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.

(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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