🔦 Track 1: Web3 & Decentralized Identity (DID)

🔦 Track Spotlight: Web3 & Decentralized Identity (DID)

The Future is Self-Sovereign

Trust is the foundation of every digital interaction — yet today, identity remains fragmented, centralized, and locked in silos. Users repeatedly verify themselves across platforms, while organizations manage costly, duplicative, and insecure identity systems.

Web3 and Decentralized Identity (DID) introduce a new paradigm:identity becomes portable, verifiable, privacy-preserving, and user-controlled — without removing institutional trust.

👉 How can decentralized identity enable trust across finance, education, mobility, and digital platforms?

🚀 The Challenge

This track invites teams to design practical and interoperable decentralized identity solutions that:

• Enable reusable and verifiable identity credentials
• Reduce friction in onboarding and authentication
• Preserve privacy and user control
• Work across platforms, industries, and ecosystems

The focus is not only on protocols — but on real-world usability, adoption, and trust.

🧭 Identity, Sovereignty & Interoperability

Decentralized Identity should not be seen as competing with government authority or official identity systems.

On the contrary:Government-issued identities are a critical root of trust. They provide the legally recognized, initial identity layer.

Decentralized Identity builds on top of this foundation, enabling individuals to reuse verified attributes across domains and silos — without repeating verification or creating new centralized dependencies.

The shift is not who issues identity, but how identity can be securely, selectively, and interoperably used.

🔗 From Silos to Interoperability

Today, identity is fragmented:

• One identity for banking
• One for mobility
• One for education
• One for digital platforms

With DID and verifiable credentials, identity becomes:

• Interoperable across industries
• Privacy-preserving by design
• Portable across platforms and borders

🚗 Example Use Cases (Non-Exhaustive)

• Finance & PaymentsReusable KYC credentials that reduce onboarding friction while remaining compliant.
• Education & WorkforceVerifiable diplomas, certificates, and skills owned by the individual.
• Automotive & MobilityVerified driver credentials, vehicle access, rentals, charging, and in-car services — without repeated onboarding.
• Smart Cities & InfrastructureTrusted access to public services, transport, or facilities using verifiable credentials.

These examples are starting points, not limitations.

🤖 Decentralized Identity & Trusted AI

As AI systems increasingly act autonomously, trust, accountability, and transparency become critical.

Decentralized Identity (DID) can serve as a trust layer for AI systems by:

• Providing verifiable identities for AI agents and models
• Enabling clear authorization and human-in-the-loop control
• Supporting auditability, provenance, and compliance
• Allowing privacy-preserving AI interactions through selective disclosure

This makes DID a key enabler for responsible, compliant, and trustworthy AI — across enterprise, mobility, and public-sector use cases.

Decentralized Identity is not only about people — it is about trust for humans, organizations, machines, and AI.

🌍 Why This Matters

• Digital identity is a key enabler for financial inclusion, Web3 adoption, and digital trust
• Centralized identity systems are costly, fragile, and repeatedly breached
• Governments, enterprises, and platforms worldwide are actively exploring verifiable credentials and self-sovereign identity, but scalable, user-centric implementations are still early

This creates a strong opportunity for innovative, pragmatic, and interoperable solutions.

🧠 Design & Innovation Note

The references below are only a small selection to help approach the topic.

We strongly encourage creative and bold approaches, including:

• Clear go-to-market strategies
• Adoption models for enterprises, governments, or mobility ecosystems
• Cross-industry and cross-border identity concepts

The goal is not just to build identity — but to make decentralized identity usable, trusted, and adopted in the real world.

🔗 References & Further Reading

EU Digital Identity & Government-Issued Identity

• EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet)https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eudi-wallet
• eIDAS 2.0 Regulationhttps://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eidas-regulation

Global Identity & Trust Frameworks

• World Economic Forum – Reimagining Digital Identityhttps://www.weforum.org/projects/reimagining-digital-identity
• World Economic Forum – Advancing Digital Agencyhttps://www.weforum.org/reports/advancing-digital-agency-the-power-of-data-intermediaries
• OECD – Digital Identity in the Public Sectorhttps://www.oecd.org/gov/digital-government/digital-identity.htm

Standards & Interoperability

• W3C – Decentralized Identifiers (DID Core)https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
• W3C – Verifiable Credentials Data Modelhttps://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/
• Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)https://identity.foundation/

Mobility & Automotive Identity

• MOBI – Mobility Open Blockchain Initiativehttps://dlt.mobi/
• World Economic Forum – Identity in the Internet of Vehicleshttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/digital-identity-vehicles/