Project Lead for Germany’s EU Digital Identity Wallet
SPRIND - German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is a Digital Identity Architect with more than 15 years experience in developing and running large scale consumer identity services. He currently works for the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) as project lead & project lead of Germany’s EU Digital Identity Wallet project. Before that, he led the consumer identity team at Deutsche Telekom and was CTO & CPO of yes.com, an open banking scheme. Earlier in his career, he helped organizations in public, banking, and railway communication domains to implement highly-scalable and secure services.
Torsten is an open standards enthusiast and has contributed to a wide range of broadly adopted identity standards like OAuth and OpenID Connect as well as OpenID for Verifiable Credentials.
Torsten holds a Diploma and a PhD in computer science from Dresden University of Technology and Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, respectively.
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Torsten is an open standards enthusiast and has contributed to a wide range of broadly adopted identity standards like OAuth and OpenID Connect as well as OpenID for Verifiable Credentials.
Torsten holds a Diploma and a PhD in computer science from Dresden University of Technology and Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, respectively.
Sessions
May 19, 2026
11:40 - 12:00
PANEL: From Wallets to Business Models: Where’s the Real Value in Verifiable Credentials?
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