With the Identity Innovation Award, IDnext wants to recognize and support new developments that are shaping the future of Digital Identity. Submissions are innovative concepts, products or project.
The submission for the Identity innovation award should be an innovative project, concept, service or product in the area of digital identity.
Submissions will be judged on
- Innovative – How innovative is the submission, e.g., technological or business model
- Success & impact – where the jury members will also consider expected future impact
- Privacy – is there a positive impact on privacy, has privacy been sufficiently considered
- End-user value – what is the value from the perspective of the end-user/citizen, also where applicable the perspective of other stakeholders will be taken into account.
The winner of the Identity Innovation Award of 2026
MindYourPass: They received the award for its Dutch innovative solution focused on the secure, easy, and privacy-friendly management of passwords, both in professional and personal contexts.
The Nominees for the 2026 Identity Innovation Award
This year, three outstanding organisations have been nominated for their innovative contributions to the field of digital identity:
Mindyourpass
Mindyourpass introduces a new approach to identity management, with simplicity, security and privacy at its core. By generating passwords and authentication credentials on demand — without storing sensitive data — the solution significantly reduces risk. At the same time, organisations benefit from insights into login risks and centralised policy enforcement.
Mobai
Mobai delivers post-quantum secure biometric recognition using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Biometric data is processed entirely in encrypted form, making it impossible to steal while maintaining high performance speeds of less than 20 milliseconds. This makes the solution ready for large-scale, real-time deployment.
Veridas
Veridas, recognised as a Visionary in Identity Verification in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, offers AI-driven fraud detection solutions for global organisations such as Europcar, Amazon and Santander. Their technology covers identity verification, biometric and liveness checks, as well as synthetic voice detection.
The Jury
The winner of the Identity Innovation Award 2026 was selected by an expert jury consisting of:
- Maarten Bevers
- Elly Plooy
- Peter Hoogendoorn
During an exclusive award dinner on April 14, 2026, the winner of the Identity Innovation Award 2026 was announced and the award was presented, followed by an intimate dinner bringing together leading experts, innovators and decision-makers in digital identity.
Criteria for the award include:
o Innovation (technological as well as business model)
o Success; how the privacy aspect is dealt with
o Added value for users and for stakeholders
o The (potential) impact of the concept, project or product.
Previous winners of the Identity Innovation Award
Credo – They received the award for their Credo ecosystem which is designed with the mindset that building self-sovereign identity solutions should be easy and straightforward.
Dutch Blockchain Colation (DBC) – DBC created the Decentralised Identity Interop Profile so that decentralized solutions can communicate with each other.
DuckDuckGoose – They develop explainable AI solutions to detect deepfakes in audio-visual content. Deepfakes are hyper-realistic fake audio-visual data made and/or manipulated by AI. They seem so realistic that the unaided human eye can no longer recognize them. DuckDuckGoose leverages the power of AI to detect deepfakes in a fast, reliable, autonomous yet insightful and explainable manner. This means that the tool does not only classify a certain input as deepfake, but also explains the reasoning behind its decision. Currently, DuckDuckGoose focuses on distinguishing deepfake faces from authentic faces and is also developing multimodal audio and video deepfake detection algorithms.
Asignio – Asignio offers a more secure way to sign-in with its multi-factor authentication – synchronous dual biometrics. With their patented signature recognition technology they created synchronous dual biometrics – more secure with two biometrics at once, sign-in & live selfie or voice & live selfie.
Iovation – Iovation safeguards tens of millions of digital transactions a day, with the world’s largest and most precise database of device reputation insights and cryptographically secure multifactor authentication methods.
OpenID certification – The OpenID Foundation purposefully established a light-weight, low cost OpenID Connect certification program to help ensure that high-quality OpenID Connect implementations became the norm in the marketplace.
Meeco – provides the means for individuals to have greater control of their identities and how they are used. They can share relevant information with trusted parties in a secure way to achieve the desired outcomes.
Trulioo – provides a robust service for online verification of identities. Trulioo customers have access to over 140 data sources to verify identities 3 bilion on their value.
idBCN – is a digital identity system provided by the Barcelona City Council as a free public service. idBCN allows citizens to identify themselves remotely and securely to a number of digital services by means of the digital ID in their mobile phone.
eHerkenning – eRecognition is a Dutch e-identity trust framework that enables companies to re-use digital identities to authenticate themselves towards government organizations. Conducting business online thus becomes easier and more reliable.
Edentiti – Edentiti provides online identity verification by checking information from various online data sources, and does so under the control of the end user.
Ziggur – (Ziggur is a Dutch service that enables everybody on the worldwide web to decide what they want to happen to their online profiles & online belongings after their death. Ziggur makes sure the wishes regarding the digital inheritance of the deceased are fullfilled, thus burdening those who are left behind.
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