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So thank you Annie, and thank you to everyone who is still here. It's great. We are a few minutes late, but it's not a problem because my train deposits 6 5 30, so I have plenty of time, but no worries. I probably won't use the full one and a half hours, so I'll, I'll keep it a bit shorter anyway. And so I don't have slides. So I had prepared a slide. I have to admit, this wasn't the, the biggest masterpiece I ever did around slides, but my team said, no slides. Guess why? So for once, we had been in the opening keynote, so for a reason, we do it without slides.
Anyway, we, what, what I wanna do is summarize a bit, look forward a bit, and especially in this, what I wanna start with is saying thank you. So first thank you to everyone being here at EIC in Berlin, or joining in virtually thank you to the team organizing the EIC and especially RK for his,
For his work, but also the entire team that is behind that. Thank you to the team of Audi Luma, and of B, c, C for the technical aspects as well for the BC, C team to caring for our food and organizing everything. No one's starving, et cetera.
So, so who has been at EIC number one? The, the very first one, 2007? Yes. You may remember that we had a bit of a challenge with the caterer back then, so, yeah, I see.
Anyway, survived. So I think that the point is we have probably enough food for thought so that you don't need real food necessarily.
That, that was one of the other things. So really thank you to everyone who, who, who really make this work to the sponsors for sure as well. To all the vendors, the exhibitors here, everyone. And I think this is really something we are very, very grateful for, for this great support and the great team just that makes this work. So big hands for everyone who supported it, please.
We had, we had a ton of themes which were discussed and it probably also will. So I take, took quite some notes over the course of the four days and it'll take me quite some time to go through all my notes and, and sort of pick the, the most important thoughts and maybe write about it, videos about it, et cetera. But anyway, there are a couple of trending themes.
I, I see and, and clearly decentralized identity was a very important one. What I felt this year is really a bit about concepts meeting real world use cases and a lot of discussion about what do we else need. So what do we need to think about, what do we need to improve? And I think one of the most important centers at EIC to C was from Bramo, from the Indian initiative who said, keep in mind we are issuing verifiable certificates to the holder, not to the wallet.
I think this is a very important sentence, which is bring it really to the point. A lot of conversations very interesting.
I I really liked it. We had this, this idea from Ian from Eve and so around how can decentralized identity change the way we deal with consent? I think no one of us likes this cookie consent things. They're really annoying. And I believe decentralized identity can do a lot of things better. I think there was a lot of discussion, again, staying with decentralized identity around, we need to think in the global world, interoperable made for the global world not only made for people who can afford to have the newest whatever iPhone or whatever other device it needs to work with.
Plenty of devices, very large scale use cases, very different use cases. But we also talked a lot about, and I think this is something where we need to think even more about and where we maybe also should try to put this into, to tangible numbers.
There's, I think a lot of discussion around the, the business case and about the potential, the decentralized has an unlocking really a business value. So I talked in my opening keynote about this banking loan more or less, both fully automated with savings around anti, anti-man laundering and KYC, you know, your customer regulations. And this is something where, where, where we talk about real money because these are extremely expensive processes nowadays. So we can do a ton of things with that and we should probably spend more time thinking about how can we, can we do that better?
Explain that better, make it more visible, put it into real numbers, but also think about what does it mean to the regulator. We had quite some talk about upgrading reality, so how decentralized identity and AI will improve our lives. And I trust Ken, even while I was on the panel, I still recommend that panel, which we had yesterday about, I think it was yesterday at two 30 about AI and the rest I have forgotten from the long title, but it was a panel one hour long and I think it's worth spending that hour listening to the recording of this panel.
'cause I think this was a really, really interesting panel looking at how how decent rise identity really can positively impact our lives. So that that is something I, I think it is. By the way, we also saw a lot of AI impact on the agenda because the average length of the session title at least doubled and the abstracts also became much longer now. So this is also probably a very visible impact, also indicating that generative AI tends to be verbose.
Then we have regulations, A topic that also popped up again, and I think it's a very important thing.
We, we deal with so many regulations and many of these like ai, act like dora Digital Operations Resilience Act in the eu, like regulations from the us, they are related to identity as well because it's about access, it's about authentication, it's about anomalies in the behavior, et cetera. I think one of the challenges we have clearly is that we have a very rapidly evolving tech landscape and a very slow moving regulatory landscape, which for itself would be bad. And the problem, the even bigger problem is that the details on the regulat, so regulations tend to be fussy.
And then when you're lucky about the time when it comes into force, the details are published. What you should do. So instead of having the two years or so to prepare, we have two days to prepare when you're lucky, unless you're doing a lot of guesswork, you need to do the guesswork nowadays, I think we need to get better in, in, in the regulation spaces.
It's really one of the things which also popped up every now and then. We saw more talk about policy-based access control all then and whatever else. And I think this also will, will come back.
So the promise of exactl for the ones who are around long enough maybe done really delivered ITDR and fraud detection, a very important thing, which is really becoming important. I, I think what I feel is, is the point we should really think about is it's not just our identity or our security signals. We look at, we need to integrate this with the signals on the business side. So this sample of deep fake detection. So even if we miss detecting the of the CFO, our alarms should ring loud when there's a strange 25 million transaction on the business side.
So these fraud signals from everywhere need to be combined and we need to work on that to converge these worlds. B2B identities definitely a real world I am challenge and unfortunately B2B identities are a bit more complex than workforce or consumer identities because there are so many variet of that still something we need to solve.
You may ask when I look at all these different things, whereas ai, that's the other question, it's everywhere. It's ubiquitous AI plays into more or less everything. So I think there's a huge impact of ai.
But as with many things, technology is best when we don't need to care about technology, when it's trust there and augmenting us, it's by the way, the same with a lot of technologies. T-C-P-I-P is best when you don't need to care about T-C-P-I-P, except if you're very geeky and want still to care about T-C-P-I-P. But basically it is if, if you don't talk about it something anymore, if it's trust there and part of everything, then it's clearly the best thing.
So, and last not least, there was a lot of talk about all the down to earth challenges we are facing in enterprise identity management. It's still a lot of things that are, that we have to solve, that we need to work on.
I touched B2B, IM, we see the need for migrating away from the one route system for modernization, for integration into identity fabrics for doing these things, right? And then on the horizon already, how will this change with decentralized identity? What will AI do?
You know, hopefully AI will help us, for instance, to have a much smoother application onboarding across every element of IRM. So the IJA tool, the access management tool, the PAM tool, et cetera, which still causes a lot of work. So I think there were, were was really a broad variety of themes and I'm absolutely confident there will be a lot of new themes but also a lot of evolved aspects on these themes at next year's EIC. So we will do also EIC 2025, which would then be, I think the addition number 18 and we will go back to our, no, we'll not go back to to, no worries.
We will, we will stay here. We will, but we will go back to our standard date more or less. So we will run it from May 6th to ninth, 2025 trust year. So same place, but back in May, 2025. And I hope that you all and many, many more than we'll be here. And next year it also won't be this, you need a direct flight from Vegas over here or the other way around. So this will, from what I've heard, a bit more relaxed next year.
So that is what I have to say here. I hope I didn't forget anything, which is important. Looking at York, York doesn't care about next year.
He's retired, so he just notes here, but I, I don't get any signals that I have forgotten something very important. And so I would say it's almost 4:00 PM on a Friday after four hard days of conference work, I would say. So thanks again to everyone for being here and have safe travels back. See you next year. Thank you.
