A Self-Sovereign Identity Standard For Ethereum

Self-sovereign identity means that the individual has ownership over their personal data and control over how, when, and to whom that personal data is revealed.

On Thursday afternoon, Fabian Vogelsteller, will come to Barcelona to talk about the new standar for Digital ID on the Blockchain : ERC725

Agenda :

• Introduction to Self Sovereign ID on the Blockchain. Alex Puig

• Understanding Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). Jose Luis Muñoz

• A Self-Sovereign Identity Standard For Ethereum. Fabian Vogelsteller

Fabian is the developer in charge of the Ðapp and other user facing applications for the Ethereum project. He was intimately involved in building Ethereum’s best known projects, like the Mist Browser, the Ethereum Wallet, web3.js and the ERC-20 Token Standard with Vitalik (the founder of Ethereum).

Alex Puig. Founder of Digital Currency Summit, the first conference about virtual currencies for the financial world. he also founded Alastria Blockchain Ecosystem, the first National Wide semi-public blockchain Platform and leads the Technical Team at Caelum Labs, a Blockchain consultancy and development firm based in Barcelona.

Jose Luis Muñoz Tapia is a Telecommunications Engineer and also has a PhD about digital certificates revocation, both by the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). At the present, he is an associate professor at the UPC Computer Networks Department. His research work focuses on the field of computer networks, virtualization, network security, cryptography and applications for blockchain. In this area, he is co-author of dozens of articles in magazines and congresses, as well as project evaluator for the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda (MINECO)