Hello everyone
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Joining Kantara in March were new members Zenia Vasquez, Dedra Chamberlin, Manvendra Kumar and Roger Quint, together with renewing members Hindle Consulting and John Wunderlich. Thank you all! And for renewing members it's great to have your continued support!
The new Board has started work in earnest. Experian, Airside and Wedacon, together with LC Board rep Andrew Hughes have met several times to begin framing what the future might look like for Work and Discussion Groups to put to the Membership for consideration later in the year, while President Matt and myself worked on the ED succession plan the details of which members received before it went public.
March was book-ended with virtual events featuring Kantara. FinTechTalents Identity aired on March 17th, but of course the prep and pre-record activity started as the month opened. I had the pleasure of moderating a panel with Dai Banerji representing Women in Identity, Gail our friend and fellow mDL journeyer Hodges from the Future Identity Council, Andrew Black from Natwest Bank and David Pollington from the GSMA. We developed discussion themes around the topic of ‘Privacy Enhancing, Consent Based Digital Identity'. We had a great discussion on whether the financial service sector embrace a decentralised ID model?, How can we ensure to build Digital Identity which enhances privacy and consent, granting users control over how their personal credentials are shared? and 'Are users actually ready to take control of their digital identity?'. March 29-30 saw Kantara undertak something very different. We were honored to be asked to have a virtual booth in the virtual exhibit hall of the virtual ONC Annual meeting. This was a significant undertaking in a short space of time and Kantara is indebted to members Identos, Patient Centric Solutions, Airside, ForgeRock, Tom Jones and Dr Tom Sullivan and non member participant Jim Kragh to prepare new videos, modify existing presentations, project manage and attend the booth over the 2 days. As I tweeted at the time, it was a surreal experience and quieter than we had hoped, but nonetheless we were delighted to receive interest and a qualified prospect for conformance to Kantara's 63-3 Class of Approval under our Identity Assurance conformity assessment and certification scheme.
The April events schedule is a lighter lift for Kantara with its support of International Identity Day on April 13th and Internet Identity Workshop 31 32 April 20-22 with VRM day curtain-raising on April 19. Several members are presenting sessions at IIW 3132, tho' I am only aware of Identos's contributiondetails, which will be in the Demo hour, showcasing their its work in the HealthCare space in Canada that has received significant press coverage recently.
Speaking of events, the last week of February and into this first week of March, saw an onslaught of events that Kantara has been approached to speak or exhibit at. Keep an eye on Kantara's events page as the near-term ones get loaded. Included in them are
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Then we have Think Digital Identity of Government UK May 21
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The All-Member-Ballot for the slate of four Directors-at-Large was successful, and they were fully engaged on the February Board call. Some have settled into the Board priority areas and I'll keep you updated on progress there.
There was so much more that went on in February that we can talk more about in March, but you have the highlights in this nutshell.
Stay safe, well and above all where Kantara is participating in two panels as well as supporting the event through partnership.
Beyond events Kantara expects to make several important announcements in April arising from exciting collaboration with and between members in different parts of the world. If you are not a member so don't have access to news before it breaks, sign up to receive KantaraNews and follow @KantaraNews on Twitter as well as Kantara on LinkedIn. And as I sign off this month's post on Good Friday in the Christian calendar, indeed it has been just that in a different context for Kantara and another two members after an exciting (potentially dial-moving!) call regarding a new project.
Stay safe, get vaccinated if you can, and keep happy.
Kind regards,
Colin
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