Founder/CEO
Digital Bazaar, Inc.
Manu Sporny is a co-founder and CEO of Digital Bazaar and a co-founder of the Web Payments, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Identifier Working Groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He has been on the founding team of five start-ups, two non-profits, and five global standards initiatives related to security, payments, identity, and decentralized systems.
A champion for science and the arts, his life’s work is focused on empowering people to enact global change through the Web. He spends most of his time driving the creation of open standards and open technology that will integrate privacy-aware identity, payments, and decentralized technologies into the core architecture of the Web. Some of the open technologies that he has co-invented, such as Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, and JSON-LD are used by companies such as Google and Microsoft, hundreds of thousands of businesses globally, and billions of people around the world.
https://digitalbazaar.com/
Tuesday, Oct 06, 2026
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Discover how new technology makes unattended retail possible without sacrificing compliance. See how identity connects payments, loyalty, promotions, age verification, and more into a seamless customer experience. Consumer expectations and regulations are changing fast. Learn what retailers need to know now. How real-time reporting uncovers missed age verifications before they become violations. Learn how AI-powered search is changing customer discovery—and what you can do to stay visible. See how mobile driver's licenses and digital IDs are changing in-store verification—and what retailers
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