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 ...

Dario is Chief Executive Officer at Mobile Ecosystem Forum

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).

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...

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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.

Will Lankston is Managing Director of Business to Business at the Timpson Group. He has been with the Timpson Group for 11 years and has looked after Identity Services since 2016, when Timpson trialled an identity shop in Henley on Thames called ArkHive.

Director of Identity Standards at Microsoft

Glenn is a globally recognised thought leader in the travel, aviation and technology sectors. He is plugged into emerging digital, social and innovation trends.

If it is new, cutting edge and transformational, Glenn can tell you how to exploit it in your business.

As an experienced business executive, Glenn has worked at the crossroads of technology and business across a range of industries, including telecommunications, utilities, oil and gas, government, and...

Martin has led transformations in multiple banks and created new market categories for technology companies. He has guided the creation of products that have defined the markets they created in Content Security, User Virtualisation and Image Manipulation.

This has given him a deep understanding of what it takes to take something new and get it adopted into large and complex organisations.

Martin brings skills from both large financials and techn...

Mark focuses on the development and clarification of operational strategy in complex integrating markets (telecoms/Internet). Primary interest in data monetisation, cybersecurity, and helping telecoms 'make money and grow subscribers'. A media friendly spokesman, he has appeared in the press, on television & moderating panels, discussing data privacy, the internet and all things digital.

UK, 10 May 2022 - The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is pleased to announce that

UK, 17 February 2022 - The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is pleased to announce

eIDAS 2.0 is certainly progressing at a pace to be applauded! The EU eIDAS expert group working on eIDAS 2.0 has just published the European Digit...

Open Identity Exchange urges organisations to leverage this guide and create frameworks and Smart Digital IDs that will ensure future global digital ID success.

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...