Dick Hardt

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Dick Clarence Hardt (May 28, 1963) is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He is an advocate of Identity 2.0.

Hardt has spoken at tech events such as Web 2.0, Supernova, Digital ID World, ETech, OSCON, PICNIC, W3C, ISOC, Anti-Phishing Working Group, at New York University (NYU), Harvard and many other locales. He's been interviewed extensively and has been cited in numerous publications including Wired, CNET, InfoWorld, Network World, and BusinessWeek .^{[citation needed]}

Prior to Sxip, Hardt founded ActiveState in 1997. Under his leadership as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in tools for open source programming languages and anti-spam software and was acquired by UK-based security company, Sophos, in 2003 for $23 million.

He is credited with the port of the Perl programming language to Windows. [1], which, at the time, was highly controversial in the open source community. [2]

On December 9, 2008 Hardt announced that he was joining Microsoft as a Partner Architect and will be working on consumer, enterprise and government identity problems.^{[citation needed]} While at Microsoft he would continue to be on the board of Sxipper Inc. maintaining the Sxipper product originally started at Sxip Inc.. [3]

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• Bio on sxip.com
• Identity 2.0 Keynote at OSCON 2005
• Identity 2.0 sequel keynote at ETech 2006
• Identity 2.0 Keynote v.3 at PICNIC Conference 2007 (scroll to bottom of page for the link, Hardt's keynote starts at 10 minutes 25 seconds into the video)
• Identity 2.0 podcast on Talis
• Identity Management and Software-as-a-Service podcast on Computerworld
• Quest for Identity 2.0 interview on CBC Television
• Video Interview with Dick Hardt about Identity 2.0 (English interview with German intro and German subtitles).
• Dick Hardt joins Microsoft