DXtera Institute

Privacy Enhancing Technologies + Learner Controlled Verifiable Credentials Forum

October 10, 2023 at the Georgetown University Law Center, 500 1st Street NW, Washington DC

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**Save the date for next year’s forum: October 15, 2024**

ABOUT THE FORUM

The DXtera Institute and the Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University invite you to their 2nd annual forum focused on the opportunities, challenges and emerging best practices in the use of data within education.  This annual event will continue to engage parties from across the education ecosystem in the critical discussions on transforming the safe and optimal use of data with emerging technologies to benefit the learner and the providers. 

The focus for this year’s event will be on unlocking the potential of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and Learner Controlled Verifiable Credentials.  

FORUM DETAILS

The PET and Learner Controlled Verifiable Credentials Forum will be held at the Georgetown University Law Campus at 500 1st Street NW, Washington DC on October 10, 2023 from 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM. The registration fee is $75. Government employees can use the code GOVT2023 to waive the $75 registration fee. Speakers can use the code SPKR2023 to waive the $75 registration fee. If the registration fee is prohibitive for you, you may waive it by using code WAIVE2023. Please contact Lauren Lopez (lauren@dxtera.org) is you have questions about registration fee codes.

SESSION TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • Ownership of Data: Agency versus Stewardship
  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Open Authentic Data
  • Enabling end-to-end deployment of Verifiable Credentials
  • Establishing best practice use cases for applied settings and contexts
  • Policy Implications and considerations in the development of emerging frameworks
  • Leaders of Use Cases describing the innovation and impacts
  • Exploring SkillsFWD Funding opportunity for team development for end-to-end deployment of Verifiable Credentials

SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

  • Aaron Bean, Managing Director, Asemio  
  • Aaron R. Williams, Senior Data Scientist, Urban Institute
  • Dr. Abel Kho, Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University
  • Dr. Michael Torrence, President, Motlow State Community College (TN)
  • Chris Purifoy, CEO and Co-Founder, Learning Economy Foundation
  • Dave Wengel, Founder and CEO, SmartResume
  • Greg Nadeau, Public Consulting Group, Chair, IEEE Learner end Employment Records (LER) Recommended Practices and numerous other Standards leadership roles
  • Dr. Rawane Issa, Cryptography & Secure Computation Researcher, Galois, Inc.
  • Brandon Muramatsu, Associate Director of Projects, MIT

AGENDA OUTLINE

8:30 am – 9:00 am – Coffee & Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:15 am – Welcome

9:15 am – 10:45 am – Privacy Enhancing Technologies Panel

10:45 am – 11:00 am – Break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Learner Controlled Verifiable Credentials Panel

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch

  • – Privacy Enhancing Technologies Featured Speaker
  • – Learner Controlled Verifiable Credentials Featured Speaker – Dr. Michael Torrence, President, Motlow State Community College

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm – Reflections and Closing Remarks

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm – Special Topic Breakout Rooms