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 head of Continuous Identity product strategy at Crowdstrike. His extensive career in identity includes serving as Chief Customer and Strategy Officer at SGNL, serving as SVP for Identity Product Management at Salesforce where he led product strategy, and acting as a research vice president at Gartner, overseeing identity and privacy research. A prominent figure in the industry, Ian is the co-founder and Board Emeritus of IDPro. He also co-founded and is a board member of the Digital Identity Advancement Foundation, which works to remove financial barriers to participation in the digital identity space. Throughout his career, he has co-authored a patent, contributed to user provisioning specifications, and is a noted blogger, speaker, and photographer of his socks. ‎

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Andrew is an independent consultant focusing on digital identity, privacy, cyber security, and corporate governance. He is the Identiverse Conference Chair, co-founder of The Identity Salon, 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, and can also be found on LinkedIn .