Identity Webinars

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...

Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym and Sovrin Foundation Trustee, and Manu Sporny, CEO – Founder and Owner of Digital Bazaar feature in this DID backgrounder. With the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) annual member meeting (TPAC) coming up October 22-26 in Lyon, France, this webinar will cover one of the most exciting developments in SSI open...

Clare Nelson, CISSP, CIPP/E; VP Business Development & Product Strategy, North America of Sedicii; co-founder of C1ph3r_Qu33ns; and Invited Expert of W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group; shares her knowledge with the global SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity) community about ZKP. This talk will introduce Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) and explain why they are a key element in a...

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)...