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Alex Olivier
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Cerbos
Speaker Bio
Alex Olivier is the CPO and Co-founder of Cerbos. With a diverse background as an engineer, consultant, tech lead, and product manager, he has extensive experience designing enterprise solutions from the ground up, always prioritizing the developer experience. Throughout his time at Microsoft, Qubit, and various startups, Alex has focused on creating platforms that enable teams to move faster at scale, with a specialization in core components like authorization, data management, and security.
A contributor to the OpenID AuthZEN standard, Alex has spoken on identity, data, and infrastructure topics at numerous conferences, including Gartner, EIC, Identiverse, and Google Cloud NEXT.
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A contributor to the OpenID AuthZEN standard, Alex has spoken on identity, data, and infrastructure topics at numerous conferences, including Gartner, EIC, Identiverse, and Google Cloud NEXT.
Session
Tuesday, December 09, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CST
Extend Your Identity Providers with OpenID AuthZEN, Achieve Fine-Grained Authorization, and Enable Zero Trust
David Brossard,
Chief Technology Officer, Axiomatics
Homan Farahmand,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Alex Olivier,
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cerbos
Omri Gazitt,
Co-founder/CEO, Aserto and co-chair, OpenID AuthZEN
A year ago, we introduced Gartner attendees to a new standard, OpenID AuthZEN that promised to establish a standard for fine-grained authorization. A year later and two interops later, we're happy to report that the draft is nearing final specification and that we have completed 3 new interops focusing on API gateways, the AuthZEN Search API, and IdP integrations. With AuthZEN, IAM teams can confidently externalize and standardize authorization across their application estate without being locked in to a proprietary API. Gone are the days of incomplete authorization and gaps in access control logic. With OpenID AuthZEN we are closer to enabling the Zero Trust Enterprise. This session will review the progress achieved in the past twelve months, highlight the milestones, and demo the latest integrations.
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