Yes, this is the one where your face appears prominently in New York’s Times Square. 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 honorees, on display. (Source) Facebook

(Update) The photo was subsequently displayed→See here

Another honoree from Japan is Mr. Fujie of CTC. Others who catch my eye include Paolo de Rosa, who is working on the EU DI ARF; Ryan Galluzzo, an author of SP800-63-4; Daniel Fett of SD-JWT (described here as being with Authlete); and Brian Campbell, whom everyone knows. Among people from organizations, Gail of the OIDF, Andrew of FIDO, and Sasikumar of MOSIP are also included.

The honorees 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
  • Paolo 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 Fernández, 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, Authing
  • Yodahe Zemichael, Executive Director, National ID Ethiopia

In any case, congratulations to everyone.

And thank you, Okta Ventures. As for me, I’m a little embarrassed because I haven’t accomplished much lately.

Time to get to work.

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