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European wallet conference UNFOLD comes to Nijmegen
Two days on the European Digital Identity Wallet, with experience from across Europe and Dutch practice. Free, at Pathé Nijmegen or online.
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The fifth edition of UNFOLD, the France Identité conference on European digital identity wallets, comes to Nijmegen from Paris. UNFOLD is a young community that puts the development of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) at its centre. Under the revised eIDAS Regulation, every Member State must offer such a wallet by the end of 2026. This edition’s theme is therefore ‘From wallet strategy to execution’. Over two days in Nijmegen, public authorities, banks, insurers, care providers and organisations from the energy sector show how they move the wallet from pilots to real services, together with consultants and technology partners.
In its first year, UNFOLD’s earlier editions and four interoperability events already drew more than 1,500 participants. France Identité is organising this edition together with the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the City of Nijmegen, ICTU, Gebruiker Centraal and Ver.iD.
Two days: European experience and Dutch practice
- 7 October: why. European countries and organisations share their experience with the wallet and show what it delivers.
- 8 October: how. Dutch municipalities, care providers and other organisations show how they are introducing the wallet into their services.
Sessions at the conference cover topics such as AI agents and digital mandates, business wallets, health data in the wallet and services around life events, such as turning 18 or losing a loved one. On both days, you can also join the Wallet Safari, a tour of 15 live demos in which organisations show their wallets and solutions. The full programme is on the UNFOLD Nijmegen website.
France learns by doing
UNFOLD is an initiative of France Identité, the French government’s digital identity programme. France Identité organised the first edition in Paris in September 2025 as an open meeting place for everyone working on the EUDI wallet, including organisations outside the European Large Scale Pilots. In the year since, further editions and interoperability events followed, in which wallets, issuers and verifiers test their systems against each other. Nijmegen is the first edition outside Paris. France Identité brings a year of UNFOLD and its own practical experience with it.
The France Identité app has been available to everyone since February 2024 and had more than 4 million users by March 2026. With the app, people in France can log in to government services, share a proof of identity, for example when renting a home, and show their driving licence at a roadside check.
Anthony Carmoy, Technical Director of France Identité, opens UNFOLD on 7 October. In an interview with Gebruiker Centraal (in Dutch), he describes how France learns by using the app in real life. He uses the train as an example.
A French TGV ticket is issued in the passenger’s name. During a check, the conductor can therefore ask whether you are the person named on your ticket. Travellers wanted to prove this with France Identité. The app worked, but conductors did not yet have a procedure for accepting the digital proof. It was precisely because travellers used the app in practice that this came to light. SNCF then adapted its checks. On TGV INOUI, Intercités and OUIGO, you now show a QR code that shares only your surname, first name and date of birth, even without an internet connection.
Anthony CarmoyTechnical Director of France Identité“When organisations take part, they learn the rules along the way and can also influence them”
Why Nijmegen
Nijmegen is one of the municipalities in the Netherlands leading the way with wallets in municipal services. Residents have been able to log in with Yivi, then still called IRMA, since January 2022. In June 2025, Yivi was available for about three quarters of the municipality’s digital products and services.
Together with Ver.iD, the municipality is exploring how residents can receive municipal data as digital credentials in their wallet and share it. On 7 October, Wieteke Kremer of the City of Nijmegen and Sten Reijers of Ver.iD close the first day. They explain why it is not verification alone, but the management of credentials throughout their lifecycle, that decides whether a wallet succeeds. Read how Nijmegen approaches this.
Join on site or online
UNFOLD #5 is aimed at leaders and professionals at public authorities, banks, insurers, care providers and energy companies, and at the consultants and technology partners who support them. Even if your organisation does not yet work with wallets, you are welcome. According to the organisers, most organisations only need a basic level of maturity, because intermediaries and trust service providers absorb most of the technical work. In the interview, Anthony Carmoy calls UNFOLD “one of the best entry points into the ecosystem available right now”.
Participation is free. Pathé Nijmegen has 250 seats, and you can also follow online. On unfoldnijmegen.eu you can build your own agenda based on your sector and interests.
