Let’s talk about digital identity with Diane Joyce, Identity Evangelist and Executive at Women in Identity. In episode 12, Diane and Oscar explore all manner of digital identity topics - including self-sovereign identity, digital wallets, GDPR, CIAM and, importantly, what organisations should be doing to protect consumer identities. She also fills us in on her work with Women in Identity – a not-for-profit organisation promoting diversity in the identity industry. [Scroll down for transcript] "I want to use technology as the enabler to make a safe and frictionless journey – I don't want to put technology in 'because it's fun'." Diane has provided thought leadership, vision and innovation in the digital transformation of financial institutions. She has worked with blue chip corporations to implement the technology and service architectures required to become certified identity providers as part of the GOV.UK Verify identity scheme. Diane has also worked with government departments setting up a pan government identity community and worked with leading IDAM vendors to address the need for secure and scalable identity federation to enable collaboration between public and private sector organisations. She champions technology innovation to provide users with a frictionless and safe digital experience. Find Diane on Twitter @kiwiIDgal and on LinkedIn. Find out more about Women in Identity at womeninidentity.org or on social media - Twitter @womeninid, LinkedIn and Instagram. We'll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI - join us @ubisecure! [Podcast transcript] Oscar Santolalla: Let’s Talk About Digital Identity, the podcast connecting identity and business. I am your host, Oscar Santolalla. Hello. More and more we hear phrases like “reclaim your identity”. Some people care, some people don’t, but reclaiming identity from who? Who owns my identity today? And there are better ways we can do this. For that, we have a very special guest today, Diane Joyce. Diane has provided thought leadership, vision and innovation in the digital transformation of financial institutions. Diane has worked with blue chip corporations to implement the technology and service architectures required to become certified identity providers as part of the GOV.UK Verify identity scheme. Diane has worked with government departments setting up a pan government identity community and work with leading IDAM vendors to address the need for secure and scalable identity federation to enable collaboration between public and private sector organisations. Diane champions technology innovation to provide users with a frictionless and safe digital experience. Hello Diane. Diane Joyce: Hi Oscar. Oscar: It’s great talking with you, Diane. Diane: Thank you. Oscar: I know you do many things and you have done many things, very interesting things. But I would like to hear first from you, what was your journey, your personal journey, to this work of digital identity? Diane: I’ve worked in technology, I started as a programmer many, many years ago. I’ve worked in identity for some time now but I started out in integration and security. And I saw two catalysts that I thought were going to change the technology world. And alongside those, the problem with identity needed solving. So the first was the internet. Suddenly we could connect to anyone, anywhere, but we didn’t really know who we were connected to and how do we know it’s them the next time we connected. And when you added to that the .com boom and the subsequent e-commerce boom it has become even more important to understand who it is we’re speaking to. And second thing is cloud computing. Following the internet and e-commerce, cloud computing solved a problem that I don’t think most organisations knew that they had. Their identity model was within the walled fortress of the data centre and so therefore they control all the identity there.