April 2026
Identity as Invisible Infrastructure
State Digital Government Summit — Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California
Keynote on why statewide identity succeeds or fails on sequencing and governance rather than technology selection.
Speaking
Talks on infrastructure that has to work.
Keynotes, annual lectures, and closed working sessions — usually on identity assurance, retiring legacy without stopping the state, and decision-making when a programme is failing in public.
Selected engagements
November 2025
Retiring Legacy Without Stopping the State
Public Sector Modernization Forum — Queen Elizabeth II Centre
London, United Kingdom
Case study on migrating live benefits payment pipelines with zero interruption to recipients.
June 2025
The Quiet Discipline of Crisis Advisory
GovTech Leadership Exchange — Nordic Digital House
Stockholm, Sweden
A working session on decision-making, vendor management, and pattern recognition when a flagship programme is failing in public.
September 2024
Compliance Is a Design Constraint, Not a Blocker
FinTech Infrastructure Summit — Moscone West
San Francisco, California
On designing payment and verification systems where regulatory parameters are treated as first-class architecture inputs.
March 2024
Four Decades of Systems That Must Not Fail
Institute of Public Technology Annual Lecture — Institute Hall
Brussels, Belgium
Annual lecture drawing lessons from mainframe-era banking through to modern statewide platforms.
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