At the 2026 Global Digital Collaboration in Geneva, participants gathered from around the world for another round of talks on digital wallet interoperability and discussions on credential types, communication protocols, governance, and opportunities to join the latest global association membership. While the conference was still debating these issues, Indicio arrived having already solved them — with an interoperable, end-to-end solution that handles every piece on the agenda and is running in production with customers today.
By Kent Iverson, VP, Indicio Solutions
The 2026 Global Digital Collaboration Conference in Geneva gathered over 2,000 leaders from governments, standards groups, wallet providers, airlines, and credential issuers with the express purpose of advancing digital trust. And while many deep and important discussions took place on interoperability, mdoc and mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) standards, and spotlighted how to join the latest identity membership groups, questions from those attending the event about how to actually move forward and adopt real solutions went largely unanswered.
Staying in this cycle of discussion is slowing the mass adoption of verifiable credentials, costing many development teams precious time and valuable resources. We’ve all seen a wave of trials, pilots, and proofs of concept in recent years but outside of Indicio, few have produced deployable commercial systems that actually meet real production needs. And while the industry continues to debate the critical challenges to adoption, some of the loudest voices are fueling the slowdown with yet another ‘global alliance’ to join.
Take mDLs. Many attendees expressed excitement about the tech and are ready to get going, but many in the industry are still stuck on details instead of pushing for real-world adoption with what’s available today. Discussions in Geneva focused on shared rules and guidelines — all while Indicio has already shown that independent, remote mDL verification works right now.
Dual physical and digital credential management is another critical conversation that continued to inspire debate in Geneva. For legal reasons, people will have to rely on physical cards as backups for years, and questions around managing the revocation of both paper and digital IDs at the same time are also under debate. But this shouldn’t stop deploying solutions now. Solving problems in theory lacks the empirical discipline of solving them in practice, when you can see the technology working with real people in situations that can usefully inform development and governance. This is Indicio’s experience with enterprise and government deployments.
Digital wallet Interoperability is foundational
The topic that pulled the biggest crowds was the EUDI Wallet, and one question kept coming up: how does a credential issued outside the EU get accepted inside it? Nobody had a good answer. This is the same third-country problem from the mDL debate. The wallet was scoped for EU member states first, and recognition of credentials from outside the bloc is a TBD. A wallet meant to cross borders has to read what people carry from the other side of them, and at the end of the conference, that still looked like an open design question.
When daily cross-border travelers, workers, and consumers present unrecognized credentials to regional wallets, we risk turning open ecosystems into little more than branded walled gardens. It was Indicio’s interoperability that drew customers to license Indicio Proven. From one platform, they can issue and verify any type of credentials from any wallet. For us, this is just a fundamental, foundational capacity. It’s done, it works, it’s not a blocker.
Digital credentials need to work offline
We know connectivity often fails at critical points like border posts, aircraft, or remote checkpoints. But digital identity authentication must be always on. This is where governance comes into play. If you make the trust list of credential issuers fully decentralized and portable, the fix is easy. The trust list is cached in the credential holder and verifier software and a credential can be presented and verified over bluetooth or with NFC and without relying on either internet or a server connection.
Indicio developed decentralized governance in part to make offline verification straightforward (subsequently developed into a global specification — Credential Trust Establishment — at the Decentralized Identity Foundation). Operating reliably without server connection will be key for any credential solution to get off the ground.
The Indicio difference: We’re in production
While I’m sure many conference participants left Geneva energized by having debated many important future concepts, I returned home happily knowing that Indicio’s architecture is helping customers sidestep the pilot limbo with live commercial deployments across international borders, aviation hubs, air carriers, and financial institutions.
Built on all the standards and open frameworks including W3C Verifiable Credentials, ISO 18013-5/7, OID4VC, and OID4VP, our production systems continue to seamlessly process cross-border data for users, enterprises, and external partners right now and can manage whatever the future holds.
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