European Identity & Cloud Awards Ceremony

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Yes. Now it's my turn. I'm want to welcome you to the 12th European identity and cloud award ceremony. My name is Jennifer and I'm your host tonight and yes, these EIC awards honor things, 12 years outstanding project in the field of identity and access management. It security and digital transformation.

This year, we had a huge number of project nominees and the winners and the eight categories were chosen by a jury. And yes, the jury consistent out of our cooking, a call Analyst. And before we start with the nominations and calling out the winners, I would first like one more time to ask the head of our jury on stage again. Please welcome again, Martin Koa.

Yeah, we are again, Yes. As head of the jury, I have two questions for you. One is what makes the project award worthy. And the second, how does the jury select the winners among this huge number of nominees? Okay. So what are we looking for with the award? We are looking for projects which are outstanding in a certain way, which are innovative, which are projects we haven't seen.

And we see a lot of projects, so things which are different than the usual stuff we see, which could be really, feature-wise very innovative, which could also be innovative and scale innovative in the speed of deployment and which from our perspective, really address concrete challenges. We are observing in the market. So this is the answer to your first question. How do we select this? So we get denominations, we read them very carefully. We compare them with what we have seen, what we know.

We look at this, roughly, we discuss it sometimes again and again, and then we figure out which ones to grab an award. That's it. So perfect. And so we can start now over to call out the winners of the year.

Thank you, Martin. Thank you. Okay. Time is running. So we start over with the first category, which is the best enterprise in IEM project. And I want to ask my colleague mul sing lead Analyst of copy our call on stage to announce the winner. Please chop down together. Thank You, buddy. So the best enterprise IM project that that's quite a worthy title, right? And I think for any organization to have a best enterprise IM project are to have a successful IM project, the key three key things, which I think they would've done right to actually get this award.

The first thing which I, you know, any ion would've done right, would be, they should have been able to identify as well as deliver on the key, you know, digital transformation objectives that their IM program can support. It's important for them to not only identify that early in the process of IM designing, but also being able to deliver on those IM capabilities that can support their digital transformation objectives.

The second thing that they would've done right, would be to deliver as well as together, the right consensus among the stakeholder community, which can actually help them convey the message across the stakeholder community to have a successful IM project implemented in the right way. And thirdly, they would've exactly understood the business requirements as well as being able to evaluate the available technologies and tools in the market that could tap on those business processes and exactly deliver the right, you know, technology.

So yeah, without and further you, I like to tell the name of the company, which would have done everything in the perfect way and the VO for this year's best enterprise and project. The winner is the British British petroleum. And I would like to invite Peter Hoffer and Stewart Maray to collect the Congratulations. Bye. Congratulations. So you like to say something, This is always the bit, I was kind of dreading when we entered this, this competition with our vendors, but oh, now you can hear me.

One of the things I'd like to to say is kind of, this is an awards evening and it's kind of all fleshy and you got the industry peers here. I'd like to actually kind of compare this to a movie, you know, where the kind of individual standing up here receiving an award. But in actual fact, we have directors, actors, producers, financiers.

In fact, it's an entire group of people that have gone into us being able to get this today, you know, wouldn't have been achieved without our business buying into it without our board buying into the vision that if we're going to enable digital processes, identity is a key part of that. If we can't get people to access those digital platforms that we're looking to deploy, we're just not going to achieve the objective they want to achieve as a business.

So again, while we're standing up here, it's it, isn't, it's an honor to represent everybody that has made this successful FPP. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. We go over to the second category, which is the best consumer identity project. And I want to ask for that John Tolbert lead Analyst by copy our call on stage. Welcome.

Well, as opposed to enterprise identity, we're doing consumer identity for this award. And as you know, for the last few years, we've been awarding consumer identity separately because you know, there are some key functional and requirements differences. When you consider consumer identity, you know, the different types of data, the scalability, the authentication factors. So the winner of this year's best project in CIM is based in Finland.

They deployed a consumer facing authentication and identification service, which can be extended for both B2B and G to C or government to consume government to citizen interactions. The first attribute source they plugged in was the finished trust network. Their deployers were aiming for Nordic wide rollout of the service. The identification service handles backend Federation so that the service providers don't have to make individual agreements with many different IDPs.

The solution offers many strong multi multifactor authentication options like mobile ID and GSMA mobile connect, and it supports all the relevant Federation protocols. The solution also strongly adheres to our co coal identity fabric model approach whereby we, we like to see different services pulled out and, you know, made available in a modular way, the project, this project aims to reduce complexity and the cost associated with authentication and Federation. So the winner of the 2019 best project for consumer identity is Telia with their identification broker service.

And we'd like to welcome to the stage Lowry Emon So so much, it was a tough competition and it it's really a, a, a proud honor to, to receive this award. We have created this identity brokering platform solution for the sake of our customers and for our end users in the fragmented reality of, of our footprint. We are a telecom operations in Nordic ands. We see various E being used and deployed in the markets. Every country basically has a different solution and our brokering platform aims to solve that complexity for the ease of use.

And, and yeah, thank you again. And thank you, our partner, you be secure and just like the, the, the previous team, it's not the one man show. It is definitely a team effort. So the thanks goes to Riha and his team who couldn't be here tonight, Johnny and, and his work in, in, in this field and, and also the management to support our, our, our ambitions. Thank you. Congratulations. And thank you, John. We go over to the third part and now we have the best I U T OT security project. And this is presented by lead Analyst Alexei a Balaganski please. Welcome. All right.

So there, isn't very old, but still very relevant joke that goes on that in IOT. It's the S which stands for security.

In fact, some people even go on and claim that there is no hope for IOT security at all. In the future. As an Analyst, I would actually back to differ nowadays, the consumer facing internet of things is no longer just a bunch of smart T kettles or fridges or any other home devices. The whole technology stack the functionality and the various scope of IOT is shifting. And the very definition of IOT security is changing as well. And I would argue that two or perhaps the two most widespread smart IOT objects.

Everyone, at least here in Europe uses all the time are a smartphone and an ID card, or maybe a passport built in energy cheap. And it is to say a technology that combines those two smart devices to enable instant and truly ubiquitous verification of identity documents for every user has caught our attention. This platform, which is used by our winner, provides a flexible diagnostic solution for letting any smartphone user to validate the identity through a very easy automated process, which only takes second and can be applied at any time, any place.

The potential benefits of such a diagnostic approach are immense. But today we are actually honoring a very specific implementation and very pleased to recognize a company which has successfully implemented this technology for secure onboarding of their remote customers to offer us most an intuitive user experience dramatically reducing identity fraud, and thus insurance that customers not online safety, but a very tangible financial security and the award for this year's best IOT security project goes to Rabobank.

So I am very pleased to welcome Hank marksman and Martin Hendricks of Rabobank on stage, please, gentlemen. Okay. Would you care to say a few words for us please?

Yes, Please. Well, thank you for granting this award to us.

I, again, I think it was a first competition on behalf of Rabobank. I'm very happy to accept this award. We worked on this solution together with our partner in ovelar to get one big hurdle out of a customer journey in the Netherlands. As soon as bank users who are not 18 turn 18, they need to come into the office and show their passport. So we know for real that they exist. And together with Martin team, we developed a solution that they can use their phone and their passport and do that remotely. And that was really a big improvement in the user experience.

We removed a moment in their customer journey, but they could potentially switch to another bank, which we do not prefer. And we also increase security and lowered cost in this process. So we're very happy with this award and with this solution, we're moving on to the next user population in use case.

Okay, Speaker 10 00:15:22 Great. Thank You very much. So half time now, we come through the fourth category. The next prize goes to the best consumer authentication project. And for this project, I want to ask lead advisor and senior Analyst, the tears re please welcome him on stage, Speaker 10 00:16:07 Good evening, short speech prepared, but it goes quickly. IAM systems have changed fundamentally over time. In the beginning, they were internal company systems that received information about employees from HR and somehow information about partners and external employees.

Today, they are a valuable data source and authentication systems for customers and prospects as well. And they are a key prerequisite for a digital transformation. Certain organizations and companies have been dealing with the topic of consumer identities early on to provide parts of their services quickly and efficiently online. These are in particularly banks and insurance companies, and they surely can provide some lessons learned over time.

These companies have developed a multitude of systems services and portals that all share the need to for reliable, secure, and efficient authentication, internal and external users access these services at different locations and in different deployment models, IAM architects. And there are a few here. Speaker 10 00:17:19 They know the challenge. The business wants to quickly onboard customer Porwal X, make sure it works. And without an appropriate strategy, this leads to architecture diagrams that look like the London underground map, but there's a better way.

The strategy to the strategy chosen by today's award winner was to create a uniform service in the form of a central, but flexible platform. As the bigger picture backend systems and services are connected to, to this platform, identity providers of various origins serve as data sources and APIs act as the glue that ties this platform together. Ultimately this platform enables all users, customers, and more to authenticate, to all connected backends, using a variety of authenticators.

We award the price for the development of a central identity API platform, and this platform unifies and consolidates authentication processes of web users and mobile clients on the basis of open standards, such an identity fabric architecture enables high flexibility, and it is a fundamental enabler of digital transformation strategies. The EIC 2019 award for best consumer authentication project goes to S and I would like to invite to the stage, Speaker 11 00:19:08 Thank you very much for this great world. I'm very happy.

And at first I want to thank my team and colleagues and all partners for their work and efforts in the last two years. And trust is our business and reputation. And as Alliance, this is for what we stand for. And our customer identity management platform allows us to combine the highest level of security with simple and smooth customer processes for lock in for authentication identity check. And so on in the end, it's all about identity and access management, which makes our digital assets secure and successful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

So next one, we have now the category for the best blockchain ID and self-sovereign identity, and this winner is presented by my colleague AI practice lead and project manager of copy a call Dr. George Bria. Welcome Audio. Speaker 12 00:20:58 No audio. I can take the hand mic so you can hear me now. Yeah.

Speaker 12 00:21:07 So when describing a product, a service or a concept, a crucial factor is the target group, an industry, a country or a business model are typical answers when defining the scope of what the solution aims to change or even improve the benefits achieved are also extremely important. Increasing security for authentication processes is one good example as our developing comp comprehensive and accepted standards and increasing efficiency. The question of turnover and return of investment is also decisive in all this contexts. This award category is very special.

So let's start with the target group. This is no less than the whole world. So all of us and the goal of the product is to enable online trust and privacy between people, organizations, and things. This is based on technology, cryptography and processes rather than estate government, a company, or any other more or less alternative body.

So what is the return of investment increased user experience and improved privacy are difficult to measure, but immensely valuable at potential savings in fraud and friction are estimated at trillions of dollars using a distributed ledger as the basis for handing control of identities and related. PIIs back to the individual is another very important goal, but identity in that context goes beyond people and covers devices and vehicles as well.

Speaker 12 00:22:51 Standardized decentralized identifiers as a building block for self-sovereign identity, open source software for interoperability and extensibility, ongoing innovations, proof of concept implementations and sustainable community efforts are some of the reasons for today's award. So the IC award for best blockchain ID in self-sovereign identity project goes to ever name. And I would like to welcome Andrew Tobin, managing director of ever on stage. If you wanna tell us some words. Speaker 13 00:23:50 Sure, thank you very much. Indeed.

Three years ago at this conference, our chief executive Timothy Ruff stood up and said, there's this new thing coming called self sovereign identity. And it's coming pretty quickly. And people thought we were crazy. And he said, no one else is building this. So we are gonna build it and we're gonna give it away for the whole world. And everyone thought we were crazy. And he said, well, we're gonna get some organizations large and small round the world to run this new public utility for the world. And they're gonna do it for free. And people thought we're crazy. And now it's happening.

And we've got folks like IBM and Cisco and NEC running the sovereign network. We've got NGOs, we've got companies like CIPA who are sitting here. Who've been massive evangelists for us. So I'd like to just say, thank you to everyone who bought in early and thought this was a great idea. And I'd like to thank everyone. Who's come along since, and is following this road towards actually giving people our identity back. Thank you very much. So next one, we are at the sixth category and this prize goes to the best identity platform project, and to announce winner for this category.

I like to ask information security management advisor and funnel Analyst of coping a call Mike Small on stage Com. Speaker 14 00:25:39 Well, good evening, ah, with that, I confirm that Alexa is listening. All it projects have problems and identity projects are particularly difficult. And so it's really important that an identity project is well managed. Organizations need to be able to identify their customers and for this to be easy for them, for them to be able to create their digital transformation, to get them closer to their customers and their partners.

So making a success of identity projects is really critical to a digital transformation. Many organizations have tried to solve this problem in house, and they've discovered how hard it is to do it themselves. But is it any the case, the best use of your development staff, but if you do it through a supplier, how hard can it be to manage that supplier, making it easy for customers to access your systems, to buy things and to interact with your organization is really important.

Speaker 14 00:27:04 It's really important that you make it easy, single sign on and ease of access are not new ideas, but how can you achieve this kind of thing with millions of users? And there is so many ways that users now want to make access through their mobile devices through other channels. So how do you provide a seamless user experience irrespective of how the user accesses and how can you provide a single identity while including personalized controls over what they can do for most organizations?

My advice would be if I were you, I wouldn't start from here because most organizations have a legacy of systems that they need to be able to deal with, and which cannot be easily integrated or replaced. In addition to that, you have the problem that they want to modernize. What already exists through the use of containers, standards, APIs. And it's no doubt that standards and APIs are key to doing this. Speaker 14 00:28:20 These are the challenges that we found were faced by the organizations that we were looking at as candidates for this price.

In fact, the one that we chose had spent two years attempting to do it themselves and not succeeded in finding a solution. In the end, I decided that opt adopting an off the shelf product and off the shelf platform allowed them to free up four development staff to do other more business related things. And so they partnered with an identity platform provider to create a solution that supports 2 million active users with over 6 million transactions per day. And they can see that it's helping to prevent identity theft.

It's helping them to meet the regulatory requirements such as our famous GDPR while at the same time, improving the end user experience. And so it is my pleasure to announce that the best identity platform project winner is the economist with Andrew Williams, chief digital officer. I received the message that unfortunately they cannot attend in person, but I think we have a video message. So I would like to ask to share this now, Speaker 15 00:30:16 Firstly, I have to apologize for not being there this evening. I trust everyone has enjoyed the conference so far.

It certainly looked like a very interesting impact agenda at the economist. We are a journey to ensure that our digital solutions match the excellence of our journalism and providing seamless fast, reliable and secure identity and authentication is a massive step in that direction. After many years of frustration and continued poor customer experience, we came to the realization that identity management was a problem that had already been solved. And our best chance of success was to partner with an expert in the field.

We chose all zero as that partner, our implementation was not without challenges, but through great teamwork and proper partnership we delivered the solution we needed. There is still work to do in this area, but we now have incredibly firm foundations and a clear roadmap to put a big tick against this element of our digital strategy. Speaker 15 00:31:12 I must thank our internal team for Mark Jacobs, our chief architect and Sandy Beran the development manager to the rest of the squad on the ground who implemented the solution with excellent attention to detail.

I also need to thank Remy Becca and Amanda Mala who led the product management element and took the big decisions to get this thing live. Finally, I would like to thank our partners at all, zero for their advice guidance and for their excellent platform. It was a great privilege to be even considered for the best identity platform project award. So do I have won? It is simply amazing. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mike. Thank Speaker 14 00:31:57 You. So next one, we have now the price for the best block.

No, no we're best blockchain ID consumer identity project we combine now. And therefore I would like to ask senior Analyst Roland on stage. Welcome Speaker 12 00:32:28 Good evening at EIC blockchain ideas. Undoubtedly, one of the exciting topics, nevertheless, blockchain technology is not an in itself, but it's rather a key element of innovative solution that deliver and added value dependent on the particular use case. For instance, consumer identity solutions. It's amazing to see how innovations based or block chain ID can facilitate our daily lives and businesses this year.

A very interesting blockchain it project called the attention of our journey, an innovative realization of a blockchain based wallet, leading to benefits for both people and businesses. This project has developed a human-centric at easily understandable solution that is usable in all markets and segments months.

Furthermore, the solution is non-pro as it is built on using open source components, the right mix of technologies and open standards is an important success factor when it comes to blockchain ID projects, low entry barriers for countries, organizations, and individuals, as well as ease utilization of existing data of further, no worth aspects of this project.

In a nutshell, this illusion enables human centric and content based data transfer first and accelerate both data and AI oriented growth and the award for the best blockchain ID in consumer identity project goes to the finished transport and communications agency. Traffic com for the my data wallet project. Unfortunately they couldn't attend tonight, but police welcome Harry Hong project manager and PI of trusted project at Tom para university on stage who played a vital role in this project as well. Congratulations, Speaker 16 00:34:48 Thank you so much for this award.

I'd been around in this, my data society for the past five years and really coming from an academic background, but I'd been mostly seeing what Mika and Nora have been doing as part of my project or under my project. However, you see it as a great public private collaboration, really realizing that hugely beneficial minded service and delighted operator. I would also like to Mika to say a couple of words about it, but thank you so much. Speaker 17 00:35:24 Thank you, Hari.

I'm representing Teva to, and I would say that I happen to be the person who was creating this idea in the project, but I'm happy to be head of the project where we can actually push the technology so that it creates a space for sustainable data businesses.

This is one of the big steps, what this can actually make happen so that the businesses that are right now, more or less siloed or greed could be actually more human centric, where you have a right to say where your data, your data is being used in businesses and traffic com has been a great example here that has been enabling this thing to happen. We have had a great team of people and of course our own company allow us to, I would like to thank Tim traffic com and NSU. You all made this happen. Thank you. Thank you very much. No photo frame. Okay.

Last but not least, we have the award for the best future technology standard project. And I would like now to welcome once again, Martin, Kuppinger on stage, please clap your hand together.

Good, good evening. Again, best standards. Best innovation is on interesting category. It's when we look at standards sometimes slightly challenging because standards take a while until they are developed. But over the past years, we always had really standards, new important standards for our awards. So this is a very positive thing and I'm, to some extent, I'm really proud of being also a very, very small part of a community where so many people engage in creating standards. And we have heard a lot about the need for standards to make things work better, to improve.

And I think it's, it's really absolutely essential to have these standards. And it's essential to have the people who invest their time and who invest effort and their creativity, their innovativeness into developing new standards. And all these standards come out from groups of people who are working together, them supported by the standard bodies with the infrastructure and the services they provide. So standards are important that then there's another angle for today's award, which is about password.

We touched this topic a couple of times over the past two days and over the past decade, or even maybe more than a decade.

So I don't know when I heard the first time someone saying the password instead, it's not dead and probably it will survive for quite a while, but everything which helps us to get rid of some of the passwords, less passwords, easier indication, easier access, more convenience for us helps us in just, we try calling some of my talks moving towards an outside in syncing, really syncing from the user and for me as a, so as a user and I'm using a lot of idea as everyone of us, doesn't in daily life, it's still that I have to register invent new passwords again and again and again.

And it's a boring thing. So reducing the number of passwords, getting rid of many of these passwords helpful.

So everyone who sort of, when we talk about the password desk, that everyone who helps us in digging the grave of passwords, someone, I, I really appreciate for his job because the deeper the grave or the less passwords we have, and this year we had, we have a combination of standards because we saw a lot of things fitting together to make a big, big step forward or to dive, to, to, to dig deeper and deeper and deeper in that sense, which is factually also driven by two standards, bodies working totally together, which is the w cm, the fi Alliance and the award in this year goes to a combination of the web, the W3C web of indication standard and five, 2.0, in fact, they're, we could also name C a as a third element in that, because these standards together and they already, which is important for standards already showing really broad adoption, a standard, which isn't adopted is not a standard, but these already are becoming real standards.

And they definitely will change our daily experience in what we are doing when using systems, because they will reduce the number of passwords and make our every one's life much easier when using systems. So the winner again, w three C web authentication fighter 2.0, please welcome tr Fontana and the Lindeman from the two standard bodies on stage Trump. Congratulations here. Sure.

Oh, I've got a microphone for you. Sorry, here you go. Speaker 18 00:42:10 Thank you very much. So more than six years ago, we started a long journey and we said using passwords is not a good idea. And there are some problems which are so hard that not a single company can solve that problem. So we created an Alliance that was a final Alliance. And in the end, we had to collaborate with CWS three C to actually make sure that the support of that specification and that standard is not only present in the major operating systems, but also in the web browsers.

And that you can ubiquitous use those standards to authenticate, to web services more easily. Speaker 19 00:42:49 I'm here to accept this on behalf of a lot of people who put in hundreds and hundreds of hours building this spec. And I just wanted to write, read off some names. These were the, the nine top editors listed on the spec. If you go online and, and look at it, Dirk ball fans of Google Alexei, Zeki of Google, Jeff Hodges of Google, JC Jones from Mozilla Michael B. Jones from Microsoft.

ACTHA QR from Microsoft, Angela Lao from Microsoft, Ralph Linderman, congratulations from knock knock labs. And Uhlenberg from Yubico. Thank you. Yes.

Finally, this were the 12 European identity and cloud awards. Congratulations again to all winners. Thank you very much to all our Analyst and thank you to you for being part of it. I would like now to ask you to join us for some drinks and dinner outside in the explore area for all of you who are already preparing for tomorrow, I would kindly remind you that we start very early in the morning tomorrow with the breakfast session upstairs with some food and nice interactions and discussions. We started 20 past seven in the morning, but you receive some breakfast.

And for all of you who now wants to have an award as well, EIC 2020, we will have the award ceremony again. And all of you can already nominate favorite projects and stand that and so on. So please feel free to look at our website and nominee your favorite project for next year last but not least gamification, all of you who are collecting the points, the passcode is community T. And so I thanks. Thank you. And was your wonderful evening and wonderful rest of.