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During the 2nd half of this "Global Wallets" Sessoin, the panelists will interact with Digital Wallet Solution providers.
During the 2nd half of this "Global Wallets" Sessoin, the panelists will interact with Digital Wallet Solution providers.
What wallets we want to answer this question. Germany is doing a innovation competition where we had a tender and we selected six teams for the funded truck and five teams for non-funded truck. And now these teams will compete with each other in three stages and it's the real competition. After each stage, two teams will be gone. So in the end, for each track, only two teams you'll make to the end. And what they're competing for, they're competing to be the best solution to become a breakthrough innovation.
So they're building wallet prototypes for the most trustworthy user-friendly, universally usable, EUDI wallets. And that's a very ambitious goal, right? So this is our attempt to learn through ramming code, learn through iterations. So the goal is really to help the public sector to understand through iterations what innovations are needed to get us the wallets we need. And Thomas, who kindly asked the question was actually on the jury who helped us select this team. Thank you so much for helping us and if you can please bring out the teams slide.
So we have some of our teams have kindly joined us today. Can we have the teams on screen with the remote participants please? Thank you. So we'll have some teams remotely introduce their team and tell us, we don't have time to give you a 10 minute pitch, but in, you know, less than a minute they'll tell you what makes them special, why they believe, you know, they're well positioned to compete in this competition and win. And I also want to invite three teams we have in person so they see Google Ybio if you folks can come to stage. So first team is Animal Solutions.
I'm Timo, take it over. Hi, yeah, thanks. I'm Timo from Animal Working on the Animal Easy Fit Solution in the phone project. We're a small company from Nut Track in the Netherlands and have been active in the self software identity space. Well that's what we called it back then for around five years. And we've worked with a lot of government and organizations implementing and piloting a lot of verified credential solutions, seen a lot of things that don't work during the few things that do work.
You may know us from as the maintainers of Gredo, which is an open source framework hosted by the the Oprah Wallet Foundation where we do a lot of, yeah, learned a lot of working on identity standards and yeah, we're very excited about the direction of the EU wallet and that we get to work on it with Sprint. I think what sets us apart is that we have a lot of experience with the underlying technical standards of the EU wallet.
A lot of experience with privacy preserving technology and combining that with our care for user experience makes that we can build a very secure and easy to use wallet that, yeah, guarantees that it can be used by government identity wallet. Thank you. Next up is Osada, if we can switch the screen please. Thank you. Take it over. Thank you Christina. Good morning everybody. I am Andreas please. The CEO and co-founder of ada.
We are one of the leading companies within the GED ecosystem and the project we proposed is eva, E-Z-U-D-I wallet app and we focus on 100% decentralized and hardware back management of identity data and attributes. From our understanding, this enables an improved usage of credentials and online and onsite scenarios for more inclusive access to the EUDI ecosystem. And this we believe, while ensuring the highest standards in terms of security, privacy, and of course usability. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is Sirian.
Hi, my name is Martin Buner and yeah, thank you. Really happy to, I'm proud to be part of this project.
Yeah, what makes us special? I think that we combine a very deep knowledge of the technologies and the standards with, with our years of experience in building and delivering solutions to, to our organizations and to people and, and then people from technical savvy business users to less digital capable or or weaker users. And we bring that together in this project. And I think the most important thing is to, to create adoption as wide as possible. Thank you. Unfortunately, NICaS and Ties could not join us by, but up next is UBI QI believe.
Hi, yes, I'm Fabian. I'm co-founder and CTO at Ubic. We're a Zurich based company with a passion for digital consumer products and we are building some of the most used apps here in Switzerland. We are very happy to take part in this sprint competition and with Heidi we will provide a human centered EID infrastructure with the best in class user experience and high security. This means we'll build a complete ecosystem, including a native iOS and Android app to showcase a easy to use digital identity solution for the people in Germany. Thank you.
So that was our funded truck and now we are moving to non-funded truck and I think first up is Kian. Yes. Hello Everybody there and thank you for the invitation Kristin. My name is Andre Verda, I'm co-founder and CEO of Kain Technologies. And KAIN stands for linking of various decentralized and autonomous IT systems with the aim of automatic processes and creating wider range of services. We have been supporting the public transportation sector in automating its business processes using electronic tickets, mainly based on chip cards for more than 10 years now.
And with the AL Wallet, we want to provide both natural people and legal entities with a tool that allows them to operate in the digital environment as freely and legally, securely as our legal system allows today. So to act on their own, on their own.
And yeah, we, we support development of with our interdisciplinary team and international team and they're very proud to be part of that. Thank you. Thank you. Samsung Electronics.
Hello, my name is Dave Lesky and I'm a product manager for digital identity at Samsung Wallet. So we're thrilled to participate in the one KUDI wallet products challenge as an EUDI wallet provider, I mean to facilitate real life applications just as identity verification or sim card registration or bank account opening through digital identity utilities, securing privacy fundamental to wallets design, ensuring a transporting environment for wallet interactions and delivering a user experience that empowers individuals to fully utilize digital identity within something wallet.
So really happy to be here with you guys. Thank you. Those who are remote participants and now we have our in-person participants. So Google take it over.
Hi, my name is Dirk Palins. I work at Google and I represent the Android open source wallet, EUDI Germany team or something. I forget the name exactly what sets us apart.
I, I'll mention three things. One is the, the commitment to open source.
If, if we make it to the end we will have contributed everything we built here as part of this to the open source. We've been doing that with the open wallet foundation. We plan to do that here as well. Second thing I'll mention is the expertise we bring to the table. The folks on the team are very familiar with the Android ecosystem, which is very heterogeneous, what works, what doesn't work. We understand what it takes to build things at scale for billions of users.
And the third thing I would mention is that we are in a unique position to ask the question, what if the operating system worked a little different? What if we had like an extra web platform, API, are there benefits potentially here for user experience, better user experience, better security, better privacy? So we plan to ask ourself the question experiment with, for example, the digital identity credential, API in the browser.
And if it turns out that indeed those bring extra benefits, then we are also in a position to make changes to Android say, or help facilitate changes in the, in the web platform. Okay.
Hey, I'm Adrian Co-founder of lisi and we're startup from based in Frankfurt, Berlin. We initiated and lead the ID union consortia, a research consortia here in Germany. And we do have a wallet already. I think that's the reason why we're selected, which is available in 13 languages and enable user centric testing. We're also compatible with the test beds of the large scale pilots and also, yeah, help to initiate the open ID for VC protocols. And we're actually the first wallet to implement it in a pilot.
And yeah, if you are willing in like you're happy to join the challenge and want to implement use cases, we also have the APIs offer for it. So feel free to reach out to me and let's get that going.
Hi, John Bradley, the principal architect at uco. So I'm here representing Team Sunnet. So our project comes out of the, the DC four EU large scale pilot, sunnet, uco and Gnet in a pan-European open source project. Our labs created a progressive web app wallet. What makes us diff a bit different is that we don't believe that people, in order to have digital credentials in Europe, people shouldn't be forced to have a mobile phone. Not everyone does.
So we're looking at, it may be harder to do some of this stuff without the presumption that everyone has a mobile phone, but we need to support different deployment models so that we are, we have the sort of inclusiveness that we need. Also coming from the research and education side where we run the sort of the largest federations in the world representing thousands and thousands of identity issuers and receivers. We're already working on transnational pilots for DC for EU with Japan, the US and other locations.
So we're already looking at how trust can scale inside the EU and beyond because you know, education is a global phenomenon. So we're, we're trying to address some of the, the bigger problems, but of course we're gonna have the most wonderful wallet and kick everyone else's ass.
But, but we also wanna work with Google and Apple and all of that 'cause we're friends. Thank you. If you wanna learn more, this is not the only thing our project is doing tour and Paul have a session later today, I think two 30. So I would encourage you to join there. Maybe we can double click in the next panel, the selection process a little bit. But we had the jury from different corners, security experts, UX experts, private public sector, civil society representatives, and these teams will continue to face the screening of the same jury.
So wish them good luck and huge thank you to EIC team. Thank you so much for helping us pose this together last minute.
I really, really appreciate it. Thank, and again, thank you to the panelists for allowing me to do this. Now back to Daniel and Anil and thank you so much the teams again for joining us on stage or remotely and thank you all for, for listening. Thank Speaker 12 00:12:30 You Christina.
John, you just mentioned inclusiveness and I think that's a really important topic. You know, I'm outing myself. I love how the German team is trying to be inclusive. This is the exact opposite of, you know, running a little tender with a premeditated outcome and trying to do everything in the back. So I really think you're doing an amazing job here and in the vein of doing this in an inclusive way and trying to involve Anil over to you and how the process looks like in the United States with the Department of Homeland Security. Speaker 13 00:13:12 For sure. Thank you Daniel.
I think I'm, I'm just gonna have, while I'm doing the introductions, I'm gonna have our companies come up on stage as well. So if you could, I would appreciate that. Thank you. For those of you who may have listened to my presentation the first day, you know that within our context, within the Silicon Valley innovation program, we actually believe in finding global talent and technologies in order to solve the problem.
And, and I think we have more people hiding behind the stage as well. So we will, we should ask Yes, please have a gentlemen have a seat. So we had a, a solicit citation a year or so ago that was focused on solving some specific problems. Just rewinding back to 2017, we, we started work on the decentralized identity journey to enable capabilities for cross border trade, cross border travel.
Speaker 13 00:14:15 And one of the things that we discovered as part of that journey was that our expectation that the issuer ecosystem, the wallet ecosystem and the verifier ecosystem that would move in tandem did not prove true. They sort of moved at different places, there were different pressures that were applied to each of them. So one of the things that we did is sort of react to that by ensuring that there was a diversity of capabilities that we would be able to draw upon in order to solve our problem.
So what you see is companies that were selected as part of a solicitation that we had last year that is seeking to address that challenge. I am not in the r and d space, I'm in the business of shaping product in order to solve a problem. And before I introduce each of these companies, let me give you a little bit of insight into what they are working on so that they don't have to, you know, start from scratch on this one. Speaker 13 00:15:06 Right. So the parts of the US government that are working with these companies are among the oldest, they're as old as America.
They are customs, they are cross border travel, they're immigration and citizenship. As I mentioned on the panel earlier. One of the things that is very, very in important for us is basically ensuring that from a user journey perspective, if there is a EU member, state citizen that wants to interact with the US government coming across the border, you will actually interact with our US Customs and Border Protection. These are the blue uniform offices that you will encounter in our airports, in our land board crossings.
And if you're coming by sea in our ports, they, you will actually be, you know, asked to provide credentials at a stations that show that you are allowed to enter into the country. If you are seeking to live and work in the US you will actually have to interact with a US citizenship and immigration services that give you employment authorization documents, permanent residency certificates of naturalization and citizenship and things like that. So they're the primary entities that are working with these companies.
We also have a very strong focus on ensuring that the capabilities that we deliver are privacy, respecting and provide agency and control to individuals. So our third sponsor for the project is our DHS privacy office as well. Speaker 13 00:16:42 These companies are showing us, because three of them are from Europe and three of them are American, how to do it in a globally interoperable way.
And while building out their capabilities, they're also required to actually give back to the community by ensuring that there is a set of open source SDKs and building blocks that deal with cryptography, that deal with metadata management, that deal with secure storage that actually hopefully will be usable for the broader community as well. So on that note, let me introduce each of these companies. I'm go not going in the order that they're seated because I, I think I, I I think I'm, I'm hoping that I have a better order than that. I'm gonna pick on Wayne first. Right.
So Wayne Chang is the CEO of Spruce id. Spruce is a company that we selected because they have a very interesting modular architecture for their solutions. Speaker 13 00:17:39 They're currently the underlying wallet for our California DMV app. We have a great partnership with that particular organization. And the thing that Wayne and the team will be doing is ensuring that they enhance their support for our core standards and specifications that we outlined in how we are implementing our technologies.
The ability to use W three C verifiable credentials, decentralized identifiers, and ideally multiple protocols in order to move those things from point A to point B. Wayne will be, Wayne and team will be working on that and also obviously providing the open source components that are necessary to enable that as well. His counterpart from Europe here, and I like symmetry, so forgive me if I do this right. So is Andreas from Prosci from Switzerland, they obviously also have an incredibly modular architecture as well.
They're also basically focusing on ensuring that the, the components that they're bringing to the table, the protocols they support are flexible, plug and play so that it can serve a broad ecosystem as well. They have different focuses and different areas.
I, I sort of see them as one going one way, the other one going the other way, but they will meet and they will interoperate as well. Speaker 14 00:19:03 I will say that what unites us is our love for the Russ programming language. Speaker 13 00:19:07 Boom.
Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. So let me pick on these two gentlemen as well. Verification is not just not done just in software there, it's not just a mobile app, it is not just a, you know, a web verification. So even though that is not all they do, Yosh who's a CTO of credence id, their background is in hardware readers. They are the hardware readers that are implemented at our checkpoints. They're the hardware readers that are implemented at point of sales and, and, and he has one in his hand at this point in time.
The beauty of the hardware reader infrastructure is that basically is that simply with the software update, they can basically verify additional credential types, talk with additional protocols as well. So the the thing that, you know, YAS and the team will be working on because they already support ISO 13 dash 5 1 8 0 13 dash five MDL standard for verification.
Speaker 13 00:20:11 They will be basically baking in into their suite of products, both the software and the hardware, hardware pieces, the ability to, you know, do verification of the W three C standards and the credentials and the protocols that are used as well. Net is is the European counterpart to that. The are obviously you are probably familiar with Alan, many of you be from his work at Epsy as well as he is o obviously the CTO of of Annette is from Slovenia.
One of the things that we, we we liked about Net's proposal was all of us are in the, especially within enterprise, we have a fleet of verifiers, right? So, so, so we don't have, we don't manage verifiers one C two Z, we don't just manage and configure what they are allowed to verify, what profiles they support, what technologies they support at, at one, at a time, or at least we shouldn't.
So one of the things that basically net is bringing to the table beyond just the verification capabilities, is also the ability to use policy as code in order to provide verification at a, you know, similar to how you would do a use MDM in order to verify manage mobile devices as well. So really glad that they're there. The last two gentlemen are interesting to us.
So, so, and in that they're, they're providing what we consider some interesting capabilities that in some ways could be classified as crosscutting. Speaker 13 00:21:55 I'll start with Manuf Fontain who is a CEO of hush, meh, hush, meh believes that the web is something that is a dead end and that basically there are much more usable for human approaches to how particularly keys are managed.
From his perspective, and I'm, I'm I'm sure that he will correct me as I go completely off the rails later is, is that key management has been one of the hardest challenges in our identity management arena. And the fact that basically that it, it it is being asked to be done by the human is something that is probably not a long term path to success. Manu and the team are using their mesh technology in order to basically be key management at scale and automate it for the use and implementation of verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.
So looking forward to that work and what they will do. Speaker 13 00:22:56 Boris from UEQ, similar sounding company, but from our Netherlands, he's bringing something that we believe is critically important as we all know, even though nobody mentions it or nobody mentions it directly, there are ecosystem realities where you do not have direct access to the secure elements and secure enclaves in mobile devices. We consider that to be remarkably problematic. And what Boris and the team are bringing is basically secure element as a service.
The ability to plug into your wallet, to your issuance infrastructure, to your wallet, to your verifier, a remote, highly secure, highly capable, you know, secure element that actually gives control and agency and a lot of power and security to the individual as well. So we are very much, you know, very happy with the, the, the types of technologies that that you are all bringing to the table. And one of the reasons that I think that we, by the way, it was not deliberate that three of them happened to be European and three of them happened to be American.
They were the best of the crop that applied in this incredibly competitive to say that just happened to be a nice side benefit that came, came along for the ride. Speaker 13 00:24:17 I know that was a long introduction here, but I hope that was useful and I'm really glad that Torsten and Christina and others are basically have, I believe the translation is sparks, is it not?
Yes, they're doing the work that they're doing as well and I, I think there is obviously a global appetite in order to ensure that these things actually work at scale, not just in the eu, not just in the us not just in other jurisdictions but across the world because we all need to live and travel, you know, broadly. So I look forward to how we can make that happen and I wanted to use this and as an opportunity, I think we have a little bit of time in order to give each of you maybe a couple of sentences and what you see as critically important problem that you see you are working on.
And I wanna be very respectful of the time so, so just to what your insight here is. Speaker 15 00:25:17 Okay. Hello everyone.
So we are, we decided to focus on the hardest problem in the ecosystem and basically what was the main motivation to introduce wallets and verify credentials. It's the fact that either verification is hard, impossible, or simply not done because it's too costly. So we decided to focus on that and here standards play an important role and they can both make solution extremely cheap or extremely expensive if there are disagreements between different standardization bodies.
So we accepted this challenge and our goal is basically to streamline the verification process and also map out the rules and policies to the extent that each veri verify or relying part is really comfortable with the decision that that application of software makes. Because at the end this would be they, they carry all the liability. So it's a multidimensional problem and we are happy to tackle it. Speaker 16 00:26:23 Hi everybody, my name is Yosh, I'm from California, United States.
For me, for our organization as we have deployed the current large network of digital ID acceptance in the US the one thing that we learned, the biggest takeaway was the real judge. The real true metric for all our successes. Doesn't matter which continent you are in or what part of the technology you're working on is user adoption. It's the one true metric that unites us all and you know, makes all this effort worth it or not. So the part that we wanna play in that is to give users multiple choices and multiple occasions to use their digital id.
'cause if that app goes on the second page of their phone, it's as good as dead, right? So to give everyday users multiple opportunities to use their digital ID is the problem we're trying to solve. And by creating a global or ubiquitous network of digital ID acceptance, hardware, software in person, online, W three C protocols, ISO protocols get rid of the plastic, right? So I think that's our main focus. Speaker 14 00:27:39 Thank you. My name is Wayne Chang, founder and CEO of spruce id. Our mission is to let users control their data across the web.
Instead of people signing into a platform, the platform should sign into your data vault. We want to make user agents cool again. They used to mean something else than a string in the HTP request that got sent along with your browser. It was going to be a digital agent that would, you know, be able to defend you and help you navigate through cyberspace, right? So I think that was original intent from a lot of the early documents. I think it's needed ever more now, right?
So we really focus on creating end-to-end user experiences that relate to trusted digital interactions and that's really what matters. People don't try to, you know, download a wallet so that they can manage their credentials. Maybe some of the people in this room, including myself, would like to do that, but I think most people want to get something done, right? So really focusing on delivering outcomes for people whether it's 30 minutes they save because something's not paper or plastic anymore or they're trying to just be able to do something and not have to drive a few hours to do it right?
These are really the points of utility and use cases that we wanna focus on and we wanna drive with the use cases and value and do so in a way that is private, secure and sustainable for customers, right? So that's ultimately the goal. So leading with the use cases and not the technology. Speaker 17 00:28:56 Hi Andreas from pro co CEO. Thank you Anil for this advertisement. I think you should apply for sales with us.
So if you, if DHS carrier is not going well come to us. Yeah. Beside we have this interoperable technology. We applied with a global use case. So our scenario is a citizen from Switzerland in the future traveling to the US with an EID from Switzerland applying for work permission. A green card gets the green card issued from the US in a different standard both in one wallet she can apply for work or she gets controlled from the customer support control and she can show her Swiss EID with the green card as an example and gets verified.
And that's is a really nice global use case where you connect different countries and different protocols. And for us this project is really great because we can adopt our solution even better to the requirements from DHS. Speaker 18 00:30:01 Thank you. I always need to compliment Anil also because he explains what we do very well. So I'm going to talk about something else. I really liked what Martin said the this a couple of minutes ago about provenance, right? It's not about how you get the data, but where the data is actually coming from.
That means that in order to do that you need strong digital identities. And then we get into the philosophical discussion how to create that. What we as UBQ do is enable the data provenance with the agencies of the users on creating their own data so that it's verifiable downstream. And we think that it's critical for a scalable ecosystem, for scalable wallets. And what that will actually enable is we can turn the whole game around. At the end of the day you have a verifier that needs a set of attributes or data to do their business and have value.
On the other hand, we have a user with a real strong identity. If you match these together, you can actually automate that process. I have my strong identity, I can go around, pick it up everywhere and then supply it to the verifier with my consent because I gave it to them. And that means that we are going to change things, we're going to make things dynamically but critical is that I as a user have my digital identity with provenance from the government, which I can show digitally and then get going. Thank you very much. Speaker 19 00:31:35 Yes.
Hi, my name is Man Fontain, I'm the founder and CEO of Ash, a Virginia, you know, Washington DC area based cybersecurity, public benefit startup. And like any was saying, we figured out the blueprint to automate decentralized cryptography, pairwise, decentralized, decentralized cryptography at scale. So it's not just for people, it's for any type of entity. And so because underneath every wallet there's a key chain. And so if you can automate the management of keys, then you can have global assurance of the integrity and quality of the keys and you can start doing all kinds of magic things.
And so to clarify, the statement about the web is a dead end. What we mean by that is that just the concept of verifiable credentials is an admission that the web is itself not verifiable. And so what we figured out that that to be able to do key, decentralized key management at scale, we need to have a verifiable infrastructure, which is exactly what we're building. We're calling it the mesh. It's a global infrastructure that's, you know, verifiable from the silicon up. Quick show of hands, how many of you are familiar with confidential computing as a technology?
Speaker 19 00:32:53 Okay, so it's decent numbers. So we basically leverage confidential computing to verify the chips, verify the software, verify the cryptography, and then be able to create an information space that is 100% globally verified. Speaker 13 00:33:08 Thank you everyone. If your use cases as an organization, whether you are public sector or private sector, touch on cross border trade, cross border travel, cross border application for immigration and status with the United States, please come and talk to us.
We are very much interested in ensuring that the capabilities that you need are enabled through the technologies that these companies are bringing to the table. For us, this is an unclassified project we work out in the open, so you should feel free to ping any of these companies and you should expect to get an answer that we are able to talk to you about what we are doing and using open standards. So by all means, thank you very much for the opportunity and please, if you get a chance, please actually talk to the people who are actually doing the work here, right? So thank you all very much.