What is a Hyperledger Indy and BootcampBC?
Let’s face it. The status quo is not working—our personal data on the Internet is not in our control! And the companies who manage/store/exchange our information, such as Facebook and Google, aren’t necessarily looking out for us. There is a better way of managing identity on the Internet. BootcampBC will dive right in and teach you about the open source Hyperledger Indy project—a distributed public ledger—purpose-built for decentralized secure and privacy respecting peer-to-peer data exchange (including personal identity). We will look at Indy from both a business and technical perspective, targeting those that want to contribute to or make use of the powerful possibilities Indy enables.
Who should attend and why?
Tech companies, developers, designers, writers, organizers, artists and managers—anyone who wants to learn about blockchain-based identity solutions in general, and Hyperledger Indy in particular.
If you’re wondering:
- What is all the fuss about with “self-sovereign identity” in general?
- What business problems are solved with Indy?
- What is the underlying technology?
- What is the Verifiable Organizations Network and BC's recently announced OrgBook service?
Then this bootcamp is for you.
What you will learn
Participants will be introduced to the Linux Foundation's open source Hyperledger Indy project. Indy supports exciting new standards-track technologies such as:
- decentralized identifiers (DIDs)
- verifiable credentials (VCs)
- zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)
Once introduced to the concepts of self-sovereign identity and the use of DIDs, VCs and ZKPs, participants will gain hands-on experience by building their own Hyperledger Indy agent to verify and issue VCs based on the work of the Government of British Columbia’s Verifiable Organizations Network open source initiative. This is the technology behind the recently announced BC OrgBook service.
Bootcamp presenters include core maintainers of the Hyperledger Indy and VON open source projects, and representatives of the Sovrin Foundation. The Sovrin Foundation is a non-profit that provides the legal, business and technical framework for the Sovrin Network, a global, public instance of Hyperledger Indy whose nodes are run by a group of (currently) more than 70 organizations around the world. The Sovrin Network is intended to provide a DNS-like backbone of identity for the Internet, enabling a new era in online privacy and security.
How much does it cost?
The fee for this full-day bootcamp with industry experts is only:
- $49 for individuals
- $25 for students
Registration for this event is through EventBrite.
Participants must arrange their own hotels and any additional travel.
Location
The venue for this bootcamp is the Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, 1055 Canada Place in beautiful downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.