Markus Sabadello
Danube Tech
Biography
Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He is co-editor of the Decentralized Identifiers specification at W3C, co-chair of the Identifiers and Discovery Working Group at the Decentralized Identity Foundation, and member of the Technical Governance Board at Sovrin Foundation. Markus has spoken at dozens of conferences and published papers about both the politics and technologies of digital identity. He is founder of Danube Tech, a consulting and development company that works on decentralized identity infrastructure products.
Organisation
Danube Tech
Corporate
We are building the bridges that interconnect all decentralized identity networks globally. This enables interoperable identity applications and services for everyone.
Speaker session
15:20 - 16:20
Workshop 5 - Digital identity and Digital wallets, common ground to enhance scalability and adoption
The convergence of digital identity and digital wallets offers a powerful combination that enhance user experience to help in the growth of EU’s digital economy. However, a common set of definitions and universal taxonomy for digital wallet that enable mutual recognition of digital identities have not yet been fully defined leading to a lack of interoperability between wallets, poor user experience, lack of cross-border agreements for “free” data flow and slow adoption of standards.
In Europe, eIDAS is an evolving regulatory framework that plays an instrumental role in shaping digital identity and electronic transactions among EU member states. Coupled with a set of common definitions and universal taxonomy for digital wallets, it should enable a trusted standardised framework for any natural person/ legal entity that aims/need to use and share their sensitive data in the digital ecosystem.
Establishing such a harmonized and trustworthy digital environment within the EU, should significantly enhance the user experience in the digital ecosystem by simplifying access to online services, reducing friction across the authentication systems, and streamlining transactions.
The proposed workshop will thus:
- Investigate the challenges that prevent to date the adoption of the digital wallets addressing the privacy, usability, security, standards and interoperability.
- Identify potential common set of definitions for a universal taxonomy of digital wallets to enable mutual eID recognition, facilitate interoperability and enable seamless interactions between digital wallets; and
- Gather key takes away for developers and policy makers to maximise scalability and adoption of digital identity and wallet(s) across Europe.
Vasilios Siris
Athens University of Economics and Business
Biography
Vasilios Siris is a Professor at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), where he has been since 2009. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Crete and Research Associate at the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. He obtained the Diploma in physics from the University of Athens, Greece, the MS degree in computer science from Northeastern University, Boston, and the PhD degree from the University of Crete, Greece. His research interests include blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), and their application to the IoT and supply chain traceability, resource control in wireless and mobile networks, and architecture of future networks. He has one International and two national patents related to wireless/mobile network management. He is the co-founder of AUEB's first spinoff, ExcID (Internet Identity, Security, and Privacy Solutions). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Organisation
Athens University of Economics and Business
Educational institution
Speaker session
15:20 - 16:20
Workshop 5 - Digital identity and Digital wallets, common ground to enhance scalability and adoption
The convergence of digital identity and digital wallets offers a powerful combination that enhance user experience to help in the growth of EU’s digital economy. However, a common set of definitions and universal taxonomy for digital wallet that enable mutual recognition of digital identities have not yet been fully defined leading to a lack of interoperability between wallets, poor user experience, lack of cross-border agreements for “free” data flow and slow adoption of standards.
In Europe, eIDAS is an evolving regulatory framework that plays an instrumental role in shaping digital identity and electronic transactions among EU member states. Coupled with a set of common definitions and universal taxonomy for digital wallets, it should enable a trusted standardised framework for any natural person/ legal entity that aims/need to use and share their sensitive data in the digital ecosystem.
Establishing such a harmonized and trustworthy digital environment within the EU, should significantly enhance the user experience in the digital ecosystem by simplifying access to online services, reducing friction across the authentication systems, and streamlining transactions.
The proposed workshop will thus:
- Investigate the challenges that prevent to date the adoption of the digital wallets addressing the privacy, usability, security, standards and interoperability.
- Identify potential common set of definitions for a universal taxonomy of digital wallets to enable mutual eID recognition, facilitate interoperability and enable seamless interactions between digital wallets; and
- Gather key takes away for developers and policy makers to maximise scalability and adoption of digital identity and wallet(s) across Europe.
tobi smethurst
SuperSeriousBusiness
Biography
tobi (they/them) is a former academic, now code writing person, who works on GoToSocial. They enjoy putting bugs in the code, petting their two cats, and eating hummus sandwiches. They dislike capitalism, bugs, and eating sandwiches that don't contain hummus.
Organisation
SuperSeriousBusiness
NGO
Speaker session
15:20 - 16:20
Workshop 5 - Digital identity and Digital wallets, common ground to enhance scalability and adoption
The convergence of digital identity and digital wallets offers a powerful combination that enhance user experience to help in the growth of EU’s digital economy. However, a common set of definitions and universal taxonomy for digital wallet that enable mutual recognition of digital identities have not yet been fully defined leading to a lack of interoperability between wallets, poor user experience, lack of cross-border agreements for “free” data flow and slow adoption of standards.
In Europe, eIDAS is an evolving regulatory framework that plays an instrumental role in shaping digital identity and electronic transactions among EU member states. Coupled with a set of common definitions and universal taxonomy for digital wallets, it should enable a trusted standardised framework for any natural person/ legal entity that aims/need to use and share their sensitive data in the digital ecosystem.
Establishing such a harmonized and trustworthy digital environment within the EU, should significantly enhance the user experience in the digital ecosystem by simplifying access to online services, reducing friction across the authentication systems, and streamlining transactions.
The proposed workshop will thus:
- Investigate the challenges that prevent to date the adoption of the digital wallets addressing the privacy, usability, security, standards and interoperability.
- Identify potential common set of definitions for a universal taxonomy of digital wallets to enable mutual eID recognition, facilitate interoperability and enable seamless interactions between digital wallets; and
- Gather key takes away for developers and policy makers to maximise scalability and adoption of digital identity and wallet(s) across Europe.