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Welcome/Opening Remarks
White House/ OSTP Presentation
Blockchain Level Set
JOHN KELSEY, NIST
John Kelsey is a cryptographer who works at NIST. His research interests include cryptanalysis and design of symmetric cryptography primitives (block ciphers, stream ciphers,cryptographic hash functions, MACs), analysis and design of cryptographic protocols, cryptographic random number generation, electronic voting, side-channel attacks on cryptography implementations, and anonymizing communications systems. He previously worked at Certicom and Counterpane Internet Security.
LILY CHEN | Mathematician/Manager, NIST
Dr. Lily (Lidong) Chen is a mathematician and the manager of Cryptographic Technology Group of Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Chen received her Ph.D degree from Aarhus University, Denmark in Applied Mathematics. Her research areas include cryptographic protocols and their applications in communication security.
Blockchain Reality Check
MANCE HARMON | Sr. Director of Architecture & Labs, Ping Identity
Mance Harmon is currently the Head of Architecture and Labs for Ping Identity, where he manages a team of 11 architects, and directs both short-term research and development projects. Previously, Mance was the founder and CEO of two identity-related startups, the senior executive for product security at Symbol Technologies (Motorola) and an Instructor of Computer Science at the Air Force Academy where he served as the Course Director for Cybersecurity. Mance started his career as a research scientist in Machine Learning, working for the Air Force Senior Scientist for Machine Intelligence.
STEPHEN WILSON | Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
Steve has worked in digital identity and data privacy for over 20 years. He leads Digital Safety and Privacy at San Francisco-based Constellation Research. Steve’s research agenda includes authentication technologies, blockchain, and the ecology of identity. See http://constellationr.com/users/swilson.
Drummond has spent over two decades in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust frameworks. He is co-author of the Respect Trust Framework, which was honored with the Privacy Award at the 2011 European Identity Conference, and co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004, the new semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Prior to starting Respect Network, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons.
Identity Innovation Projects (DHS Science & Technology)
MANU SPORNY | Founder/CEO, Digital Bazaar, Inc.
Manu has founded or helped start six software technology start ups. He spends most of his time creating open standards and open technology that will integrate payments, identity, and blockchain into the core architecture of the Web. His vision is to democratize finance, making the financial tools that are only available to large corporations and Wall Street today, available to everyone on the Web.
TIANA LAURENCE | Co-founder and CMO, Factom
A serial entrepreneur, Tiana started her first business at 16. Most recently, Tiana co-founded Digital Aptitude, a marketing agency. After selling her company, Tiana joined the Factom Inc. team. Tiana loves helping young aspiring entrepreneurs learn about business. She has spent time volunteering with Rotary, Young Entrepreneurs Business Week, and The Portland State Entrepreneurs Club. Tiana has a BA in Business and Leadership from Portland State University.
Blockchain Level Set
Blockchain Reality Check
Identity Innovation Projects (DHS Science & Technology)
ANDREW YASHCHUK | VP of Product Development, Factom
Andrew is the VP of Product Development at Factom. He has been building software since the late 90’s. Andrew has helped build four companies; two have been sold, and the other two are still in operation. He is also a trusted advisor in the healthcare and blockchain community. He has acted as an advisor for Factom, Storj, and HealthNautica. Andrew also supported Bitcoin mining companies, in the early days, with ASIC mining hardware. He is active in his community and has served as a Healthcare Judge for the Dupage County Election Commission.
ONC Blockchain Challenge Presentations
Expert Panel
GREG SHANNON | Assistant Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Dr. Greg Shannon is the Chief Scientist for the CERT® Division at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, expanding cybersecurity research, advancing national and international research agendas, and promoting data-driven science for cybersecurity. Shannon is on part-time detail to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as the Assistant Director for Cybersecurity Strategy. Shannon served as the Chair of IEEE's Cybersecurity Initiative (2015) and the General Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (2015). In 2012 he cofounded the Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER, www.laser-workshop.org). He has testified before Congress on cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, resilience, and cyber threats.
Shannon received a BS in Computer Science from Iowa State University with minors in Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics. He earned his MS and PhD in Computer Sciences at Purdue University, with a fellowship from the Packard Foundation. He is a member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE.
ANTHONY TRENKLE | CHIO, Global Healthcare Industry, IBM
Tony Trenkle is IBM s Global Health Team’s Chief Health Information Officer. In that role he leads the Global Team’s efforts to support health plan clients as they respond to industry changes. Tony joined IBM in 2014 after 28 years in the US Federal Government. His last position was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of the Office of Information Services for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2010-2013.
Tony also directed CMS’ Office of E-Health Standards and Services from 2005-2010, where he led the development and implementation of major national health IT regulations and programs, including the $30 billion HITECH EHR meaningful use incentive program. Prior to CMS, Tony held senior Federal government leadership positions at the Social Security Administration and the General Services Administration.
ANDY TRUSCOTT | Managing Director, Health and Public Service, Accenture
Andy is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Health & Public Service Practice and the North America Lead for Electronic Health Information Management. Andy is responsible for defining, executing and delivering solutions for Accenture’s clients across North America involving people, processes and technologies that support clinical practice, and the interoperability between.
Prior to his current role, Andy was Accenture’s Global eHealth Solution Architect where he was responsible for the specification and design of solutions around the world, such as national electronic health infrastructures. Andy has also served as the leader for Accenture’s Security Practice in Canada, and along with his proven track record in holistic Solution Architecture has a particular focus upon all aspects of Information Governance.
Intrinsically involved in national and global eHealth agendas, Andy works with his clients to meet their specific needs and challenges across multiple aspects of Health, Life Sciences and Public Service.
A native of the United Kingdom, Andy now resides in Houston, Texas, where he is a board member of the Houston Symphony.