Hyperledger Global Forum 2021: Full Schedule

Virtual Event
June 8-10, 2021
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11:20 CEST

The Path to Self Sovereign Identity: Poste Italiane Solution - Emiliano Vernini & Rosario De Chiara, Poste Italiane

Poste Italiane is the main digital identity provider in Italy, with over 13mln eidas compliant digital identities provided to italian citizens. In order to mantain this leadership position and help the digitalization of the country, Poste Italiane is actively exploring the evolution of the digital idenitity models and in particular of Self Sovereign Identity. During the presentation we will share our view and we will go through the demo of our SSI solution, analizing the main challenges that we faced during the development and how we addressed them. We will also share the technical details of the solution, related to the client application and to the blockchain components.

Speakers

Emiliano Vernini

Head of ICT Innovation Strategy, Poste Italiane

Emiliano Vernini is a ICT Project e Innovation Manager with over 10 years experience in managing innovation projects for large companies. Actually he is the Head of the ICT Innovation Strategy Department in Poste Italiane with the mission to support business innovation through the... Read More →

Rosario De Chiara

Technology Leader, Poste Italiane

Rosario De Chiara is Technology Leader in Poste Italiane. He holds a PhD (Dottorato di Ricerca) in Computer Science from University of Salerno (ITALY). His main focus is on leveraging distributed ledger tecnhologies to host new services. His scientific interests are distributed systems... Read More →

Poste Italiane The Path to SSI HyperledgerGlobalForum final pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Virtual 4

Technical

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Identity
Slides Included Yes

18:40 CEST

DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet - Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D., Brigham Young University

DIDComm is the messaging protocol implemented in Hyperledger Aries that provides utility for DID-based relationships. Many may think DIDComm is just a way to exchange credentials, but it's more than that. DIDComm is a protocol layer capable of supporting specialized application protocols for specific workflows. Because of its general nature and inherent support for self-sovereign relationships, DIDComm provides a basis for a self-sovereign internet much more private, enabling, and flexible than the one we've built using Web 2.0 technologies. This talk introduces DIDComm, discusses its protocological nature, and presents use cases in the Internet of Things. Demonstrations of DIDComm protocol interactions will be shown on the Pico platform, which implements the Aries Cloud Agent (ACA) specification.

Speakers

Phil Windley

SSDM, Amazon

Phil Windley is a Senior Software Development Manager at AWS Identity. He is also the co-founder and organizer of the Internet Identity Workshop. He was previously an Enterprise Architect and Principal Engineer in the Office of Information Technology at Brigham Young University (BYU). He was the Founding Chair of the Sovrin Foundation serving from 2016 to 2020, writes the popular Technometria blog, and is the author of the... Read More →

DIDComm and SSI pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 18:40 - 19:10 CEST
Virtual 4

Technical

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Aries
Slides Included Yes

18:40 CEST

Panel: Paving the Way to a Safer Travel Experience - Heather Dahl, & Scott Harris, Indicio.tech; Adrien Sanglier, SITA

Together SITA and Indicio.tech utilized Hyperledger Aries, Ursa, and Indy to create a secure travel credential that is accepted by airlines, hotels and hospitality partners without sharing private health information. In this panel discussion, SITA and Indicio.tech will share their journey of applying verifiable credentials in commercial aviation and travel/hospitality to make it easy for visitors entering a country to share a trusted traveler credential – based on their health status, yet revealing no personal information or health data – privately and securely on their mobile device. This program offers visitors access to participating hospitality, entertainment, and tour operators while having the ability to control their own data. We will focus on the broad concepts of privacy-preserving technology methods and their many applicable use cases in the travel industry.

Speakers

Scott Harris

Vice President, Business Operations, Indicio.tech

Scott brings over six years of experience in decentralized identity technology. He focuses on developing use cases that bring together business logic and monetization models with streamlined and regulatory compliant technical architecture. In the past six months, he has taken the... Read More →

Adrien Sanglier

Innovation Program Manager, SITA Lab

Adrien is Program Manager at SITA Lab, and runs the Blockchain & Digital Identity Research program. He brings experience developing innovations and proving new concepts on live customer environments. He is currently involved exploring the concept of self-sovereign identity for the... Read More →

Heather Dahl

CEO, Indicio

Heather is Co-founder and CEO of Indicio. Under her leadership, she has driven the company’s growth strategy and overseen its customer expansion and product development, including the launch of Proven™, the first complete market product for implementing and scaling open-source... Read More →

Paving Way to Safer Travel 06012021 pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 18:40 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 7

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Aries, Ursa
Slides Included Yes

19:10 CEST

Building a Hyperledger Indy Network - A Technical Overview - Lynn Bendixsen, Indicio, PBC

Lynn will briefly cover some preliminary considerations for building a Hyperledger Indy Network such as determining the scope and purpose, governance considerations, business and financial options, participating stakeholders, potential users, etc. Lynn will then deliver a detailed presentation describing the technical instantiation steps needed to set up a new Indy network. He will begin with describing the physical setup of nodes on a variety of different hosting environments. Next he will provide detailed information on building and sharing the genesis files. Then he will describe what will likely need to occur during the "initial instantiation" meeting where all of the genesis node operators meet to start the network. Lynn will also briefly share open source tools and documents related to the upgrading, monitoring, maintenance, and ongoing use of an Indy network.

Speakers

Lynn Bendixsen

Director of Network Operations, Indicio, PBC

Lynn has spent the last 2+ years delving into the intricacies involved in building and managing Hyperledger Indy networks. His knowledge of their operations is paralleled by few and he is now contributing that knowledge full-time to the Indicio, PBC team. In addition to currently... Read More →

Lynn Bendixsen HGF 2021.pptx pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 19:10 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 4

Technical

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Indy, Identity
Slides Included Yes

20:50 CEST

An Open Source Approach to Enable SSI Credentials at Scale - Michelle Ghazal & Nate Sulat, Kiva

In this session, Michelle and Nate will provide an overview and demo of Kiva’s use of Hyperledger Aries which allows people to extend existing applications with the capabilities that SSI credentials provide. This software was used for a pilot by the government of Sierra Leone to verify the identities of bank customers and grant access to digital identity wallets held in escrow on their behalf. Our initiative, Kiva Protocol, was awarded the Global Prize for the 2020 World Bank Mission Billion Challenge. This open-source system is available on GitHub and this session will show you how to get started. Kiva Protocol packages together tools out of Hyperledger Aries, Hyperledger Ursa, and Hyperledger Indy to digitize the civil registry and enable an ecosystem of standards-compliant verifiable credentials.

Speakers

Michelle Ghazal

Senior Front End Engineer, Kiva

Michelle Ghazal is a senior front-end engineer at Kiva working on Kiva Protocol, an open-source global digital identity verification system meant to address two of the major barriers to accessing financial services: a lack of formal identification and a lack of verifiable credit history.Previously... Read More →

Nate Sulat

Front End Engineer, Kiva

Nate Sulat is a Front End Engineer at Kiva working on their Protocol team, which seeks to create a more inclusive financial system by leveraging self-sovereign identity principles and technology to make identity verification and credit tracking easier for governments and financial... Read More →

ghazal sulat ssi credentials pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 20:50 - 21:05 CEST
Virtual 5

Demo Theater

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Aries, Ursa, Indy
Slides Included Yes

10:50 CEST

IDunion: A Public Utility for Verification of Identity Data in Finance, Manufacturing, Commerce, Public Sector and Healthcare - Andreas Kind & Marquart Franz, Siemens

IDunion is a cross-sector association of 27 partners that is building a production-level infrastructure for verification of identity data in finance, manufacturing, public sector and healthcare. The association addresses demand for migrating centralized identity systems towards decentralized self-sovereign management of digital identities for people, organizations and machines. IDunion has (i) launched an Hyperledger Indy test network, (ii) built components for allocation, verification and management of digital identities and (iii) researched aspects of governance, regulation (eIDAS, GDPR), cybersecurity, interoperability, business models and usability. This presentation will share the outcome, experience and challenges of the IDunion initiative, which might be valuable to guide developers of self-sovereign identity networks and give feedback on Hyperledger Indy/Aries.

Speakers

Dr. Andreas Kind

Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG

Marquart Franz

Senior Software Expert, Siemens AG

Marquart Franz is senior software expert at Siemens Technology. He is active in digitalization, IoT, blockchain, embedded systems and software architecture and has a long history as primary representative, officer and member in industry consortia and collaborations.

Siemens IDunion final pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Indy, Aries
Slides Included Yes

10:50 CEST

Universal Rendering of SSI Credentials - Horacio Nunez, Kiva

One of the keys for the successful adoption of self-sovereign technologies is the degree of visual relativity with its analog counterparts. In this presentation Horacio Nunez will discuss the current methods of visualizing SSI credentials and present a new open source approach towards a universal rendering built on top of Hyperledger Aries protocol. As part of our demonstration we will share how the application of this approach can improve the final UX of initiatives based on Kiva Protocol that actively aim to maximize financial inclusion in the development world.

Speakers

Horacio Nunez

Software Architect, Kiva

Horacio Nunez attended the University of Havana, Cuba for two years with a focus on Mathematics while performing research in programming languages design and functional data structures. He worked as Engineering Manager for Crunchyroll. Where he led the technical roadmap for Living... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Virtual 3

Technical

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Aries

18:40 CEST

TrustBloc: Fostering Secure Identity Verification in a Hybrid Solution - Dmitry Barinov, SecureKey Technologies Inc.

Verifiable credentials are an essential part of our digital identities. Driver’s licenses, passports and birth certificates are some of the documents used by companies and governments to verify individual identities prior to conducting transactions. Dmitry will speak to SecureKey’s TrustBloc, which will provide interoperability between decentralized solutions, making it easy for organizations to issue and accept verifiable credentials from users. This open-source initiative allows digital wallets to store and deliver information and authorize credentials like credit scores as part of a hybrid model solution. Dmitry will also touch on the Orbs decentralized identifier method, which enables users or entities to create self-certifying decentralized identifiers that are propagated across a decentralized network without reliance on a common blockchain for coordination.

Speakers

Dmitry Barinov

Chief Technology Officer, SecureKey Technologies Inc.

Dmitry Barinov, Chief Technology Officer of SecureKey, is a recognized industry leader with 18 years of experience in information technology and security. Prior to joining SecureKey, Dmitry led and delivered numerous technology, security, identity and risk management projects including... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 18:40 - 18:55 CEST
Virtual 5

Demo Theater

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity

18:40 CEST

Issuing Verifiable Credentials Signed by X.509 Certificates - Fernando Marino, CPQD

Self-Sovereign Identity applications have made significant advances leveraging blockchain technology and standards developed at Hyperledger. Nevertheless, the interoperability of those applications with legacy systems, and protocols in vogue still necessary towards deploying them in production. Come learn about the integration among DIDComm, Verifiable Credentials and CAdES signature using X.509 certificates are working right now in production to issue a digital prescription in Brazil.

Speakers

Fernando Marino

Blockchain Product Manager, CPQD Foundation

Graduated in 2014 in Information System from Metrocamp. In 2020 I did the "Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application" specialization from the MIT Sloan School of Management. I joined CPQD in 2014, working as a systems analyst and researcher in different projects... Read More →

Issuing Verifiable Credentials Signed by X.509 Certificates.pptx pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 18:40 - 19:10 CEST
Virtual 4

Technical

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English / Portuguese
Industry/Project Identity
Slides Included Yes

18:40 CEST

Panel: Start Simple to Scale Decentralized Identity - Heather Dahl & Kenneth Ebert, Indicio.tech, R. J. Reiser, Liquid Avatar Technologies

When beginning the journey toward decentralized identity deployment, the simpler the system you make, the more likely you are to be successful. In this discussion, Liquid Avatar Technologies and Indicio.tech will share how together they are transitioning the current KABN ID solution to verifiable credentials by building the Liquid Avatar Verifiable Credentials Ecosystem utilizing Hyperledger Aries, Ursa, and Indy. This new system will enable online identity assurance which includes a digital credentials wallet and platform for issuers, verifiers, and individuals. By first focusing a simple deployment of decentralized identity, along with supporting marketing and governance, it allows for an iterative implementation in a controlled credential environment versus the chaos that can ensue when trying to attempt a larger scale roll-out in the early days.

Speakers

Ken Ebert

CTO, Indicio

Prior to Indicio.tech, Ken was the Sovrin Foundation Software Architect and Open Standards Engineer providing improved functionality and interoperability, such as rich schema support for the Sovrin ecosystem, while also editing community efforts to build and deploy the software. He... Read More →

Heather Dahl

CEO, Indicio

RJ Reiser

Chief Business Development Officer, Liquid Avatar

RJ is the Chief Business Development Officer at Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc. Liquid Avatar is focused on leveraging Blockchain and Biometrics to protect Digital Identity in support of consumer protection regulations like GDPR, PIPEDA and CCPA. Mr. Reiser’s career has been focused... Read More →

Start Simple 06012021 pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 18:40 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 7

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Aries, Ursa, Indy
Slides Included Yes

19:10 CEST

The Right to be Forgotten Meets Blockchain: Native GDPR Compliance for Hyperledger Fabric - Yacov Manevich, IBM

Append-only structures such as blockchain, never forget their past. Once user data gets into a block, it stays there forever. The right to be forgotten seems to be in conflict with this nature, and at first glance, erasure of user data and blockchains, cannot coexist. We present how GDPR compliance can be easily and simply incorporated into Hyperledger Fabric in a native manner, which grants users with the right to be forgotten. Our design draws from Hyperledger Fabric's unique architecture, and modifies the block structure in a backward compatible manner, eliminating user data from the blockchain without sacrificing correctness or consistency . We evaluated our solution and found that it provides GDPR compliance with only a minimal performance overhead, making it a viable solution for Hyperledger Fabric or any other execute-order-validate type blockchain.

Speakers

Yacov Manevich

Research Staff Member, IBM

I started working at IBM Research as an intern in parallel to my studies towards a BSc in computer science in the Technion (Technion - Israel institute of technology) and transitioned into a full time position after completing my BSc in 2016. Since early 2017, I became deeply involved... Read More →

GDPR slides pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 19:10 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 6

Technical

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Fabric
Slides Included Yes

19:50 CEST

Verifiable Credentials and KYC - Returning Control Back to the Customer, a Loyalty Case Study - Mahesh Balan, Pravici LLC

In this presentation, Mahesh Balan, CEO of Pravici will present a unique approach to handling customer data in the context of a Loyalty program. Traditional loyalty applications and CRM systems store detailed PII data. What if we changed that paradigm and instead returned the full control of PII data to the member of the loyalty program ?. A member can then have full control of their PII data, in the form of a verifiable credential stored in an Identity Wallet in their loyalty app. At Pravici, we have built a loyalty application for consortiums based on Hyperledger Fabric which allows a set of companies to cooperate and run a common loyalty application. Inspired by Hyperledger Indy and Aries projects, we now have a novel approach to storing and using member PII data, minimizing risk for both the member and the loyalty consortium.

Speakers

Mahesh Balan

CEO, Pravici LLC

Mahesh Balan Profile Co-founder of Pravici LLC, a company focused on CRM, Loyalty, Verifiable Credentials and Blockchain solutions. Pravici's award winning (check out https://dlt.mobi/mgc ) Tokenized Loyalty Points™ is a patent pending software product that democratizes the sale... Read More →

Hyperledger 2021 Pravici TLP mp4

Pravici Hyperledger GlobalForum2021 PPT pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 19:50 - 20:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity
Slides Included Yes

20:20 CEST

Digital ID: Understanding Perceptions and Expectations - Alissa Worley & Christine Leong, Accenture

”Identity” is part of our everyday lives—in banking, paying bills, on social media, or boarding a plane. At its core, identity in a digital world is about trust – trust that each party in an interaction is who they say they are. Accenture is currently conducting research that explores impressions of, attitudes around and behaviors influencing, identity, privacy, data sharing mindsets—the transactional element of our personal data. What will it take to drive not only acceptance but demand for digital identity capabilities in how we engage with businesses and organizations? How do these attitudes differ by jurisdiction and experience? What is the appetite for a new model of digital id that gives us greater control and confidence around who we're interacting with in a digital world? This presentation will showcase these findings with a Q+A discussion to follow about what it means.

Speakers

Alissa Worley

Global Marketing Director - Blockchain | Multiparty Systems, Accenture

Christine Leong

Managing Director, MPS Digital Identity Lead, Accenture

Christine leads Accenture’s Decentralized Identity & Biometrics group globally and is also part of the global blockchain leadership team. She has over 20 years of experience in technology focused on security. Prior to her experience in IT, Christine worked for 9+ years in financial... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 20:20 - 20:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Beginner
Language English
Industry/Project Identity

10:10 CEST

Identity Proofing Solution Combining HL Indy and Fabric - Mark Rakhmilevich, Oracle & Mike Vesey, IdRamp

The need for trusted identity is growing with remote workforce and online government services due to the pandemic and risk of fraud and data leaks. Decentralized verifiable identity meets this need with a strong trust model. Speakers will demo identity proofing and issuance of verifiable credentials to a city resident. Oracle Blockchain Platform (HL Fabric) manages data gathering & audit logging. IdRamp services based on HL Indy/Aries running in the Oracle Cloud ensure interoperability & protect PII. In the demo a resident requests city credentials by scanning physical documents for automated and human verification, then uses their credentials for verified access to a court hearing. Verifiable credentials support universal access to city services and, with self-sovereign approval, can be shared with other jurisdictions, avoiding additional physical proofing and the risk of sharing PII.

Speakers

Mark Rakhmilevich

Senior Director, Blockchain Product Management, Oracle

Mark Rakhmilevich is Senior Director of Blockchain Product Management at Oracle and is responsible for Blockchain Technologies strategy and products. As part of Product Development organization he guides the evolution of Oracle Blockchain Platform and related web3 technologies in... Read More →

Mike Vesey

CEO, IdRamp

Mike has created several companies that provide transformational digital solutions for the global enterprise. He has developed award-winning products in unified communications, service operations, security, identity, and data management. Mike has deployed complex identity integrations... Read More →

IdRamp Oracle Id Proofing v4 pdf

Thursday June 10, 2021 10:10 - 10:40 CEST
Virtual 4

Technical

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Indy, Fabric
Slides Included Yes

18:40 CEST

Panel: Self-Sovereign Identity for Economic Empowerment: Lessons from Africa - Anna Johnson, Trinsic; Thea Sommerseth Myhren, Diwala; Lohan Spies, DIDx; Fabian Portmann, Farmer Connect; Bryan Pon, Kiva

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a movement that claims digital identity should be just as legitimate and nuanced as a person’s human identity, while being accessible to all, privacy-preserving, and not reliant on a single government or corporation. The worldwide adoption of SSI has the potential to increase people's access to goods and services, including for disadvantaged individuals that do not have a government ID. Kiva, DIDx, and Farmer Connect are all using SSI backed by Hyperledger Aries/Indy to economically empower people in Africa. The panelists will specifically focus on the successes and obstacles that each of them have faced in helping to bring SSI to Africa. The speakers will share insights from each of their respective projects which are diverse in industry and use case.

Speakers

Thea Sommerseth Myhren

CEO & Co-founder, Diwala

Bryan Pon

Kiva

Anna Johnson

Director of Marketing, Trinsic

Anna is the Director of Marketing at Trinsic, the proof of anything platform that makes it easy and secure for participants in any ecosystem, marketplace, or network to instantly prove things about themselves. Previous to Trinsic, Anna worked at the Sovrin Foundation and helped develop... Read More →

Fabian Portmann

CTO, Farmer Connect

Fabian is the Chief Technology Officer at Farmer Connect, a Swiss-born tech startup creating blockchain-compatible, traceable supply chains to eliminate supply chain inefficiencies and to connect consumers straight to the farmers who create the products they use. Before Farmer Connect... Read More →

Lohan Spies

Founder & CEO, DIDx

Lohan has been a co-founder of various cybersecurity and blockchain-based ventures in digital identity and personal data protection, a DApp called Amply aimed towards dematerialising the early childhood development subsidy claims to optimising the impact market with the ixo protocol... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 18:40 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Social Impact