02-26, 09:30–10:30 (UTC), Kaldalón
Revisit pronouncements made in the seminal CIS 2013 “Hope or Hype?" presentation and look at similarities to today's hope and hype surrounding wallets and credentials.
In 2013, the Cloud Identity Summit (the precursor to Identiverse) hosted the seminal “Hope or Hype?” session, a humorous yet insightful examination of emerging standards like OAuth, OIDC, JOSE, and JWT. The recently late but forever great Vittorio Bertocci described the session as "hilarious & very informative!" in praise that the humbled presenter has aspired to live up to every day since. In tribute to Vittorio, this session will strive to be funny and informative as it takes a retrospective look at the pronouncements made in 2013 and considers similarities to today's hope and hype surrounding wallets and <del>verifiable</del> digital credentials.
As a Distinguished Engineer for Ping Identity, Brian aspires to one day know what a Distinguished Engineer actually does for a living. In the meantime, he's tried to make himself useful with little things like designing and building much of PingFederate, the product that put Ping Identity on the map, and developing jose4j, the popularish open source JWT library. When not making himself useful, he attempts to build a legacy by sneaking his name onto specification documents that very few people will actually ever read, including various identity and security related standards in the IETF, OpenID Foundation and OASIS. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Computer Science from Amherst College in Massachusetts. Despite spending four years in the state, he has to look up how to spell "Massachusetts" every time he writes it.