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Affairs Committee. She has also served in executive branch posts with the<br />

Department of Transportation and DHS. Ms Kraninger graduated magna cum<br />

laude from Marquette University and earned a law degree from Georgetown<br />

University Law Center. She served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine.<br />

Alison Northrop<br />

Staff Director, Minority Subcommittee on Border and Maritime<br />

Security, House Homeland Security Committee, USA<br />

Biography<br />

Since 2007, Alison Northrop has served as the Democratic Staff Director of<br />

the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Border and Maritime<br />

Security. In that capacity, she handles a variety of border security issues,<br />

including border security personnel, technology, and infrastructure; traveler<br />

screening programs; and cooperation with border stakeholders on security and<br />

facilitation matters.<br />

Prior to joining the staff of the Committee on Homeland Security, Alison served<br />

as Senior Legislative Assistant and Legislative Director to Rep. Silvestre Reyes<br />

(TX-16) from 2003 to 2007 and Legislative Assistant to Rep. John J. LaFalce (NY-<br />

29) from 1999 to 2003.<br />

Alison received a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York<br />

at Buffalo and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.<br />

Panel discussion – Mobile and digital<br />

identity services for citizens<br />

Room 207B <br />

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Why consider government-issued eID/mID services?<br />

GSMA Mobile Connect between administrators;<br />

Overcoming barriers to success;<br />

The future.<br />

Session led by Tarvi Martens, Chairman, Estonian Electronic Voting<br />

Committee, Estonia<br />

Panelists:<br />

Neville Pattinson<br />

SVP Government Programs, Gemalto, USA<br />

Biography<br />

Time: 9:45am<br />

Neville Pattinson, CISSP CIPP CSCIP, is the senior vice president of government<br />

sales at Austin-based Gemalto North America. He is the technical vice-chairman<br />

of the Smart Card Alliance, and sits on the board of NSTIC’s Identity Ecosystem<br />

Steering Group. He previously served a five-year term on the Department of<br />

Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.<br />

Oscar Pallarols<br />

mLiving Director, Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Spain<br />

Biography<br />

Oscar Pallarols is the Digital Transformation Director at Mobile World Capital<br />

Barcelona. Oscar is a telecommunications engineer with a long career in the<br />

world of consulting and technology sector. He had a very active participation<br />

in the competitive process launched by GSMA between several cities for the<br />

Mobile World Capital, which allowed him to later become part of the executive<br />

team once the project was awarded to the city of Barcelona.<br />

In the Mobile World Capital Oscar leads the Mobile Identity program.<br />

Before joining Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Oscar worked for more than 10<br />

years at Accenture.<br />

Bjorn Hjelm<br />

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon, USA<br />

Biography<br />

Bjorn Hjelm is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Verizon Corporate<br />

Technology organization, with over 20 years of experience in network planning,<br />

architecture, and implementation of advanced communication systems.<br />

Bjorn is currently involved in various mobile identity projects, as well as several<br />

industry organization initiatives related to the mobile identity industry and<br />

standards development. Besides mobile identity, he is leading efforts in the<br />

areas of LTE, IMS, and network evolution, with a focus on virtualization of<br />

network functionality.<br />

Prior to joining Verizon, Bjorn worked at ALLTEL Communications, Inc., where<br />

he was responsible for performing technical analysis, and strategic guidance.<br />

He also represented ALLTEL in several industry standards development groups<br />

and held multiple leadership positions. Bjorn has been published in several<br />

industry publications and holds multiple patents in the areas of wireless<br />

communication, security, and identity management.<br />

Bjorn Hjelm received a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from Åsö Gymnasium,<br />

Stockholm, Sweden, a Bachelor degree in Business Administration in the<br />

Engineering Route to Business program from University of Texas at Austin,<br />

and a Master of Science degree in Telecommunication from the University of<br />

Colorado at Boulder in 1985, 1996, and 1999, respectively.<br />

Blake Hall<br />

Co-Founder and CEO, ID.ME, USA<br />

Biography<br />

Blake Hall is the Co-Founder and CEO of ID.me, an identity gateway that makes<br />

trusted logins portable, and portable logins trusted, so individuals may prove<br />

their identities online more easily. ID.me was selected by the United States<br />

Department of Commerce to participate in the President’s National Strategy for<br />

Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and as a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup<br />

of the Year in 2013.<br />

A veteran of the Iraq war, Blake led a platoon of scouts and snipers hunting<br />

high-value targets in Iraq for 15 months from July 2006 – September 2007. He<br />

was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for heroism during a firefight against<br />

Al-Qaida affiliated insurgents attacking an American hospital in Mosul, Iraq in an<br />

action senior commanders credited with saving 20 American lives. Thanks to The<br />

Economist, Blake holds the distinction of being the first Google result for the<br />

phrase ‘muscly entrepreneur.’ Blake attained a Bachelor of Science magna cum<br />

laude from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.<br />

Automating airports with next generation<br />

identity technologies<br />

Room 207A<br />

Time: 11:10am<br />

Session Chairman: Ramsey Billups, IBIA Director, Vice President Biometrics<br />

Solutions, 3M Cogent, USA<br />

John Mears<br />

Time: 11:15am<br />

Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow, Lockheed Martin Information<br />

Systems & Global Solutions, USA<br />

Identification, anonymity, and data integration in<br />

next-generation traveller processing<br />

Efficient and secure airport travel requires data about travellers and<br />

conveyances, both identity-based and anonymous. Our focus at connect:ID<br />

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