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“Your Digital Identity: Living Your Life Online”

Editor: media140 Editor Posted: Sunday, January 8, 2012 Discussion: 1 Comment

My Digital Identity

We have entered an era where people are simultaneously living their lives online. At a time when data is being coalesced through the gathering of personally identifiable information such as emails, photographs, names and IP addresses – we are reaching a point where many digital services are amassing detailed profiles from publicly available data.

Our ‘single issue focused’ events are a natural extension of our larger events, but much more of a focus on creating more intimate experiences with a smaller number of people. Allowing everyone who participates a much greater opportunity to debate, engage and collaborate with emphasis on creating conversation and collaboration.

Join media140 in The Hub, London on the 16th Feb from 6.30pm for a lively panel debate to discover what the future of identity in a ‘digital social age’ means from a media, political, security and social perspective.

Confirmed Speakers



Adam Baker Entrepreneur and founder of Blottr	Jeremy Newman Founder & CEO, New Model Identity	Wendy M. Grossman Science and technology journalist.	Rik Ferguson Director Security Research & Communication EMEA, Trend Micro

Wendy M. Grossman.
Is a London-based American science and technology journalist who has specialised in the border wars between cyberspace and real life since 1990. She is the author of several books, most notably net.wars (NYU Press 1998) and From Anarchy to Power (NYU Press, 2001), and over her 20-year career in journalism has written for many publications including the Guardian, New Scientist, the Daily Telegraph, Scientific American, and most of the UK’s former computer titles. She does most of ZDNet’s book reviews and writes an interview series for The Inquirer.

In 1987, she founded the UK magazine The Skeptic (www.skeptic.org.uk); in 2010 she edited a “Best Of” anthology for the magazine, Why Statues Weep (Philosophy Press, 2010). She sits on the advisory councils of the Open Rights Group and Privacy International, and writes a weekly column, net.wars, which appears at www.newswireless.net, her own site, www.pelicancrossing.net, and in the ORGzine.

Adam Baker.
Is an entrepreneur and founder of Blottr – a citizen journalism news service. The idea for Blottr came to Baker during 9/11. He was amazed that it took mainstream news services nearly seven minutes to cover the atrocity, even though there were hundreds of people at the scene capturing footage without an outlet to publish it. It was at this juncture he started to realise how powerful citizen journalism could be. There are many stories that go unmentioned in the regional press, national and sometimes international media, and Blottr offers the platform for citizens in the location to report events in realtime and publish these stories on the website.

By empowering anyone, anywhere to report stories as they witness them, Blottr is able to break stories first, often hours before the mainstream services cover it. Blottr is available in 3 languages – English, French and German.

Jeremy Newman.
Jeremy Newman is a Programmer turned Product Manager turned software entrepreneur. He is currently the founder and CEO of New Model Identity (consisting of the IDmeme, idAngels and realidcheck operations). NMI is his second software venture since forming biometric signature firm, PenOp, in Somerset in 1990.

He grew the firm internationally, moving to New York in 1994 to set up US operations. He has spoken on electronic evidence, legal and regulatory compliance of e-signatures at over 40 conferences in the USA and Europe. PenOp was acquired by a US public company in 2000. Jeremy is the co-author of 12 US patents covering electronic signatures and digital identity. Before PenOp, he worked at Acorn Computers of Cambridge and at OCR specialists, FormScan.

Rik Ferguson.
Rik Ferguson brings more than seventeen years of security technology experience to his role as Director of Security Research & Communications at Trend Micro. In this position, Rik is actively engaged in research into online threats and the underground economy. He also researches the wider implications of new developments in the Information Technology arena and their impact on security both for consumers and in the enterprise, contributing to product development and marketing plans. Rik writes the Countermeasures blog and is the lead spokesperson for Trend Micro. He is often interviewed by the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Channel 4, Sky News and Al-Jazeera and quoted by national newspapers and trade publications throughout the world. Rik also makes a regular appearance as a presenter at global industry events. Remaining actively engaged in customer projects, Rik tries to ensure his views and areas of research reflect the security concerns as experienced by enterprises and individuals as they come to grips with new technologies. In April 2011 Rik was formally inducted into the InfoSecurity Hall of Fame.

Prior to assuming his current role, Rik served as Solutions Architect at Trend Micro. Previously, he served as Security Infrastructure Specialist at EDS where he led the security design work for government projects related to justice and law enforcement and as Senior Product Engineer at McAfee focused on network security, intrusion prevention, encryption and content filtering.

Rik Ferguson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wales and is a Certified Ethical Hacker and CISSP-ISSAP in good standing.

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