Jerry Archer - VP/Chief Information Security Officer, Intuit
As vice president, corporate information security officer at Intuit, Jerry Archer’s responsibilities include securing and protecting customer privacy for all of Intuit’s products, services and internal systems and for information security initiatives across the company. Prior to joining Intuit, Archer was managing director at Global Competitive Strategies, LLC, where he provided insight and validation in the areas of policy, technology, products and strategy to a broad array of firms and government. Previously, Archer was senior vice president for Global Interoperability at Visa International, where his team codified the policies, standards and best practices for Visa systems and networks globally. Before Visa, at the Fidelity Brokerage Company, he was senior vice president of information security and technical risk providing leadership for the brokerage company’s operational and strategic security and risk programs. Earlier his work in the U.S. Intelligence Community earned Archer the National Performance Review Hammer Award, a Distinguished Service Award from the Central Intelligence Agency and a Meritorious Unit Citation from the National Security Agency.

Vance Bjorn - CTO and Co-Founder, DigitalPersona
As co-founder of DigitalPersona, Vance Bjorn co-developed the core algorithm for fingerprint recognition, the foundation of DigitalPersona's technology. In his role as CTO, he is responsible for establishing key business and technology relationships and evolving DigitalPersona's technology to meet the demands of the market. Bjorn was a Caltech Merit Scholar and a finalist for both the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. Bjorn is a board member of RealMOVES Inc. and an advisory board member of the Engineering Research Center for Neuromorphic Research at Caltech. He holds a B.S. degree with honors in Engineering and Applied Science and an M.S. degree in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology.

Chuck Buffum - Senior Evangelist, Voice Authentication, RSA
Chuck Buffum, senior evangelist of voice authentication with RSA, is a visionary and pioneer in the call center, speech technology and secure authentication domains. Over the past 20 years he has guided more than a dozen companies to bring these technologies and solutions to market addressing the needs of over 50 clients. His business experience spans 28 years in product innovation, executive management, and business development in high technology companies both large and small. Previously, Buffum was the founding CEO of Vocent, a voice authentication solutions company, sold to PassMark Security in 2005. Prior to Vocent, he lead Nuance's partner development and field technical organizations, managed Tandem's solution programs, and created IBM's call center solutions program, bringing CallPath and an IVR to market in the 1980s.

Dan Faulkner – Director, Product Management and Solution Marketing, Nuance Communications
Dan Faulkner has led core technology and marketing organizations during his tenure in the speech industry. Today he is responsible for the development, management and marketing of Nuance’s enterprise speech solutions and strategy. Among these solutions are Nuance’s speaker verification applications, driven by the market-leading Nuance Verifier engine. A regular conference speaker, Faulkner has been immersed in the communications technology market for more than ten years, with first hand experience in the North American and European markets. Faulkner has a Bachelors degree from the University of Manchester, and a Masters degree in Speech and Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh.

Ariel Friedenberg - VP, Sales & Business Development, Persay
Ariel Friedenberg joined Persay during 2000, shortly after Persay was founded. In 2003, he was appointed VP Sales & Business Development. Friedenberg has extensive experience with the introduction and challenges of deploying voice biometric products in diversified markets and geographical regions. He holds a B.A. in law and economics and has an MBA, both from Bar-Ilan University. Prior to joining Persay, Friedenberg was an attorney in one of the leading law offices in Israel, following an internship at the Supreme Court of Israel.

Brian Garr - Program Director, Enterprise Speech Solutions, IBM
Brian Garr is Program Director for Enterprise Speech Solutions in the Software Group Division of IBM. He has been with IBM for 8 years. He is an evangelist and speaker worldwide on machine translation, text to speech, and speech recognition. He received the Smithsonian Institute’s Heroes of Technology designation in 1998 for his work in machine translation.

Oliver Geiseler - Head, Enterprise Helpdesk, Volkswagen Financial Services AG
Oliver Geiseler is Head of I-SBE Enterprise Helpdesk at Volkswagen Financial Services AG. He's in charge of IT support, user management, desktop-hardware, the overall system operations project management and the IT-related coordination of ITIL processes. Additionally, he's responsible for all Service Support Processes and the Service Level Management. Previously, he spent over 9 years at Deutsche Bank AG in different functions and responsibilities.Volkswagen Financial Services AG is the largest automotive financial service provider in Europe. The total assets in 2006 reached 43.9 Billion Euro. Today, Volkswagen Financial Services AG has over 5000 employees worldwide.

Charles Giordano - Privacy Marketing Strategy, Bell Canada
Charles Giordano currently leads the Privacy Marketing Strategy within Bell's Residential Division and is marketing lead for the company's voice-based authentication project. He manages Bell's vision of privacy-enabled marketing by championing customer choice and customer preferences collection in marketing. Giordano joined Bell Canada in 1992 and has held various management functions in sales, marketing, budgeting & forecasting. He graduated with an economics degree from University of Toronto in 1983 and completed an MBA with a marketing specialty from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1992.

Avery Glasser - CTO, VxV Solutions
Avery Glasser brings a decade's worth of experience designing advanced voice technology architecture, products and solutions for carriers and large enterprises. As CTO of VxV Solutions, he is responsible for architecting the first voice biometric platform that supports OpenID, an open source initiative supported by firms such as Verisign, Microsoft and AOL. He is a regular speaker on voice biometrics and voice self service and writes regular columns at activeanalysis.net.

Vance Harris – CTO, VoiceVault
Vance Harris has responsibility for technical operations, the scientific team and system development of VoiceVault. He is recognized globally as an authority on voice verification and is a regular expert speaker on the industry conference circuit. He created VoiceVault, establishing its architecture and led the design of the verification engine. Harris has a military technology background serving as an officer in a variety of roles.

Jens Hinrichsen - Product Marketing Manager, Consumer Solutions Business Unit, RSA
Jens Hinrichsen is responsible for the RSA FraudAction anti-phishing and anti-fraud service which composes a key part of the broad portfolio of products and services designed to bolster security and confidence in the online channel by protecting organizations, their brands, and their customers against fraud and the latest online threats. Prior to joining RSA, acquired by EMC Corporation in 2006, Hinrichsen worked for nine years in a variety of marketing and business development roles at Eastman Kodak. He holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin.

Zsolt Kadar - IT Project Manager, ABN AMRO
Zsolt Kadar is IT Project Manager responsible for ABN AMRO's implementation of voice verification within its Dutch Call Centre. This project will see the role out of voice verification to ABN AMRO's 4 million customers who collectively make 35 million calls per year to its telephone banking services. Kadar's background is in the management of complex infrastructural projects, package systems implementations, service management and offshore application development. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in Hungary, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

Jeffrey Kopchik - Senior Policy Analyst, FDIC
Jeffrey Kopchik is a Senior Policy Analyst in the FDIC’s Technology Supervision Branch, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection (DSC). Kopchik is one of the FDIC’s senior staff members primarily responsible for technology supervision, which includes monitoring developments in information technology and helping to formulate the FDIC’s position. Kopchik was the FDIC’s primary representative on the FFIEC staff working group that drafted the October 12, 2005 guidance on Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment. Kopchik is also the senior FDIC staff member involved in interagency rulemaking efforts to comply with the FACT Act, and was involved in the creation and implementation of the GLBA interagency information security guidelines, supervisory guidance on customer notice, FFIEC Business Continuity Planning Booklet, and FDIC guidance on wireless networks. Before joining the FDIC in 1990, Kopchik was General Counsel of the National Bank of Washington, Associate Counsel of The Bank of New York, and an associate at a large national law firm based in New York City. Kopchik received his A.B. from Colgate University and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

Michael Kramer - CEO & Founder, VOICE.TRUST
Michael Kramer founded VOICE.TRUST in 2000, leading the German company to a worldwide player. Today, VOICE.TRUST solutions are deployed in worldwide Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, insurance, automotive and healthcare industries. Kramer succeeded in shifting the company from direct enterprise deployment to a shared service enabler. Numerous international awards have recognized these achievements, including the selection as a Technology Pioneer in 2006 by the World Economic Forum and the Red Herring Europe 100 Award in 2005 and 2006. Kramer has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and sales of producer goods and top quality consumer goods.

Hermann Künzel - Professor of Phonetics, University of Marburg, Germany
Hermann J. Künzel is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Marburg, Germany. From 1985 to 1999, he was Head of the Speaker Identification & Tape Authentication Department of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was essential in the development of the internationally acclaimed classical acoustic-phonetic method of forensic speaker recognition (FSR) and has been working as a professional expert in FSR, speaker profiling, voice line-ups and non-speech related acoustic investigations (e.g. aircraft mishaps) for courts and government institutions throughout Germany and worldwide. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Phonetics from the University of Kiel, Germany and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Dean Lindstrom - Enterprise IT Architect, SAIC
Dean Lindstrom is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Computer Forensics Investigator with 20+ years of experience as an IT Business/Project Manager and Enterprise IT and Security Architect. He is an Enterprise Architect for SAIC on a contract for USDA's Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) division. Most recently, he designed the system and security architecture for Federal Government HSPD-12 Shared Service solution. Lindstrom is currently developing USDA enterprise single sign-on solutions and a high security voice authentication infrastructure for supporting HSPD-12 remote card activation and card management functions, and interactive voice response (IVR) support for voice-enabled Web applications and automated self-service Helpdesk functions. He holds a Master's degree in CIS and a Bachelors degree in CIS/Business Administration from Regis University, Denver, CO.

Fred MacKenzie – Senior Business Solutions Advisor, Bell Canada
Fred MacKenzie has held many positions at Bell Canada over the last 34 years and is currently working in the Bell Systems and Technology organization in Toronto as a Senior Associate Director. He is the Senior Business Solutions Advisor for customer service voice interface solutions. His role is to oversee the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) design and direct the planning for how current and new technologies can be leveraged for leading-edge customer service solutions. MacKenzie played a key role in delivering Bell’s industry leading customer service voice recognition solution using advanced Natural Language Understanding technology. This solution answers and routes over 100 million calls annually. He is currently working on a voice biometrics solution which intends to address industry issues with identity theft and verification.

Dan Miller - Senior Analyst, Opus Research, Inc.
Dan Miller has over 25 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate strategy for telecom service providers, computer manufacturers and application software developers. Dan founded Opus Research in 1985 and helped define the Conversational Access Technologies marketplace by authoring scores of reports, advisories and newsletters addressing business opportunities that reside where automated speech leverages Web services, mobility and enterprise software infrastructure. He also participated in consulting projects in call center-based commerce, voice-based communications and electronic commerce for clients that include top IT, telecommunications and hosted service providers, as well as a number of entrepreneurial firms.

David Nahamoo - Speech Business Strategist and CTO, IBM Research
David Nahamoo is responsible for IBM Research technical and business directions in the conversational and multimodal technologies. He joined IBM Research in 1982 as a Research Staff Member. From 1993 to 2006, he was responsible for delivering speech technologies to IBM Divisions for desktop, embedded and server-based speech products. During these years, he managed a team of 60 scientists at IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York and a team of 20 researchers and developers in Prague. In 2007, he was appointed as the Speech CTO and the Speech Business Strategist for IBM Research. In this new role, David is responsible for establishing IBM Research global strategy in the speech area and identifying business opportunities across IBM software and services businesses, focusing on contact centers, collaboration and content delivery solutions. He provides technical direction for Conversational and Multimodal Interaction Technologies at IBM Research labs worldwide.

Ken Rehor - Co-Chair, Speaker Biometrics Committee, VoiceXML Forum
Ken Rehor is an engineering consultant specializing in open standards telephony systems. As co-Chair of the VoiceXML Forum’s Speaker Biometrics Committee and a member of the W3C Voice Browser Working Group, Rehor is leading the design of speaker biometrics features for VoiceXML 3.0. As Chair of the Forum’s Conformance Committee, he developed and leads the VoiceXML Platform Certification Program. Rehor is also co-editor of VoiceXML 1.0, 2.0, 2.1 and CCXML 1.0 and co-founder and past Chair of the VoiceXML Forum. He has served in executive and R&D roles at various companies including Vocalocity, Nuance, AT&T and Lucent Technologies / Bell Labs, and holds seven patents on Web-based telephony.

Dr. Clive Summerfield - Deputy Director & Founder, the National Centre for Biometric Studies, University of Canberra.
Clive Summerfield is an adviser to government departments and industry on biometric technologies research, evaluation, commercialization and deployment. He has over 25 years experience in research, and commercial deployment of new technologies in Australia, the UK and the U.S. He's an internationally recognized authority on voice technology and biometrics. As Founder and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Biometric Studies (NCBS) at University of Canberra, Summerfield has provided vendor-independent scientific analysis of the performance and effectiveness of biometric technologies. He has a Bachelor of Science Honours (B.Sc. Hons) in Electrical Electronic Engineering and Diploma of Industrial Studies (DIS) from Loughborough University of Technology in the UK, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Sydney and is Adjunct Professor of Computing at the University of Canberra.

Chip Tsantes - CTO & Executive Vice President, Intersections Inc.
Chip Tsantes is chief technology officer with Intersections Inc. (NASDAQ: INTX), a leading provider of branded and fully customized identity management solutions in North America. Tsantes leads all technology activities including development, IT operations and IT security across all business units. In addition, he is responsible for developing new services related to strong consumer authentication. In this role, he has developed patent pending processes to improve initial and subsequent user authentication. Prior to joining Intersections, Tsantes was a Partner in Accenture’s Capital Markets Group, part of the global firm’s Financial Services practice and a member of its FSI Technology leadership. He earned a B.A. in Management from Virginia Wesleyan College in 1983 and an M.B.A. with an MIS concentration from Old Dominion University in 1986.

Andrew White - President & CEO, Route 1, Inc.
Andrew White brings 12 years entrepreneurial business experience in high technology, specializing in product integration and design, and addressing business needs with technology. White founded three businesses in wireless applications and networking since 1995. Prior, he was the Manager of Information Systems at Delrina which was acquired by Symantec. White also established a Software Testing Facility for a division of the Ontario Research Foundation.