Bio

Kaliya Young also known as “Identity Woman,” has spent the last 20 years of her career focused on one thing: supporting the emergence of an identity layer of the internet that works for and empowers people. A term was coined recently to describe this - self-sovereign identity. Before that it was known as user-centric identity. She is an internationally recognized expert in Self-Sovereign or Decentralized Digital Identity. The semi-annual Internet Identity Workshop that she co-founded in 2005, brings together the largest concentration of talent dedicated to designing and building identity systems that empower individuals.