2026 SEDI Summit
Shaping the future of digital identity.
April 20-21, Lehi, Utah
Summit Agenda
Location
Utah Valley University, Thanksgiving Point Campus
Dates:
April 20, 2026: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Breakfast will be served at 8:00 AM)
April 21, 2026: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM (Breakfast will be served at 8:00 AM)
Day 1: April 20, 2026
| Event | Location | Duration | Start Time | End Time | Participants | |
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| Breakfast/Registration | 430 | 1 hr | 8:00 | 9:00 | ||
| Welcome/Kick Off | Welcome to the SEDI Summit, where state leaders, policymakers, and industry experts convene to shape the future of digital identity. Together, we will explore real-world challenges, emerging solutions, and collaborative strategies to ensure digital identity strengthens security, protects individual rights, and advances innovation across states and sectors. | 402 | 15 min | 9:00 | 9:15 | Senator Kirk Cullimore, Utah State Senate, Senate Majority Leader Chris Bramwell, Utah Chief Privacy Officer |
| What problems is digital identity trying to solve? | Digital identity seeks to reduce fraud, streamline access to services, and restore trust in online interactions. It addresses fragmented credentials, insecure authentication, and growing impersonation risks. Done right, it empowers individuals with control over their data while enabling governments and businesses to verify identity securely, efficiently, and with respect for privacy and rights. | 402 | 30 min | 9:15 | 9:45 | Joe Jackson, Utah Chief Technology Officer |
| Digital Identity 101: SEDI vs Others | This session introduces the fundamentals of digital identity, helping attendees understand what digital identity is and why it matters. It also highlights how Utah’s SEDI approach differs from common models, emphasizing individual control, privacy, and trust as core principles shaping a more secure and rights-preserving digital identity framework. | 402 | 40 min | 9:45 | 10:25 | Phil Windley, IIW Foundation, Executive Director |
| Break | 15 min | 10:25 | 10:40 | |||
| State Level Legislative Success: Can other states do the same? | This session highlights Utah legislators who advanced digital identity with two consecutive years of unanimous support. By engaging diverse stakeholders, including ACLU, Libertas, and Eagle Forum, they built consensus around rights-first principles, transparency, and strong safeguards, demonstrating how thoughtful collaboration and clear policy design can successfully navigate complex and sensitive issues. | 402 | 40 min | 10:40 | 11:20 |
Senator Kirk Cullimore, Utah State Senate, Senate Majority Leader, Representative Paul Cutler Utah House of Representatives, District 18, Representative Kristen Chevrier Utah House of Representatives, District 54, Chris Bramwell (Moderator) |
| SEDI Core: Perpetual Digital Identity (Lossless vs Lossy) | This session explores the concept of perpetual digital identity and the distinction between lossless and lossy credential models. Attendees will learn how data integrity, longevity, and verifiability differ across approaches, and why lossless architectures are critical to preserving meaning, context, and trust over time in a lifelong digital identity system. | 402 | 40 min | 11:20 | 12:00 | Daniel Hardman, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Provenant |
| Lunch | 60 min | 12:10 | 1:00 | |||
| Transition to 1st Floor | 10 Min | 1:00 | 1:10 | |||
| Financial Services Perspective Precursor | This precursor will explain what is happening in the payments and financial services space related to digital identity. | 10 min | 1:10 | 1:20 | Greg Kidd, CEO (USBC), |
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| Perspective: Digital Identity in Financial and Payments | This session explores the financial sector’s perspective on digital identity, including security expectations, fraud mitigation, customer experience, and regulatory obligations. Panelists will highlight key developments in banking, including legislation, regulatory actions, and industry trends, and share lessons learned from existing identity systems. Discussion will focus on future priorities, risks, and policy recommendations to ensure high-assurance digital identity strengthens trust, reduces fraud, and supports secure, efficient financial transactions. | 45 min | 1:20 | 2:05 |
Greg Kidd, CEO (USBC), William "Dub" Sutherland, Vice Chairman (Transpecos Bank) Kirk Chapman, CEO (OMNUMI) Wayne Chang, CEO (Spruce) - Moderator |
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| SEDI Core: Guardianship | Guardianship is a critical legal relationship that allows trusted individuals to act on behalf of children, aging parents, and vulnerable persons. This brief may support verifiable guardianship relationships through privacy-preserving digital identity. | 141-143 | 10 Min | 2:05 | 2:15 | George McEwan, Privacy Architect, Utah Office of Data Privacy |
| Perspective: Child Protection and Age Verification in the Private Sector | Children face increasing harms in today’s digital environment, from exposure to harmful content to predatory behavior and exploitation. This session brings together age verification technology providers and Utah’s Consumer Protection Division to examine how age verification can protect children while avoiding mass surveillance. Discussion will focus on privacy-preserving approaches, enforcement realities, and how individually controlled digital identity can enable trusted age verification that safeguards children without creating new risks to privacy and civil liberties. | 141-143 | 40 min | 2:15 | 2:55 |
Denise Tayloe, CEO (PRIVO), |
| Break | 15 min | 2:55 | 3:10 | |||
| SEDI Core: Digital Identity Bill of Rights and Duty of Loyalty | This presentation introduces two foundational pillars of the SEDI framework: the Digital Identity Bill of Rights and the Duty of Loyalty. Together, these concepts establish clear expectations that digital identity systems must protect individual autonomy, privacy, and choice, while requiring organizations to act in the best interest of the individual whose data they handle. | 10 min | 3:10 | 3:20 | Chris Bramwell, Utah Chief Privacy Officer | |
| Perspective: Civil Liberties | This session invites civil liberties organizations and elected officials to share candid perspectives on the SEDI approach and other digital identity models. Panelists will discuss what they support, what concerns them, and where they believe stronger safeguards are needed. Discussion will focus on risks to individual freedoms and recommended changes to better protect privacy, prevent surveillance, and ensure digital identity systems strengthen civil liberties rather than weaken them. | 40 min | 3:20 | 4:00 |
Christopher Ward California Assemblymember, 78th District, Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst (ACLU), Jason Chipman, Director of Public Policy (Libertas), |
Day 2: April 21, 2026
| Event | Location | Duration | Start Time | End Time | Participants | |
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| Breakfast/Registration | 430 | 1 hr | 8:00 | 9:00 | ||
| Perspective: Digital Identity in Healthcare | This panel explores digital identity developments in healthcare, including federal initiatives and innovation efforts led by HHS. It will highlight progress in organizational identity to strengthen trust between payers and providers. Panelists will then share perspectives on future priorities, risks, and opportunities to advance secure, interoperable, and trusted identity solutions across the healthcare ecosystem. | 50 min | 9:00 | 9:50 |
Ryan Howells, Principal, CARIN Alliance (Moderator), Karla McKenna, Managing Director (GLEIF), Scott, Stuewe, President and CEO, (DirectTrust), Jared Jeffery, CEO (healthKERI) |
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| Demo: SEDI Authentication in Healthcare | 15 min | 9:50 | 10:05 | Philip Feairheller, CTO (healthKERI) | ||
| SEDI Core: Role of the state to provide critical digital public infrastructure | This presentation explains the role of the state in verifying identity, endorsing trusted credentials, and equipping individuals with tools to protect their digital identity. By establishing foundational trust, the state enables individuals, businesses, and government entities to rely on secure, privacy-preserving digital identity as critical public infrastructure that supports secure services, reduces fraud, and strengthens confidence in digital interactions. | 10 min | 10:05 | 10:15 | Alan Fuller, Utah Chief Information Officer | |
| Perspective: Political Subdivisions | Political subdivisions—including counties, cities, and special districts—are on the front lines of service delivery. This session explores their role in the digital identity ecosystem and how high-assurance digital identity can reduce fraud, streamline permitting and licensing, improve secure access to services, and strengthen trust in digital transactions. | 402 | 40 min | 10:15 | 10:55 |
Ameila Powers Gardner, Utah County Commissioner, National Association of Counties Technology Advisory Board, Andy Pierucci, Riverton City Council, National League of Cities AI & Emerging Technologies Forum, Alan Fuller, Utah Chief Information Officer (Moderator and participant) |
| Break and Open Discussion | Snacks | 25 min | 10:55 | 11:20 | ||
| Perspective: Retailers and Business | Retailers are key participants in identity verification for age-restricted sales, fraud prevention, and customer transactions. This session will explore business concerns related to digital identity, including cost, reliability, liability, privacy, and ease of use. Participants will share what retailers need from digital identity solutions, what successful implementation looks like in day-to-day operations, and policy recommendations to ensure digital identity systems support commerce, protect customers, and remain practical for businesses of all sizes. | 50 min | 11:20 | 12:00 |
Chad Kobayashi, Sr Director Retail Technology (Maverick), Matt Durand, Deputy General Counsel (National Association of Convenience Stores), Gray Taylor, Executive Director (emeritus) (Conexxus) Manu Sporny, CEO (Digital Bazaar) (Moderator) |
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| Lunch | 60 min | 12:00 | 1:00 | |||
| SEDI Core: Assume digital identity will be compromised | States must assume that digital identities will be targeted and, at times, compromised. This session examines how State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) is designed with compromise in mind, including key rotation, recovery mechanisms, revocation processes, and continuous trust verification. Participants will explore security principles that prioritize resilience, ensuring individuals can recover their identity without losing it or needing to have a government or state reissue, while maintaining system integrity, minimizing fraud, and preserving public trust in high-assurance digital identity systems. | 25 min | 1:00 | 1:25 | Steve McCown Commissioner, Utah Privacy Commission | |
| From Today’s Systems to Individual Control: Can We Actually Get There? | This session examines how to move from today’s fragmented digital identity systems to a future of durable, individually controlled credentials. Leading technologists will candidly assess the current state of identity, identify key technical and operational barriers, and discuss what must change in standards, infrastructure, governance, and incentives to make user-controlled digital identity both practical and widely accepted. | 40 min | 1:20 | 2:00 |
Ajay Gupta, California Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Joe Jackson, Utah Chief Technology Officer, Wayne Chang, CEO (Spruce) |
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| Perspective: Standards, Conformance and Auditing | This session explores current efforts in standards, conformance, and auditing, featuring perspectives from Kantara and Connexus. Attendees will gain insight into existing market approaches, key gaps, and challenges. The discussion will focus on how stronger standards and verification practices can improve interoperability, accountability, and public trust in digital identity systems. | 30 min | 2:00 | 2:30 | Renee Hunter, Board Member & Treasurer (Kantara Initiative) Gray Taylor, Executive Director (emeritus) (Connexxus) |
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| Moving Forward | This closing session focuses on the path forward and the tools available to support state digital identity initiatives. Participants will learn about ongoing resources, including SEDI workshops for legislators, templated legislation, shared policy guidance, and support through Kantara Initiative membership for Consortium states. The session will outline how continued collaboration, shared resources, and coordinated governance can help states move from discussion to implementation while maintaining alignment with shared values. | 60 min | 2:30 | 3:30 |
Representative Paul Cutler Utah House of Representatives, District 18, Chris Bramwell, Utah Chief Privacy Officer, Alan Fuller, Utah Chief Information Officer |