🔹 14 November 2025
📍 De Krook, Ghent (Belgium)
🕐 Free participation – lunch & refreshments included!
👉 Register here
At our November ‘25 Solid Community Event, we gather do-ers who apply transformational technologies in practice. Join innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers as we explore how trust by design is shaping the future of data, identity, and trust. From transparent food chains to smart cities, you’ll experience cutting-edge demos, hands-on sessions, and inspiring talks that bridge technology, business, and society.
Whether you’re a tech visionary, a creator, a business strategist, or simply curious about how Solid and decentralized data empower people and organizations – this is where ideas meet action. Be part of the movement building trust in a data-driven world. Through an exciting cross-over with the SecuWeb project in the morning, we introduce two focus topics for the day:
Product Passports are more than a regulatory checkbox: they are the next frontier in transparency and trust. Just as a travel passport verifies who you are, a Product Passport establishes a verifiable identity and history for every item you buy, creating a trusted trail across its entire lifecycle. Unlike traditional compliance tools, Product Passports have the potential to do much more. By connecting provenance data with your personal Solid Pod or digital wallet, we can turn obligation into opportunity. How do we together envision a digital companion that helps you make choices aligned with your values, health, and lifestyle?
Trusted Smart Cities happen where data empowers, not exposes. The cities of tomorrow won’t just be connected—they’ll be trusted. Smart Cities thrive on data, and the challenge is ensuring this data serves citizens without compromising privacy or security. With Solid technologies, individuals can share verified, purpose-specific data while keeping full control of what’s personal. Let’s imagine a city that adapts to our needs, from mobility to energy efficiency. Traffic flows optimize around real demand, services anticipate needs, and sustainability goals become measurable realities. All of this is possible when data moves safely, from your Solid Pod to city systems, guided by clear consent and transparent governance. Are you in?
Agenda
9h30: Walk-in and coffee
10h00: Intro and agenda
10h05: SecuWeb overview by Charlotte Destoop (TUA West) – Innovative technologies that lead to safer data use at companies and organizations
10h30: Keynote by Rien van Den Bosch (GS1) – Digital Product Passports
11h00: Live demonstrators of practical applications by Howest, Sirris & UGent:
Industry 4.0: Decentralized identity and zero trust enforcement for industrial robot maintenance
Food : Transparent food chain
11h40: Break for refreshments
12h00: Parallel deepening sessions: Adding impactful value to organisations with Solid & Blockchain
Technical session – How to build a first Trust by Design pilot?
Business session – What does it take to make Trust by Design viable?
13h00: Lunch
14h00: Hands-on breakout sessions – Part A: use case deepdive
Product Passport
Trusted Smart Cities
15h15: Afternoon coffee
15h30: Hands-on breakout sessions – Part B: connecting challenges to solutions
16h30: Breakout reports and roadmap
16h45: Wrap-up and sneak preview
17h00: End of the event and networking opportunities
Join us in building this exciting day by registering here.
Do you want to lead a breakout group in the afternoon? Let us know!
We’re looking forward to seeing you on 14 November to write the digital future together.
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