Youzec Kurp is currently Senior Vice President ID Document Solutions in Gemalto Government Business Unit. Prior to this, Youzec served as Vice President for Government Secure Documents Global Operations. His responsibilities included Marketing, Product Management; R&D, Worldwide Project...

David G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. He is Global Ambassador for Consult Hyperion (the secure electronic transactions consultancy that he helped to found), Technology Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (the London-based think...

Roger Baldwin is a member of the Biometrics Institute Advisory Board and the former Deputy Chairman and Director. Roger was previously Head of Counter Terrorism Forensic Services with the Metropolitan Police, London, in the UK.He is a ‘Penholder’ for the UN CTED Project - the UN Compendium of...

Neil is a Service Manager and Product Owner at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) UK

Tor Alvik works at the Agency for Public Management and e-Government (Difi) in Norway. He has been involved in the development of public sector e-ID solutions since 2005. He has been responsible for the development, management, and operation of the Norwegian ID-gateway and MinID...

Emmanuel Kpakpo Brown has almost a decade of professional Biometrics and Identity Management expertise and he is currently the Senior Officer - Card Production, with the National Identification Authority (NIA), Ghana. He is a certified Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and Identity ...

Philippe Barreau joined IDEMIA in January 2018 as Group Executive Vice President, member of IDEMIA executive committee and head of Citizen Identity and Public Security activities.During his career, he has occupied leading positions in global companies and has spent more than 12 years in Asia. He...

Debora Comparin is the Chair of the Secure Identity Alliance’s ID4All Workgroup, the organization dedicated to supporting the provision of legal, trusted identity for all, and to drive the development of inclusive digital services necessary for sustainable, worldwide economic growth and...

Patrick Grother is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards in Technology within the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is responsible for biometric algorithm evaluation, and biometric performance testing standardization.He leads the Face Recognition Vendor Tests, the Face-In-Video...

David is the Managing Director of Blackstage Forensics and works internationally as a specialist on data protection, open source intelligence, hostile profiling & security, privacy & reputation risks derived from social media, Internet and emerging technologies such as smart devices.  David ...

Frank Smith has had a varied career in the UK Home Office including work in biometrics, document security and mobile solutions; policy and legislation; and he has been Private Secretary to the Minister for Immigration. His work has covered law enforcement, business strategy and international...

Jaume Dubois is a identity solutions expert and civil identity system product manager as well as driving the Identity Management offer at Gemalto, the leading global Biometrics and Security company.  He has a very strong field experience in the direction of large identity government projects such...

Michiel Van der Veen is Chief Executive of the EAB and supports the ID community with executive leadership and thought leadership in the field of digital ID & Biometrics  From 2000 onward, Michiel had several technical and leaderships roles in Philips Electronics, and received, in 2007, the...

Ian Glazer is the Vice President for Identity, Privacy, and Data Governance Product Management, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards work. Prior to that, he was a research vice president and agenda manager on the...

Arun Vemury serves as the Director of the Biometric and Identity Technology Center, for the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).Mr Vemury manages a portfolio of innovative research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) projects to transform...

His Excellency Wesam Lootah is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Smart Dubai Government Establishment, the technology arm of Smart Dubai office; the government entity entrusted with Dubai’s city-wide smart transformation envisioned by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice...

Tony Murray is the National Fraud Protect Officer seconded to the City of London Police National Co-Ordinators Office. A Police Officer and qualified Fraud and Financial Investigator, a National Trading Standards ‘Friends Against Scams’ ‘ScamBassador’ and award-winning fraud & cybercrime...

Charlie Miller works for the National Document Fraud Unit, Immigration Intelligence, Home Office

Bryn has worked at the forefront of digital transformation and technology led innovation for the last 15 years.  He is a key influencer for how people transact and interact in the digital age.  Redefining the customer experience for trusted interactions and helping major organisations evolve their...

Jose is a Police Officer in Mijas PD since 2005 and currently an ADOFOR consultant for mathematical algorithms and software. He holds a PhD in Mathematics in University of Malaga as well as a Masters in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.He is also an external researcher in University ...

Charlie is responsible for a major new business within Mastercard focused upon digital identity services.  This involves platform & service definition, go-to-market strategy, and associated partnership strategues within our target markets. Prior to joining Mastercard, he was responsible for...

Steve Bankston is the Digital Identity lead in the global “Identity and Risk” products group at Visa, and a member of Visa’s Open Banking task force.Before joining Visa, Steve was a CTO or VP Engineering for several Silicon Valley startups in financial services and health care.

Erik Van Dijk is the Chairman of the Secure Identity Alliance’s eDocuments Workgroup, the organization dedicated to supporting the provision of legal, trusted identity for all, and to drive the development of inclusive digital services necessary for sustainable, worldwide economic growth and...

Steve Cook is a specialist independent biometrics and fintech consultant, helping banks, ecommerce enterprises and fintech start-ups to navigate the complex world of biometrics. He advises financial institutions regarding their deployment of biometric authentication and digital identity strategies; ...

Petri Viljanen is a Member of the eDocuments Workgroup of the Secure Identity Alliance, the organization dedicated to supporting the provision of legal, trusted identity for all, and to drive the development of inclusive digital services necessary for sustainable, worldwide economic growth and...

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...

Dr. Anna Wandschneider received her Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Rostock University in 2009. Directly afterwards she joined the Identity Documents department in the Forensic Science Institute of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt). During the following years she ...

Antonia Rana is a scientific officer of the European Commission with a background in computer security and cybersecurity. She holds a SANS GIAC certification as a certified intrusion detection analyst. Antonia is responsible for the electronic document security laboratory in the Joint Research...

Charlotte Jacoby is Head of division at Center for Digital Infrastructure Development at the Danish Agency for Digitisation under the Danish Ministry of Finance. Charlotte has a long and broad experience with IT security and in particular development and implementation of the national digital eID...

Diane has provided thought leadership, vision and innovation in the digital transformation of financial institutions.  Diane has worked with blue chip corporations to implement the technology and service architectures required to become certified identity providers as part of the GOV.UK Verify...

Anthony Stout works with the national nonprofit association NAPHSIS as the EVVE Program Manager which includes the EVVE system and the EVVE Fact of Death system. Anthony is responsible for ensuring that these systems reduce fraud, securely verify identities, and eliminate waste across a variety of...

Kristen Wenz is a founding member of the UN Legal Identity Expert Group, and is the global civil registration technical lead at UNICEF. Kristen brings extensive experience from across several technical sectors across North America, Africa and Asia. Previously with the World Bank, she supported the...

Dr. Andreas Wolf studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Humboldt University Berlin and Technical University of Munich. He holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science. In the past, he has worked with several IT companies in technology oriented positions. He initialized the first European Common Criteria ...

Eliisa Sau holds a position of identity documents expert at Estonian Police and Border Guard Board. Eliisa has been involved in the implementation of 4th generation ID-1 format documents project, developing the new security design for identity documents and improving the processes for post-issuance ...

Don is President and Chairman of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a non-profit, technology agnostic, organization of global leaders from the private and public sectors. OIX is a test bed for business, legal and governance best practices and policies and operates the OIXnet registry. Don is...

Alastair is a Digital Identity Advisor for the Government Digital Services UK

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...

Julian is an Identity Advisor for the Cabinet Office in the UK