The SSI Orbit Podcast – Self-Sovereign Identity, Decentralization and Digital Trust
Episodes
S5E3 - How IATA is Building Digital Trust for 360+ Airlines
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does an industry of over 360 airlines build digital trust across borders, partners, and countless intermediaries? In this episode, Mathieu Glaude ...
S5E2 - From 0 to 80%: How Bhutan Built a National Digital Identity in Two Years
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did Bhutan go from zero to 80% national digital identity adoption in just two years? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast, host Mathieu Glaude...
S5E1 - You Can Cryptographically Sign a Lie: Digital Trust Needs Governance (with Scott Perry)
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you trust what you see online, when AI can generate anything and anyone can cryptographically sign a lie?In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast,...
#79 - Has Our SSI Ecosystem Become Morally Bankrupt? (with Christopher Allen)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has the self-sovereign identity (SSI) movement strayed from its original values? Are we witnessing the centralization of digital identity under the gu...
#78 - The United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP) (with Steve Capell)
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you confident in the environmental and social claims about your products? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast, host Mathieu Glaude sits d...
#77 - The Global Acceptance Network (GAN) (with Darrell O'Donnell)
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if there was a way to establish a new trust layer for the internet, enabling secure digital interactions and unlocking valuable transactions that...
#76 - Essential Tips for Designing Decentralized Ecosystems (with Antti Kettunen)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you struggling to design and implement decentralized digital trust ecosystems that actually work? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast, host M...
#75 - Germany’s Wallet Strategy, Interop Profiles, Big Tech (with Kristina Yasuda & Niels Klomp)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you curious about how Germany is navigating the complex landscape of digital identity wallets and interoperability? In this episode of The SSI Orb...
#74 - OpenID Federation: A Standards-based Approach to Trust Management (with Dima Postnikov)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can we establish trusted digital ecosystems while driving innovation? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast, host Mathieu Glaude picks the brai...
#73 - Self-Sovereignty: A Lost Vision or an Evolving Concept? (with Vladimir Vujovic)
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you curious about how Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) has evolved over the years and where it is headed? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast, h...
#72 - Mobile Driving Licenses (mDL) in 2024 (with Sylvia Arndt)
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Could digital credentials like mobile driver's licenses be the game-changer for secure and convenient identity verification? In this episode of The S...
#71 - Problems Worth Solving in SSI Land (with Daniel Hardman)
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is there truly a clear separation between personal and organizational identity? This fundamental question lies at the heart of our most recent convers...
#70 - Empowerment Tech: Wallets, Data Vaults and Personal Agents (with Jamie Smith)
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Empowerment tech is about tools that start and end on the customer side, helping individuals make better decisions and get things done. It aligns the ...
#69 - Content Authenticity: Combating Deepfakes, Misinformation and Fraud (with Eric Scouten)
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever questioned the authenticity of online content? In today's digital landscape, it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from f...
#68 - eIDAS 2.0: Predicting Its Impact on Various Ecosystems (with Dominik Beron)
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the SSI Orbit Podcast, host Mathieu Glaude talks with Dominik Beron, Co-Founder and CEO of walt.id, about the game-changing eIDAS 2...
#67 - Exploring Digital Credential Protocols: Aries, OpenID4VC, ISO, KERI (with Hakan Yildiz and Vladimir Simjanoski)
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mathieu Glaude hosts Hakan Yildiz from Accenture and Vladimir Simjanoski from Blokverse to explore the world of digital credential pr...
#66 - Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs): Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (with Markus Sabadello)
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that h...
#65 - The Digital Travel Credential (DTC) (with Daniel Bachenheimer)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Bachenheimer is Accenture’s Digital Identity Innovations Technical Lead and has been designing and delivering solutions for various clients f...
#64 - Digital Trust in the Age of Generative AI [Part 2] (with Wenjing Chu & Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Both guests co-chair the ‘AI and Metaverse Task Force’ at the Trust over IP Foundation. Wenjing Chu is a senior director of technology strategy at...
#63 - Secure Organizational Identity (with Lance Byrd)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lance Byrd is a secure organizational identity developer at GLEIF and co-founder of RootsID. He has been working on secure global scale data systems f...
#62 - The Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI): What it takes for a Nationwide Launch (with Kumar Gajmer and Pallavi Sharma)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kumar Gajmer is the Product Manager and the Technical Lead for the Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) Project. He started his career in IT in 2008...
#61 - How Digital Credentials are Transforming Learning Data (with Kate Giovacchini & Andrew A. Johnson)
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Giovacchini (Arizona State University) and Andrew Johnson (Fluree, PBC) are both working on The Trusted Learner Network (TLN) initiative, a new, ...
#60 - Trust Spanning Protocol: Seven Key Pillars (with Drummond Reed)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Gen Dig...
#59 - The Future of Digital Customer Relationships (with Jamie Smith)
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Smith has over 15 year's experience designing and delivering digital technologies and disruptive business models around the world. He specialise...
#58 - Developing Effective UX & Messaging Strategies for SSI Products (with Irene Hernández & Esther Saurí)
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Irene Hernández is the founder and CEO of Gataca, and Esther Saurí is the Head of Marketing at Gataca. Gataca is a cybersecurity company leader in d...
#57 - eIDAS 2.0 & the EU Digital Identity Wallet [Part 2] (with Dr. André Kudra)
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. André Kudra is the CIO of esatus AG, a consultancy and technology company specialized in InfoSec and with a strong footprint in Self-Sovereign Id...
#56 - DIDComm and OpenID for Verifiable Credentials (with Sam Curren & Darrell O'Donnell)
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Curren is the Senior Systems Architect and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Indicio. Sam has been involved in the Identity Community for over 1...
#55 - Exploring Commercial Data Ecosystems (with Antti Kettunen & Kai Kuikkaniemi)
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Antti Kettunen is the leading Digital Identity Consultant at Tietoevry, specializing in Decentralized Identity and Trust Ecosystems. He is an active ...
#54 - Digital Trust in the Age of Generative AI (with Wenjing Chu)
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wenjing is a senior director of technology strategy at Futurewei leading initiatives focused on trust in the future of computing. His long career enco...
#53 - Thinking Beyond Client-Server Architectures (with Daniel Hardman)
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel has been doing software engineering and architecture for about 30 years. He has formal education in linguistics, business, and cybersecurity. H...
#52 - Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs): DID Methods, DID Documents and DID Resolution (with Markus Sabadello)
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that h...
#51 - eIDAS 2.0 & the EU Digital Identity Wallet (with Viky Manaila)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Viky Manaila is an international expert in the field of electronic signatures, digital identity and digital transformation processes, who has succes...
#50 - OpenID4VC: OpenID for Verifiable Credentials (with Torsten Lodderstedt)
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is founder of Tuconic, a consulting firm specialising in digital identity and API-based software architectures, with more...
#49 - Relationships and Identity Systems (with Phil Windley)
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Windley is a Senior Software Development Manager at AWS Identity. He was most recently an Enterprise Architect and Principal Engineer in the Offi...
#48 - Is History Repeating Itself or Are We Operating in a Context We’re Not Aware Of? (with Tim Bouma)
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Bouma is the Director of Verification and Assessments at the Digital Governance Council, a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to developi...
#47 - Mobile Driving Licence (mDL): Exploring ISO 18013-5&7 (with Andrew Hughes)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Hughes CISM CISSP is Director of Identity Standards at Ping Identity. He is a digital identity strategist contributing to international standar...
#46 - Selling Solutions, Not SSI Technology (with Riley Hughes)
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Riley Hughes is the Co-founder and CEO of Trinsic, a company which provides infrastructure for building user-centric identity products. Customers nee...
#45 - One Trust Spanning Protocol & Many Trust Tasks (with Drummond Reed)
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast a...
#44 - Seeding a Digital Trust Ecosystem (with Nancy Norris & Kyle Robinson)
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Energy and Mines Digital Trust (EMDT) was established by the Government of British Columbia (B.C.) to incentivize the formation of a digital trust eco...
#43 - Governance and Trust (with Scott Perry)
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Perry is a Principal at Schellman where he heads up its crypto and digital trust services. Scott is a recognized global leader in digital ide...
#42 - AnonCreds: Anonymous Credentials (with Stephen Curran)
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Curran of Cloud Compass Computing, Inc. is a Software Development and DevOps veteran who dove full on into the identity on blockchain world in...
#41 - Converging Towards a Common Trust Spanning Protocol (with Drummond Reed)
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast a...
#40 - Are Trust Registries Vital to the Success of Decentralized Identity? (with Darrell O'Donnell)
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Darrell O’Donnell is a technology company founder, executive, investor, and advisor. He’s on a mission to help organizations build and deploy real...
#39 - Digital Notarization Can Kickstart Digital ID Ecosystems (with Dan Gisolfi)
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Gisolfi is currently leading the delivery of innovation capabilities across Discover Financial Services (DFS), such as Hack-aaS, Patent Program, D...
#38 - NFT + SSI = What I Own + Who I Am (with Dominik Beron)
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dominik Beron is the Founder & CEO of walt.id, a leading company in the field of decentralized identity. Mr. Beron is a serial entrepreneur with e...
#37 - Digital ID: Trapped in Fake News? (with Imraan Bashir)
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imraan Bashir is a Partner & National Canadian Public Sector Cyber Leader at KPMG. Imraan is a seasoned executive with 20+ years of experience adv...
#36 - GLEIF - Standardizing Legal Entity Verification (with Karla McKenna)
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karla McKenna is an international standards specialist in the area of financial services. Ms. McKenna is the Head of Standards for the Global Legal En...
#35 - How to Prevent SSI from Becoming Yet Another Platform? (with Joachim Lohkamp)
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joachim Lohkamp is the Founder & CEO of Jolocom, a Berlin-based company building decentralized digital identity and access right management soluti...
#34 - Fighting Financial Crime with Digital ID (with Eugenio DiMira)
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eugenio (Gene) is an industry go-to person in the fight against proceeds of crime, corruption and terrorism (AML/ATF/ABC) within the investments, bank...
#33 - What should Public Infrastructure look like in the Modern Data Economy? (with Andy Best)
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Best is the CEO of the Civic Digital Network (CDN), a non-profit organization working to create national data infrastructure.CDN’s mission is t...
#32 - Is the Trust Triangle a Good Enough Model for Ecosystem Design? (with Antti Kettunen)
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Antti Kettunen is a digital identity and digital trust expert and advisor. He designs ecosystem solutions, actively participates in standards and indu...
#31 - The Future of Work will happen through DAOs (with Stepan Gershuni)
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stepan Gershuni is working towards making it easier for DAOs to onboard talent through Professional ID credentials. There is an oversupply of talent l...
#30 - The Ingredients for Commercial SSI (with Charles Walton)
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Governance Orchestrators -The orchestrating required to bring together decentralized identity ecosystems is today's biggest gap for Commercial SSI. ...
#29 - Musings on Wallets & Identity Metasystems (with Phil Windley)
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Thinking in a decentralized architecture -We have a tendency to apply existing solutions or frameworks towards new things.In the early days of the w...
#28 - Turning the Web’s Data Layer into a Public Utility (with Lauren Feld)
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Filling holes in the web3 stack -This was a very fun and interesting conversation with Lauren Feld, Head of Growth at 3Box Labs, a company building ...
#27 - Non-binary Thinking will Accelerate Digital Sovereignty (with Rouven Heck)
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - Progress is often slowed down because of binary thinking. This type of behaviour sometimes happens within the self-sovereign identity ...
#26 - Battle of the Trust Frameworks (with Tim Bouma & Darrell O'Donnell)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - Every week there seems to be mention of a new Trust Framework. People are now trying to monetize them. But to understand trust framewo...
#25 - IDunion: Germany’s Bold SSI Strategy, with Hakan Yildiz
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - What use cases should a National Digital Identity program prioritize in collaboration with the private sector? As use cases become ver...
#24 - Wallet-Mania (with Mike Vesey, Dev Bharel, Adrian Doerk, RJ Reiser and Michael Boyd)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - This episode features a live recording of an Indicio community event. Digital Wallets are taking off! OS operators such as Apple are s...
#23 - Creating Social Inclusion Opportunities for African Youth with Lohan Spies
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - Yoma is a youth marketplace that is incubated by UNICEF in Africa. It enables youth to Learn (through Yoma learning partners), Earn...
#22 - Why Are Governments Choosing Hyperledger? - with Timo Glastra
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - During this podcast, we try to answer the question: ‘Why Are Governments Choosing Hyperledger?’. Timo Glastra is one of three foun...
#21 - The Roles of Government & The Private Sector in a Digital ID Program with Sebastian Manhart
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - Why not take the best practices from a real world National Digital ID ecosystem that is live and thriving? In today’s episode, we di...
#20 - DeFi vs TradFi, with Sandra Ro CEO of the GBBC
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - As we continue diving into use cases for self-sovereign identity, we spend some more time in the Web3 space. Sandra Ro has been workin...
#19 - A Legal Perspective on Data Privacy & Digital ID with Chetan Phull
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chetan Phull is a fellow colleague of mine from the Toronto blockchain scene. Chetan is a technology and data management lawyer at Deloitte Legal. His...
#18 - Decentralized Protocols x CBDCs: a Bank’s Worst Nightmare? - with James Loperfido
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - Where might revenues disappear from banks in the short-term? What about in the long-term? What efficiencies can be gained from decentr...
#17 - Token Economics for Self-Sovereign Identity Ecosystems with Fraser Edwards
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About Episode - I sit down with Fraser Edwards, CEO of Verim, a company building a #SSI Digital Credentials Network on Cosmos to create commercial via...
#16 - How DAOs Benefit from Self-Sovereign Identity (w. Stepan Gershuni)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About EpisodeIn this conversation, I sit down with Stepan Gershuni for the second time on this pod, the first time being in Episode 9 when we talked a...
#15 - Social KYC, an Alternate Form of Identity Verification for Web3, with Ingo Rübe
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About EpisodeIn this conversation we discuss, Why the common saying ‘data is the new oil’ is false? Alternative forms of identity verification for...
#14 - The Inevitable Shift towards Data-Centric Architectures with Brian Platz
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mathieu chats with Brian, Co-CEO of Fluree, an open-source platform for data ecosystems. The conversation covers data-centric architecture designs, an...
#13 - How Credit Unions are Using Verifiable Credentials to Engage with Members
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how Bonifii is using Verifiable Credentials as a Digital Transformation mechanism for Credit Unions to Increase Engagement with their Members. J...
#12 - SSI for NFTs, Offline and Connectionless Use Cases, NFC Chip Cards and More with Caspar Roelofs
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is an acronym special! NFTs, NFC and SSI! Great conversation with the Founder of Gimly Projects, Caspar Roelofs.About Episode We discuss...
#11 - Trust over IP Foundation 101 with John Jordan, Karl Kneis, André Kudra, Scott Perry and Paul Knowles
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Trust over IP Foundation’s mission is to: “Define a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines cryptographic trust a...
#10 - Building Digital Trust Ecosystems with Riley Hughes
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About EpisodeDuring this conversation, we discuss How Riley got into SSI through Sovrin and how he continued his journey by founding Trinsic The focus...
#9 - Economics of Self-Sovereign Identity and the Future of Cryptoeconomics with Stepan Gershuni
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During this conversation, we discuss The history and business models of each evolution of the internet to-date: Web 1.0 - Web 2.0 - Web 3.0; How web3 ...
#8 - IIW 32 Preview: What to Expect from the Next Internet Identity Workshop with Kaliya Young
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
** Listeners of the SSI Orbit Podcast can use this special discount code for 20% off their IIW32 ticket purchase: ‘SSIOrbit_XXXII_20’. Apply the c...
#7 - Patient-Centric Identity Management for Healthcare with Jim St-Clair from the Lumedic Exchange
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During this conversation about Patient-Centric Identity Management for Healthcare, we discuss: Jim’s vast experience and expertise in healthcare IT ...
#6 - The Importance of Data Inputs and Semantics for SSI with Paul Knowles from Human Colossus Foundation
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, I talk about the importance of data inputs and semantics with joined by Paul Knowles, an individual who defines himself as a sem...
#5 - Self-Sovereign Identity for Social Impact with Jimmy J.P. Snoek from Tykn
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode covers,- Using a crypto background to understand get excited about Decentralized ID for #SocialImpact- Becoming a founding Steward of Sov...
#4 - SSI Wallets & Internationalizing SSI Products with Adrian Doerk
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian is one of the best advocates of self-sovereign identity out there. He describes himself as being on a quest to explore decentralized solutions ...
#3 - Simplifying SSI for Organizations and Removing Roadblocks for Broad SSI Adoption with Heather Dahl
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Dahl is CEO of Indicio.tech. She was previously Executive Director & CEO of Sovrin Foundation, a public service utility enabling self-sove...
#2 - SSI for Identity & Access Management (IAM), Zero Trust Models and Germany's Digital ID Ecosystem with André Kudra
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
André Kudra is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at esatus AG, a Germany-based company many many strides in the SSI space. André has many years of...
#1 - Digital Identity in Canada & the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework with Joni Brennan, President of DIACC
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joni Brennan is the President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). She builds on nearly 20 years of experience in digital...