Digital Credentials Consortium

Summit 2025

26 June 2025 | TU Delft Teaching Lab

About the Event

The Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC) is pleased to announce the 2025 Member Summit! Founded in 2018 by a network of leading universities with expertise in digital academic credentials, the DCC has developed an infrastructure that empowers learners and institutions alike while promoting privacy, mobility, and agency. Digital technology continues to have a profound effect on the way we learn, granting us access to a wealth of education materials and enabling us to easily connect with other learners or communicate with our professors. Increasingly, technology is acting as a personal guide that can support our individual interests and pathways. This innovation calls for a credentialing system that takes advantage of the possibilities of digital technology. Now that the sharing of information, including academic achievements, across the web has become ubiquitous, methods of trusted verification and authentication of credentials is urgent. In response, the DCC has put forth research informed open source technology and resources that enable institutions to issue W3C Verifiable Credentials and learners to securely claim, store and share them across the learning journey.

Why Should You Attend?

As a first step towards developing a trusted infrastructure for academic Verifiable Credentials, the DCC collaboratively published its 2020 whitepaper Building the digital credential infrastructure for the future. The report served to align stakeholders on the key technical elements and governance requirements that would support a system that promotes interoperability, privacy, and learner control. Shortly thereafter, we developed the Learner Credential Wallet specification and reference implementation, fulfilling a critical missing tool in the ecosystem.

Ever since, the DCC has been working with institutions, technologists and education and workforce advocates to develop and deploy open source software that has made our vision in the 2020 whitepaper a success. The 2025 DCC Member Meeting in Delft is an opportunity to convene founding members and new stakeholders alike to reflect on our achievements and formulate a set of new goals. Attendee contributions will inform the strategy for the next phase of the DCC’s technical leadership and influence across a broad network of institutions, governance organizations, and technology providers.