Speakers

We're bringing together some of the most passionate and informed individuals ever to discuss the intersection of identity and the cloud.

Eric Sachs - Google Product Mgr | Security & CIO Department

Eric Sachs has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of user identity and security for hosted Web applications. During his five-plus years at Google, he has worked as a Product Manager for many services, including the Google Account login system, Google Apps for Your Domain, orkut.com social network, Google Health, Google Security, and Internal Systems. Currently Mr. Sachs works with Google's CIO on an effort to move Google's internal systems to cloud-based technologies by leveraging the same developer tools that Google makes available publicly. As part of that work, he is involved with the development of industry standards for data interoperability, including OAuth, OpenID, and OpenSocial. Before Google, Mr. Sachs was CTO and co-founder of Interliant, which provided hosted corporate email services. While at Interliant, Mr. Sachs led co-development projects with both IBM and Microsoft to build platforms for hosting consumer and enterprise Web applications. Mr. Sachs graduated with a B.A. in computer science in 1993 from Rice University.

John Shewchuk, Microsoft Technical Fellow

John Shewchuk is a Microsoft Technical Fellow in the Server and Tools business.  Over the last several years Shewchuk has driven Microsoft's efforts to deliver cloud application technologies with a focus on identity, access, and messaging services. John has been a key driver on cross-industry interoperability initiatives including WS-Security and OAuth WRAP efforts.  John has managed the technical collaborations on web interoperability with IBM, Google, and many others.  Earlier John worked on Microsoft's development tools and runtimes and played a key role in the creation of Visual Studio and .NET.  He has worked on many Internet technologies including stylesheets, browser behaviors, and Web server controls.  John lives in Redmond Washington with his wife and four kids.  In his spare time John is a chauffeur.

Gunnar Peterson, Artec Group

Gunnar Peterson is a Managing Principal at Arctec Group. He is focused  on distributed systems security for large mission critical financial, financial exchanges, healthcare, manufacturer, and insurance systems, as well as emerging start ups. Mr. Peterson is an internationally  recognized software security expert, frequently published, an Associate Editor for IEEE Security & Privacy Journal on Building Security In, a contributor to the SEI and DHS Build   Security In portal on software security, a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, and an in-demand speaker at security conferences. He maintains a popular informationsecurity blog athttp://1raindrop.typepad.com.

Patrick Harding, Ping Identity CTO

Harding brings more than 20 years of experience in software development, networking infrastructure and information security to the role of Chief Technology Office for Ping Identity. Harding is responsible for Ping Identity’s technology strategy.

Previously, Harding was a vice president and 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. An active leader in the Identity Security space, Harding is a Founding Board Member for the Information Card Foundation, a member of the Cloud Security Alliance Board of Advisors, on the steering committee for OASIS and actively involved in the Kantara Initiative and Project Concordia. He is a regular speaker at RSA, Digital ID World, SaaS Summit, Burton Catalyst and other conferences. Harding holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Jim Reavis, Cloud Security Alliance Executive Director & Co-Founder

For many years, Jim Reavis has worked in the information security industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim's innovative thinking about emerging security trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many. Jim is helping shape the future of information security as co-founder, executive director and driving force of the Cloud Security Alliance.

Jim is the President of Reavis Consulting Group, LLC, where he advises security companies, large enterprises and other organizations on the implications of new trends such as Cloud and how to take advantage of them. Jim occasionally blogs at Risk Bloggers.

Jim has previously been an international board member of the ISSA, a global not for profit association of information security professionals and formerly served as the association's Executive Director. Jim was a co-founder of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a partnership between the ISSA, ISACA and ASIS, formed to address the enterprise risk issues associated with the convergence of logical and traditional security. Jim currently serves in an advisory capacity for many of the industry's most successful companies. Jim is also a partner with the MetroSITE Group.

Jim founded SecurityPortal in 1998 and has been an advisor on the launch of many industry ventures. Jim is widely quoted in the press and has worked with hundreds of corporations on their information security strategy and technology roadmap. Jim has a background in networking technologies, marketing, product management and systems integration. Jim received a B.A. in Business Administration / Computer Science from Western Washington University in 1987 and serves on WWU's alumni board.

Russell Dietz, SafeNet Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

 

Russell Dietz joined SafeNet in February 2009 as vice president and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this role, Mr. Dietz, who has more than 25 years of industry experience, leads the strategic positioning and migration of new technologies into SafeNet, assuring the continued impact of new technologies on the Company’s highly successful solutions portfolio.

Mr. Dietz has held multiple CTO positions for high tech companies including Hifn, Inc. where he led company efforts in defining the next generation of security, service and network processing solutions, and Apptitude where he drove the vision, strategy and architecture of the application and flow classification solutions, MeterFlow and MeterWorks.

Mr. Dietz was the founder and VP of engineering for Technically Elite, and previously held various management and technical spots at Magnavox Electronic Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) and was the chairperson of the Network Processing Forum. 

To date, Mr. Dietz has been awarded 20 patents in the fields of data communications traffic analysis, behavior, security and data protection.

Tom Fisher, SuccessFactors Vice President Cloud

 

Tom Fisher joined SuccessFactors as Vice President of Cloud Computing.  SuccessFactors is one of the fastest growing software companies in the world.  Tom is responsible for the company’s Cloud initiatives including supporting technology alliances and Cloud integration.  Tom, in his current role, is widely published and a popular speaker on both the technology and the business of the Cloud.    

Previously Tom was Vice President of IT for Qualcomm and CIO for QUALCOMM’s CDMA Technologies (QCT) Group – the largest fabless semi-conductor in the world.  Tom had worldwide responsibility for the business and engineering systems that supported Qualcomm’s semiconductor and global positioning businesses.  Tom was instrumental in creating the ‘fabless five’ a regularly scheduled meeting of the five largest fabless semi-conductors in the world.  He was recognized, worldwide, as a technology and thought leader in IT.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Tom was vice president for architecture and technology strategy and acting Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at eBay. His responsibilities at eBay included helping to redesign and manage the delivery of the Web site after several massive outages. He was also responsible for establishing the firm’s technology strategy to support the massive scale and shifting business requirements.  Tom was responsible for significant business development strategies at eBay including the creation and establishment of eBay’s Developers Program, eBay’s StoreFront initiative and eBay’s internationalization as the company expanded globally.

Workshop Presenters

Implementing OpenID & OAuth

Chris Messina - Google

Chris Messina is a well-known advocate of the open web, starting as a leader of the community marketing of the launch of the popular Firefox web browser in 2004. He is a board member of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations, and plays an instrumental role in advancing OAuth and safer online computing. A frequent speaker at technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo and SXSW, he has been quoted in The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, Washington Post, ReadWriteWeb, and Wired. In 2008, Chris received the Google Open Source Award recognizing his community work on initiatives like microformats. He also co-founded the coworking and BarCamp communities, and is credited with introducing hashtags on Twitter. He currently works at Google as an Open Web Advocate and resides in San Francisco.



Joseph Smarr - Google

Joseph Smarr is a software engineer at Google, focused on socially enabling the web using open standards. Previously, he was Plaxo's Chief Technology Officer, where he led their initiative to open up the social web, starting with co-authoring the Bill of Rights for Users of

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