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March was book-ended with virtual events featuring Kantara. Regular readers of this blog may recall my mention of the US Treasury's Financial Sector Policy Roundtable on February 9th. It was a great session (closed to most associations) where members Easy Dynamics, ForgeRock, IDEMIA, ID.me, Mastercard International and MIT Trust :: Data Consortium, together with myself representing Kantara, covered a range of topics across digital identity solutions, Trust Frameworks and certification, Digital Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and Blockchain, Risk and Fraud, and latest implementations. It was another great session where Kantara was referenced a number of times in the context of go-to best practice.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 April 20-22 with VRM day curtain-raising on April 19. Several members are presenting sessions at IIW 31, tho' I am only aware of Identos's contribution, which will be in the Demo hour, showcasing their 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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