Transparency approaches have extremely wide applicability throughout the technology and information landscape. Different use cases have different functional and non-functional requirements which suggest the need for a diverse – but not too diverse – transparency ecosystem to enable broad, practical adoption. This lightning talk aims to stimulate conversation and highlight opportunities for advancement of transparency technology through interoperable data structures, standards, open source code, and group cooperation.
Speaker
Jon brings deep expertise in cryptography, cybersecurity, and blockchains to DataTrails where we’re tackling the thorny problems of Supply Chain Security, Integrity, Transparency and Trust for sensitive use cases from nuclear waste handling to connected industry. He has held senior global technical roles at Thales e-Security, Trustonic, ARM, and nCipher where he led teams building chip-to-cloud solutions for mobile, IoT, payments, and cloud.
He is a firm believer in open standards having founded groups or served at board level in GlobalPlatform, Trusted Computing Group, OASIS, Digital Twin Consortium, and Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger. He is currently co-chair of the IETF Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency and Trust Woking Group.
