Lisa Barrett is Director of Digital Identity at the Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office.  She oversees all aspects of the technology, strategy and implementation of Digital Identity for UK Cabinet Office.  Previously Lisa was Director of Analysis and Data Driven Department and Culture...

 David Benini is Vice President of Marketing & Product at Aware, Inc., where he drives marketing and strategic product development activities aimed at growth of Aware’s biometrics software business. David holds a BS Degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA...

Thirimachos Bourlai has been an Associate Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Engineering at WVU since mid-2017. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the WVU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, and the Department of Forensic and Investigative...

Greg Cannon is Director of Technology at HID Global, responsible for the Company's standards involvement, intellectual property, software architecture, biometric algorithm development, and continued innovation excellence.Mr. Cannon joined Crossmatch, now HID Global, in 2001, bringing more than...

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Jim Cunha is the Senior Vice President of Secure Payments and FinTech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.Cunha leads the Federal Reserve’s Secure Payment efforts, which seeks to improve the safety, security, and resiliency of the U.S. payments system.Cunha is also spearheading the Boston Fed’s...

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Salvatore (Sal) D'Agostino is founder of IDmachines and Co-founder of OpenConsent.  A serial entrepreneur, Sal’s work has covered the US Capitol and Pentagon security systems, EZ Pass and numerous intelligent transport systems, 100+ industrial automation systems and enterprise...

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Marcio Derenne is a specialized officer at the Office of the Special Representative of INTERPOL to the United Nations, in New York.Prior to his position at INTERPOL, Marcio served as Special Federal Police Commissioner at the Brazilian Federal Police from 2003. During this time he acted as Special...

Amol Deshmukh has received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Poona and a Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State University, University Park, PA.  He joined Schlumberger in 1996 and has since worked in the smart...

Sanjay Dharwadker has over thirty years’ experience in identity and identification across Asia, Africa and Europe. His current assignments include consulting for various United Nations agencies on legal identity, civil registration and national ID programs.Earlier for the World Bank, he worked on...

Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a respected public interest research group focusing on data privacy. Dixon is an author and researcher known for her pioneering work in the area of data brokers, predictive analytics, identity, and biometrics, among other...

Clare Garvie is a senior associate with the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. She was lead author on three of the Center’s reports on face recognition, including: The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America in 2016; and Garbage In, Garbage Out: Face...

Professor Dorothy Glancy is nationally known for her extensive work in the area of privacy and transportation law. Under a grant from the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, she directed a legal research project regarding privacy and intelligent transportation...

Patrick Gray served as Special Agent with the FBI for twenty years, including assignment to a team investigating the September 11 attacks. There he witnessed first-hand how the lack of technology to quickly identify individuals (or bodies) on-scene can stymie an investigation. His work for the FBI...

JJ Harkema is an Identity Consultant - Lead at Experian North America. He drives public sector go-to-market strategies for Experian’s Fraud, Identity and Decisioning business. His responsibilities include aligning Experian’s solutions to government (NIST) standards, business development, and...

Larry Hatch is one of the industry’s most sought-after authorities for his expertise in identity technology and the use of data analytics and governance to develop innovative solutions to existing and emerging fraud-mitigation challenges. He has led and deployed major change initiatives across many ...

Gautam Hazari is the Technical Director at GSMA and is the Chief Architect for the Mobile Connect proposition. He works with the mobile operators around the world on mobile identity and also with the extended industry, standards and regulatory bodies on the identity ecosystem. Gautam has been...

Joonatan Henriksson is head of digital business at Nixu Corporation. He is one of the leading identity experts in Northern Europe and has over ten years of experience in digital identity and authentication projects in different business domains. He has an eye for utilizing digital solutions in...

Bjorn Hjelm is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Verizon Corporate Technology organization with over 20 years of experience in network planning, architecture, and implementation of advanced communication systems. He is currently involved in various Mobile Identity projects as well as...

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Ashwini Jarral currently serves as the Executive Director of the IJIS Institute. A member of the prestigious Federal 100 in 2014, Jarral was instrumental in conceiving and implementing a new standards-based interoperability program to help advance information sharing in the justice, public safety...

Diane Joyce has been pivotal in the creation of the UK Digital Citizen Identity marketplace; she has provided thought leadership, architecture design and innovation in the propagation of trusted online transactions in the digital age. Diane has worked with blue chip corporations to implement the...

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Adam I. Klein is Chairman and Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Before being appointed to the Board, Klein served as Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a bipartisan national security research institution in Washington. His...

Josh Kolchins, an executive with over 20 years’ experience in sales, business development and information technology, is Head of Federal Sales for Vision-Box in the US.Prior to joining Vision-Box, Mr. Kolchins was Head of Sales for Fujitsu Defense and National Security. He was previously a Business ...

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Tovah LaDier is the Executive Director of IBIA. With her background as a corporate lawyer, lobbyist, and strategic consultant, Ms. LaDier has wide-ranging experience nationally and internationally working with business, government, the academic and policy communities, and the media.On behalf of...

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Darren Lal is Senior Director, Strategic Business Development for the Citizen Identity Business Area within HID Global. Darren is a veteran ID management professional with over 20 years of international experience in the government identity market. With a background in Project...

Jean-François (Jeff) Lennon, a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in the IT and Security industries, is Head of Strategic Sales & Global Partnerships at Vision-Box™, a leading provider of Seamless Travel and Digital Identity Solutions. Since he joined Vision-Box in early...

Mark Lizar is the CEO & Co-Founder of the OpenConsent Group where he is the primary designer & engineer of the Operational Privacy Network (OPN), launching in September 2019.  Mark is the co-inventor of privacy broadcasting, inventor of Consent by Design, inventor of the Consent...

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Mark Lockie is connect:ID’s Event Director and the founder of Science Media Partners Ltd, a UK-based media and events company, recently acquired by Terrapinn Holdings. For more than 20 years, Mr Lockie has developed world-leading international conferences, exhibitions and online news and...

Jim Loudermilk is Senior Director, Innovation and Customer Solutions, with IDEMIA National Security Solutions. His focus is on applied R&D to advance biometric and human identification technology. Also, to architect high performance and cost-effective solutions to customer identification...

Catharine MacIntosh is the Founder and CEO of Real Estate Dot Love Inc. that provides a fun, easy ‘tinder-like’ real estate search experience to consumers, through a full-time, professional real estate agent, and that predicts the home you want to buy or the best time to sell. Catharine is on her...

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Jean-Baptiste Milan is the Product Manager, goID for the Citizen Identity Business Area within HID Global. He has over 14 years’ experience in electronic identity projects around the globe, having previously created the ePassport Product Line for Arjo Systems based in Asia. Jean-Baptiste is active...

Robert Mungovan is a senior General Business Manager and Vice President at Aware, Inc., one of the leading US based providers of biometric software technology and solutions. Over the last twenty two years Mr. Mungovan has led the operations at Aware and has helped establish Aware as a global...

Elke Oberg is the marketing manager of prominent face recognition company Cognitec, where she has gained a deep understanding of biometric technologies, their uses and abuses, and their potential applications in the future. She regularly contributes to the educational outreach of industry...

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Neville Pattinson is the Head of Federal Government Sales at Thales Group's Digital Identity & Security division’s Identity & Biometric Solutions team based in Austin, TX. Within that role he evangelizes the need to move to secure digital identity solutions to protect US Citizen’s...

John Peters has over 17 years experience in the design, development and implementation of leading edge physical, electronic and digital security solutions for government documents. In his role as Head of New Business at OVD Kinegram, John spends much of his time interacting with government...

Micheal Pettibone is a technology executive with over 20 years’ experience in cybersecurity, specializing in digital identity and authentication solutions. He is a VP, Product Management, Digital Identity, and is responsible for the US & Canadian market development. Prior to Mastercard, Micheal ...

Tony Poole has more than twenty-five years’ experience in government business development, marketing, management and public policy.  As an expert in counterfeit deterrence technologies, he leads AJW’s Document Security practice and supports industry leading companies in formulating and implementing ...

Kiran Raja is a researcher and associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He also holds a technical director position in the biometrics company Mobai. Previously he worked as a researcher and developer at various companies in India and the US. He has been responsible ...

Jas Randhawa leads PwC’s Financial Crimes Advisory service on the US West Coast with almost 15 years of global Financial Crime and Compliance experience. During this time, he has lived and worked in six major cities across the world - San Francisco, New York, London, Chicago and New Delhi.Jas has...

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Ralph Rodriguez is a Research Scientist focused on Applied Identity Intelligence at Facebook. Previously he was the Co-Founder and CTO of Confirm.io, an ID authentication company, which Facebook acquired in March of 2018. As an entrepreneur, he has had multiple exits over the last 25 years as he...

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Diane Stephens worked for 14 years with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) US-VISIT and OBIM program and now works for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Information Technology Laboratory.  She is an Information Technology Systems analyst and also performs as...

Martin Stokkenes has a joint appointment as doctoral researcher with the department of information security and communication technology, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where he works as a researcher in IKTPLUSS-SWAN project funded by the Research Council of...

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Andre Ten Caat has more than 30 years of experience in the document security field. During this time, he worked for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee at Schiphol International Airport Amsterdam. He began working as an employee, and then as a team leader at the Airport’s Forgery Desk. For the last...

 Don Thibeau is the Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, a non-profit international standards development organization of individuals and companies committed to enabling, promoting and protecting OpenID technologies. The Foundation’s membership includes leaders from across industry sectors...

Ryan Thomas is the CST Laboratory Manager and FIPS 140 Subject Matter Expert at Acumen Security, one of world’s busiest product security testing labs. Ryan's passion lies in finding efficient ways to meet our customers security certification objectives. He has an extensive background in...

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Paul Townsend has been providing consultative services to both government and commercial organizations implementing identity and access management, public key infrastructure (PKI), and authorization solutions since 1990. These efforts have included the assessment and mitigation of ICAO document...

Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the GW Law faculty in 1990, and in 1998, became the youngest chaired professor in...

Arun Vemury manages a portfolio of innovative Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) projects to transform people screening, inspection, and facilitation processes for the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). His projects have included a number of activities to...

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Colin Wallis is the Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, the global ‘commons’ non-profit consortium passionate about giving control of personal data back to people, through industry innovation, standardization and good practice. Attracting established and emerging...

Ryan Walters leads Booz Allen's Cross-Functional team for advanced Cyber Weapons Systems, defensive operations. He is a technical architect with extensive experience in the design and implementation of mission-critical services, including holistic plans, policies and standards, enterprise...

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Shawna Webster was named Executive Director at NAPHSIS in 2017 after 5 years as Chief Operating Officer for the organization.  Shawna is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and has almost 20 years of experience managing membership associations and improving non-profit governance...

Don Wiggins is the global chief solutions architect at Equinix Government Solutions. In his role, Mr. Wiggins supports the public sector portfolio aligned with current Federal Government initiatives. His 30+ years of experience has made him a subject matter expert in digital transformation, which...

Nicole Williams, Director of Field Marketing for Government Programs brings fifteen years of technology experience. She joined Gemalto in 2012 and now focuses on the development of North American federal marketing initiatives with a focus on border and travel security. Nicole received her MBA in...

Joel Zlotnick is employed by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Counterfeit Deterrence Laboratory as a supervisory physical scientist.  His current work involves research in security artwork and design techniques for maximizing counterfeit deterrence and facilitating...