David Birch, author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services spoke at ForgeRock's Identity Live in Austin in May of 2018

1. Key technologies for Digital ID
Where biometrics, blockchains and bots are taking digital identity
David G.W. Birch
Forgerock Identity Live (Austin, May 2018)
www.dgwbirch.com
@dgwbirch
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2. David G.W. Birch
author, advisor and commentator
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3. Marshall McLuhan
In the new electric world, where
everybody is involved with
everybody, where everybody is
involved in complex processes, the
old identity cards, the old means of
finding out who am I, will not work
(I wish that more people would take
this on board, give up trying to
digitise the old identity systems and
start building the new digital identity
system we need.)

4. Where do we start?
Let’s make a model and see how technology impacts its implementation
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5. Identity Domains
Time for “digital identity” – but what is it? We need some clear thinking.
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6. Three-Domain Digital Identity (3DID)
A simple but effective model for shaping strategies
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7. Predictions are Hard
Looking at the technology
roadmap, I think we should
focus on
Biometrics
Blockchains
Bots
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8. Three-Domain Digital Identity (3DID)
Time for “digital identity” – but what is it? Time for some clear thinking.
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Blockchains
discovery and
accountability
Biometrics
and strong
authentication
and revocation
Bots
and the
Philip K. Dick
world

9. Imagining impact
What might new technology do?
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10. Short Term: Biometrics
Financial services (and government, and health and others) can be secure and convenient in-person and online
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11. Medium Term: Blockchains
Trust is a serious problem, we have to get to a new level of transparency – only through radical transparency will we get to
radical new levels of trust (Marc Benioff, Founder and CEO of Salesforce, speaking at Davos in 2015)
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12. Long Term: Bots
• Starting with robo-advice and
chatbots
• And end to offshoring?
• But the customers will have
bots too!
• Think about advertising,
marketing in this world
• How will your AI sell things to
my AI?
• Branding intelligence

13. What’s the identity story?
A future narrative
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14. Will Robots Have Passports? Yes.
In fact they will have more than one, just like the
rest of us…
…finance passport, a games passport, a dating
passport, an adult passport, a work passport
But they won’t have the most important stamp of
all…
IS_A_PERSON
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