The Policy, Practice and Delivery

GlobalData’s chief analyst for Technology Thematic Research Gary Barnett examines the landscape for the increased use of identity systems in the delivery of public services.

An update from the Government Digital Service on why digital identity continues to be important, the value of a standards based, interoperable & reusable model and the direction of the Verify programme.

In this session Identity leaders from across government discuss the big issues that influence strategy, planning and the drive for innovation in identity across the public sector.

A fireside chat with the UK & I lead for Transmit Security, Minal Russell, who will talk about some of their recent identity projects both inside and outside the UK.

OIX’s members are working together to create the environment for service providers and consumers to leverage the next generation of identity solutions. So OIX has a perhaps unique view of the challenge that dealing with identity creates for both service providers and consumers alike. With that in mind, an OIX executive will discuss what the identity landscape currently looks like in 2019 as well as its role within the identity ecosystem.

Ubisecure’s Simon Wood will discuss new key identity insights from companies and Government organisations in its home territory of Finland where almost all adults engage in some way with a Ubisecure platform, product or service.

This session will explore lessons learnt from earlier GDS experience with assurance and potential for improved outcomes going forward.

This panel will discuss the differences and similarities in digital identity across both the public and private sectors. It will consider what the blockers are to the commercial sector using government IDs and vice versa, considering some of the technical, commercial, user perspective hurdles. It will also draw out the what the lessons are from these differences and similarities and what that means in terms of the drivers for ID.

Philip Graham and the Consistent Staff Identity project team discuss the locally-led collaboration between Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, NHS England, GMC, NHS Digital and industry which explored  solutions to the significant burdens on staff, employers and risks to patient safety arising through current NHS pre-employment processes and the mobility of healthcare professionals due to the unprecedented demand for their services.  A decentralised identity solution using  Distributed Ledger Technology was examined to enable several components representing professional bodies and employers that allow an employee, such as a Doctor, to share their digital credentials for example, complete digital pre-employment checks such as passport details, proof of address, GMC details and immunisation history.  This has been become the foundation and basis to enable  an employer to provision access to IT systems.

HM Passport Office discusses how it has transformed its old paper based “countersignature” process to confirm the identity of passport applicants and replaced it with an online authentication system to support the digitisation of applications. This session will discuss how the digital team solved challenges and got the right balance between confirmation of identity and usability of the service.

You don’t need to go to many Identity Management conferences to realise that Identity and Access Management projects are hard to implement and also that IAM is one of the least “technological” of the Security disciplines, with it being 10% technology and 90% business change.  The BBC is currently meeting the challenge of IAM transformation head on.

As one of the 90% Ros Smith will explain:

• The strategic approach being taken
• What has been achieved so far
• Where they are going next.

This session will put identity into an international context, discussing areas such as Electronic IDentification Authentication and trust Services (eIDAS) as well as discussing identity developments from countries as far afield as Australia to more local ones such as Scotland.

Six months ago, our Future of Identity Panel made its mark with a series of bold views about identity services. This time, another group of identity exponents will be encouraged to make the case for identity.