ID:SMART Workshop 2025

ID:SMART Workshop is an annual face-to-face conference that fosters networking and technical updates within the European community of electronic identities, wallets, smart cards and hardware security modules (HSMs). Previously known as Smartcard-Workshop, it has been the reference event for hands-on researchers, standardization group members, decision-makers and experts from companies and government administration since 1991.

The 2025 ID:SMART edition will be held on 19-20 February, 2025 in Darmstadt, Germany. Conference language will be English, including all presentations.

Contributions shall address innovations, regulations, standards, certifications or implementations regarding electronic identities for connected devices and individuals, focusing on application-related or foundational topics and research, such as:

• All aspects of digital identity lifecycles
• Technologies and industry best practices covering cryptography as PQC, compliance and interoperability testing, evaluation and certification
• Identity technologies such as travel and ID-documents, wallets, qualified electronic attestation of attributes, identity proof etc.
• Use-cases covering consumers and industries such as Secure IoT, Automation, Healthcare, Mobility/Automotive, Government services and others.

Information on the Call for Papers
For the Call for Papers, it is sufficient to submit an abstract plus a table of contents.

The program committee will then evaluate the submissions according to degree of innovation, practical relevance, technical depth and implementation results. In the next step, the authors will be informed of their inclusion in the workshop.

The selected contributions will be offered a presentation followed by a Q&A session in the main program of the workshop. The authors of the accepted contributions will also submit a paper/article for publication in the digital workshop proceedings.

Further information and deadlines will be published here in good time after detailed consultation.