Identitiy and Cloud Conference.

In his role as IAM lead at Inter Ikea, Martin is responsible for creating an IAM system that enables our coworkers to deliver a better everyday life for the many people as well as ensuring smooth delivery of meatballs and billys across the world.

Martin Sandren is a board member of the IdNext foundation, founder of the Digital Identity Amsterdam meetup and active within IDPro.

Aditya, an IoT Lead Solution Designer at Vodafone, is responsible for transforming Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Vodafone’s IoT Platform. With over 20 years of experience in IoT Products & Security, IAM, Enterprise Mobility Management, Networks, and BSS/OSS domains, he is a recognized expert across a wider range of technology and has a deep understanding of the industry. His primary responsibility is to design and drive IAM integrations with customers, and he is also responsible for the overall strategy for IAM solutions.

Aditya is a seasoned speaker on key trends in IAM.

Hans-Robert Vermeulen brings over 20 years of experience in the broader Governance and Identity and Access Management space, ranging from consultancy and advisory work to technical pre-sales, Hans-Robert has a wealth of experience and understands the underlying business issues and complexity associated with the security and Identity Governance challenges that businesses face in today’s complex market. Hans-Robert is the Identity Strategist in EMEA. He has been with SailPoint for over ten years and was a part of the original team that built out the EMEA region.

As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the ForgeRock product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and partners to understand the current market demands and bring them to the product teams to deliver the most modern and comprehensive platform in IAM. Prior to joining ForgeRock, Matt has over 20 years experience in the Identity Management and Security space working with companies such as Oracle, Symantec, Unisys and Passlogix.

As a Senior Director of Product Management, Matt is responsible for building product strategies in bringing the ForgeRock product portfolio to market. Matt works closely with customers and partners to understand the current market demands and bring them to the product teams to deliver the most modern and comprehensive platform in IAM. Prior to joining ForgeRock, Matt has over 20 years experience in the Identity Management and Security space working with companies such as Oracle, Symantec, Unisys and Passlogix.

Mehmet has been working in the Identity space for over a decade, spending time in various roles at the customer, integrator and vendor sides. In his current role at Ping Identity as a Sr. Solutions Architect he supports customers and prospects across EMEA to find the right solution for their next identity-related project.

Chris has been in IT for over 20 years with a career covering a broad spectrum from Operations to Architecture both in the Datacentre & the Cloud. Chris has spent the last 12 years working within the technical teams at a number of software vendors, including data protection, cloud native security & storage.

Frank is the Solution Engineer for Benelux at Silverfort. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT Security industry with companies like Okta and Centrify (Delinea). Throughout his experience Frank has consulted many companies on security projects around Identity Protection.

Anette Lavu is a fairly new solution driven Service Manager with a technical and down to earth mindset. Decision making under pressure and learning new skills make her thrive. She has been part of Valmet’s IGA tool implementation project as a Migration Lead and in 2021, she was promoted to IAM Service Manager. Since then, she has been continuously improving the service, it’s monitoring and efficiency, taking new capabilities into use as well as acting as a Project Manager, organizing end user trainings regularly. On top of the regular service management tasks, Valmet’s acquisitions and rapid business needs has kept her developing the service even further to gain smooth and automated processes.

Maurice Luizink serves as the Director of Solutions Engineering EMEA at Transmit Security. With a robust career spanning over 20 years in Information Security, Maurice stands at the forefront of cybersecurity and IDM innovations. His expertise is deeply rooted in roles such as cybersecurity architect and consultant. At Transmit Security, he has been instrumental in driving the successful deployment and adoption of advanced IDM solutions across the EMEA region. His profound technical knowledge and diverse experience make him a respected figure in the industry, catering to both strategic and technical audiences.

PGGM is a not-for-profit cooperative pension fund service provider. As a pension administrator, asset manager and advisor to pension fund boards, it executes its social mandate: to provide for good old-age incomes for 4.3 million participants in the Netherlands. On June 30, 2023 PGGM managed long-term pension capital of EUR 229 billion worldwide. Rooted firmly in the Dutch healthcare sector, PGGM develops innovative provisions for labour market issues in this sector, alone or with strategic partners. Our member organisation PGGM&CO supports 765,000 workers and pensioners with a background in healthcare.

James Maude is the Director, Research at BeyondTrust. James has broad experience in security research, conducting in-depth analysis of malware and cyber threats to identify attack vectors and trends in the evolving security landscape. His background in forensic computing and active involvement in the security research community makes him an expert voice on cybersecurity. He regularly presents at international events and hosts webinars to discuss threats and defense strategies.

James Maude is the Director, Research at BeyondTrust. James has broad experience in security research, conducting in-depth analysis of malware and cyber threats to identify attack vectors and trends in the evolving security landscape. His background in forensic computing and active involvement in the security research community makes him an expert voice on cybersecurity. He regularly presents at international events and hosts webinars to discuss threats and defense strategies.

Ronald Zierikzee, a Senior Solution Architect at Omada, specializes in aligning customers’ business requirements with the right IAM solution, with a primary focus on the Benelux region. Boasting over 20 years of IAM experience and hands-on proficiency with cutting edge SaaS and on-prem security products, Ronald offers a wealth of technical expertise. Today he ensures the seamless deployment of Omada’s leading IGA solution to our customers, all while staying attuned to the latest industry trends.

As Group CEO, Simon is responsible for planning, communicating and delivering Ubisecure’s overall vision and corporate strategy to enable the true potential of digital business through modern identity management solutions. Under Simon’s leadership, Ubisecure has become a European leader in the Identity & Access Management space, and guided the company to become the #1 issuer of verified organizations (Legal Entity Identifiers) globally.

Simon has a proven track record of scaling SaaS operations from early-stage startup to market leading services. Simon is a seasoned speaker and evangelist, especially around the business value derived from embracing organisation identity,

Prior to joining Ubisecure, Simon was CTO at GMO GlobalSign, a leading global Certification Authority, where he led the technical and strategic growth of the company.  Simon has also held executive positions QuantumWave Capital where he led the Venture Building practice, Talecom, an enterprise mobile software company, Artilium PLC, the mobile virtual network enabler, and flyingSPARK, a mobile applications company.  Simon graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University. He holds multiple patents in the field of mobile internet software systems design.

Jochen Raymaekers is a Principal Solution Architect at ForgeRock, and is helping businesses solve complex IAM issues in the Northern Europe territory. Over the past 10 years, Jochen has performed full IAM implementations, from developer to architect, security architecture reviews, security assessments, and penetration tests of different systems and devices.

With over 10 years of experience in Identity and Access Management, Suleyman focuses on supporting Saviynt’s Benelux customers.

Based in Netherlands, Suleyman guides the design, implementation and management of IAM projects for some of the region’s leading public and private sector organisations. Suleyman brings his experience of working for both vendors and system integrators to help Saviynt customers design, develop and deploy IAM solutions that exceed business requirements and expectations.