Europe’s identity community’s summer gathering. Safe the date, more details soon.

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!

Konferenz für Vertrauen in der Digitalen Gesellschaft. Ben Biedermann ist Ihr Ansprechpartner vor Ort mit Beispielen wie der Kommunalen Datenkarte (KDK).

Gathering of APAC’s identity community. Safe the date, more details soon.

Join Forces for #Blockchain and #Standardization with Jolocom’s Kai Wagner!  The European Commission and INATBA are bringing stakeholders from standardisation communities, to secure European Union values & harmonize standardisation efforts.

Join Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture), Paola Heudebert (Archipels), Ivan Basart (ValidatedID), Paul Jackson (Government of Canada), moderated by our very own Kai Wagner (Jolocom) as they discuss the Future of Digital Identity.

Meet Kai Wagner, Chief Advocacy Officer at Jolocom, to discuss societal aspects of SSI, latest developments around eIDAS 2.0 & SSI, as well as security & data protection, and not least interoperabilty between Legacy and W3C identity systems.

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!

Meet our CEO Joachim at the OpenID Foundation Workshops to discuss digital identity standards, current trends and market opportunities.

Meet our Chief Revenue Officer Robert Douglass to connect on a variety of topics, including decentralized identity, partnerships and more.

Unsere hoch-geschätzte Irene Adamski stellt beim CA-Day in Berlin die Schaufensterprojekte (ONCE, ID-Ideal, SDIKA und ID Union) für Sichere Digitale Identitäten des BMWK/Begleitforschung Sichere Digitale Identitäten vor.

Our Chief Revenue Officer Robert would love to connect on a variety of topics, including decentralized storage, data integrity, partnerships and more.

We are excited to see Devcon in Bogota be back as an in person event. Much has happened since Osaka, and our CEO Joachim would love to discuss the most recent developments around decentralized identity, including SBTs, ENS, ZK and DID core. Looking forward to the Ethereum family reunion meeting old and new friends. -> Conference

At Unfinished Live, leading experts and engaged citizens contribute to shaping our digital future. Our Kai Wagner will share how we at Jolocom contribute to future where new technologies and policies enable a stronger democracy, a fairer economy, and a more just society. -> Join us!

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers, to gather in nature to tackle the real world challenges facing the web and to co-create the decentralized technologies of the future. Jolocom’s own CEO Joachim Lohkamp will be among the attendees.

Protocols for decentralized social verification are a key missing element of the Internet. In the absence of broadly adopted open standards, so far this role has largely been filled by big technology organizations. Discuss with our very own Ben the challenge of furthering open protocols for better and more scalable forms of digital sociality.

Joachim participated in a round table discussion on digital infrastructure, such as identity in the context of a public good and enabling technology. Beyond that, the exchange about building new models of sustainable public goods funding and value alignment in open source networks was in focus.  Watch Recordings ->

Under the heading “The world of smart ID solutions”, the OMNISECURE congress will be held at Berlin’s Palace Hotel from June 21 to June 23, 2022.
The event is the annual family gathering of the eID industry. Around 400 experts and decision-makers from industry, science and politics will come together, discuss trends and nurture the industry network.

Der Zukunftskongresses 2022 stellt 10 Aufgaben für Deutschland und seine Verwaltungen bis 2025 vor. Jolocom’s Kai Wagner wird teilnehmen und sich über Cloud Netzwerke, KI, Digitale Transformation u.v.m. austauschen.

Jolocom was happy to attend this year’s EIC. Irene Adamski  represented our team, presenting ‘Self-Sovereign Identity en route to production – Pilots in Germany and pioneering EU-regulations’. Other topics included Identity Fabrics, Global Identity Networks, Seamless Access Experience, and many more.

This is the time and place that you get to discuss, share your knowledge, work on and learn about anything & everything related to Internet Identity. Furthermore, take your chance to catch up with Joachim Lohkamp, Jolocom’s own CEO.

Identity is at the heart of all the topics listed, along with others that will be discussed this year, such as SSI & Decentralized Identity, Verifiable Credentials, DIDs, Open ID Connect, and many more.

Überlegen Sie oder Ihr Unternehmen, eine digitale Signatur einzuführen? Andreas Freitag repräsentierte Jolocom als Ratgeber rund um das Thema Digitale Signatur. Dabei wurde folgenden Fragen nachgegangen:

Was ist Ihnen und Ihrem Unternehmen bei der Einführung wichtig? Welche Verschlüsselung brauchen Sie? Wollen Sie mehrere Unterschriftenarten in einem Tool kombinieren? Welches Tool brauchen Sie? Nach welche Kriterien wählen Sie ein Signaturtool aus? Wie planen Sie den Roll-Out?

This event was part of a series of workshops presented by Metropolitan New York Library Council, Internet Archive, DWeb, and Library Futures. Irene Adamski from Jolocom attended the discussion about the future of SSI alongside Wendy Hanamura, Kaliya Young, and Lambert Heller.

Learn more here: https://metro.org/decentralizedweb.

DIF (Decentralized Identity Foundation) invited the entire decentralized identity community to join their third open online virtual meeting, and Jolocom attended.

The current state of the decentralized identity space, individual elements’ status, and how the path towards interoperability should look like was being discussed.

Designed to find ways to apply DID to real life and expand it as a place to review the latest trends in technology, market, regulation and business with domestic and foreign DID experts. Participants shared and discussed development directions.

This mission was  for Dutch companies, knowledge and research institutions, and for (semi-)public organizations that are active in this sector. The mission took place on February 10 and 11, 2022.

After the success of Blockchain in Use 2020, the Blockchain in Use 2021 came back with new tracks! The concept of self-sovereign identity (SSI) has been gaining significant traction since the mid-2010s. Private-by-design, immutable, and fully secure, self-sovereign identity solutions promised to “place the digital ID back into the user’s wallet” and reduce the compliance and data storage burden for businesses.

Kai Wagner of Jolocom had been invited amongst a set of other experts in the area to share their opinion and experiences in SSI on blockchain technology in a 1.5-hour discussion.

The Internet Archive turned 25, a virtual event explored the promise and the potential of Universal Access to All Knowledge.

IIW#33

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects toward their goals. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!

The AsiaBerlin Summit offers a platform to establish an international startup ecosystem between Berlin and Asia.

IIW#32

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects toward their goals. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!

Jolocom joined a featured presentation by Marta Belcher, Board Chair of the new Filecoin Foundation (FF) &Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web(FFDW).

Kai Wagner from our business development team joined the series of lightning talks that followed to share how developers can integrate into Jolocom’s platform-agnostic SSI technology to reach millions of EU citizens across 40 use cases poised to scale. 

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Jolocom’s designer Iryna Nezhynska led a virtual tour through the new website and the design concepts that support it. Then John Ryan and Mai Ishikawa Sutton from DWebSF node presented the first public version of the Principles of the DWeb, developed in consultation with dozens of community members.

Hop onboard the DWeb via our new website: getdweb.net

Kai Wagner from the Jolocom team chaired a roundtable discussion from the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) based on the organization’s position paper, Decentralised Identity: What’s at Stake?, published in late 2020.

He was joined by fellow stakeholders Anil John, Daniël Du Seuil, Dr. Loretta Anania, and Karyl Fowler, each with their own view on where decentralized identity is at present and how it should take shape over the months and years to come. Full recap here.

At the community’s second virtual face-to-face event, Jolocom’s Ivan Temchenko took the community on a tour of our DIDComm v2 library, written in Rust. During the live demo (video) he showed the message lifecycle in various setups using the open source didcomm-rs library on GitHub.

Jolocom’s Joachim and Ira joined the seasonal gathering with peers from the decentralized web community.

Jolocom’s Irene Adamski (Partnership Development, Regulatory Affairs) presented at a conference session Climate Crisis & Commons Infrastructure, examining how social innovation and technical development, including SSI, are crucial for resilient and scalable commons structures.

We heard from a dozen projects from builders of the decentralized web about their milestone breakthroughs, challenges, and roadmaps for 2021.

Kai Wagner from Jolocom’s Partnership Development team joined a panel of experts with demonstrable professional experience in the fields of blockchain and digital identity at the TOKEN National Event, organized and held on behalf of the TOKEN project, with a focus on the benefit of blockchain and SSI for the public sector.

Irene Adamski from our Partnership Development and Regulatory Affairs team moderated a panel discussion during a session titled Deep Dive: Assessing solutions for interoperability in distributed ledger technology.

The first ever Odyssey Momentum hackathon event took place as mass collaboration, occurring over 49 hours and featuring 105 teams, 21 challenges – see all the winning solutions here. Find out about the foundation behind Cherrytwist that decided to build the virtual event’s challenge management platform, and why they chose to integrate Jolocom’s SSI stack.

Jolocom’s Irene Adamski examined digitalization of the German Energiewende during an online presentation – Digitalisierung der Energiewende – auf dem Weg zu digitalen Identitäten für dezentralen Anlagen – at the fourth BAS event from the Blockchain Competence Center Mittweida of Hochschule Mittweida.

Compelling opinion from Cory Doctorow (author and EFF advisor), Amandine Le Pape (Matrix.org co-founder), Jay Graber (decentralized social media researcher) and Mike Masnick (TechDirt). They discussed a range of approaches – technical, regulatory and organizational – that could bring us towards a future where networks are more resilient, participatory and decentralized. Read the full recap by Mai Ishikawa Sutton on the blog of the Internet Archive.

Irene Adamski from Jolocom’s partnership development an regulatory affairs team joined a panel of distinguished speakers at the WSIS Forum 2020 workshop, hosted by University of Geneva, Geneva Macro Labs and INATBA, to learn how risks to privacy and data protection can be countered using DIDs.

We sponsored the annual meeting of Rust minds, where developers from around the world gathered to learn and share with one another. Watch full videos of the conference talks or dig into our blog post on using Rust for decentralized identity.

Four DWeb Camp 2019 Global Fellows shared insight into how their community networks in South Africa, Brazil and India are adapting to COVID. Organizer and writer Mai Ishikawa Sutton recaps the event in a detailed blog post published on the Internet Archive’s blog.

Charles Cunningham from our dev team presented the Jolocom SmartWallet at the roundtable community call, exploring fundamental approaches to wallets for decentralized identity.

The third official face-to-face meeting of the W3C DID Working Group. Minutes from sessions on Day 1 and Day 2 are published online.

Two new reports — Decentralization Off The Shelf (SimpleSecure) and Decentralized Web Developer Report 2020 (Fluence) — were introduced alongside a user experience design clinic, meant to bring the report’s recommendations to life.

During our first virtual meetup, we heard leaders of Storj Labs and Protocol Lab’s Filecoin describe how their enterprise-level decentralized storage preserves the data we need to fuel scientific collaboration, education and AI.

Our brand designer, Iryna Nezhynska, gave a closing keynote at the Berlin edition of the World Information Architecture Day. Her talk, The very first steps of building a design system, will soon become an article. Until then, you can download slides from the talk with actionable takeaways and links to resources here.

We teamed up with Positive Blockchain to host the DWebBLN panel discussion and the science fair with an interdisciplinary roster of speakers who shared their vision for a decentralized web.

The second official face-to-face meeting of the W3C DID Working Group. Minutes from sessions on Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 are published online.

Governments all over the world are now looking into how self-sovereign identities can benefit their countries and identity management systems. At the next meetup from Your Digital Identity, Kai will be speaking about SSI for government and the public sector, plus insights from Jolocom’s experience in the space.

A meetup from CODING BERLIN

A community xmas market for developers and people working in tech to enjoy a networking event on Turbine’s terrace above the roofs of Kreuzberg. Mina gave a lightning talk.

Identity Session

Good company, the latest news and updates about Ethereum right from the developers. Coding questions, questions about the projects, and general curiosity about Ethereum’s capabilities are all welcome and encouraged!

With this edition shining the spotlight identity, Charles introduced the basics of SSI, DIDs and Verifiable Credentials to an audience of decentralized tech enthusiasts, philosophers and developers.

Our design team cooperated with UXPressia founders to organize the UX design meetup with the focus on the customer journey mapping techniques. Iryna gave a talk on how to use journey mapping to build the better pre-event communication strategy. You can find slides here.

The race is on, and development cooperation has a role

Kai will participate in a round table discussion on digital identity in the context of development cooperation. He’ll also be presenting a lightning talk on SSI with a focus on development sector interests.

This time we went beyond the topic of communication through UI and app aesthetics – toward the Global Open Collaboration movement. We also evolved our traditional event recap approach to the growing list of open source design resources.

The Global Blockchain Congress

Convergence is the first truly global blockchain conference, bringing together the worldwide blockchain community for an intense dialog with regulators, policy makers, industry influencers and members of the social impact community.

A joint organising team composed of the European Commission, INATBA, the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum, and Alastria seeks to bring together approximately 1,500 participants over three days for a program of presentations, panels, workshops, and cultural events.

With a focus on digital solutions for administrations and public services in municipalities, regions and national governments, the exhibition will see key players from administrations, government agencies, the digital economy, associations and science come together on three days with one common goal: digitization of the entire public sector.

On Day 1, Kai will be joined by Raphael Mintgen (Head of IoT solutions, Bechtle AG) for a discussion titled:

Beam me up, SCCON! Smarte Technologien für morgen
Arena Stage (Expo Area, Hall B)
October 24, 2019
12:30-14:00

For a technology driven future: Diverse mindsets. Together.

Joachim will be speaking at moinblockchain ’19 — the third blockchain conference hosted by moinworld, a non-profit organization that wants to change the face of the IT industry to make it more attractive to those who bring a different perspective. Expect hands-on workshops, inspiring speakers and exceptional side events.

Joachim will once again be representing the Jolocom crew at Devcon, the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers.

IIW XXIX

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference! See the growing list of potential topics put forth by those who have already registered.

Joachim & Eugeniu will be attending the 29th edition of IIW on behalf of Jolocom.

5:30 PM – 9:30 PM • Internet Archive
We’ll be sharing the takeaways from DWeb Camp and looking to future collaborations. Speakers this month include Joachim from Jolocom, who will be sharing the latest in Jolocom’s decentralized self-sovereign identity and also announcing the IPDB Association – a global group building the first non-monetary blockchain and decentralized database with decentralized governance. Shokunin of PermaWeb, built on top of the IPFS stack will share the latest from IPFS Camp and DWeb Camp. Margaret Warren, founder of ImageSnippets, will share the latest advancements in adding linked data to the decentralized stack. Wendy Hanamura of Internet Archive will share where the DWeb Movement is headed, with new meetup groups in Phoenix, Boston, Shanghai, Perm (Russia), Berlin, Toronto, and Austin, TX!

Note: This is a German-language event. Kai will be speaking.

Mit dem Informationstag “Elektronische Signatur und Vertrauensdienste” setzen TeleTrusT und VOI gemeinsam die erfolgreiche Veranstaltungsreihe der Vorjahre fort. Experten aus Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Forschung werden erneut ein differenziertes Bild über die aktuelle Situation der elektronischen Signatur und Vertrauensdienste in Deutschland zeichnen und darüber diskutieren. Mit dem Inkrafttreten der eIDAS-Verordnung, der Vertrauensdienste-Verordnung und z.B. auch der PSD2-Verordnung hat der Themenbereich “Elektronische Signatur und Vertrauensdienste” in den vergangenen Jahren weiter an Fahrt aufgenommen. Die Anbieterzahl dieser Dienste wächst und bildet in Zukunft einen zunehmend wichtigen Rahmen, in dem sich die Digitalisierung entwickelt. Digitale Signaturen und Vertrauensdienste werden zum “Enabler” für eine vertrauenswürdige Digitalisierung.

September’s community call focused on self-sovereign identity and the need for an identity layer in a decentralized Web 3.0. Flavia Maria Soare (Data Privacy Lawyer) evaluated the legal dimensions of SSI, followed by Ellie, who presented Jolocom’s open source, privacy-first design approach to developing SSI solutions.

#BLOCKCHAINSCOOTER

Come attend the launch of Xride: a first-of-its-kind, blockchain-based e-mobility ecosystem pilot!

T-Labs and its ecosystem partners (including Jolocom!) have developed an open urban mobility ecosystem that runs entirely on decentralized technologies. All major functionalities from identity management to payment & storage are realized via blockchain technologies.

The event will have demonstrations of the future mobility ecosystem, including self-sovereign identity, token payments, trusted data verification, and more: you will be able to ride the #blockchainscooter, to test your riding skills in a fun obstacle course, challenge your colleagues, and become eligible to win a prize.

>> 10:00-15:00 • Deutsche Telekom, Landgrabenweg 151 (Bonn) • Use main entrance

Blockchain encourages the building of ecosystems with many participants, who share similar interests but don’t trust each other because of the competition in the market. This evening event will focus on different blockchain solutions for providers of mobility and logistics services.

• How can providers of transportation use decentralized ledgers for their services?
• How could blockchain make supply-chain more efficient and transparent?
• How will blockchain technology transform the IoT sector?

Ellie will be delivering a keynote on Xride, a decentralized emobility ecosystem and collaborative project by T-Labs.

#RWOT

Over the last four and a half years, Rebooting the Web of Trust has published over forty-five collaborative white papers, technical specs, and code repos. The focus of all of RWOT events is on decentralized identity, including technical models, reputation systems, smart contracts and more.

• Sign up at Eventbrite.
• Early bird ends July 18th, advanced purchases August 15th.
• Then submit your topic paper on Github.

Joachim & Kai are looking forward to attending on behalf of Jolocom and discussing SSI interoperability strategies in particular.

Ira will be presenting on behalf of Jolocom during the 22.08 edition of betabreakfast | Kreuzberg. Organized by betahaus, betabreakfast is held every Thursday for the Berlin startup community to connect over breakfast and get to know likeminded entrepreneurs, startups, and creatives in the city.

Web3 Summit is organized around a single rallying call: to facilitate a fully functional and user-friendly decentralized web.

This year we are co-hosting an Identity Node with DAppNode and Iden3. Found in the Hackerspace at Funkhaus, the Identity Node will be running from the morning of the 19th to close on the 21st. This will be a space for both curated and informal talks, workshops, and protocol deep dives into all things decentralized identity.

Plus: Joachim joins a panel titled “Identity in DGov” on the 19th in the DGov Node, while Ira’s rapid-fire workshop on “UX for the Web3” will be held on the 20th in the Studio 4 Workshops.

Click here for an overview of where to talk identity (with us!) at this year’s Web3.

Blockchain Week Berlin is a community-organized initiative. It is an agnostic movement based on the premise that self-organization is the backbone of the ecosystem. Anyone interested in fruitful and educational discussions is invited to join.

Blockchain Week Berlin is committed to reducing the noise from the market and focusing on education in order to push mass adoption via providing first-hand information about the industry.

Disrupt Meetup

In this meetup, speakers will talk about how Blockchain can ensure Anonymity in a hyper-digitalized age. This includes Jolocom’s Sean Li, who will be demoing the SmartWallet and presenting our work at Jolocom to the digital identity community in Frankfurt.

A meetup organized by Vienna Digital Identity.

Here, the results & outcome of the Decentralised IDs Authentication & Access Workshop (see above, 18-19 July) will be presented.

For the first time ever, the Internet Archive is hosting DWeb Camp, a community-built event, so it will be what you make it. Supplies include the land, some shelter, nourishing food, and power — the rest is up to you. Come imagine, debate, hack and co-create the technologies, laws, markets and values we need to build a better Web. Registration opened in mid-April and is limited to 500 campers.

Get involved in co-creating the camp via these GitHub repositories.

A 2-day workshop for blockchain enthusiasts to dive into Decentralisation, Identities and Blockchain technologies organized by our friends at RIDDLE&CODE together with RIAT.

Despite the rapid advance in technology, a secure, trusted, convenient and straightforward interaction between Humans, Machines and Services is still a challenge. Within the Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAO)’s initiatives, building blocks have been created to enable this interaction. However, there are still limitations and gaps. The key to widespread, secure and trusted interaction is finding convenient ways to initiate authentication and communication across the system.

Mina and Volker from the Jolocom dev team will be joining the workshop participants in collaborating on finding non-centralised solutions to this challenge.

The outcome of the workshop will also be presented at a meetup organized by Vienna Digital Identity on July 22nd.

A Tech Open Air Satellite Event

In an era when proliferation of personal data is the status quo, online privacy is a concern for each and every user on the web. (Not convinced your data has been exposed in one of these larger attacks? Check here to see if & where you’ve been pwned.)

So to foster better privacy practices among users while advancing awareness of online surveillance technologies, we’ve gathered a group of professionals working in digital security to share their expertise and wisdom on data protection in brief presentations followed by open, small group discussions or workshops.

In addition to discussing perspectives on the future of online privacy and what privacy-enhancing technologies are on the horizon, they’ll share tactics & tips for preserving privacy on the web today.

The world’s leading energy blockchain conference will deliver pioneering concepts and solutions for the future of the global energy market. This third energy summit brings together seasoned experts and innovative start-ups in the energy and blockchain industry to actively push the green energy transition.

The Blockchain Society together with Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) & T-Systems Russia presents a 32-hour Mobility Blockchain Hackathon and Learnathon on St. Petersburg White Night to learn and develop blockchain solutions. This is the fourth T-Labs Hackathon, with the first one taking place in Seattle, the second one in Berlin, the third one in Barcelona, and now in St. Petersburg. The hackathon will focus on blockchain and mobility, and how DLT will transform how we view transportation. The hackathon will feature the tech of Fetch.Ai which you can learn more about here.

The 12th Ouishare Summit will be held in France to develop the organization and shared vision together as a community, kick-start new projects, facilitate peer to peer learning and build relationships between our distributed team.

@ Identity Week 2019

Kai will present our work with the Blockchain on the Move project along with Daniel Du Seuil, Program Manager And Architect Blockchain at Informatie Vlaanderen of the Flemish Government. Starting at 16:25 in Knowledge Theater 1, this session will explore the new paradigm of self-sovereign identity and share the learnings of the Belgian Blockchain on the Move project where the different governments did the first tests with self sovereign identity and blockchain. We will also highlight the next steps including a public-private collaboration and alignment with the European/Global initiatives.

@ Identity Week 2019

Ellie will be joining the official launch of Women in Identity hosted by Identity Week. Starting at 11am in Knowldge Theatre 1 @ the ExCel London, you can expect a reintroduction to the organisation, what it means to be a member and some great networking opportunities. You can sign up there and then, and after the launch you can go and explore the Identity Week Exhibition. All are welcome & it’s free to attend!

If you a lucky one with a ticket to UX Camp Europe, join our designer Ira for her session & workshop “The true onboarding: first steps you should never skip when designing for non-techies”
(Blockchain for all vs. designing for “crypto-bubble”)

Coding & Beyond – Inspiring the Future of Development

DEV DAY is an annual developer event organized by Turbine Kreuzberg for, with and by developers. It started off in 2014 in Portugal at Turbine Kreuzberg’s Faro offices and has become a full-grown annual conference that takes place simultaneously in Berlin and Faro. This year, DEV DAY’19 will be an action packed day filled with 12 talks, 2 panel discussions, a coding challenge and networking with fellow developers with diverse backgrounds, expertise and ages. Everyone is welcome to take part and exchange knowledge. As a sponsor Jolocom has organized a booth for event attendees to learn more about our work in decentralized identity.

5 YEARS OF…

Iterating on our code base to generate our protocol for self-sovereign identity, our library for devs to access it, and our SmartWallet for people to use it
Decentralizing identity systems across an array of industries
Hosting events for the identity, blockchain & decentralized web community
Building our team to what it is today

Join us in celebrating what we’ve achieved these past five years, and more importantly – let us thank you for being part of the community that’s powered those achievements – at our 5th birthday.

Defining Identity for Things with Heather Vescent

When we think of identities, our first inclination might be to think of ourselves, as humans, and the identities we carry with us every day. But what if we think for a moment about objects, IoT devices, companies and machines? What does identity look like for things?

Visiting us all the way from sunny California, join researcher Heather Vescent (The Purple Tornado) for an Identity Stammtisch (sundowners! happy hour!) and explore what identity looks like for non-person entities (NPEs) on Saturday, 18 May from 16:00-17:30 on the Betahaus Kreuzberg rooftop.

BWC19
Experience an ecosystem of the latest Internet of Things (IoT) implementations at Bosch ConnectedWorld. The two-day event is one of the few IoT events hosted by an active provider and user of IoT solutions. By leveraging its industry expertise, the Bosch Group provides attendees the inspiration, education and connections needed to thrive in the IoT community.

w/ Monotype, CDLX, #WomenInType and …
This time we under the new community name, digging deeper to the typography in UI design topic, and still having the same mission: to encourage designers to bring bolder ideas into presentation rooms, create more variety in UI design and to secure the new digital industries (like blockchain) from the visual sameness.

At the first coding stuttgart meetup, the term “Self-Sovereign Identity” was mentioned, and someone stood up and said, “that sounds interesting”! At the next meetup in May, Kai will take the opportunity and clear the clouds on how you gain back control over your identity using blockchain technology (and how to integrate it into your applications). There will be talks, there will be conversation and there will be code for sure. And thanks to our host Turbine Kreuzberg there will be amenities to keep you alive during the evening. Doors at 18:30.

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. This year Jolocom will be joining the Demo Hour and Sandbox Breakfast.

Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!

When you use today’s Web platforms, ever wonder why the platforms get to control how you log-on, your identity, your data and your media? Is there a way that identity and data could be “self-sovereign” (controlled by the individual not the corporations)? That’s the subject at the next DWeb SF Meet Up, where you can learn about three new approaches to taking back control of your identity and your data. Ellie & Eugeniu will be there to present Jolocom’s self-sovereign approach to identity management.

Note: This is a German-language event. Kai will be speaking.

Ein Leben ohne Demokratie kann sich kaum jemand in Europa vorstellen und doch steht sie auf wackeligen Beinen. Fridays for future, save the internet und gelbe Westen: Viele BürgerInnen tragen ihren Unmut über politische Entscheidungen auf der einen und Forderungen für mehr Mitspracherecht auf der anderen Seite ins Netz und auf die Straße. Ein wichtiger Hoffnungsträger bleibt weiterhin ein inklusives, ermächtigendes Netz. Auch Staatsbürgerschaften könnten bald digitalisiert und innoviert werden. Ermöglicht uns das neue Formen der Partizipation und stärkt so die europäische Demokratie? Mit dieser großen Frage möchte der Digitale Salon kurz vor der Europawahl diskutieren, welche Chancen sich durch e-Identity und Onlineabstimmung ergeben.

Join us to explore emerging use cases for decentralized identity in a relaxed atmosphere with the passionate people powering SSI solutions across a wide range of industries. This meetup will be casual, highly interactive, and open to all levels of expertise. Come demo your own self-sovereign identity, talk shop with developers working on the open source protocols that make it possible, and learn how your industry could move away from centralized solutions and toward this future decentralized ecosystem.

#HM2019

Cobots, digital twins, additive manufacturing, or smart factory solutions – take your pick. HANNOVER MESSE showcases innovations and key players of the connected industry in one place. Discuss with your industry peers, take part in presentations with renowned experts, and find out everything about integrated energy systems, innovative supplier solutions, and industrial IT. On day four of the conference, Ellie will represent Jolocom during a panel discussion on blockchain and digital identity organized by Deutsche Telekom.

Are you a visual/UI designer working on a project (or in a startup) that already has few alternatives on the market? If “yes”, you will find a lot of useful tips to add to your creative process in Iryna’s talk “Make it stand out: Three cornerstones of visual design strategy to differentiate your product”.

Join us to learn about digital identity projects and their social impact. The first event of a meetup series curated by PositiveBlockchain.io in cooperation with BerChain and GIZ Blockchain Lab.

A two-day debate about our digital empowerment organized by the Lille European Metropolis, Ouishare, and Pop. Conceived as a parliamentary assembly, the Grand Barouf Numérique is a participative and prospective event on digital society that offers participants the opportunity to examine and vote for a bill of digital anticipation.

#MWC19

MWC Barcelona (formerly Mobile World Congress) is the largest mobile event in the world, bringing together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology from more than 2,400 leading companies, with a highly-rated conference programme assembling today’s visionaries to explore the hottest topics influencing the industry. The event also features extensive learning opportunities from dozens of partner-led programmes, GSMA seminars, summits and more.

A Blockchain Mobility Hackathon using Telekom Innovation Laboratories haststaX solution. The Blockchain Society together with Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T- Labs) presents #T-LabsHACK. A 32 hour Hackathon & Learnathon to learn and develop blockchain solutions!

A meetup on self-sovereign identity (SSI) organized by the Blockchain on the Move project partners and Jolocom as technical partner during Phase 1. During this meetup we would like to give you feedback on the first phase of the project, the steps we have taken during the past year, how we approached this, what the results are, and what is still in the pipeline.

On 12. February Kai will present Jolocom’s work within Blockchain on the Move, a landmark project piloting practical use cases for decentralized digital identity management. TIIME takes on topics ranging from identity management architecture and technology to policy, privacy and business, and provides attendees the opportunity to meet experts, learn concepts, tools and techniques, and connect to the community.

We decided to recover Dribbble meetups in Berlin!
The first edition with a theme “Embrace variety” will gather young professionals and hometown design heroes to discuss how globalisation affects UI design through standards and trends. Format: panel + talks + portfolio reviews.

The inaugural event at RIAT – Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics maintained a technical focus, covering digital identities for devices and self-sovereign identity. There, Kai introduced Jolocom’s take on SSI and presented a live demo of our software.

Joachim represented Jolocom at the Aragon Conference which brings together people who embody and wish to shape the Aragon community, those who are building and supporting the pseudonymous, secure, trustless future — the decentralized web.

Joachim joined a panel discussion titled “Blockchain – Business models, legal issues and the limits to deployment”.

A Blockchain Identity Hackathon using Telekom Innovation Laboratories haststaX solution. The Blockchain Society together with Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T- Labs) presents the #T-LabsHACK! A 32-hour Identity & Blockchain Hackathon and Learnathon to learn and develop blockchain solutions.

Sustainability of the open source movement and the code itself is an ongoing discussion and ever-present concern. We’ll take up this discussion as well, but to answer the “how”, we’ll start with “who”: Who are open source contributors? Who else should be contributing? And what systems or platforms would encourage this engagement?

The emergence of financial technology holds promise for transformative change in Arab economies. Blockchain is a matter of heated debate and it is about time to outline its ramifications for innovations in financial inclusion from a development policy perspective. What is in it for payment systems in the Arab World? What role do policymakers and regulators play to safeguard integrity and security?

Die Zukunft deiner Arbeit

The path.finder festival is a journey of experience, learning and ideas for employees, executives, entrepreneurs and the self-employed who want to look beyond the confines of the New Work filter bubble to the overall development of our working world.

Coding for a Web3 Society

As a part of Revision Summit 2018, Jolocom, IPDB, Riddle&Code, and Ocean Protocol will be hosting a one-day hackathon with 50-70 developers and UX/UI designers from the decentralization community. The chief aim of the hackathon is for participants to come together to generate ideas for social change, and turn talk into working code.

Berlin Science Week 2018

T-Labs is organizing the world’s first blockchain related science slam during Berlin Science Week 2018: the Blockslam! A science slam is a short and very lively 10-minutes-presentation explaining scientific insight to a general audience. No algorithms, technical language or complicated processes, simply blockchain science explained for everyone.

EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum

Discussions will cover topics such as eIDAS regulation, identity standards and identity in the context of a European blockchain infrastructure.

Devcon has become the most anticipated gathering for blockchain application and platform developers to come together to support the global community of Ethereum ecosystem-builders.

IIWS XXVII

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. Every IIW moves topics, code, and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than at any other conference! Watch this short documentary about the work that has happened over the first 12 years at IIW.

Devs and researchers working on lower level protocols and others interested in the latest developments in the decentralised web are invited to join Web3 Summit in Berlin for an immersive and collaborative gathering organized around a single rallying call: to facilitate a fully functional and user-friendly decentralized web. Full program here.

The German Blockchain Week is a series of disruptive community meetups between October 21 and 25, 2018, which complement the main event of the week – the East-West Crypto Conference (EWCC) (Oct. 22 + 23) at which speakers of 5 out of the top 20 coins on coinmarketcap.com will be present.

A three-day professional interdisciplinary event, AltShift Festival gathers creative leaders, entrepreneurs, movement builders, purpose-driven organizations and communities from across sectors and countries who want to drive systemic and meaningful change. It will be the first event with a zero waste policy in the region!

What happens to privacy when we decentralize digital identity?

Join us for a panel discussion (in English) on the state of privacy on the web today, the challenges we may face in a decentralized web, and potential solutions to protecting privacy as we bridge the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. A meetup organized by Jolocom for Privacy Week Berlin 2018.

#PWB2018

Inspired by the annual Privacy Week conference of C3W (Chaos Computer Club) in Vienna, an interdisciplinary network of partners from civil society, science and the tech community will host Privacy Week Berlin for the first time. This decentralized event aims to enhance awareness of privacy protection by focusing on various aspects of the issue and addressing all relevant scenes and industries.

Blockchain for Financial Inclusion – Including the Unincluded

As part of Berlin Blockchain Week, we partnered with DSTOQ, GIZ Blockchain Lab, and Tempo for the 3rd Crypto4Good panel discussion featuring experts from both the tech world and the international development sector. The aim was to define practical solutions to a pressing global issue – financial exclusion – and explore how DLT (distributed ledger technology) can bring positive change. Salomé Eggler (GIZ Blockchain Lab) moderated the thoughtful discussion among the panelists, including Kai (Jolocom) as well as Franz von Weizsäcker (Head of GIZ Blockchain Lab), Craig Mc Gregor (DSTOQ), and Anthony Barker (Tempo). Full video coming soon.

An initiative of Telekom Open Space at Deutsche Telekom, the sixth edition of Startupnight in Berlin welcomed 5000+ participants and 250+ startups from around the world in categories like mobility, energy, communication, AI, VR, AR, health, fintech and, of course, digital identity.We took the opportunity to present Jolocom’s protocol and SmartWallet as well as offer a general overview of self-sovereign identity to a diverse audience of over 40 individuals.

At the 2018 edition of the annual event for thought leaders in their twenties, Kai held a workshop titled “Wir Bauen ein neues Internet: Visionen für das Web 3.0”. Participants worked themselves through the pain points of our current centralized web interactions and collectively reflected on visions for a decentralized future in which individuals own their data and switching services is a no-brainer when it comes to both privacy and usability.

Kai contributed to a panel session during the second conference at HTW focused on applications of blockchain technology appearing in business and administration today.

Global Visions / Working Code

The 2018 edition welcomed hundreds of builders, developers, activists, and archivists to the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Joachim once again supported organizational efforts behind the entire event (especially the opening Builder’s Day), Natascha co-facilitated a workshop on incentive design with token engineering, Eugeniu discussed decentralized identity and DIDs during both a workshop and panel, and Ira was enlisted as storyteller for the UX/UI session on Builder’s Day — find out what designers envision for the decentralized future of the web in her recap here.

Initiated by the European Parliament and the European Commission, the Blockchain Observatory gathered experts on government use cases for blockchain and digital identity for a one-day event. Kai represented Jolocom’s approach to self-sovereign identity on the main panel, discussing topics of openness, standardization, interoperability, and security with leading figures from the identity space.

To initiate dialogue among stakeholders on Germany’s upcoming blockchain strategy, Kai presented self-sovereign identity at ESMT, hosted by the Digital Society Institute with members of parliament, BMWi, BSI, Deutsche Bahn, Siemens, Fujitsu and others.

Reflecting our focus on IT security, Kai gave a presentation on identity and blockchain to a group of IT security specialists organized in the TeleTrusT association.

Kai held a workshop on use cases for blockchain in public administration in the scope of pioneering applications of blockchain in the real world.

The launch event of Revision gathered 100 select invitees to participate in a forum on building a decentralized future. Kai led a workshop on the opportunities and challenges offered by decentralized identity.

Kai hosted a workshop on decentralization and mobility spoke about blockchain for the future of mobility on the second day of roundtable discussions held at T-Systems Urban Garden for TOA.

During a meeting of security professionals gathered by Bitkom, Kai presented Jolocom’s approach to self-sovereign identity as a way to overcome existing IT security challenges and enable new architectures of mutual trust between network participants.

Kai introduced self-sovereign identity to Italian businesses and industry representatives exploring innovative companies in Berlin during a keynote. digItaly organized the event.

Joachim went on stage to present Jolocom during the pre-DWeb Summit meetup at the Internet Archive headquarters in SF. You can watch all the talks here (Joachim begins speaking at 1:19:44).

Kai and Cem attended the competition for young and innovative blockchain companies to pitch themselves before a panel of judges. Kai delivered a fantastic pitch of Jolocom – watch it here!

As a startup driving innovation in the public sector, we were invited to join the series of talks and workshops by D21, a think tank initiative focused on societal benefits of technology.

We celebrated our fourth birthday and bid farewell to our coworking space with Ethereum DEV in a hybrid celebration-meetup – the first of a meetup series we began organizing titled Blockchain & Identity. Joachim was our master of ceremonies, Eugeniu spoke of the quest for a useable self-sovereign identity, Iryna shared some clever strategies for using visual design to differentiate your product, Achim (an advisor to Jolocom) introduced his company Purpose, and Christian (Ethereum DEV, Solid) chronicled our time together in the Kreuzberg office. Our friends at Livepeer helped us live stream all the action via their decentralized video sharing platform using blockchain.

Chosen as an Impact Startup, Jolocom joined KFF 2018 to participate in a pitch competition among tech companies. Kai presented our work before an audience filled with hundreds of investors.

Joachim discussed blockchain with other familiar faces in the Berlin crypto scene on an interactive expert panel at a meetup organized by Blockchain Real Talk held at Space Shack.

The whole team came out to represent Jolocom’s portion of the hashtaX booth from Telekom Innovation Labs (T-Labs) in the middle of the exhibition floor along with our partners BigchainDB and RIDDLE&CODE. Joachim discussed the state of blockchain in Germany with fellow members of the Bundesblock in a panel titled “New Kids on the Blockchain”. Kai and Wikimedia’s John Weitzmann shared their views on blockchain tokenization and public infrastructure. And Charly unpacked how blockchain creates new possibilities for decentralized identity management.

Kai gave a presentation on Jolocom and self-sovereign identity using blockchain to industry representatives from across different industries, including banking, software, utilities, retail, and media.

Joachim attended on behalf of the Bundesblock.

Joachim gave a keynote on the potential of self-sovereign identity in the first meetup of the new event series on blockchain in Szczecin.

Kai presented to the participants of a 4-day hackathon focused on developing IoT projects and gave a presentation on self-sovereign identity and Jolocom’s approach.

Kai presented Jolocom, blockchain, and its potential for the public sector to a diverse congress during a lively, two-day convention on digitalization, e-government, and modernizing public administration. And…we won an award!

As Berlin Ambassadors Joachim and Kai represented Jolocom at the 2018 edition of the festival. We were one of only eight companies from Berlin selected as Ambassador Startups to pitch themselves and represent the vibrant startup scene back home. Jolocom took the stage during the New Technologies (VR, AI & More) Startup Pitches portion of the conference. Kai also pitched in the Berlin Venue and Joachim spoke at the round table discussion on blockchain and the music industry.

Natascha and Eugeniu presented Jolocom at the Blockchain Spring School in Mittweida, Saxony’s “Crypto Valley”.

Eugeniu presented Jolocom’s efforts towards developing a truly self-sovereign identity model, and outlined the biggest challenges in the field. He also joined a panel to discuss the state of the Ethereum ecosystem, competing projects such as EoS, token models, investment strategies, and the general status quo as regards decentralized projects and initiatives like our own.

Kai presented the Jolocom approach to self-sovereign identity at the popular Berlin Ethereum Meetup organized by ETHDEV and stuck around for the highly interesting Q&A (grilling) afterwards. Livepeer broadcast the meetup via a live stream using blockchain.

Kai presented Jolocom and self-sovereign identity in a keynote and Joachim took part in a panel on blockchain for the public sector at the conference organized by Behörden Spiegel.

BWC18
The prototype operating stack service we built with T-Labs and RIDDLE&CODE was debuted at the IoT conference where it won the Logistics & Supply Chain 4.0 challenge.

Joachim delivered a keynote about the future of blockchain and how the Blockchain Bundesverband wants to stay involved.

Kai traveled around Germany on behalf of Jolocom for inblockio’s second Blockchain for Society Meetup tour. Destination: Hamburg.

Kai traveled around Germany on behalf of Jolocom for inblockio’s second Blockchain for Society Meetup tour. Destination: Berlin.

Kai traveled around Germany on behalf of Jolocom for inblockio’s second Blockchain for Society Meetup tour. Check out his presentation in Leipzig on Jolocom and digital identities.

Joachim gave a presentation on digital identity and the Bundesblock.

Kai presented Jolocom to an audience of corporate representatives from various industries interested in Blockchain enabled innovation.

Eugeniu took the stage alongside Dimitri De Jonghe from BigchainDB to present their decentralized datastore in Ethereum using Jolocom’s gateway as an oracle for loading data from the Interplanetary Database into smart contracts.

Sabine gave a keynote on decentralized identity at the first edition of the BlockchainTalks meetup series.

Joachim gave a presentation on how self-sovereign identity could serve artists.

Eugeniu gave a presentation on Jolocom identity.

Shermin gave a talk on privacy and Jolocom identity.

Joachim gave a presentation on how self-sovereign identity could serve artists.

Joachim and Natascha represented Jolocom at our friendly startup booth.

Natascha introduces the meetup audience to Jolocom’s SmartWallet. Watch her talk on online interactions and digital identities.

Eugeniu delivered a presentation titled Identity as Driver Towards Interoperability (video).

Joachim presented SSI for artists during a panel discussion.

Joachim organized a satellite event on the Tech Open Air 2017 schedule.

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Joachim presented Jolocom identity.

Joachim discussed SSI for artists during a panel.

Startup hackathon – Jolocom identity for refugees.

Joachim spoke about decentralization and the blockchain during a panel.

Eugeniu and two researchers from Fraunhofer FOKUS present their approach to blockchain-enabled decentralized social networking.

Joachim is a founding member.

Joachim joined a panel titled “Un-Chain the Art” to discuss Jolocom identities for artists.

Joachim spoke about data-centric business models during a panel and gave a presentation on blockchain and personal data.

Joachim helped organize the event.

Joachim gave a talk on the building blocks of new cultural distribution – you can still watch the presentation in case you missed it.

Joachim was a co-organizer once again. Watch all the presentations and panels here, including a talk from Tim Berners Lee.

Joachim contributed to the curation of speakers and topics.

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Joachim contributed to the curation.

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Joachim was an organizer at the first GETDecentralized event held to connect members of the decentralization community.