Kristen Hart | Senior Enterprise Account Director
Proximus Global

Identity Week America - Day 1 @ 15:45

Panel: Coordinating government, telcos, and the private sector to enhance V&A practices

• Explore real-world experiences with verification and authentication solutions from a diverse range of industries
• Balance customer priorities; how do we address friction versus risk in authentication processes?
• Highlight the newest solutions and technologies shaping rhe future of identity verification
• Understand how different sectors and populations require tailored approaches to identity solutions - can customers and worker be treated the same?
• Examine the varying priorities and unnique challenges faced by industries in implementing effective verification and authentication systems

Moderator: Heather West, Senior Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Services, Venable LLP

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Heather West / Panel: Coordinating government, telcos, and the private sector to enhance V&A practices

Heather West, Senior Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Services,
Venable LLP

Heather West is a policy and tech translator, product consultant, and long-term digital strategist guiding the intersection of emerging technologies, culture, governments, and policy. Equipped with degrees in both computer and cognitive science, Heather focuses on data governance, data...

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Sarah Handler, Group Product Manager, Netflix

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Sarah Handler / Panel: Coordinating government, telcos, and the private sector to enhance V&A practices

Sarah Handler, Group Product Manager,
Netflix

Sarah is the Group Product Manager for Netflix’s Security Services Engineering organization. At Netflix, her team builds identity, authentication, authorization, and cryptographic products to safeguard and empower those who empower Netflix to entertain the world. Previously, she led a team building ...

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Matt Gardner, Senior Privacy Counsel, Ro

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Matt Gardner / Panel: Coordinating government, telcos, and the private sector to enhance V&A practices

Matt Gardner, Senior Privacy Counsel,
Ro

Matt Gardner is Director and Senior Privacy Counsel at Ro, where he leads strategic privacy and regulatory initiatives for one of the fastest-growing digital health companies in the U.S. At Ro, Matt helps shape the company’s approach to data protection, compliance, and risk management in an...

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Troy Leach, Chief Strategy Officer, Cloud Security Alliance

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Troy Leach / Panel: Coordinating government, telcos, and the private sector to enhance V&A practices

Troy Leach, Chief Strategy Officer,
Cloud Security Alliance

At the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Troy Leach spearheads corporate strategy, focusing on education, research, and awareness of the latest cybersecurity issues and open controls frameworks for secure cloud, AI, and other emerging technologies.   Previously, while working for American...

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Mandar Gaonkar, Senior Software Engineering Manager, Risk Platform, PayPal

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Mandar Gaonkar / Panel: Coordinating government, telcos, and the private sector to enhance V&A practices

Mandar Gaonkar, Senior Software Engineering Manager, Risk Platform,
PayPal

Mandar Gaonkar is a Senior Engineering Manager at PayPal leading the Risk Platform organization. With over 12 years of experience at the intersection of software engineering, data science, and fraud risk, he builds platforms that detect and prevent account takeover, credential stuffing, scripted...

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Kristen Hart, Senior Enterprise Account Director, Proximus Global

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Kristen Hart / Panel: Coordinating government, telcos, and the private sector to enhance V&A practices

Kristen Hart, Senior Enterprise Account Director,
Proximus Global

Kristen Hart is a Sr. Enterprise Account Director at Telesign, where she has spent the past three and a half years partnering with enterprise organizations to strengthen customer engagement and digital trust strategies. She specializes in helping businesses implement secure, scalable messaging and...

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