Kaliya Young, known as “Identity Woman”, co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop in 2005 and has been working at the forefront of identity standards for over two decades. She is the Founding Partner of Identity Woman in Business, a boutique consulting firm specialized in strategic alignment building and value creation for identity ecosystems of diverse stakeholder groups. She has been named one of the most influential women in tech by Fast Company Magazine and has presented keynotes at major identity events, such as Identiverse and Gartner’s Identity and Access Management Summit.
Kaliya graduated from the first cohort of the Masters of Science in Identity Management and Security program at the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. Her master’s report, Domains of Identity, became a book and is a comprehensive framework explaining all the domains of identity where individuals personal data ends up in databases. She also co-authored A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Sovereign Identity and the online course of Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity.