Shiv Aggarwal
CEO
EarthId
Shiv is a global thought leader in the Blockchain and Identity industry, and is currently leading EarthId, a self-sovereign and decentralised identity management platform. His mission is to address the challenges around data-ownership, privacy and consent, which are crucial in today's connected world. He also leads Government Blockchain Association, a global non-profit, in UK and Europe.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/myearthid/
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Joe Bloemendaal
Digital Identity Strategist & Advisor
For close to 20 years Joe ran sales teams and loved being responsible for the business development in technology companies. Well before the Digital Identity space was the real industry it is today, Joe co-founded a technology company that specialised in remote verification and data checks. That set him on a path of building and shaping the international digital ecosystem of identity verification we know today. Helping business securely verify and protect identity claims whilst proactively mitigating the risks of fraud and identity theft. Twice in his career, he joined founding teams in companies’ early stages, remaining there until they were acquired. He is an entrepreneur at heart and enjoyed building them from local to international organisations. Joe takes a practical approach to his strategic involvement and specialises in remote identity verification, eKYC, AML, biometrics and digital fraud. He sits on Advisory Boards of start-ups, is frequently asked as a speaker on these topics and actively pursues opportunities to work with teams that create technology to protect personal data, develop digital sovereignty and trust.
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Digital Identity Strategist & Advisor
Juliet Caulfield
Founding Director
IDentek Search
Juliet is the Founding Director of IDentek Search, a Recruitment Search firm established in direct response to the exponential growth in the Biometrics and identity solutions sector globally. She specialises in hiring both technical and commercial talent at a mid to senior level for clients including start-ups to attract their first keys hires, early-stage companies scaling fast and more established players growing their senior leadership teams.
Juliet has a background spanning 20 years in technology recruitment and has developed an enviable international network of candidates from all the vertical market applications for Identity solutions including Biometrics payments, identity verification for digital onboarding, physical and logical access control, Citizen Identity and public security.
Juliet has a BA (Hons) in Spanish and Linguistics from the University of Southampton, UK and is BPS qualified in administering and interpreting psychometric tests and personality profiling. She has a wealth of experience of managing recruitment businesses from start-ups to established Search firms.
www.identeksearch.com
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IDentek Search
Alan Goode
CEO, Chief Analyst and Founder
Goode Intelligence
Alan Goode is the CEO, Chief Analyst and Founder of Goode Intelligence, a world-leading identity and biometrics research and consulting organisation founded in 2007 and based in London. With 13 years of research and analysis experience and 17 years of senior management and technology consultancy including strategy and deployment, Alan is an expert in biometrics, authentication/identity, fraud management and cyber security. His previous roles include Head of Information Security at T-Mobile UK, Security Practice Manager at Atos Origin, Head of Digital Security at De La Rue Identity Systems (including biometric passports) and Security Analyst for Citibank (Payments).
https://www.goodeintelligence.com/
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CEO, Chief Analyst and Founder
Goode Intelligence
Michelle Goode
COO
Goode Intelligence
Michelle Goode is responsible for business planning, operational management and communications at Goode Intelligence and is an established speaker and moderator. Previously, Michelle was a key communications leader for leading financial and technology organisations with senior positions at the Pension Protection Fund, 3M and GEC/Marconi. She is an Associate of King’s College, London University where she graduated from with a BA (Hons) degree and holds a Post Graduate Diploma from the University of Warwick in International Engineering Management.
https://www.goodeintelligence.com/
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COO
Goode Intelligence
Steven Grant
Business Development Director, Identity Verification
Entrust
For more than 20 years, Steve Grant has worked as a subject matter expert with multiple international organizations and governments applying his extensive experience in identity document systems, passport readers and border security, consular management software, civil registries, voter registration, biometrics and digital credentials.
In addition to his role at Entrust, Steve is a Non-Executive Director with IBMATA; a member of the ICAO ICBWG; and a Canadian representative to the ISO SC17 WG3 standards group for Travel Documents. He also serves as the Entrust delegate to IATA OneID and the WTTC Safe and Seamless Traveller Journey working groups.
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Business Development Director, Identity Verification
Entrust
Sanjay Gupta
VP, Global Head of Products and Corporate Development
Mitek
Sanjay Gupta is responsible for global product strategy, identity verification innovation, and fraud prevention to keep customers safe in an increasingly digital economy. He also leads the company's mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Mitek, Sanjay was most recently Vice President of Corporate Development at Accelrys, a life sciences software company providing solutions from research and drug discovery to manufacturing. He has also held senior level corporate and engineering positions with Lockheed Martin and Corvis Corporation. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
www.miteksystems.com
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VP, Global Head of Products and Corporate Development
Mitek
Martin Ingram
Identity & Access Management Product Owner, Royal Bank of Scotland
NatWest Group
Martin Ingram is the Identity & Access Management Product Owner for RBS, in charge of transforming identity & access management for RBS to support new customer digital journeys and requirements such as PSD2.
Prior to RBS he has had a broad experience in security both from a vendor and a client organisation perspective having consulted or worked for organisations in Europe, America and Australia. As such he has been involved in IAM, Crypto systems, Content Security and malware amongst many other security domains.
Martin has a background in engineering and has been on the board of several start-up technology companies.
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Identity & Access Management Product Owner, Royal Bank of Scotland
NatWest Group
Kirsty Innes
Director, Digital Government Unit
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Kirsty Innes is the Director of the Digital Government Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where her team is working to shed light on how policymakers can remake the state for the Internet era and use tech to deliver radically better public services. Before joining TBI, she spent the first part of her career in central government, including leading on competition policy at HM Treasury and heading up the Economic and Social Team at the British Embassy in Paris.
https://institute.global/
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Director, Digital Government Unit
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Dan Johnson
Vice President, Identity Products
Mastercard
Dan Johnson is vice president, Identity Products for Mastercard based in London. He is a key leader in Mastercard’s initiative to create an effective, efficient and principled model of digital identity in an increasingly connected world. His team is helping to define how a person’s identity, and the entities operating on their behalf, can be verified immediately, safely and securely, across multiple touchpoints in both the digital and physical worlds.
Prior to joining Mastercard, Mr. Johnson was head of digital identity at HSBC Digital Solutions, where he worked with the UK government and a public/private consortium to define a multi-sector, multi-jurisdiction digital identity ecosystem designed to streamline cross-border bank account opening. He has also held senior IT and project management roles at Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital and the General Medical Council.
Mr. Johnson’s career spans more than 20 years, predominantly in financial services, but also within the commercial and public sectors. Originally a COBOL programmer and software tester, he has designed and delivered global customer data management, account opening and financial product management systems.
Mr. Johnson holds a BSc Hons in Information Systems with German from Staffordshire University.
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Vice President, Identity Products
Mastercard
Dr Manreet Nijjar
Infectious Diseases Physician, NHS Consultant Barts Health. Co-Founder, truu
truu
Dr Manreet Nijjar MB ChB MRCP (London) SCE (Infectious Diseases) is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Acute Medicine at Whipps Cross Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
He is the associate clinical lead for COVID-19 response leading the front line and organisational response at a hospital which has been in one of the worst hit by the pandemic in the country. His work has been recognised nationally in NHS GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) Clinical practice guide for improving the management of COVID-19 patients in secondary care and is reflected in the hospital/NHS trust outcome metrics.
He is also an expert of SSI/Decentralised Digital Identity in healthcare and Co-founder of Truu, a digital staff passport, global credentialling & verification platform for healthcare workers. He has been in the space for 5 years & has a strong interest in digital and physical trust. He applies the principles of medical ethics as a foundation on how we should designing & implementing digital technology, business processes and policy solutions in healthcare & society.
https://www.truu.id/
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Infectious Diseases Physician, NHS Consultant Barts Health. Co-Founder, truu
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Jon Payne
Director, Strategic Alliances
Entrust
Jon Payne is Director, Strategic Alliances for Entrust's Identity Verification business unit. He joined Entrust in April 2021 via the acquisition of WorldReach Software. Jon has more than 25 years' experience in immigration policy and operations, having served as Regional Director, Americas at UKvisas, and as Director of CSC's Global Citizen Services Center of Excellence.
www.worldreach.com
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Director, Strategic Alliances
Entrust
Professor Muttukrishnan Rajarajan
Director
Institute for Cyber Security at City University of London
Professor Rajarajan (Raj) is the founding Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at City University of London and the CEO of Citydefend Limited in the area of privacy preserving data sharing online to comply with GDPR requirements. Raj is also an academic advisor to British Telecommunications (BT) security research in Adastral Park, UK and continues to work closely with BT to supervise industry sponsored PhD students in the areas of identity, trust, privacy and security. He was part of the team that worked on the UK Government’s Verify UK programme in which he contributed towards the privacy by design aspects of the overall architecture. Raj has extensive experience in working on cutting edge commercial projects in the areas of encrypted search in the cloud, privacy preserving data analytics and cloud security. He has published more than 350 publications, three books and hold two patents in the area of cloud data privacy. He continues to work closely with cyber security start up companies to innovate through novel science of cyber security. He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a full member of the Charted Institute of Information Security.
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Institute for Cyber Security at City University of London
Andy Smith
Global Lead, Government & Industry Relations Border Management & Government Services
SITA
Andy Smith has been delivering IT and Telecommunications solutions to the aviation sector for over 20 years. Joining SITA in 2007, Andy has focused on driving innovation and collaboration for airlines, airports and government bodies.
Since 2012 Andy has represented SITA's Government, Security and Border Management business. In addition to promoting the effective use of passenger data, pre-clearance, risk assessment, border management and biometric solutions, Andy continues to champion the collaboration of all stakeholders within the transport industry, with a focus on the passenger experience. After 5 years concentrating on the European market, Andy now supports SITA’s global teams as Subject Matter Expert for Border Management, Immigration and Security solutions.
Andy has a Bachelor of Science Degree from De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) in Physics with Management Science. He is based in London.
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Global Lead, Government & Industry Relations Border Management & Government Services
SITA
Dr Max Smith-Creasey
Security Research Specialist
BT
Dr Max Smith-Creasey is a Security Research Specialist at British Telecommunications. He received a BSc (Hons) degree from King’s College, University of London in 2014. In 2020 he was awarded a PhD in Information Engineering from City, University of London. His research revolves around the utilisation of biometrics for enhancing authentication and identification technologies. He has published his work in leading cyber security journals and international conferences. Several patent applications have been made based on the research he has conducted.
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Security Research Specialist
BT
Sandra Trenevska
Senior Product Manager
Interac
Sandra Trenevska is a Senior Product Manager on the Innovation team at Interac, driving and overseeing identification and authentication initiatives. With ten years of experience in marketing, product development, and sales, she has worked in all stages of the product journey at numerous technology companies. This experience provided her with a 360-degree view of product management, guiding a product from ideation, through development, and implementing go-to-market strategies while ensuring product and client success.
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Senior Product Manager
Interac
Maarten Wegdam
CEO & Technical Team Lead, ReadID
InnoValor/ReadID
Maarten Wegdam, PhD is an expert in the area of digital identity and online identity verification.
Maarten is both CEO of ReadID as well as lead of the technical team of ReadID.
He 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.
www.readid.com
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CEO & Technical Team Lead, ReadID
InnoValor/ReadID
