Toronto, Canada, October 28, 2025 – The DIACC and the SIROS Foundation are proud to announce a strategic collaboration to accelerate trust, interoperability, and innovation in digital credentials and wallets.
This partnership brings together two recognized leaders in digital trust and identity services and responsible innovation to develop solutions that empower individuals, institutions, and governments to securely verify and share information across borders and sectors. The collaboration will focus on opportunities to support and extend academic and professional credentialing, labour mobility, and workforce upskilling, building the foundation for a more connected, inclusive, and trusted digital economy.
“Digital trust and identity is not only technology capabilities, they are economic and social enablers,” said Joni Brennan, President of DIACC. “Working with SIROS allows us to connect Canada’s public and private sector leadership with global industry-needs driven best practices to deliver real-world, interoperable solutions that benefit all.”
Through this collaboration, DIACC and SIROS will:
- Address challenges and opportunities related to international interoperability, digital trust and identity assurance policy, and trust in specific use cases.
- Align efforts to enhance the secure and trusted exchange of digital credentials across sectors and jurisdictions.
- Develop and showcase real-world use cases proving the effectiveness of interoperable digital trust and identity solutions.
- Collaborate to advance policy alignment and technical interoperability through pilot projects and testing around use cases, including: Travel, Education, Payments, Organizational/Business credentials, Labour mobility, Professional upskilling, and Academic integration
“The SIROS Foundation is dedicated to building digital ecosystems that are secure, inclusive, and human-centred,” said Stina Ehrensvärd, Board of Directors SIROS Foundation. “By joining forces with DIACC, we can advance trust infrastructure that strengthens economic resilience and opportunities across Europe and Canada.”
Together, DIACC and SIROS are positioning Canada and its partners at the forefront of global digital trust innovation, advancing a model where secure, verifiable, and portable credentials enable greater mobility, economic growth, and public confidence in the digital age.
About DIACC
The DIACC is a non-profit coalition of public and private sector leaders working to unlock economic and societal opportunities for Canadians through secure, privacy-enhancing digital trust and identity verification solutions.
About SIROS Foundation
The SIROS Foundation advances secure, inclusive, and responsible digital ecosystems through research, collaboration, and strategic initiatives that prioritize trust, transparency, and human-centric innovation.
