Reusable digital identity arriving in the nick of time

Plausible pathways to realizing the full potential and scale of digital identity, notably including reusable IDs and decentralized approaches based on international standards like verifiable credentials, took prominence at this year’s edition of KuppingerCole’s European Identity and Cloud conference. The maturation of these approaches and technologies is just in time to help address imminent crises, according to EIC 2025 presentations and panels of biometrics and digital ID innovators, from AI-powered fraud and phishing to online privacy and even healthcare capacity. The event ran during the second week of May in Berlin.

Reports by Masha Borak, Joel R. McConvey and Chris Burt.

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Article Topics

AI agents  |  biometrics  |  decentralized ID  |  digital identity  |  digital wallets  |  EIC 2025  |  identity access management (IAM)  |  KuppingerCole  |  reusable digital ID  |  self-sovereign identity