One of the IT industry's most respected analysts and consultants, Jamie Lewis drives and provides strategic direction for Burton Group's overall research efforts. With over 21 years of experience in the IT industry, Lewis has both studied and influenced the development of core network infrastructure technologies. In his five-year tenure at Novell, for example, Lewis helped educate the market about the emergence of the network operating system, directory services, and messaging systems.

Lewis continued to focus on these and other core technologies after co-founding Burton Group in 1990. He has dedicated 16 years to Burton Group, working as both an analyst and a consultant. During that time, Lewis was instrumental in defining the concepts relevant to enterprise directories, meta-directories, access management systems, and other essential components of the emerging identity and access management infrastructure. More recently, Lewis charted Burton Group's expansion into Web services, application platforms, and security with the launch of the Application Platform Strategies and Security and Risk Management Strategies. With Lewis' reliable guidance, Burton Group continues to monitor the evolution of these core technologies to support networked business models. Prominent users and vendors turn to Lewis for his keen insights into the evolution of these technologies and the markets that drive their development.

Michael Barrett is the chief information security officer for PayPal. In this role he is responsible for ensuring the security of information systems and services, as well as the integrity and confidentiality of customer and employee information. Before joining PayPal, Barrett was vice president of security and utility strategy at American Express where he helped define the company’s information-security program and directed its Internet technology strategy.

Previously, Barrett was president of the Liberty Alliance, an open-standards consortium focused on identity management standards and guidelines. Barrett was the driving force behind the introduction and standardization of the Alliance’s federated identity concepts, and he also co-chaired its Identity Theft Prevention Working Group. Barrett is both a certified information systems security professional (CISSP) and a certified information security manager (CISM). He graduated from Brighton University (U.K.), where he earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science.

As First Vice President, Technology Risk Management, and Chief Information Security Officer, Tim is the executive charged with protecting People’s Bank information, information systems, and technology. Tim is responsible for developing information security policy and strategy, providing corporate program management, user education, and awareness, and setting clear direction in security and technology risk management that enables business process and complies with all legal and regulatory requirements. Tim leads a team of Technology Risk and Information Security professionals responsible for IT Governance, Control and Assurance, Information Security Architecture and Standards, as well as Information Security Operations.

Prior to joining People’s Bank, Tim was Group Vice President and Manager of the Access Control and Support Services Group within the Enterprise Technology Risk Management Division at SunTrust Bank, where he led his team to the 2006 Digital ID World Industry Award. In this role, Tim was responsible for life cycle identity management, access control, user account provisioning, user authentication program management, the user access attestation program, and security application support. Additionally, Tim was responsible for the Technology Risk Project Management Office, and for financial and administrative management for the Division. He maintained executive oversight of projects that implemented plans and programs for Business Continuity, Corporate Physical Security, Security Operations, Fraud Loss and Prevention, Governance, and eCommerce risk across the enterprise.

Tim has wide ranging experience in business and risk management. Before assuming his information security duties, he was Vice President and Construction Program Manager of SunTrust Bank, Atlanta where he architected, designed, branded, and delivered a “branch in a box” concept that was successfully implemented in the Atlanta market. This centralization of branch banking construction delivered cost, time, and staff savings. Prior to his joining SunTrust, Tim was a career military professional serving in leadership positions through out his 23 year career. In his final assignment, Tim was the program manager for a command risk management function at one of the US Air Forces Major Command Headquarters.

Tim is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, a Certified Information Security Manager, a Certified Project Manager, a Competent Toast Master, holds an Associate of Science Degree from Community College of the Air Force and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of the State of New York.

Doc Searls is a writer and speaker on topics that arise where technology and business meet. He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, one of the world's leading technology monthlies, with a paid circulation of over 100,000. He is also co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller. (It was Amazon's #1 sales & marketing bestseller for thirteen months and sells around the world in nine languages.). Doc also writes the Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica of Annenberg's Online Journalism Review calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement." Doc's blog has over 60,000 readers per month.

Phil Becker is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital ID World and a Managing Partner of Digital ID World, LLC. Phil has a BSEE from Vanderbilt University and has been in the computer industry since 1967. His signature is on both the Moon and Mars, for computer communications projects he built for the Apollo and Viking missions. Phil has created technology to link computers in both the pre-Internet and Internet eras and as an entrepreneur built and took public two companies in the computer communications and Internet spaces. In 1992 he founded ISPCON and grew it to be the premiere Internet Service Provider Trade Show. Phil is a technical best selling author and speaker about the Internet, digital identity, and their impact on business and society.

Mike Ackerman is executive director and head of security solutions in Morgan Stanley's Technology Division, where he is responsible for developing solutions and technical standards to enable security in applications, systems and infrastructure. Since joining Morgan Stanley in 1986, Mr. Ackerman has held a variety of technology leadership positions in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and London. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Ackerman was head of Information Technology for Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific, and prior to that he was Head of IT for Morgan Stanley's European Branch offices.

With more than twenty years of IT security experience, Mr. Ackerman has managed the development and deployment of solutions spanning the areas of application security, data security and access management. Mr. Ackerman graduated from Dartmouth College in 1986 with a degree in computer science and economics.

Doug Allan has 12 years experience in Information Systems at Country Insurance & Financial Services. Doug has spent most of his IT career developing application systems including mainframe CICS, J2EE web applications and Enterprise Application Integration. He was the lead developer for both COUNTRY’s employee facing and customer facing web portals.

Doug has recently taken a position in the IT Security Department, where he is responsible for enterprise application access control. Included in these responsibilities are web SSO, eSSO, identity federation, and web services security.

Jeffrey Arcuri is a Senior Manager for Gap Inc. Direct, the on-line retail arm of Gap, Inc., where he manages the team responsible for the deployment of all new code to both development and production environments.

Recently, Jeff spearheaded the initiative to consolidate and simplify directory services for user authentication and authorization.

Ian has 24 years of IT experience that includes software development in the oil and gas, national defense, and health sectors, and infrastructure planning and design with the BC Government. For the past 7 years Ian has led the design and implementation of the Identity Management infrastructure in the BC Government.

William Barnes is the service owner for Identity and Access Management at Pfizer, Inc. His responsibilities include management of identity provisioning, application authorization and digital certificates. He holds a M.S. in Information Technology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Steve Berg is the Director of IT at Omneon Video Networks, a company providing networking and storage infrastructure for the broadcast and video industry. Omneon systems are used by content providers and distributors in the converging industries of television and the Internet. At Omneon Steve is responsible for developing technical strategies for tactical and operational management of Omneon's information systems including planning, research, evaluation and networking.

Steve came to Omneon Video Networks from Opsware Inc where he was the Director of IT and was responsible for managing their heterogeneous server environment. Prior to that Steve was the National Manager for USWeb's Network & Security Engineering team that was responsible for designing, building and maintaining many Fortune 500 company websites.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia as well as Cisco and Checkpoint certifications.

Tim Brown is the senior director of architecture and strategy for Symantec. He has been in the software industry for 20 years and with Symantec for the past 7 years. Currently working in the office of the CTO he is responsible for cross product architecture, developing Symantec’s technology strategy and implementing advanced technology initiatives.

He also serves as a technical advisor to the internal teams and assists in the technical due diligence associated with mergers, acquisitions and partnerships.

Prior to joining the CTO office Brown focused on Symantec’s enterprise architecture and the collection, correlation and prioritization of security data.

Tim joined Symantec through the company’s acquisition of Axent Technologies. At Axent he was responsible for the Identity Management product line. Which included provisioning, enterprise single sign on, multi factor authentication and Web SSO.

Prior to joining Axent, Brown served as an architect and manager for Pilot Software a company focused on high speed multi dimensional databases and business intelligence software. He started his career at Wang Laboratories helping to develop their next generation workstation platform.

Brown holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from North Adams State College He sits on a number of standards committees and is active in promoting cross industry initiatives that benefit the security and safety of online consumers.

Conor Cahill is a Principal Engineer with Intel Corporation's Corporate Technology Group where he participates and drives research topics related to identity, security and privacy. Conor also actively participates in the generation of open standards in the areas of identity, federation and single-sign-on systems including the Liberty Alliance and the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee (SAML).

Kim Cameron is Architect of Identity and Access in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, where he drives evolution of Active Directory, Federation Services, Identity Integration Services, CardSpace and Microsoft’s other Identity Metasystem products.

Kim joined Microsoft in 1999 when it bought the ZOOMIT Corporation. As VP of Technology at ZOOMIT, he had invented metadirectory technology and built the first shipping product. Before that he led ZOOMIT?s development team in producing a range of SMTP, X.400, X.500, and PKI products.

Kim grew up in Canada, attending King’s College at Dalhousie University and l’Universite de Montreal. He has won a number of industry awards, including Digital Identity World’s Innovation Award (2005), Network Computing’s Top 25 Technology Drivers Award (1996) and MVP (Most Valuable Player) Award (2005), and Network World’s 50 Most Powerful People in Networking (2005).

Kim blogs at identityblog.com, where he published the Laws of Identity.

Paul Contino is Vice President of Information Technology for the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, one of the country's largest and premier teaching hospitals. Mr. Contino oversees the enterprise's application environment, which encompasses all clinical, financial and administrative systems used by the hospital and school of medicine. In addition to the support and maintenance of the institution's critical application portfolio, Mr. Contino is responsible for the overall architecture of all custom developed applications and databases.

Dawn Comeau-Johnson is a Technical Systems Administrator with Gundersen Lutheran Health Systems in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. For the past 10 years she has been involved in various forms of Identity Management. Currently, Dawn helps build and maintain the automated Identity Management Role Based Infrastructure for data and physical Security at Gundersen Lutheran.

Mr. Coupe develops and delivers IAM solutions to commercial and government entities. During his tenure at CSC, he has served as program manager for the global deployment of the DuPont two-factor authentication and user provisioning security system. As a result, Mr. Coupe received Dupont’s C.T. Welsh Jr. Information Security Award.

Ken DeJarnette is a Deloitte & Touche LLP Principal, specializing in the areas of security and privacy for financial institutions. In addition to holding a law degree, Ken is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). Ken has over twenty-years experience in security, privacy and regulatory matters. He has led numerous engagements, including the design, development and review of risk-based information security and privacy programs based on regulations like GLBA (including the Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information), the EU Data Protection Directive, the APEC Privacy Framework and unauthorized access laws, and private sector programs like the Cardholder Information Security Program and ISO.

Ken is a member of the American Bar Association’s Information Security Committee (where he is listed as a contributor to the development of the PKI Assessment Guidelines), and the Privacy and Computer Crimes Committee (where he was the vice-chair for the development of the International Guide to Privacy and he is the co-chair for the Enterprise Security Program Workshop Working Group), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Ken speaks and writes frequently on the topic of information security and privacy programs, including co-authoring A Matter of Trust, and speaking on topics like the Security Privacy Paradox; Protecting Intellectual Property in an Outsourced and Off-shored Environment; Protecting Against Internal Threats; Privacy Issues: How Are They Affecting Our Marketing Strategy?; and Enterprise Security Programs.

John Donovan is a Senior IT Security Manager at Network Appliance. He has over 15 years experience in Information Technology engineering and management including 10 years experience with various Identity Management technologies. He's held positions at several enterprise and startup companies in the Silicon Valley including Amdahl, Xilinx, iBuilding, and 12 Entrepreneuring. John has been a speaker and panelist at a number of conferences including DIDW 2006, Gartner's I&AM Conference, and Oracle Openworld.

John is active in the local information security community and is a Board member of the Silicon Valley ISSA Chapter (www.sv-issa.org). He is also Board President of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (www.sjica.org).

Mr. Dully has a technology leadership background in health care. He overseas all technology infrastructure operations and a variety of clinical, financial, and operational systems support activities for Baptist Health, the largest health care provider organization in northeast Florida.

Mr. Dully’s recent accomplishments include overseeing the architecture and deployment of a state of the art technology infrastructure, successfully implemented to support the operations of a new paperless, digital acute care hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida.

Prior to joining Baptist Health five years ago, Mr. Dully held technical and IT leadership positions in the healthcare insurance and the acute care hospital industry. Mr. Dully has been quoted in industry publications on a variety of healthcare information technology topics, including healthcare applications for mobile computing, maximizing computing systems availability, disaster recovery, and others. Mr. Dully is a graduate of the University of West Florida with 20-plus years professional experience in the information technology field.

Katie is responsible for enterprise identity management infrastructure including teams that provide support for password management, compliance management, access roles, and awareness training. Her twelve years within the information security field includes work in the consulting, telecommunications, health care, energy and insurance sectors.

George Fletcher has 17+ years of experience in architecting, designing and implementing dynamic, networked systems. These systems cover a wide variety of disciplines including artificial intelligence, "real-time" media processing, graphical information systems, consumer electronic devices and large scale internet deployments (15 billion events a day).As the chief architect for Identity Services at AOL, George is currently focusing on the application of identity standards to internal and external services.

George also participates in the Liberty Alliance and OASIS standards bodies.

Carl Fong is Executive Director for Orange County Department of Education (OCDE). With over 22 years experience in K-12 education, Mr. Fong is president of the California Education Technology Professionals Association (CETPA). Mr. Fong has a Doctorate and Masters in Business Administration and a Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM) certification.

John Fontana has been covering technology for the past 11 years with a focus on such topics as email, collaboration, directories, identity and federation. He also covers the comings and goings of companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat and Novell.

Kenny Gilbert is the Director Technology Service for Silicon Image. In this role he is responsible for ensuring the security of information systems and services, as well as all other aspect of managing a High tech IT department. Before joining Silicon Image, Mr. Gilbert served as the Director of Information Services at Spectrian Corporation another High tech Silicon Valley company. Before holding these director level positions he was an consultant for KPMG.

Ariel Gordon is Director of Enablers in Orange/France Telecom's Strategic Marketing Division. Ariel developed Orange's consumer Identity Management system which currently hosts tens of millions of user identities across Europe. He now oversees marketing work on Identity Management and other Enablers, including User Privacy and API exposition framework.

Kaliya Hamlin a.k.a. Identity Woman has worked in the field of user-centric identity for the last 3.5 years. Her work has been catalytic in helping the "identity metasystem" elements begin working together. She is the co-producer and facilitator of the Internet Identity Workshop and Identity Open Spaces. Her blog is identitywoman.net.

Patrick Harding is the Chief Technology Officer of Ping Identity, responsible for Ping Identity Labs, emerging technologies, architecture and standards, and developing the technology strategy for the company.

Previously, Harding was a VP and the Security Architect (Enterprise Architecture Division) at Fidelity Investments where he was responsible for aligning identity management and security technologies with the strategic goals of the business. Harding was integrally involved with the implementation of federated identity technologies at Fidelity -- from "napkin" to production.

Mr. Harding has over 15 years experience in software development, networking infrastructure and information security. His industry experience includes financial services, travel services and consulting. Mr. Harding has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Joe Hildebrand is responsible for the technical vision of Jabber, Inc.'s product line. Additionally, Hildebrand is a frequent speaker at conferences and a source for professional journalists. Prior to Jabber, Inc., Hildebrand served as the chief architect for a regional information technology company where he built frameworks and teams of technology leaders for rapidly automating complex business processes. Hildebrand has also designed and implemented systems for sending and parsing Department of Defense battlefield messages.

In addition to his work at Jabber, Inc., Hildebrand is a member of the XMPP Standards Foundation (formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) he contributes to several Jabber open source projects, and he maintains a blog where he often shares technical information for the purposes of maintaining an open customer forum. Hildebrand holds a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Theresa Ho has over 15 years of experience with information security. She is currently a Director with the McGraw-Hill Companies (http://www.mcgraw-hill.com) leading a global identity and access management project. Prior to McGraw-Hill, Ms. Ho held a senior management position at Lucent Technologies. She is a CISSP, CISM, CISA and PMP.

Sally Hudson is a research director within IDC's Security Products and Services group, focusing on identity and access management (IAM) products. She analyzes and forecasts market trends and provides expert insight and intelligence on the evolving security landscape. Additionally, Ms. Hudson produces numerous in-depth annual research studies, and works with both vendor and user clients to formulate and implement effective IT strategies.

Prior to joining IDC, she was a research analyst and regular columnist for Application Development Trends Magazine, where she followed the component development strategies and the enterprise middleware markets. In addition to Java and component development, Ms. Hudson has a comprehensive research background in the enterprise middleware and OLTP market space.

Chuck Hurst is the Vice President of Systems Development for Scripps Networks. Chuck serves as the company’s Media Asset Management (MAM) strategy architect and heads the integration of its business and financial systems. In addition to previously spending 12 years at Eastman Kodak, Chuck held positions at Exxon Mobil and eMotion.

Nishant Kaushik is responsible for driving innovation in Oracle’s industry leading identity management solutions. He has over 7 years of experience in this industry architecting and delivering market leading products.

Nishant is also an active member of the identity management community, regularly contributing his thoughts and ideas through his blog at www.talkingidentity.com, and participating in various community forums, user groups and industry conferences.

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley, the editor of IdM Journal (http://idmjournal.com) and the author of Network World's Identity Management Newsletter (http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/). He wrote his first Identity application in 1983, and has been trying to get IdM working ever since.

Shawna Lewis is responsible for the business planning and strategic direction of authentication/authorization security services for Intel Corporation's Information Technology. She has successfully implemented authentication/authorization and data encryption (WS-Security) for securing Intel's web services as well as Federated Single Sign On for internal and external users.

Chris Louden is a founding partner of Enspier Technologies where he served as CTO. Enspier was recently acquired by Protiviti, an independent risk consulting firm used by more than 1/3 of the Fortune 100 companies. Protiviti has nearly 3,000 consultants in 50 offices around the globe, and annual revenues in excess of ½ billion annually.

Mr. Louden currently leads the E-Authentication Initiative Architecture Team and the HSPD-12 Architecture Working Group. In addition, Mr. Louden also has technical oversight responsibility for Enspier’s contracts with the Federal PKI Operational Authority and the Federal PKI Policy Authority.

Eve Maler is a Technology Director at Sun Microsystems, developing interoperability strategies and leading partner engagements related to web services, security, and identity. Eve was one of the inventors of XML. She has also made major leadership, technical, and educational contributions to efforts such as SAML and Project Concordia.

Eve Maler is a Technology Director at Sun Microsystems, developing interoperability strategies and leading partner engagements related to web services, security, and identity.

Eve was one of the inventors of the XML, a key technology for worldwide electronic communications. She has also made major leadership, technical, and educational contributions to efforts such as SAML, the Liberty Alliance, Project Concordia, the Universal Business Language (UBL), and DocBook.

Eve speaks frequently on technical subjects and serves as the chair of the Web Services and Identity track of the annual XML Summer School held at University of Oxford.

Chris has been in the IT-Solutions arena since 1986. Throughout that time he has demonstrated a history of success in positioning value-centric services that have led to long-term benefits for both clients and service-providers. As the Director of Business Development for Mercadien Technologies, he has identified, instituted and matured highly specialized security services that have placed Mercadien in the forefront of industry-leaders. Network Identity Management, Risk Assessment, E-Discovery Accountability and Security Compliance represent areas of expertise for Mercadien’s technical team.

Chris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Rider University in 1990.

Oscar Marcia, Vice President of Security CableLabs, provides project security supervision and manages the CableLabs digital certificate issuance service. Oscar hosts the CableLabs Security Advisory Committee, Identity Management Working Group, and the Network Abuse Working Group.

Oscar holds a BSEE from Maryland University and a MSEE from George Washington University.

Jeff McIlrath has been with Accenture since 1992 and has more than 14 years of experience in risk management, focusing on internal controls and identity and access management solutions. He has held various roles at the company including internal audit, corporate finance, and product management.

Currently, Mr. McIlrath is responsible for Accenture's CIO Information Security organization, which includes the managing the company's information security strategy, policy development, compliance reviews, security awareness, and identity and access management.

Bob Miller has 32 years of IT experience, including software development and enterprise architecture. As the Manager of Enterprise Architecture, Bob is currently overseeing the implementation of enterprise-wide Identity Management services, mobility computing platforms and Service-oriented architecture at Norfolk Southern Corporation.

David C. Miller is the Chief Security Officer for Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware Corporation. He directs and implements internal and external system architecture security solutions for the multi-industry exchange. In addition, Mr. Miller directs the federation and identity management offering at Covisint, which currently secures access for over 300,000 users across the healthcare and automotive industries, as well as various public sector initiatives.

Robert Miller is Chief Security Architect for Identity Management within EDS’ Global Information Security organization. He has over 20 years of IT experience including applications and systems development, with the last 15 years in security focusing on Identity Management technologies and issues for EDS security offerings and integration of Identity Management technologies into EDS IT services.

Paul Moore serves as CTO for Centrify, providing the technical vision for its cutting-edge solutions. Prior to Centrify, he was Principal Architect for next-generation storage management products at CA having served as CTO of Netreon, a storage management startup acquired by CA. Prior to Netreon he was a Program Manager in Microsoft's Windows 2000 development group.

Moore holds a BS degree in Math and Physics from the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Timothy Moore is Senior Architect for identity and access management within the Enterprise Technology Group at First American Corp. Timothy joined First American in 2005 as a member of the architecture team for First American’s B2B web services delivery platform. After identifying a need for a coordinated strategy for delivering enterprise common services such as: identity, security, entitlement, worker profile and business intelligence information management, Mr. Moore transitioned to his current role. In this role Timothy is responsible for the strategic planning of First American’s identity services which includes identifying and developing the underlying infrastructure as well as services which enable delivery throughout First American's decentralized information services groups.

Prior to joining First American Mr. Moore served as Architect and Evangelist for Web Services and Web base rich user experiences for IBM/Rational. In this capacity Timothy represented IBM Rational on the IBM Software Architect Council as well as the WS-I standards committee.

Myisha Frazier-McElveen is the Senior Relationship Manager for the Federal E-Authentication Solution in the Integrated Technology Services unit of GSA. Her responsibilities include serving as the Federation's customer liaison and managing the large portfolio of IT projects seeking membership into the Federation. At present, 21 agencies have deployed 52 applications in the Federation. Ms. Frazier-McElveen is also the project lead on the current system migration to SAML 2.0.

Before joining the E-Authentication project, Ms. Frazier-McElveen provided budgetary and policy analysis support for the Small Business Administration. Ms. Frazier-McElveen holds a BS in Policy Analysis from Cornell University.

After leaving studies in architecture, Steven Olson took a position as a customer engineer supporting water cooled mainframes, later working on processor upgrade teams throughout southern California. He relocated to Atlanta, spending some time as an instructor, teaching mainframe maintenance and recovery procedures for VM and MVS. He later immigrated to Las Vegas where he decided to shift from mainframe technology to client-server environments. After ten years in the technology business, he signed on at the Las Vegas Review-Journal as network administrator just as the company began to experience tremendous growth, eventually taking on technical responsibility for all corporate IT infrastructures for Stephens Media, parent company of the Review-Journal.

Now working his ninth year at the Review-Journal, in his position as the IT infrastructure manager, Steven has helped to orchestrate a ground up replacement of the corporate IT infrastructure, implementing new philosophies to increase operability, flexibility, and availability. Steven recently completed a new datacenter build project which has also included several cutting edge technology platforms. He and his team are now in the midst of integrating a new corporate wide VOIP telephony solution.

As the Assistant Vice President of Corporate Information Security and Assurance at PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., Pam Pullem is responsible for global information security, IT procurement and is the company’s Privacy Officer.

Pullem has more than 30 years of financial services experience, having held positions at M&T Bank, Bank One and GE Capital Corporation.

Rakesh Radhakrishnan is a Sr. IT Architect in the Communications Market Area of Sun. He has covered Telecom Companies, Network Equipment Providers (NEP), Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Service Provider accounts in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America.

He has over 15 years of experience and has an MBA (MIS) and MS (MIT). He is an active member of Customer Engineering Council (CEC) and was the Chairman of a Working Group on Container Alignment Engine (CAE patent received from Europe and US) and STAR at Sun. He also has Defensive Disclosures on Correlated Identity. He has published more than 50 papers on IT Architectures (Frameworks, Process and Techniques) and is a frequent speaker in conferences including ITU, DIDW, OMG, TOG, CMG, IRM, SuperG, SunNetwork, Java ONE, etc. He has led multiple Architecture Workshops and Architecture Assessments for IT Consolidation and Network Identity projects. He was recently featured on Officer Outlook for his work on Aligning Architectural Approaches (Sun's WS-Incite Award for 2005). He is the recipient of the "Above and Beyond" award from the Sun/Nortel team in 2007 and is also the "Outstanding Contributor Award" from SEI. He was selected as a "Stellar Volunteer" -amongst 25 such volunteers from Sun Celebrating 25 years.

Rakesh is also Certified by The Open Group (on TOGAF 8), SEI (as a SW Architect) and OGC (Prince 2 and ITIL). He has Green Belt Six Sigma training. He is a ECCSE (Enterprise Computing Certified Systems Engineer -Competency 2000- from Sun ) and as a Systems Architect Pro (from Peoplesoft).

He is the Author of the Book title "Identity and Secuirty" and is currently working on 2 new books.

Dr. Ramaswami Rangarajan "Dr. Ranga" is a Principal Network Systems Designer at Sprint. He has a total of 32 years IT experience that includes 10 years at United Airlines, 10 years at Bank of America and the last 12 years at Sprint.

At Sprint Dr. Ranga has designed various systems that were successfully deployed on the network including Network Call Distributor, Call Redirect Application, SiteRP system used by large Toll Free Customers for Dynamic Network Routing, Centralized Translations Control (CTC) currently being implemented as part of Sprint’s Next Generation Network Architecture and many more. In majority of these projects Dr. Ranga also had the "Overall responsibility" for leading teams charged with the implementation, translation of user requirements to detailed design, program design and development, and coordinating with other groups for performing funding requests, acquisition of hardware/software, Operating Systems installation/upgrades, communication Line configuration, preparation of test scripts and System Integration testing. Lately (2003/2004) Dr. Ranga has been working with Sun on the evaluation of Sun's Systems and Technologies for use in Sprint's Call Processing Architecture.

Dr. Ranga has a PhD from University of California, Berkley in Operations Research and a dual BE (with Honors) from University of Poona in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Dr. Ranga also teaches on a part-time basis at California State University at Hayward since 1976.

Paul Rarey is the Identity Services Solutions Architect for Safeway Inc. where he is currently developing a comprehensive Identity Services architecture and delivering its capabilities. Mr. Rarey is a uniquely experienced solutions architect and technology strategist with more than 30 years of successful IT infrastructure & systems deliveries encompassing multiple business verticals; including Hi-Tech/Electronics, Aerospace, Global Logistics, Financials, Healthcare, CPG and Retail.

David Recordon is Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart, the largest independent blogging company in the world. Recordon has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies such as OpenID. In 2005, Recordon collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the original development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the web. During a year and a half at VeriSign, Recordon played an active role in refining and evangelizing OpenID, bringing it from an experimental technology to one that's been endorsed by major companies ranging from AOL to Microsoft, and implemented for over 120 million identities on the web.

Recordon's history with open source software and open standards stretches back to the beginning of his career, when as a sophomore in high school he volunteered his time to lead an open source message board project with over forty members worldwide. This interest led to his co-founding of a message board hosting provider that still services tens of thousands of users around the world, that he has since sold. Recordon was recently recognized by Google and O'Reilly as the recipient of a 2007 Open Source Award for his efforts with OpenID and is the youngest recipient in the history of the award.

Brian Rosario is vice president and support systems manager of IT support services with BankUnited FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of BankUnited Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: BKUNA), the largest financial institution headquartered in Florida. Serving customers throughout the state through an expanding network of retail branches, BankUnited offers a full spectrum of consumer and commercial banking products and services, including online products that can be accessed through www.bankunited.com.

With more than 10 years of information technology experience in both banking and medical environments, Rosario joined BankUnited in 2003 to develop the information security program and infrastructure. In 2006, he was promoted to support systems manager to bring his compliance and consulting experience to the areas of application support, desktop management and the IT service desk.

Previously, he was the information security analyst with BankAtlantic in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Earlier in his career he provided consulting services to health care entities, including Baptist Hospital Systems and Mercy Hospital.

Irfan Saif is a Principal with Deloitte & Touche's Enterprise Risk Services practice, specializing in Information Security and Data Protection. With more than 12 years of relevant experience, Irfan focuses in the areas of enterprise risk and information security management, identity and access management, software vulnerabilities, portal security, and data encryption. Irfan also focuses on emerging technologies and their security implications, especially in the areas of mobile computing and data protection. He is well versed in implementing a broad range of security standards, frameworks and technology solutions for national and global clients. Irfan holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certifications.

Rob's background is in software development, enterprise security and systems & network administration. With over 13 years of experience, he started with Sun in Australia and was responsible for the IT infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand. Responsibilities included everything from telephony administration to data center installations and all things in-between.

During his tenure in Australia, he took on an infrastructure management role driving projects such as the installation of internet complexes around the Pacific Rim.

Rob relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area as a technical project manager and later took on a program manager role for Sun's Identity products.

In his current role, he account manages the business relationship in the Web 2.0 and Identity verticals at Sun. A frequent speaker at the Sun Executive Briefing Center, Rob works directly with sales account teams to demonstrate the value of Web 2.0, Collaboration and Identity Management to enterprise customers.

Rob holds a BS from the University of Technology, Sydney Australia with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Cognitive Psychology.

Sid Sidner has worked for ACI Worldwide for the last nine years in various senior engineering roles, including as the architect for ACI’s virtual SET wallet and 3D-Secure products. Previously he has worked in many software and systems roles, including many years contracting to the DoD. He wrote his first FORTRAN program 40 years ago.

Justin works at Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist devoted to all things related to web services. His areas of deep focus are Windows Communication Foundation and BizTalk Services. Justin is also the author of “Inside Windows Communication Foundation” from Microsoft Press and a frequent presenter at software development conferences.

Hilary Ward is a Director and Business Manager for Identity Management Services in Global Information Products in Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services organization. She is responsible for business strategy and p&l, product development and innovation. She is a marketing professional, with 18 years of commercial banking experience. She has held a variety of roles in relationship management, product, sales and operations. Hilary has spoken professionally at numerous regional and national conferences on key topics affecting treasury and working capital management. She is a 1988 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she earned a BA in Communications. Hilary is also a permanent Certified Cash Manager (CCM) and Certified Treasury Professional (CTP).

Mr. Jeremy Warren is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the U. S. Department of Justice, where his responsibilities include formulating the Department's technology strategy; providing technology expertise in program oversight and other contexts; performing research, evaluations, and proofs-of-concept; and serving as a coordinator of all aspects of the Department's technical architecture.

As part of his duties, Mr. Warren oversees the technical aspects of the development and implementation of the Department’s Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program (LEISP), which includes initiatives such as N-DEx, R-DEx, and LEXS. In addition, he serves as the Co-Chair of the NIEM Technical Architecture Committee (NTAC).

Before coming to the government, Mr. Warren was Chief Architect of Lavastorm Technologies of Boston, MA, providing revenue assurance products to top-tier telecommunications companies. At Lavastorm, Mr. Warren focused on rules-based processing systems and large-scale data mining and statistical analysis.

Peter Williams is Chief Information Officer at Rapattoni Corporation, a leading technology provider to the real estate industry. A top-level Internet security specialist, Mr. Williams applies his in-depth knowledge toward advancing Rapattoni’s newest technology products, which include Rapattoni Secure Logon and Single Sign-On.

Mr. Williams' prior experience includes key positions at several Silicon Valley high-tech firms, including VeriSign, Inc., ValiCert, Inc. and Sterling Federal Systems (supporting the NASA Ames Research Center). A UK national, Mr. Williams was educated at University College London, where he culminated his research career in Internet security as a Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science.

Yvonne Wilson is a principal architect in Sun's Information Technology group, responsible for internal identity management. Over the past seven years, Yvonne has driven the deployment of a worldwide directory service, single signon for enterprise applications and federated single sign-on via Liberty protocols with some of Sun's business partners. Yvonne has also been involved in a smart card project and an experimental OpenID deployment project. Yvonne has held architectural, managerial, and software development positions at Sun and other software companies.

Phil Windley is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on digital identity, interoperability, web services, middleware, and programming languages. Phil is also the Executive Producer of IT Conversations and writes and speaks on these topics. Phil writes the popular Technometria blog and is a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and Between the Lines. He is also the author of the book Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media.

Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on the Governor Mike Leavitt's Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of electronic commerce tools. Still active in business, Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. of California, Davis in 1990.

As a directory services engineer, Kevin Wuebbles is responsible for monitoring and testing all enterprise directory services at Discover Financial. He designs, engineers and supports changes within the directory services infrastructure. Experienced with LDAP directories, metadirectories and identity management products, Wuebbles is an expert in multiple directory environments. He is a Sun Certified Engineer for Sun One Directory Server 5.x. Wuebbles has been employed with Discover Financial for four years.

Wuebbles recently earned a masters degree in Network Security from DePaul University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bradley University.

Andy Zmolek is a Senior Manager, Security Planning and Strategy at Avaya, Inc. He has been involved with network security for over a decade, and is a co-author and technical editor for the book, "Practical VoIP Security" published in April, 2006 by Syngress. In his current role, he works with Avaya’s R&D product teams and largest financial and security-sensitive customers to ensure that their evolving information security requirements are incorporated into Avaya products and product roadmaps.

Previously at Avaya, he led a team within the Information Security group where he oversaw Sarbanes-Oxley and Identity Management projects within Avaya. Andy also helped launch the Avaya Enterprise Security Practice within Avaya Global Services and represented Avaya at Standards organizations (IETF, W3C) in his role within the CTO Standards Group. He was an early advocate for Avaya initiatives in Security, SIP, Presence, and VoiceXML; he has two patents pending from that work. Prior to joining Avaya, Andy directed network architecture and operations at New Era of Networks (now Sybase), a pioneer of enterprise application integration (EAI) technology.

Andy got his start in the industry building real-time simulation networks for missile and satellite programs at Raytheon, most notably Sidewinder and Tomahawk. Andy holds a degree in Mathematics from Brigham Young University and lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.