Building trust in digital supply chains with organisational identity 

Supply chains are increasingly becoming more digital, more interconnected, and more automated, however, many of the systems that underpin business-to-business (B2B) interactions still rely on fragmented identifiers, manual checks, and limited trust between parties.

Organisational identity technologies offer a way to change this.

This workshop will explore how organisational identity can help build trust in digital supply chains, enabling organisations to interact, transact, and share data securely and efficiently in a fast‑paced digital world.

Digital identity technologies allow organisations to be uniquely identified and cryptographically verified when operating digitally.

For supply chains, this creates a trusted foundation for:

• Secure B2B interactions

• Automation and system‑to‑system communication

• Reduced friction across complex, multiparty networks

At this event, we will focus on what organisational identity enables in practice, how it can support supply chains and explore the benefits of these technologies through use cases.

• Understand digital identity and what’s possible now
  Gain a clear, non‑technical understanding of digital identity technologies, organisational identity requirements within the UK and how these technologies apply to supply chains.

• Explore economic and operational benefits
  Learn how adoption can reduce friction, improve efficiency, and support more resilient supply chains.

• Understand implications for your organisation
  Whether you are a supply chain operator, technology provider, or policy stakeholder, uncover high-value use-cases along with its benefits and drawbacks of using verifiable credentials in supply chain operations.

This event is designed for:

• UK supply chain organisations
  Including manufacturers, logistics providers, distributors, operators, and infrastructure owners.

• Business, operations, and digital leaders
  Responsible for transformation, data, systems, and partnerships.

• Technology and standards stakeholders
  Building or evaluating digital identity and trust solutions.

• UK policy owners and representatives
  Public bodies with an interest in enabling trusted digital supply chains.

No prior knowledge of digital identity technologies is required.

Building Trust in Digital Supply Chains with Organisational Identity

14:00 – 14:15 | Welcome from Digital Catapult

14:15 – 14:30 | Keynote : The missing piece in Trade Digitalisation: Understanding identity differently
Speaker: Stephan Wolf, IAB Chair, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Digital Standards Initiative

Protocols, Standards and Governance

14:30 – 14:45 | From Identifiers to identity: Powering digital public infrastructure with Organisational Identity
Speaker: David Campos​, Head of Partnerships, GLEIF (Switzerland)

14:45 – 15:00 | From platforms to protocols: Rethinking interoperability
Speaker: Daniel Cotti​, Founding Board member of Verifiable.Trade foundation (Switzerland)​

15:00 – 15:15 | From lab to market: Key lessons in scaling digital trust from individuals to organisations
Speaker: Lucy Yang, Founder and Principal Consultant, TechServes Consulting

15:15 – 15:30​ | Shaping the European business wallet: Industry, standardisation and policy perspectives
Speaker: Dennis Hannemann, Director Regulatory Strategy & Digital Identities​, Bundesanzeiger Verlag (Germany)

15:30 – 15:45 | Making existing identities digitally verifiable via UN GRID
Speaker: Steve Capell, Vice Chair – United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) Australia

15:45 – 16:00 | From mine to market: How BC digital trust supports global traceability standards
Speaker: Nancy Norris, Director of Priority Projects, ​British Columbia’s Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals (Canada)​

Technical Implementation and Challenges​

16:15 – 16:30 | When customers get AI too
Speaker: Jamie Smith, Founder, Customer Futures Ltd (UK)​

16:30 – 16:45​ | Tooling for Organisational Identity and Agentic AI governance & compliance
Speaker: Fraser Edwards, CEO & Founder, Cheqd (UK)​

16:45 – 17:00 | Open Verifiable Communication – Eliminating fraud in Telecom
Speaker: Andrew Bale, Tim French, Eric Drury, Rich Connexions (UK)

17:00 – 17:15 | Closing talk
Speaker: Digital Catapult

17:15 – 18:00 | Networking & Drinks