An EXPERT in the FUTURE
Heather Vescent owns and operates The Purple Tornado, a foresight and strategic intelligence consultancy. She is the writer/producer of 14 short films about future technology. She is an author of The Secrets of Spies, The Cyber Attack Survival Manual and The Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity. She previously was the Executive Director and President of IDPro and a Co-Chair of the W3C Credentials Community Group. Her work has won multiple awards from the Association of Professional Futurists. She holds a Master’s of Science in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston, the longest running foresight degree program in the US.
HEATHER’S RESEARCH
Heather’s research has been covered in the New York Times, CNN, American Banker, CNBC, Fox and the Atlantic. She has authored several books: The Secrets of Spies, The Cyber Attack Survival Manual and The Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity. Her work has won multiple awards from the Association of Professional Futurists.
HEATHER’S SPEAKING
Heather Vescent has been speaking professionally for over a decade and is an influential voice in the fields of digital identity, cybersecurity, and the future of money, payments and transactions. She has spoken at RSA, TedX, SIBOS, Future Trends Forum, World Future Society, SxSW (3x), IEEE, Identiverse (3x), EIC and many other events since 2011.
A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT
As Founder of The Purple Tornado, Heather has demonstrated expertise in a range of fields including trends in the future of digital identity, cybersecurity, economies, augmented intelligence, IoT, and humanity.
“The only way of discovering the limits of the POSSIBLE is to venture a little way past them into the IMPOSSIBLE.
—Arthur C. Clarke
THE CYBER ATTACK SURVIVAL MANUAL
MY BOOKS
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SELF SOVEREIGN IDENTITY
THE SECRETS OF SPIES
