Impressions from Global Digital Collaboration 2025

There can be no doubt: bringing together driving authorities, generalists, and domain experts from many fields proved both eye-opening and energising — and must continue. 

Especially now, as AI development accelerates at breakneck speed, it is essential to ensure that those deeply immersed in it don’t lose sight of a critical foundation: Trust and Privacy. These must be embedded through verifiable credentials issued to and from organisation and citizen ID-wallets— the prerequisite for a safe and successful AI-powered future.

Day 2 Highlights: With over 100 scheduled presentations and expert meetings, the second day offered an overwhelming wealth of insight. Many of us wished we could have attended more sessions and spent even more time connecting in person with people we've only known through LinkedIn discussions and virtual meetings. Fortunately, these real-world encounters now make it much easier to reach out and collaborate toward making identity — also for AI — truly happen.

One of the strongest takeaways was this:

Concrete verifiable credentials are no longer concepts — they are rolling out into real business and life events from diverse issuers worldwide.

This shift must now be turned into national narratives so that every citizen and business sees the value and demands rapid implementation. Public-private situation rooms in every country should urgently drive the rollout of general-purpose organisation wallets, ensuring that credential flows begin without delay.

Personal Highlight

For me, the pinnacle session was:
“The European Business Wallets: Outcomes and Insights from the EWC Large Scale Pilots.”

With practical, to-the-point contributions from: the EWC-hero David Magård (Bolagsverket), Lal Chandran (iGrant), the so important industry pioneer Werner Folkendt (Bosch) and last but certainly not least making-it-happen Carsten Stoecker (Spherity). 

It should have been the opening session for the full audience.  

This was a masterclass in how to go from theory to action. It should have been the opening plenary for all attendees.

What Was Missing

What I missed most was a stronger, more visible presence from EU Member State governments — vocally committing to enable simple, high-impact credential flows through widely available organisation wallet solutions. The time for hesitation has passed. Too many stakeholders — especially doubters — need clear signals and decisive leadership.

Let’s keep building. And let’s make sure the ID-wallet revolution includes AI-readiness at its core.