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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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