Identity Webinars

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...

Silvan Jongerius is the Managing Partner at TechGDPR a boutique consultancy for data protection, privacy, and GDPR in deep tech with a strong focus on blockchain. He is also the Founder and President of BerChain a non-profit organization aimed at connecting the blockchain scene in Berlin and promoting Berlin as the blockchain capital. Building on the experience of consulting many...

Darrell O’Donnell, President & CEO of Continuum Loop and Sovrin community contributor, will be our next guest. He’ll be sharing an update on a Digital Identity and Crypto Wallet study and report that he is releasing. Discussions about Digital Wallets (aka Identity Wallets) have ended with hand-waving at many hard problems. The Digital Wallet study...

Dr Manreet Nijjar MB ChB MRCP (London) is the Co-founder & CEO of truu.id Manny’s talk will cover the work his team has been doing on decentralised digital identity for medical professionals in the United Kingdom. He will take you through his personal journey that led him to break from being a doctor to focus fully on SSI...

Mike Brown is the Director of Product Innovation with ATB Financial, leading their efforts on blockchain-related technologies. With 5,000 team members serving over 725,000 Albertans for the past 80 years, ATB Financial is Alberta’s largest home grown financial institution. This presentation provides an overview of the work ATB has done to-date through various proof-of-concepts around self-sovereign...

Tim Bouma is a Senior Analyst with Government of Canada, specializing in digital identity and the development of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework. This presentation provides an overview of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF) and the latest iteration, building on policy and standards that have been in development in Canada for more than a decade. Within Canada,...

Natalie Smolenski is an anthropologist who leads business development for Learning Machine, a blockchain technology firm specializing in self-sovereign digital identity. As an author and public speaker, she focuses on the intersections of identity, technology, and government. By bringing a scientific perspective to distributed digital technologies and social transformation, she helps audiences from all backgrounds...

Paul Knowles, Innovation & Emerging Technology at Dativa and chair of the Schemas and Overlays Working Group at Sovrin Foundation, will be our next guest presenting a new data capture model to the global SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity) community. This talk introduces Overlays, data structures that provide extra layers of contextual and/or conditional information to Schemas....

Richard Esplin is currently the product manager responsible for Evernym’s contributions to the Hyperledger Indy project and the Sovrin identity network. He is an open source advocate and technology evangelist who loves creating products that not only meet business goals but also benefit the larger community and will share in this webinar why open source is...