Identity Webinars

Alexander Shcherbakov is a software engineer at DSR working on the team at Evernym. He has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and is one of the maintainers of Hyperledger Indy and Hyperledger Plenum. In this presentation, he will explain the value of a decentralized ledger in an SSI ecosystem and examine Hyperledger Indy, which is the...

Daniel Hardman, Chief Architect, Evernym / Secretary, Technical Governance Board – Sovrin Foundation will show how Peer DIDs will allow off-chain transactions for the self-sovereign identity (SSI) world. Most documentation about decentralized identifiers (DIDs) describes them as identifiers that are rooted in a public source of truth like a blockchain, a database, a distributed filesystem, or similar. This publicness...

Michael is the Cofounder and Chief Product Officer of Streetcred ID. Coming from multiple startup ventures as technical lead, Michael was the first software engineer at Sovrin Foundation, where he was a strong advocate for privacy and security in decentralized identity systems. He was an original contributor to the initial Hyperledger Indy Agent code, which...

Danny Zuckerman, co-founder of 3Box, will talk about a bottoms-up approach to self-sovereign identity. In addition to the technical advances and standards that enable self-sovereign identity and data interoperability, what are the value propositions that will lead to early adoption? How can we take on the giants of today’s digital identity and data world while...

Anthony Ronning, an engineer behind Blockcerts and backend dev at Learning Machine and Daniel Paramo, co-founder of swys and advisor at Xertify, explains how Blockcerts started, deep dive on how Blockcerts work, which institutions are implementing this solution and what companies have made a solution for the adoption of this standard. We will review the...

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 29 IIWs, and he will share his major takeaways from this gathering of the movers and...

Alan Krassowski, VP of Technology & Blockchain at Kiva, will explain how the Kiva Protocol team is leveraging Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and related technologies to develop identity and credit solutions for traditionally underserved populations, starting with an implementation in concert with Sierra Leone’s government and banking systems, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme...

The DID Report 1 about the First Meeting of the New W3C DID Working Group with Drummond Reed, co-author of the W3C DID specification, and Markus Sabadello from Danube Tech. Headline news in SSI land: this month W3C members approved forming a full W3C Working Group for Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). DID spec co-author Drummond Reed has...

Heather Vescent, the owner of The Purple Tornado a foresight and strategic intelligence consultancy, explains how Digital identity gaps in Corporate and IoT Identity can be solved from an NPE (non-person entity) point of view. The webinar will answer: What is an NPE? How is an NPE both different and similar to human identity? What is...

This webinar, based on a panel of the same name held at Seattle Devcon in July, will feature four experts from different areas of the digital identity industry explaining why they believe Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is one of the most significant applications of blockchain technology to enable all kind of new business model for the...