Programme

MC: Kaye Maree Dunn

Prof Steven Warburton

Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Digital Futures), Victoria University of Wellington

Minister for Government Digital Services

Technology Reporter, New York Times

The Digital Cage

Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft have been called the “frightful five” of the technology industry. They are among the most valuable and powerful companies in the world, and we all rely on them each and every day. If you are a critic of these companies’ practices, the retort is often, “If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.” Over the course of two months, technology journalist Kashmir Hill tried to do that, using a tool that blocked her devices from accessing the services of the Big Five. She discovered just how dependent we are on these tech giants and how hard, if not impossible, it is to live without them.

Kashmir’s presentation slides are available here – The Digital Cage

Sponsored by Middleware

Privacy Commissioner

John’s presentation slides are available here – The Imposition of Identity

Chair: Dr Erika Pearson, Communications and Public Relations, Massey University

Panellists:

1. Kashmir Hill, Technology Reporter, New York Times
2. John Edwards, Privacy Commissioner
3. Allan Sylvester, Deputy Head of School, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington
4. Kim Connolly-Stone, Policy Director, Internet NZ

• How do we build and maintain trust when our systems are becoming increasingly diverse and distributed?
• What must we do to ensure the security of our identity ecosystem?
• Ethical standards are inherent in trust; how do we bring these to life in our systems and policies?

Chair: Andrew Weaver, Executive Director, Digital Identity NZ

Andrew’s slides are available here – Trust and Security

Presenters:

1. George Hiotakis, Head of Trust & Safety, Trade Me
2. Katherine Noall, CEO, Sphere Identity
3. Alex Sims, Associate Professor, Department of Commercial Law, The University of Auckland
4. John Martin, Senior Security Architect & Security Practice Leader, IBM New Zealand Limited

• What is self-sovereign identity, and how can it work in real life?
• Where does power and control of identity currently reside?  Does that need to change, and if so, how?
• Can I opt out? Can I be forgotten?

Chair: Jon Duffy, Assistant Commissioner, Policy and Operations, Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Presenters:

1. Emily Fry, Mattr
2. Kaye Maree Dunn
3. Martin Krafft, Co-founder, Keyp

Emily’s presentation slides are available here – Human Centric Identity

• What are some of the significant consequences of AI for human identity, both negative and positive?
• Can we, and should, we regulate developments in AI?
• What would algorithmic transparency mean in practice?

Chair: Michael Winikoff, Professor, School of Information Management. Victoria University of Wellington

Michael’s slides are available here – Artifical Intelligence

Presenters:

1. Colin Gavaghan, NZ Law Foundation Chair in Law and Emerging Technologies, Faculty of Law, University of Otago
2. Frith Tweedie, Digital Law Leader, EY Law New Zealand
3. Dr Lena Waizenegger, Lecturer in Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology

Te Rūnanga Tātari Tatauranga|National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato| University of Waikato

Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Social practices, interactions and relations are increasingly being turned into data, driven by technologies that enable new methods of data accumulation, digitisation, integration and manipulation. This “datafication” is playing out in Aotearoa NZ with rapid developments in data-sharing, linkage and the integration of large datasets for operational and research purposes. While there may be new technologies at play, the power to decide whether and how Indigenous peoples are counted, classified, analysed and acted upon continues to lie with governments rather than Indigenous peoples themselves. Transforming the locus of power over Indigenous data from nation state actors back to Indigenous peoples lies at the heart of Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov). In this talk I discuss some of the risks of datafication and consider how IDSov, as an emerging site of science and activism in Aotearoa NZ , can mediate the very real potential for individual and collective harm, while providing pathways to collective benefit.

Tahu’s presentation slides are available here – Indigenous Data Sovereignty

1. Tahu Kukutai, University of Waikato
2. Donna Buckingham, Commissioner, Law Commission
3. Kate McKenzie-Bridle, Senior Legal and Policy Adviser, Law Commission
4. Dr Andelka Phillips, University of Waikato, University of Oxford

Donna and Kate’s presentation slides are available here – DNA and Profiling

Andelka’s presentation slides are available here – Personal Genomics and Identity

Clinical Psychologist, Goldfish Wisdom

Stone Aged Brains in Digital Times

The human brain is one of the most miraculous objects in the known universe. It’s taken us all the way from stone axes to carbon taxes, which is no mean feat. So how do we use this ancient technology to navigate the digital future when all of that seems so uncertain and awash with paradoxes? How do we maintain our ‘selves’ in a digital world which offers us almost unlimited options to be whatever kind of ‘virtual self’ we desire, yet at the same time wants to take that ‘limitless self’ and shackle it to algorithms and mine it for the very essence of who and what we are?

Managing Director, IDCARE

Identity Crime in New Zealand: Causes, Cures and Curses

This keynote address will traverse the ways in which the New Zealand community has experience identity crime over the past five years. It will take a citizen-centric view on the journeys, the deceptions, the responses and recoveries to a crime that is often under-reported, misunderstood and committed from afar. It will challenge current thinking and hypothesize on where identity crime and misuse is likely to impact the New Zealand community in the future. Unpacking the causes, the cures and perhaps the wishes from victims (the curses) will take the audience on a journey that will be thought provoking and perhaps re-set and re-define views of identity crime as we know it today.

Dave’s presentation slides are available here – Identity Crime in New Zealand

Decentralisation and Open Standards for a Better World

A steady stream of trends has built up over the years fueling a growing momentum around Decentralised Identity. Pam Dingle and Brandon Murdoch will talk about why early adopters – enterprises both large and small – are beginning to make Decentralized Identity part of their strategy for digital transformation.

They will argue that these underlying trends will only intensify – and that enterprises which figure out how to benefit early will benefit the most and why Open Standards will be the bedrock of this new world ensuring privacy and data dignity.

Brandon and Pamela’s presentation slides are available here – Decentralisation and Open Standards

Sponsored by Microsoft

Chair: Nigel Latta, Clinical Psychologist, Goldfish Wisdom

Panellists:

1. Alan Bell, Digital Identity Transformation Programme, Department of Internal Affairs
2. David Lacey, Managing Director, IDCARE
3. Brandon Murdoch, Partner Engineer, Identity Division, Microsoft
4. Pamela Dingle, Director of Identity Standards, Microsoft

Biometrics represent a major benefit and challenge for our societies. This session will examine some of the critical connections between privacy, identity and biometrics.

Some of the key questions that the session may want to tease out could be:

• Who owns our biometrics or are they simply on loan to those who collect and use those biometrics?
• What should citizens reasonably expect from those who collect and manage our biometrics?
• What has social media, terrorism and fraud and person movements (travel or displaced) done to affect our privacy environment?
• How can biometrics actually help privacy and identity protection?

Chair: Hon Terry Aulich, Biometrics Institute

Terry’s presentation slides are available here – Biometrics and Privacy

Presenters:

1. Hon Terry Aulich, Biometrics Institute
2. Lynne Jeffery, Head of Public Safety Solutions, NEC New Zealand Limited
3. John Duggan, SVP South East Asia & A/NZ, Daon

The Digital Identity Transition Programme in DIA is where the Government aims to understand how to create the right environment, set the right rules and take advantage of new technologies to give people in New Zealand secure digital identities that meet their evolving needs and expectations.

Chair: Tony Eyles, DIA

Presenters:

1. Alan Bell, Department of Internal Affairs
2. Emma O’Connell, Department of Internal Affairs
3. Tim Ransom, Department of Internal Affairs
4. Elena Higgison, Department of Internal Affairs

Standards may be boring to some but they form a critical foundation to trust. This session will cover:

Standards may be boring to some but they form a critical foundation to trust. This session will cover:

• What’s new in the identity-related standards world
• The issues that are being faced by standards writers
• And we will ask you ‘what are you looking for in identity-standards?’

Chair: Natalie Bowie, Sector Engagement Lead, Standards NZ

Natalie’s presentation slides are available here – Standards

Presenters:

1. Joanne Knight, Senior Advisor, Digital Identity Transformation Programme, Department of Internal Affairs, Te Tari Taiwhenua
2. Alana Lattimore, Stats NZ

Chief Archivist |Tumuaki, Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga | Archives New Zealand

Public Records, Private Lives

Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o Te Kāwanatanga is our nation’s store house of memories and national archival institution. In his closing keynote, Chief Archivist, Richard Foy, will explore the intricate and sometimes fascinating connections between public archives, our sense of national and cultural identity, and the very intimate personal identities that we hold as individuals. He will discuss how the most public and banal of records held in our national archive can unlock for us our most personal sense of who we are, as individuals, and as a nation.

Conference close by Conference Chair

Prof Steven Warburton

Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Digital Futures), Victoria University of Wellington