European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC)
- Next edition
- May 11 to 14, 2027
- Where
- bcc Berlin Congress Center, Berlin, Germany
- Usually
- Mid-to-late May
- Format
- Hybrid
- Organizer
- KuppingerCole Analysts
- Attendance
- 1,500+ (organizer)
Editions
- May 11 to 14, 2027 · bcc Berlin Congress Center, Berlin, Germany
- May 19 to 22, 2026 · bcc Berlin Congress Center, Berlin, Germany · concluded
What this conference is for
The European Identity & Cloud Conference (EIC), run by analyst firm KuppingerCole, is Europe's premier identity event. Held at the bcc Berlin Congress Center each May, in person with an online stream, it blends analyst research with practitioner sessions across IAM, CIAM, IGA, Zero Trust, and decentralized identity, with unusually strong coverage of European regulation and the EU Digital Identity Wallet.
Who should attend
European identity leaders and architects, anyone navigating eIDAS 2.0, NIS2, or DORA, and practitioners who value analyst perspective alongside real-world case studies. It is the best single event for the European regulatory and verifiable-credentials conversation.
What to expect
Analyst keynotes and frameworks, deep tracks on governance and decentralized identity, and a strong European vendor presence. EIC is where the EU wallet and verifiable-credentials ecosystem is debated most seriously.
Scale
KuppingerCole cites more than 1,500 attendees, 250 speakers, and 230 sessions, and bills the 2027 edition (May 11 to 14) as the 20th EIC.
Coverage
We cover EIC in full, with emphasis on the European regulatory and standards threads most relevant to our readers.
Listen: episodes from or about European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC)
- #428 - Modernizing IGA with Thomas Zarnhofer · Identity at the Center · 2026-06-15
Lessons from replacing a decade-old on-premises IGA system: person-based identity models, cleaning data first, and running old and new platforms in parallel.
- Analyst Chat #287: EUDI Wallet - Can Digital ID Finally Be Trusted? · KuppingerCole Analyst Chat · 2026-02-16
Explains how EUDI Wallets and verifiable credentials use the issuer-holder-verifier model, and argues adoption depends on business value such as automating multi-credential processes.
- #354 - Kristina Yasuda & Torsten Lodderstedt on the EUDI Wallet and its Global Impact · Identity at the Center · 2025-06-09
Two architects of the EUDI Wallet ecosystem explain the EU plan to give every citizen a digital identity wallet and its effect beyond Europe.
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