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.

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.

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, CERT@VDE 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.

Dr. Heiko Klarl has been in Identity and Access Management for twenty years. He is driven by the motivation to bridge the gap between business and IT in order to create holistic solutions spanning from the customer’s strategy to the technological implementation. He successfully accomplished a wide variety of Identity and Access Management projects in different domains like automotive, banking and logistics.

As Chief Marketing and Sales Officer of iC Consult Group, he is passionate to understand the challenges of his customers and to work with them to find the best fitting solution.

Anna has 15+ years of experience in the financial industry and IT and business consultancy. She supports in building Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solutions from strategy definition to technical design. Anna has a strong background in the field of CIAM, leading players on the market, trends and best practices as well as global security standards and regulatory framework. This enables her to help companies to define the best applicable CIAM strategy balancing business needs, technical possibilities and target timelines. Within Saxo Bank, Anna played a crucial role in defining, initiating, and running CIAM program across multiple streams and parts of the organization aiming to enhance security, uplift user experience and reduce cost.

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.

Rogério is a Senior Manager and Senior IAM Architect with 20 years of experience on the delivery of complex IAM and IT solutions, helping customers to achieve success on their goals. Along of these years he developed his technology skills on Digital Identity, Software Development, and complex Integration and Solution Architecture. Rogério led the Saxo Bank ForgeRock platform implementation, defining the solution architecture and enabling them on the ForgeRock technology.

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.

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.

Jan joined the Deloitte Cyber Risk Services group in June 2008 after successfully growing and leading a niche IAM systems integration company. He is currently leading the overall Belgian Cyber Risk Services Team, which houses well over 120 experts (and growing) who cover the full breath of services in the Cyber Security domain, from high level Strategy, Roadmap, Operating Model, Security Management and Workforce development experts, over Data Protection, Cloud security, Emerging Technology, SAP and Identity management export all the way up to Ethical Hackers and Managed Security Services experts. This wide range of services will allow Jan’s clients to face the next big transformation wave to follow the Digital Transformations: a full Cyber Transformation to confidently act and thrive in a digital economy.

In parallel, after leading the Deloitte Identity Services Practice on a regional level and for EMEA, Jan joined the Deloitte Global Identity leadership team to focus on go-to-market and delivery of the Deloitte Global Identity Operate Platform – Digital Identity. Digital Identity drastically reduces the time-to-value of our client’s Identity capability by focusing on providing an Initial Operating capability at “warp speed”, in a sustainable way to allow further Enhance and Extend workstreams to continuously improve this Identity capability. Hence, our clients are solving current needs quickly and have a flexible platform to support ever evolving identity needs for employees, customers, business partners and smart devices.

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.

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.

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.

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.