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Daniel Bachenheimer Technical Lead, Accenture Daniel Bachenheimer, is the Technical Lead within Accenture’s Digital Identity Innovations organization and has been designing and delivering identity solutions for various clients for over 20 years including DHS US-VISIT, UIDAI Aadhaar, UNHCR BIMS, CBP Trusted Traveller Programs, TSA TWIC, WEF KTDI. Dan is the ISO/IEC SC37 (biometrics) liaison officer to ISO TC307 (blockchain), participates in Trust Over IP’s Technology and Governance Stack Working Groups, is an IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional, is a contributing member of: ID2020’s Technical Advisory Committee, IATA’s OneID Technical Experts working group, INATBA’s Identity working group, and MOBI’s Vehicle Identity standards, is vice-chair of IATA’s Identity Management Working Group, is a Biometrics Institute Director, and has contributed to World Economic Forum and World Bank reports related to Identity.
Abbie Barbir ITU-T Study Group 17 Q10 Co-rapporteur \| Senior Security Advisor, CVS Health, United States Abbie Barbir serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of identity management, mobile devices, and authentication at CVS Health Global Information Security. Barbir has extensive experience in identity and access management. He has worked with many standard organizations on developing next-generation authentication technologies. Currently, he represents CVS on the FIDO Board of Directors. Barbir holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Louisiana State University. In his more than 25 years in the software and security industry, he has been a Professor of Computer Science, an Application Developer, Data Compression and Encryption Inventor, Systems Architect, Security Architect, Engineering Manager, Consultant, Author and Inventor of numerous security algorithms and articles.
Marco Carugi Mentor of ITU-T SG20 and ITU-T SG13, Q2/20 Rapporteur and Q20/13 Co-Rapporteur Technical areas of current involvement include Future Networks incl. IMT-2020/5G and Network 2030, Internet of Things/M2M, Big Data and ML/AI. He has professional experience in R&D and technology strategy, and he has worked in different market roles in Solvay group, Orange Labs, Nortel Networks CTO division and ZTE R&D Technology Strategy. Marco is active in standardization since long time, leading standards specifications in different domains (NGN, IoT/M2M, Big Data, IMT2020) and holding leadership positions. In the current 2017-2020 ITU-T study period, among other tasks, he is Champion of the Use Case Analysis and Requirements deliverable within the Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities and Communities, as well as Editor of the Use Cases and Requirements deliverable within the ITU-T Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030. During 2018 he has acted as Rapporteur for the European Commission in the joint MSP/DEI WG on Standardisation in support of Digitising European Industry and Editor of the Final Report of the WG (Dec 2018). He holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry, France) and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France). He has also completed an Executive Program on Big Data Science at Ecole Centrale (Paris, France).
Craig Gibson Principal Threat Architect, Trend Micro, United States Craig Gibson has won multiple award awards in information security across 21 years of architecture, research, and investigations. As a United Nations Delegate to China and Trend Micro Principal Threat Architect he has spoken internationally on topics including Identity, Zero Trust, Artificial Intelligence, 5G and 6G, Counterterrorism, and Lawful Intercept. Craig has spoken at United Nations events (UNICRI, UNCCT, ITU). He has also spoken at international law enforcement events hosted by INTERPOL, Europol, and others. Craig’s research has been presented at RSA, GSMA, and similar events.
Gautam Hazari Technical Director, GSM Association Gautam Hazari is the Technical Director at GSM Association and is based in London. He works with the mobile operators around the world on emerging technologies, mobile identity including privacy and cyber security, 5G security, realisation of Blockchain, AI/ML on various telecoms initiatives and works closely with the regulatory and standards bodies. Gautam led the technology for Mobile Connect – the mobile identity initiative from mobile operators around the world. He has been working in the telecom industry for the last 21 years and holds patents on Identity and Access control areas. Gautam is a futurist and a Digital Identity enthusiast. He speaks at various platforms around the world on Digital Identity and is passionate about making the Digital world a safer place.
Ivan Herman Staff contact for VC & DID Working Groups, W3C Ivan Herman graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry in Munich, Germany, he joined the Centre Mathematics & Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he had had a tenure position between 1988 and the year of his retirement, i.e., in 2021. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1989 at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He joined the W3C Permanent Staff in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI and he has continued to stay on the staff, albeit with reduced hours, after his retirement. As a W3C staff member, he served as Head of Offices until June 2006, then as Semantic Web Activity Lead until December 2013. He is the Publishing@W3C Technical Lead, as well as the W3C staff representative for the work on EPUB 3, Audiobooks, Decentralized Identities, and Verifiable Credentials. He was also member of the Strategy, as well as the Technical & Architecture teams of W3C until 2021. https://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
Woojin Jung Director for Information and Statistics, Korea Disease Control and prevention Agency \| Team Leader for Vaccination System, COVID-19 Vaccination Management TF Jung Woojin manages all of the systems in KDCA. He has expreience in system managing for public health and social security in the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) during last decade. From this year, he belongs to KDCA as the director which manage vaccination systems include digital vaccination certification, COOV.
Masahito Kawamori ITU-T Study Group 16 Q28 Rapporteur \| Project Professor, Media and Governance School, Keio University, Japan Masahito Kawamori is a Project Prof. at the Media and Governance School, Keio University, Japan. Before joining Keio University in 2013, he had been a senior research engineer of NTT, which he joined in 1989 to do research and development in application of artificial intelligence, to convergent systems for mobile and fixed telecommunication, such as conversational robots and humanoids. This became, in 1998, a part of Japan Science and Technology Agency's program called Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Program that aimed at "Creating the Brain". Since 2000, he was involved in several projects in and outside of Japan to apply metadata and ontology for various services including, but not limited to, telecommunication and broadcasting, which have led to global standards that are currently commercially deployed in several services. He is also actively involved with the International Telecommunication Union, part of the United Nations.
Ramesh Kesanupalli Co-founder, ADI Association, United States Ramesh Kesanupalli is currently the CEO of Digital Trust Networks, based in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Kesanupalli is also the co-founder of ADI Association, a non-profit industry organization working with global companies to define the Accountable Digital Identity Architecture (ADIA), which will bring different identity systems together using a trust framework that will include everyone with or without a smart device and promote a new inclusive Digital Economy for all. ADIA brings Trust and Accountability to both digital and real worlds. Prior to this, Mr. Kesanupalli was the founder of FIDO Alliance, a standards body setting a global standard for Authentication, which eliminates network passwords and makes online authentication simpler, stronger, and easier to use. FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) is now an international standard and is supported by all operating systems and browsers. FIDO Alliance includes global players like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Amazon, Facebook, Visa, MasterCard, and many other global technology leaders. Mr. Kesanupalli was also the founder of Nok Nok Labs, which is the market leader and first implementer of FIDO-based authentication servers. Its global customers include NTT DOCOMO, Verizon, T-Mobile, Standard Bank, Intuit and many more. Mr. Kesanupalli was also the CTO at Validity Sensors, a fingerprint sensor company which was acquired by Synaptic. Ramesh has held several senior executive positions and is a serial entrepreneur.
Noah Luo ITU-T SG16 Chairman \| Vice President, Dept. of Standardization and Industry Development, Huawei Noah Luo is ITU-T SG16 Chairman, a position for which he got elected in 2016 and he had been vice chairman of SG16 during the period of 2008-2016. Mr. Luo is a VP and senior standardization and industry development expert from Huawei with a wide range of responsibilities including standards, industry development, ecosystems and regulatory policies, etc. Mr. Luo has been and is active in various standards fields including multimedia technologies, services and applications, AI, digitization of vertical industries, cloud and edge computing and communications technologies. He is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nasser Saleh Al Marzouqi Chairman ITU-T Study Group 20: Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C) Mr. Nasser Al Marzouqi is the Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group 20 “Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C)” which provides the specialized IoT standardization platform necessary for the convergence to rest on a cohesive set of international standards. The focus of the research conducted by ITU-T Study Group 20 will be on identifying and analyzing emerging applications and global solutions for IoT and smart cities, which will contribute to improving the interoperability of various IoT-based technologies, a key factor in ensuring end-user and market acceptance of IoT solutions. Nasser Al Marzouqi is currently working for the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority in the United Arab Emirates in the International Affairs Division. He also functions as the UAE representative to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and has been closely involved in the major ITU conferences and events. He received his Master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Latrobe University in Australia. The TRA in the UAE has been at the forefront of pioneering developments in the field of ICT and in providing an optimal enabling environment in which the UAE’s ICT sector can flourish. Mr. Al Marzouqi is a firm proponent of converting existing systems to high-efficiency systems, helping to bridge the digital divide and to increase global communication and the transition to smart sustainable cities.
Nicole van der Meulen Senior Strategic Analyst and Head of the Policy & Development team, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) Dr. Nicole van der Meulen is Senior Strategic Analyst and head of the Policy & Development team at Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). She has worked as an Advisor of Security Affairs at the Dutch Banking Association, and has led the cybersecurity side of the Defence, Security and Infrastructure (DSI) team at RAND Europe in Cambridge. Prior to those engagements, she worked for the Dutch government where she was co-responsible for the development of the first Cyber Security Threat Assessment, before returning to academia at the start of 2012 as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Transnational Legal Studies at the VU University in Amsterdam. In 2010, she obtained her PhD based on a comparative study between the United States and the Netherlands on digital financial identity theft at the Law Faculty of Tilburg University. She studied Political Science with a focus on International Relations and Comparative Politics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Bachelor of Arts, 2005, Cum Laude) and VU University Amsterdam (Master of Science, 2006, Cum Laude).
Derrick Muneene Director, AI, Digital Health and Innovations Department, WHO Currently, he is the eHealth and mHealth regional technical advisor for the WHO Africa Regional office. Prior to this role, he worked with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Zambia) as Health Systems Analysts and Applications Development Manager for about 12 years. Prior to this role, he worked with USAID’s Rational Pharmaceuticals Management Plus project, designing and implementing national health information systems. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Greenwich (UK), master’s degree from the University of Lusaka, a degree in Computer science from the University of Greenwich (UK) as well as various project management certifications. He is currently a PRINCE 2 certified practitioner.
Jae Hoon Nah ITU-T Study Group 17 WP4 Chair & Rapporteur \| Special Fellow Researcher, Security Research Laboratory, ETRI, South Korea He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005. For the two Study Periods (2009 – 2012, 2013-2016), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 7/17 (Secure Application Services). He has been a Project Editor or Co-editor for 8 approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in the area of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) security, IPTV security, Web security, authentication protocol. From 1987, he has worked as a researcher for ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute), Republic of Korea. He is currently a special fellow researcher of Security Research Laboratory in ETRI. He had developed wired/mobile call processing software of a digital switching machine (TDX-10 ISDN, TDX-ATM) from 1987 to 2000. And He had developed security protocols and standards of secure P2P services, scalable code of IPTV security, Mashup Web security and enhanced attribute-aggregated authentication from 2001.
SangHwan Park Director, Blockchain Technology Promotion Division, Digital Infrastructure Group, Korea Internet & Security Agency, South Korea He has worked for Korea internet & Security Agency (KISA) for 20 years. Mostly his career in KISA is concerned with an elecronic signature and authenticaiton based on PKI. He had participated in the PKI interoperability experiments with Asian countries like Japan, China, Chinese Taipei, Singapore. Also He is an main author of IETF RFC 5636 experimental standard which defines a practical architecture and protocols for offering privacy for a user who requests and uses an X.509 certificate containing a pseudonym, while still retaining the ability to map such a certificate to the real user who requested it.
Natschja Ratanaprayul Technical Officer, Digital Health and Innovations Department, WHO Natschja (Nat) is a Technical Officer in the Department of Digital Health and Innovations at WHO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, Nat helps coordinate the work on Digital Documentation for COVID-19 Certificates as well as WHO’s work in regards to SMART Guidelines. Prior to joining WHO, Nat worked in strategy consulting across multiple sectors. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration, both from the University of California, Berkeley; and she has a Master of Science in Public Health in International Health, Health Systems from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Derek Ritz Principal Consultant, ecGroup Inc \| Delegate of Canada to ISO/TC215 (Health Informatics) Derek Ritz is the principal consultant at ecGroup Inc., a Canadian professional services firm that provides advisory services to domestic and international public and private sector clients regarding digital health strategy, architecture, standards, implementation and adoption. He has been an advisor to national-scale digital health infrastructure projects in Canada and in over a dozen countries in southern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Derek is Canada’s Liaison to the IHE International eHealth standards organization, is a delegate of Canada to ISO/TC215 (Health Informatics), and is a FHIR Foundation founder. Derek has authored and co-authored multiple books and articles on digital health interoperability. He is a co-founder and active contributor to a donor-funded project, OpenHIE (www.ohie.org), whose mission is to “improve the health of the underserved through the open, collaborative development and support of country driven, large scale health information sharing architectures.”
Marie Wallace Technical Strategist, IBM Watson Health Biography: Marie Wallace has spent nearly two decades at IBM building AI technologies which today underpin such solutions as IBM Watson. Marie's work on personalized recommendation systems fueled her passion for the ethics of data science and drove her interest in human-centric, decentralized, privacy-protecting data exchange. Marie is currently architect of IBM's Digital Health Pass offering, and is a globally recognized thought leader, with an active social media presence and popular blog, http://allthingsanalytics.com.
Shan Xu Vice-Chair, ITU&WHO Focus Group on Artificial (FG-AI4H) \| Senior Executive, the E-Health Department of Cloud Computing & Big Data Research Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, CAICT, China Shan is the head of WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Health, a senior executive of the E-Health Department of Cloud Computing & Big Data Research Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). She is the vice-chair of ITU&WHO Artificial Intelligence for Health focus group(FG-AI4H), co-chair of the Ad-hoc group of the digital technologies on COVID health emergency (AHG-DT4ER), and was elected in the roster of WHO digital health expert, WHO Smart Vaccination Certificate (SVC) working group, and cybersecurity working group of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF).
Xiaoya Yang ITU-T Study Group 17 Counselor Xiaoya Yang serves as the Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 ‘security’ since 2017. With 20+ years of professional experience in telecommunication regulation, legislation and international standardization and coordination, she was the Head of the WTSA Programmes Division in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-TSB) from 2010 to 2016, Co-counsellor of ITU-T Study Group 2 on 'Operational aspects of service provision and telecommunications management' and Study Group 3 on 'Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues' from 2009 to 2010; Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 on 'Telecommunication security' from 2007 to 2008; and Workshop Project Coordinator from 2004 to 2006. Before joining ITU, she worked in the Ministry of Information Industry of China from 1998 to 2004. There she was the Division Director responsible for regulation of Internet and information security. From 1997 to 1998 she worked in China Telecom as a network engineer and service manager in their Internet service department. She has a M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China and a MBA from Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Heung Youl Youm Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security \| Professor, Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, South Korea He is Chairman of ITU-T SG17 (Security). He is working as a professor for the Department of Information Security Engineering of the Soonchunhyang University, Korea from September 1990. He is currently the Director of SCH Cybersecurity Research Centre from Dec. 2013. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2003 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts. He was an associate Rapporteur of SG 17 Question 10/17 from 2003 to 2004. For the Study Period (2005 – 2008), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 9/17. He was a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 from 2009 to 2016. He was a Chairman of Working Party 2 (Application Security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2009–2012) and was a Chairman of Working Party 3 (Identity management and cloud computing security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2013–2016). He has been a Project Editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in DLT security, authentication/application protocols, de-identification techniques, USN/IoT security, 5G security, and cybersecurity. He is a Commissioner for the Korea Personal Information Protection Commission, a member of advisory committee for the Korea national security office for the Blue House, a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007, and a Board director for Korea Information/Security agency. He was a president of KIISC (Korea Institute on information security and cryptology) in 2011 and is an emeritus president of KIISC. He had worked for ETRI as a senior research engineer from 1982 to 1990. He had been involved in developing high speed transmission system. He had been involved in many (advisory or self-performance evaluation) committees for the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) from 2008 to 2016, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) from 2013 to 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Energy (MoTIE) from 2015 to 2017. He had been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017. He had been the chairman for the committee on information security in the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games from January 2015 to May 2018. He received a Bachelor degree in 1981, a Master degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea.
Kaliya Young Ecosystems Director, Covid Credentials Initiative "Identity Woman" MSIMS, is the Ecosystems Director of the Covid Credentials Initiative hosted at Linux Foundation Public Health and is the Chair of the Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass at the Trust over IP Foundation. This group recently completed the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint. She is the co-author of a Comprehensive guide to Self-Sovereign Identity and is widely known as Identity Woman (it's also the name of her blog and her twitter handle). She has committed her life to the development of an open standards based layer of the internet that empowers people. In 2005, Young co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop with Doc Searls and Phil Windley. She is active in a number of working groups defining the open standards for decentralized Identity, including the Credentials Community Group and the Decentralized Identifier Working Group at W3C. She of the co-chair Interoperability Working Group at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and Co-Chair of the Secure Data Store Working Group jointly charted by the Credentials Community Group at the W3C and DIF. In 2017 she earned a Master of Science in Identity Management and Security at UT Austin and her thesis was published by Anthem Press in 2020 The Domains of Identity: A Framework for Understanding Identity Systems in Contemporary Society.
Daidi Zhong Chair of IEEE 11073-PHD \| Vice-Dean of Bioengineering College, Chongqing University, China Daidi Zhong is the Vice-Dean of Bioengineering College, Chongqing University. He has more than decade experience in developing international standards to address the interoperability issues in digital health domain. He serves as the Chair of IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device Workgroup, and the co-editor of ITU-T H.810 series of recommendations. He is recognized by WHO as a domain expert of digital health. He is a member of Steering Committee of Kaleidoscope 2019.