Steve Cowper drives product and go-to-market strategy for NEC’s Identity Cloud, having recently led the platform to become the first accredited provider under New Zealand’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework (DISTF). A champion of customer-centric innovation, he is a key driver behind transforming the Kiwi Access Card into a reusable digital credential and supporting it’s issuance into the NZ Government Wallet programme. Drawing on his background in technology commercialisation across both startup and enterprise sectors, Steve ensures digital identity delivers genuine trust; creating solutions that are secure, private by design, and intuitively usable for everyday people.