Kim Cameron

Kim Cameron is Chief Architect of Identity in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, where he works on the evolution of Active Directory,  Federation Services,  Identity Lifecycle Manager,  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’Université de Montréal. 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), Network World’s 50 Most Powerful People in Networking (2005), Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Privacy Award (2007) and Silicon.com’s Agenda Setters 2007. 

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

Pamela Dingle

Pamela Dingle is an Enterprise Identity Consultant at Nulli Secundus Inc .  She is also the founder of the Pamela Project, an open source project dedicated to creation of information card relying party modules & plugins for common web frameworks. Pamela blogs at http://eternaloptimist.wordpress.com and is an active participant at the OSIS Identity Commons Working Group  supplying tests and maintaining the wiki for Interoperability events at various conferences. Pamela enjoys adding URLs to every sentence she writes (http://heresabunnywithapancakeonitshead) and hopes you click on them all.

Patrick Harding

Patrick Harding is Chief Technology Officer at Ping Identity Corporation. He is currently responsible for Ping Identity Labs, emerging technologies, industry standards, and developing the technology strategy for the company. Previously, Harding was a VP and the Security Architect 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. He blogs on all things security and identity at http://blog.pingidentity.com/blog/ctotalk/.

Andy Hodgkinson

Andrew (“Andy”) Hodgkinson is a Consultant Engineer with Novell, Inc. and worked for several years as a lead engineer on the open-source FLAIM database project, used most notably by Novell's eDirectory and GroupWise products.  Currently, Andy is the architect and lead developer of the DigitalMe (www.digitalme.com) component of the Bandit Project (www.bandit-project.org) and also participates as a member of the Eclipse-sponsored Higgins project.  Andy received a degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and blogs at ahodgkinson.wordpress.com.   
 

Ben Laurie

Ben Laurie is a founding (but no longer serving) Director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team member of OpenSSL and author of Apache-SSL. He has long been interested in privacy and anonymity, lately with reference to identity management and has written various papers on related subjects. He is currently a member of the Applied Security team at Google. He blogs here.

Axel Nennker

Axel Nennker is a Consultant Engineer with T-Systems. This permits him to work on Information Cards, Security and Identity Management in general. In 2006 he joined the openinfocard   project and is now the maintainer for it. Other open source projects that he runs are the identity selector that enables CardSpace for Firefox   and the XMLDAP  java library for relying parties and identity providers. Axel received a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin and blogs at http://ignisvulpis.blogspot.com/  .

Drummond Reed

Drummond Reed is Chief Architect of Seattle-based Cordance Corporation and VP Infrastructure of Boston-based Parity Inc. He is also co-chair of the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committees; a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation; secretary of XDI.ORG; and a Steward of Identity Commons. He blogs on identifiers, identity, and data sharing at http://equalsdrummond.name and can be reached via his i-name contact page at http://xri.net/=drummond.reed.

Mary Ruddy

Mary Ruddy is the founder of Meristic, Inc.

Mary founded and co-leads the Higgins open source information cards project and is a co-founder of SocialPhysics.org. She is also a Steward of Identity Commmons.

Previously Mary was a VP with Parity Communications, Inc. Prior to joining Parity in 2003, Mary was Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Parametric Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:PMTC), where she was responsible for a software product line that allowed buyers to design their own products on the web. Before PTC, she was VP Strategic Alliances at OpenOrders, where she helped sell the company to IBM's WebSphere Commerce Suite software group. Prior to OpenOrders, she was VP Advanced Products at Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA). Mary was an early employee at Pegasystems, which is a developer of rules-based customer service process automation software. Mary started her career as a Member of the Technical Staff at the MITRE Corporation contributing to advanced command, control, communications and intelligence systems. Mary has a degree in Mathematics from Smith College and holds a MSM from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Paul Trevithick  ICF Chair

Paul is the CEO of Parity, a company that will soon launch a consumer internet service that will help people manage their online identities and relationships. Paul is a founder of the open source Higgins project (http://higgins-project.org) and other groups including http://SocialPhysics.org, http://IdentityGang.org, and the Information Card Foundation (http://InformationCard.net).

Prior to co-founding Parity in 2000 as its CTO, Paul was president of Bitstream (NASDAQ:BITS). He joined Bitstream after its merger with his previous startup, Archetype. Paul founded Archetype in 1985, and over the course of the next several years brought electronic publishing software applications to market. Prior to Archetype, in 1982 Paul co-founded Lightspeed Computers, an interactive design workstation spin-off of the MIT Media Lab that was sold to DuPont in 1996. He is a graduate of MIT. Paul has contributed to several standards development efforts across the computer industry. He blogs at http://incontextblog.com.

Equifax

Steve Ely

Steve Ely is President of Equifax Personal Information Solutions, which provides credit-related products to consumers that help them manage their credit health, protect themselves against identity theft, and improve their overall financial well-being. Steve has become a leading expert in the burgeoning area of Identity Management as a result of his experience in financial services, healthcare, and retail. Prior to joining Equifax in 2004, Steve led worldwide marketing at S1 Corporation, the first company to provide Internet banking.  Steve also held software development and marketing positions at Per-Se Technologies, a provider of clinical patient information systems, and Dun & Bradstreet Software.  Steve is a graduate of the Institute of Computing Management in Pittsburgh, PA.
 

Google

 Ben Laurie

Ben Laurie is a founding (but no longer serving) Director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team member of OpenSSL and author of Apache-SSL. He has long been interested in privacy and anonymity, lately with reference to identity management and has written various papers on related subjects. He is currently a member of the Applied Security team at Google. He blogs here.

Microsoft

Michael B. Jones

Michael B. Jones is Director of Identity Partnerships at Microsoft. He is working with a broad coalition of people across multiple industries to build the Internet’s missing Identity layer. He is president of the USENIX Association board of directors and serves on the OpenID Foundation board. Michael earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. He was a member of the Systems and Networking Research Group at Microsoft Research from 1992 to 2005. He blogs at http://self-issued.info/ .

Novell

Dale Olds

Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity and Security Management Group. He is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for identity-enabled and Open Source technologies. He is the leader of the Bandit Project, a Higgins project champion, and the steward of the OSIS working group to the Identity Commons. Dale was the lead designer and implementor of Novell Directory Services (NDS) and Novell eDirectory from 1990 to 2000. He is listed as an inventor on 11 patents and has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. His recent industry experience focused on Linux and Internet content delivery services. Dale has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah. He still writes code for fun.

Oracle

Uppili Srinivasan

Uppili Srinivasan is a Senior Director at Oracle Corporation, in the Identity and Access Management team.  Uppili is responsible for driving cross product architecture and strategy for Oracle’s IAM suite.  Uppili was the lead architect and leader of the teams that delivered Oracle Internet Directory and launched Oracle Identity Management 10g.  He holds many patents relating to these products.  In his current role, Uppili is involved in strategies for realizing Identity layers that are adaptable to all the various deployment “centricities” (user, application or enterprise).  Consistent with this pre-occupation, Uppili has been a major proponent of Project Higgins and OSIS and their multi-protocol and platform agnostic ideals.  Uppili’s special focus within ICF will be to help uphold the same ideals and incubate solutions to smoothen the challenges of entitlements provisioning, privacy and compliance, by leveraging the Information Card infrastructure.

Paypal

Andrew Nash

Andrew Nash is Senior Director in the  Information Risk Management and Architecture group at PayPal. Formerly he was CTO at Sonoa Systems and Reactivity working on XML and Service Oriented Architecture processors. As Director of Technologies at RSA Security, Andrew worked on a wide range of identity systems and worked with the Liberty Alliance in the Strong Authentication Expert Group He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services security markets, has co-authored of numerous Web Services security specifications and is author of a book on Public Key Infrastructure.