Self Sovereign Identity (Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym)

"SSI" (Self-Sovereign Identity) is the hot new model for decentralized digital identity and trust based on digital wallets and digital credentials. It's also the title of a new book released in July and already going into its second printing. In this talk, Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym and co-author of the book, will explain what SSI is, where it is catching on, and why it is such a promising new addition to mobile and cloud computing.

Drummond has spent over two decades in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Chief Trust Officer at SSI pioneer Evernym, co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group. At the Sovrin Foundation, he served as co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group for five years. From 2005-2015 he was co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee, a semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Drummond has also served as Executive Director for two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, and as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he received the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was cited as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.