Digital ID Summit 2024: Half-day

Baroness Uddin

Member of the House of Lords | Co-Chair of Digital ID APPG,

Baroness Uddin is a Member of the House of Lords, in addition to being the co-chair of the Digital ID All-Party Parliamentary Group 

Hannah Rutter

Chief Executive, OfDIA | DSIT,

Hannah is an experienced civil servant with a track-record of using innovative approaches and new technology to improve public services. She is currently leading a team to enable the use of digital identity products across the UK economy.  

Andy Thornley

Head of Regulatory Affairs, Innovate Finance

Andy is the Head of Regulatory Affairs at FinTech trade association Innovate Finance, leading their work in ensuring technology and innovation is allowed to flourish in financial services. Their membership includes start-ups, high-growth firms and unicorns within FinTech.

Previously, Andy headed-up financial services at techUK and prior to this, has worked for a number of other bodies in the financial services sector, including the CBI and British Insurance Brokers’ Association. 

Helene Oger-Zaher

Senior Innovation Manager, FCA / DRCF

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Rachel Coldicutt

Executive Director, Careful Trouble

Rachel Coldicutt is a researcher and strategist specialising in the social impact of new and emerging technologies. She is founder and executive director of research consultancy Careful Industries and its sister social enterprise Promising Trouble.

She was previously founding CEO of responsible technology think tank Doteveryone where she led influential and ground-breaking research into how technology is changing society and developed practical tools for responsible innovation. Prior to that, she spent almost 20 years working at the cutting edge of new technology for companies including the BBC, Microsoft, BT, and Channel 4, and was a pioneer in the digital art world. Rachel is an advisor, board member and trustee for a number of companies and charities and, from 2020-2023, served as a non-executive director at Ofcom. In 2019, Rachel was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours for services for the digital society.

Julie Dawson

Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer, Yoti

Julie leads regulatory and government relations for Yoti’s digital identity platform; developing policy approaches for fraud prevention and safeguarding, liaising with national and sectoral trust frameworks, in conjunction with Yoti's internal and external ethics boards. 

Yoti is an identity checking system that allows organisations to verify who people are, online and in person. Yoti offers Identity verification, Age verification, E-signatures and Authentication.  

Yoti is a team of over 400, has its HQ in London and counts over 12 million installs of the Yoti app; has conducted over 500 million age checks. 

Adrian Field

Director of Market Development , OneID

Adrian has a background in banking (LBG) and payments (Visa), and leads OneID’s market development to enable a bank-based ID scheme for the UK to grow and succeed. He works as an advisor with customers, banks, industry groups, government and regulators to enable the UK market for ID services to scale. 

He has worked on developing global open standards for identity, and global projects to connect identity schemes internationally. 

Chris Lewis

Head of Solutions, Synectics Solutions

Chris Lewis is an expert in harnessing the power of data intelligence and machine learning for identity verification and financial crime prevention purposes.

As Head of Solutions at data insight specialist Synectics Solutions, Chris and the wider R&D team are responsible for developing data driven solutions to help public and private sector organisations prevent fraud and better understand their customer base.

With over eight years’ experience in the field, Chris works primarily with the financial services and insurance sectors, and stresses the importance of close collaboration between businesses, regulators, consumers and Government in the fight against fraud, error and misrepresentation.

Chris Tate

CEO, Condatis

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Frank Joshi

Managing Director, Mvine

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Shelley Langan-Newton

CEO, SQR

Starting her career in education as a lecturer of Performing Arts, Shelley pivoted into the corporate world where she has experience working in the space, tech, and telecoms industries in both B2B and B2C markets - founding, launching, scaling, and managing several businesses in multiple jurisdictions. Shelley currently serves as SQR CEO and Chair of the Digital Forum for the Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce. Shelley was the co-founder of the Isle of Man’s first, Internet Exchange.