An interview with co-founders of https://tykn.tech , a company dedicated to ensuring that identities are portable, private, and secure so that no one has to lose access to their identity ever again. Tykn co-founder, Jimmy Snoek, is a musician, business developer, and entrepreneur, currently residing in The Hague. Tykn's other co-founder, Khalid Maliki, has keen product design knowledge combined with a passion for social impact. Both Jimmy and Khalid believe that believes Self-Sovereign Identity will positively impact billions of people’s lives. In this podcast, we talk about self-sovereign identity, Tykn's platform called Ana, current projects underway, and what the future holds for digital identity, and more generally, digital credentials.

Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D., is the founder and owner of ProSapien LLC. ProSapien is a technology research and development company based in Lindon, Utah. In this episode, we explore the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI)and how it relates to decentralized identity. We also touch topics in the white paper: trust domains, self-certifying identifiers, architectural implications, and more. You can find Sam's whitepapers at https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/tree/master/whitepapers More material is available at https://identity.foundation/working-groups/identifiers-discovery.html

In this episode, I interview Keith Jansa, Executive Director of the CIO Strategy Council ( https://ciostrategycouncil.com/ ). As Executive director, Keith is leading several initiatives, including standards-setting related to digital identity. We cover numerous topics, including the development of national standards, the role of the Standards Council of Canada ( https://www.scc.ca/ ), its technical committees, and, the development of CIOSC’s latest national standard on digital identity. We also talked about the contribution of the Canadian Public Sector through work done on the Public Sector Profile of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework ( https://canada-ca.github.io/PCTF-CCP/)