Internet Identity Workshop (IIW)

What this conference is for

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) is small, twice a year, and disproportionately important. Held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, it is an unconference: there is no fixed agenda, attendees propose sessions on the morning of each day, and the result is where a remarkable amount of identity's foundational work gets debated and advanced. Much of the thinking behind OAuth, OpenID Connect, and the entire verifiable credentials and decentralized identity movement was shaped in these rooms.

Who should attend

Standards contributors, protocol designers, and practitioners working on the frontier (decentralized identity, wallets, agentic identity). If you want to influence where identity is going, not just learn where it is, IIW is the room.

What to expect

A participant-driven, notes-heavy format. Come ready to contribute. The published session notes are a valuable public record of the field's open questions.

Coverage

We cover IIW in full, focusing on the standards and decentralized-identity threads that shape the rest of the industry.