Drummond has spent over three decades in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is currently leading the First Person Project. From 2021 to 2025, he was Director of Trust Services at Gen (formerly Avast) after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Officer. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. He currently serves as Governance Lead for the Ayra Association. He is founding board member of the OpenWallet Foundation and Trust Over IP (ToIP), where he serves as co-chair of the Technology Stack Working Group, the Concepts and Terminology Working Group, and the Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group. In 2002 he received the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was cited as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.

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Decentralized Trust for People and AI Agents: A Report from Linux Foundation Trust Over IP (ToIP)

“Decentralized Trust for People and AI Agents: A Report from Linux Foundation Trust Over IP (ToIP)” dives into how we can give both humans and AI agents durable, portable trust on the open internet. Drummond Reed—co‑author of the Trust Over IP stack and co‑founder of the First Person Project—will explain ToIP’s four‑layer architecture, which pairs a technical stack (DIDs, verifiable credentials, agent protocols) with a governance stack (community‑defined trust frameworks) so that trust isn’t left to ad‑hoc policies or single vendors.
 

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Panel: Owning AI - Hard Questions on Power, Trust and Who Decides

In this closing conversation, Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust, puts a series of uncomfortable questions to an all‑star—mostly male—lineup of AI visionaries. She will press them on where ownership really sits in their visions of AGI, open‑source AI, decentralized trust, and user‑set terms: with platforms, with protocols, or with people.

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