Identity Webinars

Daniel Hardman, Chief Architect, Evernym / Secretary, Technical Governance Board – Sovrin Foundation, will compare and contrast three forms of indirect identity control that have much in common and that should be explored together: delegation, guardianship, and controllership. Daniel recommends mechanisms that allow identity technology to model each with flexibility, precision, and safety. These recommendations can be applied to many decentralized identity...

Daniël Du Seuil, Programm manager and blockchain architect with the Flemish public service, and Carlos Pastor, from BME in Spain, give an overview of the vision, objectives, and approach of the European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework (ESSIF). Video recording: Slideshare presentation: Understanding the European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework (ESSIF) from SSIMeetup How can you use these slides and knowledge? This...

Orie Steele is Cofounder and CTO of Transmute, a company developing IAM and Verifiable Credential solutions that integrate Decentralized Identity for Enterprises. He has a BS in Cyber Security and MS in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology where he studied social network malware and botnets between 2007-2012. He was an early engineer at...

Nathan George, Sovrin Foundation CTO, and Hyperledger Contributor will explain what Hyperledger Aries is and how it will facilitate an open source infrastructure for interoperable identity solutions. Aries was born out of the work on identity agents and identity wallets that began in the Hyperledger Indy project. Aries is, in fact, the second Hyperledger project to spin out of Hyperledger Indy. The first...

Microsoft presented in May 2019 in New York the first decentralized infrastructure implementation by a major tech company that is built directly on the Bitcoin blockchain called Ion. Daniel Buchner, who is leading this initiative at Microsoft and a founding member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation, will discuss the culture at Microsoft, how decentralized identity works...

Milton Berman, CTO of DIDI (Digital Identity for Inclusion), will talk about this DIDI. A project led by the NGO Bitcoin Argentina with the support of the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) Lab, Accenture, and RSK. Technological changes happen faster today and populations with less access to the digital world can be excluded from new opportunities...

SSI Meetup veteran Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym and Trustee at the Sovrin Foundation, will cover the highlights of the latest edition of the longest-running conference in the Internet identity space—Internet Identity Workshop. Drummond has attended all 28 IIWs, and he will share his major takeaways from this gathering of the movers and...

Lawrence Lundy is a partner and head of research at Outlier Ventures, a venture platform that supports the development and growth of emerging technologies. To do this we advise and invest in talented teams, and support businesses which create value for an open data economy. Today, most crypto projects are governed by the open-source development...

Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO of Ockam, will talk about how Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Key Management enable highly secure and reliable systems of connected devices. The promise of IoT has been a future where systems of connected machines would work together, using intelligent algorithms, to almost magically improve our lives; Systems in farms and...

Philip Sheldrake is a technologist, Chartered Engineer, architect of the Web Science Trust endorsed hi:project, consultant, and a Web Science researcher at Southampton University. He works with the AKASHA Foundation, nurturing projects to help individuals unlock their potential through open systems that expand our collective minds at local, regional and global scales, with a keen...