Speaker details

Colin Wallis has been involved in the New Zealand Government's online IAM Programme since 2004, for which it won the IDDY award in 2007. This follows five years in the UK, where he worked on the UK eGIF and private sector eBusiness initiatives. Today, Colin holds leadership positions across the consortium space in the area of online Identity. In OASIS, he sits on the Steering Committee of the eGov Member Section, and on the identity-related Technical Committees of Security Services, Customer Information, Identity in the Cloud and Transformational Government. In the Kantara Initiative, Colin Chairs the eGov work group and serves on the Leadership Council and Board of Trustees, while also engaging in ITU-T's Study Group 17 Q10 Identity work and UN/CEFACT's eGov group,TBG19. In ISO JTC1 SC27, Colin is an acknowledged subject matter expert on identity and privacy in Working Group 5. Equally conversant with European and North American initiatives in identity, Colin's ability to connect people, projects and motivations from his bird's eye view of the identity landscape is acknowledged globally.