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Reserve your ticket before it's too late
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***Event update: We are thrilled to announce that Orange Silicon Valley is our newest sponsor for SSI Incubator's kickoff event and will be providing its beautiful office location in San Francisco for the event venue! Orange Silicon Valley is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators, serving more than 264 million customers across 28 countries. We are thrilled to have this innovative organization join Hyperledger as a sponsor of our upcoming event.***
Tickets are going fast! Reserve your spot to attend SSI Incubator's kick-off event on the evening of Tuesday, September 17 at 6:00 pm PDT. Learn about current developments in the SSI world, the future of digital identity, and meet the early-stage identity startups in our Fall 2019 cohort.
Representatives from Blockstack, globaliD, Hyperledger, Microsoft, Sovrin, and uPort will discuss digital identity and more in a panel discussion titled "The State of Digital Identity: Bringing Blockchain, Decentralization, and Self-Sovereign ID to the Internet".
The event will be emceed by:
- Dr. Phil Windley, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Sovrin Foundation
The panel will be moderated by:
- Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger
Confirmed speakers include:
- Daniel Buchner, Decentralized Identity, Microsoft
- Xan Ditkoff, Production Partner, Blockstack
- Pelle Braendgaard, CTO, uPort (a ConsenSys formation)
- Heather C. Dahl, CEO & Executive Director, Sovrin Foundation
- Greg Kidd, co-founder of Hard Yaka, co-founder & CEO of globaliD
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SSI Incubator's Fall 2019 cohort
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In case you missed last week's announcement, here are the fours startups which were selected to participate in the Self-Sovereign Identity's Fall 2019 cohort:
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A call for mentors and sponsors
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There are multiple opportunities to participate in the SSI Incubator including:
- Volunteer as a business/technical mentor to guide a SSI-based startup through its early development stages. The 12-week incubator is designed to get the incubator participants ready to present for the SSI Demo Day—the culminating event where they will showcase their SSI solution to a room full of investors. The SSI Incubator is looking for mentors who will share their expertise with the world's most-promising emerging early-stage SSI companies.
- Become an SSI Incubator sponsor. The SSI Incubator is hosting a number of digital identity events in San Francisco this Fall and Winter including a SSI Demo Day in December. By becoming a sponsor of the SSI Incubator, you will be recognized as an advocate for SSI adoption and innovation among industry leaders.
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- Blockchain to be used to improve medical trials, Omnitude and Clinical Connex partner: Clinical Connex plans to use Omnitude's blockchain architecture and self-sovereign identity to ensure greater accuracy and transparency in conduct trials.
- Digital Bazaar collaborates with GS1 US, SecureKey and TradeLens on global standards for organizational identity: Digital Bazaar, in collaboration with 20 other organizations, recently announced a proof of concept for digital identity management based on global identity standards.
- Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter approved; Call for participation: The W3C announced the approval of the Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter which has the mission to standardize the DID URI scheme, the data model and syntax of DID Documents, and the requirements for DID Method specifications.
- Nuggets, Onfido team up for private payment and identity solution: Nuggets, an e-commerce payments and ID platform is using Onfido's identity verification technology to provide a SSI identity to its users.
- Javascript DID Resolver: uPort announced it donated the code for its did-resolver, to the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) to support the work of building open identity standards.
- Blockstack’s Reg A general offering exceeds 75 percent subscription: More than 75 percent of the Blockstack general offering is now subscribed and there are talks happening with international exchanges around the possibility of potential listings of Stacks tokens.
- Consumer Reports launches digital lab to rate on privacy, inform policy: Consumer Reports is hiring a team of engineers, technologists, and investigative journalists to test products for privacy and security in an effort to hold companies and the U.S. government to a higher standard when it comes to digital identity.
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- Data privacy vs. data secrecy: The danger of worrying about the wrong issue: "The discussions around self-sovereign identity are still new; it is a young concept but a promising one." —Forbes, Sept. 3, 2019
- California adopted the country’s first major consumer privacy law. Now, Silicon Valley is trying to rewrite it.: "And they reflected just how hard Facebook, Google and other tech giants in Silicon Valley have tried to muscle changes into the country’s first-ever consumer privacy law before its protections take effect in January." —The Washington Post, Sept. 3, 2019
- When apps get your medical data, your privacy may go with it: "Federal privacy protections, which limit how health providers and insurers may use and share medical records, no longer apply once patients transfer their data to consumer apps." —The New York Times, Sept. 3, 2019
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- Blockchain trends in 2019: "CB Insights examined 18 of the biggest blockchain trends, covering everything from bitcoin mining to security tokens to smart contract platforms. Using the NExTT framework, we looked at the industry adoption and market strength of these trends, categorizing them as necessary, experimental, threatening, or transitory (NExTT)." —CB Insights
- A comprehensive guide to self-sovereign identity: "With the emergence of SSI open standards, a new layer of the internet emerges for the identity of people and organizations. SSI represents a new paradigm -- it changes the identity game completely." —Heather Vescent and Kaliya Young
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“The Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to. This limits what we can do with it and exposes us to growing dangers. If we do nothing, we will face rapidly proliferating episodes of theft and deception which will cumulatively erode public trust in the Internet. ”
—Kim Cameron, Architect of Identity and Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft
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