Speakers – Authenticate 2020

Featured Keynote Speaker

Dr. Whitfield Diffie

Co-inventor of Public Key Cryptography
Senior Advisor, Uniken

Dr. Whitfield Diffie is one of the world’s preeminent cryptographers and a co-discoverer of Public Key Encryption. A computer scientist, mathematician and author, Diffie is winner of the 2015 Turing Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Computing. Among his other honors, Diffie is also an elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society, a IEEE Hamming Medal winner, winner of the Franklin Institute’s Louis E Levy medal, a Fellow of the Computer History Museum and a Marconi Foundation Fellow. In 2011, Dr. Diffie was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Diffie received a B.S. in Mathematics from M.I.T. He also holds both an honorary doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and a Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from Royal Holloway, University of London.

keynote Joy Chik Corporate Vice President of Identity, Microsoft

keynote Whit Diffie Co-inventor of Public Key Cryptography & Senior Advisor, Uniken

keynote Stina Ehrensvärd CEO and Founder, Yubico

keynote Mark Risher Senior Director of Product Management, Security and Privacy, Google

speaker Jim Routh Chief Information Security Officer, Head of Enterprise Cyber Security, MassMutual

speaker Christian Aabye Member of the Board of Managers, EMVCo

speaker Asad Ali Technologist, Thales

speaker Lorrayne Auld Principal ICAM Emerging Technology Engineer, MITRE Corporation

speaker Anand Bahety Lead Software Engineer for Identity, eBay

speaker Annie C. Bai Global Privacy Lead, Socure

speaker James Barclay Senior Security Engineer, Cruise

speaker Rob Carter Director, Product Development for Identity Solutions, Mastercard

speaker Jerrod Chong Chief Solutions Officer, Yubico

speaker Nathanael Coffing CSO, Cloudentity

speaker Jackie Comp VP, Worldwide Sales and Business Development, Nok Nok Labs

speaker Brett McDowell Executive Director Hedera Council & Special Advisor FIDO Alliance

speaker Yves Massard Product Marketing Director, HID Global

speaker Alain Martin Head of Consulting & Industry Relations, Banking & Payment Services, Thales

speaker Dr. Giridhar D. Mandyam Chief Security Architect, Qualcomm

speaker Dr. Rolf Lindemann Vice President, Products Nok Nok

speaker Cisa Kurian Senior Security Advisor, CVS Health

speaker Akshay Kumar Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

speaker Sridhar Kotamraju SVP, Head of Digital Identity & Fraud at PNC

speaker Manish Khedawat Lead Security Engineer for Identity & Access Management, Target

speaker Dinesh Katyal Director Product Financial Data Exchange

speaker Christina Hulka Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, FIDO Alliance

speaker Ashish Jain Head of Identity, eBay

speaker Aakashi Kapoor Senior Project Manager, Microsoft

speaker Andrew Hindle Independent Consultant

speaker Rae Hayward Certification Director, FIDO Alliance

speaker Jeremy Grant Coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition

speaker Jeff Frederick Senior Solutions Engineer, Yubico, Inc.

speaker Joost van Dijk Technical Product Manager, SURF

speaker Jamie Danker Director of Privacy, Easy Dynamics Corp

speaker Shannon Dahn Chief of the Privacy Section & FDIC’s Office of the Chief Information Security Officer

speaker Marcio Mello Director & Head of Product Management – Intuit Identity & Profile Platform

speaker Koichi Moriyama Senior Director of Product Innovation, Product Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC.

speaker Sridhar Muppidi CTO, IBM Security Systems

speaker Arshad Noor CTO, StrongKey

speaker Joan Pepin Chief Security Officer, Auth0

speaker Nataraj Rao Principle Engineer for Security Solutions, Target

speaker Mike Sager Chief Technology Officer, EMILY’s List

speaker Nat Sakimura Chairman, Open ID Foundation

speaker Koen Sandbrink Cyber Security Advisor, National Cyber Security Centre of the Netherlands (NCSC-NL)

speaker Andrew Shikiar Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer at FIDO Alliance

speaker Bojan Simic Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, HYPR

speaker Alex Simons Corporate Vice President for Identity Program Management, Microsoft

speaker Nick Steele R&D Technical Leader, Duo

speaker Don Thibeau Executive Director, OPENID Foundation

speaker Amy Ulrich Security Advisor, CVS Health Global Security

speaker Randy Vanderhoof Director, U.S. Payments Forum

speaker Shane Weeden Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

speaker Conor White President of the Americas, Daon

speaker Steve Wilson Managing Director, Lockstep Technologies

speaker Bernd Zwattendorfer Technical Marketing Manager, Infineon

Stay tuned… more speakers to be announced soon!