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.

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.

David Johnson

Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1967) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1972). In addition, he completed a year of post graduate study at University College, Oxford (1968). Following graduation from law school, he clerked a year for Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Johnson joined Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in 1973 and became a partner in 1980. Mr. Johnson retired as a partner of WCP in 2001. He is currently serving as Visiting Professor at New York Law School, where he is a member of the Institute for Information Law and Policy. (See http://dotank.nyls.edu) His previous legal practice focused primarily on the emerging area of electronic commerce, including counseling on issues relating to privacy, domain names and Internet governance issues, jurisdiction, copyright, taxation, electronic contracting, encryption, defamation, privacy, ISP liability, and intellectual property. Mr. Johnson served as founding director of the Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project and as founding president, CEO, and chairman of Counsel Connect, an online meeting place for the legal profession. Mr. Johnson has served on the boards of directors of the National Center for Automated Information Research and the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction. He is a co founder of the Law Practice Technology Roundtable. He recently served for a year as a Senior Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Legal OnRamp.

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.

Nat Sakimura

Nat Sakimura is the research lead on Digital Identity at Nomura Research Institute (NRI). Bringing Power to control his identity in the Cyber Space back to the People is what he aims at. He was a co-outher of OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE) specification, the OpenID Connect Core and Artifact Binding specification, JSON Web Token (JWT) specification, XRD specification, and the co-chair of the OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems TC. He has been the elected member of the OpenID Foundation board since 2008 as well as the founding board member of the Kantara Initiative. He has served in various Japanese government committees and is currently a member of the (Identity) Information Coordination Platform Technical Working Group in the Cabinet Secretariat which deals with the forthcoming Citizen Identity system. Nat holds a M.SA degree in Economics from University of Western Ontario, and a B.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University, Japan. His interests include digital identity, privacy, distributed systems, music, and poetry.

Thomas J. Smedinghoff

Thomas J. Smedinghoff is a partner in the Privacy, Data Security, and Information Law Practice at the law firm of Wildman Harrold in Chicago. 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 co-chair of the Identity Management Legal Task Force of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Business Law, and chair of the International Policy Committee of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law.

Previously, he was chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law (1999-2000) and chair of the ABA Electronic Commerce Division (1995-2003). 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 is 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 also 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, privacy, and data security law issues.

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.