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Scott Cheney

Scott Cheney

Scott Cheney is the founding CEO of Credential Engine, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit working to bring transparency to credentials and skills through the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL).

Aug 24, 2026

1:36
Can you tell listeners a bit about your work and the opportunities you're helping to shape?
1:40
Sure.
1:42
Most people won't have heard about Credential Engine before, but we're now about a 10-year-old nonprofit.
1:48
And we were started by the Lumina Foundation and JPMorgan Chase with a very pretty simple goal.
1:55
And the easiest way to explain the goal is to give you an analogy.
1:59
So most people have heard about Expedia and Travelocity and Kayak, and they understand that you can hop on and plan a vacation.
2:07
You can figure out how to get to Phoenix.

10 MINS LATER

12:37
What needs to happen? How do we do it? How do we how do we make it ubiquitous? You know, how do we make everyone aware of this and make it something that everyone, employers and individuals, everyone understands and can look at?

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