TIIME Unconference – Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe

Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe
MAR 1-5, 2027 | Karlsruhe, Germany
The TIIME – Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe – facilitates the cooperation between innovative communities in various fields of trans-organizational trust and identity matters.
From Identity Management architecture and technology to policy, privacy and business, meet experts, learn concepts, tools and techniques and connect to the community.
Join in the discussion, exchange ideas, meet familiar faces.
... and we cannot wait to welcome you in Karlsruhe! Here is what you need to know:
Early Bird Tickets are now available | 270 EUR Regular Tickets Sale starts JAN 17, 2027 | 320 EUR Side Meetings: 40 EUR per Side Meeting
Online Registration Deadline is FEB 15, 2027
Monday: AARC Symposium Tuesday: Wallet Workhop + GÉANT Incubator Workshop Wednesday: TIIME Unconference | Keynote: Torsten Lodderstedt Thursday: TIIME Unconference | Keynote: Kaliya Young Friday: FIM4R + OpenID Federation Workshop
TIIME Aftermath (8-10 March): Indigo IAM Hackathon
Building Trust in a Digital Society
Building Trust in a Digital Society
Beyond Wallets: Decentralized Trust Graphs and the Fourth Generation of Digital Identity
Digital identity is entering a third generation of protocols. The first, OpenID and OAuth, let people log in across websites. The second, Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials, put credentials issued by institutions into people's wallets. The third, the decentralized trust graph, lets people and communities vouch for each other directly, peer to peer, without the state in the middle.
The higher education identity community already knows how to do a hard part of this: building registries, and directories of trust registries, so that institutions can recognize one another. That expertise translates to civil society.
Kaliya will explore what becomes possible when identity runs sideways instead of top-down: re-weaving a relational fabric rooted in place, where people and communities hold their own trust and use it for local deliberation, sense-making and democracy.
Picture a watershed where food co-ops, tool libraries, mutual aid groups and land trusts each vouch for their own members. A bioregional registry, kept by those same groups through peer referral, lists whose vouches the others accept. Members are recognized across all of them and can deliberate and decide together, with no state ID and no platform in between.
Beyond Wallets: Decentralized Trust Graphs and the Fourth Generation of Digital Identity
Digital identity is entering a third generation of protocols. The first, OpenID and OAuth, let people log in across websites. The second, Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials, put credentials issued by institutions into people's wallets. The third, the decentralized trust graph, lets people and communities vouch for each other directly, peer to peer, without the state in the middle.
The higher education identity community already knows how to do a hard part of this: building registries, and directories of trust registries, so that institutions can recognize one another. That expertise translates to civil society.
Kaliya will explore what becomes possible when identity runs sideways instead of top-down: re-weaving a relational fabric rooted in place, where people and communities hold their own trust and use it for local deliberation, sense-making and democracy.
Picture a watershed where food co-ops, tool libraries, mutual aid groups and land trusts each vouch for their own members. A bioregional registry, kept by those same groups through peer referral, lists whose vouches the others accept. Members are recognized across all of them and can deliberate and decide together, with no state ID and no platform in between.
Have a look at our sponsorship packages for 2027.
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Agenda setting is one of the most exciting and entertaining parts of the Unconference. This is where the interesting topics are presented just in time, which then lead into the individual sessions on the respective conference days. Find out about the content and results of the various themed sessions in the past here.
Explore the past event and enjoy!
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