Speakers @ IDM europe

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.

Martin Boreham is a Senior Solutions Engineer and Technology Evangelist at BeyondTrust where he is constantly building new and existing partnerships with global customer’s, providing thought leadership and best practise to drive the BeyondTrust Universal Privilege Management capabilities to align with customer strategy while disrupting the Cyberattack Chain. Martin has worked in IT for over 25 years, primarily within finance and telco sectors, more recently primarily focusing on DevOps practise and Cloud Infrastructure capabilities.

Having worked with several vendors in the Identity Access and Federation paradigm for over 12 years, Manjir brings a deep knowledge of how changes in business needs have caused the evaluation of Digital Identity and Federation as a standard for delivering identity exchanges.

As a Solution Architect, his pre-eminent role in architecting a Federated Identity broker in the enterprise makes onboarding of new applications easier and integration sustainable.

Manjir has been a part of various migration projects over the years and has expert-level experience of the challenges faced, overcome, and lessons learnt.

Mark is Sales Director for Omada in Benelux and has a long track record in management and sales positions in leading IT security companies such as Symantec and HPE. His main focus is on assuring successful information protection projects and he brings a wealth of expertise in DLP, CASB, IAM, IGA solutions and their best practices. In the fast-growing space of identity and access management, Mark and his team assist Omada’s Benelux customers in their journey to a successful IGA/IAM implementation with Omada’s unique approach based on a comprehensive IGA process framework.

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.

Rod joined Santander as Global Head of Identity in 2019.

Rod was co-founder and COO of npm, Inc. (now MSFT). 20 million developers use npm to share open-source code.

Rod started his career as a Fixed Income Derivatives quant at Wells Fargo.

He then joined Ernst & Young before becoming Global Head of APIs at AIG.

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 nine years and was a part of the original team that built out the European region and Eastern Europe territories.

Annet 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 passenger facilitation from curb to gate through the reuse of biometrics and advanced cooperation through data sharing between the public and the private sector in the travel ecosystem.

Currently, the Aruba Happy Flow project is developing a second phase of innovations, with one of the aims to connect off-airport stakeholders like a hotel and a car rental to the seamless and contactless travel experience. The use of digital identity, digital health credentials and privacy and security by design will be a central part of this second phase.

In 2016 Annet took on the chair of IATA’s Facilitation Working Group (FWG) and is a member of IATA’s OneID Advisory Board.

Since 2017 IATA started the One ID task force, residing under the FWG she actively participates in several working groups on creating standards and best practices to prepare the aviation industry for cross-border seamless and contactless travel.
In 2020 Annet was awarded the Women in Biometrics Award.

Besides her work for the Government of Aruba, she is a consultant on seamless and contactless passenger facilitation with a strong focus on digital identity in the travel ecosystem, stakeholder identity management cooperation, data sharing solutions and data privacy/GDPR.

Annet has 25 years of international experience working in the field of border management (Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service) and public-private cooperation at airports to counter illegal immigration and human trafficking.

She has, besides Aruba, previously worked in i.e., the Netherlands, Suriname and South Africa.

Furthermore, she also enjoys public speaking engagements, writing articles and thought leadership on the topic of contactless travel and the use of a digital identity.

Amit brings over two decades of industry expertise helping organizations address identity, security and compliance challenges. As CEO of Saviynt, Amit provides strategic leadership to ensure that the mission and core values of Saviynt are put into practice. He also manages strategic customer and partner relationships. Previously, Amit served as COO of Saviynt, where he led sales, business development, alliances, and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Saviynt, Amit held leadership positions at Infosys and HCL.

Elissa Fink was Tableau Software’s CMO for 11+ years and retired at the end of 2018. She is credited with driving marketing through all stages of growth, driving the company from ~$5 million to over $1 billion in revenue. Elissa also cultivated and grew the loyal and enthusiastic Tableau fanbase from 2,000 customers to over 100,000. She now serves on boards, advises fast-growth tech companies in scaling and marketing strategy, and also teaches at the University of Washington.

Prior to joining Saviynt’s Board of Advisors, Jim DuBois served as Chief Information Officer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Corporation from May 2013 to September 2017. Mr. DuBois was accountable for the company’s global security, IT infrastructure, collaboration and business applications. Jim is a tech leader with a unique view of IT innovation and digital transformation along with a deep understanding of technical strategy, cyber security, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He brings content about these topic areas to life with stories from his 25 years at Microsoft, especially leading the digital transformation as CIO as Satya Nadella reinvented Microsoft.

Maarten Bevers is an Information Security Officer and a specialist in IAM, which comes with the experience of working with global enterprises and a background in general safety & security management and predictive profiling/crowd control.

Within the world of information security and IAM, communication is key. Maarten focusses on translating technical and “dull” material to layman’s terms, both from a process as well as a policy point of view. This translation should be a key element in any Information security and/or IAM strategy if you want to ensure business involvement and awareness.

Together with business focussed solutions, a balance between security and ease of access can be achieved.

In Maarten’s presentation, he will focus on exactly these elements; business communication, business friendly tooling and the balance between security and ease of access.

For more than 10 years, Manuel Garat was a software engineer in different defence projects where Security had a critical relevance. Following his focus on value delivery, product vision and strategic significance, he felt himself pulled towards IAM Product Management.

As a software engineer, he had the ability to define complex functionality and understand the Development Team, the problems and the intricacies they face. As a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) he understood the specifics of IAM, regarding security and regulatory compliance. As a Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), he could bind it all together towards delivering maximum value in an agile and waste-less way.

Leading the Corporate IAM track at Booking.com means providing secure identity management, authentication and authorization for 20,000 users, with thousands of use-cases and under heavy regulatory compliance, in order to provide a secure and compliant experience for all.

For the last 4 years, Mark has been working in the financial industry.

He has been involved in several aspects of IAM, and several IAM roles.

These include, but are not limited to, IAM Project Management, the designing of workflows that are compliant with regulations, and the migration of the organization to an IAM approach that involves new tooling and a different way of thinking about access rights.