Speakers

Graeme Proudler, HP Labs

Graeme Proudler is a researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group’s Technical Committee. He was the technical lead of HP-Labs’ research group that contributed to Trusted Computing Platform Alliance specifications, a founder member of the TCPA Technical Committee, and original editor of the TCPA main specification.

Graeme reads Physics at Wadham College, Oxford. After graduation, he designed communication-security equipment. Since joining HP Laboratories, he has worked on information security, networking and mobile communications. His current interests are trust and information security in computer platforms and networks.

Josef von Helden, Fachhochschule, Hannover

1990 and 1995 he was scientific/teaching assistant at the Chair of Operating Systems at RWTH Aachen. He received his PhD in 1995.

Until 1999 Josef he worked as a Security Consultant at debis IT Security Services as a specialist for the design of security systems, in particular key management systems, secure configuration of operating systems, risk analysis and security audits.

Since February 1999 he is Professor for Networks, IT Security and Operating Systems in Department of Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts (FHH), Hanover. He is the leader of the TNC@FHH team, working on an open source implementation of the Trusted Network Connect architecture. Since 2007 he is also the Dean of the Faculty IV – Business and Computer Science.

Paul Congdon, HP ProCurve CTO

Chief Technology Officer, ProCurve Networking by HP

Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for ProCurve Networking and an HP Fellow. At ProCurve he is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing network infrastructure and software products. Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. Over the last 23 years he has expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design and standardization of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation, LLDP device discovery and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X.

Congdon is currently the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF Radius Extensions Working Group. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis.

“I integrate technology trends, market trends and customer needs to help guide ProCurve’s industry leadership and product innovation. I help us focus on delivering the most value to our customers by helping choose what to do – and oftentimes what not to do – next.”

Boris Balacheff, HP Labs

Boris Balacheff is a HP Labs expert in the field of computer security, specializing in the area of trusted computing and trusted infrastructure technologies. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and co-chairs its Certification Program Committee. Boris also serves on HP’s corporate Security Office where he focuses on HP’s trusted infrastructure security strategy.

Boris Balacheff’s research has ranged from cryptographic algorithms and protocols to networking and computer security. He developed an expertise in smartcard technology and was the Technical Committee representative for HP on the PC/SC specification working group. He is one of the early contributors to the invention of Trusted Computing technology, and he co-authored the HPLabs’ book on this topic. He also served on the Technical Committee of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) during the development of its early specifications. Boris Balacheff joined HP Labs in 1997 with a French “Diplome d’Ingenieur” degree in applied mathematics and computer science.

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Ruhr-University, Bochum

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi is the head of System Security Group at Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He received his MSc in Mechanical as well as in Electrical Engineering. He received his PhD in Computer Science with focus on privacy protecting cryptographic systems from Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany. Prior to academia he has been working in Research and Development of IT and Telecommunications enterprises, amongst others with Ericson Telecommunications. He has strongly contributed to and put forward the international research on Trusted Platforms and is currently leading several European and national research and development projects on design and implementation of trustworthy Infrastructures as well as on design of various privacy preserving cryptographic systems. He is actively involved in IT security research and serves as program committee member as well as co-chair of various conferences and workshops in the area of cryptography and information security. His research interests include security architectures and models, Trusted Computing, privacy enhancing technologies, and cryptographic protocols in particular for RFID based systems.

Andrew Martin, University of Oxford

Andrew Martin lectures to Software Professionals as part of Oxford University's Software Engineering Programme. He has a background in formal methods, but today devotes most of his time to issues of security in distributed systems. He has been particularly interested in the grid computing paradigm, the security questions that raises, and how the technologies of trusted computing can help to address the challenges in that area.

Andrew wrote a doctoral thesis on the subject 'Machine-Assisted Theorem Proving for Software Engineering', in the early 1990s. He then worked as a Research Fellow in the Software Verification Research Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. Returning to the UK, he was briefly a lecturer at the University of Southampton, before returning to Oxford to take up his present post in 1999. Dr Martin is a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

David Grawrock, Intel

David Grawrock is a Senior Principal Engineer and Security Architect for the Initiatives, Technology Pathfinding and Planning group. His role is the End to End security architect for the Digital Enterprise Group. David continues as the Trusted Execution Technology (formerly LaGrande Technology) lead security architect. Outside of Intel David is the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group TPM workgroup and Intel's representative to the TCG Technical Committee. David has worked in the computer industry for 28 years holding positions with Central Point Software, Symantec, and Lotus. David is the holder of 20 patents with many more pending. David does have a life outside of Intel; he is a proud father and husband, dedicated soccer coach, fly fisherman, and long suffering family genealogist

Loïc Duflot, ANSSI (French National Information System Security Agency)

Loic Duflot is a research engineer for the French National Information System Security Agency (ANSSI) where he holds the position of head of the Architecture and Network Lab. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and two engineering degrees.He is mostly interested in Trusted Computing and PC hardware-related security issues and he is looking at the security of interactions between software and hardware.

Vincent Rijmen, Graz University of Technology / K.U. Leuven

Kurt Dietrich, Graz University of Technology

Gianluca Ramunno, Politechnico di Torino

Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham

Mark Ryan is Professor of Computer Security at the University of
Birmingham. He obtained his bachelors and masters degrees from
University
of Cambridge, and his PhD from Imperial College London. His current research
is in computer security, particularly the analysis of cryptographic
protocols. He has recently worked on protocols for electronic voting,
trusted computing, and anonymous service usage. Previously, he was
active in applications of logic, and he co-authored the textbook
"Logic in Computer Science" which has sold about 20 000 copies.

Ben Smyth, University of Birmingham

Ben Smyth is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham. His
research is in protocol verification, particularly protocols in
trusted computing. In 2006 he identified a flaw in the Direct
Anonymous Attestation protocol, and its fix. He has worked extensively
with the applied pi calculus, and the supporting tool ProVerif. In
2009 he will spend a 5 month internship at Ecole Normale Superieur,
Paris, working on ProVerif.

Johann Schötz, Infineon Technologies AG

Michael Hohmuth, AMD

Michael Hohmuth joined AMD's Operating System Research Center in December '06 and has responsibilities in growing AMD's operating-systems know-how and defining the company's agenda for systems- and application-driven CPU-architecture design and
evaluation. Before joining AMD, Michael has been an operating-systems researcher at TU Dresden for 10 years and has
worked on real-time systems, microkernel-based operating systems, and operating-systems security.

Dirk van Rooy, EC (Keynote)

Dirk van Rooy has been working for the European Commission since 1993, in the Directorate-General Information Society and Media and its predecessors. Dirk van Rooy’s main area of responsibility is the coordination of activities in the ICT research program, where he is Head of Sector in trust and security, focusing on technologies for identity management, privacy enhancing technologies and secure information management. Earlier areas of work have included software and services, including open source software and the application of information technology to transport and environmental control.
Prior to joining the Commission, Dirk van Rooy worked in the software industry in several international companies. Dirk van Rooy holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark, where he worked on stochastic simulation and applied mathematical modeling techniques.

Jan-Erik Ekberg, Nokia Research Center

Jan-Erik Ekberg is a principal member of the engineering staff at Nokia Research Center Helsinki. He has been working with security protocols for networks and networking for over 10 years - including technologies like GSM, IN, WLAN, BT and BT-LE. For the last 5 years his research interests have also included topics related to hardware-assisted platform security mechanisms, including TPMs and the development of the recent MTM specification.