The OpenID Foundation was invited to present at the recent EUDI Wallets Launchpad 2025, a landmark three day community event organized by the European Commission on December 10-12 in Brussels, Belgium.

The EUDI Wallets Launchpad 2025 represents a critical milestone for digital identity implementation across the European Union. As the first multi-day testing event of its kind for the EUDIW community, the invitation only gathering was designed to establish the EUDI Wallets Implementers Community and accelerate the adoption of wallets and their use cases across all EU Member States.

Aligning technical teams, policy objectives, and user experience across Europe requires coordination and trust. This was the goal of the Launchpad - by bringing implementers together to test, learn, and fix next steps collectively. This collaborative approach is essential for ensuring interoperability across borders and building a cohesive digital identity framework for Europe.

Photos capturing the event can be found here.

OpenID foundation presentations

The OpenID Foundation participated in two talks, the first included Executive Director Gail Hodges on “Outlook of Wallet Technical Specifications”, where she presented updates on the progress of OIDF specs selected by the EU and collaboration with the European Commission and peer international standardisation organisations, like ISO, ETSI, to align technical specifications supporting the EUDI Wallet.

The following chart summarizes the specifications selected and required for the EUDIW, how they map to ETSI profiles of the specs, and the work on test cases, open source tests, and 1.1 version of the specifications now underway by the Digital Credentials Protocols WG and the Certification team.

The second session by Technical Director Mark Haine on the Wallet Conformance Test Plan introduced functional conformance testing for EUDI Wallets and outlined what conformance deliverables OIDF has underway to support the EUDIW community. These deliverables included improvements to testing tools, new tests, and enhancements to the governance processes around test requirement definition and publishing.

Supporting the EUDI Wallet Community

During the event, Gail unveiled a dedicated new EUDIW Resource Hub on the OpenID Foundation's website to support the EUDIW community. The page is now live and provides implementers with immediate access to essential specifications and tools useful to the EUDIW community.

Implementers working on EUDI Wallet deployments are encouraged to utilize these resources and engage with the OpenID Foundation for technical support and guidance as they progress their implementations.

The Foundation also outlined several initiatives launching in early 2026 to further strengthen the ecosystem, including self-certification, interoperability events, and formal accreditation programmes.

About the OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, the FAPI standard for interoperable, high security, OAuth2 has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue to enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate. Find out more at openid.net.

To learn more about conformance testing and self-certification, please visit the OpenID Foundation’s FAQ section.