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David Temoshok currently serves as Senior Advisor Applied Cybersecurity for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this capacity, Mr. Temoshok is responsible for the development and implementation of United States national and international standards for secure identity and authentication assurance – including NIST Special Publication 800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines and associated international standards to promote secure, privacy-enhancing online services on national and global scales.

Ellen is the Founder of Coralline. She works with NIST in developing privacy and security risk management guidance and tools. Previously, she led the Privacy Engineering and Data Protection team at Cruise, and was a federal employee with the NIST Privacy Engineering Program.

Suzanne Lightman has over a decade of experience in information security policy in positions all over the government, as well as in the private sector.  She has held positions in both the legislative and executive branches which gives her a unique perspective on the development and implementation of government policy. Currently, Ms. Lightman is a Senior Advisor at the Computer Security Division of the Information Technology Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In that position, she is involved with a diverse portfolio of topics including development of the Cybersecurity Framework required under Executive Order 13636, cybersecurity in cyber-physical systems, identity management, and cybersecurity policy. She is also one of the team developing the Privacy Risk Management Framework at NIST.

Naomi Lefkovitz is the Senior Privacy Policy Advisor in the Information Technology Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce. Her portfolio includes work on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), privacy engineering, privacy-enhancing technologies, cybersecurity and standards development.

FierceGovernmentIT named Ms. Lefkovitz on their 2013 “Fierce15” list of the most forward-thinking people working within government information technology, and she is a 2014 Federal 100 Awards winner.

Before joining NIST, she was the Director for Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Cybersecurity Directorate of the National Security Staff in the Executive Office of the President. Her portfolio included the NSTIC as well as addressing the privacy and civil liberties impact of the Obama Administration’s cybersecurity initiatives and programs.

Prior to her tenure at the White House, Ms. Lefkovitz was a senior attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. Her responsibilities focused primarily on policy matters, including legislation, rulemakings, and business and consumer education in the areas of identity theft, data security and privacy.

At the outset of her career, she was Assistant General Counsel at CDnow, Inc., an early online music retailer.

Ms. Lefkovitz holds a B.A. with honors in French Literature from Bryn Mawr College and a J.D. with honors from Temple University School of Law.

Paul Grassi was a Senior Standards and Technology Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He joined NIST in June 2014 to advance and accelerate the development and adoption of identity authentication and authorization related standards and technologies needed to implement the identity ecosystem envisioned in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). Mr. Grassi has a broad background in technology and management consulting, and significant experience developing enterprise security strategies and systems, having served a range of Fortune 500 companies, as well as domestic and foreign governments. He is no longer at NIST, but continues to serve the identity community.

Mike Garcia is a PhD economist and Federal 100 award winning cybersecurity expert. He currently serves as lead for the Trusted Identities Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working to catalyze commercial and government adoption of innovative online identity solutions and advancing standards, guidance, and measurement science in identity management.

Mike has focused on cyber economics at NIST since 2011 and was previously with the Department of Homeland Security. He has also worked as a market research manager and software engineer. His dissertation analyzed the conditions that induce firms to invest in preventing data breaches and to report them when they happen.

Erica Stein is currently a research biologist in NIST's Biosystems and Biomaterials Division. Erica received a B.S. in cellular and developmental biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from The George Washington University, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health. Among the other things that Erica loves about her hometown of Buffalo, New York, are their NHL hockey team, the Buffalo Sabres, skiing, beef on weck, sponge candy, and Fish Fry Fridays.