Keynote
Federated Identity at a Crossroads: Navigating the Convergence of Wallets, Verifiable Credentials, Government IDs, and Open Standards in the Research and Education Ecosystem
Session 1 (10.45 – 11.35)
The Travelling Scientist: Lifelong Identity and Account Linking (Meeting Notes)
Federation UX/UI: Hiding Complexity, Designing for Users (Meeting Notes)
Educational Identity VCs: Minimal Disclosure and DCQL (Meeting Notes)
User Control Over Education Data: Ownership and Portability (Meeting Notes)
Discovery and Group Attributes: Metadata, WAYF and Identity Switching (Meeting Notes)
Session 2 (11.45 – 12.35)
Zero Knowledge Proofs: Privacy-Preserving Credentials in EUDI (Meeting Notes)
Brownfield Deployments and Federation Beyond R&E (Meeting Notes)
FIM4E: Bringing Research Identity Infrastructure to Education (Meeting Notes)
Group Attributes: Managing and Communicating Memberships (Meeting Notes)
Session 3 (14.35 – 15.25)
SCIM: Attribute Profiles and Namespace Governance (Meeting Notes)
Federation Business Cases: Value, Marketing and Sustainability (Meeting Notes)
Should We Support Microsoft? Sovereignty vs. Pragmatism (Meeting Notes)
Post Global ID: Federations, Wallets and Government IDs (Meeting Notes)
Session 4 (15.35 – 16.25)
Open Source MFA: Tools, Risk-Based Auth and Passkeys (Meeting Notes)
Passkeys: Browser Challenges, Attestation and Recovery (Meeting Notes)
EOSC Nodes: Interoperability and Long-Term Sustainability (Meeting Notes)
IdentityPython: SaToSa, Documentation and Community Priorities (Meeting Notes)
Keynote
Closing the gap between good standards and poor adoption; sustaining REFEDS, AARC, and eduGAIN as industry accelerates through AI and agentic identity; navigating post-quantum migration and verifiable credentials; and scaling R&E IAM beyond research to serve education and government.
Session 1 (10.35 – 11.25)
Lessons from Industry – AI, Delegation, and Where R&E IAM Is Falling Behind (Meeting Notes)
What’s in a Name? – The “edu” Prefix and Its Limits Across Sectors (Meeting Notes)
AARC BPA as a Distributed API Gateway – Cross-Infrastructure Token Flows and Authorisation (Meeting Notes)
When Operators Bypass the Rules – Rebuilding Trust in Trust Frameworks (Meeting Notes)
Session 2 (11.35 – 12.25)
EOSC AAI – Architecture, Nodes, and the Road to Production (Meeting Notes)
Driving AARC Adoption – Tools, Training, and Community Engagement (Meeting Notes)
Zero Trust Extended – Incorporating Device Trust into Federated Environments (Meeting Notes)
Redesigning OpenConext – Hub+Spoke Architecture for the Next Two Decades (Meeting Notes)
Session 3 (14.00 – 14.50)
EOSC AAI – Governance, Legal Frameworks, and Second-Wave Expansion (Meeting Notes)
Beyond User Trust – A Research Assurance Architecture for Compliant Infrastructure (Meeting Notes)
Raising the Bar Without Losing the Room – REFEDS Baseline Compliance in eduGAIN (Meeting Notes)
Widening the Tent – Who Is Missing from TIIME and How Do We Reach Them? (Meeting Notes)
Session 4 (15.00 – 15.50)
The Future of REFEDS – Standards, Sustainability, and the Role of RAF (Meeting Notes)
Post-Quantum Cryptography – Migration Paths and the SAML End-of-Life Reality (Meeting Notes)
Infrastructure as Code – DevOps Practices for Federation Operators (Meeting Notes)