** Listeners of the SSI Orbit Podcast can use this special discount code for 20% off their IIW32 ticket purchase: ‘SSIOrbit_XXXII_20’. Apply the code to your purchase here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-iiwxxxii-32-2021a-tickets-131551119941?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch. ** In today’ conversation, I welcome Kaliya Young, often referred to as Identity Woman, for a Sneak Peak on what to expect from IIW 32, the 32nd Internet Identity Workshop, which will be hosted virtually. For over 15 years, it has been the premier place to bring together the largest concentration of talent dedicated to designing and building identity systems that empower individuals. Kaliya is an internationally recognized expert in Self-Sovereign or Decentralized Digital Identity, and a Co-Founder and Co-Producer of this event with Doc Searls and Phil Windley. Since its inception she has been the main Designer and Facilitator of IIW. The semi-annual event has been key to fostering innovation, collaboration and adoption of user-centric identity technologies. During this conversation dedicated to the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) with Kaliya “IdentityWoman” Young, we discuss: What’s taking up most of Kaliya’s time nowadays between her role as the Ecosystem Director for the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative and leading the Interoperability Task Force of the Good Health Pass Initiative; How the Digital ID Space has innovated and evolved through IIW through the past 15 years; What to expect from this year’s first IIW; How Verifiable Credential Tech can end the way ID Proofing is done today and drastically improve authentication and security techniques such as 2FA and security tokens; How Health credentials have been approached from a governance and interoperability perspective; How BBS+ is exciting for real interoperability; The impact of culture on the adoption of Self-Sovereign Identity. Again, listeners of this podcast who haven’t registered yet for IIW, or maybe are on the fence about registering, can get a 20% discount by applying this discount code → ‘SSIOrbit_XXXII_20’ to your purchase here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-iiwxxxii-32-2021a-tickets-131551119941?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch. I look forward to seeing you all there. --- Here is her newsletter I recommend you subscribe to for detailed weekly updates on the decentralized identity community: https://newsletter.identosphere.net/. This is the paper Kaliya referenced early on in the conversation about interoperability: https://www.lfph.io/2021/02/11/cci-verifiable-credentials-flavors-and-interoperability-paper/. Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/next-internet-identity-workshop-iiw/

During this conversation about Patient-Centric Identity Management for Healthcare, we discuss: Jim’s vast experience and expertise in healthcare IT and today’s leading standards that healthcare operators must follow when dealing with patient health data; The patient era, the next evolution of healthcare, and how the work happening at the Lumedic Exchange is enabling this. The Lumedic Exchange is exciting as it’s an open ecosystem for collaboration around patient-centric health advancements and they’re working on developing trust frameworks for this decentralized model, and much more through various working groups they host; Lumedic Connect, the toolkits to enable these processes to use Verifiable Credentials; Link to the Patient Era illustration we refer to a couple times throughout the episode: https://www.lumedic.io/perspectives/introducing-the-patient-era -- As the Chief Trust Officer for the Lumedic Exchange, the first internationally available patient-centric data exchange platform, Jim leads the development and harmonization of W3C verifiable credential data standards across healthcare and identity use cases. Additionally, as part of Tegria, a services and solutions company launched by Providence, one of the nation’s largest health systems, Jim joins Providence leaders directly contributing to HL7 project teams. Jim works closely to identify opportunities to leverage new developments in data standards and contribute technical advancements back to HL7, ISO, and IEEE standards development. Given the dramatic changes in technology and healthcare delivery, Jim previously founded the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology, which upon inception will be a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the healthcare value chain to reduce costs and streamline access and delivery of healthcare. IHFT builds on the innovations of financial, insurance and healthcare technology, especially in such concepts as distributed ledgers, blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Jim is a 2019 and 2020 FedHealthIT 100 winner, and is also active in the Healthcare Committee for the Government Blockchain Association, and member of the HIMSS Healthcare Blockchain Working Group. He is an advisor to multiple healthcare Blockchain start-ups, and guest lectures on Blockchain and technology at Universities and Industry. Jim has worked with large and small companies focusing on Agile development and project management, cyber security and healthcare information technology. Prior to that, Jim was Senior Director for Interoperability at HIMSS, a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Jim is a veteran and former naval officer, having served in both active and reserve capacity. -- Follow Jim St-Clair https://twitter.com/jstclair1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimstclair/ Follow Mathieu Glaude https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/

In today’s episode, I talk about the importance of data inputs and semantics with joined by Paul Knowles, an individual who defines himself as a semantic nerd. - How Paul leverages his 25 years of experience as a data semantics expert in the Pharma industry for decentralized identity - The Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) – a safe and secure data sharing economy - The Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) - Community involvement at the Trust Over IP Foundation, Sovrin Foundation, MyData Global and more!-- -- Paul Knowles has a degree in Information Business Systems Technology from the University of Essex in Colchester, UK.  His reputation as a data semantics expert and innovator has been established through a 25-year career in pharmaceutical biometrics where he has worked with companies including Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen and Pfizer. In terms of decentralized data initiatives, Paul is the innovation lead behind the Master Mouse Model (MMM), a conceptual model for a Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) – a safe and secure data sharing economy. He is also the inventor of the Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) and the main spearhead behind the Blinding Identity Taxonomy (BIT), both of which facilitate a unified data language so that harmonized data can be utilized by dynamic data sharing hubs for improved data science, statistics, analytics and other meaningful services. Paul is the Head of the Advisory Council at Human Colossus Foundation, a convener of the ToIP Inputs & Semantics WG, Head of Communications at Sovrin Foundation, a co-lead of the Covid Credentials Initiative’s “Use Case Implementation” workstream, a co-founder of MyData Health and an active contributing member at MyData Global and Kantara Initiative. Follow Paul Knowles Twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticnerd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenral Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/ Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/semantics-for-ssi-with-paul-knowles/

This episode covers, - Using a crypto background to understand get excited about Decentralized ID for #SocialImpact - Becoming a founding Steward of Sovrin Foundation & launching Tykn to help refugees and people who've lost their identities - Working with the Turkish Government to issue Work Permit docs to their Syrian Refugee population - User experience design and Tykn’s approach to SSI wallets and enterprise applications. -- Jimmy J.P. is the co-founder and CEO of Tykn. Jimmy is a social entrepreneur, business developer and public speaker currently residing in The Hague, The Netherlands. After having worked as a professional musician in Spain and having started his first company in The Netherlands before the age of 20, Jimmy co-founded the now award-winning digital ID company Tykn. As an evangelist of data privacy and an early adopter of crypto, Jimmy has spoken about the merits of blockchain and self-sovereign identity at conferences and institutions worldwide since 2017, and has been featured in multiple publications, including The Guardian. In this conversation, Jimmy and I discuss how his background in crypto led him towards understanding and being excited about decentralized identity for social impact, how he got into SSI by being a founding steward of Sovrin, launching Tykn to help refugees and people that lost their identities, working with the Turkish Government to help issue Work Permit docs to their Syrian Refugee population, user experience design and Tykn’s approach to SSI wallets and enterprise applications.  I very much enjoyed the conversation with Jimmy - I think we could have spent many hours talking about this stuff. Enjoy! Follow Jimmy J.P. Snoek Twitter: https://twitter.com/idforgood LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-jp-snoek/ Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/ Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/self-sovereign-identity-for-social-impact-with-jimmy-snoek/

Adrian is one of the best advocates of self-sovereign identity out there. He describes himself as being on a quest to explore decentralized solutions to counter these threatening business practices. He focuses on providing basic education about self-sovereign identity via SSI Ambassador and building a strong community for the Lissi Initiative, a SSI Wallet focused on internationalization and has been made available in 12 languages. Adrian is also involved with the IDUnion organization, where they are creating an open ecosystem for decentralized identity management oriented towards European values and regulations. In this conversation, Adrian and I discuss how he got into SSI, his work on LISSI and IDUnion, how important contextualization & internationalization are for user experience design in SSI Wallets, using SSI in the decentralized assets world, bridging the gap between crypto and institutions using SSI and more. Enjoy! Follow Adrian Doerk Twitter: https://twitter.com/doerkadrian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-doerk/ Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/ Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/ssi-digital-wallets-and-internationalizing-ssi-products/

Heather Dahl is CEO of Indicio.tech. She was previously Executive Director & CEO of Sovrin Foundation, a public service utility enabling self-sovereign digital identity on the internet. She is also Co-Founder of CynjaTech which provides microledger data security, encrypted communication channels and guardianship tools for blockchain technology. In this conversation we discuss how simplifying SSI education is critical to its broad adoption, Indicio's mission and transition into a public benefits corporation, lessons learned from working at Sovrin, the importance of usability, accessibility, guardianship and more to achieve sustainable social benefits, creating business models and incentive mechanisms for public identity utility node operators and finally takeaways from working alongside existing enterprise and start-ups. Follow Heather Dahl Twitter: https://twitter.com/heathercdahl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathercdahl/ Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/ Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website: https://northernblock.io/removing-roadblocks-to-ssi-adoption/

André Kudra, CIO at esatus AG, discusses SSI from an InfoSec context, replacing passwords with verifiable credentials, integrating into existing enterprise IAM systems, complementing Zero Trust frameworks, adopting SSI for enterprises, and Germany's prioritization of SSI as a national strategy.

Joni Brennan is the President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). She builds on nearly 20 years of experience in digital identity innovations and standards development. Joni helps DIACC to fulfill its vision of unlocking interoperability of public and private sector capabilities through the establishment of an identity trust framework that will grow Canada’s economy. Joni is recognized as a One World Identity top 100 global influencers of identity. In this conversation, we discuss Digital ID 101 – Defining Digital ID, Digital ID in Canada, the DIACC and the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF), the challenges of achieving digital trust and using collaboration to achieve it. Follow Joni Brennan Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonibrennan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonibrennan/ Follow Mathieu Glaude Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/ Listen to this podcast episode with full transcription here: https://northernblock.io/digital-identity-in-canada/