The Digital Identity Management Workshop will take place at Reykjavik University on Wednesday, August 6th, 2025 from 9:00am to 15:00pm in room M208
The workshop is aimed at and welcomes computer science students, researchers and professionals interested in digital identity management. The keynote speech will be given by Michael J. Fischer, Professor of Computer Science at Yale University: “Impossibility of Asynchronous Distributed Consensus (FLP) – a retrospective”. Digital identity management is essential to minimize risks of data breaches and cyber threats while simultaneously enhancing regulatory requirements and process efficiency, but is in practice an extremely hard problem to solve at scale. The workshop features presentations and a subsequent afternoon panel discussion on information network scaling and consensus, challenges of practical digital identity infrastructure and digital identity management in Iceland, amongst other topics. Registration for this event is mandatory. Please register here until 29th of July, 2025.
Follow this link to view the preliminary program.