For me, the most relevant new topic and trend was to finally see the convergence of decentralized identities (DID) and traditional approaches on IAM starting. DID, also referred to as SSI (Self Sovereign Identity) or verifiable credentials, is a concept where the user has a wallet that holds proofs of identities and attributes.
* [What the EIC Decentralized Identity Award Means For Indicio](https://indicio.tech/what-the-eic-decentralized-identity-award-means-for-indicio/)Indico
it could provide definitive proof of a person’s Covid test status without airlines having to integrate with centralized databases of health data, a path mired in complexity and legal liability. It could allow passengers to use this proof in a way that protected their privacy.
* [EIC Keynote 2022 — The Value Paradox: The 3 Inflections of IGA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DejA_YoyhrBg)Jackson Shaw
Explore the inflection points of identity governance and administration (IGA) through modern history with Jackson Shaw at the 2022 European Identity & Cloud Conference (EIC) hosted by KuppingerCole.
* [ABB Honored with an EIC Award for Excellence in Enterprise IAM](https://blog.clearskye.com/abb-honored-with-an-eic-award-for-excellence-in-enterprise-iam)Clearskye
ABB is being honored for its Global IAM initiative, established to improve security, compliance, and operations, and ensure access management is properly overseen. But with operations in over 100 countries,180,000 employees,13,000 servers, 6,500 applications, hundreds of HR systems, and a complex Active Directory implementation, this is not an easy undertaking.
## Tweeters
Tweet from EIC By [Tatsuo Kudo](https://twitter.com/tkudos/status/1525039878911713282)
Answering the#privacyquestion asked in[@timcappalli](https://twitter.com/timcappalli)'s #ssetoken revocation talk at the#EiC2022- read thisOpenIDblog post to know how privacy can be protected in SSE
* [Shared Signals: An Open Standard for Webhooks](https://openid.net/2021/08/24/shared-signals-an-open-standard-for-webhooks/)
defines stream-based communication mechanisms between Transmitters that generate events and Receivers that consume them. It defines an Event Stream Management API for obtaining the Transmitter configuration: Which events it supports, how they can be verified, and where it sends them to the receiver.
* [@styrainc 12:02 PM · May 11, 2022](https://twitter.com/styrainc/status/1524419573096800257)
“[@OpenPolicyAgent](https://twitter.com/OpenPolicyAgent)has become the standard for policy-based access and externalized#Authorization”. A great takeaway from the intro to#OPAfor multi-cloud policy and process portability session at#EIC2022.
