Office of the Privacy Commissioner | Identity Conferences

3 Apr 2019, 09:00

Who owns our digital information? This year's Identity Conference will bring a world-leading edge to a national conversation on making sense of the challenges posed by evolving digital trends. Join us and register today to secure your place.

The Identity Conference programme is available here.

Identity Conference speakers

We are pleased to announce that Bill English, Deputy Prime Minister, and Peter Dunne, Minister of Internal Affairs, will be presenting at this year's conference.

The Identity Conference 2015 is also pleased to confirm the following expert international and domestic speakers:

John Edwards holds the independent statutory position of New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner and provides independent comment on significant personal information policies and issues.

Stephen England-Hall is CEO of Loyalty New Zealand, the company behind the extremely successful Fly Buys programme and advanced data and analytics business, LAB 360.

Doc Searls is an American technology journalist, columnist and blogger, and a fellow at the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at the University of California.

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland has helped create and direct MIT's Media Lab, the Media Lab Asia, and the Centre for Future Health, and in 2012, Forbes magazine named him one of the 'seven most powerful data scientists in the world', along with the founders of Google and the Chief Technology Office of the United States.

Malcolm Crompton was Australia's Privacy Commissioner from 1999 to 2004. Malcolm's expertise in privacy was recognised when the International Association of Privacy Professionals honoured him in Washington DC with the 2012 Privacy Leadership Award.

Alessandro Acquisti is Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, and he investigates the economics of privacy.

Simone van der Hof is the head of the Centre for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) and also the programme director of the Master of Laws Advanced Studies programme in Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden Law School. Her particular academic interest is in the field of online privacy, data protection and privacy statements, digital government and the regulation of online child safety.

Rebecca Kitteridge was appointed Director of the NZ Security Intelligence Service in May 2014 after serving six years as Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council, within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She sees a secure state and a well-informed government as fundamental in supporting and maintaining the New Zealand way of life.

Liz MacPherson is passionate about evidence-driven decision-making and sees her role is to ensure New Zealand decision-makers at all levels have access to quality information. "Statistics are only valuable if people use them. We collect and analyse them, and it's vital we make them available in the ways people want them."

Miriam Lips is Professor of e-Government at Victoria University, Wellington. Her current research topics include the management of citizen identity information, cross-government information sharing and privacy, the use of social media for effective online engagement, service transformation, and management of electronic public records.

For more information, including videos of some of international speakers, read our Identity Conference blog post.

The conference’s discussion topics include:

How can we reap the benefits whilst minimising the risks of ‘datafication’ and data-driven innovation in the public, private and community sectors?
Have our concepts of identity and privacy changed in the era of ‘big data’?
How can we best protect fundamental values, such as privacy and safety, in an increasingly digitised and connected world? What are good practices of privacy- and security-by-design?
How to achieve user-centric forms of managing identity within and across multiple digitally-enabled relationships, and what are the implications for service providers?
How can service providers build and develop privacy-friendly, secure, trusted, transparent and inclusive digital relationships with their customers?
How can we protect our identity information against current and future cyber security threats in a resilient way?

The programme will include a range of world-class international speakers, as well as local experts from New Zealand, who will give us global insights into strategic, policy, design and implementation issues. Together with the input from our conference audience, this will help us widen perspectives and challenge thinking about digital identity in all its contexts – social, legal, technical, administrative, community or sectorial, private and public, national and international.

The following workstreams are now confirmed:

Service transformation (1)
Cyber crime
Data analytics
Privacy by design
Service transformation (2)
Cyber security
Transparency and digital citizenship
World of sensors and the Internet of Things

Along with our wonderful international and national keynote speakers, we have a great wealth of knowledge in our workstream speakers. A few more of our confirmed workstream speakers are:

Shaun Hendry, Director, Te Punaha Matatini, University of Auckland
Paul Ash, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Russell Craig, National Technology Officer, Microsoft
Haydn Read, Wellington City Council
Arron Baker, Assistant General Manager, Strategy & Assurance Service Design & Performance, Immigration NZ
Mandy Smith, Head of Agency & Real Me, NZ Post
James Mansell, NZ Data Futures Forum
Craig Richardson, Wynyard Group
Nat Torkington, technology commentator and consultant

Sponsorship

There are a number of sponsorship and trade exhibition opportunities available, including Gold, Silver & Bronze packages.

Please contact the conference organisers, Paardekooper and Associates, by email identity@paardekooper.co.nz or phone +64 4 562 8259 if you would like any further information on sponsorship opportunities.