Selected for the 25 edition of Okta Ventures' The Identity 2025.

Yes, it's the one that appears in a big way in Times Square in New York. (See photo 1) It seems that it appeared on March 21 last year, but I wonder what will happen this year.

(Photo 1) A photo of John Bradley, one of last year's winners, is displayed. (Source) Facebook

(Addendum) The photo was later posted →See here

Others from Japan include Fujiei from CTC. Others include Paolo de Rosa, who is creating the EU DI ARF, Ryan Galluzzo, author of SP800-63-4, Daniel Fett of SD-JWT (writing as an Authlete member), and Brian Campbell, who is well known to everyone. From organizations, Gail from OIDF, Andrew from FIDO, and Sasikumar from MOSIP are also included.

The winners are as follows:

  • Janelle Allen, Engineering Product Manager, WebEx Identity at Cisco
  • Lincoln Ando, Founder, idwall
  • Andrew Black, Managing Director, ConnectID, Australian Payments Plus
  • Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Brian Campbell, Distinguished Engineer, Ping Identity
  • Julie Dawson, Chief Regulatory & Policy Officer, Yoti
  • Paul de Rosa, Policy Officer, European Commission
  • Rodger Desai, CEO, Prove Identity
  • Victor Dominello, Co-Founder, ServiceGen
  • Kim Hamilton Duffy, Executive Director, Decentralized Identity Foundation
  • Diego Fernandez, Co-creator, QuarkID & Co-founder, The Future Co.
  • Daniel Fett, Identity Solution Architect, SPRIN-D, German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
  • Heather Flanagan, Principal, Spherical Cow Consulting
  • Naohiro Fujie, General Manager, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation & Chair, OpenID Foundation, Japan
  • Ryan Galluzzo, Identity Program Lead, Applied Cybersecurity Division, NIST
  • Sasikumar Ganesan, Head of Engineering, MOSIP; Former Chief Security Architect, Aadhaar
  • Gail Hodges, Executive Director, OpenID Foundation
  • Hanna Kim, Director, Login.gov
  • Gideon Lombard, Chief Operating Officer, DIDx
  • Nat Sakimura, Chairman, OpenID Foundation; CEO, NAT Consulting
  • Eric Scouten, Identity Standards Architect, Adobe
  • Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, FIDO Alliance
  • Teresa Wu, Vice President, Smart Credentials, IDEMIA North America
  • Yang Xie, CEO, Authoring
  • Yodahe Zemichael, Executive Director, National ID Ethiopia

Anyway, congratulations to everyone.

And thank you to Okta Ventures. As for myself, I'm a little embarrassed that I haven't been doing very well lately.

Good luck.

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