Manu Sporny

Co-Founder, Ex-Chairman, Lead Editor - W3C Standards

Manu Sporny is the founder and CEO of Digital Bazaar, focusing on decentralized identity and commerce. As a co-founder of several initiatives at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), including the Web Payments, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Identifier Working Groups, they have significantly influenced the creation of open standards and technologies used globally. With a background in software engineering and design, manu has been instrumental in the development of technologies like JSON-LD and Verifiable Credentials, which are utilized by numerous companies and billions of individuals worldwide. Manu has also served on various boards and committees, contributing expertise in technology strategy and operational governance. They hold a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

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Blacksburg, United States

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