Trust Over IP 5th Anniversary Virtual Symposium

November 19 8:00 AM-November 20 5:00 PM PT

Trust Over IP 5th Anniversary Virtual Symposium
November 19–20, 2025 | Virtual

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Join us for the fifth anniversary showcase of the Trust Over IP community with presentations and workshops from the pioneers of open standards for digital trust infrastructure.

What to Expect

Day 1 will feature presentations on the dual nature of the ToIP stack (tech + governance); the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP); trust registries; decentralized trust graphs; practical zero-knowledge proofs; and real‑world implementations of ToIP architecture (e.g. in British Columbia and Bhutan).

Day 2 will feature interactive workshops and discussion forums around trust in AI agents, ToIP trust task protocol design, verifiable relationship credentials, the special challenges of eKYC, and decentralized trust networks.

Featured Sessions

Solving Proof of Personhood with the TOIP Stack
Learn how the First Person Project is using the TOIP stack to build a decentralized trust graph and address human impersonation by generative AI.

Introduction to the Trust Spanning Protocol
Discover the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP), its design philosophy, new trust frameworks it enables, and applications under development.

Running AI Agent Protocols over TSP
AI Agent Protocols are arriving fast, but have fundamental shortcomings. Learn how TSP provides the security and privacy functionality to enable trusted agentic communication.

Sessions — Day 1

  • Opening remarks from ToIP: Reflections on the 5‑Year Journey (moderated by Eric Drury)

  • C2PA & CAWG (Scott Perry, Eric Scouten)

  • The T of Spec‑Up‑T (Henk van Cann)

  • Is DID SCID the Ultimate DID Method? (Drummond Reed)

  • Enhancing Researcher Identity and Data Integrity with ORCID‑Integrated DIDs (Carly Huitema)

  • The story of the dual stack (John Phillips)

  • Introduction to KERI (Nicholas Racz)

  • Expanding the vLEI ecosystem (Karla McKenna)

  • Introduction to the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) v1.0 (Wenjing Chu)

  • The First Person Project: Solving Proof of Personhood with the ToIP Stack (Drummond Reed)

  • Zero Knowledge Proofs for the Decentralized Trust Graph (Sanjam Garg, Hart Montgomery)

  • TMCP/TA2A: Running AI Agent Protocols over TSP (Wenjing Chu)

  • Web of Trust (KeyState Capital – Speakers TBA)

Workshops & Forums — Day 2

Panel
Incepting SEDI in Utah
Christopher Bramwell, Steven McCown, Samuel Smith

Workshop
Spec‑Up‑T
Carly Huitema, Drummond Reed, Henk van Cann

Workshop
Hands‑on Workshop on Developing AI Agents based on TMCP (MCP over TSP)
(Workshop moderators TBA)

Speakers

  • Eric Drury (Director, ForthCo.io; Digital Trust & Identity Advisor)

  • Scott Perry (Founder & CEO, Digital Governance Institute)

  • Eric Scouten (Identity Standards Architect, Adobe / Content Authenticity Initiative)

  • Henk van Cann (Chairman, KERI Foundation & OBNR Foundation)

  • Drummond Reed (Co‑Organizer, The First Person Project)

  • Carly Huitema (Manager, Agri‑food Data Strategy, University of Guelph)

  • John Phillips (Co‑Founder, Sezoo)

  • Karla McKenna (Managing Director / Head of Standards, GLEIF)

  • Wenjing Chu (Senior Director of Technology Strategy, Futurewei Technologies Inc.)

  • Nicholas Racz (Senior Partner, Key State Capital)

  • Sanjam Garg (Associate Professor, UC Berkeley)

  • Hart Montgomery (CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust)

  • Christopher Bramwell (Chief Privacy Officer, State of Utah)

  • Steven McCown (Chief Architect, Anonyome Labs; Commissioner, Utah Privacy Commission)

  • Samuel Smith (Creator, KERI Foundation)

Details:

Start:
November 19 8:00 AM

End:
November 20 5:00 PM