Program Wed/Thu April 22 & 23

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KERICONF26 Day 1 (April, 22nd)

Start End Session Room Speaker Tag Title Topic
8 AM – 9 AM: BREAKFAST
9:00 am 10:00 am Plenary UVU Room 402 Samuel M. Smith
Samuel M. Smith 		ADV State of the KERISuite State of the KERISuite and its adoption
10:00 am 10:40 am Plenary UVU Room 402 Daniel Hardman
Daniel Hardman 		ADV Open Verifiable Communications Telco and KERI; Verifiable Voice Protocol is an application of KERI principles to the problem of fraud in phone calls, SMS messages, and more.
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM: COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
11:00 am 11:40 am Plenary UVU Room 402 ASE Jumpstarting Healthcare Exchange with Reliable Organizational Identity. Philip Feairheller will make an important announcement. Provenanting patient’s medical records with vLEI. HealthKERI’s CTO, Philip Feairheller, will make an important announcement.
11:45 am 12:30 pm Plenary UVU Room 402 George McEwan
George McEwan 		REF Verifiable credentials, SEDI identity assurance The landscape of SEDI
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: LUNCH
1:30 pm 2:10 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Cole Davis
Cole Davis 		ASE Contract Credentials and Verifiable Legal Authority KERI, ACDCs, and vLEI in Legal Contracts and Workflows
1:30 pm 2:15 pm Break-out Veridian Room 141 + Provenant Room 142 + TABEI Room 143 Phil Feairheller
Phil Feairheller 		ADV Infrastructure for Security: Wallet, Witnesses, and Watcher networks. Infrastructure for Security: Wallet, Witnesses, and Watcher networks.
2:15 pm 3:00 pm Break-out GLEIF Room 111 ADV Open KERI Infrastructure (Keripy1) Open KERI Infrastructure: Witnesses, Watchers, and the Consumer Boundary
2:15 pm 3:00 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Ari Argoud
Ari Argoud 		ADV KRAM It with Ari Keri Request Authentication Mechanism (KRAM)
2:15 pm 3:00 pm Break-out Provenant Room 142 + Veridian Room 141 + TABEI Room 143 Fergal O’Conner
Fergal O'Conner 		ADV KERIA/SignifyTS KERIA/Signify Security Architecture
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
3:15 pm 4:00 pm Break-out GLEIF Room 111 ADV Witnesses and Watchers Witnesses and Watchers
3:15 pm 4:00 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Jared Jeffery
Jared Jeffery 		ASE FHIR and CMS FHIR, the healthcare data standard, and CMS-0057, the regulation.
3:15 pm 4:00 pm Break-out Veridian Room 141 + Provenant Room 142 + TABEI Room 143 Kent Bull
Kent Bull 		ASE GLEIF Root-of-trust Why the Root of Trust is needed and what it provides.
4:00 pm 4:45 pm Break-out Provenant Room 142 + Veridian Room 141 + TABEI Room 143 Samuel M. Smith
Samuel M. Smith 		REF The Digital Identity Trade Space The Digital Identity Trade Space
4:00 pm 4:45 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Kent Bull
Kent Bull 		REF KERIA tutorial KERIA tutorial
To plenary conclusion
4:45 pm 5:45 pm Plenary UVU Room 402 George McEwan
George McEwan 		AVO PANEL session: How KERI enables better public-private partnerships How SEDI with KERI enables better public-private partnerships and better regulation, using the HealthKERI use case as an example. Panelists: GLEIF: Karla McKenna, Utah State: Chris Bramwell, DirectTrust: Scott Stuewe, Onyx: Mark Scrimshire, HealthKERI: Jared Jeffery
6:00 PM: Dinner + Awards ceremony + Speed Round Elevator Pitches

KERICONF26 Day 2 (April, 23rd)

Start End Session Room Speaker Tag Title Topic
8 AM – 9 AM: BREAKFAST
9:00 am 10:00 am Plenary UVU Room 402 Samuel M. Smith
Samuel M. Smith 		ADV The future of KERI The future of KERI and its potential for establishing a new basis of trust
10:00 am 10:40 am Plenary UVU Room 402 Phil Feairheller
Phil Feairheller 		ADV ACDCs for authorization. Bridging OIDC with vLEI and KERI ACDCs for authorization. Bridging OIDC with vLEI and KERI
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM: COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
11:00 am 11:40 am Plenary UVU Room 402 Thomas Mayfield
Thomas Mayfield 		REF KERI Infrastructure and the 5 W’s KERI and ACDC Infrastructure; an overview
11:45 am 12:30 pm Plenary UVU Room 402 Alan Davies
Alan Davies 		ADV ACDCs for enterprises Tool for creating ACDCs for enterprises, VC issuance
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: LUNCH
1:30 pm 2:15 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Jonathan Rayback
Jonathan Rayback 		REF DID:webs DID:WEBS KERI bridge to the DID world, DID:SCID etc.
1:30 pm 2:15 pm Break-out GLEIF Room 111 ADV Mobile Wallet Mobile Wallet – KERIpy
1:30 pm 2:10 pm Break-out Veridian Room 141 + Provenant Room 142 + TABEI Room 143 Phil Windley
Phil Windley 		AVO Digital Identity Needs a Legal Foundation – Why SEDI Matters Proof, Authorization
2:15 pm 3:00 pm Break-out GLEIF Room 111 Kent Bull
Kent Bull 		REF KERIpy async architecture – HIO KERIpy async architecture – HIO
2:15 pm 3:00 pm Break-out Veridian Room 141 + Provenant Room 142 + TABEI Room 143 Ned Smith
Ned Smith 		REF Secure Asset Transfer Protocol (satp) Secure Asset Transfer Protocol (satp)
2:15 pm 3:00 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Nicholas Racz
Nicholas Racz 		ADV Exploring Trust Dynamics; Incepting the Game of Trust We cover Dynamic AIDs, Governed AIDs/registries, and the new possibility space therein.
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
3:15 pm 4:00 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Nicholas Racz
Nicholas Racz 		AVO Investing in the Game of Trust: Battle scars and learnings from KERI first movers Investment, realizing theory in practice, business models, mistakes, and more
3:15 pm 4:00 pm Plenary Provenant Room 142 + TABEI Room 143 + Veridian Room 141 Daniel Hardman
Daniel Hardman 		ADV Dossiers (the dossier spec) applying KERI to general evidence problems
3:15 pm 4:00 pm Break-out GLEIF Room 111 REF KERI Development and Deployment KERI Development and Deployment
4:00 pm 4:45 pm Break-out Provenant Room 142 + TABEI Room 143 + Veridian Room 141 Samuel M. Smith
Samuel M. Smith 		ADV SPAC/TSP SPAC/TSP
4:00 pm 4:45 pm Break-out Digital Trust Foundry Room 430 Fergal O’Conner
Fergal O'Conner 		ASE Maturing Keria/SignifyTS KERIA/Signify path to production
To plenary conclusion
4:45 pm 5:45 pm Plenary UVU Room 402 Ryan Hansen
Ryan Hansen 		AVO What does KERI allow us to do that we couldn’t do before? A diverse panel, mostly industry, with some public sector. Panelists: DTF: Alan Davies, Cardano: Thomas Mayfield, Provenant: Daniel Hardman, 3GR: Nicholas Racz
  • Keynote Session: Highlighted in the schedule – major presentations in the Main Auditorium
  • Break-out Sessions: Interactive, hands-on learning sessions with limited seating
  • Panels: Moderated discussions with multiple experts
  • Lightning Talks: Quick 5-minute presentations showcasing innovations

Note: Schedule is subject to change. Please check back regularly for updates.