Future of Digital Identity: Self-Sovereign Identity & Verifiable Credentials

Identity and privacy-preserving cryptography researcher at Edinburgh Napier University. I believe digital tools for relationship and information management that enable verification of the source, validity and integrity of communication have a key role to play in ensuring individual freedom is...

Annie Bailey is an analyst covering emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, and helps synthesize the implications for companies, industries, and markets. She holds a Bachelor from Pacific Lutheran University, a Master’s Certificate from Johns Hopkins-Nanjing...

TJ Behe is the CEO of Octopus.sh, an innovative distributed graph solution providing true self sovereignty for every identity owner. A product innovator, entrepreneur and published author, TJ’s semi-fictional graphic novel Contraband predicted society's serious data privacy issues we now...

Dr. George Beridze joined KuppingerCole in 2017. Currently he is a Practice Lead for Artificial Intelligence and also a Project Manager with the focus on AI, Cybersecurity and Blockchain Identity. George previously worked as a Research Scientist at various institutions in Germany and Europe. In...

Joined the MS Identity team to lead product and development for an open source, blockchain-anchored, self-sovereign identity system. Through collaboration with developers, organizations, and agencies, as well as the open source community and standards bodies (e.g. W3C), we aim to introduce an...

Peter works for the Bosch Mobility Think Tank reporting to the Board of Management of the Bosch Group. He and his team are working on the future Connectivity Strategies for the Mobility Business Units of the Bosch Group and as consultants for the Executive Board. He has 25+ years of experience...

Juan Caballero is an identity technologist who has spent years studying how identity systems can be built that decentralize power while honoring the data rights and obligations of individuals, organizations, legal persons, governments, and software. He has worked extensively in various sectors...

Prof David Chadwick has been working in identity management for over 20 years and has written over a 100 papers on the topic. He was the chief architect and designer of the PERMIS open source authorisation system that supported SAML and X.509 attribute certificates. More recently he has been an...

Joy Chik leads engineering for Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar Identity business that is building greater security and mobility into consumer and enterprise technologies that billions of people rely on every day . Since declaring itself a “mobile first, cloud first” company...

Marco is an Applied Technology Innovation Manager, responsible for exploring, engineering and implementing new technologies such as Blockchain, IoT and API Management. He has been with Novartis since 2005. For the last two years, his focus has been on Blockchain and exploring various use cases...

Adrian Doerk is a trained IT-Systems Electrician with strong focus on decentralized architecture.  He's a vivid learner about the Identity space and facilitates communication for the Lissi initiative and other international stakeholders. 

Dan is the Supply Chain Domain Architect at Novartis, responsible for IT standards and architecture direction as well as evaluation of emerging technologies. He has been at Novartis since 2002. He has 25 years of leadership and supply chain IT experience including the US Military, IT consulting,...

Riley is a leader in the self-sovereign identity (SSI) community. As the second employee hired at the Sovrin Foundation, Riley established and led several teams. He started   Trinsic   to make implementing decentralized identity easy for developers and is now working with many...

Eddie Kago leads Vibranium ID as CEO to deliver decentralized identity for people and entities in Africa. He is the Principal Architect of Kweli - the first Pan-African SSI Trust Framework, a project of the African Digital Asset Framework and frequently writes about SSI on his Medium blog. He...

Information security is my passion since the turn of the millennium and I consider myself a decentralization visionary. With business diplomas plus a doctorate from European Business School (EBS) and a computer science bachelor's degree from James Madison University (USA), I am business-driven...

Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Prior to KuppingerCole, Martin wrote more than 50 IT-related books and is known  as a widely-read columnist...

Michele Nati, PhD is Head of Telco and Infrastructure Development at IOTA Foundation. Michele is responsible to drive IOTA innovation in the Telco Sector.  Before joining the IOTA Foundation, Michele worked as Lead Technologist for Data and Trust at...

Dr. Manreet Nijjar is a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine at Health NHS trust and an NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow. He co-founded Truu a company that specialises in digital trust, credentialing and creating a digital passport for healthcare workers and a...

Balázs Némethi is a wholehearted young entrepreneur working in fintech. With a degree in architecture, he is harnessing his system thinking mindset to look beyond currently existing solutions and create a positive impact with the use of technology. Currently he is building a...

A self-professed "cryptography geek," Rohan has been the go-to security and identity management maven for three decades. He has founded several businesses that take advantage of advancements in blockchain and identity management — and are responsible for many in their own right — and...

Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He has been an early participant of decentralization movements such as the Federated Social Web, Respect Network, and...

Jennifer Haas joined KuppingerCole in 2015 and is Project Manager in the Event Management Team. She is responsible for different events with a topic focus on Consumer Identity and Marketing Technology, oversees the agenda and gets in contact with potential speakers.  Jennifer...

Andrew Tobin ( European Managing Director,  Evernym) is a technology strategist. He has a history of delivering innovative technology solutions to complex business problems in the converging worlds of banking, mobile and identity markets. Right now he is working to change the way the...

Erik has years of experience/expertize in amongst others: Governance/Risk/Compliance, eGovernment/eBusiness/eBanking, Trust Services and Trusted/Trustworthy (eco-)systems, Enterprise (Security) Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures and Cloud Platforms, Data Privacy & Data...