About Hyperledger's 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 that is coming to the Internet. BootcampBC will dive in and teach you about the Linux Foundations's open source Hyperledger Indy project—a blockchain-based distributed public ledger, purpose-built for decentralized secure and privacy respecting peer-to-peer data exchange (including personal identity). In this full day session we will look at Indy from both a business and technical perspective, get hands on with the technology and demonstrate the powerful possibilities Indy enables.

Who should attend and why?

Tech leaders, 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?
How can you or your organization get involved in blockchain-based identity solutions

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:

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.

Agenda

Start	End	Topic
8:00	8:45	Registration, Networking
8:45	9:00	Welcome
9:00	10:00	Indy Overview
10:00	10:15	Break
10:00	10:30	Sovrin Foundation Network
10:30	12:00	Agent Workshop
12:00	13:00	Lunch
13:00	14:00	Verifiable Organizations Network
14:00	15:30	Creating a VON issuer/verifier agent and adding it to dFlow (includes a 15 min coffee break)
15:30	16:00	Wrap and Challenges for Next Step
16:00	16:30	Networking, one on one questions

Location

The venue for this bootcamp is the Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, 1055 Canada Place in beautiful downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Logistics and FAQ

The following are some questions we've had when we have run previous instances of this bootcamp. We'll update this section of the page as we get closer to the event and as we field questions from participants. Check back here for more information.

Question: Will lunch be provided?

Yes, there will be lunch provided. More details on the lunch will be provided here.

Question: Do I need to bring my laptop?

Yes, you are welcome to bring your laptop and run the workshops that are on the agenda. Or, you are welcome to just follow along as the presenters walk through the examples.

Question: Do I need to pre-install any software to be able to run the workshops?

No. The workshops will be run using a browser on a website that gives you access to a Linux container and a command line. We'll walk you through the steps of the workshop and provide links to detailed guidance for running the steps on your own - your choice. You will also be able to run the workshops and get the software running after the bootcamp using the website or using resources on your laptop - docker, git and the like.