Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats for the 17th annual European Identity and Cloud Conference and give a warm welcome to Cooping Cole, head of Events. Jennifer Stella.
Hello. Welcome to the European Identity and Cloud Conference, 2024 Full House, many people. Thank you so much for coming. I'm the person who is introducing you to some housekeeping slides, but afterwards, we are just running into the keynotes into our highlight sessions today. So like I said, welcome to our conference this year and I start with some platform features.
I hope all of you, of course, have downloaded the app on the app store. You have some features here you can network, stay informed about, yeah, our networking sessions, any upcoming highlights, and interact with other people and ask questions. So if you want to be more interacting here, yeah, just download. If he doesn't have yet, gamification is our next step. You can participate in our gamification by using the app and scan QR codes, whether our sponsors, they have QR codes and some other locations.
We have a nice candy bar, we have a photo booth.
All networking parts and things you can enjoy. What you can win is a VIP package, platinum gold, and the small one for next year's EIC, which include some travel recommendations, some yeah, tickets of course, and short tickets and places and seats for our networking events, the Free River cruise, and so we are already over. We have this year some nice highlights. Network. This again today, EIC award ceremony. Watch out. It's not inside here. You have to go outside. Maybe you've seen the small stage already. We will award the people there.
Then we have an after party open ID anniversary, and tomorrow we have this free river cruise. Grab your shoes. I hope you have already. We have the morning run and yeah, yeah. EY is sponsoring the seven kilometer round and you receive shirts, snacks, and rings. So be there at 7:00 AM in front of the B, c, C.
And yeah, we hope several people join.
Need help. You see that Nice green lanyard here. Only a few number of people wear that, but if you have questions and need help these people or this person can definitely help you. So if you can see them, ask us.
Yeah, and finally share your moments with us. We are on several network and social media places. So hashtag is EIC 2024, and we are happy if you join us. That's it. Thank you very much for your first minutes, and now I'm very happy to introduce your host and a moderator for the day Cooking a call Analyst, Warwick Asphalt. Please tap your answer together.
Wow, great to see such a full room on the first day. This is brilliant. It's great to be here. I'd like to extend my own welcome to Berlin and to EIC. This year I'm one of the analysts at keeping a cold bed. I also work quite closely with the events and the marketing team, so I know how much time, care and preparation has gone into making this a great week for all of us to enjoy together.
I'm delighted to be hosting the keynote sessions this week, but later on today, when we turn our attention to EID IDAs and Identity and Decentralized Identity, I will be joined by subject matter expert es, who will be this year co-moderator, the track on e IDAs and decentralized identity. But that's just one of six tracks. So this year we've got over 200 hours of content and over 320 speakers.
But Y has asked me to tell you, don't be overwhelmed, just choose the sessions that you want to interact with because you are members and you are here. You can always catch up on, on the video.
So regular attendees will know that EIC is special, but this year is special for another reason. While Coop a Cole's event is certainly a team effort and just about everybody is involved in bringing this event for you together. The the undisputed father and certainly the driving force behind EIC, of course is co-founder RK Resh.
Now, although it seems highly unlikely that he'll ever hang up his cycling shoes or his water shoes, he is, however, retiring from EIC later this year. So that means this is gonna be while he's retiring from Coing a coal I should say. So this means it's gonna be his last EIC. After nearly two phenomenal decades, y who's now left the room, we will be sad to see you go, but I'm sure everyone in this room will recognize that in the IEIC. He's created something truly outstanding and unique. So can you please join me in a round of applause for yur and I'm sure he is listening on the sideline.
Thank you very much. So he'll be certainly going out with a bang because this year's agenda is gonna be delivering in spades and it's been kept a fine eye over by yur himself and topping that agenda.
As always, with a topic of digital identity in the era of AI and decentralization, please welcome KuppingerCole Co-founder, principal analyst one and only Martin Kuppinger.
