Kantara Initiative - Certification of Digital Credential Services for Increased Trust

Thanks everyone for your patience and welcome. Today's session is with the Kantara Initiative and we are talking about the Certification of Digital Credential Services for Increased Trust. That's our topic and I have several speakers with me. My name is Kay Chopard. I am the Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative and with me today I have some staff as well as some members and some volunteers who work and have leadership roles within the organization. So Kantara is actually, we have offices in the U.S., we also have offices in the U.K.,

but we're very much a global organization and we'll be talking about a lot of the work that we are doing around the world. Let me just briefly introduce and perhaps when it's time for you all to make your part of the presentation you can tell us more.

Yes, so I'll start all the way over here in the hinterlands is Andrew Hughes. Andrew Hughes is with Facetech but he is a long-time member and leader of the Kantara Initiative. He's former Chairman of our Board of Directors. He was formerly the Chair of the Leadership Council and he's had leadership roles in multiple work groups. He'll be talking today about the Identity Assurance Work Group and some of the things they're doing.

Thank you, Andrew. Sitting next to him is Lofi Jordan. Lofi is with, well, I know Lofi best through the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, AMVA, and he also participates in the work of one of our specific work groups on privacy enhancing mobile credentials and no doubt has lots of other things because I see him all over the world as well so I know he's very engaged and very involved especially in the world of mobile credentials and he has kindly volunteered or offered or is willing to help us out and talk a little bit more a little later in the presentation.

Thank you, Lofi. Has been dragooned into, I think.

Yes, perhaps that's the way I was trying to be tactful there. Yeah, don't encourage him.

Thank you, Lofi. I really appreciate it. And also immediately here next to me is Andrew Hindle. Andy is with the, well, has Hindle Consulting, but Andy is engaged in all kinds of things in the identity management, identity industry world, and we are very pleased. He is also, he has served on