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Andrew Hindle is an independent consultant specialising in digital identity, cyber security and privacy. He has been Content Chair for Identiverse since 2015. He is a founding member, and Board Member, of IDPro; a Director-at-Large and UK Advisory Board member at Kantara; and an active member of the Open Identity Foundation (OIDF). Andrew has over 20 years experience in the software industry in a range of technical sales, pre-sales, product marketing and business development roles. He maintains CIPP/E, CIPM and CIPT privacy certifications with the IAPP; a CIDPRO certification from IDPro; and holds a BA in Oriental Studies (Japanese) from Oxford University and an advanced professional diploma in corporate governance. Outside of the world of identity, Andrew is Chair of Trustees for his local scouting group, rides regularly with a local road cycling group, and plays keyboard, guitar and bassoon (not at the same time) with more enthusiasm than skill, and for an audience of one. Andrew is based in the UK. Greg Smith is a Senior Solution Consultant with Radiant Logic where he serves as a trusted advisor for new and existing customers. He has been implementing Identity & Access Management solutions for over 35 years. He holds BSEG and MSBA degrees from Bucknell University, where he also began his professional career before moving into the pharmaceutical industry in 1996. Following a 25-year career there, he retired in November 2021 from Johnson & Johnson, where he led the engineering team for J&J’s single sign-on, risk-based authentication, multi-factor authentication, access governance, directory synchronization and virtualization, provisioning automation, and PKI services. He has spoken at Identiverse® and other industry events on numerous occasions. He was CIDPRO™ certified in October 2021 and is also a founding member of IDPro, where he currently chairs the editorial committee. Lance Peterman Leads the Identity & Access Management program at Dick’s Sporting Goods. While he has spent over two decades working in various sectors of IT, Lance’s current focus has been in specialized areas of information security, including identity and access management, risk management, cybersecurity, and mobility. In addition to being an emeritus member of the board of directors at IDPro, Lance is also an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. He is also a precinct judge for North Carolina elections. His active credentials include CISSP and CIDPRO. When not focused on information security, elections, or teaching, Lance spends most of his time on his small farm in Charlotte, raising chickens, caring for 3 dogs whose loyalty largely resides with his wife, and is also a natural horsemanship enthusiast. Eve Maler is ForgeRock’s CTO. She is a globally recognized strategist, innovator, and communicator on digital identity, security, privacy, and consent, with a passion for fostering successful ecosystems and individual empowerment. She has 20 years of experience innovating and leading standards such as SAML and User-Managed Access (UMA), and has also served as a Forrester Research security and risk analyst. She leads the ForgeRock Labs team investigating and prototyping innovative approaches to solving customers’ identity challenges, along with driving ForgeRock’s industry standards leadership. Arynn Crow is a Manager of Product Management in AWS Identity. In her 9+ years at Amazon, Arynn experienced Amazon and Identity from the ground-up, starting as a seasonal customer call center worker and now leading a team of product managers that develop the authentication services used by AWS enterprise customers. Previously, she led the strategy for identity services that secure customer relationship tooling, spanning hundreds of thousands of workforce users as well as tens of millions of customer interactions every year. She has driven a wide range of efforts from GDPR response, FIDO2 and MFA adoption at scale, to extensive access control restructuring.