Identity Webinars

Markus Sabadello, CEO of Danube Tech, will talk about DID Resolution and how to retrieve a DID document. As we know, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a key component in SSI architecture. They are used as building blocks for verifiable credentials, wallets, agents, and data exchange protocols. To make all this work, we need to be...

Brenda K. Leong, Senior Counsel & Director of Strategy of the Future of Privacy Forum, will talk about Identity and Privacy. The problem of whether private citizens should be required to have government-issued documentation (verifying their personal identity in order to access goods and services, seek employment, travel, or obtain government benefits), long predates the current...

Tyler Ruff, product manager at Evernym, will be our next guest to walk us through Verifiable Credentials in the context of Self-Sovereign Identity. He will cover how they are created, issued and shared, as well as cover some common technical questions. The Verifiable Credentials discussed are based off a W3C standard for DIDs (decentralized identifiers)...

Markus Sabadello, CEO of Danube Tech, will talk about DID Auth, an emerging building block in the SSI ecosystem. Although the technical details of DID Auth are not well-defined at this point, its general concept is clear: With self-sovereign identity infrastructure, the most trivial and straightforward functionality for identity owners should be the ability to...

Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym and Sovrin Foundation Trustee, features in this Webinar “Trust Frameworks and SSI: An Interview with CULedger on the Credit Union MyCUID Trust Framework”. To make SSI work, verifiable digital credentials must be something that websites, businesses, governments, and many others accept. To do that, they need assurances about who issued the credential...

Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym and Sovrin Foundation Trustee, features in this Webinar “Decentralized Key Management (DKMS): An Essential Missing Piece of the SSI Puzzle”. If you can’t manage the keys for your DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers), then the SSI engine will never get started. That’s why DKMS (Decentralized Key Management System) is one of...

Alastria is an association to foster the implementation of a Spanish national blockchain whose nodes are run by Alastria members. Alastria gathers over 250 cross-industry members and was initiated by the some of the biggest corporations in Spain. Alastria ID proposes an implementation of the Self Sovereign Identity paradigm over a public-permissioned Blockchain and will...

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is exploding as a topic. It can be hard to make sense of all the initiatives and technologies, and of similar words like “decentralized identity.” However, a few deep themes are emerging as foundational elements, no matter which details are true of your favorite approach. This webinar with Daniel Hardman, Chief Architect, Evernym...

Kim Hamilton Duffy, CTO of Learning Machine, Principal Architect of Blockcerts and co-chair W3C Credentials Community Group, will be our next guest to share her knowledge with the global SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity) community. This talk will demystify Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) via the simple Bitcoin Reference (BTCR) DID Method. Kim will introduce the basics of DIDs and...

Elizabeth M. Renieris, Global Policy Counsel, Evernym, features in our fourth Webinar “Liability under GDPR and the Self-Sovereign Identity Model” by explaining how SSI and GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation) can live together in our upcoming webinar. One of the myths about GDPR and the right to be forgotten is that blockchain is inherently...