Verifiable Credentials have been mentioned quite frequently in the news in the past few weeks specifically in the context of Covid Credentials and Covid Vaccines. Even though the term has been introduced a couple of years ago, it has been gaining momentum now.

In this session organized by BerChain in collaboration with Affinidi, we will hear from KILT Protocol and Affinidi about the topic and explore the questions below:

What are verifiable credentials?

What is their History?

How can this be used in the context of Covid Credentials?

What could be other potential use cases?

The presentations will be followed by a discussion on the relationship between Blockchain and Verifiable credentials.

Agenda

17:00 -17:05 Attendees join

17:05 - 17:10 Welcome & Introduction

17:10 - 17:30 Presentation by Ingo Ruebe, KILT Protocol

17:30 - 17:50 Presentation by Stepan Gershuni , Affinidi

17:50 - 18:30 Discussion and final Remarks

Speakers

Ingo Ruebe, KILT Protocol

Ingo Ruebe is the founder and CEO of BOTLabs. BOTLabs is a Berlin-based company, providing blockchain powered solutions for Self Sovereign Identity.

Stepan Gershuni , Affinidi

Stepan Gershuni, is currently the Lead Product Manager at Affinidi and runs the Cryptoeconomics Research Group. He previously founded Credentia.me, an SSI startup focused on CIS countries. Stepan has been working on decentralized tech space since 2014 in companies like BitFury, Curation.Network and New Mining Company.

About BerChain

BerChain is a member-led, non-profit association, connecting and promoting the thriving blockchain ecosystem and community in Berlin through collaboration, events, and activities around the topic of blockchain, positioning Berlin as the Blockchain capital.

https://berchain.com/

About Affinidi

Affinidi empowers individuals and organisations with control of their verifiable data, to unlock value across platforms and geographies. Leveraging Affinidi's solutions, trusted institutions and entities can issue verifiable data to customers, which can in turn be shared with other service providers to access products and services in an open and interoperable system.

https://www.affinidi.com/

About KILT Protocol

KILT is an open-source fat blockchain protocol for issuing claim-based verifiable, revocable, and anonymous credentials in the Web 3.0. It allows end users to claim arbitrary attributes about themselves, get them attested by trusted entities, and store the claims as self-sovereign credentials (certificates). As trusted entities can issue credentials in return for money, KILT aims to foster new business models for anyone who owns trust or wants to build up trust.

https://www.kilt.io/