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Richa Arora is a National Lead for Digital Identity Strategy Practice within Deloitte. She has over ten years of experience delivering a number of strategy engagements and implementation programs exploring issues across the three core pillar of a secure digital experience, including...

David Black is a consultant with ID Crowd who specialise in mitigating business and technology risks relating to identity, thereby helping clients understand how they can better trust their customers and businesses they transact with. He has developed a reputation for the successful delivery of...

Mr. Cheng Chun Chung, Andrew, serves as Chief Technology Officer at Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited and has been its Executive Director since November 15, 2011. Mr. Cheng has over 20 years' experience in IT-related business, covering internet security, domestic and international supply...

Mohsin has over 20 years of experience in Information Security from diverse sectors including Investment Banking, Defence & National Security, Central Government, Big 4 Audit Firms, Nuclear and Global Health Organisations. He is responsible for all areas of Information Security from defining...

Andrew Churchill has over 20 years experience working in security within Government, Industry and Academia, in particular cyber security and financial crime. He has led the cyber crime task force and co-ordinated security technology requirements for HMG, acted as subject matter expert on a European ...

Devika Daga is a creative partnerships and strategy leader with nearly 10 years of global business experience. She is passionate about building and growing tech-enabled platforms that improve human welfare and transform economies.  She is currently the Director of Global Partnerships and Operations ...

David has been the Founder and CEO of several successful FinTech, SaaS, and mobile startups. He previously spent over a decade in senior roles at global investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Nomura & SCB). David’s presented keynote speeches at Global Forum on Innovations in Agriculture 2018...

Tunji has been a software developer since the 1980s, having had the privilege of developing the world’s very first electronic handheld version of the London Underground Tube Map. He has been a Linux advocate since the late 90s and has more recently served as Systems Integrator and Sr. Technical...

Thomas is Head of Data Management Solutions at Diginex based in Tokyo where he leads the design and customisation of the firm’s blockchain enhanced Data Management Solutions for corporations, governments and NGOs. Previously, he was Head of Marketing & APAC Business Development at Gatecoin, a...

Terry leads the business for Cognitec (the face recognition company) in Asia Pacific.  He is an internationally recognized authority in the identity industry, and led the global government effort post 9/11 to design and publish international standards for electronic passports and biometrics...

Nishant Kaushik is the CTO of Uniken, the first security platform that drives fraud to zero through a unique customer-first security model that delivers amazing security and a phenomenal customer experience. He brings almost 20 years of experience in the identity management industry architecting...

Younkyung (Youn) Kim is currently responsible for IATA’s Baggage, Passenger Experience and Facilitation initiatives in Asia-Pacific. She has been with IATA since 2015 and has been involved in Fast Travel, One ID, Baggage Tracking and Border Management. Youn has about 12 years aviation experience...

Joanne Knight is a Senior Advisor in the Service Innovation unit of the Department of Internal Affairs, Te Tari Taiwhenua (New Zealand).She was heavily involved in the development of New Zealand’s Evidence of Identity Standard, including being part of the original development working...

Kevin Lee brings 13+ years of experience in the risk and fraud management space to his role of Trust and Safety Architect. From fake news, to payment fraud and ATO, Kevin has had to face and mitigate against various types of online abuse that have impacted billions of people. Prior to joining Sift...

Henry Leung is the market development manager for Covestro, leading the company’s security segment initiatives in Asia Pacific with responsibilities including market penetration, strategic development, ecosystem assessment and best positioning the company’s globally leading Specialty Films to...

Jonathan Marskell is an Operations Officer with the World Bank Group’s Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative, which helps countries realize the transformational potential of digital identity through a combination of thought leadership, technical assistance and financing, and global...

Niall McCann is Lead Electoral Advisor for UNDP, based in New York. In this function he provides policy and programming support to UNDP Country Offices around that world that provide assistance on administering national elections to countries requesting that assistance from the UN. Some 68...

Damian has over 15 years of experience in KYC and general compliance for regulated financial businesses. Damian began his career in payments and worked with some major financial institutions such as Barclays Merchant Services, Omnipay, and MasterCard. Damian is a risk management specialist and the...

Steve Ng is Vice President, Digital Platform Operations at Mediacorp.

Katherine is CEO of Sphere Identity, a global blockchain-based identity platform for identity storage and on-boarding. As a firm believer that automation needs to do more than mirror manual ways of doing things, Katherine applies distributed technologies to architect and build new...

Patrick Penzo is region Lead at Onfido.

Quek Sin oversees the National Digital Identity (NDI) programme, one of Singapore’s five Strategic National Projects. The NDI programme aims to develop a trusted digital ecosystem, centred around a universal identity, to facilitate data flow and service journeys across the boundaries of...

Karthik Ramanathan is the Senior Vice President of Cyber and Intelligence (C&I) Solutions, Asia Pacific. In this role, he oversees the wide range of products, platforms and capabilities that ensure the safety, security and experience of our products and solutions for...

Abhishek Ranjan completed his engineering from Birla Institiute of Technology Mesra and then worked on several Goverment projects including the public distribution system & elections management system prior to joining the Aadhaar project where he worked as a member of the core technology team...

Victoria has been working with payment and identity technologies for over 20 years. She has advised a range of organisations, from start-ups to major banks, on the business implications of emerging payment and identity technologies. She is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Australian Payments ...

Amanda Robinson is the Head of Social Innovation at Australian Red Cross and has a keen interest in emerging technology particularly for helping to solve complex social problems and drive humanitarian outcomes at scale. Prior to Australian Red Cross Amanda has held senior roles developing and...

Even Sandum is a Police Inspector and specialist document examiner at the National Police Immigration Service Norway (NPIS), with a background from the Norwegian Police University College in Oslo. Before becoming a specialist document examiner, he was an investigator in the identity and return unit ...

Noriaki Takamura joined RealNetworks in 2017 as Vice President of Sales and Business Development for the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Takamura lead the go-to-market strategy in Asia Pac for RealNetworks’ new growth initiative product SAFR™ —the world’s premier facial recognition platform for live...

Andre has more than 30 years of experience in the document security field. He worked all that time for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee at Schiphol International Airport Amsterdam. He started as an employee/team leader of the Forgery Desk on this Airport. For the the last 15 years Andre was head...

Max van de Poll is currently Product Head for Cybernetica’s SplitKey mobile authentication and digital signature technology in Tallinn, Estonia. Cybernetica is an R&D intensive ICT company which has been heavily involved in developing and maintaining much of Estonia’s digital government...

Siva is an experienced IT audit manager with strong regional IT audit experience in East Asian and South East Asian regions while based in Hong Kong, Singapore and India. He has gained immense technology risk and audit experience directly from different streams of financial industries such as...

Dr Waggett is the Chair of ISO/SC17 which is responsible for all aspects of cards and devices for personal identification. He is also heavily involved in ISO/SC37 around biometrics and is the editor of the ISO/SC37 Biometrics Vocabulary.Dr Waggett also is a member of the UK Government Biometric and ...

Colin 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 organizations, governments and...

Dr. Raymond Wong is an expert on identification and border management.  He served the Immigration Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), China over 35 years, retired from the service in October 2007 as the head of Information Systems Branch.   Raymond was responsible for ...