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Trust Over IP 5th Anniversary Virtual Symposium — Advancing Digital Trust Together

November 19-20, 2025 - Virtual 

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

 

Topics you can expect to be covered:

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 such as in British Columbia and Bhutan.

Day  2 will feature interactive workshops and discussion forums on topics such as 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 combat the human impersonation capabilities of generative AI.

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

  • Running AI Agent Protocols over TSP - AI Agent Protocols are arriving fast, but with fundamental shortcomings. Learn how the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) provides the necessary security and privacy functionality to enable trusted agentic communication.

 

Sessions - Day 1

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Opening remarks from ToIP: Reflections on the 5-Year Journey

Moderated by Eric Drury, Director at ForthCo.io, Digital Trust and Digital Identity Advisor

 

 

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C2PA & CAWG

Scott Perry, Founder and CEO at Digital Governance Institute

Eric Scouten, Identity Standards Architect for Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe

 

 

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The T of Spec-Up-T

Henk van Cann, Chairman at KERI Foundation and OBNR Foundation, Co-Founder at Blockchainbird(.org)/ bcws.io

 

 

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Is DID SCID the Ultimate DID Method?

Drummond Reed, Co-Organizer at The First Person Project

 

 

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Enhancing Researcher Identity and Data Integrity with ORCID-Integrated Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)

Carly Huitema, Manager, Agri-food Data Strategy at University of Guelph

 

 

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The story of the dual stack

John Phillips, Co-Founder at Sezoo

 

 

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Introduction to KERI

Nicholas Racz,  Senior Partner at Key State Capital

 

 

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Expanding the vLEI ecosystem

Karla McKenna, Managing Director/Head of Standards at GLEIF

 

 

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

Wenjing Chu, Senior Director of Technology Strategy at Futurewei Technologies Inc.

 

 

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The First Person Project: Solving Proof of Personhood with the ToIP Stack

Drummond Reed, Co-Organizer at The First Person Project

 

 

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Zero Knowledge Proofs for the Decentralized Trust Graph

Sanjam Garg, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley

Hart Montgomery, CTO at LF Decentralized Trust

 

 

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TMCP/TA2A: Running AI Agent Protocols over TSP

Wenjing Chu, Senior Director of Technology Strategy at Futurewei Technologies Inc.

 

 

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Web of Trust

KeyState Capital (Speakers TBA)

 

 

Workshops and Forums - Day 2

PANEL

Incepting SEDI in Utah

Christopher Bramwell, Chief Privacy Officer, State of Utah

Steven McCown, Chief Architect at Anonyome Labs, Inc. and Utah Privacy Commission - Commissioner, State of Utah

Samuel Smith, Creator of KERI Foundation

 

 

 

WORKSHOP

Workshop Spec-Up-T

Carly Huitema, Manager, Agri-food Data Strategy at University of Guelph

Drummond Reed, Co-Organizer at The First Person Project

Henk van Cann, Chairman at KERI Foundation and OBNR Foundation, Co-Founder at Blockchainbird(.org)/ bcws.io

 

 

 

WORKSHOP

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

Workshop moderators TBA

 

 

 

Speakers

Eric D

Eric Drury

Director at ForthCo.io, Digital Trust and Digital Identity Advisor

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Scott

Scott Perry

Founder and CEO at Digital Governance Institute

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Eric S

Eric Scouten

Identity Standards Architect for Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe

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Henk

Henk van Cann

Chairman at KERI Foundation and OBNR Foundation, Co-Founder at Blockchainbird(.org)/ bcws.io

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Drummond

Drummond Reed

Blockchainbird(.org)/ bcws.io Co-Organizer at The First Person Project

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Carly

Carly Huitema

Manager, Agri-food Data Strategy at University of Guelph

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John P

John Phillips

Co-Founder at Sezoo

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KArla

Karla McKenna

Managing Director/Head of Standards at GLEIF

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Wenjing Chu

Senior Director of Technology Strategy at Futurewei Technologies Inc.

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Nicholas Racz

Senior Partner at Key State Capital

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Sanjam

Sanjam Garg

Associate Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Hart Montgomery

CTO at Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

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Christopher Bramwell

Chief Privacy Officer, State of Utah

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Steven McC

Steven McCown

Chief Architect at Anonyome Labs, Inc. and Utah Privacy Commission - Commissioner, State of Utah

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Samuel Smith

Creator of KERI Foundation

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Sessions

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Next Generation Enterprise Blockchain Privacy Using TEE / Confidential Computing

Adi Ben-Ari , Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain

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Private Transactions in a Public World: A New Architecture for Trust

Dr. Jacob Mendel, co-CTO at Parfin

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Cryptographic VM for Financial Collaboration and Maintaining Trade Arbitrage

Jay Prakash, Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories

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Selective Disclosure on Public Blockchains: Nightfall as the Bridge Between Privacy and Interoperability

Pradeep Singh, Co-founder & CEO at gateway.fm

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Cryptographically Verifiable Lotteries

Joseph Bonneau, Associate Professor at New York University

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Chainlink's Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: Use Cases and Adoption

Roger Brogan, Director of Solutions Architecture at Chainlink Labs

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Addressing Privacy in the Drex CBDC: Insights and Challenges

Henrique De Carvalho Videira, Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

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Building ZK Applications with SP1

Uma Roy, Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct

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Zeto: ZKP powered post-quantum secure privacy enhancing tokens

Jim Zhang, Co-Founder & Head of Protocol at Kaleido

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Canton Network: Solving Privacy in Capital Markets, Crypto, and Payments.

Simon Letort, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset

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Stronger Privacy for Existing Credentials

Guru Vamsi Policharla, PhD student at University of California, Berkeley 

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Real world applications of Paladin to DvP and Stablecoin use cases

Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido 

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Privacy in Wholesale CBDC: Current state and Exploration

Frédéric Faure, Head of blockchain at Banque de France

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Enterprise grade Privacy with HashSphere

Andrew Stakiwicz, Head of Solutions at Hashgraph

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Privacy Considerations in Financial Blockchain Environments

Shingo Fujimoto, Principal Research Director at Data & Security Research Laboratory at Fujitsu

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The 4th Generation of Crypto where TradFi meets DeFi

Eran Barak, CEO and Bob Blessing-Hartley, CTO at Shielded Technologies

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On-Chain Privacy with Verifiable Compliance

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

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Privacy in Enterprise Blockchains

Angela Pratt, Software Engineer at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

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Sovereign Compliance: KYC & AML in the Age Of Web3

Muthu Venkitasubramaniam, Cofounder at Ligero Inc. & Professor Computer Science at Georgetown University

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Espresso Network: A fast confirmation layer for rollups

Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems & Professor Computer Science NYU

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Private Enterprise Layer 2s: Atomic DvP and Cross-Institution Settlement

Omar Azhar, VP, Head of Business Development at Matter Labs

PANEL

Open Forum: Privacy Technologies

Uma Roy, Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct

Joseph Bonneau, Associate Professor at New York University 

Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems & Professor Computer Science at NYU

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

Hart Montgomery, CTO at LF Decentralized Trust

PANEL

Open Forum: Privacy Tools

Jay Prakash, Co-Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories

Eran Barak, Chief Executive Officer at Shielded Technologies

Adi Ben-Ari, Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain

Simon Letort, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset

Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido

Hart Montgomery, CTO at LF Decentralized Trust

PANEL

Open Forum: Bank Requirements for Privacy

Sudhir Upadhyay, Head of Engineering at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

Rajeev Sambyal, Head of Digital Assets Platform at BNY Mellon 

Carlos Vivas Augier, Head of DLT Platform Engineering at Citi

Henrique De Carvalho Videira, Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

Rashi Goyal, Vice President of product development, Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard

 

Speakers

Adi

Adi Ben-Ari

Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain

 

 

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JAcob

Dr. Jacob Mendel

co-CTO at Parfin

 

 

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Jim Zhang

Jim Zhang

Co-Founder & Head of Protocol at Kaleido

 

 

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Andrew S

Andrew Stakiwicz

Head of Solutions at Hashgraph

 

 

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Guru Vamsi

Guru Vamsi Policharla

PhD student at University of California, Berkeley

 

 

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Benedikt

Benedikt Bünz

Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems & Professor Computer Science NYU

 

 

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Jay Prakash

Co-Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories

 

 

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Joseph

Joseph Bonneau

Associate Professor at New York University 

 

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Pradeep Singh

Pradeep Singh

Co-Founder & CEO at gateway.fm

 

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Peter Broadhurst

Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido

 

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Ben Diamond

Benjamin E. Diamond

Staff Cryptographer at Irreducible

 

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Uma Roy

Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct

 

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Roger Brogan

Director of Solutions Architecture at Chainlink Labs

 

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Henrique

Henrique De Carvalho Videira

Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

 

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Simon Letort

Simon Letort

Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset

 

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Frédéric Faure

Frédéric Faure

Head of blockchain at Banque de France

 

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Shingo

Shingo Fujimoto

Principal Research Director at Data & Security Research Laboratory at Fujitsu

 

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Bob

Bob Blessing-Hartley

CTO at Shielded Technologies

 

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Barak

Eran Barak

Chief Executive Officer at Shielded Technologies

 

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Eli Ben-Sasson

Eli Ben-Sasson

Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

 

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Izzy

Issidor Iliev

SVP Blockchain and Digital Assets at Mastercard

 

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Angela

Angela Pratt

Software Engineer at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

 

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Muthu Venkitasubramaniam

Cofounder at Ligero Inc. & Professor Computer Science at Georgetown University

 

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Omar

 Omar Azhar

VP, Business Development at Matter Labs

 

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Hart Montgomery

CTO at Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

 

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Sudhir Upadhyay

Head of Engineering at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

 

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Rajeev Sambyal

Head of Digital Assets Platform at BNY Mellon 

 

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Carlos Vivas Augier

Head of DLT Platform Engineering at Citi

 

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Rashi

Rashi Goyal

Vice President of product development, Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard

 

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Johnna-1

Johnna Powell

Managing Director, Technology Research and Innovation at DTCC and Chair of the Governing Board at LF Decentralized Trust

 

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Submit Your Talk Today!

Deadline for speaker submissions is EOD EST September 30th, 2025

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Detailed Agenda Coming Soon!

 

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