OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation is delighted to welcome Defakto Security as a Sustaining Corporate Member. Defakto brings deep expertise in non-human identity for workloads and AI agents. Thought leaders like Defakto are contributing to the standards the identity community needs, as well as the strategy and conformance tools to support scale. As a Sustaining Corporate Member, it also joins the OpenID Foundation Board of Directors.  Read the announcement HERE: https://lnkd.in/emVxUWb8 Pieter Kasselman Atul Tulshibagwale #OpenStandards #DigitalIdentity #NonHumanIdentity

✨ Don't Forget to Book Your Place!✨ The OpenID Foundation is holding its' next hybrid workshop on Monday 2nd Nov 2026, just ahead of the Fall 2026 Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). 📍 The in-person venue has kindly been arranged by CrowdStrike in Sunnyvale, California, USA but will also be available online, making it accessible to the OpenID Foundation community worldwide.🌍 Event Details: 📅 Date: Monday, 2nd Nov 2026 🕒 Time: 12:30 - 17:30 PDT 📍 Location: 100 Mathilda Pl, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, United States 🚪🚶Room: Atari Training Room 💻 Virtual Option: Details on how to join virtually will be emailed to registrants an couple of days before the event. Please Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/e92gFWdv

We’re pleased to announce Biometric Update as official media partner for the OpenID Well-Known Conference, the OpenID Foundation’s first global conference. The conference takes place in London on February 2-4, 2027. It will bring together ecosystem leaders, practitioners and standards experts to share what it takes to move digital identity from implementation to adoption at scale. Biometric Update’s readers include governments, financial institutions and technology providers working on identity systems. The partnership will help take the conversation beyond our existing community. Read more and register your interest: https://lnkd.in/e3cRa5Dd #OpenIDWellKnown #DigitalCredentials

How can institutions be confident about who is taking part in research, and whether their link to an institution is still valid? Australia has no common national baseline for answering that question. The Australian Digital Trust Community Group, which works under the OpenID Foundation, has responded to the Higher Education Standards Committee’s research security consultation. It argues that research security and openness can go together. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ev8vyxsa John Scullen #ResearchSecurity #DigitalIdentity #OpenStandards #HigherEducation #Australia

AI agents are being rolled out faster than the systems needed to identify and control them. The risk is highest when an agent crosses from one platform to another, where each side has its own rules for identity, trust and permissions. The OpenID Foundation’s Artificial Intelligence Identity Management Community Group has published a threat model setting out what can go wrong at these boundaries. It gives architects, security teams, providers and standards bodies a shared starting point. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eauvHvGm Sarah Cecchetti Chris Phillips, CIDPRO Jean-François LOMBARDO Atul Tulshibagwale #AIagents #IdentityManagement #Cybersecurity #OpenIDFoundation

The OpenID Foundation’s Australian Digital Trust Community Group recently responded to the Australian Government’s consultation on the Exposure Draft Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026. The response looks at how the Bill would work in practice for identity providers, wallet providers, credential issuers, verifiers and brokers. It asks the Government to clarify how the Bill applies to features such as identifiers that differ for each business, biometric checks, selective disclosure and the exchange of fraud signals. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAuVr9Bp Dave Hyland John Scullen #DigitalIdentity #Privacy #Australia #OpenID

As AI agents start making payments for consumers, every transaction raises an identity question. Who is the agent, and what has the consumer authorised it to do? The OpenID Foundation has responded to EMVCos draft on EMV® Agentic Payments – Framework for Specifications. Our blog covers our experts three main recommendations and how payments and identity standards can work together. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e9ZaSvyV Juliana Cafik Łukasz Jaromin Ray Voss #AgenticAI #Payments #DigitalIdentity

Sponsorship is now open for the inaugural OpenID Well-Known Conference, taking place 2-4 February 2027 in London. Three days with the decision makers, ecosystem leaders and technologists building and scaling identity and open data ecosystems worldwide. À la carte sponsorship options start at $1,500, with headline sponsorship at $30,000... Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eKvwVrzK

✨ Don't Forget to Book Your Place!✨ The OpenID Foundation is holding its' next hybrid workshop on Monday 2nd Nov 2026, just ahead of the Fall 2026 Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). 📍 This hybrid event is kindly being hosted at CrowdStrike's facilities in Sunnyvale, California, USA for the in-person event, as well as online, making it accessible to the OpenID Foundation community worldwide.🌍 Event Details: 📅 Date: Monday, 2nd Nov 2026 🕒 Time: 12:30 - 17:30 PDT 📍 Location: CrowdStrike, 150 Mathilda Pl, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, United States 🚪🚶Room: Atari Training Room 💻 Virtual Option: Details on how to join virtually will be emailed to registrants nearer the time. Please Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/e92gFWdv

Call for proposals: OpenID Well-Known Conference, 2–4 February 2027, London. We are looking for practical, honest accounts of driving adoption and achieving scale in digital identity and credential ecosystems. Not just what you built, but how you got there. What worked, what did not, and what you would do differently. Organizations take different approaches, and there is value in learning from all of them. If your experience could help another ecosystem or jurisdiction, we want to hear it. Read more on what makes a strong proposal here: https://lnkd.in/gYB687Vf