Among the many emerging use cases of blockchain technology, digital identity management and verification is perhaps one of the most promising. In 2018 alone, billions of people were affected by personal data breaches, all around the world. There is an undeniable need for more secure methods of storing, transferring, and verifying sensitive information. In this context, blockchain systems may bring valuable solutions to some of the difficulties faced by most centralized databases.

To be discussed with stakeholders from the blockchain and business world, we will go thorough:

• How blockchain can make the difference in the management and verification of identity
• What does cryptography have to do with the identity problem
• Most advanced projects in the self-sovereign identity space
• Plus/minus to be considered

We will be discussing this with Ankur Banerjee and a panel of major stakeholders building and collaborating in the identity space.

Program

• 6:00 Why Trustless Ecosystems 2030 - Laura Degiovanni Founder TiiQu
• 6:10 Keynote and talks
• 7:00 Panel discussion "SSI: how would it help COVID19 emergency?
• 7:45Closing

Speakers

Ankur Banerjee - Head of Engineering at IDWorks

Ankur is the Head of Engineering at IDWorks, where he heads up a global team of developers building a self-sovereign identity solution. He has previously worked as Accenture’s lead blockchain solution architect in the UK and as a mentor in fintech accelerators in London.

Marta Piekarska- Geater - Director of Ecosystems at Hyperledger

Marta serves as the Director of Ecosystem at Hyperledger. Marta studied in Warsaw and Berlin, obtaining a double Masters and a PhD in Computer Science. Her professional career started with Security and Privacy in the Telekom space. In 2015 she drunk the Kool Aid and joined Blockckstream, one of the more significant Bitcoin companies. As part of her role in Hyperledger Marta evangelizes technology and Open Source at conferences around the world and helps enterprises with applying permissioned Blockchains to their use-cases. Marta is passionate about how Blockchain can help in non traditional spaces, such as identity, last mile aid and education delivery and sustainability. Leading the public speaking and outreach at Hyperledger, she has given numerous interviews, both written and in visual media. Marta also formed the W3C Blockchain community Group and is a valued member of ID2020, DIF, Sovrin Technical Governing Board, Cambridge Blockchain Society.

Shiv Aggarwal - CEO MyEarthID

Shiv is a technology entrepreneur with a focus on improving human lives through the power of technology. He is currently leading MyEarth.Id towards building a decentralised identity management platform, with a vision of providing a Universal Id to all Human Beings. Shiv is also the Europe Lead and UK Chapter President of “Government Blockchain Association”, a global non-profit organisation with over 100 chapters across the world, helping governments understand and adopt blockchain technology. Shiv has more than 15 years of technology industry experience, having worked with global brands like Bank of America, Cathay Pacific, The Hartford, Lloyds of London, Unilever and more. Shiv has been providing technical consulting, design thinking and thought leadership to his clients and stakeholders, and has been instrumental to the success of many strategic and digital transformation projects. Shiv has global corporate exposure, having worked and lived in US, Europe, and India.

Nick Mothershaw - Chief Executive at Open Identity Exchange

Nick is Chair and Chief Executive director of the Open Identity Exchange, a member’s organisation whose goal is to make it easier for consumers, organisations and things to trust. Nick is also programme manager and consultant to the TISA Digital ID Project, which is creating a trust scheme to allow financial services firms use a Digital ID as proof of ID for Know Your Customer purposes. Nick was previously Director of ID and Fraud solutions at Experian where he was responsible for the strategic development of Experian’s fraud and identity solutions for both the public and private sectors. Nick led Experian’s development, launch and operation of a full “Identity as a Service solution”, which included ID proofing to a defined Level of Assurance and strong credential management. Experian leverages this platform as an identity provider within the GOV.UK Verify scheme and also for its own customers; making this the first live example of a Digital ID that is seamlessly interoperable across public and private sector in the UK. each other when interacting online.

Keerthi Thomas - Founder at Bertify

Keerthi is the CEO and founder of Bertify.io, a tech company that specialises in blockchain and self-sovereign identity (SSI) and develops solutions to provide secure digital credentials for organisations in public sector organisations within the UK. Keerthi has a software engineering PhD in Mobile Privacy and is also a Subject Matter Expert for Oxford University's Blockchain Strategy Programme where he provides expertise for senior and mid-level managers of companies and businesses that seek to leverage blockchain in their business strategy.

Panel discussion to be moderated by Philippe Nadouce

Philippe is a blockchain Trainer/Lecturer at INSEEC-U where lecture on bitcoin/blockchain, digital currencies (DC), open financial systems, blockchain technologies and applications, principles of disruptive innovation in DLTs, regulation and governance.

About Trustless Ecosystems 2030 Meetups

Events are designed to facilitate knowledge sharing in the blockchain space and enhance dialogue and collaboration between the blockchain and the real-world.

Panelists from the start up ecosystem and stakeholders from relevant industries share their knowledge and direct experiences in a combination of friendly panel discussions and short talks. Attendants are invited to take active part to the Q&A and to the networking time that follows our events.

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The event is sponsored by TIIQU - the added ID for modern work

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