Think Digital Identity for Government

NATALIE JONES OBE

Natalie Jones OBE has recently joined GDS as the Director for Digital Identity. Her previous roles at the Home Office include delivery of the EU Settlement Scheme where she was the DDaT accountable lead for the end to end digital solution which has now been used by over six million EU citizens to give them formal rights to stay in the UK. More recently she has been also fulfilling the role of Delivery Director on the Digital Services at the Border programme, which has just completed a national roll out of new critical national infrastructure at the UK border as well as enabling technical work to support health measures at the border and quarantining arrangements for those arriving in the UK. Within the Home Office Natalie led the ‘person’ group of products which includes digital authentication and identity assurance for all UK migrants and brings this breadth of critical national infrastructure engineering and digital identity knowledge to her new role within GDS.

CHERYL STEVENS MBE

Cheryl joined the civil service in 1999 and has held a variety of leadership posts since with a career focus on leading operational service design and transformational change. Cheryl led HMRC’s tax credits fraud & error programme for a number of years before joining the Department for Work and Pensions in 2015 where she continues her passions for welfare reform and preventing fraud and error. Cheryl holds the role of Digital Director for Shared Channels Experience, reporting to the Director of Digital Delivery.

LORD (CHRIS) HOLMES OF RICHMOND MBE

Chris is a passionate advocate for the potential of technology and the benefits of diversity and inclusion. He is a member of the influential House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and has previously co-authored House of Lords Select Committee Reports on: Democracy and Digital Technologies[2020], Intergenerational Fairness [2019], Artificial Intelligence [2018], Financial Exclusion [2017], Social Mobility [2016] and Digital Skills [2015]. He is co-chair of Parliamentary Groups on Fintech, AI, Blockchain, Assistive Technology and the 4th Industrial Revolution and has published a report; “Distributed Ledger Technologies for Public Good: leadership, collaboration and innovation” calling on the Government to look at the challenges and opportunities of this technology for improving public services. A progress update was published in November 2018. An ex-Paralympic swimmer, Chris won nine gold, five silvers and one bronze medal across four Games, including a record haul of six golds at Barcelona 1992.

JORDAN MOODIE

Jordan is the Head of Legislation and Head of Evidence for the Digital Identity team in DCMS, leading efforts to enable the use of digital identities in the wider economy through legislative measures. Before joining the team, Jordan obtained a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Birmingham.

GLEN ROBINSON

As NTO Glen leads Microsoft’s technology vision and models its culture of learning, while developing strategies to protect and extend Microsoft Cloud into complex regulated markets. He will Inspire leaders of state and enterprise, regulators and customers on how best to leverage innovation to drive digital transformation.

TRACEY FOLLOWS

Tracey Follows is a futurist appearing in a list of the top 50 female futurists in the world in Forbes, regularly commenting on the future of technology, society, and identity. She runs Futuremade, working with global brands and businesses to help them spot trends, develop foresight, and fully prepare for what comes next. Her clients have included Telefonica, Google, Diageo, Sky, Farfetch, Conde Nast, Cosette, CogX, BT, and Virgin. She has spoken at UN HQ, gave her Tedx at UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and closed at events such as Think With Google. As a go-to futurist for media she has appeared on BBC Business Matters, Radio 4, Talk Radio, LBC, and TimesRadio, and appeared in FT, Guardian, and the Daily Mail. She has written for the Guardian, the Big Issue, Spiked and more, and has her own contributor column in Forbes.

Tracey was an Adage ‘Woman to Watch’ 2017, the Women in Marketing Winner for Outstanding Contribution to Marketing in 2016, she was Inaugural Creative Strategy Jury President at Cannes Lions 2019. She was on the Advisory Board of DotEveryone, is currently on the advisory board of Axis Stars, and is listed by Business Cloud as a Trailblazing Woman in Tech. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, World Futures Studies Federation, and a Fellow of the RSA.

SUSAN MORROW

Susan has worked for over 20 years in the cybersecurity and digital identity space. She currently holds the position of Head of R&D at identity data specialists, Avoco Secure, based in the UK.

Susan’s focus is on strategic development and solution architecture. Core areas of her domain knowledge include the use of technology layer linking, usability, accessibility, and data privacy. Her mantra is to make sure that human beings control technology not the other way around.

Susan regularly writes on identity and security at CSOOnline: https://www.csoonline.com/blog/future-identity/

BEN FRASER

Having first acquired ‘designing for humans’ skills through an architecture degree, Ben later found his calling in applying these to the field of digital product design – a journey that has taken him from graphic design for the music industry, to front-end development for Silicon Valley start-ups, to UX design in the charitable sector, through to a senior role as an interaction designer at DWP.

Ben is an experienced and versatile designer, and passionate about conceiving, facilitating and coding clean, intuitive user interfaces. His aim is the creation of services that ultimately work seamlessly for the user – irrespective of their level of skill, disability, or education.

JANE HALL

Jane first came across Human Factors and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) when she completed her MSc in Applied Psychology many years ago. She initially worked as an internal Human Factors Consultant for BP Research, carrying out user research across BP’s main businesses – Oil, Chemicals and Exploration – looking at a whole range of HCI issues such as road safety for tanker drivers, kick detection in offshore exploration and screen design for monitoring critical safety points in chemical plants.

Jane has worked in the public sector, across several central government departments, for over 25 years. This has been primarily as a social researcher before coming full circle to user research in DWP. She is passionate about designing and building services, features and products that are based on robust and rigorous evidence about our users and their needs.

PROFESSOR CARSTEN MAPLE

Professor Carsten Maple is the Principal Investigator of the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at the University of Warwick, and Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering in WMG. He is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science and AI in the UK, where he is a principal investigator on a $5 million project developing trustworthy national identity to enable financial inclusion. He also works with numerous banking organisations advising on security, privacy and use of artificial intelligence, and was a keynote speaker at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference.

Carsten has an international research reputation and extensive experience of institutional strategy development and interacting with external agencies. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and is co-author of the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010, supported by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Police Central e-crime Unit. He has given evidence to government committees on issues of anonymity and child safety online. Additionally he has advised executive and non-executive directors of public sector organisations and multibillion pound private organisations.

JESSICA FIGUERAS

Jessica is a tech strategist specialising in government, policy and regulation, and civil society. She currently advises start-ups and scale-ups on growth strategy, as well as carrying out tech futures research for the UK government.

Previously Jessica ran multi-million pound research programmes for companies including Dods, GlobalData and Ovum. Over her 25 years in the tech and information industries Jessica has advised senior executives in large established tech businesses as well as many VC-backed scaleups. She is a sought-after commentator and speaker, and as an industry analyst has published extensive research and analysis on the application of emerging technologies across government, telecoms and other industries. Her current research interests centre on digital trust, governance and corporate transparency.

Jessica has an MA from the University of Cambridge and a Diploma in Computing from the Open University. She is Chair of the Board at NCT, the UK’s largest charity for parents

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ROHIT GULATI

Rohit is a Senior Program Manager in Identity Engineering team at Microsoft.

In a career spanning 18 years across three continents, he has worked with Leadership and Enterprise Architects at Fortune 500 enterprises, Big4 advisory partners and GSIs.

In his current role, he works closely with Strategic Services Partners in building Identity & Access Management practices on Azure AD and Decentralized Identity.

ALASDAIR MURRAY

Alasdair is Chief Product Officer at Condatis, a leading consultancy for bespoke external identity solutions specialising in Azure Active Directory B2C and Verifiable Credentials. He has 20 years of experience working with organisations to deliver software solutions that tackle identity and security challenges in government, health, education, and private enterprises, emphasising user experience where mobility and privacy are critical.

Alasdair is currently working to build products that help organisations disrupt the centralised identity paradigm by moving the control of data into the hands of users through decentralized, verifiable credentials.

COLLEEN ELLIOT

Colleen Elliott joined Microsoft earlier this year as the Digital Identity Strategy Lead in the Worldwide Public Sector Division. Colleen has 13 years of public sector experience, leading business improvement and transformative projects for the Ontario Government as both a public servant and management consultant.

Before joining Microsoft, Colleen established and led a team at the Ontario Digital Service to establish the Digital Identity program for the Province of Ontario, the largest province in Canada. In this role she was accountable for various activities including delivery of the foundational multi-ministry business case, stakeholder engagement, strategic roadmap, communications plan, user research, policy analysis, pilot implementations, conceptual business model design and partnership development.

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KAY CHOPARD

Ms. Kay Chopard is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a unique global ‘commons’ that operates conformity assessment, assurance and grant of Trust Marks against de-jure standards under its Trust Framework program while at the same time nurturing ‘beyond-the-state-of-the-art’ ideas and developing specifications to transform the state of digital identity and personal data agency domains.

Ms. Chopard is the former President and CEO of Chopard Consulting based in the Washington, DC metro area and is the founder of the Women’s Leadership Institute. She has more than 30 years’ experience in executive leadership in government, nonprofit, and business organizations in the DC area where she has a reputation as a transformative leader who has led organizations through launch, transition, and sustainability to deliver game-changing results. She excels at building networks and collaborations that overcome systemic cultural norms and empowers diverse and inclusive teamwork. She has led several organizations including the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG), National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA), and served as Acting Division Chief and lead program manager at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. Department of Transportation.

She is an attorney and is admitted to the practice of law in the state of Iowa and to the U.S. Supreme Court bar. Ms. Chopard also serves on the Board of Directors of the Women in Identity US. She lectures internationally and has authored several articles, white papers, and practice manuals.

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TONI HORN

An entrepreneur at heart, Toni has gained a wealth of experience through building tech companies and as an advisor to major global brands. After growing and establishing his company, MBJ LONDON, he joined Fjord as part of Accenture Interactive and is currently working with a range of organisations to deliver better digital user experiences for people.

MAARTEN WEGDAM PHD

Maarten Wegdam, PhD, is co-founder of Netherlands-based innovation company InnoValor and CEO of ReadID, the flag ship product of InnoValor for NFC based mobile identity verification. Maarten is an expert in the area of digital identity and online identity verification. ReadID originated from research at InnoValor and is adopted quickly in different sectors and application areas where fraud prevention is key.

Maarten studied computer science at the University of Groningen and obtained his PhD from the University of Twente. After a career in the telecoms industry and in research, he founded InnoValor together with Wil Janssen.

JAS SAGOO

Jasmit joined Auth0 in August 2020 as the Senior Director of Solution Engineering and Technical Services, International. Jasmit partners with organisations to help them accelerate their digital transformation and solve pressing IT and business challenges.

At Auth0, Jasmit helps his customers implement highly effective Identity and Access Management strategies allowing developers to create immersive and frictionless experiences for their end-customers, helping to bridge and balance security, privacy and convenience.

NICK MOTHERSHAW

Nick is Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, a community for all those involved in the ID sector to connect and collaborate, developing the guidance needed for inter-operable, trusted identities. Through OIX’s definition of, and education on, Trust Frameworks we create the rules, tools and confidence to allow every individual a trusted, universally accepted, identity.

Nick has expert knowledge of Identity and Fraud solutions for a variety of different sectors using different verification techniques, spanning data validation to document selfie verification.

Nick was previously Director of ID and Fraud at Experian where he was responsible for the development of Experian’s fraud and identity solutions for both the public and private sectors. Nick led Experian’s development, launch and operation of a full “Identity as a Service solution” which was the first live example of a Digital ID that is seamlessly interoperable across public and private sector in the UK.

DAVID BICKNELL

David Bicknell is the Principal Analyst for Technology Thematic Research at GlobalData. He was previously editor of GlobalData’s Government Computing and has held senior positions in a 14-year career at Computer Weekly as News Editor, US Correspondent, and was Managing Editor of e-Business Review.

He is also co-founder with Tony Collins of the Campaign4Change blog and also co-author (with Tony Collins) of a book on IT project management case studies called ‘Crash’ (Simon & Schuster). David and Tony will shortly publish a new book loosely based on the life of Charles Babbage called ‘The Mankind Experiment.’

SAM LAIN-ROSE

Sam Lain-Rose is Digital Lead at Kent County Council working on Kent’s emerging digital inclusion and capability strategy, along with a number of projects and schemes to tackle digital exclusion and poverty in the county, following the decision to allocate £5m from one-off grant monies. All of which is collaboration and partnership with borough, city and district councils and various other stakeholders.

SANDY PORTER

Sandy Porter is an internationally respected security, privacy, identity and technology keynote speaker, and expert advisor. He has promoted the development and deployment of user centric identity for online services in his roles as an Identity Commons Steward, Director of the Information Card Foundation, EU R&D assessor and Moderator and through the UK Government Cabinet Office (DSG) work groups. Specialties : Identity, Data Attribute Sharing, Identity Network Layers, Open Banking Privacy, Security, blockchain and Cloud Computing Solutions for consumer and citizen online services.

JOHN GRUNDY

John has a long standing hands on career in IT Networking & Security starting life in a junior helpdesk role and progressing through the technical ranks to become a solutions architect for a Swedish Identity Vendor before joining Okta to lead Technology Partnerships across EMEA. Bringing his learnings from how Identities are managed in the Nordics to a large US Corporation and understanding how Technology Partners can help Okta as it becomes the leading player in Identity.

JASON BANKS

As ITC Secure’s Head of Identity, Jason has first eyes on the many challenges and triumphs of identity management. His career has taken him from a misunderstanding about a job building directory synchronisation tools, to working on successful identity projects for large multi-nationals and LRGs. On working in identity, Jason enjoys the depth of the topic and its scope – both of which allow him to work imaginatively with others’ solutions.