Spherity

Company

Name: Spherity

Main: Website, Blog, Socials: Twitter, Youtube, Crunchbase, Linkedin, Related: Sovrin Steward Founder: Carsten Stoecker Founded: 2017 Location: European Union, Germany, Berlin, Berlin Sector: Enterprise Market: ID, AI, IOT Standard: ISO 27001, DID, Verifiable Credentials

Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

Spherity’s Digital Twins enable innovative customer journeys across mobility, supply chain transparency, risk assessment, audit trails for data analytics, and many more use cases.

Our developers and systems designers combine years of deep research in the emerging decentralized identity space with a wide range of cross-industry experience. They have built and refined complex, bespoke information systems for supply chain management, data-rich manufacturing, and next-generation data control.

We participate in key standards processes and community conferences to ensure full compliance and interoperability in the complex technological landscapes of decentralization and self-sovereign identity

Product

• New Product to Support Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Compliance Type: Post Date: 2021-04-01

The product establishes trust in digital interactions between trading partners in pharmaceutical supply chains and ensures compliance with the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

• One-Button Trusted Release Type: Post Date: 2020-11-21 Industry: Healthcare Standard: Verifiable Credentials

Medical products with verifiable credentials - Imagine a digitalized Trusted Release process on a batch with instant access to all the relevant information in verifiable form, rather than dealing with multiple distributed paper documents. Digitized and pre-validated data allows the Qualified Person to dig deeper or double-check any input with a minimum friction of effort.

• Pharma Third Party Risk Management Type: Post Date: 2020-11-21 Focus: Risk Management

How can we shorten the supplier onboarding effort in Third Party Risk Management from the thirty days that is typical today, to only three days?

Meta

• Spherity Achieves ISO 27001 Information Security Standard Certification Type: Post Date: 2021-03-26 Focus: Business Standard: ISO/IEC 27001

“To guarantee business continuity and protect data, we have built up an Information Security Management System (ISMS) in accordance with ISO/IEC 27001. For us as a company that deals directly with one of the most valuable assets that civilization has — identity — it was the logical pathway to give information security an appropriate degree of importance. Furthermore, we see it as our duty to our customers and employees to enter into this self-imposed obligation and to guarantee the highest possible level of information security — also as an investment in the deep mutual trust and ongoing cooperation with our clients.”

• Ontology Partners with Spherity to Advance Digital Identity Solutions Related: Ontology Type: Post Date: 2021-03-26 Projects: Cloud Identity Wallet

Partnership will involve integration of Ontology blockchain into Spherity’s Cloud Identity Wallet

• Swisscom Blockchain & Spherity are Co-developing Cloud Identity Wallets Related: Swisscom Blockchain Type: Post Date: 2021-03-26 Projects: Cloud Identity Wallet

Swisscom Blockchain and Spherity have both built interoperable Cloud Identity Wallet solutions that handle this kind of world-class, highly trustworthy data, allowing it to transcend silos, proprietary systems, and blockchains. Binding data to digital identities at a low level is the key to bringing more value to all stakeholders in any industry, and making data trustworthy and verifiable anywhere. At its heart, this is what an identity wallet does, and we are proud to have developed two industry-leading, enterprise-grade identity wallets tailored to the documentation needs of the pharmaceutical industry.

• Spherity partners IDunion Trusted Identity Ecosystem Related: IDUnion Type: Post Date: 2021-03-12

Spherity announces that it has become a partner of the IDunion project. The project is funded within the innovation framework “Showcase secure digital identities” of the German government (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy). Spherity is entrusted on the application of cloud identity technology in the healthcare industry.

• Authorized Trading Partners Type: Post Date: 2020-11-21 Projects: Cloud Identity Wallet

DSCSA-Compliant Verification of Authorized Trading Partners - Spherity is working together with global pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, the Healthcare Distribution Alliance and other solution providers to develop a production-grade solution for the Authorized Trading Partner legislation by Autumn 2020. Spherity’s Cloud Identity Wallet enables the exchange and verification of electronic state licenses.

• Spherity becomes a Sovrin Steward Related: Sovrin Steward Type: Post Date: 2020-05-08

Spherity has assumed the role of Steward in the Sovrin Network, a not-for-profit worldwide alliance of companies that operate nodes supporting distributed ledger operations so that the network can provide identity for all.

• Spherity joins VSDI (Secure Digital Identity Association) Related: Secure Digital Identity Association Type: Post Date: 2020-05-06

Membership in the association allows Spherity to participate in consultative processes around future tenders and initiatives, keeping us up to date on the needs of government digitization and the trends moving through state and federal bodies on these topics. It also fosters communication with companies working in specialized fields like military information technology, public services computing, finance, and cross-border issues. The VSDI sees itself as a practice-oriented competence network for politics, administration and business. The association communicates the bundled expertise of its members and advocates through its initiatives to enable secure, user-friendly and data protection-compliant digital identities.

Ecosystem

• Spherity is Partnering with Legisym Offering Joint Compliance Product for the U.S. Life Sciences Marke Related: Legisym Type: Post Date: 2022-01-20 Sector: Public

“Legisym is thrilled to be working alongside Spherity to bring the first production-level ATP Credentialing solution to the industry,” said Legisym President & Co-Owner David Kessler. “With the successful completion of the ATP Credentialing Pilot in 2020 and the joint founding of the Open Credentialing Initiative in early 2021, the Spherity-Legisym partnership is already proving successful in collaboration and forward thinking.”

• Spherity connects the dots between SSI, AI, and European Data Infrastructure Related: EBSI, EIDAS, W3C Type: Post Date: 2020-02-06 Policy: European Data Infrastructure Sector: Public

Juan Caballero attended the stakeholder meeting for the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure project in Brussels, where architects and legal counsel presented their requirements and reports for the next round of development in partnership with industry leaders and contractors. […] The most interesting development […] the report from Nacho Alamilla, a key legal advisor for EBSI, on the functional limits of the current eIDAS (cross-border electronic signature mutual recognition) system in Europe and possible revisions or refinements of it being discussed in the EU.[…]
Carsten Stöcker and Ricky Thiermann were in Bonn attended the High-Tech Partnering Conference #HTPC20 organized by our lead investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). Carsten had a keynote about “How to unlock the untapped business potential of IOT devices with digital identity”. Further we were able to exchange with the other start-ups of High-Tech Gründerfonds’ portfolio and to establish relations to HTGF’s industry and corporate partners.
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At the end of January, Juan Caballero and Carsten Stöcker were in Amsterdam, attending the specification-writing face-to-face meeting of the Worldwide Web Consortium’s Decentralized Identifier Working Group (W3C DID-WG). […] The main event at this meeting was the renegotiation of the limits and interoperability of DID Documents, which has become a sticking point in recent months due to the complexity of ongoing development based on different encodings (traditional JSON, JSON-LinkedData, CBOR, and even ASN.1 and PDF).
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On 31st January Marius Goebel attended the steering committee of the “Standardization Roadmap Artificial Intelligence” for the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) hosted by DIN [German Institute for Standardization] and DKE [German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies].
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Sphertiy is contributing to the working groups around the fields of “IT security in artificial intelligence (AI) systems” and “Certification and quality of AI systems” delivering its expertise in the fields of digital identities, in particular auditability, authenticity, traceability and identifiability of data and artificial intelligences (AIs).

Explainer

• Dr. Carsten Stöcker - Decentralizing Provenance in an Industry 4.0 World Parent: KuppingerCole Type: Post Date: 2021-05-12 Industry: Supply Chain

In this episode, Raj Hegde sits down with Dr. Carsten Stöcker, Founder & CEO of Spherity to understand how #decentralized identity is transforming the end-to-end supply chain lifecycle.

• #SSI101: An Introductory Course on Self-Sovereign Identity Type: Post Date: 2020-09-07

Outside of a few philosophers, social scientists, and a tiny minority of specialized technologists, however, most people feel uncomfortable making any definitive or authoritative statements about identity.

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• Name: Decentralized Identifiers Market May See a Big Move: Major Giants- Consensys, Blockstack, Danube Tech
  Parent: Xaralite Type: Report Related: Transmute, Consensys, uPort, IBM, Blockstack, Danube Tech, Trinsic, Spherity, Microsoft Related: Transmute, Consensys, uPort, IBM, Blockstack, Danube Tech, Trinsic, Spherity, Microsoft,

provides valuable market size data for historical (Volume & Value) from 2016 to 2020 which is estimated and forecasted till 2026*. Some are the key & emerging players that are part of coverage and have being profiled are Transmute (United States), Consensys (United States), uPort (United States), IBM (United States), Tykn Tech (Netherlands), Blockstack (United States), Danube Tech (Austria), Trinsic (United States), Spherity (Germany), Microsoft (United States).