The Business of Self_Sovereign Identity (SSI) : An IIW 1/2 Day Workshop

The Business of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI): Exploring the Commercial Readiness and Application of SSI

Thursday Aug 4th, 2022 - IIW 1/2 Day Virtual Workshop

This IIW Special Topic event is for CEOs, Founders, Business Development leads, anyone who cares about the Business of SSI. It provides the space for you to discuss, share and collaborate together.

Why this event is needed now and the themes we hope to cover and Questions to Answer:

The principle of empowerment—giving individuals agency, autonomy, and control over their data and giving them the freedom to safely and securely manage and exchange their data in any context and across any device, network, or application—sits at the heart of the self-sovereign identity (SSI) movement’s mission.

For decades, technologies, academics, policymakers, evangelists, and individual advocates have diligently worked to live up to this principle and to bring SSI to life.

Significant investments have been made into the development of interoperable standards, protocols, systems application layers, conceptual use cases, and more. But, what’s been missing are clear answers to a set of simple questions:

- Is the SSI approach to personal data and identity management materially better than legacy approaches? Is it easier? Faster? Cheaper? Safer? If so, in what way?

- How can it be implemented, both technically and commercially?

- What new business models will SSI make possible?

We seek substantiated answers to these and SSI-related technical, legal, cultural, political, and economic questions. Without answers to these questions.

We encourage participants to come prepared with topic ideas they’d like to discuss and or present about. Moreover, as we are looking for “substantiated answers” please come prepared with data:

• use cases,
• case studies,
• articles,
• reports,
• glossaries,

and insights that will help to both qualify and quantify the business case for the implementation and adoption of SSI. We want to hear about implementations that adhere to the spirit and principles of people-centric data empowerment, not just “blockchain ones”.

Who’s the Event For?

• Seasoned SSI professionals
• Those new to the concepts of SSI and want to learn what it is all about
• Industry leaders and their teams looking to prepare their business for the future and people-centric engagements

The Internet Identity Workshop has been bringing together innovators in the field of Identity focused around the individual since 2005. While open standards are essential to open digital identity systems, as important to getting adoption are viable business models and products that solve real world pain points for customers.

About this event:

IIW Events are participatory workshops where the agenda is co-created by participants the day of the event. We are hosting several half day Special Topic IIW events that are complementary to our main three day event that happens twice a year (since 2005!) using a similar format.

The workshop will run just like our usual IIW Open Space Workshops - with an Opening and Agenda Creation, 3 session time slots and a Closing Circle, for a total of 5 hours. We will have session notes and be compiling a Book of Proceedings when the event is complete.

Time: Anchored in the Americas Time Zones with afternoon/evening option for Europe

• Pacific Time: 7am - 12pm
• Mountain Time: 8am - 1pm
• Eastern Time: 10am - 3pm
• Europe Time: 3pm - 8pm London / 4pm - 9pm Berlin

See the growing list of topics proposed by those already registered here: https://iiw.idcommons.net/Business_of_Self-Sovereign_Identity_Proposed_Topics

Please go to the IIW site www.internetidentityworkshop.com for additional information about the Internet Identity Workshop and to view the short video "What is IIW?" 

Contact us about becoming a Sponsor for this IIW Special Topic Workshop or about purchasing bulk tickets - Kaliya Young: kaliya@identitywoman.net

We look forward to seeing you virtually July 21, 2022! 

Co-Hosts Michael J. Becker - CEO Identity Praxis, Inc & Kaliya Young - Identity Woman in Business