Speaker Biographies
IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT – REDUCING RISK AND GIVING BETTER CX TO USERS- SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES – July 09, 2026
Debayan Basu, Pricipal IAM Engineer, Genuine Parts Company
Debayan Basu is a Principal IAM Engineer at Genuine Parts Company (GPC), where he leads global authentication services across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, supporting users, partners, and customers in 17 countries. A seasoned IAM practitioner, he brings broad cross‑industry experience and deep expertise in authentication, access management, and identity governance, with a focus on ensuring the right users have the right access to the right resources at the right time.
Beyond his role at GPC, Debayan is an active contributor in the identity community and regularly engages on topics including authentication and identity governance strategy, and zero-trust aligned access.
William Cai, Executive Director of IAM, IT, Luminaire Health
William is an information security professional with over 26 years of experience in Identity & Access Management. He is a practitioner of TOGAF, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, SAFe, and Business Process Management. He applies process methodologies to improve Identity & Access Management service delivery such as sign on solutions, identity management, access management, and identity governance. William is a Cyber Security Strategist and IAM implementation leader delivering capability which drive business value and competitive advantage.
Ammar Faheem, Product Marketing Director for Customer Identity & Access Management, Thales
Bio to come!
Richard Shoobridge, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Rolls-Royce
Worked for several companies over my 50 years in the IT Architecture and Program Management field that covered several vertical markets including aerospace, manufacturing, financial, medical, warehousing, distribution, insurance, and transportation markets.
Most recent work has been with Rolls-Royce of North America as Enterprise Architect (for Application Development and Security), US Defense and Civil programs/projects, enterprise level cloud standardization & migration though the philosophy of ‘Cloud First’, AI/ML, FOSS standardization and support of other architects in tools/security/infrastructure spaces.
