In 2015, blockchain was trying to solve everything. It was at this point, at the Internet Identity Workshop, I first heard blockchain uttered in the same sentence as digital identity. At that time, I was not a fan of using blockchain with digital identity.
Over the past five years, I’ve come to understand the power of a new digital identity paradigm — a technology layer, based on standards, where individuals, and legal entities collect their digital identities and credentials (including ones they asserted themselves), and securely and privately share them with businesses, governments, websites and anyone else. We call this “Self-Sovereign Identity” or SSI for short. And we’ve recently reached the end of the beginning phase of this revolutionary new technology. What can we expect in the next phase of technology development?
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Heather Vescent
Heather Vescent is a widely-recognized industry thought leader and futurist with more than a decade of experience delivering strategic intelligence consulting to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs.
As Founder, President and CEO of The Purple Tornado, Heather has demonstrated expertise in a range of fields including trends in the future of money, economies, identity, wearable tech, relationships, augmented intelligence, IoT, cybersecurity, and humanity. She also helped build and launch more than 50 Internet products at over 30 startups from 1996 to 2005.
Heather’s research has been covered in the New York Times, CNN, American Banker, CNBC, Fox, and the Atlantic. She is co-author of the Cyber Attack Survival Manual as well as The Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity. Her work has won multiple awards from the Association of Professional Futurists.