As President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), Joni builds on 15 plus years of experience in Digital Identity innovations and standards development. She helps DIACC to fulfil its vision of unlocking interoperability of public and private sector capabilities through the establishment of an i...

Richard is a Senior Policy Advisor for the FLA, specialising in fraud related issues within consumer credit, anti-money laundering and a number of other key issues for the consumer credit industry. He is also on the main Board and Editorial Board of the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG).

Rob has spent a working lifetime in IT and the last 17 years in the field of identity. As Business Development Director at GB Group, Rob was tasked with establishing a new division to design, develop and market the UK’s first purpose-built electronic identity verification service. The service became widely recognised as the market ...

Edward has over twenty-five years’ experience working with leading edge and innovative technologies to realise business benefit. Edward is the Head of Digital Services at Gemserv since joining in September 2018. He leads the digital services practice, and works with our clients to define and deliver their digital strategies, ensuring they align with the goals of their business.

He has held many enterprise architecture roles, leading teams to deliver business, technol...

Stella has extensive experience in the gambling sector. Her earlier career spans more than two decades, predominantly as Casino Manager at leading high end London casinos and in Resourcing & Development, specialising in training, compliance and licensing.

Stella joined the BGC in 2019 following transition in her role as Regulatory Affairs Manager at The Remote Gambling Association.

Prior to this, Stella spent 9 years at GamCare as Head of Ed...

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OIX encourages membership from all elements of the ID ecosystem.

If you are a provider of identity services or a representative of an organisation that relies on verified IDs within its business processes, your input into the development of our guidance on trust frameworks and interoperability will be hugely valuable.  

Whether from the public or private sector, a regulator or trade association, media or analyst,

Open market models underpin the development of a sector that is innovative, competitive and focused on user needs. This includes:

More choice for eCommerce and product managers about the policies that they apply to user interactions.

Market pricing for products and services across the entire identity infrastructure.

Economies of scale as service standardization lowers costs for all parties

A more inclusive approach as the needs of diverse users are actively con...

Yes, the key challenge to providing identity assurance at scale is removing the need for direct trust agreements between ID services providers and those who rely on IDs for their business processes. OIX is a membership community for all those involved in the ID sector. Vendors and clients, regulators and influencers connect and collaborate to develop the rules, tools and confidence to create Trust Frameworks for identity in order to accept universally trusted identities.

Nick has an expert knowledge of the Identity industry: its’ challenges, requirements and solutions spanning a variety of different sectors (e.g. government, finance, age related); and using different ID techniques from D2C2B Digtial ID to B2B ID Services.

He has over 30 years’ experience in strategic innovation and is renowned for finding practical ways to drive real change by bringing new ideas and products to market.

Nick was previously Direct...

Oliver is the Global CISO for Barclays, responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected across Barclays Group.  Oli joined Barclays at the start of 2017 from BT where he finished as the Chief Technology Offic...

Jim Lound has been involved in the identity business for over 20 yrs. He was at the sharp end of designing, developing and implementing the Experian identity provider platform as part of the GOV.UK Verify service and extending this into the Experian direct to consumer business.

In 2019, when representing Condatis - a Sitekit Company, Jim was responsible for delivering the Digital Identity Scotland Pilot.

Jim is an advocate of customer choice, in...

ForgeRock helps enterprises, governments and partners unlock the power of digital identity to deliver truly transformational, delightful, secure and trusted user experiences, and prides itself in helping people safely and simply access the connected world.

On 2^nd June 2021 the European Union released extensive proposed changes to the existing eIDAS regulation. 

This will move Digital ID in the EU to the next level; expanding the regulation to cover the provision of attributes and mandating the provision of European Digital I...

Thales UK joins The Open Identity Exchange

Sopra Steria and The Open Identity Exchange announce partnership to deliver trusted digital identities for government, business and citizens

The decision by Timpson Group to join the Board of Directors of the Open Identity Exchange is remarkable. 

A project may be formed (sponsored) by any member of OIX in collaboration with one or more other members. Non-member organisation may collaborate on an OIX project. All non-members are required to sign the OIX Participant Agreement (Link) to protect IPR.

There are three ‘costs’ associated with running an OIX project: Participation fee, Facilitation Fee and Project Funds.

Participation Fee: All participating organisations will pay a ‘part...

At all times, participating members and non-members in projects and white papers must observe the Code of Conduct.

This policy is to set out the principles by which OIX projects should be formed, governed and executed with the intent of achieving a desirable outcome and to set out the principles relating to the publication of white papers. The objectives are to ensure OIX Projects:

• Further Identity
  
• Are clearly aligned to the OIX’s vision, mission and objectives
  
• Are effectively managed within the limitations of the scope, resources...

A Member paper may be written by one or more OIX members. It should reflect a current issue or opportunity that is relevant to the purpose of OIX and is to further identity

A member(s) who wishes to write a paper and publish it through OIX, should initially produce a synopsis of the intended paper and present it to the OIX Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will provide comment as to whether it believes it is suitable and relevant and, if not, offer informe...

A project report reflects the outcomes of a project. It is written by an author who should be appointed on commencement of a project.

A project report is published to an international community. It should be concise and written for a predominantly business-level readership. Industry jargon should be avoided. It is good practice to include a glossary.

Additional project material may be published alongside a project report. This may include techni...