Ping Identity®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced that Cisco Principal Engineer Morteza Ansari and AOL Chief Architect for Identity Services George Fletcher will be among an elite group of experts facilitating this year’s Cloud Identity Summit. The 2012 Cloud Identity Summit explores the role of identity as the new perimeter and ways cloud computing, mobile device access and social networking are transforming business and IT.

Ansari and Fletcher will facilitate general conference sessions taking place July 16-20, at the 2012 Cloud Identity Summit at Vail, Colorado’s Cascade Resort.

The Identity & Policy Implications of Cloud to ITMorteza Ansari – Cisco Principal Engineer

Rapid enterprise adoption of cloud services and the explosion of mobile devices have challenged identity management and federation services. The industry has responded with a number of new standards and solutions. How do they all come together to solve today’s enterprise IT challenges? Morteza Ansari, Cisco Principal Engineer, will examine common identity and policy problems and explore various options to remain secure while embracing cloud adoption and mobile devices.

For the past 20 years Morteza Ansari has been designing and delivering enterprise class software and services with a primary focus on large-scale distributed data and identity systems. He is currently the lead architect responsible for the identity platform strategy that supports Cisco’s collaboration product portfolio. Prior to Cisco, he held architecture and management roles at Infoblox, Sun, HP, and Innovus. Morteza participates in industry standardization efforts at IETF, TCG, and most recently at Openweb Foundation. He holds a MEng in autonomous robotics and a computer engineering degree from McMaster University in Canada.

From Owning to Knowing the Customer – Role of Federation in the New WorldGeorge Fletcher – AOL Chief Architect for Identity Services

Businesses too often focus on "owning" the customer while the greatest value may actually be building a long-term customer relationship. If building a strong relationship is key, identity federation is critical. In this session, AOL Chief Architect for Identity Services George Fletcher provides technical insights into building customer value. The session will touch upon several aspects of this shift in thinking, including user experience implications, customer care and phone support, insecurity of owning the password, data aggregation and behavioral profiling and verified attributes

Currently the Chief Architect for Consumer Identity Services at AOL Inc., George Fletcher is deeply engaged in a number of identity standards efforts including OpenID 2, OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID Connect and User Managed Access (Kantara Initiative). His past work includes contributions to Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), XRI OASIS TCs and the Liberty Alliance Identity Web Service Framework.

About Cloud Identity Summit

Ping Identity’s Cloud Identity Summit is the premiere conference dedicated to the role of identity in cloud security. With 15 expert led, hands-on educational workshops and over 30 industry speakers, the Cloud Identity Summit brings together hundreds of the world’s top experts, implementers and vendors into a single week of knowledge sharing.

Sponsors of the 2012 event include, Google (Gold Workshop Sponsor), SailPoint (Silver Sponsor), Innotribe (Solution Sponsor), Oracle (Solution Sponsor), Radiant Logic, Inc. (Solution Sponsor), Symplified (Solution Center) and Ping Identity. Visit www.cloudidentitysummit.com for more information and to register for the event.

About Ping Identity | The Cloud Identity Security Leader

Ping Identity provides cloud identity security solutions to more than 800 of the world's largest companies, government organizations and cloud businesses. With a 99% customer satisfaction rating, Ping Identity empowers more than 42 of the Fortune 100 to secure hundreds of millions of employees, customers, consumers and partners using secure, open standards like SAML, OpenID and OAuth. Businesses that depend on the Cloud rely on Ping Identity to deliver simple, proven and secure cloud identity management through single sign-on, federated identity management, mobile identity security, API security, social media integration, and centralized access control. Visit pingidentity.com for more information.