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SUMMARY:Vaccine Passport Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Vaccine Passports – What Are They and How Will They Affect 
 the Travel Insurance Industry?\n\nAs governments and industry consider i
 ntroducing “vaccine passports” to help re-open society for individua
 ls who been vaccinated against COVID-19, the travel insurance industry m
 ust prepare for the opportunities and challenges presented by these init
 iatives.\n\nThis webinar is designed to help THIA members better underst
 and how vaccine passports work, the issues they give rise to and where w
 e might be headed through a panel of experts currently working on vaccin
 e passport initiatives in the areas of technology, government and privat
 e industry.\n\n-- Panelists: --\n\nLucy Yang - Community Director for th
 e COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI)\n\n \n\nLucy heads operations a
 nd communications for the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative and has played
  an instrumental role in taking CCI into Linux Foundation Public Health.
 \n\nAn entrepreneur and business leader, Lucy has extensive experience i
 n taking ventures off the ground and leading their growth. Prior to movi
 ng to Toronto from Beijing, she single-handedly launched the mainland Ch
 ina office for her first company and expanded the reach of its entrepren
 eurship program. She later joined a tech startup and oversaw the operati
 ons during its early expansion and has worked at a blockchain venture de
 velopment firm. Lucy has an MBA from the University of Toronto and holds
  a master’s degree in anthropology.\n\n \n\nPeter Watkins – Program
  Executive for Pan-Canadian Digital ID with the Institute for Citizen Ce
 ntered Services\n\n \n\nPrior to joining the Institute Peter worked in 
 the BC Government where he co-founded the BC Developers’ Exchange inno
 vation accelerator featuring an open model for development of digital se
 rvices. Peter was instrumental in the initiation and early stage develop
 ment of the BC Services Card and other identity management services with
 in the BC Government. Recently Peter has been working on distributed dig
 ital identity and trust services using verifiable credentials in conjunc
 tion with trusted digital wallets and the applicability of this approach
  for the role public sector organizations have to operate as issuers of 
 trustworthy, secure, privacy protecting digital identity information.\n\
 n \n\nRiley Hughes – Founder of Trinsic\n\n \n\nRiley is a leader in
  the global verifiable credentials community. He was the second employee
  at the Sovrin Foundation, a non-profit governing the first decentralize
 d identity metasystem, where he established and led several teams. He st
 arted Trinsic, a full-stack decentralized identity software platform, in
  Summer 2019 to make it easy for others to implement decentralized ident
 ity into any application. Trinsic is now used by over 1,000 companies, f
 or everything from issuing verifiable COVID-19 test result certificates 
 to helping rural farmers become bankable for the first time. Trinsic co-
 initiated the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative and has been an active con
 tributor ever since.\n\n-- Agenda: --\n\n11:30 - 12:00 - Networking\n\n1
 2:00 – 1:00 – Webinar\n\n1:00 – 1:30 – Networking\n\nDon't miss 
 this engaging event!\n\nTHIA Members: See your email for free member lin
 k. 
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