Identity Futures - The Workshop

How The Fourth Industrial Revolution will Challenge our Conventional View of Identity, Privacy and Society.

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.

We will discuss this new world and explore the tensions between:

centralised and distributed.
single and multiple identities
spontaneous and specified identities
anonymity and verinymity
regulated and unregulated
digital and analogue
freedom and control
inclusion and exclusion
Permissioned and unpermissioned
Consistent and inconsistent
Known and unknown
Utopia and dystopia
Western and Eastern
Technical and Social
Democratic and some other -cratic system

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...

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...

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....