Glyn Povah

Head of Global Product Development, Digital Identity, Telefónica Tech

Speaker Bio

Glyn leads global product development at Telefónica for the Digital Identity business, where he founded a new product category focused on building and growing an Identity & Attributes B2B API business. Under Glyn’s leadership this customer centric growth business has developed new API products, in collaboration with other leading global Telcos, that address core digital identity use-cases in the market and now serves hundreds of relying parties on a global basis. 


Glyn has over 20 years of experience in Telecoms in B2C and B2B product development, product marketing and commercial development, with over 8 years of experience in Digital Identity, Cybersecurity and the API economy. He is a recognised leader and frequent speaker on these topics at conferences and events globally.  


Glyn is passionate about not developing technology purely for technology’s sake but for using it to solve large scale, real-world problems that can transform industries and society by working together and co-creating with customers and partners.