Elizabeth Denham was appointed Information Commissioner in the UK in July 2016. She has more than a decade of regulatory experience in similar senior roles in privacy and access to information regulation in Canada. She recently completed six year term as Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, and a term as Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Stephen joined Facebook as Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer in January 2015 to lead global privacy policy internationally.

Prior to this, Stephen served as Global Privacy Officer and Head of Legal for Privacy and Security at Vodafone Group, where he founded the company’s global privacy program and won the HP-IAPP Innovation Award for Privacy in 2012.

Mike was appointed CEO of Callcredit in 2014. A recognised technology leader, he has more than 14 years’ experience of running large global, EMEA sales and marketing teams and corporate organisations. Mike is known for his strategic vision to achieve business goals with his core areas of expertise in business strategy, sales alignment and leadership.

Dan previously worked as an advisor to the UK Government CTO, defining the strategy for government’s use of citizen data, and with BIS on the midata programme.

Throughout her career Liz has worked both in and for large corporates and has developed deep skills and strong networks across private, public and the 3rd sectors. Since the beginning of her career Liz has worked at the disruptive edge, where business, technology and consumers meet. She brings deep and strong experience in the impact on business models and operating environments of the shifting landscape of consumers, digital, trust and value.

Liz combines vision married with evidence and market knowledge, business strategy and operational implementation and the ability to bring together strong teams to deliver extraordinary results.

Geraldine is CEO and President of SAP North America and senior Vice President and Global Head of Applications and BPO (cloud mobile and outsourcing services) for Dell.

In addition, Geraldine holds a number of public company director appointments which include National Australia Bank, Sky TV and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.

Timothy as brought two ventures from concept to viability that have reached nearly $1 Billion in combined sales, with shoestring marketing budgets. Evernym is a paradigm-shifting technology to bring back privacy, simplicity, and control to our interactions, both online and off.

Morgan is Principal and Strategy Director of Wolff Olins, the creative consultancy behind ambitious brands including EE, Skype, Enel and ZocDoc. Previously, Morgan was Strategy Director at Engine and prior to that he was Director of Media Innovation at the mobile phone company 3 and Head of Broadcast Digital at Endemol.

Manreet is a hospital doctor who is training to specialise in infectiousdiseases. He has over ten years’ experience in the healthcare sector and has a passion for patient safety, health tech and workforce planning. He has been awarded an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellowship to develop innovative technology for his start-up company, Doctors Link.

Olaf joined the French Post in 2014 to lead business development for digital trust services (Digital identity, e-vault, secured transactions with consumers).  Previously, he developed ma-residence.fr, a start-up proposing local social networks, led European strategy affairs at Pitney Bowes and worked as an economist in the banking industry.

Katryna Dow is the CEO & Founder of Meeco; the world’s first data independence platform. She has extensive strategy experience across finance, technology, HR and healthcare. As a thought-leader in the field of data sovereignty, she’s at the digital forefront with a passionate vision for the empowerment of the connected individual.

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Robert is MD for O2’s Commerce business which includes O2 Wifi, big data, mobile advertising (WEVE),mobile payments and interactive messaging services. As a general manager & senior strategist Robert is passionate about the opportunity for companies to reinvent themselves through mobile & data.

Phil is responsible for the myBBC programme which is charged with transforming the BBC’s relationship with its audience. He also runs the Homepage, Search and Discovery online products and is accountable within BBC Design & Engineering for the Digital Creativity initiative.

David is an experienced leader of consulting and technology services businesses – both public and private. Strongly customer and sales focused, David has experience in building start-up enterprises into successful consulting brands – his previous business, Charteris Ltd, growing to become one of the top 40 management consulting businesses in the UK. David also has extensive corporate experience including in business performance transformation, strategy development and delivery, and proposition design. As a Director of global IT services firm Logica he led the growth of some of its largest operating units.

David’s passion is in helping businesses deliver their real potential, particularly through customer and sales-led growth strategies. Over his career he has worked with a wide variety of technology-based solutions and consulting businesses.  These have ranged from start-ups to enterprise scale businesses. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Over the past 13 years Chris has guided his clients through hardworking relationship management programmes. Most recently he helped Shell set up and run a global CRM and loyalty programme from scratch. Through colliding data with creativity he provides clients with a clear competitive edge. The Wunderman network consists of advertising, marketing and consulting companies with offices in 60 countries.

Phil Windley is a passionate tech educator. He also Chairs the Sovrin Foundation, is the Co-founder of the Internet Identity Workshop and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He writes the popular Technometria blog and is the author of several books.

Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs. He previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the “7 most powerful data scientists in the world”.

Alan plays a key role in developing and articulating Ctrl-Shift’s understanding and vision of the personal information economy, providing strategic guidance for high profile projects in the public and private sectors, and advising policy makers on the changing personal data landscape.

Alan first outlined the concept of personal information management services (PIMS) in his 2001 book Right Side Up. Before founding Ctrl-Shift with Liz Brandt, Alan spent 20 years researching, writing about and commenting on consumer, market and marketing trends and brings his deep knowledge of consumer needs, behaviour and trends and behaviour to bear on all Ctrl-Shift projects.

Jamie is Client Strategy Director at Ctrl-Shift, specialising in the Me2B market, proposition development, innovation strategy, project management and organisation change.

He has over ten years business and innovation consulting experience gained from Deloitte and BT, having delivered a wide range of projects for both public and private sector clients.

With insight into how disruptive business models and digital technologies are empowering individuals to make better decisions and get things done, Jamie brings both strategy and delivery experience in helping organisations act on the opportunities and challenges across the Personal Information Economy.

Julian founded his first business STASYS in 1987, specialising in the military internet, growing it to a major multi-national business before selling to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian is an angel investor (e.g. Hailo, DataSift, Astrobotic) and is the founder of digi.me, which is reimagining the personal Internet.

Doc Searls, author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Senior Editor of Linux Journal and director of ProjectVRM at the Berkman Center at Harvard University since 2006. President of Searls Group advising companies building tools for individuals to control their lives online.

Francisco has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in the global Pharma and Financial sector. Defrak leads multiple efforts in Mexico for FinTech and is focused on Financial Inclusion. Francisco is also CEO of Carinthia Pharma, a preventive medicine and specialised drugs company in Mexico and LATAM, with various joint ventures throughout the world.

Will brings experience to Ctrl-Shift from a career in marketing, strategic consulting and digital innovation with many of the world’s leading brands as well as from running his own businesses. Will’s passion for designing products and services that create value for customers and sustainable growth for businesses has kept him working at the forefront of the digital economy for over 10 years. 

Bill is part of Verizon’s Product and New Business team. He is focused on building trusted relationships through identity-based services, enabling truly personal experiences.

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Fedelma’s role is to support and enable Barclays’ development and implementation of innovative data centred solutions. Her ambition is to ensure customers can trust Barclays as custodians of their data, and find new ways to give their information back to them in ways and for purposes that help them.

Briana works within Suncorp’s strategic innovation function, a sustained activity to help the business manage its Strategic Risks and evolve its business models.  She fosters an ecosystem of internal and external relationships to yield innovation opportunities for the advancement of today’s business model, and the invention of tomorrow’s.

Alex established Ten Group in 1998 with a mission to become the world’s most trusted service. Today Ten provides concierge services – chiefly dining, tickets, travel and retail support – to over two million members across 18 global offices.

Financial technology service expert John crushes the reiterated maxim “thinking outside the box” to tiny particles, leveraging his lofty, yet proven, financial technology “innovativeness” for credit unions nationwide. Recently launching his financial technology firm Best Innovation Group (BIG), he aims at turning the industry on its ear, again.

Steven is the COO of Wejo, an innovator in connected car data and technologies. He runs all technology, data and analytics as well as the day-to-day company portfolio plans and operations. Prior to that Steven was CDO at online betting giant Betsson AB and previously at MoneySuperMarket as GMData.