4IR/Industrie 4.0 & Identity Futures

Are we on the Brink of an Identity Revolution?

Are we on the brink of a revolution that will fundamentally change society and the way we live and work?

The Identiverse is a big and scary place, and according to Professor Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum it will get bigger and scarier. He calls this brave new world The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). In Germany it is known as Industry 4.0 and in Japan they are considering the world beyond, and they call it Society 5.0.

In this new world emerging technologies will fuse the physical, digital and biological worlds to create a cyber-physical world driven by information. It will impact all disciplines, economies and industries, and it will even challenge our ideas about what it means to be human.

In this session:

Robert Lapes, Identity Advisor at Capgemini, will explore how The Fourth Industrial Revolution will challenge our conventional view of identity, privacy and society.
A panel of stakeholders from: academia, NGOs and industry will:
- discuss how 4IR might affect topics such as: identity, privacy, our notion of ownership, consumerism, work-life balance, education and social impact.
- consider the opportunities and risks that 4IR presents for identity
- suggest how we should prepare for 4IR
- answer questions from the audience.

On Friday afternoon there is a follow on interactive workshop for delegates to discuss, in more depth, the issues raised in this session.

Speakers:

Adam Cooper Identity Assurance Programme

GB Government Digital Service

Adam Cooper is an identity standards expert who has most recently worked within Government Digital Service, part of the UK Cabinet Office. Responsible for the overall technical architecture of the UK eID service, GOV.UK Verify, Adam is also an expert contributor to the eIDAS Regulation...

Katryna Dow CEO & Founder

Meeco

Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco ; a personal data platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust Katryna has been pioneering personal data rights since 2002, when she envisioned a time when...

Alessandro Festa Technical Product Manager

One Identity

Alessandro brings over fifteen years’ experience in the Information Security space and has spent this time working in the field with global organizations enabling them to more rapidly realize the business value out of Identity Management and Access Governance programs and ensuring...

Robert Lapes Head of Identity Advisory Services

Capgemini

Robert Lapes is head of identity advisory services in Capgemini’s IAM practice in the UK. He is a chartered engineer with nearly 30 years of insight and lessons learnt in I.T. For the last ten years he has been working on assurance of large scale identity programs. He has helped senior...

Esther Makaay eID Specialist

Connectis / SIDN

Esther Makaay is a digital identities professional. Her role is proposition development – identifying partners, getting pilots and projects started – for log-in solutions provider Connectis and for .nl registry SIDN . Specialist fields include trust frameworks, digital identities...

Thorsten Niebuhr CEO

WedaCon

Thorsten has more than 20 years’ experience within the field of Directory Technologies, Identity Management and Data Privacy. As a technical trainer, consultant and developer he co-developed one of the first Identity Management Solutions which was fully driven by Entity-Relationship...

Patrick Parker Founder and CEO

EmpowerID

Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID and has over 20 years’ experience in identity management. With a research background in evolutionary biology and genetics, Mr. Parker applied scientific methods and principles to develop a novel role and attribute-based access control and...

Jackson Shaw Senior Director of Product Management

One Identity

Jackson Shaw is Senior Director of Product Management for One Identity, the Identity & Access Management (IAM) business of Quest Software. Prior to Quest, Jackson was an integral member of Microsoft’s IAM product management team within the Windows Server Marketing group at Microsoft....

Alastair Treharne Co-Founder / Digital Identity Advisor

Beruku Identity / British Government Digital Service

Alastair has a background in business, political and security risk, working on UK and international initiatives across the government and private sector. Alastair is an expert identity risks advisor to the Cabinet Office, including supporting the delivery of the GOV.UK Verify service....