Janelle Allen is currently a senior product manager at ForgeRock delivering the next generation of identity and access products in the cloud. Prior to ForgeRock, she consulted for over 15 years designing, implementing and deploying complex Identity and Access solutions for a number of industries including financial services, transportation, health care and government. In her early career, she built a platform delivering highly personalized web experiences and delivering highly personalized health and beauty products to consumers. Janelle is a member of Kantara and a founding member of IDPro, the association of Identity Professionals and was recently selected to be a member of the IDPro board.
Janelle lives in Calgary, AB Canada and enjoys camping, swimming and biking with her young family in Canada’s Rocky Mountains.

At Ping Identity, Mr. Amin is currently CTO for West, helping customers with their IAM strategy, Ping M&A and ML/AI strategy. Previously, he was responsible for Ping’s solution offering around OpenBanking, GDPR, Privacy, and Consent, across Ping’s product portfolio; product and solution go-to market and pricing strategy, and for Ping solutions in Employee, and Consumer centric Identity and Access Management.
Prior to Ping, Mr. Amin served as Senior Director of product management for IDaaS solutions at Oracle Corp. and CA Technologies. Before that, Mr. Amin served as Director of Cloud Security with Novell Identity and Security. He was responsible for crafting Oracle’s IDaaS strategy and setting direction for the future of Identity Services.

At CA Technologies, Mr. Amin’s primary responsibility was for CA Advanced Risk Based and Multifactor Authentication offering and CA IAM product and service strategy in the cloud, including it's next generation cloud security service offerings. During his time at Novell, he helped position Novell as a thought leader in Identity based services, cloud and enterprise security. His primary role was to lead the overall strategy for Novell Cloud Security and oversee ongoing product direction in the area.

Mr. Amin is also an author on several patents in software security, web caching and content distribution.

Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect for Auth0. Before Auth0, he had a lengthy career with Microsoft, where Vittorio worked with Fortune 100 and Global 100 companies, including working on Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory team as principal program manager focusing on the developer experience. He contributed to the inception and launch of Microsoft's claims-based platform components (Windows Identity Foundation and ADFS, ADAL and MSAL SDKs, ASP.NET middleware). Vittorio is a well known speaker, educator and published author.

Debbie Bucci has held a number of Identity and security related technical IT positions during her Federal career; she tends to keep an eye on emerging standards and technology. Her recent work has focused on the privacy and security aspects of Health Information Exchange and in particular identifying the security standards and potential gaps to close to enable broad use of standard APIs for patient/citizen access to data from these networks. Debbie has been previously recognized, both within the federal government and nationally, for her work in Federated Identity Management.

Don Cardinal is Managing Director of the Financial DataExchange (FDX), a non-profit, industry led collaboration dedicated to unifying the financial industry around a global interoperable standard for the secure access of consumer and business financial data. Don comes to FDX after more than 20 years with Bank ofAmerica, where he served in key leadership roles as the Privacy Officer of their Military Bank, the Digital Banking VP for Military Bank, VP in DigitalBanking, and most recently as a Senior VP in Global Information Security, where he orchestrated the bank’s DMARC email security implementation. From 2016 to2018, Don also served as co-chair of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s (FS-ISAC) Aggregation Working Group. Prior to his banking career, Don worked for a fintech, writing tax preparation software.Don is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified InformationSystems Auditor, Certified Information Security Manager, and holds a Six Sigma green belt. He earned BBAs in Accounting and Finance from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Our Lady of the Lake University. He is a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy, a member of the FBI’s InfraGard and holds nine U.S.patents.Don is a frequent speaker on data aggregation, DMARC email security and other security topics, and has served as an adjunct faculty for the University of the Incarnate Word. His volunteer work has included leadership roles in the 500 Inc, Treasurer for pARTners supporting the NorthEast School of the Arts, and as Treasurer and President of the Alliance Française de Dallas.Don resides in far North Dallas with his wife, son, two dogs and two cats.

Sarah is a Principal Product Manager at AWS Identity, and a co-founder of IDPro, the professional association for identity practitioners. She a co-author of NIST Special Publication 800-63C Digital Identity Guidelines, which outlines federated authentication standards for all US federal agencies. She has served on the Board of Directors for the OpenID Foundation. She has been named one of the top 100 influencers in identity. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Master of Science in Information Management from the University of Washington where she was a NASA Space Grant Scholar. She is also a Certified Information Security System Professional (CISSP).

Pamela Dingle is a long-time member of the identity management world, and is a Director, running the identity standards team at Microsoft. The identity standards team works with standards bodies like W3C, IETF, and the OpenID Foundation on specifications like OAuth 2.0, FIDO, SCIM, and OpenID Connect, and Pamela works to ensure that customers, product groups, and the industry all understand the value of standards and other identity best practice patterns. Pamela spent 8 years as an identity architect and 8 years in the office of the CTO at Ping Identity, and is a founder of Women in Identity.

John Fontana helps create standards at the FIDO Alliance and the W3C. He represents Yubico on the FIDO Board and as co-chair of the W3C’s Web Authentication Working Group. He works on building relationships, consensus, and trust to produce valuable and lasting outcomes based on standards.

Jeremy Grant brings more than 20 years' experience at the intersection of identity, privacy, and cybersecurity, having served in a range of leadership positions spanning government and industry.
He serves as Venable's Managing Director of Technology Business Strategy and is a member of the firm's eCommerce, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Group.
Jeremy previously established and led the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), housed in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); NSTIC was the first new cybersecurity program launched by the Obama administration. There he led activities across private and public sectors to drive a marketplace of more secure, privacy-enhancing identity solutions for online services. He also served as NIST’s Senior Executive Advisor for Identity Management.
Before leading NSTIC, Jeremy spent three years as a market analyst focused on identity and cybersecurity. Earlier, he led the Security and Identity Management practice at a systems integrator. Jeremy began his career as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate, drafting legislation laying the groundwork for U.S. government smart card and PKI efforts, and working on a range of privacy and technology issues.
Jeremy also serves as Coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition, an organization focused on developing and advancing consensus-driven, cross-sector policy solutions that promote better solutions for identity verification and authentication. He also serves as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Identity Management Standards Advisory Council (IMSAC), and on the advisory board of the European Payment Summit.

Andrew Hindle is an independent consultant specializing in digital identity, cyber security and privacy. This is his sixth year as Content Chair for Identiverse®.

Andrew is also a founding member of IDPro, where he serves on the Board and the Editorial Committee. He is UK Ambassador for Kantara, where he also participates as a voting member of the User Managed Access Working Group; and he is a member of OIDF.

Andrew has over 20 years' experience in the software industry in a range of technical sales, pre-sales, product marketing and business development roles. He maintains CIPP/E, CIPM and CIPT privacy certifications with the IAPP, and holds a BA in Oriental Studies (Japanese) from Oxford University.

Outside the world of identity, Andrew is involved in Scouting at community and county level, rides regularly with a local road cycling group, and plays keyboard, guitar and bassoon (not at the same time!) with more enthusiasm than skill, and for an audience of one. Andrew is based in the UK and can also be found on twitter (@andrewhindle) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/ahindle).

Laura is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud & Enterprise Security division. She tries to make the Internet a safer and more usable place.
Laura has previously been an Identity Management consultant, Active Directory architect for a global engineering firm, and other sundry IT pursuits. She has a B.A. and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. from the University of Washington, and is an unrepentant technology zealot who likes to talk about herself in the third person when providing auto-biographical information. She Twitters (tweets? She’s not cool enough to know the verb form of Twitter) @adfskitteh, and is a competitive West Coast Swing dancer in her spare time.

Nishant Kaushik is the CTO of Uniken, the first security platform that tightly integrates identity, authentication and channel security. He brings over 15 years of experience in the identity management industry architecting and delivering market leading products, with stints at Thor Technologies, Oracle, SCUID and CA Technologies. His current role allows him to focus on his latest passion of solving the user experience problem in delivering exceptional security by leveraging identity. Nishant is a recognized thought leader and notorious photoshopper of the identirati, regularly speaking at conferences and provoking discussion through his blog (blog.talkingidentity.com) and on twitter (@NishantK).

Jon Lehtinen is an identity & security professional with 15 years of enterprise experience. He works to drive global-scale organizations, like Thomson Reuters, General Electric and Apollo Education Group, to mature their identity and security postures by advocating for the adoption of standards-based protocols, automation, and self-service while seeking to reduce the barriers to adopt good identity practices through continuous customer engagement. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession, and has mentored several early career professionals as they got introduced to the field. He is active in the OpenID Foundation, the Kantara Initiative, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of IDPro. He is also a Certified Information Security System Professional (CISSP).

Eve Maler (@xmlgrrl) is ForgeRock’s Interim CTO. She is a globally recognized strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a focus on fostering successful ecosystems and individual empowerment. She founded and leads the User-Managed Access (UMA) standards effort and provides expert advice to forums such as Open Banking. Previously Eve co-invented the SAML and XML standards. Eve contributes to the rock ‘n’ roll outfit ZZ Auth and the Love Tokens.

Lance Peterman is the Director for Identity & Access Management at Equitable. While he has spent over two decades working in various sectors of IT, Lance’s current focus has been in specialized areas of information security, including identity and access management, risk management, cybersecurity, and mobility. In addition to being the treasurer and member of the board of directors at IDPro, Lance is also an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte, teaching software architecture and design. His active credentials include CISSP and PMP.
When not focused on information security or teaching, Lance spends most of his time on his small farm in Charlotte, raising chickens, caring for 3 dogs whose loyalty largely resides with his wife, and is also a natural horsemanship enthusiast.

Preeti Rastogi is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft since 2007. Prior to Microsoft, Preeti worked at Daimler Chrysler and Progressive Insurance as a Software Developer. At Microsoft, She is passionate about the security space and has worked on multiple antimalware products like Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection. Preeti later worked on Device Management in the Enterprise using System Center and Windows Intune, specifically focusing on secure management of personal and corporate owned devices. She is currently working on Decentralized Identity and creating a platform for people to own their identity. Preeti is a strong advocate for Diversity and Inclusion and leads several D&I initiatives at Microsoft. She likes to travel to exotic places around the world and paint in her free time.

"Security only works when it’s in tune with the company it supports. Understanding what we are defending (and why) is more important than preventing, detecting or responding to threats. Understanding is dependent on high-quality relationships with stakeholders.” Robb has built successful risk based security programs in the software and financial services industries. As Chief Information Security Officer at Ping Identity he is responsible for ensuring the integrity of all Ping products, the confidentiality of sensitive data, and the availability of critical services. Previous to his role at Ping Robb served as vice president and CISO for Pulte Financial Services. Before Pulte Robb served as Information Security Officer and Director of Risk Management for Harland Financial Solutions. Robb holds a Bachelor’s of Arts from George Fox University and an MBA from Colorado State University.

Sarah is an Enterprise Security Executive in Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Solutions Group. She serves the US Federal Government by helping executives and key stakeholders lead their digital transformation and defend against cybersecurity threats. Previously, Sarah worked on Microsoft’s Cyber Incident Response team where she was a Forensic Analyst who investigated threats and breaches at organizations around the globe. Sarah holds a B.S. in Security & Risk Analysis, as well as a B.S. in Spanish, from the Pennsylvania State University. Sarah holds certifications in Certified Ethical Hacking, Certified Penetration Testing, GAIC Forensic Analyst, and Certified Cloud Security Professional.

Greg Smith is the Director of Identity & Access Management Engineering at Johnson & Johnson Technology, with global responsibility for delivering authentication, authorization, and access governance solutions. With well over 25 years of experience in Identity Management, he leads a talented team of engineers who create J&J’s single sign-on, risk based authentication, multi-factor authentication, recertification, directory synchronization and virtualization, provisioning automation, and PKI services. He holds BSEG and MSBA degrees from Bucknell University, where he also began his professional career before moving into the Pharmaceutical industry in 1996.

Steve Wilson has worked in digital identity and data privacy for 25 years, holding R&D leadership and Principal Consultant roles with Baltimore Technologies, KPMG, PwC and SecureNet. In 2004, Steve founded the Lockstep Group, and in 2014 he took up a conjoint appointment as Principal Analyst with Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research. Steve’s research agenda includes the evolution and ecology of identity, data provenance, attributes exchange, cryptography-as-a-service, blockchain, and the emergence of data supply chains.

Andy builds technology ecosystems, enabling organizations to develop coherent and robust value delivery networks. His career journey includes both small, scrappy startups (Divide, acquired by Google 2014; NEON, acquired by Sybase 2001, now SAP) and large, well-known multinationals (Avaya, Raytheon, LG, and Google). In close collaboration with top industry talent, Andy has developed Internet standards at the IETF and W3C, invented 11 patents on security, presence and availability technologies, and created open-source, cross-platform mobile identity solutions like AppAuth. Andy holds a BS in Mathematics and has a decade of experience in information security and many years of IT operational experience from early in his career.