SecAppDev 2025 Faculty

Kristina Yasuda

Product Owner, SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation

Kristina is a Product Owner at SPRIND - German Federal Agency of Disruptive Innovation. Previously she worked as an Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft. She is known for her work on standards in decentralized identity ecosystem: as an editor of OpenID for Verifiable Credentials specifications in OIDF, Selective Disclosure for JWTs draft in IETF, as a former co-chair of Verifiable Credentials Working Group in W3C; and as a member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 working on mobile driving licence. Her awards include Forbes Japan 30Under30, and MITTR Japan Innovators Under 35.