Enhancing the Identity Ecosystem Through Public and Private Sector Collaboration

Description

Overview: Across the market, public and private sector innovation and collaboration are driving better identity solutions.  Governments – Federal, State and Local – have a supporting role to play in helping to grow a more effective and responsible identity ecosystem by working with industry to identify and reduce barriers, encourage the development of shared principles, governance, standards and trust frameworks, evaluate and document the performance realities of commercial solutions, and offer services that improve identity.  The private sector, as the main developers, innovators, and suppliers of identification system infrastructure, equally have a critical role to play as the technology and product developers and as identity providers, preserving consumer choice with respect to individual privacy.  Building a more secure, trusted, interoperable, and accessible identity ecosystem thus requires public-private collaboration and education.  This session will focus on various approaches to strengthening collaboration between the government and private sector for the continued development and advancement of a more secure, trusted, interoperable, and accessible identity ecosystem, what emerging technologies – from biometrics and machine learning to distributed ledger/blockchain and artificial intelligence – offer tremendous potential to transform and enhance the digital identity ecosystem, S&T and innovation policies, government and IT modernization, and how we can work together to develop shared standards and principles alongside innovations in technologies and trust frameworks, thus serving as a launching point for the learnings and collaborations that conference organizers hope to see in the exhibit hall throughout the week!

Fireside Chat with Chloe Kontos, Executive Director, National Science & Technology Council, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Moderated by Combiz Abdolrahimi, Esq., Global Emerging Technology & Innovation Leader, Senior Policy Advisor & FinTech Lawyer, Deloitte’s Government and Public Services.

• The Administration’s approach on innovation and technology policy, S&T priorities, and the use of public-private partnerships to advance market-enhancing innovations and enhance the identity ecosystem.

Lightning Talks

• Bob Schukai, Senior Vice President, Identity Solutions, Mastercard
• Andre Boysen, Chief Identity Officer, SecureKey Technologies Inc.
• Lauren Lee, U.S. Postal Service
• Joel Robideaux, Mayor-President, Lafayette Consolidated Government, Louisiana
• John Edge: Chairman and Co-Founder, ID2020 and MIT Connection Science Fellow
• Rouven Heck, Co-Fouder and Lead for uPort, ConsenSys

Workshop

Participants will break out into smaller groups for a public-private sector collaborative discussion on the topics, each table anchored by a Federal or Lightning Talk Speaker, using the previous presentations and questions as a launching point. Participants will work through a series of steps to brainstorm concepts that could solve the session’s goal to enhance the identity ecosystem through close collaboration between the government and private sector, and to draft an initial action plan for their favorite idea to spur this collaboration.

The Workshop MC will issue a series of successive timed tasks, which each table will be encouraged to work through independently. Each table will have a notetaker, who will briefly summarize the discussion and outcomes. The assigned tasks are as follows:

1. Brief introductions at the tables.
2. Individually brainstorm and then group share and discuss some of the identity challenges raised in the day’s session. Jot down the desired outcomes that can be achieved through strengthening collaboration between the public and private sectors.
3. Looking at the desired outcomes brainstormed, what are the limiting factors to achieving them? Individually brainstorm (write with marker on a sticky pad, place it overlapping the desired outcome). Then everyone to share their brainstormed ideas with the group.
4. Looking at the desired outcomes & limiting factors, what can be done, from a public-private collaboration perspective, to overcome the limiters and meet the objectives?
   • Individually brainstorm (write with marker on a sticky pad, place it overlapping the desired outcome). Then everyone will share their brainstormed ideas with the group.
5. Now, take some time to develop an action plan. Some questions to consider:
   • What should the role of government – federal, state, and local – be in growing a more effective and responsible identity ecosystem?
   • What should the role of the private sector be in this ecosystem?
   • Are there any potential initiatives/activities already in process that could be leveraged?
   • What entities would need to be involved – who would best be able to help the government/community solve this?
   • How should we work together to develop shared standards and principles alongside innovations in technologies and trust frameworks? Do we need a governance model? If so, how should it look like?
   • What are some of the technologies and business models that can provide better identity solutions that safeguard national interests, while also protect legitimate privacy and cyber security goals?
   • Who/Which agency/department would be good at leading the effort from the government?
   • What would an ultimate solution to this issue look like?
   • How does the community get from here to there?
6. Whole-room report-out.