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Authentication Days 2026

15.–16. September 2026 | Hamburg

Program Authentication Days 

Tuesday, 15.09.2026

Time

Location (Foyer / Mainstage / Breakout)

09:00

Check-in Foyer

09:30

Opening of the Authentication Days and welcome to the Visitors Mainstage

Malte Kahrs, CEO MTRIX GmbH

10:00

Keynote Mainstage

Roland Atoui, Security Secretariat FIDO Alliance

10:30

Coffee break & Networking Foyer

10:45

Expert Insights Yubico

Practice Insights ITK Rheinland

TBD

11:30

Break to change rooms

11:40

Expert Insights HID Software

Practice Insights Lehmann & Voss  Roland Sakel, Service Area Manager Process and IT

12:25

Lunch & Networking Foyer

13:30

Expert Insights HID Hardware

TBD

14:15

Break to change rooms

14:30

15:15

Coffee break & Networking Foyer


15:45

Keynote Mainstage

Matthias Intemann, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik

Keynote Mainstage

Swissbit AG

16:30

Ausklang Tag 1 & Ausblick Tag 2 Mainstage

Malte Kahrs, CEO MTRIX GmbH

18:30

Abendveranstaltung im GAGA Club Hamburg


Practice Insights Merck Group Andreas Pellengahr, Head of Identity and Access Management

Practice Insights Finanz Informatik

Thorsten Jung, Head of Department End-2-End Windows Authentication Services

Wednesday, 16.09.2026

Time

Location (Foyer / Mainstage / Breakout)

09:00

Eröffnung Tag 2 Foyer

09:15

12:45

12:00

11:45

11:15

11:00

10:30

10:15

Lunch, Networking & Closing Foyer

The Future of Authentication Mainstage

Malte Kahrs, CEO MTRIX GmbH

Coffee break & Networking Foyer

Expert Insights HID Global


TBD


Practice Insights MTRIX GmbH      Malte Kahrs, CEO

Break to change rooms

Expert Insights OpenText

Expert Insights AuthWire      

Marc Riemer, Founder / CEO

TBD

Coffee break & Networking Foyer

Keynote Mainstage

Markus Bartsch, Business Development IT Security, TÜV IT 

Keynote Mainstage

Tim Baumann, Global Black Belt - Entra Advanced Identity, Microsoft Germany

09:45