Ankit is the Head of Technology and Engineering at Skyfire. Previously, he rebuilt the Financial Crime and Fraud Management Platform at Zepz. Leveraging software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning, this platform supported millions of monthly users across the WorldRemit and Sendwave brands. Prior to that he architected and launched the Credit Card Platform at Papaya Pay, from scratch, in just three months. His earlier career spans over a decade of entrepreneurial, leadership, engineering and product management experience including authoring several patents.

Craig is the co-founder and Head of Product at Skyfire. Previously, he launched RippleNet in 2015, scaling it into the world's first and largest cryptocurrency payment network for financial institutions, processing over $200 billion in transactions. Before Ripple, he earned an MBA from Stanford and worked on financial technology at Bloomberg.

David is passionate about improving internet safety and an expert on online fraud and abuse detection. Author of The Reign of Botnets, published by Wiley in 2024, he brings 25+ years of experience working with web performance, security, and enterprise networking technologies through various roles (support, integration, consulting, development, product management, architecture, and research). David dedicated his career in developing bot management products for the last 15 years.

Michael B. Jones is on a quest to build the Internet's missing identity layer. He is an editor of the OpenID Connect specifications, IETF OAuth specifications, including JSON Web Token (JWT) and DPoP, the IETF JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)  specifications, FIDO 2.0, and W3C Web Authentication.  In the Digital Credentials space, he is an editor of the W3C Verifiable Credentials specs, the JSON Web Proofs (JWP) specs, and a contributor to the OpenID4VC specs.  He co-chairs the IETF COSE working group, which is doing post-quantum algorithms work for COSE and JOSE.  Michael was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the OpenID Foundation and was granted a lifetime achievement award by Kuppinger Cole for creating simple, secure, ubiquitous, interoperable digital identity solutions since 2005.  As a long-time member of the OpenID Board of Directors, he architected the award-winning and globally adopted OpenID Certification program.  Michael's Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University led to a lifelong career in digital identity, computer security, privacy, and networking.  He is passionate about mentoring the next generation of identity leaders.  Connect with Michael on his Website is follow his work on his blog.