Paul Jackson is the Director of Digital Trust for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Digital Credentials Program. He is leading several initiatives to enable the use of digital credentials across Canada and with trading partners, with particular focus on:

• Domestic and international standards for digital credentials and interoperability for digital credential solutions;
• Infrastructure and enabling services for digital credentials, including working through the innovation ecosystem to pilot test potential infrastructure and service approaches; and
• Key digital credential use cases, including exploring, designing, implementing, testing and aligning those uses cases.

Before his work on digital credentials, Paul led the migration of more than a dozen federal departments to the Managed Web Service for Canada.ca, as part of the Web Renewal Initiative; development and maintenance of the Web Experience Toolkit, an open-source front-end framework for websites that is deployed across much of the Government of Canada; and co-authoring and supporting implementation of the Government of Canada web standards.

Petar Kochovski is an assistant professor and research associate at the University of Ljubljana, who holds a PhD degree in Computer Science, earned from the Institute of Computer Science and Technology at Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University. His research passions encompass blockchain technologies, Web3, and the assurance of reliability and trust within Edge-to-Cloud computing environments. He brings a wealth of experience as a software engineer, with a track record in designing and developing diverse software solutions. Furthermore, he has applied his expertise to a multitude of Horizon 2020 projects, including SWITCH, ENTICE, DECENTER, and ONTOCHAIN, and remains actively involved in ongoing Horizon Europe projects such as ExtremeXP and TRUSTCHAIN.

Co-director of Framasoft and PeerTube's product owner.

I came to FOSS as an author (my playscripts and novels are published under CC-0), and content creator (I was a YouTuber in 2014-2016). Before becoming Framasoft's co-director, I managed communications, donation campaigns and community outreach.