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Digital Identity unConference Europe​ 2025 Zurich​

Fostering Collaboration on the digital identity between governments, citizens, and companies across Europe.

4-5 March 2025 - DICE Ecosystems
2-4 September 2025 - DICE 2025
 

At Trust Square, Bahnhofstrasse 75, 8001 Zürich

DICE in 2025: New format

Dear DICE Community,

We are excited to let you know that in 2025 there will be two DICE events with distinct focus, while building on top of each other for progress and impact. Based on comments from attendees on the final day of DICE 2024: a year being too long until we meet again. 

After meeting in the organizing committee and discussing what would be useful in Europe, we decided to introduce an additional event in March, while moving the regular DICE event into September. 

This will allow us to provide two important touchpoints for the community in Europe, that are well aligned with IIW in California while we are avoiding the conference high season of May/June that proved complex for people to accommodate in the past due to multiple conflicting events on the international schedule. 

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Why Dice Europe

why dice Europe?

The intention of DICE is to foster collaboration and work together on the adoption of a dignified digital identity between governments, citizens, and companies across Europe. 

unConferences are particularly generative: with a facilitator, we will co-create the agenda live each day of the event. There are no keynotes or panels, it’s all about exploring the topic with professional peers from a range of identity areas. Click here to learn more.

There are many reasons that secure identity systems are needed for connecting to others, tracking trade, supporting labor markets, and crossing borders.  Significant investments have been made into the development of interoperable standards, protocols, systems application layers, conceptual use cases, and more.

why dice Europe?

The intention of DICE is to Foster collaboration and work together on the adoption of a dignified digital identity between governments, citizens, and companies across Europe. 

unConferences are particularly generative, with a facilitator we will co-create the agenda live each day of the event. There are no keynotes or panels, it’s all about exploring the topic with professional peers from a range of identity areas. Click here to learn more.

There are many reasons that secure identity systems are needed for connecting to others, tracking trade, supporting labor markets, and crossing borders.  Significant investments have been made into the development of interoperable standards, protocols, systems application layers, conceptual use cases, and more.

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WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?

This event is for individuals, practitioners, researchers, regulators, implementers, government leaders, technologists, and digital and privacy rights activists. A neutral event where people from a range of different standards, efforts, and businesses can come together, learn from each other, build connections and move the work forward.

  • Anyone who is implementing digital identity technologies, in government, enterprise, and civil society. 

  • Startups working on emerging digital and decentralized identity technology

  • Enterprises that are exploring digital and decentralized identity technology

  • Ecosystems of interoperability are a key emerging topic and companies cultivating networks of interoperability are encouraged to attend.

  • Government leaders who are regulating digital identity and seeking to understand digital identity technology choices

  • Those new to the concepts of Decentralized Identity and want to learn what it is all about

  • Consumers of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) products and services

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Important Areas to be Discussed in Europe:

 
  • Swiss E-ID and Ecosystem of Digital Proofs: A Swiss national digital ID initiative that aims to provide a secure ID ecosystem and enables the use of digital proofs.
  • eIDAS2: The second version of the electronic Identification and Trust Services Regulation, aimed at facilitating cross-border electronic transactions and strengthening digital trust.
  • European Reference Wallet Architecture and Architectural Reference Framework: A blueprint for developing an interoperable and standardized framework for digital wallets in the European Union to facilitate secure and user-friendly access to digital services. DIDAS Blog Post on the ARF as a starting point.
  • EUDI Large Scale Pilots: Large-scale pilot projects aimed at testing and improving cross-border eID and authentication systems in the EU.
  • Learning and Outcomes of ESSIF Labs: Lessons learned from the European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework Labs, which aim to develop interoperable and user-centric eID systems.
  • EBSI protocols and wallets: The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure aims to provide secure and decentralized eID and digital identity solutions based on blockchain technology.

See the growing list of potential topics put forth by those who have already registered for the APAC Decentralized Identity unConference.

Important Areas to be Discussed in Europe:

 
  • Swiss E-ID and Ecosystem of Digital Proofs: A Swiss national digital ID initiative that aims to provide a secure ID ecosystem and enables the use of digital proofs.
  • eIDAS2: The second version of the electronic Identification and Trust Services Regulation, aimed at facilitating cross-border electronic transactions and strengthening digital trust.
  • European Reference Wallet Architecture and Architectural Reference Framework: A blueprint for developing an interoperable and standardized framework for digital wallets in the European Union to facilitate secure and user-friendly access to digital services. DIDAS Blog Post on the ARF as a starting point.
  • EUDI Large Scale Pilots: Large-scale pilot projects aimed at testing and improving cross-border eID and authentication systems in the EU.
  • Learning and Outcomes of ESSIF Labs: Lessons learned from the European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework Labs, which aim to develop interoperable and user-centric eID systems.
  • EBSI protocols and wallets: The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure aims to provide secure and decentralized eID and digital identity solutions based on blockchain technology.

See the growing list of potential topics put forth by those who have already registered for the APAC Decentralized Identity unConference.

Trust Square Collaboration Room

EVENT background

The Digital Identity unConference Europe is inspired by the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) that has been held twice a year, since 2005 in California for the global community working on Internet identity. The two facilitators and producers of IIW, Kaliya Young, also known as the Identity Woman, and Heidi Nobantu Saul are collaborating with a local partner Trust Square to host, and the Swiss Digital Identity and Data Sovereignty Association (DIDAS).

The time is right to host an event for the European region with the same Open Space unConference format that the Internet Identity Workshop uses. DICE will bring together business decision-makers, innovative startups, bold large companies, and governments, who are exploring the value of digital identity, building products, and developing services using emerging digital identity technologies. One of the goals of the event is to foster a more connected ecosystem of companies working in European Countries.

Trust Square in Zurich is the perfect location for this gathering, in terms of meeting space available, proximity to the train station, and a variety of lodging options. Zurich is in the heart of continental Europe, a place where a lot of innovation is happening, especially also in the world of decentralized technologies, with world-leading universities (e.g. University of Zurich and ETH) and easily accessible by train and plane from anywhere in Europe and the world (we have excellent plane connections from Zurich airport).

 

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Sponsors keep conference fees low, by supporting the virtual platform, unConference set-up, providing meals and more, making DICE available to all who want to attend, participate and contribute.

If you are interested in becoming part of the growing community of Sponsors supporting DICE and the real time work that happens at this event, please contact Kristina Morf.