DID Alliance Korea announced today that Ramesh Kesanupalli will be a keynote speaker at the main launch event of the DID Alliance Korea 2019. The event will be held on October 22, 2019 at the Grand Hall located on the 7th Floor of EL Tower, Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea

Ramesh, Founder of the global online biometric authentication standardization organization, FIDO Alliance, will speak on “The Importance of a Global DID Alliance and a Vision of the Next Paradigm of Digital Identity”.

Ramesh established the FIDO Alliance In 2012, in order to bring about a revolution for passwordless online authentication using biometrics.

The FIDO Alliance continues to expand includes more than 250 major global IT companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, PayPal, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Raonecure, Nok Nok Labs, RSA, BC Card, NTT Docomo, and LINE.

Now, Kesanupalli will turn his attention to Decentralized Identity as the co-founder with Soon Hyung Lee, CEO of RaonSecure, to establish a new global alliance devoted to defining a new frame work for online identity Which would establish trust and accountability in the digital world while preserving the security and privacy for the user: DID Alliance.

Kesanupali said, “We need to create a new way to offer identity to everyone to provide secure access to social infrastructure such as culture, education, and medical care, and to develop the global DID Ecosystem and the development of the DID industry. We will be proactive in helping companies join the DID Alliance, and we will propose a new transparent policy for DID that everyone can trust and offer a variety of new business models.”

Information about the DID Alliance Korea 2019 event can be found on the DID Alliance Korea website at didalliance.or.kr.