Shiv Aggarwal
CEO
MyEarth.Id
Shiv is a global thought leader in the identity and blockchain space with over 16 years of industry experience. He is currently leading MyEarth.Id towards building a decentralised identity management platform, with a vision of providing a Universal Id to all Human Beings. He has been a keynote speaker at various international conferences, including at the US Capitol and UK parliament. He is also leading Government Blockchain Association (GBA) in UK & Europe.
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CEO
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Dia Banerji
Women in Identity Ambassador for Scotland
Women in Identity
Dia is an entrepreneur with a deep passion for self-sovereign digital identity and blockchain. She is currently a Strategic Advisor and Business Consultant to the Blockpass Identity Lab at Edinburgh Napier University where she helps identify industry applications for Blockchain & Privacy Preserving Machine Learning research generated out of the Lab.
Prior to embarking her career in the technology sector, she spent over fifteen years in the financial services industry and has worked for some of the top global banks in the world and also co-founded an Asset Management Business in Singapore. Dia held positions of Vice President at JP Morgan Private Bank & Barclays Wealth and advised some of the most significant ultra-high net-worth families across the globe on their personal and corporate financial needs.
Dia has an MBA from Cardiff Business School. However, she considers herself to be a student for life and enjoys learning continuously. She is passionate about the power of education & its potential in creating an egalitarian, diverse and more inclusive world.
https://womeninidentity.org/
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Women in Identity Ambassador for Scotland
Women in Identity
Blair Crawford
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Daltrey
Daltrey
Blair is a biometric identity specialist with extensive experience helping global organisations solve their most pressing security, risk and compliance challenges. He recognised the need for a solution that converged physical and digital security in a simpler, more secure way. This gap drove him to establish biometric identity provider Daltrey.
https://daltrey.com/
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Co-Founder and Managing Director, Daltrey
Daltrey
Philippe Faure
Surveillance and Access Control Biometric Solutions
Thales
Philippe Faure leads the development of video-based facial recognition solutions at Thales. These solutions improve physical and digital security as well as customer experience for applications in airports, cities, banks, hotels, and sensitive sites. Over the course of his 20-year career with Thales, Philippe has held various managerial and executive roles, including Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer. Prior to this, he worked for Atos and Schlumberger. Philippe holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from École Centrale Paris and a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en
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Surveillance and Access Control Biometric Solutions
Thales
Alan Goode
CEO, Chief Analyst and Founder of Goode Intelligence
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 of Goode Intelligence
Goode Intelligence
Hsin Hau Hanna
Commercial Verification Solutions
Thales
Hsin Hau Hanna heads up the Commercial Verification Solutions business within the Identity & Biometrics Solutions business line at Thales. These solutions provide a trusted way for businesses and governments to verify document authenticity in order to digitally check identities of new customers, and allow consumers and citizens a simpler and more secure way to sign up for digital services. Over 15 years, Hsin Hau has held a number of key strategy and marketing leadership roles at Thales, and is currently also the co-chair of FIDO’s Identity Verification and Binding Working Group. Hsin Hau is an alumni of the London School of Economics as well as IESE Business School in Spain.
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en
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Commercial Verification Solutions
Thales
Martin Ingram
Identity & Access Management Product Owner, Royal Bank of Scotland
NatWest
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
Diane Joyce
Women in Identity Executive Team
Women in Identity
Diane brings vision, knowledge, technical understanding and delivery capability that drives successful outcomes.
Diane has been pivotal in the creation of the UK Digital Citizen Identity marketplace; she has provided thought leadership, architecture design and innovation in the propagation of trusted online transactions in the digital age.
As part of the government/private sector partnership Identity Steering Group (IDSG), she has provided thought leadership, architecture design and innovation in the propagation of trusted online transactions in the digital age. Within this role, Diane worked with government to set the strategy for standardisation of the way in which identities are assured and asserted online in a way that provides trust, whilst maintaining privacy, auditability and interoperability.
Diane has worked with blue chip corporations to implement the technology and service architecture required to become certified identity providers as part of the GOV.UK Verify identity scheme. She has worked with UK government departments setting up a pan government identity community and worked with leading IDAM vendors to address the need for secure and scalable identity federation to enable collaboration between public and private sector organisations.
Diane champions technology innovation to provide users with a frictionless and safe digital experience.
https://womeninidentity.org/
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Women in Identity Executive Team
Women in Identity
Alexey Khitrov
President, ID R&D
ID R&D
Alexey Khitrov is co-founder and President at ID R&D. He has extensive first-hand C-level leadership experience with biometric companies, including one of the largest biometric firms in Europe. In the role, he successfully established a US subsidiary, pioneered new products and deployed award-winning solutions with prominent government and Fortune 500 financial institutions. Alexey lives in New York City.
https://www.idrnd.ai/
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President, ID R&D
ID R&D
Lisa Lyon
Managing Director, mypensionID
mypensionID
Lisa is the innovative and inspired leader of mypensionID. Established in 2019, following her vision to provide a digital solution to pension schemes to verify a member’s existence and their contact details, both within the UK and internationally. mypensionID is being used in multiple ways by pension schemes and allowing the public to find and connect with all their pensions, without a need to transfer or consolidate. Lisa benefits from a wealth of knowledge in global tracing and data verification from her experience as Managing Director of Target Professional Services for over 20 years, who are market-leading specialists in this field.
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Managing Director, mypensionID
mypensionID
Saru Tumuluri
Women in Identity Ambassador for India
Women in Identity
Saru Tumuluri is the CEO of Khosla Labs and is currently focused on scaling Veri5Digital, a leading Global Digital Identity and Customer On Boarding SaaS platform from India. With over two decades of experience pertaining to entrepreneurship in India and the United States, Saru is focused on bringing new technology-driven opportunities to entrepreneurs, with an aim to solve large-scale problems in India and across the globe. As a women entrepreneur she is very keen about women and their contribution in technology driven companies. In her role at Khosla Labs, she is primarily in charge of the sales and marketing functions, as well as partnerships and business-related scale up efforts of the company.
https://womeninidentity.org/
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Women in Identity Ambassador for India
Women in Identity
Dr. Keren Weitzberg
Lecturer (Teaching) in History and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London, researcher, writer, and historian-ethnographer
Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London
Dr. Keren Weitzberg is a researcher, writer, and historian-ethnographer with 10+ years of experience in East Africa conducting fieldwork in cross-cultural, multilingual settings. She is also a Lecturer (Teaching) in History and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London. Keren works at the intersection of science and technology studies, migration studies, and critical race studies, examining problematics related to mobility, digital identity, and biometrics in East Africa. In recent years, she has become increasingly focused on the human rights and ethical implications of digital technologies, especially biometrics. She is particularly attuned to the impacts of biometric and digital identity systems on migrants, nomadic populations, refugees, and border communities, who have historically struggled to access identity documents. Committed to producing poignant, impactful, and accessible work, she’s collaborated with photographers, filmmakers, non-profit organizations, and civil society groups. Her recent work has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright US Scholar Program, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, Privacy International, the Alan Turing Institute, and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)/Facebook.
https://www.kerenweitzberg.com/
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Lecturer (Teaching) in History and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London, researcher, writer, and historian-ethnographer
Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London
