Scott L. David

Scott L. David is a partner in the K&L Gates LLP law firm. His practice focuses on transaction structuring and providing legal advice associated with emerging technologies including information/data law, compliance with privacy, data security and identity law, electronic commerce, online payment structures, standards setting, tax and intellectual property issues. Current Work Scott provides advice to firm clients on issues of compliance with federal and state privacy and data security laws; structuring of online contracts, terms of use, privacy policies and electronic payment and tax administration systems; networked data risk and liability management; online and telecommunications entity organization and affiliation structuring; technology development and transfer; participation in technical standards setting organizations; international, federal, state and local internet and telecommunications taxation; intellectual property licensing and structuring and non-profit and tax-exempt status and related issues. Scott’s publications include chapters relating to telecommunications law and tax issues associated with ecommerce.

In addition, he has authored articles in a variety of journals and publications relating to business information system structuring; legal perspectives on business data security management issues; FCC, FTC and other government regulation of online data and information systems; estate planning in the digital age; payment and tax structuring for online transactions; and broadband over power line (BPL) legal issues. Scott has given presentations on legal issues to a variety of business, legal, and other groups relating to various topics in information law, identity, privacy and data security; monetization and risk mitigation legal strategies for data collection and aggregation; legal issues of commercial interactions using virtual reality interfaces; emerging legal issues in virtual property; issues associated with cloud data storage and services; telecom tax; digital estate planning; nanotechnology; robotics; legal structuring and strategies for technical standards initiatives; gift card and stored value card systems. Prior to joining K&L Gates, Scott practiced with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City. Before attending law school, he worked as the production manager for a computer manufacturer in Rhode Island. Scott is a member of the bars of New York and Washington. He received an LL.M., (taxation) from New York University in 1990, a J.D., from Georgetown University Law Center, 1985 (magna cum laude) and did his undergraduate work at Brown University.

Salvatore D'Agostino

Salvatore D’Agostino is the CEO of IDmachines LLC and provides design, integration, strategic and tactical consulting services. IDmachines’ practice runs across the identity, credentialing, access, security, machine learning and technology transfer markets and its participants. Prior to IDmachines Sal was the Executive Vice President at CoreStreet, whose software provides identity and credential validation and distributed access control solutions for many governments and global enterprises. Prior to that and for 18 years Sal worked at and was promoted to CEO of Computer Recognition where, among other things, he helped to design and deploy EZPass and other electronic toll collection systems, upgrade the United States Capitol Physical Security System, and responsible for over 100 applications of industrial, transportation and security machine vision systems in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

Sal is very active in developing industry standards, education and best practices through professional affiliations that besides the OIX Advisory Board include; Secretary of the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council and Secretary of its Access Control council, Vice-Chair of the Security Industry Association PIV Working Group, member of the IT Security Council of the American Society for Industrial Security, Chair of the Kantara Initiative Attribute Management Discussion Group, friend and former member of the Transportation Research Board’s Freeway Operation Committee, member of the RTCA Special Committee 224 on Airport Security Access Control Systems and a charter member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Machine Vision Association. Sal is a graduate of Harvard College, and former All-Ivy and All-East wrestler, shares a patent on sentient geosynchronous displays and has worked with Ha-Ha on exhibits at the Hyde Park Art Museum and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Debra Diener

Debra N. Diener, CIPP/G, J.D., Privacy, Identity Management and Information Protection Consultant Debra N. Diener has over 30 years of expertise from serving in senior legal, policy, legislative and managerial positions in all three branches of the Federal Government. Before retiring, she served as the Senior Advisor and Director of Privacy Policy in the Privacy Office for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For over three years, Ms. Diener was a Co-chair of the Identity Management Subcommittee of OMB’s CIO Council’s Privacy Committee. In that role, she helped to spearhead the successful collaboration between the Federal Government and private sector organizations on privacy priorities, including the Government’s innovative approach to identity management. Prior to DHS, Ms. Diener served with the Treasury Department in diverse senior positions with the Headquarters Office of General Counsel, the Financial Management Service (FMS) and the IRS. She played a lead role on domestic and international policy, legal, and regulatory matters in criminal justice/law enforcement, financial services, privacy, information protection and identity management. She also served as a counsel on the Crime and Criminal Justice Subcommittee, House Judiciary Committee, where she was instrumental in crafting significant legislation. Ms. Diener holds a B.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University; an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania; and a J.D. from the George Washington University. She is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional/ Government.  

Rainer Hoerbe

Rainer Hoerbe is a contributor, architect and standards editor for the Austrian eGovernment federation and used to be lead developer for products used in the federation. In the European cross-border eHealth project epSOS he serves as security advisor. As a member of Kantara Initiative and ISO SC27 he is engaged in developing new models and standards in federated identity management.

Hisham Kassab

Hisham Kassab, Ph.D. is the founder and president of MOBILAPS, LLC. MOBILAPS is based in Silver Spring, MD, and specializes in mobile applications; geospatial technologies; and innovative applications for network appliances, including next-generation emergency notification technologies such as web-browser alerts and streaming video alerts. MOBILAPS has been funded by NSF, USDA, and the state of Maryland; and counts NASA and the Open Geospatial Consortium among its clients. Hisham received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.S. in EECS, M.S. in Operations Research, and Ph.D. in EECS from MIT. His Ph.D. dissertation was in the field of wireless networks. After MIT, Hisham worked for several years in the strategy consulting industry, first working for the multinational Booz & Co.; and then joining TMNG, a boutique firm specializing in the ICT industry. In 2005, Hisham left the management consulting industry to launch MOBILAPS.

RL "Bob" Morgan

RL "Bob" Morgan has worked locally, nationally, and internationally for over 20 years to design and deploy advanced identity management systems in support of higher education and research.  He is an Identity and Access Management Architect for UW Information Technology at the University of Washington. He has been in this position since 1999; prior to that he was in a similar role at Stanford University.  In this position he contributes to designing, implementing, and documenting identity management and distributed service infrastructure for the UW. Bob has been the Chair of the Middleware Architecture Council for Education (MACE), a US-based international group of identity management architects providing guidance for the Internet2 Middleware Initiative, since its inception in 1999. He has been a primary contributor to a number of Internet2-initiated projects, notably Shibboleth, a system for secure access to inter-institutional web resources.  He was a co-founder in 2004 of the InCommon Federation, the leading trusted identity community for higher-education and research in the US, and serves as co-chair of the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee.  He is also active in a variety of standards activities and cross-industry identity collaboration groups including IETF, OASIS, Identity Commons, the Kantara Initiative, the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), and REFEDS. In this role he has helped to develop the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standards.

Akiko Orita

Akiko Orita, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at Keio University in Japan. She is conducting research projects related in social media, identity and anonymity and users' behavior. She got her M.A.in Media and Governance at Keio University, then served as a research associate working as an assistant of Prof.Jun Murai to establish national IT strategy in Japan. Dr.Orita stood for the Diet election in 2002 as an official candidate appealing for individual control for privacy. After earned her Ph.D. in Media and Governance at Keio University in 2007, she served as an assistant professor at Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management, then moved to Keio University. In 2010, Dr.Orita was a member of national, high-level regulation reformation committee of IT strategic headquarters in Japan, Dr.Orita also has an experience as a visiting assistant professor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 2011 teaching at Computer Science and Information Systems Department.

Thomas J. Smedinghoff

Thomas J. Smedinghoff is a partner in the Privacy & Data Protection practice group in the Chicago office of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. His practice focuses on the developing field of information law and electronic business activities, with an emphasis on electronic transactions, identity management, data security, privacy, and corporate information governance issues. Mr. Smedinghoff has been actively involved in developing e-business, e-signature, data security, and information legal policy both in the U.S. and globally. He currently serves as chair of the Identity Management Legal Task Force of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Business Law, and co-chair of its Cyber Security Committee.

Previously, he was chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law (1999-2000), chair of the ABA Electronic Commerce Division (1995-2003), and chair of the International Policy Committee (2008-2011). He is also a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), where he participates in the Working Group on Electronic Commerce and helped to negotiate the international e-commerce treaty titled the “United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts” and the UNCITRAL “Model Law on Electronic Signatures.” He was also the ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission Committee to Implement the UN E-Commerce Convention (2008 – 2010), and served as an ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. Mr. Smedinghoff is the author of the book titled INFORMATION SECURITY LAW: THE EMERGING STANDARD FOR CORPORATE COMPLIANCE, (IT Governance Publishing, 2008). He is also the editor and primary author of the e-commerce book titled ONLINE LAW: THE LEGAL GUIDE TO DOING BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET (Addison Wesley, 1996), as well as numerous articles on electronic transactions, identity, privacy, and data security law issues.

Judith Spencer

Judith Spencer is the Chair, CertiPath Policy Management Authority. She manages the CertiPath Bridge Certification Authority, which provides the federated trust environment for the Aerospace-Defense community. In addition, she represents the CertiPath community stakeholders in activities related to NSTIC. Previously, Ms. Spencer was employed by the U.S. General Services Administration building cross-organizational consensus on matters related to identity management. She was Chair of the Federal PKI Policy Authority, and Co-Chair of the Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management Subcommittee, assisting the Federal community in implementing HSPD-12 and setting government-wide goals for identity management.

Hal Warren

Hal Warren has more than 18 years of experience in Internet technology development specializing in social networking tools and web delivery of commercial content. Currently Mr. Warren is working to use emerging trusted identity to build stronger peer circles for scientists and to create better semantics in scholarly publishing. Mr. Warren also serves as president of the OpenID Society. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Tennessee.