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 Stina Ehrensvärd CEO and Founder, Yubico

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

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

keynote Richard Kerslake General Manager Industrial Controls and Robotics, Intel

speaker Christian Aabye Member of the Board of Managers, EMVCo

speaker Andrés Aguiar Product Manager at Auth0

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

keynote Abbie Barbir Senior Security Advisor, CISSP, Aetna, CVS health Company

speaker James Barclay Senior Security Engineer, Cruise

speaker Walter Beisheim Chief Business Development Officer, Nok Nok Labs

speaker Vittorio Bertocci Principal Architect, Auth0

speaker John Bradley Senior Architect - Standards, Yubico

speaker Ralph Bragg Raidiam Chief Technology Officer and Founding Partner, OBIE Security Architect

speaker Christiaan Brand Product Manager of Identity and Security, Google

speaker Andrew Bud Founder and CEO of iProov

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

speaker Jamie Danker Director of Privacy, Easy Dynamics Corp

speaker Dr. Shimrit Tzur-David CTO & Co-Founder, Secret Double Octopus

speaker Joost van Dijk Technical Product Manager, SURF

speaker Brad Doctor Sr. Director of Security Architecture and Engineering, VMware

speaker Sebastian Elfors Senior Solutions Architect, Yubico

speaker Jeff Frederick Senior Solutions Engineer, Yubico, Inc.

speaker J. Wolfgang Goerlich Advisory CISO, Duo Security

speaker Hidehito Gomi Senior Chief Researcher at Yahoo Japan Corporation

keynote Michael Gwynn Director of Strategic Projects, FEITIAN Technologies US, Inc.

speaker Jeremy Grant Managing Director, Technology Business Strategy, Venable LLP

speaker Hsin Hau Hanna Identity & Biometrics Solutions, Thales DIS

speaker Robyn Hicock Senior Program Manager, Identity Security and Protection, Microsoft Identity

speaker Andrew Hindle Independent Consultant

speaker Jeff Hodges Software Engineer, Google

keynote Mark Howell Sr. Product Manager, Citrix Systems Inc.

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

speaker Michael Hutchinson Researcher, Thales

speaker Ian Jacobs Web Payments Lead, W3C

speaker Ashish Jain Head of Identity, eBay

speaker Fabian Kaczmarczyck Collaborator, Security and Anti-Abuse Research, Google

speaker Dinesh Katyal Director Product Financial Data Exchange

speaker Aakashi Kapoor Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

speaker Ramesh Kesanupalli CEO of Digital Trust Networks

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

keynote Jake Kiser COO, StrongKey

speaker Inbar Cizer Kobrinsky Senior Program Manager, Identity Security and Protection, Microsoft Identity

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

speaker Akshay Kumar Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

speaker Cisa Kurian Senior Security Advisor, CVS Health

speaker Dr. Rolf Lindemann Vice President, Products Nok Nok

keynote Bastien Latge Director of Technology, EMVCo

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

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

speaker Yves Massard Product Marketing Director, HID Global

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

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

speaker Louis Modell Vice President of Sales, Americas at Identiv

speaker Koichi Moriyama Senior Director of Security Services at Marketing Platform Planning Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC.

speaker Mark Morowczynski Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Identity

speaker Sridhar Muppidi IBM Fellow, VP & CTO IBM Security

speaker Arshad Noor CTO, StrongKey

speaker Shashank Rajvanshi Product Management, RSA

speaker Nataraj Rao Principle Engineer for Security Solutions, Target

speaker Nick Telford-Reed Managing Director, Stormglass Consulting Ltd.

speaker Rae Rivera Certification Director, FIDO Alliance

speaker Dominic Rizzo OpenTitan Lead, Google Cloud

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

speaker Mike Sager Chief Technology Officer, EMILY’s List

speaker Nat Sakimura Chairman, Open ID Foundation

keynote Jason Samuel Technical Solutions Management Security Architect, Alchemy Tech Group

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

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

speaker Teju Shyamsundar Senior Product Marketing Manager, Okta

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 David Treece Solutions Architect Manager, Yubico

speaker David Turner Director of Standards Development, FIDO Alliance

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!