Digital Identity for Government conference gets a new agenda

Think Digital Partners are pleased to launch the new agenda for the Think Digital Identity for Government conference being held on November 25th in Westminster, London. This event will be hybrid to enable the largest possible audience and encourage speakers and delegates from across the UK and overseas.

Expert speakers will begin to be announced next week but you will see when viewing the agenda that all of the current hot topics in public sector digital identity are being covered. Here are a few of the topics up for discussion:

Social inclusion and government Identity Services

Social inclusion and digital identity go hand-in-hand. Government’s, perhaps more than any other sector need to ensure that digital services are accessible by all. How can the tech industry help government to formulate meaningful policy around social inclusion?  How can the design of fully accessible identity for all turn citizen identity into an enabling technology?

Decentralised ID/SSI – Has it killed the Federated Identity model?

A look at the realities of the Self Sovereign/Decentralised (SSI) model of identity provisioning. Some of the issues covered will include:

• Do users care about data sovereignty?
• Do interoperability issues within this model need to be addressed? The panel will discuss economic and regulatory motivations, lack of conformance to specific standards or standard profiles, and incorporation of different networks in different stages of the maturity lifecycle.
• The UI/UX of self-sovereign identity including the work that IIW and others are doing in this area.
• The issues of authority in the self-sovereign model include entitlement to attributes, authority sources for verification, and so on

One Login and beyond. How to use government ID to digitalise the UK

This panel session will discuss the procurement procedure for this project, how it can be used in government for all levels of transaction and if it could even be used in commercial transactions.

Pensions dashboard and digital entitlement

The Pension Dashboard has been a complex system to develop. Many people have several pensions and often need to delegate pension management. Most pension systems are manual, and paper based, authorisation for a financial advisor to act on your behalf is done on paper. How can this highly manual process be expressed in the digital world, especially if the demographic is non-digital native? 

This session will explore the ways and means of making pension management and access digital and how entitlement and delegation fit into a digital identity-driven system.

The Identity fit and local government services

Local government is increasingly looking how citizen services can be replicated / replaced by digital versions. How can this be done so that all citizens have equal access to these services and in a way that secure against fraud when identity document such as birth, marriage, and death certificates are used? 

The Good, Bad and Ugly of mobile driving licences

ISO 18013-5 conformant mDLs (mobile driver’s licenses) are on their way. Questions that will be discussed include:

• What implications do mDLs have for privacy and security risks? 
• Are UK police forces ready to process mDLs from overseas drivers?

Add to this the regular and very popular International Identity and Future of Identity panels and you have the makings of a must attend event.

Register today to attend either virtually or in person and if you are interested in potentially participating or sponsoring the conference please do get in touch.