Martin Kuppinger, Kuppinger Cole and Partner (Germany)

Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Senior Partner at Kuppinger Cole and Partner. Born in 1965, he is the author of more than 50 IT-related books, as well as a widely-read columnist and author of technical articles and reviews in some of the most prestigious IT magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is also a well-known speaker and moderator at seminars and congresses. His interest in Identity Management dates back to the 80ies, when he also gained considerable experience in software architecture development.

Fulup ar Foll, Sun Microsystem (France)

Fulup Ar Foll, master architect at SUN Microsystems (France), is a specialist in digital identity and will address this topic from an international perspective. Before joining Sun, Fulup was a research engineer for the French Department of Defence and taught at South Brittany University. For Sun he has been the lead Internet Architect for many European projects. In the recent past he has helped governments to move toward Liberty Alliance Federated model. Fulup is currently inside Sun global software practice and focus on federated identity issues. He represents Sun global software practice inside the Liberty Alliance Technology Expert Group standardization committee and works as lead architect for major identity projects at a world wide level.

 Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems (USA)

Rakesh Radhakrishnan* is the Chief Identity Integration Architect and Lead Technologist 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 also the FAM Product Lead for the Software Sales Organization, in Sun. 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 the patent on STAR. 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 at conferences and events including IDTrust, ITU, DIDW, OMG, TOG, CMG, IRM, SuperG, SunNetwork, Java ONE, Stanford University and Oxford University, 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 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 a Systems Architect Pro (from Peoplesoft). He is the Author of the Book titled "Identity and Security", "Identity and Policy" and its sequel "Identity and Context". His blog can be found at _http://www.network-identity.com

David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge (UK)

David has over 30 years’ experience working in high technology industries. Today, he works as an independent knowledge management advisor, facilitator and speaker, helping people to innovate and to work more effectively together.

He is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community - a global learning network of over 16,000 people in 154 countries. Community members receive his free monthly Knowledge Letter that is now in its 9th year.

David publishes the Gurteen Knowledge Website – a resource website that contains book reviews, articles, people profiles, event calendars, inspirational quotations, an integral weblog and more on subjects that include knowledge management, learning, creativity and innovation.

He is a frequent speaker and facilitator and presents on various aspects of knowledge management and social learning. He is well known for his Gurteen Knowledge Cafés that he runs regularly in London and in other cities around the world. He also facilitates Knowledge Cafés and workshops for organizations and conference organizers.

For most of his career David was a professional software development manager and in the late 80s worked for Lotus Development as "International Czar" where he was responsible for ensuring that Lotus products were designed for the global marketplace.

Rob Arntsen, MKM (UK)

Rob formed MyKnowledgeMap in March 2000 after working at IBM for 22 years. During his time at IBM he held a number of senior management positions, including UK Manager of New Markets, Northern Region Manager for General Business Division, and Learning Technologies Solutions Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. This extensive career has given him expertise in both general management and the learning technology industry and continues to guide the progression and success of MyKnowledgeMap today.

Rob was appointed as a member of the government's National Advisory Council for Continuous Education and Lifelong Learning, Technology Working Group and served as a member of the Working Group on Widening Participation by the Council for Industry and Higher Education. He was a member of the original IPPR group that produced the proposal for the University for Industry. He also previously served as a member of the CBI Regional Council for Yorkshire & Humberside.

In 2005, Rob was part of the LSDA national steering group on Innovation in Teaching and Learning. He served as governor and Chair of Audit for a large FE college for many years and was recently appointed as a member of the new regional council for the LSC for Yorkshire and Humber.

Serge Ravet, EIfEL (France)

Serge Ravet Chief Executive of the European Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL), a cross-sectoral professional body whose mission is to support the development of a knowledge and learning society. EIfEL is at the forefront of the ePortfolio movement in Europe, setting as objective that in 2010, every citizen will have access to an ePortfolio. He is also Vice-President of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL). Combining both technological and pedagogical expertise (20 years experience in training and human resources development) with working experience in Europe and the US, he is retained as an expert and a consultant in learning technology projects. He has published books and articles on eLearning, competencies, quality, learning technologies and ePortfolios - "Technology-based Training" (Kogan Page, 1997) "Valider les Compétences avec les NVQs" (DEMOS, 1999); a Guide to e-learning Solutions (2001).

Mikael Ates, Entr'ouvert, (France)

Mikaël Ates (27 years old) PhD of the Jean Monnet University of
Saint-Etienne, France. He is currently a research engineer for
Entr'Ouvert, a free Software company. Mikaël has actively taken part to the FederID and FC² projects. His main research topic is inter-organizational identity management.

 David Chadwick, University of Kent (UK)

David Chadwick is Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent. He is the leader of the Information Systems Security Research Group (ISSRG) at Kent and a member of IEEE and ACM. His group are the creators of PERMIS (www.openpermis.org), an open source X.509 and SAML supported role based authorisation infrastructure which is part of the US NMI software suite. It is currently integrated with Globus Toolkit, Shibboleth, Apache and OMII-UK and is currently being integrated into the UK's National Grid Service.

David has published widely, with over 140 research publications, 2 Internet RFCs, 4 OGF specifications and 1 ISO standard. He specialises in Public Key Infrastructures, Privilege Management Infrastructures, Trust Management, Federated Identity Management and Privacy Management. He actively participates in standardisation activities, is the UK BSI representative to X.509 standards meetings, the chair of the Open Grid Forum OGSA Authorisation Working Group and a member of OASIS and the Kantara Initiative. He is the leader of WP7 (Identity Management, Authentication and Authorisation) in the TAS3 FW7 Integrated Project (www.tas3.eu). Prior to this, he has been involved in the following EC projects: MAITS, TrustHealth2, ICE-TEL, ICE-CAR, PERMIS, GUIDES, PKI Challenge, and TrustCoM.

Kirstie Coolin, University of Nottingham (UK)

Kirstie Coolin works for the Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD) at the University of Nottingham on various regional and national projects. She is currently focussing on managing technical work for the Lifelong Learning Network projects (a regional network of educational institutions and employers) developing data sharing activity using the XCRI standard. Kirstie is also joint project manager on the CIePD's SAMSON project, which seeks to integrate processes for employer engagement and workforce development. Recent projects have included rolling out 1000+ hosted ePortfolio trials with regional partners in a work-based setting and other JISC related work in the areas of ePortfolio, standards (LEAP2A) and IAG.

Kirstie's background is mainly in Further Education and Higher Education in a range of areas including database driven application/web development, VLE rollout, eLearning, design and management of intranets, websites and business systems and project and team management. She has also been involved in teaching and training.

Kaarina Karppinen, VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland)

Kaarina Karppinen has received her M.Sc. in Information Processing Science from the University of Oulu, Finland. She is working as a Research Scientist in the Information Security Assurance Research Team at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Oulu, Finland. She has experience in various information and network security research topics such as network and information security testing and monitoring, middleware security, security in critical infrastructures, and role and identity management. She is currently working towards her PhD in the field of combining security and usability attributes in cloud software products.

Sampo Kellomaki, Symlabs (Portugal)

Sampo Kellomäki is the chief architect of Symlabs Federated Identity Access Manager , Directory Extender 3.0 and co-founder of Symlabs. He is the main driving force behind the creation of Directory Extender 3.0 and the suite of solutions built around it. Prior to founding Symlabs, he held various positions such as chief software engineer, network security administrator, as well as independent consultancy to telcos, financial and academic institutions, OEMs, and to the national newspaper publishing industry.

Mr. Kellomäki's extraordinary understanding of network architecture, his experience in system and software development and his passion for innovative, new technologies enabled him to play a critical role in directory provisioning system deployments at several major international telcos.

Taina Kurki, University of Eastern Finland (Finland)

Taina Kurki has received her M.Sc. in Health and Human Service Informatics from the University of Eastern Finland.
She is working in the role-ID project as a Project Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus (School of Computing.)

Vassilia Orfanou

Vassilia holds a M.Sc in diplomacy and international relations, as well as an M.A. in strategic communications and leadership. She is currently pursuing a doctorate degree pertinent to public diplomacy and conflict analysis. Vassilia has represented a diverse number of companies, in the US and Greek markets, delivering a full range of communication, marketing and business development services in the financial/ banking area, communication/PR agencies and the legal sector. Vassilia has previously represented Bloomberg LP in marketing and promoting its legal and financial services. She currently holds the position of the Communication Officer in the information and communication management department of European Dynamics, SA.

Lex Polman, Kenteq (The Netherlands)

Lex Polman is Manager of DIGIteq, the department for innovation and internet applications of Kenteq since 2006. Kenteq is the Centre of Expertise for Vocational Education, Training and Labour Market the technical domains. Until 2006 Lex had a career as Project manager learning materials and Manager Examination. As participant in the EU TAS3 FP-7 project Polman is responsible for use-cases, scenarios, pilots and demonstrations that involves both users and professionals.

 Dries Pruis, Kenteq (The Netherlands)

Dries Pruis is Information Architect at Kenteq, the Dutch national centre of expertise on Vocational Education, Training and Labour Market for the engineering industry, since 2005. He translates the employability information and services into internet applications and is involved in innovation projects for vocational education. In this respect, he is engaged in the analysis of the need for information of companies and employees, in the design of business process solutions, and in the start-up and the technical follow-up of vocational training projects. He’s been working on the subject of Education and Labour since 1976, first in the capacity of researcher, then in the capacity of consultant for vocational education in the metal industry, and finally as the manager of SOM Vocational Education and Training in the metal industry.

Marc van Coillie, EIfEL (FR)

 Marc van Coillie has more than 10 years background in Research and Development in the eLearning and KM fields for public and private sectors (CNDP - french national educational institution, AFT-IFTIM - training company, Orange labs - telecom operator, EIFEL - european assocation...)

Marc Van Coillie is an expert in Interoperability and integration of IT systems using SOA for eLearning, HR, KM and digital identity (using specifications such as HR-XML, IMS Global, Liberty Alliance, OpenID, Kantara, Micro-Format, OpenSocial, RDFa...) with a focus on ePortfolio and CV interoperability (CV transcoding web service, LinkedIN to Europass converter) and organising plugfest events to demonstrate conformance and interoperability of softwatea and services regarding eLearning, Human Resources and Identity standards.

Marc Van Coillie is member of IEEE LTSC (Learning Technologies Sub Committee), expert for the CEN/ISSS WS/LT (Workshop on Learning Technologies), leader of the HR-XML Europass CV Interoperability Working Group of the HR-XML consortium, chair of the HR-EDU Special Interest Group of Liberty Alliance.

David Sowden, Hull University (UK)

David Sowden has significant national expertise in learning technology in both HE and FE institutions and has contributed to national and international peer reviewed conferences and publications in this field. He has led a major eSystems development for the Yorkshire and Humber East Lifelong Learning Network, including management of additional JISC funded projects to support eSystems for lifelong learners. During this time he played a leading role in the LLN National Forum eSystems Workstrand, promoting the use of common data standards, particularly XCRI, and championing usability and accessibility issues. He is currently managing at the University of Hull a JISC project in the Institutional Innovation projects in lifelong learning and workforce development funding round, developing ‘smart’ ePortfolio aggregator technology for professional engineers linked both to their programmes of work-based study from FD through to Masters, and also to their requirements as professionals to present their professional CPD profile both to employers, and to their professional body to gain professional status.

David has a deep working knowledge of the potential and limitations of technology in supporting teaching, learning and the student experience in higher education, and draws perspectives from across the world to inform his work, particularly on usability and accessibility.

Stuart Short, SAP (France)

Stuart joined SAP’s research team in Sophia Antipolis at the beginning 2008 to work in the Security and Trust research area. Current project work includes a European funded project on privacy and identity management, namely, PrimeLife. Before joining Research he worked for SAP in Ireland as an information developer in the financials application area. He holds an MSc (research masters) in Information Systems and a Higher Diploma in Systems Analysis from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prior to working in SAP, Stuart has many years of experience working for SME's in eCommerce (marketing, programming and development) and online teaching for American and Irish universities.

Shirley Williams, University of Reading (UK)

Shirley Williams is Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Reading and she was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. She leads a group of researchers called OdinLab with interests in: digital identity, communities, ontologies, distributed systems, information and knowledge, intelligence, social networks, new and emerging technologies, particularly related to eLearning, competencies and virtual worlds. She maintained a blog at: http://redgloo.sse.reading.ac.uk/ssswills/weblog and tweets at: http://twitter.com/shirleyearley

Robert Wilton Future Identity Ltd (UK)

Robin Wilton is the founder and director of Future Identity Ltd., an independent company set up in January 2009 to provide structured consultancy on digital identity, privacy and public policy. In the same month, Future Identity completed its first consulting engagement, for a UK central government department.

Since then, Future Identity's clients have included: the world-wide Kantara Initiative consortium on interoperable digital identity (where Robin is Director of Privacy and Public Policy); the Liberty Alliance; the UK VOME project (Visualisation and Other Methods of Expression), and a national regulatory body.

Robin is currently an expert reviewer for two European FP7 projects relating to the Critical Financial Infrastructure.

Over the last 25 years, Robin's technical background in banking systems, security and cryptography has evolved into leading-edge expertise in identity management, privacy and public policy. He has built a reputation for being able to articulate and balance the various stakeholder interests of technologists, businesspeople and policymakers. He chairs the Privacy and Public Policy Work Group of the Kantara Initiative, and is on the advisory boards of the European PrimeLife Project on privacy and identity management, and the UK's EnCoRe project on Consent and Revocation.

His focus is on the intersection of technology and policy for identity management, with a strong ethical commitment to improving stakeholder privacy outcomes.

OID: http://futureidentity.mp

Quentin Reul, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)

Quentin Reul works as a researcher for the Semantics Technology & Application Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Free University Brussel. His main role is to develop collaborative ontology engineering methodologies and apply the resulting ontologies to real-life applications. VUB STARLab is one of the partners in the TAS3 project (http://www.tas3.eu/) where we are developing technologies to enable semantic interoperability across distributed services.

Quentin has graduated from the University of Aberdeen and spent a further 4 years there as a PhD student, where he submitted his thesis on ontology matching. He also researched several other aspects of ontology management, such as ontology development, evolution, and evaluation. He has presented his work at various international conferences and was an active member of the W3C SWD Working Group that developed the SKOS meta-language.