Digital Identity is Broken - How is Web3 Changing This?
The most fundamental element in any collaboration ecosystem is identity - who is this, what have they done before, what are they promising to do for us, where do we reward them?
But this element has also been broken for decades - excuded from early protocols, torn between a need for knowledge and a need for privacy, and built in chunks by centralized corporations.
The web3 world itself is dealing with significant problems - bots, sibyl attacks, and weak communities. But web3 is also where the most fundamental and interesting approaches to identity are being built.
This panel will be a conversation between deep thinkers on decentralised identity.
We’ll explore the different models, the trade-offs we may have to make and those that are illusions, and how identity protocols will fit into a larger ecosystem.
Our panelists:
Evin is Co-Founder & CEO at Disco.xyz, Data backpacks in beta. Disco helps you reflect your identity to the world however you choose.
She believes Identity and reputation are intrinsically linked, vital to onchain coordination and inevitable blockers of unified liquidity.
Philip Sheldrake
Philip is CEO of UNNAMED LABS and Expertise in the digitalization of identity, privacy by design, and the design and governance of decentralized social networking (dsocial).
He's a writer at Generative Identity and he believes Digital identity is not human identity. that’s the problem and the opportunity.
Duke Jones
Duke is founder of IdentiKey, a tech company enabling user-owned data and digital identity. He previously co-founded ReSource, a mutual-credit cryptocurrency trade network; the missing piece for community barter was a decentralized identity and reputation system, and he has been working on this problem ever since.
Grace Rachmany
Grace is an expert in identity and reputation systems and a co-author of "So You've Got a DAO: Handbook for Distributed and Connected Leadership."
She has experience in mentoring and advisory positions for SingularityNET, Regen Network, Brinc Incubator, and more.
David Sneider
David is a co-creator at Lit Protocol, a key management network for signing and encryption. Prior to Lit, David was on the founding team of a SaaS company acquired by LinkedIn.