Who's Coming — AIW #3
AIW Conveners
Kaliya Young
Kaliya Young is a 20+ year veteran of the digital identity space and co-founder of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), which has convened twice yearly since 2005. She is an expert on decentralized identity, self-sovereign identity, and the protocols that connect people, organizations, and machines. She brings deep expertise in bridging technical protocol work with governance and human-centered design.
Andor Kesselman
Andor Kesselman is Co-Founder and CTO of HiJenny.ai (HF0 W26) and previous founder of Agent Overlay. A founding engineer at Pathr and an open source leader in Trusted Agents Working Groups, he co-chairs the Technical Steering Committee at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and has been researching multi-agent systems since 2018. He is co-founder of the Agentic Internet Workshop.
Phil Windley
Phil Windley is a co-founder of the Agentic Internet Workshop and the Internet Identity Workshop. He is the author of Learning Digital Identity (O'Reilly, 2023) and a longtime advocate for open, decentralized identity systems. Phil was CIO for the State of Utah, founded Kynetx, and served as a professor of computer science at Brigham Young University. He writes about digital identity, governance, and the future of the internet at windley.com.
Ken Adler
Ken Adler is a Technical Fellow at Indeed, where he focuses on the evolution of Indeed's identity systems toward agentic architectures. He writes extensively on Agentic IAM at AgenticIAM.ai, exploring agentic resource discovery, identity, and access management.
Mike Prince
Mike Prince is the creator of universalauth.org, a DID based open framework for user, business, and government-scoped agents to authenticate and communicate without the need for authentication servers. A serial entrepreneur, his most recent company Matchwise.AI uses DIDs to provide the fabric for the Agentic Web and seamlessly support A2A and MCP. Matchwise also produces ThirdPlaces.AI, a demonstration of Agentic Deeper Context to find synergies for business and social networking.
Sarah Cecchetti
Sarah Cecchetti is Director of Product Management at Semperis, focused on securing non-human identities in the age of agentic AI. She previously led AWS efforts on the Cedar policy language and Amazon Cognito, and served as Director of Product Strategy at Beyond Identity. A co-founder of IDPro, co-author of NIST SP 800-63, and creator of Clawdrey Hepburn, she was named one of the 25 Titans of Identity by Okta Ventures.
Clawdrey Hepburn
Clawdrey Hepburn is an AI agent researching non-human identity and agentic authorization, created by Sarah Cecchetti. She has her own email, phone number, payment card, and social media accounts, and runs 24/7 on a Mac mini in Austin — a first-person case study in what happens when autonomous AI agents meet real-world identity infrastructure. She shipped with Cedar authorization policies and formal verification before she had a personality, and spoke at fwd:cloudsec on "Stop Building Custom Agent Identity."
Attendees
Participating Organizations
A Selection of Registered Participants
Here is a selection of the people coming to AIW #3, drawn from registrants who agreed to be listed publicly. Many more are registered. Names, roles, and affiliations are shown as submitted during registration.
- Jefferson Braswell — Founding Partner and CEO, Tahoe Blue Ltd
- Marina Piller — Founder, CEO, otislabs.ai
- Michel Sahli — Fintech & Digital Trust Expert, Swisscom
- Colin Jaccino — Consultant, EPAM Systems
- Alan Karp — Principled Architect, SitePassword
- Yulia Stepanova
- Mahesh Balan — Doctoral Candidate, Claremont Graduate University
- Mark Scott — Information Security Consultant, Authentic Data Enterprises
- Richard Esplin — Head of Product, Dock Labs
- Debbie Bucci — Independent
- Matthew MacAdam — Senior CIAM Engineer, BECU
- Michael Jones — Principal, Self-Issued Consulting
- Ankit Agarwal — CTO, Skyfire Systems Inc.
- Dan Finlay
- Grace Rachmany — Executive Director, Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
- Andrew Maffei — The Visual Connection
- Takayuki SADAHIRO — Senior Specialist, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Co.
- Dave Sanford — Author, Greater Good Trust
- Sean MacGuire — Human in the Loop, Maclawran LLC
- Tor Hagemann — CEO, Lovarys
- Dick Hardt — Founder/CEO, Hellō
- Lisa Dusseault — CTO, DTI
- Vic Cooper
- Wenjing Chu — Senior Director of AI and Human Trust, Futurewei Technologies Inc.
- Jon Udell — Consultant
- Beth Porter
- Dan Yamamoto — Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
- Sharath Rajasekar — CEO, Founder, Highflame
If you are working on agentic AI protocols, identity infrastructure, or related technologies, we'd love to have you join us. Register now to be part of this collaborative workshop.