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Karla McKenna (GLEIF)

Karla K. McKenna
Managing Director, Head of Standards
GLEIF Americas Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Karla McKenna is an international standards specialist in financial services. Ms. McKenna is Managing Director, GLEIF Americas, as well as Head of Standards for the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation.

Chris Bramwell (Utah State)

The ever increasing focus on privacy rights in conjunction with the mass amounts of personal information being processed by government and private entities is forming a pivotal focus point of which I am excited to be a part. The State of Utah recognizes the right of privacy in relation to personal data that is processed by governmental entities and is committed to safeguarding the privacy rights of the public. As Utah’s first Chief Privacy Officer I am excited to use my years of experience in information privacy and security to help create, implement and standardize state agency privacy programs in a way to protects the public’s privacy rights while putting a strong emphasis on transparency and accountability.

Jared Jeffery (HealthKERI)

For over a decade, Jared has worked on healthcare’s interoperability problem. From helping disabled Americans gather their (then-paper) medical records to helping KLAS Research shine a light on healthcare’s progress, Jared is dedicated to the vision of what healthcare can become through technology.

Mark Scrimshire (Onyx)

Mark Scrimshire, is Chief Interoperability Officer at Onyx where he steers the development of OnyxOS, the market-leading HL7 FHIR Interoperability Platform. He was previously the CMS Entrepreneur-In-Residence responsible for the development and launch of CMS Blue Button 2.0 API for 60 million Medicare beneficiaries. The largest FHIR API Implementation for the world’s largest health insurer.

Scott Stuewe (DirectTrust)

Scott Stuewe is President and CEO of DirectTrust, a non-profit trade association advancing trust, identity, security, and interoperability across U.S. healthcare. With more than 30 years in health IT and cybersecurity, he has helped build scalable trust frameworks supporting secure identity assured exchange among providers, payers, and public health.

Alan Davies (DTF)

Alan Davies is a seasoned entrepreneur, founding several IT businesses, including publicly-listed Gresham in the UK, Credential Master (acquired by Salesforce), and now Digital Trust Foundry, a platform based on the KERI and ACDC specifications, designed to make any digital content trustable.

Thomas Mayfield (Cardano Foundation)

Thomas A. Mayfield is the Head of Decentralized Trust and Identity Solutions at the Cardano Foundation and holds a BSc. Honours Degree in Computer Security and Digital Forensics. Thomas is currently a PhD candidate specialising in decentralized technologies with his novel research contribution Edge Layer IoT Trustless Environments.

Daniel Hardman (Provenant)

Daniel is the CTO and CISO at Provenant, a startup working on verifiable communications based on KERI and ACDCs. He is a co-inventor of DIDComm, a contributor to the W3C DID and VC specs, and is currently consulting on an eIDAS-centric citizen wallet initiative that uses SD-JWT and ISO mDL.

He served on the Utah State Auditor’s Commission on Digital Privacy in 2020, and helped launch Hyperledger Aries, Hyperledger Indy, the Sovrin network, and the Trust Over IP Foundation. He is a member of GLEIF’s vLEI Technical Advisory Board and also spent significant time working on central bank digital currency initiatives.

Nicholas Racz (3GR)

I work at the intersection of fields in order to bring about new discoveries, bringing together resources from unique locations to create real-world value. While not an academic by training, I seek the highest level of thought possible in order to understand cardinal principles. Free collaboration is absolutely necessary to pursue our goals, and I look forward to connecting with as many brilliant minds as possible on this platform.

As a partner @ Key State Capital, we invest in the verifiable, autonomic future. If we have a common goal, we are always potential partners.

Jim Lin (TABEI)

Taiwan Association for Blockchain Ecosystem Innovation