Interviews
Stephen Chapman praises UK passport system, calls for international standards to support national systems
https://youtu.be/XoFdgGwrqXY In this interview with travel document expert, Stephen Chapman, he highlights the fraud and borders control trends that lead advances in ID document design. Stephen will be joining Identity Week Europe in June as a member of our...
Michelle Wilson on building Blue Cavalry Solutions and advancing interoperable digital ID
https://youtu.be/W_aJbZ8QwyY Having mostly served federal government in her career, Michelle Wilson made the jump in May 2025 to set up Blue Cavalry Solutions. Based in Virginia, she now leads an elite consulting firm with lots of international experience in identity...
“We are looking at how to make biometrics quicker”: Hannes Lember discusses Estonia’s contactless biometric pilot and border innovation
https://youtu.be/MRrzcsXSBB8 The Police and Border Guard Board is joining an innovative pilot programme to gather contactless face and fingerprint biometrics within the e-residency programme in Estonia. Hannes Lember, a Development Expert, tells us all about...
New non-profit trade association of HAND will standardise global talent ID
https://youtu.be/pXZGp1gtbDM HAND Human & Digital updates IdentityWeek.net on forming a new non-profit arm, which will establish HAND’s system as an industry-wide standard. It started as an ID registry for talent within media, culture and entertainment...
No cards, no phones: J.P. Morgan’s biometric revolution in payments
https://youtu.be/kUvQ5lYsp1Y In a conversation with Prashant Sharma, Executive Director of Biometrics and Identity Solutions at J.P. Morgan, the future of payments sounded a lot more seamless - and a lot more human. This year, J.P. Morgan unveiled two cutting-edge...
Anthony Vidiano on building the future of access management
https://youtu.be/F2P2TgsG8yg IM leader Anthony Vidiano discusses in this interview, held in Washington DC, the growing challenges and opportunities in identity and access management, particularly within the healthcare industry. He explained that as both human...
Charisma Check wins 2025 Start-Up Pitching Competition, advancing identity verification and background checks for dating app users
https://youtu.be/hHtWUAOkB3c The creators of a digital identity and background check solution for online dating have received recognition, and boosted esteem, as the 2025 winner of our Start-up Pitching Competition at Identity Week America. We are delighted to...
How to protect one billion Amazon customers: Lessons from continuous risk assessments
https://youtu.be/-ku8PhERD8s In a recent exclusive interview, we heard Mike Slaugh, Principal Engineer for Information Systems at Amazon Business, explain that Amazon treats authentication as a continuous process, not a one-time event. It starts with verifying who a...
Susan Koski, PNC Bank on managing customer identities and just-in-time privileged access
https://youtu.be/URa28gwb8qI At Identity Week America 2025, we spoke with Susan Koski, Chief Information Security Officer at PNC Bank, following her keynote. When asked about aligning identity, cybersecurity, and fraud protection, she explained that both workforce and...
The evolution of the digital ID nation: From DCMS to DSIT, Hannah Rutter will keynote again at #IdentityWeekEurope 2026
As a long-standing fan of Identity Week from her DCMS days to now, we are delighted to be welcoming back Hannah Rutter in her new position as CEO of the Office of Digital Identity and Attributes at the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, to give...
Smarter, safer travel: The role of identity tech and human expertise in modern airports
https://youtu.be/vOAFP0Ur1UQ At Identity Week America 2025, Marcelo Mota, CIO of Aian Luanda Airport, discussed how identity technologies are shaping the future of air travel. Highlighting the rapid growth in passenger numbers, projected to reach 8 billion by...
ICAO offering “centralised infrastructural support to states” to verify travel documents & e-passports
https://youtu.be/WuPL73nxPq8 In the area of facilitation for cross border travel, ICAO is traditionally focused on supporting the definition of travel documents through specifications and standards. Ciarán Carolan, Programme Manager, at ICAO represented their mission...
SPHERE on defining Identity Visibility and Intelligence
https://youtu.be/Zj7tWd9_K98 Watch Sphere's interview at Identity Week America 2025 with Founder, Rita Gurevich. The traditional pillars of identity security - Privileged Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration, and Identity and Access Management -...
Europe’s digital future: How payments and digital identity come together
As Europe moves toward a new era of digital finance, the convergence of payments and identity is redefining how people prove who they are and access financial services. In an internal interview, Claire Deprez-Pipon, a leading expert at the intersection of digital...
Identity Week America 2025: John Fiske on Identity Assurance
https://youtu.be/_2FDyyfZvEk At Identity Week America 2025, former data protection director John Fiske shared his perspectives on identity assurance and its role in digital safety. Transitioning from six years at Meta into the identity space, Fiske emphasised the...
Jay Meier, Chief Identity Strategist, FaceTec: Very big organisations already know how they want to implement UR codes
https://youtu.be/KgXpbM9285o FaceTec reported a number of high quality inquiries resulting from Identity Week America back in September, and it’s not hard to see why. Delivering the highest-rated 3D face authentication, experts attending the show were...
Imprivata: Addressing the “last mile” of end user access management for frontline public sector
https://youtu.be/eVjQebAq4YY Meeting our Gold Sponsor, Imprivata, at Identity Week America 2025, CTO Joel Burleson Davis, introduced their range of digital identity and access management solutions that transform protected data access in environments where it is...
“Anybody who’s anybody is here”: Andrew Bud of iProov on Identity Week, AI and trust truly residing with people
“Anybody who's anybody is here”. iProov, a leader in biometric authentication that provides the assertion of a genuine person, relished the opportunity to meet this collaborative identity industry at Identity Week Europe 2025, which took place in Amsterdam. Catching...
FaceTec powers liveness detection for Global Entry and U.S. visa programs — meet them in DC!
https://youtu.be/EZBiLIPsbIY Owen McShane recently joined FaceTec, our Title Sponsor, last year as Vice President of Government Relations. Having worked as York State DMV for over 30 years, he retired as a deputy commissioner in charge of investigations and...
Mühlbauer Smart Corridor integrates face biometrics and verification of e-signatures in the e-document chip
https://youtu.be/ok9zEP5hBhA Whilst serving their clients government standard physical travel documents, Mühlbauer is aligning with the trend of physical to digitalised documents available through mobile, which have the greatest advantage in the chip to verify...
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