Kay Chopard

Executive Director
Kantara Initiative

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Ms. Kay Chopard is the Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a nonprofit organization which provides its members opportunities to work on standards development and emerging technology issues in digital identity. It also operates conformity assessment, assurance and grant of Trust Marks against de-jure standards under its Trust Framework program. The US Assurance program provides assurance against NIST 800-63 version 3 (current) and in the UK against the Digital Identity and Attribute Trust Framework of the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) mandated for several programs requiring digital identity standards.
Ms. Chopard is also the President and CEO of Chopard Consulting based in the Washington, DC metro area. She has 40 years’ experience in executive leadership in government, nonprofit, and business organizations nationally. She excels at building networks and collaborations that overcome systemic cultural norms and empowers diverse and inclusive teamwork. She is admitted to the practice of law in the state of Iowa and to the U.S. Supreme Court bar. She has led several organizations including:
• Executive Director of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), serving as the first woman head of the oldest and largest prosecutor organization in the world. She led the organization to create a Women Prosecutors Section and a Metro DAs section, transformed the business model of the organization to diversify revenue and significantly enhance business operations. She also led the organization in the prosecutor role and legal policy in the use of digital evidence, especially the use of video and body-worn camera programs.
• Executive Director of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG), a nonprofit organization developed in a public-private partnership to implement the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
• Deputy Executive Director of the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) where she led strategic planning, business operations transformations, and built the training and technical assistance portfolio for the State Administrative Agency (SAA) members.
• Acting Division Chief and lead program manager at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for 10 years, creating sustainable national training programs for state and local prosecutors and judges, the National Traffic Law Center, and a Judicial Fellowship program, managing staff and a multi-million-dollar federal agency budget.
Ms. Chopard also serves on the Board of Directors and in the leadership of the Women in Identity She lectures internationally and has authored several articles and white papers on diversity and inclusion, use of technology especially digital evidence in the courts, and legal policy around privacy and security in the use of court technology and other digital identity applications.

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