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July 17, 2026
Day of Data Baton Rouge (Keynote)
LSU Business Education Complex, Baton Rouge, LA
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Four focused sessions drawn from Calvin's front-line work in digital identity, inclusive technology, and leading teams through AI-era disruption. Each is visual, demo-heavy where it applies, and tailored to the real constraints organizers face.
The State of Digital Identity: Privacy, Standards, and What It Means to Prove Who You Are
What it means to prove who you are in a digital world — the standards, the privacy tradeoffs, and the policy decisions that shape how identity works for everyone. Calvin walks through the real engineering, policy, and privacy tradeoffs of deploying the first legal digital driver's license at state scale, anchored by the NoPhoneHome privacy principles: purely optional, no copies, nothing extra.
45-60 minutes
- How mobile driver's licenses work technically and legally: the RPO, the cryptographic binding, and the trust chain
- The privacy-preserving design patterns that make digital ID trustworthy — purely optional, never mandated
- How ISO 18013-5 shapes the future of interoperable digital credentials across borders
- What state and federal policymakers need to understand about mDL deployment before they fund it
- Why personal data should live at its source on the device and nowhere else — where nothing is stored, there is nothing to breach
- Selective disclosure: the principle that people should always share only what's necessary, nothing more
- Live demo: walking through the verification flow end-to-end, from citizen phone to verifier terminal
Audience: Government agencies, policy makers, technology leaders, standards bodies, and enterprise teams evaluating digital identity infrastructure.
Book this talkNot Every Resident Has a $1,200 Phone: Building Digital Services That Don't Leave People Behind
A hard look at how digital government services can disenfranchise low-income families, seniors, and rural communities — and practical, demo-driven strategies to build inclusion into every layer of identity systems.
60-90 minutes with Q&A
- Why smartphone requirements are the single biggest barrier to digital inclusion for government services
- How printed credentials (paper receipts, QR codes, NFC stickers) keep people in the system without a phone
- The biometric binding layer that lets anyone prove 'who they are' without expensive hardware
- Real LA Wallet lessons: where digital-first design excluded the people it was meant to serve
- Live demo: showing the multi-channel verification flow — phone, printed credential, and biometric fallback
Audience: Government agencies, civic technology teams, accessibility advocates, and public-sector IT leaders designing citizen-facing services.
Book this talkAI-Empowered Fraud Vectors: Why 'What You Know' and 'What You Have' No Longer Count
Deepfake IDs, synthetic identities, and AI-phishing have broken traditional authentication. Calvin shows how shifting to 'who you are' — through biometric binding and cryptographic proof — is the only way to stay ahead of fraudsters.
60 minutes
- How AI has turned identity theft from a crime into a commodity: deepfake IDs, synthetic identities, and automated phishing at scale
- Why passwords and documents (what you know/have) are fundamentally broken against modern AI attacks
- The biometric binding approach: cryptographically tying identity to a living person's biometric traits
- Real LA Wallet anti-fraud architecture: liveness detection, face-matching thresholds, and the numbers that matter
- Live demo: walking through a fraud attempt in real time and showing how the system detects and blocks it
Audience: Security teams, fraud prevention leaders, identity platform architects, and enterprise executives responsible for protecting user identity.
Book this talkThe Nature of Work in the Age of AI: Prevailing When the Brain Meets the Machine
Every major technological shift has been sold as the end of human labor — and every time, the work continued. It changed shape. Calvin traces a line from the agricultural age through the industrial revolution to today's AI moment, asking what actually gets replaced when machines grow smarter, and what never can. This is a talk for technology leaders who refuse to panic: a framework for keeping human judgment, human touch, and human purpose at the center of the work — and for using AI as leverage, not a rival.
45–60 minutes
- Why the steam engine, the assembly line, and the large language model rhyme — and what we keep getting wrong about "replacement"
- Work reframed: arranging a disordered domain into order so people can flourish — a definition that outlasts every tool
- What AI threatens in the human mind, what it cannot touch, and why that boundary matters for every technology career
- Practical posture for teams: dominate, guide, and leverage AI without surrendering the human aspects that make work worth doing
Audience: Technology executives, engineering leaders, university audiences, and conference organizers exploring AI's impact on careers, teams, and the purpose of work.
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