The Future of Identity
The Future of Identity podcast talks to the people building the IDtech products of tomorrow. In each episode, Trinsic CEO Riley Hughes dives deep with founders and product builders to discuss their insights about what it takes to successfully launch an identity product. We hope you join us as we highlight the people at the forefront of making IDtech consumable for every day users and what is needed to reach mass adoption.As a leader in the self-sovereign identity movement, Trinsic has seen hundreds of companies attempt to use decentralized identity to build products that help people take control of their identity and data. Learn more about Trinsic at https://trinsic.id/.
Episodes
34 episodes
Diego Fernández - Driving Decentralized Identity in Buenos Aires with QuarkID
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Diego Fernández, co-founder of QuarkID and Sovra, to discuss the innovative decentralized identity solution rolled out by the city of Buenos Aires. QuarkID has garnered internatio...
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Episode 33
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38:41
Jeffrey Schwartz - Acquiring Trinsic Ecosystems & Accelerating the Future of Decentralized Identity
In this episode of the Future of Identity podcast, I’m joined by Jeffrey Schwartz, Founder and CEO of Dentity, to discuss the recent acquisition of Trinsic’s SSI platform assets, their ongoing partnership with Trinsic, and the innovations drivi...
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Episode 32
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58:38
Ajay Gupta - Shaping California’s mDL Program and the Future of Digital Identity
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Ajay Gupta, Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, to discuss California’s groundbreaking mobile driver’s license (mDL) prog...
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Episode 31
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43:57
David Kelts - From Idemia to Decipher Identity and the Evolution of Mobile IDs
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by David Kelts, a leader in digital identity and mobile ID initiatives, with a career that spans significant contributions across multiple companies and initiatives worldwide. David'...
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Episode 30
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42:55
Rohan Pinto - 1Kosmos's Journey from Blockchain to Passwordless Authentication
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Rohan Pinto, Co-founder and CTO of 1Kosmos, a company at the forefront of decentralized identity and passwordless authentication solutions. We explore the evolution of identity ma...
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Episode 29
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1:02:53
Calvin Fabre - Envoc's Role in Pioneering Mobile Driver’s Licenses in Louisiana
In this episode, I’m joined by Calvin Fabre, President and Founder of Envoc, a company that has been at the heart of mobile driver's license (mDL) innovation in Louisiana, a state leading the nation in mDL adoption. Calvin shares the fascinatin...
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Episode 28
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50:07
Karyl Fowler - From Transmute to Global Trade and the Power of Digital Identity
In this episode, I sit down with Karyl Fowler, co-founder and CEO of Transmute, a company at the forefront of integrating modern identity technology into global trade. Before founding Transmute, Karyl's work in the semiconductor and bioelectron...
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Episode 27
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46:41
Kim Hamilton Duffy - From Learning Machine to DIF and the Evolution of Decentralized Identity
In this episode, I talk with Kim Hamilton Duffy, the Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). Before her work at DIF, Kim served as the CTO at Learning Machine, an early pioneer in the self-sovereign identity space tha...
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Episode 26
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42:41
Special Episode - Trinsic Update
One of the most frequent requests that we get is to record an episode about Trinsic. So this week we’re doing just that because we recently announced the launch of our identity acceptance network in partnership with CLEAR, Yoti, IDVerse, Airsid...
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Episode 26
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10:06
Adrian Field - OneID’s Approach to Driving BankID Adoption in the UK
In this episode we talk with Adrian Field, the Director of Market Development at OneID, which is a bank-based identity verification product focused on the UK market.We cover a range of topics, including:How they apply a reven...
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Episode 25
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46:55
Taylor Liggett - ID.me’s Strategy for Adoption, Monetization, and Brand for 100 Million Wallets and Beyond
In today’s episode we spoke with Taylor Liggett, Chief Growth Officer of ID.me, which is the largest reusable ID network in the United States and may be the largest private digital ID network in the world. With over 1...
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Episode 24
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29:14
Eric Scouten - Adobe’s Leading Role in the Content Authenticity Boom
On today’s episode we talked with Eric Scouten, Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe, who has been working for the last four years on solving content authenticity. What does that mean? We’ll get into it in the episode, but suffice it to say that...
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Episode 23
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36:17
Adam Gunther - Tactical Insights from Equifax and IBM on Driving Reusable Identity Adoption
On today’s episode we spoke to Adam Gunther, SVP and General Manager of Digital Solutions at Equifax. This was a fascinating conversation about Adam’s journey leading decentralized identity at IBM, moving into an operating role within Equifax, ...
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Episode 22
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30:42
Phil Windley - Identity Metasystems and Lessons from Building the Sovrin Foundation
In this episode we talk with Phil Windley, Sr. Software Development Manager at AWS, Cofounder of IIW, former Chair of Sovrin Foundation. We talked about his experience building and leading the Sovrin Foundation, which at one point was almost sy...
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Episode 21
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35:02
Nick Thomas: Finicity’s Journey from Personal Finance App to $985M Acquisition for their Open Banking Platform
Today we talked with Nick Thomas, cofounder of Finicity, which was acquired by Mastercard, where Nick went on to be the EVP of Global Open Finance Innovation. Nick has a fascinating career that has paralleled digital identity for a long time, a...
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Episode 20
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38:21
Jacques von Benecke: Launching National-Scale Self Sovereign Identity in Bhutan
In this episode, we talk with Jacques von Benecke, CTO of DHI, the commercial and investment arm of the government of Bhutan. If you haven’t heard, Bhutan has launched one of the most complete SSI ecosystems in the world! We spent most of the t...
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Episode 19
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52:32
Jon Gelsey: Identity Product GTM Insight from Auth0’s Early Days
In this episode, we talk with Jon Gelsey, founding CEO of Auth0 Inc, which sold to Okta for $6.5B, as well as the CEO of Xnor.ai which he sold to Apple for $200m.Jon told the story of the early days of Auth0,...
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Episode 18
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36:43
Harrison Tang: Spokeo’s Vision of a “People Search Engine” Powered by Verifiable Credentials
In this episode, we sit down with Harrison Tang, Co-founder and & CEO of Spokeo, which is a “people search engine”. Spokeo aggregates many sources of data about people and sells that data to verifiers. So at first blush, Harrison is an unli...
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Episode 17
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34:10
Carlos Korten: Lessons Learned From Bindle’s Health Pass
In this episode, we chat with Carlos Korten, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer of Bindle Systems. Bindle built one of the largest private-sector deployments of decentralized identity in the USA, and Carlos shares tons of stories from the t...
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Episode 16
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46:10
Nate Soffio: Reusable Identity in Financial Services
In this episode, we sit down with Nate Soffio, Co-founder and & CEO of Portabl. Nate is applying decentralized identity to fintech and open banking, which is such an important but also challenging use case.We discuss the ins and out...
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Episode 15
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57:57
Andrew Black: Building Bank-Backed Digital ID in Australia
In this episode, we speak with Andrew Black, Managing Director of ConnectID, which is part of Australian Payments Plus. Andrew, who is an expert in the convergence of IDtech and open banking, sheds light on a unique approach to building bank-ba...
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Episode 14
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42:48
Sarah Clark: Mastercard’s ID Network
In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Clark, SVP of Digital Identity at Mastercard, to discuss Mastercard’s ID network.As one of the world’s largest payments networks, Mastercard has been on the leading edge of reusable identity. Sara...
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Episode 13
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46:30
Keith Uber: Organizational Identity and vLEIs
In this episode, we sit down with Keith Uber, VP of Sales Engineering at Ubisecure, to discuss the role of verifiable credentials in identity and access management.Keith shares his insights on Organizational Identity and how vLEIs chang...
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Episode 12
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32:25
Ankur Patel: Microsoft’s Decentralized Identity Product—Entra Verified ID
Today’s guest is Ankur Patel, Head of Product at Entra Verified ID which is Microsoft’s decentralized identity product. We begin the conversation by reviewing Microsoft’s storied history of identity initiatives, and why one of the world’s most ...
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Episode 11
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31:36
Eric Starr: Verifiable Credential Adoption in Government
Today’s guest is Eric Starr, Co-founder & CEO of UltraPass ID—an IDtech product for governments.Eric shares his story trying to solve civic problems through the political system via Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign and how he end...
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Episode 10
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35:22