Trust Triggers is a new event series focused on trust-building patterns for the Web. Each event will have three parts:

  1. a keynote and discussion on a selected topic relevant to the community
  2. a lenghty coffee break for networking
  3. three use case presentations

The keynote will always be invited by an expert Trustflows currator.

This first edition starts at 13:00 on April 20, 2026.

The vibe of a Trust Triggers event at De Krook.
A Trustflows event in the Blauwe Vogel room at De Krook

Why you should attend

Trustflows is a network of experts working in very specific domains, yet modeling their trust flows with domain-agnostic and therefore reusable technologies.

Reasons to attend this edition:

  • Connect with experts: We foresee long breaks so you can talk to everyone.
  • Get to know researchers who are ready to continue their career in industry or government.
  • Find out about real industry or governmental use cases with the Trust Triggers pitches.
  • Learn from the keynote how EU Digital Identity and Wallets are evolving.
  • Find a consortium for project calls.

Program

Time Session
13:00 Welcome and introduction of the Trust Triggers event series by Pieter Colpaert
13:30 Keynote: A view on creating access control over wallets and how to contribute to ISO standards by Jan Lindquist. Introduction by Beatriz Esteves.
14:00 The EUDI: reflections on the protocol by Jan Lindquist, Beatriz Esteves and Wouter Termont, based on their white paper: “OpenID for European Digital Identity – an architectural analysis of user-centric identity management”
14:30 Coffee break offered by IDLab
15:00 Our 3 Trust Triggers pitches
  1. Digital Product Passports as trust anchors – Raf Buyle introduces his two invited speakers: Niek De Prest (Textirama) and Seth van Hooland (DG AGRI)
  2. How Local Council Decisions are trust triggers for an inventory of the public domain. Contributions from Karel Peeters (City of Ghent) and the Agency of Internal Affairs.
  3. How trust is triggered in the water domain, with ideas from Gert De Tant (Sirus), and ideas from Janelcy Alferes (VITO) and Shehab Eldeen Ayman (VITO - UGent).
16:30 Wrap-up of the day and optional reception

This edition’s Trustflows curator

Beatriz

Meet dr. Beatriz Esteves! She’s a postdoctoral researcher working on the intersection of policy modelling, personal data protection, trusted data flows and decentralised datastores. She’s an active contributor and editor of specifications for the Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group (W3C DPVCG) and the Open Digital Rights Language Community Group (W3C ODRL CG).

Location

You can reach the De Blauwe Vogel room in De Krook Library in Ghent via the main entrance at Miriam Makebaplein 1 or via the side entrance at Platteberg 11. At the main entrance, you can take the stairs down to the bicycle shed and reach the room.

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