Call for participants: Demonstrate your SSF and CAEP implementations at the Gartner IAM Summit in London this March.
The OpenID Foundation is excited to announce its return to the Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) Summit in London, March 24th-25th 2025, to host another interoperability session. This marks the third time the OpenID Foundation has been invited to this influential gathering of industry leaders to showcase the evolution and adoption of interoperable solutions within the identity ecosystem.
Having hosted interoperability sessions at two previous Gartner IAM Summits (in London and Texas), this year’s presence promises to push boundaries once again.
The sessions will be led by Atul Tulshibagwale, Corporate Board Member of the OpenID Foundation and CTO of SGNL, who will also be presenting a talk on Building a Trust Fabric with the OpenID Shared Signals Framework on Monday, 24th March at 11:45am until 12:15pm (GMT).
He noted, “Interoperability is the cornerstone of secure, scalable, and user-centric identity solutions. These interoperability sessions play a valuable role not only to validate the technical capabilities of implementations, but also to foster vital collaboration among innovators in this space.”
Invitation to Participate
OpenID Foundation’s Shared Signals Working Group (SSWG) is once again inviting participation from implementers. As always, the OpenID Foundation welcomes those who have previously participated and demonstrated interoperability, but new entrants are also being sought. These are organizations with newer implementations seeking to showcase their solutions and achieve interoperability certification for the first time.
To accommodate this diversity, the SSWG has designed rules to encourage participation from newcomers while continuing to highlight the strengths of more established solutions. These include:
- Conformance Tests: All participants must pass the OpenID Foundation’s conformance tests, which assess key features such as transmitter configuration metadata discovery, stream operations (read, create, update, delete), push delivery, and trigger verification.
- Transmitters and Receivers must support the SSF verification event-type and at least one additional event type, such as CAEP session revocation, CAEP credentials change, or CAEP risk level change
- Interoperability Tests: Conformant implementations must successfully test with at least one other conformant implementation to achieve ‘interoperable’ status. This involves mutual certification of successful pairwise testing.
Interoperable implementations will also be categorized as follows:
- Available now - publicly documented, currently available solutions.
- Available soon - publicly documented solutions with near-term availability.
- In development - solutions not yet publicly documented or available.
There will be 15 demonstration slots, divided into three sessions of five slots each. These will be given to implementations based on their maturity, availability, and membership of the OpenID Foundation.
Additional incentive to participate
The OpenID Foundation will award five free registration passes for the Gartner IAM Summit to representatives of member organisations, giving them ‘speaker’ status. These will be awarded to OpenID Foundation members with new implementations and those demonstrating significant interoperability success.
Other attendees can purchase full conference passes to participate in the event.
To learn more about the event or to register your implementation for testing, please contact Atul Tulshibagwale. The full rules can be found here: Program Rules - London 2025 CAEP Interop at Gartner IAM Summit (1).
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 Financial Grade API 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.
