Key Points

1. conference is in Dublin, Sept 12-14 ( Mon to Wed )

2. planned joint session with Liz Tanner - need a slide deck to submit

3. CBDC session selected also

4. Location:
   Spencer Dock, N Wall Quay, North Wall
   Dublin 1, D01 T1W6, Ireland

References

Hyperledger summit confirm key
Your Confirmation Number is:
7PN756TKL92

check out this video on the Hyperledger learning materials working group

Project- Bobbi and Jim  

Sessions Presented

Global Forum 2022 sessions list

https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2022/07/26/whats-on-the-agenda-at-hyperledger-global-forum-2022

Created, presented session at Hyperledger Global Forum
US Digital Currency: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies - Jim Mason, DTCC

Tuesday, September 13, 2023 • 16:30

Created, presented session at Hyperledger Global Forum
US Digital Currency: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies - Jim Mason, DTCC

https://hgf22.sched.com/event/14H6h

Created, presented session at Hyperledger Global Forum
Hosted Discussion: Rhode Island Leads on Digital Identity Solutions with Hyperledger - Liz Tanner, State of Rhode Island & Jim Mason, DTCC

https://hgf22.sched.com/event/14H6e

Tuesday, September 13 • 17:20 - 18:00

Session Proposals 

Digital Identity in Government drives better services for all with Hyperledger Indy, Aries

session handout:   Rhode Island Leads on Digital Identity Solutions [Autosaved].pdf file

session video explainer for identity & credentials in digital government:  too large to load

run session  video explainer from this link

RI-SSI-POC_Governance_BI-Rhode_Island.mp4

draft versions of presentation

RI-Leads-on-Digital-Identity-Solutions-v2 gslide

RI-Leads-on-Digital-Identity-Solutions-v2.pdf link

session summary 

• audience > 150 included Hyperledger staff, developers, British Columbia team

• Liz presented 80% of the slides

• Liz covered

• the journey for the state in SSI - Self Sovereign Identity and Digital Government

• compared the process maps for the old way to get a CPA license and the new way with SSI 

• the RI POC project: goals, deliverables, expected impacts

• strategies to turn opportunities into reality

• how to define IT opportunities in government

• Ran the 4 minute video explainer for identity & credentials in digital government: showing how the system works for a CPA and a CPA firm

• I explained

• how RI digital identities are created for individuals ( use case )

• the trust model slides ( trust triangle and the governance triangle ), the Hyperledger Indy, Aries deliver TOIP

• the digital trust model in action for a CPA credential

• the audience feedback was very positive.

• most understood the better value SSI offers over traditional digital identity ( privacy, risk, trust levels, verifications etc )

resource references

https://hgf22.sched.com/directory/speakers

https://hgf22.sched.com/event/14H6e/hosted-discussion-rhode-island-leads-on-digital-identity-solutions-with-hyperledger-liz-tanner-state-of-rhode-island-jim-mason-dtcc

linuxfoundation-Liz-RI-digital-government-application.smapply.io-HGF_22-0000000232.pdf file

resources 

swt-identity-blockchain-concepts-v3 gslides

Digital Identity Concepts#References

m SSI / DID - Self Sovereign Identity#SelfSovereignIdentity-References

m TOIP Trust Over IP

DID implementations

https://trinsic.notion.site/Global-Verifiable-Credential-Adoption-78c7e4c5f2a34a228a55d03db54ab399

https://blog.cheqd.io/self-sovereign-identity-use-cases-43bb03d49e13

https://northernblock.io/

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/how-governments-can-deliver-on-the-promise-of-digital-id

mckinsey-How governments can deliver on the promise of digital ID.pdf url

mckinsey.com-How governments can deliver on the promise of digital ID.pdf file

Session Overview

The smallest state in the US has become a leader in digital transformation in government under the leadership of Liz Tanner, the Scretary of Commerce for the State of Rhode Island. As Director, Dept. of Business Regulation, she initiated the
transformation for Digital Identity and Credentials in the state.

The Dept. of Business Regulation manages all the licenses and credentials for businesses and individuals. That covers accounting, restaurants, banking and all other types of businesses and professionals operating in the state. Leveraging Hyperledger Indy and Aries,

Liz's team has delivered an MVP solution to issue SSI ( Self-Sovereign Identities ) to individuals and organizations using digital wallets. Licenses issued are credentials that a party can choose to share with others to validate their identity or credentials. Liz will cover Rhode Island’s digital transformation journey: how they got here, the opportunities they are focused on, the challenges they’ve identified and the forward strategies they use to deliver identity and digital solutions for digital government.

related material supporting the session

Governments are challenged to deliver improved services and support effectively to all including underserved communities. With added challenges from the pandemic and social payments, identity fraud increased. Self-Sovereign Identity technologies can help improve identity and credentials in many areas: government identity, credentials, health passes for vaccinations and tests, licenses, asset registrations while improving privacy and automating compliance.

The session explores a State government initiative to expand from traditional identity solutions to leverage Self-Sovereign Identity using Hyperledger Indy and Aries. The MVP project was driven by the need to improve issuing and managing licenses and credentials in the Department of Business Regulation. The Department Director had done extensive research to validate the potential benefits comparing other leading digital government initiatives in Estonia, British Columbia and other governments.

Efficient green energy solutions are critical for everyone. As residences and businesses add solar power, the ability to lower their costs by trading energy through grids is key. For energy utilities, decentralized energy resources ( DER ) improve demand management and grid resiliency for all with lower costs for peak energy purchases. 

We'll demo a P2P energy trading MVP solution for DER utility grids. Discussion will highlight the green energy climate today including strategies and key regulatory considerations in the US ( FERC ) and Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER ).

Fabric is an excellent blockchain platform supporting a broad set of use cases effectively. In our sample P2P trading solution we'll highlight:

• the related MVP blockchain use case requirements and member roles 

• keys to the selection of Fabric as our blockchain platform

• the Fabric features used in the MVP solution 

• our design thinking on engineering the blockchain services

• additional Fabric features we plan to use in the production rollout including AI, more automation, IoT integrations

Key takeaways:

• how decentralized energy adds value for all

• how Fabric adds value in a decentralized network

• considerations in planning Fabric solutions and projects

Join us as we explore the potential value of green energy solutions leveraging Hyperledger blockchain and other digital technologies.

We'll end with a Q&A session. Look forward to seeing you there !

Speakers:

Jim Mason

As Blockchain Practice Leader at Paramount Software, Jim leads agile digital transformations for organizations in many industries leveraging key technologies including Hyperledger blockchain software ( Fabric, Indy, Aries, etc). Jim’s experience includes roles as solution architect, product owner, IT Director, consultant, professor and patent engineer at IBM, Fidelity, Citizens Bank, software companies and University of Delaware.

Jim leads the Hyperledger Public Sector Group, the Boston Hyperledger Meetup, participates in Hyperledger interest groups, events, MOBI blockchain standards teams and is on the Expert Panel at EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum. Certifications included: Agile PM, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Hyperledger, FINRA financial advisor, MA life and health insurance.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmason2/

References 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6btBnEoDsM&list=PL0MZ85B_96CFY3isYUplorFSenn04WwBt&index=28

https://www.meetup.com/Hyperledger-Boston/events/276638120/

Identity is the permission to begin any relationship. With the wide availability of internet digital identity has become the most significant technology trends on the planet. However contrary to so much advancement of technology the authentication and online sharing of personal data models have hardly undergone any changes in last few decades. Data leaks and unauthorized sharing of personal data have raised many security breaches costing billions to organizations.

Blockchain and Biometrics together bring the perfect universal solution that is decentralized, transparent, tamperproof, efficient and highly scalable to help organizations in their journey embracing next-gen authentication. This session would give an insight to the flaws in existing identity architectures and how the nextgen identity solution would give rise to many new business models and use cases especially for financial and healthcare inclusion in public sector.

Speaker: Debajani Mohanty

US Digital Currency: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies

session handout:  US Digital Currency Opportunities Challenges Strategies.pdf  file

session summary:

audience was about 75 with a high number already looking at CBDC opportunities and issues

Jim covered

1. Overview Digital Asset Types, Tokens, Wallets

2. Digital Asset Services: Banking, Exchanges, Custody

3. Taxation of Digital Assets

4. Innovations: Securities, Commodities, Banking, Payments

   1. Project Lithium, Project Hamilton, FedNow network

5. Consumer Protection Concepts: privacy, protections

6. Key Legislation Trends

   1. Executive Action, MICA, Wyoming laws, Lummis bill

7. Key Takeaways:

   1. smaller countries innovate sooner

   2. Asia and Europe ahead of US on regulation

   3. CBDCs may improve trade, market efficiencies and payments

audience feedback:
very thorough coverage of the concepts & where we are now in the US, good forecast for how CBDC will evolve, good insight into DDP, project Lithium and Hamilton and Fed Now network

looking for more on CBDC predictions as US planning moves forward. interested in coordination across nations on CBDC

resources

linuxfoundation-US Digital Currency Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies.smapply.io-Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 CFP Form.pdf file

hgf22.sched.com/event/14H6h/us-digital-currency-opportunities-challenges-and-strategies-jim-mason-dtcc 

resources

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/03/09/executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-development-of-digital-assets/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/what-is-a-central-bank-digital-currency.htm     Fed - what is cbdc?

m Digital Currency and CBDC page

https://time.com/nextadvisor/investing/cryptocurrency/expert-reaction-to-fed-digital-currency-report/   reactions to US Exec Order on digital assets

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20210520b.htm   Powell on new technologies in payment space 2021

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/money-and-payments-discussion-paper.htm   Fed paper on money and payments in digital age

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20220120a.htm   Fed paper on pros and cons of a digital currency 2022

https://www.dtcc.com/news/2022/april/12/dtcc-building-industrys-first-prototype-to-supports-digital-us-currency   Lithium announcement

https://digitaldollarproject.org/ddp-press-releases/  

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/forward-momentum-the-digital-dollar-project-weighs-in-on-continued-regulatory-exploration-of-a-us-central-bank-digital-currency-301591219.html?tc=eml_cleartime

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/05/26/us-fed-vice-chair-says-digital-dollar-would-take-5-years-to-launch/  Fed - digital dollar will take 5 years to launch?

https://dci.mit.edu/opencbdc    Project Hamilton links

CBDC projects around the world

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/#:~:text=105%20countries%2C%20representing%20over%2095,%2C%20pilot%2C%20or%20launch).  // cbdc tracker

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/press-releases/2022/pwc-cbdc-global-index-2022.html  PWC 2022 list of cbdc projects

https://www.americanbanker.com/payments/list/a-tour-of-10-nations-digital-currency-projects   10 nations on CBDC 2021

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/02/09/sp020922-the-future-of-money-gearing-up-for-central-bank-digital-currency

Back To Schedule 

Tuesday, September 13 • 16:30 - 17:10 

US Digital Currency: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies - Jim Mason, DTCC Working in the DLT / blockchain space delivering solutions on different platforms, Jim will review the digital currency landscape with a focus on FinTech solutions for CBDC ( Central Bank Digital Currency ) in the US. CBDCs have been researched by many countries and a few have implemented a CBDC. With the US Executive Order in March 2022, the goal is now to understand the value of a US CBDC in the economy, financial markets and trade and recommend how a CBDC should be implemented. We will identify CBDC directions from the Executive Order and the research the Federal Reserve and other organizations delivered. The Digital Dollar Project, a partnership of Accenture and the Digital Dollar Foundation, is leading the discussion and exploration on US CBDC with other organizations including DTCC. We’ll review work on a Fed Coin, the Hamilton project ( OpenCbdc ) reviewing scalable architecture concepts for a CBDC and the Lithium project ( part of the Digital Dollar Project ) which uses CBDC for immediate settlement of security trades between parties that can be regulatory compliant. Attendees will get a deeper understanding of the goals, challenges and potential benefits of US CBDC. 

Speakers 

DLT Architect, DTCC 

Jim is an experienced leader who enjoys building teams and helping businesses deliver new data solutions, services, products and applications using new technologies improving internal operations and partner networks in manufacturing, financial services, banking, healthcare, supply... Read More →

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Topic CBDC, Financial, Fintech, Public Sector/Govt, Social Impact, Tokenization Project Besu, Corda 

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Green energy efficiency with smart P2P energy trading on Hyperledger Fabric 

<< not selected as a session for the conference >>

Efficient green energy solutions are critical for everyone. As residences and businesses add solar power, the ability to lower their costs by trading energy through grids is key. For energy utilities, decentralized energy resources ( DER ) improve demand management and grid resiliency for all with lower costs for peak energy purchases. 

We'll demo a P2P energy trading MVP solution for DER utility grids. Discussion will highlight the green energy climate today including strategies and key regulatory considerations in the US ( FERC ) and Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER ).

Fabric is an excellent blockchain platform supporting a broad set of use cases effectively. In our sample P2P trading solution we'll highlight:

• the related MVP blockchain use case requirements and member roles 

• keys to the selection of Fabric as our blockchain platform

• the Fabric features used in the MVP solution 

• our design thinking on engineering the blockchain services

• additional Fabric features we plan to use in the production rollout including AI, more automation, IoT integrations

Key takeaways:

• how decentralized energy adds value for all

• how Fabric adds value in a decentralized network

• considerations in planning Fabric solutions and projects

Join us as we explore the potential value of green energy solutions leveraging Hyperledger blockchain and other digital technologies.

We'll end with a Q&A session. Look forward to seeing you there !

Speakers:

Jim Mason

As Blockchain Practice Leader at Paramount Software, Jim leads agile digital transformations for organizations in many industries leveraging key technologies including Hyperledger blockchain software ( Fabric, Indy, Aries, etc). Jim’s experience includes roles as solution architect, product owner, IT Director, consultant, professor and patent engineer at IBM, Fidelity, Citizens Bank, software companies and University of Delaware.

Jim leads the Hyperledger Public Sector Group, the Boston Hyperledger Meetup, participates in Hyperledger interest groups, events, MOBI blockchain standards teams and is on the Expert Panel at EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum. Certifications included: Agile PM, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Hyperledger, FINRA financial advisor, MA life and health insurance.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmason2/

References 

https://greeningthegrid.org/resources/glossary

Key Concepts

Potential Value Opportunities

Potential Challenges

Forum Registration

registration ID CONFIRMATION as speaker

7PN756TKL92

https://web.cvent.com/event/e73445a7-9063-4d3f-b403-d587620a0f16/confirmation:68dd1ec1-a9d4-4552-b3d5-8962209eaad9

Ready to Register now? (early Bird ends May 10th) - as a special discount for our SIG members, please use code HGFSIG22 for 20% off.

Speaker registration email

https://mail.yahoo.com/d/search/keyword=global%2520forum/messages/AKEpslVTIEScYrPPEQSbsB7XokA?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9tYWlsLnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC0pLysZJxiJDm7QxGMSOCjf3IJe6HvNHeAQLjQLGyjMB_FELGT86T0hrzg5VlStVOaJQ7QYkx-cCB36Emqc2W6bMN1cJ17Dzm1PbGLQhksREKszk8lnGnn8tMfFPgLcOa1nWi8fUu7d75jD2anP69Omu21pOCkmAoVPe6NACZ0t

Info for Liz on speaker registration and travel funding email

https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AFgM2m8kuRsYYs7j_gIi4DNA4TA

jemason1 is your username, please set your password below:

L1xxTxis#yn

SPEAKER schedule

https://hgf22.sched.com/?iframe=no

normal registration page

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger-global-forum/register/

Travel assistance process - Linux Scholarship applications

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/travel-fund-request/

 If your travel fund application is approved, you will be required to show proof of attendance in order to be reimbursed. Receipt of Travel Funding does not guarantee entry to the event.  Recipients need to adhere to The Linux Foundation COVID-19 rules and regulations. If the recipient does not meet COVID-19 requirements for the event, the travel fund allotted is null and void. Should the recipient not be able to travel due to COVID-19 and travel has already been booked, the recipient will need to work with airlines and hotels to receive a refund. If a refund is not a possibility, The Linux Foundation will reimburse for incurred travel expenses within the allotted amount. Please Note: Attendance at 2022 in-person events requires proof of vaccination.

Notes from 7/12

The application session submission included request for Travel assistance for speaker Liz Tanner

The information on the application requested travel assistance

From the application I submitted: 

"

Travel Funding

Do you require travel funding?*

Selecting yes does not qualify as a request for funding, and it does not negatively affect

the status of your proposal submission. If you select that you need travel funding, we

will follow up with additional details on how to apply.

Yes

"

<< no follow up was done

From the Global Forum web site

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger-global-forum/attend/scholarships/

Hyperledger Foundation’s Travel Fund is intended to enable open source developers and community members to attend events when they would otherwise be unable due to a lack of funding. We place an emphasis on funding applicants who are from historically underrepresented or untapped groups and/or those of lower socioeconomic status. If you work for a company that has the ability to fund your travel, we ask that you not apply, to save funds for those that need it.

Please fill out the form below to have your funding request considered. In order to maximize spend, travel fund assistance may only be used for:

• Coach airfare tickets

• Accommodations (up to 3 nights only)

• Ground transportation to/from the airport

Funds may not be used for miscellaneous travel expenses including food, visa costs, non-airport transportation, baggage fees, etc.

A standard in-person ticket for Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 will be included. 

Note: If your travel fund application is approved, you will be required to show proof of attendance in order to be reimbursed. Recipients need to adhere to Hyperledger Foundation COVID-19 rules and regulations. If the recipient does not meet COVID-19 requirements for the event, the travel fund allotted is null and void. Should the recipient not be able to travel due to COVID-19 and travel has already been booked, the recipient will need to work with airlines and hotels to receive a refund. If a refund is not a possibility, The Hyperledger Foundation will reimburse for incurred travel expenses within the allotted amount. Please Note: Attendance at 2022 in-person events requires proof of vaccination.

For questions, please contact travelfund@linuxfoundation.org.

Air fares

air fare runs $825 round trip pp

fly out sunday night, arrive monday morning 9 am

3 hotel nights at $300 per night

meals

hotels

https://www.thegibsonhotel.ie/accommodation/stay-in-dublin-superior-rooms/

$300 per night total, near CCD & starbucks

https://www.thegibsonhotel.ie/

e850 3 nights

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$895 for 3 nights

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$944 for 3 nights

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e851 3 nights - 9/12-15

transportation from airport to dublin

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger-global-forum/attend/venue-travel/#getting-there

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