LFDT Netherlands

A quick introduction of Sheila Ghosh:
System architect for the EDI system in the Netherlands. Started in 2000 as an architect for the Dutch government and was the architect for the first version of DigiD and MijnOverheid.
Bio below, more on LinkedIN.

A quick introduction of Henk van Cann:
KERI Foundation, KERICONF 2026 and onwards, contributing to LFDT-TrustoverIP with documentation and educational resources.
Lagos, Portugal, and Haarlem, The Netherlands
Bio below, more on LinkedIN.

Meetup – Comparing SEDI and the KERI Protocol with the eIDAS-based EUDI Wallet Model
(KERISuite: Free Open-source Identifier Systems Software under TrustoverIP Foundation that is anchored in LFDT)

Monday June 29, 7:00 PM
Amsterdam area (exact location to be announced)
A meetup about SEDI and its supporting KERI protocol, and how this compares to the EUDI Wallet (eIDAS-based) that will be introduced across Europe.

### In short

• SEDI = Model legislated in the State of Utah (US): State-Endorsed Digital Identity. The state endorses a digital identity, while the citizen remains in control.
• KERISuite = technical foundation for secure, self-controlled, persistent, cryptographically verifiable digital identity.
• eIDAS = European legal framework for electronic identification and trust services.
• EUDI Wallet = the European Digital Identity Wallet under eIDAS 2.0, enabling citizens and organizations to store and share digital credentials.

### The relation between these concepts

SEDI and eIDAS/EUDI represent two policy approaches to digital identity: Some US states versus EU.

KERI/KERISuite can be seen as a possible technical infrastructure for implementing such models in a privacy-preserving, decentralized, and verifiable manner.
SEDI places more emphasis on individual sovereignty and state endorsement. Sheila: "... “while eIDAS/EUDI not only emphasizes EU-wide interoperability and legal recognition, but puts privacy, security, and ease of use at its core. Building trust among European residents is an important part of broader adoption.”

The meetup is organized by the Permissionless Society Meetup Group and supported by the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT).

### Speakers

• Introduction to SEDI and the KERI protocol — Henk van Cann
• From DigiD to the European Digital Identity Wallet - Sheila Ghosh

Free entrance.
Doors open at 6:45 PM.

The meetup starts exactly at 7:00 PM. At 8:30 PM we'll have a drink and a chat.

Also announced here: https://www.meetup.com/permissionless-society/events/314848909/

Bio Sheila Ghosh
Sheila Ghosh has been working on digital identity and government digitization for more than 25 years. She started as an architect for the Dutch government in 2000 and was involved in the first versions of DigiD and MijnOverheid.
Since then, she has helped many government organizations with digital identity projects and digital transformation. In this Meetup, Sheila will share her perspective on the European Digital Identity (EDI) Wallet, explain its core concepts, and discuss the standards that underpin it.

Bio Henk van Cann

1. MSc Management and Computer Science (1992) and BSc Water and Soil Management (1987)
2. Co-founder ‘Permission-less Society’ Meetups (2016-today)
3. Trainer of teachers at Blockchain Workspace (2016-2020)
4. KERI Suite documentation and education (2021-today)
5. Co-chair Concepts & terminology of Lunix Foundation Decentralized Trust /Trust over IP foundation (2023-2025)
6. Founding chairman of KERI Foundation LLC (2024-today)
7. Organizer of the KERICONF26 in Utah, US (2025-today)

In this webinar, we'll walk through how organizations can easily create and manage on-chain identity for everything they deploy, using ENS as the identity layer supported by Enscribe (https://www.enscribe.xyz/). We'll show how protocols can name and manage their smart contracts, wallets, and agents under a unified namespace, making their on-chain presence verifiable, human-readable, and auditable.

Please note: This event is being shared with our entire global community. If you're interested in this content but can't attend the event live, feel free to sign up and we will send you a link to the recording after the meetup is over.

With the announcement of Lineth (https://github.com/LFDT-Lineth) as a new Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust incubating project, we're opening the hood on the full stack in our first community Technical Deep Dive.

Lineth is a production-grade, EVM-equivalent zk-rollup stack for Ethereum - the same codebase that has powered Linea Mainnet since July 2023, finalizing over 300 million transactions and generating more than 416,000 zero-knowledge proofs with 99.98% sequencer uptime. It is now in a vendor-neutral, open source home under LFDT, governed by a Technical Steering Committee and with more than 30 project maintainers.

This session is your entry point into the architecture, the community, and the roadmap.

Agenda:

• Welcome & Housekeeping
• Why Lineth
• Use cases & Interoperability
• High Level Architecture Overview
• Roadmap
• Open Discussions & Q&A

Stay tuned in #lineth-general on LFDT Discord for updates and to join the community.

Please note: This event is being shared with our entire global community. If you're interested in this content but can't attend the event live, feel free to sign up and we will send you a link to the recording after the meetup is over.