The Identity Salon Team

The Identity Salon is convened and facilitated by:

Heather Flanagan , Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership roles with some of the most technical, volunteer-driven organizations on the Internet, including IDPro as Executive Director and Principal Editor; the OpenID Foundation as Lead Editor; the IETF, IAB, and the IRTF as RFC Series Editor; ICANN as Technical Writer and Editor; and REFEDS as Coordinator, just to name a few. An avid blogger on digital identity and standards-related topics, Heather is a regular presenter at conferences and meetings around the world. She also serves as co-chair of several working groups, including the W3C Federated Identity working group and the IETF Secure Patterns for Internet Credentials (SPICE) working group. If there is work going on to develop new Internet standards or discussions around the future of digital identity, she is interested in engaging in that work. ‎

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Ian Glazer is the founder and president of Weave Identity – an advisory services firm. Prior to founding Weave, Ian was the Senior Vice President for Identity Product Management, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards work. Earlier in his career, Ian was a research vice president and agenda manager on the Identity and Privacy Strategies team at Gartner, where he oversaw the entire team’s research. He is a Board Emeritus and the co-founder of IDPro. Ian is also a Board of Directors member and cofounder of the Digital Identity Advancement Foundation, focusing on removing financial barriers to participation in the digital identity industry. During his career in the identity industry, he has co-authored a patent on federated user provisioning, co-authored and contributed to user provisioning specifications, is a noted blogger, speaker, and photographer of his socks. ‎

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Andrew Hindle is an independent consultant focusing on digital identity, privacy, cyber security, and corporate governance. He is the Identiverse Conference Chair, serves as a non-executive member of the board at Curity, and sits on the UK Advisory Board for Kantara. Andrew has over 25 years’ experience in the software industry in a range of technical sales, pre-sales, product marketing, business development, and corporate governance 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.