Kim Duffy is a leader in the field of decentralized identity and blockchain architectures. As Director of Identity and Standards at Centre Consortium, she created Verite, which integrates decentralized identity standards into DeFi and crypto finance, and is powering an ecosystem built on portable, privacy-preserving identity credentials. She has led decentralized identity technical standards at the W3C, Decentralized Identity Foundation, and, currently, the WEF Digital Identity Working Group. She co-created the Blockcerts standard and libraries with MIT Media Lab and developed a successful commercial product based on this standard while CTO at Learning Machine (now Hyland).