Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership roles with some of the most technical, volunteer-driven organizations on the Internet, including IDPro as Executive Director and Principal Editor; the OpenID Foundation as Lead Editor; the IETF, IAB, and the IRTF as RFC Series Editor; ICANN as Technical Writer and Editor; and REFEDS as Coordinator, just to name a few. An avid blogger on digital identity and standards-related topics, Heather is a regular presenter at conferences and meetings around the world. She also serves as co-chair of several working groups, including the W3C Federated Identity working group and the IETF Secure Patterns for Internet Credentials (SPICE) working group. If there is work going on to develop new Internet standards, or discussions around the future of digital identity, she is interested in engaging in that work.