Upcoming
Fabrice Rochette: is co-founder of the Verana Foundation and principal author of the Verifiable Trust and Verifiable Public Registry specifications. He has spent two decades building and operating software companies, and has worked in decentralized identity since 2020, introducing Verifiable Trust publicly at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW39) in 2024. His work focuses on open, privacy-preserving trust infrastructure for services and AI agents.
Verana is an open source, decentralized trust infrastructure that lets services, organizations and AI agents prove who they are, and who accredited them, before any data is exchanged. See more from Verana Foundation
Why AI Agents must have their own identity?
Time: Sept 17th, 2026 15:00 PM Universal Time UTC/17:00 CET/11:00 EDT
Speakers: Fabrice Rochette, Ariel Gentile
Ariel Gentile: is CTO of 2060 OÜ (2060.io) and co-author of the Verifiable Trust specifications. A long-time open-source credential engineer and contributor to Credo (OpenWallet Foundation), he specializes in DIDComm-based secure communication. He leads engineering of Verana’s open-source stack: the public registry, the trust resolver, and verifiable service and user agents.
Members & non-members are invited to attend this open meeting of the Eclipse Foundation Models4Privacy Interest Group.
Please note the details below.
Join Meeting Zoom: https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/89708332621?pwd=NDTuhmH8tMKkBNniBToLuXoon288LS.1
Meeting ID: 897 0833 2621
Passcode: 079276
| Date | Title | Description | Link |
| 30th June, 2026 | Impact of AI Tools on the development of engineering models for Privacy-by-Design | One hour talk Speakers: Steve Hickman, Laurens Sion, Dimitri Van Landuyt Moderator: Ann Cavoukian Presenting the risks arised, through examples, of the impact of AI tools use | Watch talk |
| 13th November, 2025 | Digital Transparency by Default, a universal digital privacy transparency pattern and code of practice | One hour talk Expert: Mark Lizar (0PN) Presenting the Glass-boxed Governance model (for co-regulated | Slides Watch Talk |
| 9th October, 2025 | Standardisation & Interoperability for PETs | One hour talk Experts: TNO representative T.N. van Gend (Thijmen) Scientist, Digital Governance & Regulation, ICT, Strategy & Policy will share their work on privacy enhancing technologies and models. | Watch Talk |
| 9th January 2025 | Demonstration of the DPMF for Data Protection Analysis | One hour webinar Experts: Lauren Sion, Dimitri Van Landuyt | Watch talk |
PAST EVENTS AND NEWS
| DATE | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | LINK |
| 27th June 2024 | Deep Dive on Privacy Models | One hour webinar: Deep Dive on Privacy Models Moderator: Ann Cavoukian Experts: Samuel Martin, Steve Hickman | Watch talk |
| 6th June 2024 | Data Protection Vocabulary (DPV) | One hour talk:Data Protection Vocabulary Experts: Harshvardhan Pandit shared the W3C work on a Data Protection Vocabulary (DPV); Georg Philip Krog, co-founder of Signatu, who provided a DPV use case. W3C is finalizing V2.0 of the DPV so there is a short window of opportunity if you wish to provide feedback to Harsh. If you are interested in a demo of Signatu to see how DPV has been implemented, go to https://signatu.com/ | Michelle Chibba’s slides Harsh’s slides and signatu information |
| 5th June 2024 | Nations United? Global AI Governance Initiatives | Antonio Kung participated in a panel Nations United? Global AI Governance Initiatives, in the IAPP AI Governance Global 2024 conference in Brussels, Belgium. | Conference information |
| 13th May 2024 | PETS-AI perspective and the Ecosystem-data space perspective | Event: OECD Expert Workshop on PETs and AI; Location: London, United Kingdom Expert: Antonio Kung Session: Benchmarking the effectiveness of PETs across use cases. Description: Antonio Kung presented standards from two perspectives, the PETS-AI perspective and the Ecosystem-data space perspective, mentioning the establishment of the Models4Privacy community, IG Eclipse Foundation. | Slides session |
| 7th February 2024 | Open Webinar to Launch Models4Privacy Interest Group (by Eclipse Foundation) | Leader and co-leaders: Dr. Ann Cavoukian (GPS by Design Centre); Antonio Kung (Trialog); Michelle Chibba (GPS by Design Centre) Eclipse Foundation: Sharon Corbett Event: Online | Webinar and Slides |