MWC20 Barcelona seminar: Mobile identity, enabling the digital world

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.

David G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. He is a Global Ambassador at Consult Hyperion (the secure electronic transactions consultancy that he helped to found), Technology Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (the London-based think tank), a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School and holds a number of board-level advisory roles.

Before helping to found Consult Hyperion, he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics.

David G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. He is a Global Ambassador at Consult Hyperion (the secure electronic transactions consultancy that he helped to found), Technology Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (the London-based think tank), a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School and holds a number of board-level advisory roles.

Before helping to found Consult Hyperion, he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics.

Keiron has worked in the world of mobile identity for the past 10 years, focused on data insights specifically from mobile operators. With experience ranging from the GSMA to end customer service provision, he’s now focused on supporting the mobile identity push within BT. ‘Doing is discovery

Andy Tobin is responsible for Evernym’s activities in the EMEA region, and head of business development globally. He is a key member of the team that created the world’s first self – sovereign identity network, Sovrin, and open sourced its code as Hyperledger Indy. Andy spent 11 years at
Telefonica where he ran all non-voice technology, built a mobile bank, and launched the iPhone in the UK. Prior to that he was responsible for e-and m-Commerce at Logica, where he also built the world’s first m-Commerce server way back in 1999

Ea Chaillioux, VP Global Ecosystem Engagement, Digital Business Unit at IDEMIA.

Ea is leading the Global Ecosystem Engagement activity in IDEMIA’s Digital Business Unit where she engages with global and local players such as technology alliances, regulators, humanitarian organizations with a focus on Digital inclusion and financial inclusion, with the aim to share our expertise and enable business opportunities with IDEMIA’s Financial Institutions and Mobile Operators customers.

Previously, Ea was leading the Digital Solutions Business Line for Mobiles Operators Business Unit at IDEMIA covering marketing, presales, product experts, sales and operational teams. 

Before that, from 2007 to 2012, Ea was an account manager and then Head of the customer team in charge of business development of a strategic mobile operator customer at Nokia Siemens Networks. 

Between 1998 and 2007, she held various positions in Sales at Siemens Networks.

Andy majored in computer science and has been working in IDENTITY / AUTHENTICATION area since 2010. He launched a service called T-AUTH in 2016 and In 2018, the platform was changed to a common brand of 3 Korean MNO called “PASS”. PASS has secured 26 million active users since its launch (55% of total customers). It is Korea’s No. 1 authentication platform that processes 1.1 billion customer certificates every month. Andy is an expert in identifying and brokering the needs of Service Providers and End Users and currently serving 30,000 partners. Now, Andy is running a “Zero Fraud” project with governments, telecommunications companies and financial companies to get rid of all Fraud.

Glyn is Global Product Director at Luca,Telefonica’s division specifically focused on creating propositions from insights. Working with the UK banks he helped create the initial sim swap product which is now part of Telefonica’s core offering across its global markets.

Ravish Patel works at Telesign as a Director of Mobile Identity business. He is an expert on the topics of Mobile Identity, Fraud Management, Machine Learning & Data Privacy. He has worked with global web properties and mobile operators across continents helping them roll out identity and risk verification solutions.

Burak is responsible for the Personal Cloud, Digital Identity, Advertising, Digital Telco and Messaging services.

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.

Steve is Principal Solution Architect at ForgeRock.  Before joining ForgeRock, Steve spent 20 years at Ericsson in a variety of Pre-Sales and Solution Architect roles, meaning his knowledge of the Telco infrastructure now spans far and wide. Beyond work, Steve is an enthusiastic guitarist, although probably better at collecting guitars rather than playing. On the weekend, you’ll catch him on a tennis court brushing up on his backhand or out enjoying time with his family.

Ben joined CCS Insight in 2006. He oversees all research areas at the company, with a focus on smart devices including mobile phones and the smart home. He has over 20 years’ experience in the mobile sector, including a period as research vice president at Gartner, where he led a global team of analysts. Prior to that he was a director of Mobile Streams, and has held positions at Lucent Technologies and Vodafone, involved in launching SMS and mobile data. Ben is a notable industry figure, frequently quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Business Week, and regularly appearing on the BBC and other media outlets.

Alex Puig is a software R+D engineer and tech entrepreneur. Due to his interest in cryptocurrencies, he founded Digital Currency Summit, a conference aiming to debate about the economic impact of blockchain and decentralized technologies in our society. His areas of interest are Blockchain, DAG, Self Sovereign IDs, Zero Knowledge Proof and Tokenomics. He also founded Alastria Blockchain Ecosystem, the first National Wide semi-public blockchain Platform, and now is leading the Technical Team at Caelum Labs, a Blockchain consultancy and development firm based in Barcelona.

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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Mark and his analyst team work to support the intelligence and consultancy needs of the GSMA programmes, helping them deliver on their Identity, Spectrum and Future Networks deliverables. He has worked on the personal data topic previously at Ovum Telecoms and at GSMA for over 10 years and regularly moderates at privacy and security conferences, also appearing on television and radio discussing personal data, big tech and all things digital