ForgeRock IDLive 2023

As an IT consultant Christian Bolterauer has over 20 years of experience bringing IT Projects to success. With a background in Physics and a long lasting passion for Software development mainly with Java, he worked in many roles such as software engineer, enterprise architect for PDM, as technical lead, project manager, or simply as an IT consultant. As one of the longest lasting members of the ‘Group Directory’ Christian uses his deep technical knowledge, organizational skills, and his expertise as an IAM architect to continually stabilize and modernize this critical and central Allianz directory.

Monica is a disruptor in the Financial Services market with a strong background that spans across many industries, having developed digital products at the edge of innovation, focusing on payments and banking for more than 15 years. In 2021 she took the product leadership of Lloyds Banking Group Identity and Authentication platform built to achieve Strong Customer Authentication compliance for one the biggest digital estate in UK Financial Services and to drive a vision of a platform as a service product.

Ajit Gupta is the Founder & Managing Director of Midships, a ForgeRock-centric consulting firm, and has over twenty years of experience supporting large organisations to deliver against challenging objectives successfully.

Sven Hansel is a well-known presenter. He moderates both online and offline events across the entire IT industry. He has over 25 years of industry experience and also hosts well-known podcasts.

Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker is a professor for IT security law at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences. He works at the interface of law and technology in information security and data protection and is also a legal advisor to the VDE, [email protected] where he shapes the policy area as a member of the board of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID) in Berlin, the future European and German cyber policy.

Andy has been with HSBC since 2001, starting in the development of internet based Banking Services, before moving to Middleware to run various infrastructure projects, later becoming LDAP Lead.  Now Lead Engineer/Architect for Global Directory Services – responsible for the Group’s direction on Identity Customer Management.

Tammy Martin is an industry leader in Financial Services transformation, with over 15 years’ experience in leading global contact centre operations, defining client contact strategies and transforming the customer and colleague experience.

Stephen recently completed his tenure as Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for esure, a leading UK insurer where he was known for his pragmatic advice. Stephen has supported various companies throughout EMEA on multiple high-profile cloud digital transformations and legacy transition projects. Capping his data privacy and security expertise, Stephen was also recognised by the industry and awarded a Fellow of Information Privacy from the International Association of Privacy Professionals in 2016. More recently recognised by Corinium Group as one of the Top 100 Global Leaders in InfoSec (2022)

Stephanus has been with BMW since 2002, starting at BMW Financial Services, having multiple roles such as Project Lead, IT Architect, Enterprise Architect and now Product Owner for WebEAM.

Michael has more than 19 years experience in IT projects and in this role worked for the financial, defense and insurance sector. After starting his career in 2004 as software developer he slowly took over more responsibility. In 2013 he finished his diploma in informatics and with that focused more on a project lead role. He and his team established a reliable service in a highly business critical IAM environment. In late 2020 he and his IAM colleagues founded the BA IAM Solutions to fully focus on the topic IAM. He is engaged as BA speaker and compensation responsible. He is in touch with IAM related colleagues around the world.

As the head of the Identity and Rights solution center at CNP Assurances, Virginie is in charge of IAM, CIAM, SSO, directories and electronic signature solutions. In this role, she works with all stakeholders, including legal, research, customer experience, DPO, security, architecture and production. Virginie has been leading the team in charge of IAM, CIAM and SSO solutions for the past twenty years. She has accompanied the implementation of various cybersecurity solutions, which has become a major issue for insurers, and led the transformations necessary for the digitization of customer journeys and the democratization of solutions such as SAML, oauth2, and Open ID Connect, which are used extensively in the context of the APIsation of CNP Assurances' information system.

Herrmann has been working in various e-commerce fields for around 15 years and was responsible for different identity management topics during that time. Currently he is in charge of Andreas Stihl's identity management for their worldwide dealers.

Bert Vanspauwen is a managing director within Accenture’s Security Consulting practice. He leads Accenture’s European Identity & Access business for Europe. He is specialized in IAM and has a broad experience in the Security domain.

He has 18+ years of experience in IAM and oversees all key IAM bids and deliveries across Europe, for the most complex ones, he functions as lead SME and / or executive sponsor. Bert has previously assisted many companies on their IAM journey (from strategy over implementation onto managed services) and functioned as the Program Manager for large security programs.

Bert holds the following certifications: CISSP, CISM, ISO27001 Lead Implementer, Prince2 as well as some product specific certifications.

A passion for digital trust, customer engagement and consumer privacy led Fran to ForgeRock. As CEO, Fran brings 20+ years experience building and leading high-performing enterprise security and identity management teams. Fran joined ForgeRock from Symantec, where he was EVP & GM of the company's $2B+ Consumer Digital Safety segment; a continuation of his success as senior vice president of Authentication and Identity Management Services. He joined Symantec in 2010 through the acquisition of VeriSign's security business. Fran holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

Peter Barker is Chief Product Officer at ForgeRock, driving the company's global product vision, design and development, and leading product management and all of engineering. Peter joined ForgeRock from Oracle, where he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Identity Management and Security business. Based in Austin, Texas, Peter previously held executive-level positions at Good Technology, Motorola, FedEx and other companies.

Chip is responsible for driving the strategy and growth of ForgeRock's workforce business. He is passionate about working with customers and driving products/solutions that solve the toughest authentication, authorization, and governance challenges. Chip has almost 20 years of experience in the identity and access management industry. Prior to this role, Chip held various leadership positions within ForgeRock and was the RVP leading the America’s South Sales Team. Additionally, Chip has held positions at Oracle and PwC focused on sales, sales management, technical pre-sales, and consulting.

A 20-year tech veteran with AI and ML expertise, Darryl is the driving force behind the innovation found in ForgeRock’s Consumer Identity and Access Management solution.

Responsible for the ForgeRock Solution Architecture team across EMEA, Alex has over twenty years experience in security and identity technology. During this time he has been involved with digital transformation on both the vendor and system integrator side, working alongside Government departments. the Military, multiple Police forces and the banking sector. At ForgeRock Alex interacts on a daily basis with enterprise scale organisations supporting clients and partners with his wealth of knowledge in this fast moving sector.

Tim is a Distinguished Sales Engineer at ForgeRock, specializing in consumer IoT, connected vehicles, and other critical digital identity and security scenarios for Europe's largest enterprises.

Responsible for industry marketing in the EMEA region. Over the past 10 years, Adam has taken a number of digital offerings to market, managed complex technology projects, and led customer and partner relationships across the private and public sectors.

Marcin has over 20 years of experience within multiple security domains in both government and non-government organizations, including those highly regulated. From offensive security operations, security governance and management to IAM space, designing authentication and authorisation solutions for various enterprises ranging from small businesses, car manufacturers, pharmaceutical research companies, telecom giants to leading global providers of financial market data and infrastructure. Currently a solutions architect with ForgeRock helping businesses combat fraud and deploy modern identity and access management.

Jochen's primary responsibility is to help business solving 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.

Detlev Riecke has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry with a successful management career spanning across Europe. Having worked with all European sub-regions in various roles, Detlev has worked with industry innovators such as HP, OpenText and Sitecore. In his role as Regional Vice President in Central Europe at ForgeRock, Detlev believes in a hands-on approach, leveraging his wealth of knowledge in software development and working to keep people securely connected to the digital world.