First virtual conference for Decentralized ID

Hi everyone,

Please share or blog about this public facing virtual summit about 
decentralized ID as soon as possible:

    *https://businessofblockchain.com/web/virtual-summits/blockchain-id/*

The event happens on 7/24 and is a free half day webinar series to bring 
awareness about DIDs to the market.

This is a significant outreach effort, as the conference producer GSMI 
has a decent mailing list as well as over 20 media sponsors that 
represent millions of people, directly interested in crypto/blockchain. 
They have already committed capital and resources to support our event, 
including professional post production and a high production value 
bandwidth/webinar platform that can support 1000 participants. However, 
event publishers are like book publishers in that they need to see 
"traction" before committing more serious resources... they need to see 
that our loosely affiliated network can transition into a platform, 
which allows us to demonstrate the ability to get market traction for 
ideas that are worth sharing.

The potential upside is real and very promising - they're poised to 
produce more webinars, maybe a physical conference on decentralized ID, 
and market facing support through their channels to turn decentralized 
ID into the "next big thing". Also, this increases our access to 
customers and investors, so we want to put our best foot forward here. 
If we do things right, we can propel this into a tipping point for the 
DID movement. However, we really need for each and everyone one of you 
to participate in making this happen.

What the CCG will get out of this is the mailing list, which the chairs 
of the group will manage. This is a digital commons that could serve 
CCG, but we must manage it carefully, to insure it thrives. Plus, 
whether we're ready or not, it's a first impression for DIDs to the 
world at large, so we want to make a good first impression.

What YOU (personally) will get out of it are: more opportunities for all 
of us to speak to a larger audience – day 2 of this event is pending how 
well Day 1 goes and will be focused on crypto and the social impact of 
DIDs. Plus, we're assembling a repository of white papers and materials 
to give to attendees, and you can submit your white paper to a curated 
collection of reading materials.

Speakers for Day 1 include these members of our community:

  * Daniel Buchner, Senior PM - Leading Decentralized Identity, Microsoft
  * Christopher Allen, Blockchain Security & Decentralized Identity
    Standards Architect & Advisor
  * Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer, Evernym
  * Kim Hamilton Duffy, CTO Learning Machine
  * Manu Sporny, CEO DigitalBazaar and Veres.One
  * Dr. Jonathan Holt, Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, CEO
    TranSendX
  * Phil Windley, Chair, Sovrin Foundation
  * Alka Gupta, Co-Founder & President, Global ID
  * Rouven Heck, Digital Identity/uPort Co-Founder & Project Lead, Consensys
  * Brian McSweeney. Chairman, Chlu

The agenda is:

    13:00 EST - The Decentralized Future: The Next Big Thing is Here
    14:00 EST - Decentralized Identifiers in Healthcare, Fintech, IoT
    15:00 EST - The DID and the DONTs: Decentralized ID 101
    16:00 EST - Smarter Smart Contracts: Next Generation VMs, Verifiable
    Credentials, and Decentralized Reputation

How YOU can participate:

 1. Please share this event to your social feeds, and thank you so much
    for investing some social capital on us!
 2. Please email me if you'd like to speak at an upcoming event
 3. Please contribute your white paper or tutorial to the event's
    knowledge repository (send to me)

Again, here is the link to share:

    *https://businessofblockchain.com/web/virtual-summits/blockchain-id/*


Thank you!






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*Moses Ma | Partner*

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