Ryan serves as Commercial Director at Callsign, helping Banks, Telco’s, E-Commerce, Government and Technology Partners provide their customers with world-class digital identity solutions and protection from fraud.

Previous to Callsign, Ryan spent 10 years at the UK’s largest online Financial Institution – Lloyds Bank, managing Digital Fraud. Responsible for Digital fraud & loss prevention, as well as the banks mobile authentication strategy and supplier management.

Nasos Kladakisis a Principal Product Manager Lead specializing in Identity and Access Management (IAM, CIAM). He is leading a global team of PMs-Solutions Architects, in the Microsoft Identity Product Group, focusing on Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM),Decentralized Identities and other cutting edge Identity technologies. Assisting organizations worldwide to choose the right IAM solutions for their employees, partners and customers

Emrah serves as COO of Organon Analytics, which is the place that he could pursue his passion for connecting algorithms with the data. It is his and the company’s vision to make artificial intelligence available to everyone.He has led the development of more than 250 systems that are based on AI and machine learning in different sectors such as banking, telecommunications,entertainment, transportation and cyber security. These systems helped companies and business professionals to make more than 500 billion decisions. He has 13 years of industry experience in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in statistics and a master’s degree in financial engineering

Dr. Kang-Won Lee is Head of Cloud Labs at SK telecom. He leads cloud-based digital transformation, and development of virtualization technology, 5G mobile edge cloud (MEC), AI inference in the cloud, and Blockchain as a Service (BaaS). In blockchain space,his team developed a consortium blockchain platform called STON, and developing new blockchain applications for blockchain-based DID, membership points, and telco infrastructure management.Before SK telecom, Kang-Won worked at IBM Watson Research Centerin New York for 14 years and contributed to major IBM products (Informix, Tivoli, etc.). Kang-Won has more than 20 yearsof experience in information technology. He co-authored a book, 100+ technical articles, and 50+patent applications. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and IEEE Senior Member. Kang-Won received a PhD in CS from UIUC

Johannes Jaskolskiis the General Manager of XCI JV, LCC, a Joint Venture formed by AT&T,Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile to launch a mobile authentication and identity solution codenamed Project Verify.Johannes is also an Assistant Vice President in AT&T’s Chief Security Office with over 20 years of emerging technology and cybersecurity experience. In his current role, Johannes is AT&T’s identity and access management program and product owner, responsible for formulating strategy, capabilities, and architecture in close partnership with key business and technology stakeholders. Johannes oversees AT&T’s end-to-end identity and access management program which encompasses over 200 million identities across all AT&T lines of business. Previously, Johannes served as a Distinguished Member of the CSO Technical Staff and led the development of AT&T’s identity and access management strategy and platform architecture,including the identity integration for the DIRECTV merger.His mobile centric platform strategywas awarded the 2016 ISE North America Project Winner award in the commercial category. Johannes is a recognized leader in emerging technology and cyber security. He is a 2018 recipient of the prestigious AT&T Science & Technology Award for his work on mobile authentication,-which has the potential to transform identity and authentication services. Johannes has been featured at security conferences including events hosted by AT&T, IBM and Ping.

Venkat Korvi is the Head of Product for Zenkey, a joint venture of the four leading U.S. wireless carriers. He is responsible for the product roadmap and delivery of all ZenKey product offerings. He is also the Product Technology lead for Identity Products and Trust Services at Verizon.

Richard heads an international team at the GSMA and is responsible for developing new innovative products and services beyond the core network in IoT, Identity and Big Data for the mobile ecosystem. ​

As the key lead for GSMA engagements in the vertical industries, specifically; FinTech, Automotive, Aviation and Manufacturing, Richard has recently launched the GSMA Innovation Foundry, creating a collaborative platform for GSMA members and partners to work together on the major challenges facing the industry. ​

In addition, Richard is responsible for the GSMA’s Strategy Group which regularly convenes to address strategic topics within the industry and supports the GSMA Board. ​

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Brian is the FinTech Vertical Lead at GSMA leading activities to enhance collaboration between the Financial Services vertical and the mobile eco-system. This reflects the strategy requested by the GSMA board to get closer to key verticals and better understand their needs.

His career includes product and commercial management in banking and mobile telecoms including O2, Lloyds and Barclays. As well as Telecomms, heading up the Digital Product team, Commerce, at Telefonica UK.