15E/ MOONSHOT Ideas to GET DONE by NEXT IIW

Moonshot ideas to GET DONE by NEXT IIW

Session Convener: Ankur Banerjee

Notes-taker(s): Ankur Banerjee

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Main takeaway/idea

Let’s all come together to have SSI credentials as the tickets for next IIW! We spend so much time competing with each other, that we sometimes forget to play nice 🤝 (Twitter thread about this.)

• Yes, we know this was done once in the past (3-4 years ago). However, the SSI/digital identity industry has moved on vastly since then and the technology has evolved too. This could even be a recurring thing.
• We don’t need to solve the whole stack of event signup and management: that can still be on Eventbrite or similar platform, since it offers payments, email communications etc.
• After someone registers on Eventbrite, the QR code/PDF/email/wallet files could be turned into an SSI credential by any wallet. All it needs to do is to allow people to