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Peter Watkins

Program Executive for Pan-Canadian Digital Identity, Institute for Citizen Centred Service

Peter is the Program Executive for Pan-Canadian Digital Identity at the Institute for Citizen Centred Service. Peter is working to advance the digital identity priority of the Federal, Provincial, Territorial, Municipal Government Joint Councils. Peter has 30 years of public sector experience with the Government of British Columbia. Peter is a recognized innovator, change agent, and collaborator. Prior to joining the Institute Peter worked to co-found the BC Developers Exchange that introduced open, agile, digital delivery methods to the BC Government. Peter was also instrumental in the conceptual design and initiation of the BC Services Card a first of a kind provincial identity information management program.

Sessions

Industry Innovations

Why is 'you' complicated?

In this session, we’ll take a fresh look at identity based on four distinct lenses: the identity you’re assigned from your government, the identity you’re given by the financial system, your emergent online identity across social platforms, your inalienable identity as a sovereign individual. See More.