European Identity & Cloud Awards Ceremony

Yes. Okay, Dear ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 15th E I C award ceremony where greatness meets recognition and innovation. Take center stage Let's the celebration begin. Our first category, citizen authentication, will be presented by my colleague, Mike Small, senior Analyst at the co. Please welcome here. Hello. . I traveled here to Berlin from my home in Manchester. I had to show my passport when I checked into the airline. I had to show it again when I boarded the aircraft and I had to show it a third time when I landed in Belgium.

Unfortunately, being Belgium, I had to wait for 20 minutes before a passport officer turned up. However, I understand the reason for this because the reason is that terrorists have exploited the opportunities to disrupt travel. And because of this we have to show, we have to prove our identity multiple times. And wouldn't it really be wonderful if we technology could solve this?

Well, technology does to some extent, but I used to have an i n s pass when I traveled to the US frequently. And what that usually used to mean is I would get to the i n s pass to bypass things and discover that it wasn't working where upon I went to the back of the line. Alternatively, when you've traveled through Heathrow, Heathrow has a a, a remarkable eGates that when they are working, they're wonderful and when they don't work, it's, it's chaotic. So technology can help, but it has to be reliable and it has to be secure.

And any organization that can provide a solution to that is worthy of an award. So it is my great pleasure to announce that the category of citizen authentication, the award tonight is given to a project for Eurostar and Mr. Gareth Williams, general secretary and street chief Strategic Partnerships office officer will receive this award. Please can we have, so thank you very much. Welcome. Thank you. Thank very much. Thank you for the, for the award. I Think we have, okay, just a second. If you want to say some words. I hope I can turn it on. Should be on any second. Could you try it?

Does this work? Nope, It's on now. Okay. You can use the His neck. Okay.

If I, if I use the these A actually I feel a bit of a fraud collecting this award because what Eurostar bought to the party was the problem. And it's the problem you describe of how to cross a crowded border, particularly in the enclosed space of a historic station. And it has become more of a problem over the years as the requirements the border have grown, have grown. And in partnering with IPR who brought the clever technology that provides the solution, we offer a transformative way forward.

Something that transforms a cue for the border into a simple transaction on your catch at home, and then an ability just to walk through the border. And that is completely transformative in terms of our customer experience and it also offers one other important thing and that is hope. Hope that automation and the kind of technology that ipro have provided us can really transform the experience for our customers. So I'm delighted to accept this award on our joint behalf. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Just go over there.

So our next award, customer partner, partner, We be photographed together. Don't, Okay, I'm trying again. Our next award, customer and partner authentication will be presented by John Tolbert, lead Analyst at co coal.

Well, as we all know, B2B identity management has become more complex. The supply chains and partnerships grow and evolve. Your partners and customers sometimes need access to your systems or at least some of them, but they need just the right amount of access. The project that's receiving the award tonight successfully handled this very scenario of B2B partner access management. The customer organization is a major credit bank here in Europe.

In order to expand their business, they needed to migrate partner users to a new solution, improve user onboarding, unify multiple identifier types, and allow delegated administration by approved partners and offer user friendly MFA options. The solution they chose is from a German vendor that was a product and innovation leader in our 2022 Leadership Compass on C I A M. Both parties report that the project was completed quickly and they're going to expand from B2B to now B2C use cases.

So the winner of the award tonight for the category of customer and partner authentication credit plus bank, and here to accept the award is Mr. Oliver Herman. So I guess it would be Safers if you use ku. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. I'd love to go on. Just want to sync the great corporation. Thank you.

Well, thank you. We move on. They take pictures, we move on. Our next category enterprise I am will be introduced by head of advisor at Coco, my colleague Matthias Rebar. Please welcome him. Hi. Good evening. Category enterprise.

I am, since I consider many, if not all of the people in the room and out there listening online to be identity experts, let me first describe the project I'm honoring today. And then let me ask you a simple question and you can answer it quietly just for yourself, for your own organization.

A project to implement a secure, compliant, modern and future-proof single sign-on solution in a business to business environment with an estimated 5,000 users, all with significant number of identity providers and oh really modern user experience and modern authentication and authorization protocols, customizable landing page for each business partner and of course support for a number of legacy applications that require that extra mile of integration. How long does it typically take to implement that? To answer that question, the given timeframe was exactly 30 days.

The project was completed in two thirds of the time. That is 20 days. Speed is not everything, but speed and success is something. The Cola e i c award 2023. In enterprise, IM goes to Gibo, represented by Alberto Belli, ICT manager. He should be online and on stage in name of the client, Matia Zago from Monarchy. Welcome. Thank you for this work. I am very proud to receive that on the Jibo. And it's a pleasure to see recognition for great project and the great product all Italian made.

Despite the complexity of the project monarchy was capable of orchestrate every aspect of the digital identity and release application feature in production in basically in as just said, thanks to monarchy, we managed over again 80,000 commercial agents with multiple identity providers services and legacy application. I take this brief space to thank all of the Jibos team that work and continue as to work on this project. And in particular, special thanks to saga of the monarchy team that work on this project during this video. Once again, thank you all and have a great evening. Thank you.

Thank. Okay, we move on. Our next category identity fabrics will be presented by Paul Fisher, lead Analyst at KO Cole. Please welcome Paul. Speaker 10 00:11:59 Good evening everyone. It's funny to hear Mike Small talking about his passport trouble. Those of you don't know. Mike comes from a rather nasty place in England called Stockport, where you actually need a passport to get out, let alone get in.

But back to this award, the identity fabrics Martin Kuppinger described this as a real identity API layer for an identity fabric developed for a multiple different IAM solutions, which is great. The for the project focused on hardening, privileged access, security, and mitigating risk across operating regions. Identity and access management capabilities were enhanced by reusable event-driven restful APIs. A universal interface provides access to SalePoint CyberArc, Oracle Active directory and custom applications was deployed in a multi-tenant cloud foundry environment.

And the solution employed OAuth two for a p i security. But beyond the technical achievements, the project transformed mindsets across stakeholders, product owners and architects. The business shifted from a data-centric approach to leveraging event-driven APIs for business decisions and logic. And the project enabled real-time dissemination of time sensitive information enhancing risk reduction and mitigating privilege account abuse. But overall, we liked that the initiative worked with existing platforms and a great example of making an identity fabric work in legacy environments.

The team behind all this deserve huge credit for their achievement. And the award for identity fabrics goes to Allstate. And please welcome to take the award. Mr. Robert McCasland, who? Director of I nm at the company I'm hearing. Yeah. Speaker 11 00:14:04 Guys, this project started off with our DevOps community telling me that our identity team was much too slow and we built our first API and then we didn't stop.

And we've really pushed things towards from a or a performer, preventative controls that we have in place, really driving realtime detection environment when someone breaks home for control. So a lot of use of taka, rest, restful APIs and really delivered a significant change to business and putting us back in control. Thanks for work guys. Thank you. And we moved mostly to the next category, which is IDAs and my colleague Warwick Ashford, senior Analyst at Kuppinger Coal will moderate. Speaker 12 00:15:05 Good evening, everybody.

With identities being under attack more than ever before, the identity as a service E I C award is dedicated to projects that demonstrate innovative and effective ways of ensuring identity security and delivering IAM capabilities as services to meet the needs of modern organizations specifically, we were looking for projects that demonstrated ingenuity and a modern approach to meeting a wide range of use cases through an effective combination of capabilities including identity lifecycle management. I G a, policy based access control, privileged access management, and identity federation.

This year's winner met all those requirements with a global project that was designed to achieve the following objectives, to deliver a clean and effective approach to identity security for tens of thousands of employees and contractors to protect against ransomware attacks by eliminating any local active directory to comply with local banking payment and data protection regulations to get the maximum benefit of underlying technologies from Okta, SalePoint and Cyber Arc.

And also to capitalize on the benefits of a modern microservices architecture and the cloud-based infrastructure for its delivery of a comprehensive and fully cloud-based IAM implementation at scale, covering more than 170 applications and dealing with significant organizational change. But when there is And Speaker 12 00:16:44 Very smoothly, the winner is Delivery Hero. Please welcome Mr. Aina Bajaj. I am lead and Mr. Arron Kabak, senior product manager to accept the award. Speaker 13 00:17:21 Thank. Thank you so much for this.

Yeah, this makes us look sexy. Yeah.

Yeah, you did. Yeah. Speaker 13 00:17:35 So absolutely. I mean identity, like all my colleagues always tell me is a journey. Yeah. And we have been really happy to put together the right tools, technologies, processes, and I would say people in place to make this happen. Yeah. With all the right partners as well. Some of them sitting there. Yeah. So I'm really thankful to this and yeah, we will keep pushing forward. Speaker 14 00:17:58 I'll just say one last thing since we are doing pretty, it's, it's a, we are doing good thing. Yeah. So we can say that.

And it's also getting recognized from Casey. It's pretty cool. As Arun said, sexy also. So thank you, Thank you, thank you for so many compliments. Our next category, variable credentials will be presented by Alejandro Li Research Analyst at comb. Please welcome Alejandro. Speaker 13 00:18:41 Ladies and gentlemen. Today we are ex witnessing a groundbreaking shift in the way we manage and protect our digital identities. The advent of verifiable credentials is paving the way for a more secure, decentralized, and user-centric approach to digital identity management.

This means that individuals have control over their own data and can share it with only those. They choose increasing security and privacy. The potential applications of verifiable credentials are limitless. From online banking and healthcare to voting and document sharing. They offer a new era of innovation and collaboration that promises to revolutionize the way we live and work. The recipient of this year's award has demonstrated a commitment to security and privacy.

This company provides a platform that gives all citizens the opportunity to safely store their own documents and exchange it with third parties. The platform provides a digital vault for citizens and the accessibility of these basic services has proven essential. With that further ado, it is my pleasure to announce the winner of this category. And the winner is fa. Speaker 15 00:20:27 Thank you very much. It's an honor to be here and as an as Fat note, Federation of Belgium, notaries get recognition for a project easy mean, which is all about trust.

It's trust from our citizens, trust from our notaries and their collaborators. It's trust from our ecosystem.

Partners, partners, but also trust in data the the way data is stored and exchanged through Zyme. It's trust in our system, our technology, and the technical components. But it's also trust in our FA partners like Trust Builder, who together with us make sure that is a suitable and valuable solution for all Belgium citizens. And they help us to anchor the material profession in a fast changing digital world, the world of today and the world of tomorrow. So thank you.

Well, thank you. The next category special award. The centralized ID in practice will be introduced by Matthias Reinwarth, head of advisory Koko. Okay. Me again. And special prize, more text Every year. In it comes with a set of over-hyped buzzwords. Some are used too early in an immature state. Others do not take off at all. Some are forgotten and some return at a later stage to deliver real solutions. For example, I studied artificial intelligence in the late 1980s, and now we are looking at a solution in the area of decentralized identity, verifiable credentials and blockchain.

This year's special award recognizes an application of decentralized identity that addresses an immediate challenge at a later stage of the covid pandemic. The goal was to ensure the health and safety of employees while continuing to operate a critical data center that provides essential services. D I D and advanced wallet technologies were used to document PCR tests, results from pool testing to allow individual access to office workplaces, although limited in scope to a single company and a few partners.

The project exceeded expectations and delivered tangible real world value in terms of business continuity and resilience and employee health. Up to 25,000 tests per week, saving 2.1 million over traditional testing and documentation from idea to production in four weeks. And it's worth noting that it's still active today as a proof that we might not be post covid even today.

B E I C, special award, decentralized identity in practice goes tof, eg. And I welcome Mr. Bo head of technological innovation and blockchain to the stage. Welcome. Speaker 16 00:24:26 So innovation is about teamwork and it is sorry. And it is about bringing together technology and new approaches. That's what we achieved. We brought together self-sovereign identities. We heard a lot of them today and the day before. And also we combined it with wallets.

So I have to thank the colleagues from Lizzie also, which gave us the wallet we used behind that, and we proved that it is stable and we need that today to secure our colleagues. So thanks a lot. I'm very honored to receive that. Thank you. Thank you. Well thank you. As you can see, I'm running out of my colleagues. They're doing the second run already. Our next category, future technologies and standards will be presented by Mike Small, senior Analyst at Kuppinger Coal. Thank you. Hello again.

So earlier this year, a UK member of Parliament was suspended for lobbying min ministers to provide information to a small company. Now, what he did is being investigated by the Parliamentary Ethics committee, but if he had checked on the company, perhaps he would've come to a different conclusion.

In fact, company's house is the official registry of UK businesses. And would you believe that there is registered a company called the Scam Factory? There is also another company whose primary director and owner is called the Artful Twist Limited, with a totally implausible address. Businesses depend upon business businesses to be trustworthy, and this is not new. The ancient Greeks knew about it, and they had a system for dealing with that called ostracism.

But that is not sufficient in today's dynamic business environment where it's easy to fake the digital footprint and an organization may be a front for another one. So organizations all benefit from having some form of verifiable identity. And this needs some kind of proper standards with a trustworthy governance structure for assigning these and a secure and reliable way of identifying end-to-end who owns a business. So a solution to these problems is in fact something that is worthy of an award.

And so it gives me great pleasure to give an award to for future technologies and standards to the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation. And so would Mr. Christopher Schneider, head of IT Development and Operations, please come and receive this award. Congratulations. Thank you. Speaker 17 00:28:28 Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Speaker 17 00:28:34 So thank you very much to the award committee.

I am really honored to receive this award for end-to-end verifiable organizational identity with the verifiable legal entity identifier in the name of the whole we L e I team. And when I say we L e I team, I do not mean just the people at the Global L I Foundation, but all the partners that have helped to create this project and make it a success. So many of them are here today. Thank you so much, guys. I just want to highlight two names specifically at the foundation. First of all, Mr. Stephan Wolff, CEO of Life. He is the visionary behind the V L E I.

It wouldn't have happened without him and my dear colleague, Ms. Mcna Mac, Carla McKenna, head of Standards at Life, and she is the project executive of the V L E I. Thank you so much. Thank You. Our next category identity startup of the year will be presented by John Tolbert, our lead Analyst at cooking a cold. As we all know, identity management is an exciting and growing field. Though there are major established players in the market, there's always room for more startups than I am that can solve real business problems and offer innovative time saving and secure solutions.

This is particularly true in the consumer and customer identity management side, where we've seen many startups emerge in the 2010s and early 2020s. So far. This year's EIC Award for Identity startup is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Their CM customers are in retail, FinTech, electronics, sports, and leisure industries. Their product supports identity proofing to reduce the risk of account opening fraud. They're focused on the marketing analytics aspects of C I M. Their pulse product is used by customers for lead generation as a European company.

They help their customers comply with GDPR by offering user self-service portals for consent management and profile changes in which the user presents their consents in a unique timeline view. So we're pleased to offer the award this year to Drew ID and here to accept the award. Thank you very much. Speaker 18 00:31:25 Wow. Speaker 18 00:31:27 I really didn't expect that. So I'm really, really not sexy, but happy, really happy to for this award. What can I say? I'm just thanks to the organization, thanks to Captain Cole, thanks to the YU as well.

I'm really proud about my team mainly. And this is absolutely yours, Sergio Herman, but also another guy settling Maddi. And I'm sure that you as an audience are not keen to hear more about specifications, standards, protocols, functionality. But just to give you a small brief about what, through this, our value proposition is quite complex. We try to seamless create a seamless integration between FIM products, cd, CDP platforms, and realtime marketing automation. So that's huge. That's complex. We try to create a new category and we are dreaming high.

So let's see what, what happened in the coming years. Thank you very much. It's an honor. And we are from Spain, so let's party Speaker 19 00:32:39 In a Couple of minutes. Not yet. Well party is coming up, but not yet. Our next category, Kim Cameron Award.

Yes, it's unusual. You'll know why will be presented by Don Debo, board member of Open ID Foundation. Please welcome him. Speaker 19 00:33:08 What makes this conference unique and special is something that York and Martin have done quite deliberately, which is to be a home for organizations, standards, organizations like Open ID Foundation, ooi X, ID Pro, and others. It's a unique opportunity and one that we really appreciate.

Last year, KuppingerCole also launched the Kim Cameron Scholarship Award, and the goal of this award is to invite and subsidize the participation of young scholars and researchers into this conference and others. We wanna include the academic community and we also want to make way for the next generation of thought leaders and and and scientists. Speaker 19 00:34:02 The goal is to increase the diversity of our communities. And in that way, the Kim Cameron Award is a token. It's a token of the importance of mentoring a new generation of leaders, of scientists and researchers.

And as such, it's something that we all can participate in. This year's award winner is a senior scientist and researcher at Theron Hoer Institute. She has LED projects, EU projects with O I X at the light test. She's currently working on digital wallets in the decide and the train initiatives, and she gave one of the most well attended presentations today. I'm really pleased to present this year's Kim Cameron Award to Rachel as, Oh, Speaker 20 00:35:10 Thank you. Wow. Thank you so much.

Especially thank you to the Open ID Foundation first, supporting me and believing in my research and helping me to further engage in this awesome community. It's been really nice to engage with everybody here. So thank you very much.

Also on, Well, we have one more award and the category is lifetime award. It'll be presented by Martin Kuppinger, principal Analyst at Kuppinger Coal. Please welcome Martin. Speaker 21 00:36:03 So good evening Lifetime Award is one of these categories which I believe are outstanding for, for outstanding people. And so this year, you know, we all know that creating standards, working on standards are joined efforts of many people and also requires support by both the standard organizations and the vendors.

But when we look at it, nevertheless, some people are ubiquitous and specifically one person is ubiquitous in the standards work around identity. When I look back over the past 15 years or more on this space, and the person I'm talking about has been on stage multiple times here during the award ceremony on behalf of the standard bodies, which researched awards for their standards work. So the good thing is the organizers allowed me some 15 minutes right now to list all the, all the standards he's involved in.

No, no, just kidding. I won't want talk about all of these. Speaker 21 00:37:28 That would be probably as as daunting and sometimes boring as working on these standards because it's something you need to like, I think, and where you need to be good. And that person is incredibly good and impactful on standards, right? Trust. Want to bring up two of many where he was involved and we all know them. O two open id, which in fact are sets of standards nowadays are some of these.

And I think it's really time right now to award him for all this efforts, all this work, and his incredible impacts on identity management, which really impacts everything we do in identity management nowadays with a lifetime award. So please welcome on stage Mike Jones. Speaker 22 00:39:13 Some years ago, KuppingerCole gave a lifetime achievement award to my friend and mentor Kim Cameron. And having the wicked wit that he does, he complained, he said, you're acting as if I'm nearly dead. Please don't do this to me.

I intend to keep working Speaker 22 00:39:40 And I'm similarly honored and I did not expect this. So thank you very much. I will say York was gracious enough to offer me a keynote, which I will do tomorrow morning at nine 30, and I'll talk about some of my identity journey. But the thing I mainly wanna tease now for that is to me it's all about the people I work with. There's a number of you here who I've done wonderful work with because you were doing it with me. You know who you are and we're continuing to do that. So thank you so much.

Well, thank you for being here. And I'll be short. It's time to party to celebrate. Congratulations to everybody. We have prepared reception downstairs, so let's toast to those who won and also to those who didn't. Maybe you'll win next year. So thank you.