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Kaliya Hamlin, known as Identity Woman, in 2005 co-founded in the world’s leading industry forum focused on user-centric digital identity, the Internet Identity Workshop.  Seeing the emerging possibility of individuals collecting, managing and gaining value from their personal data generated as they interact with all kinds of digital systems, she founded the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium in 2010 to catalyze industry development and collaboration.  She identifies as a nymwarrior because she was personally affected by Google's insistence she use her real name as the headline on her profile along with others fighting for the right to have different, unlinked persona's, different identifiers for different contexts online.

She is advising the World Economic Forum’s Rethinking Personal Data project and last summer presented at the (US) National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Privacy Workshop. She sits on the OASIS IDTrust member steering committee and is active in the Federated Social Web which recently moved its work to the W3C.  You can see a complete list of industry affiliations and conferences she has founded here.

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Kaliya Hamlin is widely known as Identity Woman, "Saving the World with User-Centric Identity and Data Sharing". One of the world's leading experts in the field of people centric digital identity technologies, in the last eight years she has co-convened over twenty significant gatherings she has proactively fostered the ecology people, companies and organizations working to innovate identity tools and systems that work for people on an internet scale. Her primer conference, co-founded with Doc Searls and Phil Windley, The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) will have its 13th instantiation this fall and is widely recognized as widely acknowledged as the industry's leading conference driving innovation, collaboration. In 2010 she founded and is the Executive Director of the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium and in this role contributed to the World Economic Forum Report: Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class She also designs and facilitates unconferences for a variety of technical communities world wide. In 2009 Kaliya was named by Fast Company magazine as one of the most influential women in tech. In 2006 Kaliya was presented with the Digital Identity World Award. ?

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Kaliya Hamlin is an expert in user-centric identity and data sharing and is sought out to brief executives in industry, government, and academia, most recently including SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies. Kaliya has spoken about these topics at events such as SuperNova, Microsoft’s Mix Conference, O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony Web 2.0 Expo, NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, and NetSquared. In 2009 Kaliya was named by Fast Company magazine as one of the most influential women in tech. She has been quoted in a range of media including the New York Times, Technology Review, Business Week, and ReadWriteWeb.

She has convened over 20 gatherings in the last 6 years that are significant forums for the development of OpenID v2, Information Cards, OAuth v1 and v2, Portable Contacts, the Salmon Protocol, XRD v1, XDI, and Webfinger. Kaliya co-founded Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) with Doc Searls and and Phil Windley. IIW is widely acknowledged as the industry's leading conference driving innovation, collaboration, and adoption of user-centric technologies.

As Identity Woman, Kaliya is an expert in the ecology of people, companies and organizations working to innovate identity tools and systems on an internet scale. Since 2004, when she was hired by Identity Commons to evangelize its work on user-centric digital identity, she has been a key community catalyst. Kaliya was part of a core group from 2004-06 that created the global registry for i-names (the global name space for XRI) culminating in the launch of the global registry at the Digital Me Conference at Harvard in 2006.  In 2006 Kaliya was presented with the Digital Identity World Award (other distinguished recipients include Kim Cameron, Drummond Reed, and the Liberty Alliance).

As a maven and connector with deep experience in process and facilitation methodologies, Kaliya has a proven track record over the past 6 years catalyzing collaboration on the cutting edge of identity and personal data sharing. She has a keen sense for anticipating needed conversations. For example, in the past year she has initiated the following gatherings:

• The Map the Gap conference co-convened by Identity Commons ID-Legal group, Kantara, and ISOC to look at the gap between legal paradigms and emerging identity and data sharing technologies.
• The PDX Working Group meeting following the Kynetx Impact conference in April.
• The XDI Retreat to advance the core XDI data addressing and sharing standards at OASIS that are the basis of one of the primary open source projects for personal data stores.

She is always open to questions from those trying to navigate the identity landscape.

Her contact information is here.