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Panels
Panel Day 1 (April, 22nd)
Subject
How SEDI with KERI enables better public-private partnerships and better regulation, using the HealthKERI use case as an example.
Moderator
George McEwan is a multi-disciplined engineer, i…
Panelists
Karla McKenna
GLEIF
Chris Bramwell
Utah State
Jared Jeffery
HealthKERI
Mark Scrimshire
Onyx
Scott Stuewe
DirectTrust
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Panel Day 2 (April, 23rd)
Subject
What does KERI allow us to do that we couldn’t do before? A diverse panel, mostly industry, with some public sector.
Moderator
Ryan Hansen has nearly 30 years of experience de…
Panelists
Alan Davies
DTF
Thomas Mayfield
Cardano Foundation
Daniel Hardman
Provenant
Nicholas Racz
3GR
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✨ New this edition
Ryan Hansen
Foundation Lead Developer
Talk
What does KERI allow us to do that we couldn’t do before?
Day2 • 4:45 pm
A diverse panel, mostly industry, with some public sector.
Panelists:
DTF: Alan Davies,
Cardano: Thomas Mayfield,
Provenant: Daniel Hardman,
3GR: Nicholas Racz
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Jay-Alexander Elliot
Platform / DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Talk
Open KERI Infrastructure (Keripy1)
Day1 • 2:15 pm
Ryan Hansen
Foundation Lead Developer
Talk
Witnesses and Watchers
Day1 • 3:15 pm
Kent Bull
Talk
KERIpy async architecture – HIO
Day2 • 2:15 pm
Evan Asakawa
Foundation-programmer
Talk
Mobile Wallet
Day2 • 1:30 pm
Keanu Pahio
Foundation-programmer
Talk
KERI Development and Deployment
Day2 • 3:15 pm
Previously announced
Samuel M. Smith
Founder of the KERI Suite
Talk
State of the KERISuite
Day1 • 9:00 am
Phil Feairheller
CTO and Co-Founder
Talk
ACDCs for authorization. Bridging OIDC with vLEI and KERI
Day2 • 10:00 am
Thomas Mayfield
Talk
KERI Infrastructure and the 5 W’s
Day2 • 11:00 am
Daniel Hardman
Talk
Open Verifiable Communications
Day1 • 10:00 am
Telco and KERI; Verifiable Voice Protocol is an application of KERI principles to the problem of fraud in phone calls, SMS messages, and more.
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George McEwan
Talk
PANEL session: How KERI enables better public-private partnerships
Day1 • 4:45 pm
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
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Samuel M. Smith
Founder of the KERI Suite
Talk
The future of KERI
Day2 • 9:00 am
Alan Davies
Talk
ACDCs for enterprises
Day2 • 11:45 am
Scott Stuewe
President and CEO
Mark Scrimshire
Chief Interoperability and Innovation Officer
Talk
Jumpstarting Healthcare Exchange with Reliable Organizational Identity. Philip Feairheller will make an important announcement.
Day1 • 11:00 am
Samuel M. Smith
Founder of the KERI Suite
Talk
The Digital Identity Trade Space
Day1 • 4:00 pm
Cole Davis
Talk
Contract Credentials and Verifiable Legal Authority
Day1 • 1:30 pm
Jared Jeffery
Talk
FHIR and CMS
Day1 • 3:15 pm
Samuel M. Smith
Founder of the KERI Suite
Talk
SPAC/TSP
Day2 • 4:00 pm
Phil Feairheller
CTO and Co-Founder
Talk
Infrastructure for Security: Wallet, Witnesses, and Watcher networks.
Day1 • 1:30 pm
Jonathan Rayback
Talk
DID:webs
Day2 • 1:30 pm
Ari Argoud
Machine Learning and Cybersecurity
Talk
KRAM It with Ari
Day1 • 2:15 pm
George McEwan
Talk
Verifiable credentials, SEDI identity assurance
Day1 • 11:45 am
Nicholas Racz
Founder
Talk
Investing in the Game of Trust: Battle scars and learnings from KERI first movers
Day2 • 3:15 pm
Kent Bull
Talk
KERIA tutorial
Day1 • 4:00 pm
Ned Smith
Talk
Secure Asset Transfer Protocol (satp)
Day2 • 2:15 pm
Daniel Hardman
Talk
Dossiers (the dossier spec)
Day2 • 3:15 pm
Fergal O’Conner
Talk
KERIA/SignifyTS
Day1 • 2:15 pm
Kent Bull
Talk
GLEIF Root-of-trust
Day1 • 3:15 pm
Fergal O’Conner
Talk
Maturing Keria/SignifyTS
Day2 • 4:00 pm
Nicholas Racz
Founder
Talk
Exploring Trust Dynamics; Incepting the Game of Trust
Day2 • 2:15 pm
Phil Windley
Digital identity expert
Talk
Digital Identity Needs a Legal Foundation – Why SEDI Matters
Day2 • 1:30 pm
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