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The Global Digital Collaboration Conference 2026 in Geneva brought together 2,000 digital identity, technology, policy and industry leaders in Geneva to explore how collaboration, interoperability and trust can shape the digital economy.
For WE BUILD, the conference was an opportunity to share practical insights from our Large-Scale Pilot, demonstrate European Digital Identity Wallet and European Business Wallet use cases, and connect with organisations working to turn digital identity infrastructure into real-world solutions.
As part of the EUDIW Group, WE BUILD co-organised 16 sessions throughout the three-day conference, covering topics ranging from business identity and payments to interoperability, AI agents, testing and the global potential of the European Business Wallet. Find out about all our 16 sessions here.
With more than 200 public and private organisations from 28 countries, WE BUILD is developing and testing 13 use cases across business, supply chain and payments to help shape the next stage of the EU Digital Identity Wallet and European Business Wallet rollout.
At one of the opening sessions of the conference ‘Scaling digital identity in Europe: insights from Large-Scale Pilots (APTITUDE & WE BUILD)’, WE BUILD co-coordinator Rob Brand presented how the WE BUILD Consortium drives competitiveness for businesses.
Rob Brand starting his talk with this video introducing the EBW and the WE BUILD Consortium:
The sessions 'Using the EUDI wallet for consumer banking and payments', 'Corporate-to-Corporate: The European Business Wallet (EBW) as Trust Infrastructure for B2B Identity & Payments' and 'How the EUDI Wallet could transform card authentication and checkout' showcased many great demos of the WE BUILD use cases for EUDI and EBW.
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We’ve announced that we will be launching the WE BUILD SME Interest Group! The announcement was part of the session ‘The EU Digital Identity Business Wallet: tracking the value generated for businesses, governments, and ecosystems’.
The WE BUILD SME Interest Group will connect the technical and policy development of the European Business Wallet with the everyday realities of European SMEs. It creates a learning community in which SMEs, business intermediaries, authentic sources, technology providers, policymakers and researchers can understand emerging wallet capabilities, test their relevance against real business journeys, identify barriers to adoption and jointly develop practical recommendations for trusted digital business across Europe.
The group will get together periodically through digital and live value tracking sessions in which WE BUILD will bring together multiple stakeholders in the value chain. This approach allows to systematically create multiple-stakeholder groups to define the collective value case, create transparency with regards to common constraints & conditions and determine calls-to-collaborate for parties involved.
In two sessions we focused on explaining different aspects of the European Business Wallet.
WE BUILD co-coordinator Rob Brand introduced how it can contribute to a digital economy on a global level. The EBW isn’t only about optimizing processes for Europe, it’s also applicable outside the EU. For instance, in the financial sector and trade it can be used by adding sectoral numbers like the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) as an attestation. That’s what WE BUILD partner GLEIF, co-organizer of this session, zoomed in on.
In the session 'A company has no fingers: why the European Business Wallet is not a personal wallet at scale' we explored the differences between a Natural Person Wallet and the European Business Wallet, and shared lessons from WE BUILD so far.
The personal wallet was designed around a person: one holder, one device, one pair of thumbs, consenting to one presentation at a time. A company has none of that. It acts through employees who join and leave, through mandates that are delegated and revoked, and increasingly through machines that must present a credential at three in the morning with nobody there to tap "approve".
As we approach the EUDI go-live, testing and sandbox environments are not optional - they are the critical bridge between regulation and real-world adoption.
The EU Digital Identity and European Business Wallet ecosystems introduce complex, cross-border, and multi-party interactions that simply cannot be validated in theory alone. In this session we shared learnings and practical approaches from large-scale pilots (WE BUILD and APTITUDE), national sandbox initiatives, and key institutions shaping the ecosystem.
The takeaway is simple: structured testing and sandboxing are the key to scalable adoption.
One of the most forward-looking discussions at GDC26 explored what becomes possible when an AI agent can act on behalf of an organisation through its European Business Wallet.
Because the company's verified credentials, legal documents and mandates already live in its EBW, its agent could carry out real business tasks securely and with delegated, auditable authority. From there the possibilities are open-ended: virtually any cross-border B2B process an organization needs to run.
The session facilitated an open discussion on this topic. Drawing on authentic sources such as the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel) and Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH, it examined the trust, delegation and interoperability foundations that let agents act reliably - and within clear limits - on an organization's behalf.
WE BUILD is a use-case-driven consortium of more than 200 public and private organizations from 28 countries, co-funded by the European Union. The consortium is a Large Scale Pilot developing and testing 13 use cases across business, supply chain, and payments domains to shape the next stage of the EUDI Wallet and EU Business Wallet rollout. Find out more about our use cases, here.