WE BUILD joins Global Digital Collaboration 2026: discover our sessions

About the session

10.20 - 10.40 - Room: Plenary ABC Room

Large-Scale Pilots (LSPs) are at the forefront of Europe’s efforts to deploy interoperable digital identity wallets across borders and use cases. Through unprecedented cooperation between Member States, industry players, and ecosystem stakeholders, initiatives such as Aptitude and WeBuild are actively testing real-world implementations of digital identity, with a strong focus on cross-border interoperability, mutual recognition and user-centric services. This leadership session will bring together the coordinators of Aptitude and WeBuild to share key insights from their respective pilots, highlighting concrete use cases, cooperation mechanisms, and lessons learned in deploying digital identity wallets at scale. It will provide a unique opportunity to compare approaches, identify common challenges and explore how these initiatives contribute to building a globally interoperable digital identity ecosystem.

Speakers

Rob Brand — Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Philippe Nieto — Responsable e-Wallet Européen - EUDIW Product Owner - Consortia Coordination, France Identité (ANTS), Ministry of Interior, France

Co-organizers

Aptitude, WE BUILD

About the session

09:00 - 09:50 - Room: K

This roundtable shows how the European Business Wallet becomes the shared trust infrastructure for corporate-to-corporate (B2B) business across Europe. Following a single company journey - from incorporation to trust, trust to transaction, and transaction to proof - we demonstrate cross-border KYC/KYS and bank-account opening in another member state, issuance of a certified, reusable IBAN attestation, payment using the certified IBAN, and a closing e-receipt that strengthens the transaction record and reduces fraud. Authentic sources, a wallet provider, an intermediary, supply-industry holders, and a bank discuss what this means for the future of B2B identity and payments, with live audience interaction

Objectives and outcomes

Show how the EU Business Wallet enables trusted, frictionless cross-border B2B KYC/KYS and payments.

Target audience

Policymakers and regulators working on eIDAS 2.0 and the EU Digital Identity / Business Wallet; banks and financial institutions (KYC/AML, onboarding, payments); business registers and authentic sources; digital identity and wallet providers; the Peppol and e-invoicing community; and B2B service providers and enterprises operating across borders.

Speakers

Marie Austenaa — SVP Identity Solutions — Mastercard
Sylvie CALSACY — WEBUILD — Co-lead Business Payments — Onepoint

Other co-organizers

CEN-CENELEC

About the session

10:00 - 10:50 - Room: Gamma

This roundtable explores what becomes possible when an AI agent acts on behalf of an organization, linked to its European Business Wallet (EBW). Because the company's verified credentials, legal documents and mandates already live in its EBW, its agent can carry out realbusiness tasks securely and with delegated, auditable authority - for example opening a bank account or setting up a company branch in another member state. From there the possibilitiesare open-ended: virtually any cross-border B2B process an organization needs to run. Co-organized by CEN-CENELEC, the EUDIW Group WE BUILD, and drawing on authentic sources such as KVK and Bundesanzeiger Verlag, the session examines the trust, delegation and interoperability foundations that let agents act reliably - and within clear limits -on an organization's behalf.

Objectives and outcomes

Show how an AI agent linked to your EBW can act for your company across borders.

Target audience

Policymakers and regulators working on eIDAS 2.0, the EU Digital Identity / Business Wallet and AI governance; banks and financial institutions (KYC/AML, onboarding); business registers and authentic sources; standards bodies; digital identity and wallet providers; and enterprises and B2B service providers interested in AI agents acting on their behalf across borders.

Speakers

Bundesanzeiger Verlag
Erwin Nieuwlaar - The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KVK)
CEN-CENELEC

Other co-organizers

CEN-CENELEC

About the session

11:00 - 11:50 - Room: E

This session will explore the role of digital credentials in enabling trusted, secure, and seamless interactions across trade, transport, and travel ecosystems. It will highlight real-world scenarios where verifiable credentials can streamline identity verification, facilitate cross-border movement, improve regulatory compliance, and enhance experiences for individuals, businesses, and governments. The session will discuss emerging solutions, interoperability approaches, and implementation experiences shaping the future of digital credentialing across global mobility and commerce.

Objectives and outcomes

Session Objectives Explore credentialing use cases and challenges in trade and transport. Discuss how digital credentials enable trusted, efficient, and interoperable transactions. Share approaches, standards, and implementation experiences. Expected Outcomes Understanding of opportunities for digital credentials in trade and transport. Insights into scalable, interoperable credentialing solutions. Identification of key considerations for adoption and implementation.

Target audience

Government agencies and policymakers involved in trade, transport, travel, and digital transformation. Industry stakeholders, including logistics providers, transport operators, airlines, travel organizations, and trade bodies. Technology providers and digital credential solution developers. Standards bodies and ecosystem organizations working on digital identity, interoperability, and cross-border solutions. Researchers, academics, and practitioners in digital identity, credentialing, mobility, and global commerce.

Speakers

Annet Steenbergen — Advisor — WE BUILD
Louise Cairney — Head Customer Experience and Facilitation — IATA
Sjoerd Rongen — TNO

Other co-organizers

DPI Group: Aapti Institute, Interledger Foundation, MOSIP, Networks for Humanity, MOSIP,
Research Organizations Group: EPFL, GEANT, Miles College, TNO, Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

About the session

11:00-11:50 - Room: Alpha

The WE BUILD Consortium is demonstrating how the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) can become a game changer for online card payments. By combining Digital Payment Credentials (DPCs), wallet technology and existing card payment infrastructure, the EUDI Wallet has the potential to deliver stronger security, better user experiences and compliance with future European regulatory requirements. This session will showcase two key payment journeys being piloted by WE BUILD. The first enables banks to issue and provision payment credentials into the citizen's wallet and use them to perform seamless Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) during online card payments. The second allows consumers to select the EUDI Wallet directly at checkout, using wallet-held payment credentials to initiate card payments while optionally combining them with verified attributes such as age, student status or loyalty credentials. Through a live prototype demonstration and panel discussion featuring pilot partners and EMVCo, attendees will discover how DPCs, DC APIs, OpenID and EMV standards are converging to enable the next generation of secure, interoperable and user-friendly payment experiences. The session will provide practical insights into implementation, standardisation and the path to large-scale adoption of EUDI Wallet-enabled card payments across Europe.

Objectives and outcomes

Show how EU DI Wallet and DPC enable seamless, secure, compliant card payments.

Target audience

Banks, merchants, payment schemes, wallet providers, and digital identity/payment innovation teams.

Speakers

Laurent Bailly — VISA
Kevin Meijer — Dutch Payment Association
Christophe Zehnacker — Mastercard
Cosmina Chis — Banca Transilvania
Arman Aygen — Director of Technology — EMVCo

Other co-organizers

EMVCo

About the session

14:00-14:50 - Room: Delta

This session presents technical and architectural insights from the WE BUILD Consortium on the emerging European Business Wallet (EBW) ecosystem within the European Digital Identity (EUDI) framework. Focusing on organizational identity, delegation, interoperability, and trusted cross-border data exchange, the session explores how WE BUILD is translating evolving specifications into near-production implementations for real-world business and government use cases. The session reflects on different implementation perspectives and lessons learned from the WE BUILD pilot, this far, and its partners working to operationalize secure digital identity infrastructure for economic operators across Europe.

Objectives and outcomes

Share technical insights on operationalizing the EU Business Wallet for economic operators.

Target audience

The session is aimed at system architects, developers, product managers in finance and logistics, and public sector experts seeking technical insights and lessons learned from the practical implementation of the European Business Wallet within a large-scale pilot project.

Speakers

Sarah Amandusson — Digital Identity Specialist, Digg - Swedish Agency for Digital Government
Leif Johansson — Executive Director, SIROS Foundation
Lal Chandran — Co-Founder and CTO, iGrant.io
Malin Norlander — Swedish Company Registration Office
Eelco Klaver — Credenco, Iris van der Wel — Cleverbase

Other co-organizers

Linux Foundation Group: OpenWallet, Trust Over IP, LF Decentralized Trust, OpenWallet Foundation

About the session

15:00 - 15:50 - Room: K

In the session we will explain what the European Business Wallet is and how it can contribute to a digital economy outside the EU jurisdiction as well. For instance in the financial sector and trade it can be used by adding sectoral numbers like the LEI as an attestation. We will give an update of the status of the legislation and relevant use cases.

Objectives and outcomes

We will achieve an understanding by the audience of the importance and opportunities of the EBW and hope that they will take action to start become a part of the movement.

Speakers

Rob Brand — Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Ivan Mortimer-Schutts — Global Head of vLEI, GLEIF 

 Other co-organizers:

 GLEIF

About the session

16:00-16:50 - Room: E

Business ownership information is moving from a world of central registers toward one that also includes eIDAS 2.0 wallets and decentralised identity. This changes how data is populated, how it stays current, and who can access it and on what basis. With the EU Anti-Money-Laundering Regulation (AMLR, EU 2024/1624) in full effect from July 2027 — harmonising customer due diligence and explicitly recognising digital identity wallets — there is both an opportunity to rethink KYC and an obligation to ask whether the system actually works. This session runs that honest question through every part. This session is a conversation spanning the full chain — the registers that hold the data, the banks that consume it, the wallet infrastructure that will move it — willing to ask whether the whole edifice delivers, and connecting the concrete EU regulatory moment to the wider international question of how business ownership information should be accessed and trusted

Objectives and outcomes

Comparison of global approaches to access to company information, with a consideration of how new developments on business wallets, EU anti-money laundering legislation and open data intersect

Target audience

Anyone who provides or uses company information as part of their work

Speakers

Grace Rachmany — Executive Director — Decentralized Identity Foundation
Mark van der Veen — President DAMA Netherlands — DAMA Netherlands
Steffen Schwalm — CEN JTC 19
Miranda Evans — Senior Manager — Digital & Data Support — Open Ownership

Other co-organizers

DIF, Data Management Association

About the session

17:00-17:50 - Room: E

The Digital Identity Wallet ecosystem needs a way for users to be recognized by a service over time, for example to recover an account or to detect known offenders. This needs to be done without enabling tracking across different services. We present a specification developed within the EU large scale pilot WE BUILD Consortium that solves this using zero-knowledge proof-based pseudonyms. The proposed scheme allows wallet holders to derive a unique, stable pseudonym for each service they interact with, rooted in a seed embedded in their government-issued identity credential (PID in the EU). When presenting a pseudonym, the wallet produces a cryptographic proof that it was correctly derived from a valid credential, without ever revealing the underlying seed. The result is a system where pseudonyms are stable within a service, unlinkable across services, recoverable if a user switches devices, and — when legally required — unmaskable by the issuing authority. We describe the full protocol lifecycle from seed issuance through pseudonym verification, demonstrate practical flows for account recovery and known offender matching, and discuss real-world deployment considerations. The work and presentation is made by Google, SIROS Foundation and the Swedish Agency for Digital Government

Objectives and outcomes

The Digital Identity Wallet ecosystem needs a way for users to be recognized by a service over time, for example to recover an account or to detect known offenders. This needs to be done without enabling tracking across different services. We present a specification that solves this using zero-knowledge proof-based pseudonyms.The objective is go share our insights and experiance so that the ecosystem can use ZKP for services such as account recovery.

Target audience

Policy makers, tech leads, technical experts

Speakers

Peter Altmann — Director of Research Development — SIROS Foundation
Leif Johansson — Executive Director — SIROS Foundation
David Magård — SIROS Foundation
Sophia Nguyen — Google

Co-organizers

Linux Foundation Group: OpenWallet, Trust Over IP, LF Decentralized Trust

About the session

17:00-17:50 - Room: L

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 EUDI and Business Wallet ecosystems introduce complex, cross-border, and multi-party interactions that simply cannot be validated in theory alone. In this session, we will share learnings and practical approaches from large-scale pilots, national sandbox initiatives, and key institutions shaping the ecosystem. The takeaway is simple: structured testing and sandboxing are the key to scalable adoption. The presentation will be composed of key actors giving real-life insights on the topic (see organisations)

Objectives and outcomes

A shared understanding of why structured testing is essential for scalable EUDI and European Business Wallet adoption. Concrete insights and lessons learned from large-scale pilots and sandbox implementations. Increased awareness of ongoing testing initiatives at both national and European levels. Showcasing real-world experiences from key ecosystem actors actively building and testing EUDI and EBW solutions. Clear demonstration that interoperability must be validated in practice, particularly in cross-border and multi-party scenarios

Target audience

Policymakers and regulators involved in EUDI and European Business Wallet implementation. Public sector representatives leading national wallet initiatives and sandbox environments. Relying parties and businesses preparing to integrate wallet-based solutions. Identity, payments, and trust ecosystem stakeholders focused on interoperability

Speakers

Esther Makaay — VP of Digital Identity — Signicat
Lal Chandran — Co-Founder and CTO, iGrant.io
Axel Rimkus — Procivis
Viktoras Kamarevcevas — Head of Division — State Digital Solutions Agency — Lithuania
Nikolaos Triantafyllou — University of Aegean

Other co-organizers

OpenID Foundation

About the session

10:00-10:50 - Room: Alpha

Opening a new bank account at home or abroad (EU) is as seamless as opening your mobile wallet. All the necessary documentation required to open a bank account such as your identity, nationality, date of birth, home address are all held in your EU digital identity wallet and easily sharable when you want to open a bank account. Documentation shared, contract signed, account opened, and card issued – all in less time it takes you to sing the latest Taylor Swift hit… Include a summary of how AMLR is harmonizing the customer due diligence requirements around Europe, and the role that the EU DI Wallet plays to streamline the process across the EU. Do you have a stored-value digital wallet, or want to make a bill payment, or pay from your bank account? You Bank Key held in your EU DI wallet makes it seamless to pay. Even merchants accept your IBAN (account number) as a payment method when the intention to pay is signed using the EU DI wallet. Pay-by-bank becomes seamless and secure.

Objectives and outcomes

Drive awareness of the benefits and opportunities to use the EUDIW for consumer payments and banking services. Invite banks and merchants to pilot the EUDIW with the EU Large Scale Pilots

Target audience

Governments, Banks, Merchants, Wallet providers

Speakers

Marie Austenaa — SVP Identity Solutions — Mastercard
Lal Chandran — Co-Founder and CTO, iGrant.io

Other co-organizers

CSC, Linux Foundation Group: OpenWallet, Trust Over IP, LF Decentralized Trust

About the session

12:00-12:50 - Room: Alpha

Europe is investing heavily in digital identity infrastructure. The next challenge is demonstrating and tracking the value generated for businesses, governments, and ecosystems. While much of the current discussion around the European Digital Identity Wallet focuses on technical readiness and regulatory compliance, organizations increasingly need a structured way to understand and demonstrate VALUE REALIZATION. This interactive workshop applies the ValueTracking methodology to identify expected outcomes, stakeholder benefits, measurable indicators, and adoption drivers for the emerging Business Wallet ecosystem. Participants will collaboratively build a value map and identify how value can be tracked from implementation through to ecosystem-wide impact. Scale-up by smarter multi-stakeholder engagement.

Objectives and outcomes

Structure the multi-stakeholder eco-system by building the shared Value Case for the EU Digital Identity Business Wallet: Business, Economic and Societal value

Target audience

This session is specifically where a multi-stakeholder audience should attend. The audience should reflect the profiles of the partners / parties involved in the collaboration on the European Digital Identity Wallet.

Speakers

Viky Manaila — President — Cloud Signature Consortium
Annet Steenbergen — Advisor — WE BUILD
Rob Brand — Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Tess Rutgers - ValueTrack 

Other co-organizers

ID Associations Group: APDI, Asia PKI Consortium, DIACC, DIDAS, FIDES, TeleTrusT, FIDES, Linux Foundation Group: OpenWallet, Trust Over IP, LF Decentralized Trust

About the session

14:00-14:50 - Room: Alpha

Present progress of the EUDIW and EBW implementation in both LSPs: WE BUILD & APTITUDE

Objectives and outcomes

Provide insights in the opportunities, challenges, and value of implementing the EUDIW & EBW cross-border and accross various use cases

Speakers

Rob Brand — Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy

Other co-organizers

Linux Foundation Group: OpenWallet, Trust Over IP, LF Decentralized Trust

About the session

16:00-16:50 - Room: Alpha

This session intends to inform the audience about recent activities regarding the standardization of the EUDI Wallet. The goal of the session is to present what European and international standardization organisations (SDOs) are currently working on – and how their results are being implemented and tested in the Large Scale Pilots. Since the end of 2025, ETSI has been producing and updating the technical specifications and standards (STS) necessary for the EUDI Wallet ecosystem, including the new trust services. CEN is also contributing to the STS, developing standards in particular in the area of security for the EUDI Wallet ecosystem. On the protocol level, the OpenID Foundation created the communication protocols for the EUDI Wallet that are now also mandated by law. A formal liaison between ETSI and the OpenID Foundation ensures continuous coordination and alignment across specifications, protocols, and implementations. The Large Scale Pilots are closely aligned with the work of these standardization bodies and are implementing and piloting the requirements from the regulation, the ARF, and the SDOs in real-world settings.

Objectives and outcomes

Inform audience about the latest published STS, their implementation and the upcoming work over the next years.

Target audience

All stakeholders involved in the EUDI ecosystem, especially implementers. Stakeholders outside the EU who would like to follow European standardization.

Speakers

Franziska Granc — Nimbus Technologieberatung GmbH
Viky Manaila — President — Cloud Signature Consortium
Anthony Carmoy — France Identité — France Titres
Kristina Yasuda — OpenID Foundation

Other co-organizers

OpenID Foundation, CSC, CEN-CENELEC

About the session

17:00-17:50 - Room: Alpha

This session gives an integrated view of the EUDI trust infrastructure and what is special about it, presented by the people who actually built each layer across the WE BUILD and APTITUDE large-scale pilots. It covers how the layers fit and interoperate, from the List of Trusted Lists and trust registries to access and registration certificates, trusted-list infrastructure and a credentials catalogue; what the pilots are testing and why; what is crucial for the trust infrastructure to support use case piloting; and the concrete experiences and challenges seen so far, at the start of the implementation phase and ahead of the ecosystem launch. It also covers how business wallets harmonise with the EUDI ecosystem and are anchored in the pilots' trust infrastructure, what their addition means for that infrastructure, and how sectorial ecosystems can be plugged in through EUDI's extensibility, such as OpenID Federation in education.

Objectives and outcomes

Learn from those building EUDI trust in the pilots: experiences and challenges ahead of launch

Target audience

Implementers, architects and policy leads working on digital identity wallets and trust frameworks: EUDI ecosystem participants (issuers, relying parties, wallet providers, intermediaries), other large-scale pilots, standards bodies, government and regulatory bodies, and sectorial communities (e.g. education, finance) exploring how to anchor their own ecosystems in EUDI trust infrastructure.

Speakers

Leif Johansson — Executive Director — SIROS Foundation

Łukasz Jaromin — Raidiam

Leone Riello, Andrea Moro — Center for Cybersecurity (APTITUDE and We Build WP4 Trust Group), Sebastian Elfors — ETSI

Co-organizers

ETSI, EUDIW Group: Aptitude, We Build, Aptitude, WeBuild

About the session

17:00 - 17:50 - Room: G

Building and managing a trusted ecosystem requires diverse roles and participants. This seminar explores how to build trust, drive adoption, and deliver value for all ecosystem participants. We'll examine the roles of intermediaries who can bridge the technical gaps and handle the technical complexity, and what it takes to simplify and drive acceptance of digital credentials and wallets. For relying parties across retail, financial services, healthcare, or travel, timely compliance can become achievable with minimal implementation effort.

Objectives and outcomes

Highlight the importance of Relying Party Intermediaries (RPI) in the Identity Trust Framework

Other co-organizers

Speakers Jarek Sygitowicz — Authologic
Luigi Castaldo — Namirial
Leonard Botezatu — Director Service Design, Mastercard

Other co-organizers: 

Linux Foundation Group: OpenWallet, Trust Over IP, LF Decentralized Trust