John Bernard
John drives the vision for a seamless, secure, identity-driven traveler experience at Idemia North America. Before joining Idemia, he led strategy and advanced concepts for the L3Harris Technologies aviation information management business, and has also worked with Mitre Corporation and Northrop Grumman. John routinely serves in advisory roles in industry panels and workgroups, including the US Travel Association, FAA, IATA, RTCA, ICAO and Airlines for America. He holds a BSc in aerospace engineering.
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3 - Digital identity and wallets in travel - 09:05 - 09:50
Panel discussion: Digital identity at airports – it's not just your selfie
This session will focus on the discovery of new technologies for a faster and easier traveler experience. Participants will hear from airlines, airport operators and technology providers about how digital forms of identity enable the traveler to seamlessly and securely transmit identity information using digital identity at various journey points at the airport. Presenters will share lessons learned and best practices in working with a variety of stakeholders, and attendees will learn about successful journey strategies and techniques for bringing this technology to other airport locations.
The audience will learn:
- Illustrate/speak about interconnectivity
- Optimization customer flow
- Utilization/naming convention
- What the identity enables
- Share/illustrate successes and challenges ahead