David’s goal of bringing high-trust identity into the control of every citizen started in 2013 with two US Government grants that proved that privacy and trust can be created online - and ignited the “selfie” identity verification craze. It expands today into the deployment of Mobile Identity (mDL & mID). David is a Certified Information Privacy Technologist, SOA Architect, Product Leader, and Identity go-to-market Srategist. He has 20 years in Identity, Biometrics, ID Proofing, Physical and Mobile ID Documents and a long background in software engineering and architecture.

David is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist with 20+ years in identity systems.

• 2026-May 27 L.ID Lisbon Digital ID Hub; Building Trusted Global Ecosystems

• 2026-Jun 1-2, ITU SG17 SIDI-Hub Trust Management for Human & Agentic Ecosystems

• 2026-Jun 10, Identity Week Europe, Panel Moderator: Evolution of Phygital ID

• 2026-Jul-27-28, PaymentsEd Forum Boston, "What is mDL?" and "Why Accept mDL now?"

• 2026-Sep-1-3, Global Digital Collaboration, Geneva, Building Ecosystems for Digital Identity - Market Forces for RPs/Verifiers to Accept Mobile IDs

• 2026-Oct-17-19, Fido Authenticate (proposed) - Trust Vectors for Wallet Attestation standards

• 2026-Dec-1-3, Trustech Paris & SIDI-Hub, Trust Management

• Ongoing Bi-Weekly, Chair: mDL "Jumpstart" Committee, STA IAF

• See also Upcoming Schedule above

• 2026-May 13-14, CSC Trust Without Borders Summit, Trust Vectors and Building Ecosystems

• 2026-Apr 28, Internet Identity Workshop (my 12th IIW), Trust Vector & Considerations

• 2026-Mar 30-31, ITU SG17 SIDI-Hub Trust Management & Trust Vectors

• 2026-Mar 4, Identity & Payments Summit Panel of Ohio, California, Virginia, New York, Georgia

• BrightTALK, Scaling Digital Credentials: mDL Landscape, Feb 11, 2026, with Lucy Yang (video)

• UK/Scotland Conf on Digital ID Wallets, Building Ecosystems; (video 1:15:00)

• Identity & Payments Summit '25: "Challenges in IDV", "Future Wallets"

• GSA Federal mDL Day, July 2025: "mDL Myth Busting" panel; video

• Identity Week Europe '25, June 2025: "Building mDL Ecosystem, US Lessons"

• FedID Forum, June 2024: ‘Leveraging mDL in Government Transactions’

• STA Identity & Payment Summit, Feb 2024: ‘mDL on the Frontlines - State Panel’ link to agenda & intro PPT

• Intl. Cryptography Conference Sept 2021: ‘Cryptographic Proof of ID Enables the Future’ link to agenda

• IdentityNORTH Virtual Summit 2021: ‘Global Interoperability of mDL’ 

• mDLConnection.com Secure Tech Alliance 2019: ‘The mDL Ecosystem’ 

• Dock Labs, "Digital ID Wallets Transform Payments" Podcast by Nick Lambert, Dock Labs

• GovTechNews, "Where are mDLs Taking Off?" Video Interview by Nikki Davidson

• Identerati Office Hours with Mike@Gluu, April 2024, ‘Why the US Needs a Trust Framework’

• Demystify Biometrics, Feb 2025: "Mobile Driver License Conversation"

• The Future of Identity with Riley Hughes, Nov 2024: "Evolution of Mobile IDs"

• Identity Podcast by DockIO, Feb 2024: ‘The New Digital mDL’  link to video

• mDLConnection.com Secure Tech Alliance 2019: ‘Webinar Series: mDL’  webinar series

• * US House of Representatives, Testimony Jul 2021: ‘mDL Privacy in the Digital Age’ link to written testimony, link to C-Span video

• Building a Digital ID Ecosystem, managing trust for local expectations while staying interoperable, defining use cases, creating market momentum, and rolling out production RPs.

• Trust Management for Ecosystems trust frameworks, technical trust architecture, considerations for operators, policy & legal; see https://identityecosystem.solutions/ 

• Compare & Contrast Identity Proofing & Onboarding/KYC providers and technology

• Measure & Assess identity proofing and user verification

• Design, Deploy, and Scale Human-centric Mobile ID - info models, UX, privacy, interoperability

• Re-envision use cases, assess workflow changes to accept

• Privacy engineering, privacy assessment of design and architecture, including UX

• Assessments: AAMVA mDL Guidelines, TSA/DHS Conform; Kantara Privacy & Transparency