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The Summit on Human Agency explores what’s possible when the human trust networks that underpin our personal credentials and social connections are given a secure bridge to the dynamic new economy of AI agents. Hosted by H2H in partnership with Affinidi, LF Decentralized Trust, and the Advanced AI Society, the invite-only event convenes an ecosystem of leaders involved in the fields of AI, finance, enterprise data, open-source standards, digital identity and media whose industries face an urgent need for robust proofs of personhood and verifiable human-to-AI delegation. In showcasing a breakthrough, privacy-preserving, non-biometric form of verifiable credential that solves this problem, the Summit will shed light on a prosperous new “intention economy,” where people and the organizations they represent can safely unlock the value attached to their personal and business data.

As billions of autonomous AI agents begin to transact, collaborate, and make decisions, society needs a trust infrastructure that keeps every agent’s actions anchored to real human intent. The Summit on Human Agency marks the official launch of the First Person Project (FPP), an open-standard, decentralized identity solution to this “proof of personhood” problem founded in four Linux Foundation projects and developed by a broad network of contributors. Through keynotes, panels and demos, participants will learn how cryptographically verifiable First Person credentials rooted in human-to-human trust relationships can give people – and the enterprises they belong to – indispensable proof of control over their data and their AI agent transactions. Participating in hands-on activations, discussions and workshops, Summit attendees will collaboratively ideate over the potential to unleash applied, targeted innovation and the new business opportunities that will arise when authorized humans have proven control over AI.

Legacy identity systems were not designed for a world where AI agents routinely act, transact, and communicate on behalf of humans and institutions. FPP and related projects introduce a new layer of verifiable, privacy-preserving, non-biometric credentials that let organizations prove which humans authorized which agents to use what data with what permissions. This “proof of control” over AI agents and proprietary data is foundational for compliance, safety, and trust if individuals and companies are to truly unlock, for their direct benefit, the innovation opportunities posed by agentic AI.

The summit is designed for leaders and builders whose work is directly or imminently tied to agentic AI, and who recognize the limitations of current identity approaches. Ideal participants include:

• Product, policy, and technical leaders at AI platforms, LLM providers, and agentic AI framework builders
• Identity solution providers (centralized and decentralized), SaaS and open-source project leaders, and blockchain ecosystem builders (L1s, L2s, DePIN, DeAI)
• Financial institutions and investors grappling with KYC, identity risk, and AI-native business models
• Enterprise leaders integrating AI who face complex identity, authorization, and data governance challenges across a range of different industries and domains
• Academics, civic organizations, policymakers, and lawyers focused on aligning AI with human rights, safety, and societal resilience

Participants will engage with a beta event app that lets attendees co-create intent-anchored interpersonal trust networks using FPP-based credentials and Affinidi’s groundbreaking Meeting Place technology. On and off stage, the program will surface concrete patterns, architectures, and collaboration opportunities for human-led agentic AI across industries. Attendees, sponsors, and speakers alike will leave with new relationships, reference implementations, and a shared vocabulary for building an AI economy where human agency is verifiable, privacy-preserving, and non-negotiable.