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Why Blockchain-Anchored Credentials Are Becoming the New Academic Standard

Diplomas and transcripts are still verified the way they were decades ago — by phone calls, faxed forms, and manual registrar lookups. Join this live session to see why colleges, universities, and credentialing bodies are moving to blockchain-anchored credentials that employers, agencies, and other institutions can verify instantly.

Hosted by AI Labs 365, part of the Sarder® Group

  • Date25 August, 2026
  • Time12:00 PM EDT | 9:30 PM IST
  • Duration45 minutes + live Q&A

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What you'll get from this session

Academic credential verification is stuck in the past — manual, slow, and difficult to scale. This session is for anyone responsible for making institutional credentials work in a modern environment where students, employers, and other institutions expect verification that's instant, verifiable, and tamper-proof.

  • Why traditional transcript and diploma verification is breaking down as remote learning, transfer credit, and cross-border enrollment increase

  • What accreditation bodies and employers are starting to expect from institutional credentialing

  • How blockchain-anchored credentials give students a diploma they can share and employers can verify in seconds

  • What it takes to move from manual registrar verification to one governed, audit-ready credentialing system

  • How institutions are modernizing credential issuance without replacing their existing student information systems

Who should attend

  • Registrars and academic records officers
  • Provosts and academic affairs leaders
  • Credentialing and accreditation compliance teams
  • Career services and employer relations offices
  • IT and student information systems leaders
  • Continuing education and workforce development programs
  • Institutions managing degree verification requests from employers, licensing boards, or graduate programs

If your institution issues diplomas, transcripts, or certificates and needs to prove their authenticity on demand, this session is for you.

Meet the speakers

Jeff Felice

Jeff Felice

Chief Operating Officer — Sarder

Jeff Felice brings decades of leadership in professional training and certification, including four years as President of CertNexus and over a decade at Logical Operations, where he led global partnerships and alliances. As Chief Operating Officer across Sarder's ecosystem of brands, including AI Labs 365, he drives enterprise-wide execution for AI-led certification and credentialing platforms at global scale.

In this webinar, Jeff will bring an operator's perspective on why credentialing systems have to be built for scale from the outset, and what institutions should expect as blockchain-anchored credentials become the new standard.

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Christian Wylde

Christian Wylde

Chief Product Officer — Sarder

Christian Wylde spent nearly 19 years at Microsoft, most recently as Head of Product Management and Go-to-Market for Worldwide Learning. As Chief Product Officer across Sarder's ecosystem of brands, including AI Labs 365 and AI CERTs®, he leads product strategy for a company built to certify and AI-ready one billion people worldwide.

In this webinar, Christian will bring a product and platform perspective on why blockchain-anchored credentials are becoming the foundation institutions need to keep verification credible at scale.

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About the organizations

About AI Labs 365

AI Labs 365 is a Verifiable Digital Credentialing Suite that helps institutions deliver secure assessments, issue blockchain-backed credentials, and build an end-to-end chain of trust from exam to credential. Certs 365® supports credential issuance and verification, while Proctor 365® provides AI-powered assessment integrity.

About the Sarder Group

Sarder operates a global AI-readiness ecosystem that enables individuals, enterprises, and governments to move from awareness to execution with measurable outcomes. Today, Sarder supports tens of thousands of learners annually, has issued over 100,000 verifiable credentials, and maintains a 96% learner recommendation rate — proof that readiness can be built, measured, and sustained at scale.

If your institution's diplomas and transcripts cannot be verified without a phone call to the registrar, this is the conversation to join.

See how colleges, universities, and credentialing bodies are modernizing verification — before the next employer, agency, or graduate program comes asking.

Free to attend. Live Q&A included.