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1. What is the mission and vision of Patronscan?

We create safe environments and trustworthy relationships through identity verification.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Organizations increasingly need to know that an individual is who they claim to be, that the credential being presented is authentic, and that the person is authorized or eligible to complete a particular action.

This is already critical in sectors such as hospitality, gaming, retail, financial services, transportation, property management, and access control. It will become even more important as services become increasingly digital, fraud becomes more sophisticated, and interactions move between online and physical environments.

Effective identity verification reduces fraud, supports regulatory compliance, protects vulnerable and age-restricted markets, and creates confidence between organizations and the people they serve. The challenge is to deliver that trust without creating unnecessary friction or collecting more personal information than the situation requires.

Digital trust is therefore not simply a technology issue. It is a foundation for safe participation in both the digital and physical economy.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Trusted identity systems can make it easier and safer for people to access services, complete transactions, enter controlled environments, and demonstrate eligibility. For organizations, they can reduce fraud, automate manual processes, strengthen compliance, improve community safety, and make services more accessible and efficient.

However, this transformation must be approached responsibly. Identity verification can create new risks when systems are difficult to understand, or do not provide meaningful privacy protections and accountability.

Patronscan addresses these challenges by designing identity verification for practical, high-volume operating environments. Our platform combines document authentication, age verification, fraud detection, access-control workflows, and configurable data-management practices. We focus on helping organizations make a specific decision such as whether an ID is authentic, whether an individual meets an age requirement, or whether access should be granted, while respecting applicable privacy requirements.

We also recognize that trust cannot be created through technology alone. It requires transparency, appropriate governance, strong security, clear retention practices, and continued collaboration among technology providers, governments, regulators, businesses, and the public.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada has strong institutions, respected privacy and security expertise, a diverse population, and a history of collaboration between the public and private sectors. These strengths can help Canada develop approaches that balance security, privacy, accessibility, consumer choice, and commercial innovation.

Canadian leadership should include developing clear and practical trust frameworks, encouraging standards-based, supporting responsible innovation, and creating greater consistency across jurisdictions. Canada can demonstrate that strong privacy protection and effective identity verification are not competing objective, they are both essential components of a trusted economy.

By establishing trusted models domestically and aligning them with international standards, Canada can help Canadian organizations compete globally while giving individuals greater confidence in how their identities are verified and protected.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

Patronscan joined the DIACC because the future of digital trust and the technology that enables it cannot be shaped by any one company, sector, or level of government.

We wanted to participate in the broader Canadian conversation about identity verification, privacy, security, and responsible innovation. DIACC brings together organizations with different experiences and perspectives, creating an important forum for developing shared frameworks and practical solutions.

As a Canadian company that has been verifying identity in high-volume, real-world environments for more than two decades, Patronscan can contribute practical insight into how trust frameworks operate at the point of service. We also benefit from learning from other DIACC members and participating in the development of approaches that can strengthen Canada’s ecosystem.

Our membership reflects our commitment to collaboration, accountability, and the continued advancement of trusted identity services in Canada and internationally.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

Patronscan is a Canadian-founded identity verification company with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations verify government-issued identification and make safer, more informed decisions.

Our technology is used across Canada and internationally in industries including hospitality, casinos, retail, events, municipalities, automotive, financial services, transportation, and controlled-access environments. Our platform supports forensic document authentication, age verification, fraud prevention, access control, operational reporting, and connected safety workflows.

What began as a solution for detecting fake identification has evolved into a broader identity verification platform supporting organizations wherever trust, eligibility, safety, and access intersect.

We are proud to be a Canadian technology company operating globally, and we believe our experience in demanding frontline environments gives us a valuable perspective on the future of digital trust. Identity verification must be accurate and secure, but it must also be fast, understandable, operationally practical, and worthy of the public’s confidence.

1. What is the mission and vision of Identita?

Mission: To make identity protection seamless, intelligent, and human through secure biometric, credential, and location technologies.

Vision: To set the global standard for trusted identity in a connected world, where security is effortless, precise, and built into everyday experiences.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Access to essential services depends on identity. Identity verification reduces fraud, supports compliance, and enables cross-border commerce. The rise of AI deepfakes raises risks for KYC and remote verification

3. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Digital trust and identity verification are becoming essential to the Canadian and global economy. As more services, transactions, and access decisions move online, organizations need reliable ways to confirm identity, reduce fraud, and protect sensitive information without creating unnecessary friction for legitimate end users. In Canada, this will support more secure banking, healthcare, government services, education, and workplace access. Globally, it will help enable safer cross-border trade, faster digital onboarding, and broader participation in the digital economy.

This shift brings real challenges. Identity systems must be strong enough to defend against increasingly sophisticated threats, while still being simple to use, respectful of privacy, and compatible with existing infrastructure. If security creates too much friction, adoption slows. If convenience comes at the expense of trust, the risk to organizations and users increases.

Identita addresses this challenge by building secure identity solutions that combine advanced biometrics, credential technologies, and real-time location intelligence in practical, familiar form factors. Our approach is to increase assurance while reducing complexity for the end user. By integrating fingerprint and ECG-based authentication with smart card platforms and RTLS technologies such as BLE, UWB, and GNSS, we help organizations verify identity with greater confidence and better context. This supports safer access, more trusted transactions, and stronger accountability across sectors including government, finance, healthcare, education, defence, gaming, automotive, and access control.

At its core, this transformation is about making trust easier to establish and harder to compromise. That is where we focus our work.

4. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

Identita joined DIACC to help shape the future of digital trust in Canada. We see a strong fit between DIACC’s work on interoperability, privacy, and trusted identity frameworks and our own focus on secure, user-friendly identity technologies.

5. What else should we know about your organization?

This is our 22nd year in business and proudly family-owned.

1. What is the mission and vision of ICDR?

ICDR’s mission is to create a trusted verification layer for the competitive dance community, helping confirm dancer, guardian, and studio relationships in a secure and privacy-conscious way. Its vision is a dance ecosystem where families, studios, competitions, and approved partners can interact with greater confidence, less friction, and stronger protection for dancer information.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

In competitive dance, young performers often interact with studios, competitions, media providers, registration platforms, and other service partners. Without a trusted way to verify identity, consent, and affiliation, families may be asked to repeatedly share sensitive information across disconnected systems. Trustworthy digital identity helps reduce friction while supporting privacy, safety, and confidence.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

In competitive dance, young performers often interact with studios, competitions, media providers, registration platforms, and other service partners. Without a trusted way to verify identity, consent, and affiliation, families may be asked to repeatedly share sensitive information across disconnected systems. Trustworthy digital identity helps reduce friction while supporting privacy, safety, and confidence.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada can lead by showing how digital trust can be applied not only in finance, government, and automotive sectors, but also in community-based sectors where young people, families, and small organizations need practical privacy-first solutions.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

ICDR joined the DIACC to align with Canada’s digital trust community, learn from established frameworks, and contribute a real-world use case from youth activity, sport, arts, and event ecosystems.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

ICDR is focused on responsible verification, dancer privacy, guardian involvement, and trusted studio affiliation. It is designed to support the practical realities of competitive dance while helping the industry modernize safely.

1. What is the mission and vision of Teranet?

At Teranet, our vision is to be the trusted partner to governments and businesses in building stronger communities and economies.

Our mission is to efficiently connect government, business, and consumers through the delivery and transformation of registry services, data insights, and ecosystem platform solutions, while maintaining the highest standards of reliability and integrity.

For more than 30 years, Teranet has been a trusted partner to governments and businesses, delivering and modernizing critical registry infrastructure across Canada. As Canada’s leader in statutory registry services, Teranet combines unmatched registry expertise with reliable data and insightful solutions that help support secure transactions, informed decision making, and stronger communities and economies.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

As economies become increasingly digital, trust in identity, ownership, and authoritative data has become foundational to how business is conducted.

Organizations need confidence that the people, businesses, and assets they interact with are legitimate, verified, and supported by secure systems. Without that trust, the risk of fraud, financial crime, and operational inefficiency increases significantly.

In Canada, this is especially important in sectors such as real estate, lending, and public registries, where fragmented data systems and increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes continue to create risk. Digital trust is no longer simply a compliance requirement. It is essential infrastructure that supports market confidence, economic growth, and long-term resilience.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Digital trust will reshape the economy by enabling faster, more secure, and more connected transactions across industries, jurisdictions, and digital ecosystems.

As governments and businesses modernize, there is growing demand for systems that can verify identity, validate ownership, and provide trusted access to authoritative data in real time. At the same time, fragmented systems and limited interoperability continue to create vulnerabilities that can be exploited, particularly in high-value sectors such as real estate and financial services.

This is where Teranet plays a critical role.

Through our registry expertise, secure infrastructure, and advanced data solutions, Teranet helps organizations reduce risk, improve transparency, and make more confident decisions. We continue to invest in technologies such as advanced analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence to strengthen fraud detection, improve due diligence, and support more connected registry ecosystems built on a single source of truth.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada has a strong foundation to lead in digital trust, supported by trusted institutions, a mature regulatory environment, and a history of innovation in public infrastructure.

As digital identity and ownership verification become increasingly important, Canada has an opportunity to lead by building more connected registry systems, advancing stronger data standards, and improving interoperability across jurisdictions. Achieving this will require collaboration between governments, industry, and technology leaders to modernize critical infrastructure while balancing transparency, privacy, and security.

At Teranet, we believe registries are foundational to that future. As authoritative systems of record, modernized registries play a critical role in strengthening trust and supporting a more resilient digital economy.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

Teranet joined the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada because building digital trust requires collaboration across sectors.

DIACC brings together leaders from government, technology, and industry to help shape the standards and partnerships needed to support a secure and trusted digital economy. Teranet is proud to contribute our experience in operating critical registry infrastructure and delivering trusted digital solutions that support secure transactions and stronger market confidence.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

Teranet is Canada’s leader in the delivery and transformation of statutory registry services, with more than 30 years of experience supporting governments, businesses, and consumers through secure registry infrastructure, authoritative data, and innovative digital solutions.

For more than three decades, governments have trusted Teranet to securely operate critical registry systems that support millions of transactions every year with exceptional reliability, security, and performance. Teranet’s platforms support over 10 million land-related transactions annually with 99.9 percent system availability and zero known security breaches over the past decade.

Beyond registry operations, Teranet delivers innovative data and technology solutions that help customers improve decision making, manage risk, and combat fraud across real estate, lending, legal, and government sectors. Solutions such as GeoWarehouse® and PurView® provide customers with access to authoritative insights built on one of the most trusted data foundations in Canada.

Teranet is wholly owned by OMERS Infrastructure, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System.

1. What is the mission and vision of GLEIF?

GLEIF’s vision is one verifiable, trusted, global identity behind every business. Its mission is to empower global trust and transparency through open, digital, and reliable organizational identity services.

GLEIF advances this mission through the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and its digital counterpart, the verifiable LEI (vLEI). The LEI is a globally standardized code that enables clear and unique identification of legal entities. The vLEI extends verified organizational identity into the digital domain, enabling counterparties to computationally verify the identity, authority, and role of a person acting on behalf of a legal entity.

Together, the LEI and vLEI support more trusted, efficient, and interoperable business relationships across borders, sectors, and digital ecosystems.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Digital trust depends on knowing which organization is involved in a transaction, relationship, or exchange of information. As business becomes more digital and cross-border, organizations need reliable ways to identify legal entities, counterparties, suppliers, customers, and authorized representatives.

In established markets, trusted organizational identity can reduce friction in compliance, onboarding, payments, reporting, and supply chain due diligence. In emerging markets, it can help organizations demonstrate their legitimacy, access services, and participate more confidently in global commerce.

The LEI and vLEI provide a standardized foundation for this trust. They make organizational identity data more consistent, transparent, and reusable across systems and jurisdictions.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Digital trust and identity verification can help economies operate with greater confidence by reducing uncertainty about who organizations are, who owns them, and who is authorized to act on their behalf. This is relevant across financial services, payments, supply chains, digital credentials, regulatory reporting, and cross-border trade.

GLEIF addresses these challenges by maintaining and advancing the Global LEI System, an internationally recognized infrastructure for organizational identity. The Global LEI Index makes standardized legal entity reference data openly available, while the vLEI brings verified organizational identity into digital workflows.

This helps create a common identity layer that can be used across sectors and jurisdictions, rather than relying on fragmented, organization-specific approaches.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada has an opportunity to show how public and private sector collaboration can support trusted, interoperable digital identity ecosystems. Through organizations such as DIACC, Canada is convening the policy, standards, certification, and implementation discussions needed to make digital trust practical and widely adopted.

From GLEIF’s perspective, Canada can play a strong role by aligning domestic digital trust initiatives with globally interoperable standards. This is especially important for organizational identity, where businesses, regulators, and service providers need trusted identity information that works across borders.

By connecting Canadian digital trust initiatives with global identity infrastructure such as the LEI and vLEI, Canada can support services that are locally relevant and internationally interoperable.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

GLEIF joined DIACC to contribute to Canada’s digital trust and identity verification ecosystem and to learn from the organizations shaping it. DIACC brings together public and private sector leaders working on practical frameworks, certification, and adoption pathways for trusted digital services.

As digital wallets, credentials, authentication services, and verification tools continue to develop, they need a reliable organizational identity layer. The LEI and vLEI are designed to support that need.

By joining DIACC as a Sustaining Member, GLEIF aims to support trusted, interoperable organizational identity in Canada and contribute global expertise from the LEI and vLEI ecosystems.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is a not-for-profit organization established by the Financial Stability Board in June 2014. GLEIF supports the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier and the verifiable LEI to advance trusted organizational identity worldwide.

The LEI is used globally to provide clear and unique identification of legal entities. In Q1 2026, the active LEI population surpassed 3 million, reflecting growing demand for standardized organizational identity across sectors and regions. GLEIF is also advancing the vLEI as a digital credential for organizational identity, with ISO 17442-3 published in 2024 to standardize vLEIs across the global LEI ecosystem.

1. What is the mission and vision of EIS?

Our Mission is to ensure Operational Integrity by offering cost-effective, risk-based solutions with significant ROI and by building digital trust across the financial sector through a platform that establishes a secure perimeter. One that forensically validates users at the point of transaction, preventing risk before it infiltrates the system. Our vision is to secure the Canadian identity landscape through our Smarter Processing Platform, moving beyond legacy standards to a higher standard of Identity Validation and ongoing Authentication, coupled with a permanent Biological Anchor to ensure authenticity and security.

It is common knowledge that many identity verification sources are rife with fraud. Verifying against pollution within the institutional databases is 1:1 matching against fraudulent activity; the objective is to identify and stop fraud before it gets into the systems, and to filter out synthetic identities before they can cause irreparable harm.

The EIS Smarter Processing Platform is the only comprehensive solution existing today that accomplishes both – built to overcome synthetic identities, even those with genuine government-issued credentials.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Organized crime has set a pace for change that legacy systems cannot match. In 2025, the CAFC and the Competition Bureau confirmed that Canadians lost over $7 billion to fraud, a figure projected to rise to $8.8 billion in 2026 when accounting for non-reporting rates.

For businesses, the stakes are even higher:

• Revenue Loss: Canadian businesses lost $111 billion to fraud over the past year, equivalent to 7.2% of total revenue, a 42% increase from 2024.
• Synthetic Failure: Synthetic fraud persists because we are allowing institutions to continue to use legacy manual and 1:1 matching processes; NIST IAL2 security levels are simply not sufficient within operations that involve the validation and use of identity. Outdated operating processes and systems, both manual and digital, are fueling digital vulnerabilities. Synthetic Identity Fraud is fueled by outdated, manual, paper-based processes that integrate with digital environments to technology-enabled threats, from automated bots to deepfakes. Today, synthetic fraud accounts for over 26% of total fraud losses, highlighting a critical failure in legacy practices integrated with identity verification.
• The Identity Factory: Organized crime Identity Factories fueled by data breaches and « Agentic AI » are successfully exploiting system gaps to assemble « genuine but fraudulent » personas, which legitimize criminal identities by exploiting gaps in processes, fueling organized crime.
• Inertia & Lack of Understanding: Governments are trying to legislate and organize themselves out of a crisis, while in the meantime, inertia is fueled by a lack of understanding and individual agendas. This cycle can only be broken when we demystify the processes fueling the fraud, establish standards for enforced adoption, and drive personal and corporate accountability for results, making it impossible for individual organizations to operate differently.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Fraud fuels criminality and destabilizes economies at scale. The financial impacts of fraud are paralyzing businesses at all levels and affecting consumers across all areas, from job loss to unaffordable living costs.

We cannot continue to allow government and corporate stakeholders to use legacy habits that enable fraud. Digital trust will transform the economy by ensuring financial security and resilience. By shifting the burden of proof from « KYC – what you know » to « KYC – who they really are » through sequential, thorough, Identity & Veracity Validation practices, combined with persistent, ongoing biometric authentication, and secured by threat-resistant systems and Cryptographic Biometric Binding.

This prevents the « false validation » of synthetic, criminal identities. It establishes a biological disconnection, allowing bad actors to be removed from the economy and the country, and enables the government to act through asset forfeiture and various supporting legislation. EIS addresses these challenges through our API- Driven Intelligence Layer, which provides:

Immediate Transition: A plug-and-play transition to our platform offering NIST IAL3 and AAL3 level validation without requiring major capital expense, and a « rip and replace » of core infrastructure.

• The Biological Anchor: We establish a permanent link between the natural human and their verified credentials, using the Jumio Global Network to cross-reference over 1 billion identities in real-time to filter out synthetic profiles.
• Forensic Veracity: We integrate Clearspeed technology, which identifies neurophysiological risk indicators in the voice within 60 seconds during client attestation. The only platform with a defence against legitimate credentials assigned by the government.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

For Canada to continue operating according to its values, it must move beyond provincial silos and outdated practices to a national approach backed by stringent legislation and standards. As Auditor General Karen Hogan stated, Canadians must trust that their identity is verified and protected by the highest standards of operational processes and cybersecurity to prevent systemic fraud. The Federal and Provincial systems must quickly align; the regulators must increase their awareness and align their policies. Sovereign Identity Practices are critical to protect the country and our economy. Canada is currently strengthening its legislative and enforcement framework through the following active measures:

• Bill C-8, the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act: This legislation reintroduces the framework of the former Bill C-26 to secure Canada’s critical infrastructure. As of March 26, 2026, the bill passed its Third Reading in the House of Commons and is currently at the First Reading in the Senate.
• Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act: This Act received Royal Assent on March 26, 2026. It modernizes asylum processing and provides the CBSA and law enforcement with enhanced tools to support border security and combat transnational organized crime.
• Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Tabled for First Reading on March 12, 2026, this bill reintroduces and refines the « Lawful Access » regime (previously proposed in Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act of 2025) to provide timely access to information for national security investigations.
• National Strategy: The implementation of the National Anti-Fraud Strategy and the architecture of the new Canada Financial Crimes Agency are foundational steps toward a unified enforcement perimeter.
• Financial Oversight: The Minister of Finance and National Revenue is working to introduce legislation to establish the Agency by the Spring of 2026. The Federal government is working to lead this transition and ensure a coordinated federal response to systemic financial crime. The provinces are also working on their operational planning. However, the pace of change and lack of national cohesion are costing Canadians daily.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

EIS joined the DIACC to support the architecture of Sovereign Standards and Solutions aligned with the highest global security standards, such as NIST SP 800-63 Revision 4 (July 2025). We are committed to a unified national approach that mandates the use of NIST IAL3 Biological Anchors to protect Canadians’ integrity. We are also committed to bridging the fallacy of manual vs digital oversight; we need to adopt a 360-degree view towards Identity Protection. We hope that, through DIACC, we can help increase the pace and effectiveness of resolution.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

Electronic Imaging Systems Corp. (EIS) has a foundational history of architecting the secure infrastructure
that underpins Canada’s digital economy. We are the pioneers behind the patented cheque imaging and remote deposit technology that catalyzed the migration from paper-based to electronic clearing for major global banks. This innovation has yielded billions in operational savings for the financial sector by eliminating the risks of physical transport and manual processing.

Furthermore, EIS was instrumental in the architecture and delivery of the Teranet project, in which millions of manual drawings and records were digitized and catalogued to a customized hierarchy to form the secure infrastructure for the Province of Ontario’s Electronic Land Registration System. This remains a global benchmark for the integrity and remote accessibility of digital statutory registries.

With a deep understanding of how fraud can destabilize institutions, we intentionally designed the EIS Smarter
Processing Platform to move beyond the status quo of simple 1:1 data matching. Our solution was built to address the « Identity Factory » threat, where criminals obtain legitimate credentials through fraudulent means by establishing a permanent Biological Anchor. We combine our proprietary capabilities with a strategic integration of Jumio, Clearspeed, and ComplyAdvantage to provide a self-funding ROI model:

• The Fraud Multiplier: Our platform addresses the critical financial risk where the fraud multiplier for Canadian institutions has reached$4.99 for every $1 lost; a single $10,000 fraud event costs an organization nearly $50,000 in investigation and recovery fees.
• Appropriate AI: Our AI operates within strictly defined security boundaries where outputs are deterministic, logged, and auditable, aligning with ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 privacy frameworks.
• Sovereign Data Residency: EIS infrastructure is built specifically for Canadian data residency and exceeds Government, Telecom, and Treasury security standards, ensuring that all identity data remains protected under Canadian jurisdiction.

Contact Information for Official Correspondence:

Corporate Representatives:

• Rose Kramer, President (rmk@eisca.com)
• Kaileen Millard Ruff, Chief Customer Advisor (Kaileen@eisca.com)

1. What is the mission and vision of deepidv?

Mission: To be the definitive AI-native platform for full verification — identity, authenticity, and trust — protecting people, businesses, and systems against deepfakes, fraud, and emerging digital threats in real time.

Vision: To establish deepidv as the global standard for verification across every layer — who someone is, whether what you’re seeing is real, and whether you can trust the interaction. From document and biometric verification to deepfake detection, fraud prevention, and continuous monitoring, deepidv covers the entire trust lifecycle. The long-term play is UAIIP as the universal protocol underpinning verification for both humans and AI agents worldwide.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Digital trust and identity verification are critical because the speed of digital interaction has outpaced the infrastructure built to support it.

In existing markets like financial services, real estate, insurance, and healthcare, organizations are bleeding money on fraud, drowning in compliance costs, and relying on legacy verification tools that only solve one piece of the problem. KYC/AML is still largely manual. Fraud losses run into the tens of billions. The tools they have are fragmented and reactive.

In emerging markets like Web3, AI agent commerce, the gig economy, and age verification, the problem is worse: there’s often no trust infrastructure at all. You can’t scale cross-border fintech without verifying users who don’t have traditional credit histories. You can’t let AI agents transact without a verification layer for non-human actors. You can’t enforce age restrictions with any real teeth.

On top of all of this, the deepfake and synthetic media crisis is accelerating across every sector. Forged documents, synthetic faces beating liveness checks, AI-generated voice and video used for fraud and social engineering. « Seeing is believing » is dead, and no incumbent player is addressing it comprehensively.

The bottom line: digital trust isn’t a feature, it’s infrastructure. The same way commerce can’t function without payments rails, the next decade of digital interaction can’t function without verification rails that cover identity, authenticity, fraud, and continuous monitoring in one layer.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Digital trust and identity verification will transform economies by unlocking the full potential of digital commerce, financial inclusion, and cross-border interaction. When trust is embedded into infrastructure, markets move faster, fraud costs drop, regulatory compliance becomes scalable, and entirely new sectors like AI agent commerce and decentralized finance can mature. Globally, the verification market is projected to grow into the tens of billions precisely because every industry is realizing that digital scale without digital trust is a liability.

In Canada specifically, this transformation supports the growth of fintech, proptech, and the digital services economy while addressing rising fraud, identity theft, and regulatory demands around AML and privacy compliance. It also positions Canadian companies to export trust infrastructure globally, particularly into emerging markets that lack legacy systems and are building digital-first.

deepidv addresses the challenges of this transformation by providing a single AI-native platform that covers the full verification lifecycle, not just identity. We handle document and biometric verification, deepfake and synthetic media detection, real-time fraud and behavioral risk scoring, background intelligence, and continuous monitoring. Where incumbents offer fragmented point solutions, deepidv delivers one integrated layer that works across industries and geographies. Our hardware line, deepcam, extends that same trust layer into the physical world for access control and surveillance. And our long-term protocol vision, UAIIP, is designed to establish a universal verification standard for both humans and AI agents, ensuring the infrastructure scales with the economy rather than falling behind it.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada is uniquely positioned to lead in digital trust and identity verification due to its strong AI research ecosystem, progressive privacy regulation, and established reputation as a trusted jurisdiction for financial services and technology exports. The country’s investment in AI through hubs like the Vector Institute and MILA, combined with frameworks like PIPEDA and emerging provincial digital ID initiatives, creates a foundation that few countries can match. Canada has the opportunity to set global standards for how verification infrastructure is built and exported, particularly into emerging markets that need trusted, privacy-respecting solutions from day one. deepidv is building exactly that from Toronto, with the ambition to make Canadian trust infrastructure a global export.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

We joined the DIACC because digital trust isn’t something any single company builds alone. DIACC is at the center of Canada’s digital identity ecosystem, shaping the frameworks, standards, and policy conversations that will define how verification infrastructure scales nationally and globally. Being part of that community allows deepidv to contribute our perspective as a full verification platform while staying aligned with the direction the broader ecosystem is moving. It also positions us alongside the institutions, governments, and technology partners who share the goal of making Canada a global leader in digital trust.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

deepidv isn’t just another identity verification company. We’re building the infrastructure layer for trust in a world where you can no longer believe what you see, hear, or read online. Our platform covers the full spectrum of verification, from identity and document checks to deepfake detection, fraud prevention, behavioral risk scoring, and continuous monitoring, all in one AI-native system.

We’re a small, focused team operating across Toronto, San Francisco, and Dallas, moving at a pace that incumbents in this space simply can’t match. We’ve closed a $1M seed round, built hardware and software product lines simultaneously, and are actively deploying across verticals like proptech, fintech, and emerging markets. Our long-term vision is UAIIP, a universal protocol for verifying both humans and AI agents, because the next wave of digital interaction won’t just be person to person. It will be agent to agent, and nobody has built the trust layer for that yet.

What sets us apart is that we see verification as a lifecycle, not a checkpoint. The industry has been stuck on one-time identity checks while fraud, deepfakes, and synthetic media have evolved far beyond what those tools can catch. deepidv exists to close that gap entirely.

1. What is the mission and vision of ProofofID?

ProofOfID’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations with secure, user-controlled digital identity solutions that enable trusted, frictionless interactions across physical and digital environments.
We envision a world where identity is no longer a liability but an asset, where individuals own, control, and consent to how their data is shared, and organizations can instantly verify trust without compromising privacy. ProofOfID aims to become a foundational layer in the global digital trust ecosystem, enabling interoperable, privacy-preserving identity verification at scale.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Digital trust is the backbone of today’s economy. As services move online, from banking and healthcare to government and commerce, verifying identity securely and accurately becomes crucial. In existing markets, the challenge is to reduce fraud, streamline compliance, and improve the user experience. Identity fraud, synthetic identities, and data breaches continue to cost billions annually.
In emerging markets, the opportunity is even more transformative. Trusted digital identity unlocks financial inclusion, access to government services, and participation in the digital economy for millions who are currently underserved.
Without a trusted identity:
– Transactions cannot be secured
– Services cannot scale safely
– Inclusion remains limited

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Digital trust will fundamentally reshape how economies operate by:
– Reducing fraud and compliance costs ands accelerating onboarding and service delivery.
– Enabling cross-border digital commerce and empowering individuals with control over their data.
However, this transformation introduces key challenges such as privacy concerns and data misuse, fragmented identity systems, lack of interoperability, and growing sophistication of fraud.

ProofOfID addresses these challenges by:
– Enabling user-consented identity sharing (trust to authorize), putting individuals in control.
– Providing real-time validation and fraud detection signals.
– Designing for interoperability with existing ecosystems and standards.
– Minimizing data exposure through secure, decentralized, and tokenized identity verification
Our approach shifts identity from being stored and vulnerable to being dynamically verified and controlled.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada is uniquely positioned to lead globally in digital trust due to its strong regulatory frameworks, innovation ecosystem, and commitment to privacy. Through organizations like DIACC, Canada has already established itself as a pioneer in:
– Pan-Canadian trust frameworks
– Public-private collaboration
– Standards-based interoperability
Canada’s role should lead by showcasing trusted solutions like ProofOfID, setting global benchmarks for privacy-respecting digital identity, fostering innovation, maintaining trust and security, and enabling cross-border interoperability with like-minded nations.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

ProofOfID joined DIACC to collaborate with industry leaders and contribute to the development of a trusted, interoperable digital identity ecosystem in Canada.
We believe that solving identity challenges requires collective effort, not isolated innovation. DIACC provides a platform to:
– Align with national standards and frameworks
– Contribute our expertise in user-controlled identity and fraud prevention
– Partner with organizations shaping the future of digital trust
Our participation reflects our commitment to building solutions that are not only innovative but also aligned with Canada’s broader digital trust vision.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

ProofOfID is a patent-backed digital identity platform designed to redefine how identity is shared and verified.
Key differentiators include:
– User-centric identity control; individuals approve and monitor how their identity is used
– Fraud prevention by design; real-time alerts and verification signals help detect suspicious activity
– Scalable and interoperable architecture; built to integrate across industries and jurisdictions
– Enterprise and government-read; supporting high-volume, high-assurance identity use cases
– It’s not just another one-time KYC/IDV solution; it enables the reuse of verified PII data.
As we enter the market, our focus is on enabling secure digital ecosystems across financial services, telecommunications, government, and beyond while ensuring trust remains at the core of every interaction.

1. What is the mission and vision of RegHub?

To simplify identity verification and modernize access to registry services by providing a trusted, consolidated solution for Know Your Business (KYB), Know Your Customer (KYC), and PPSA search and registration services.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Trustworthy digital identity is critical to both established and emerging markets because it enables organizations to confidently verify individuals and businesses, prevent fraud, and comply with regulatory requirements while delivering seamless digital experiences. Organizations must balance strong verification and compliance obligations with the need to deliver fast, low-friction digital experiences.

RegHub addresses these challenges by providing a consolidated workflow across the full lending lifecycle—identity verification, onboarding, and funding. By offering KYC, KYB, and PPSA registration and search in a single platform, RegHub enables organizations to see more connected data across the lending process—from identity verification through to security lien activity sourced from trusted government registries.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Digital identity will transform the Canadian and global economy by enabling secure, trusted digital interactions as financial services, government programs, and commerce move online. RegHub addresses these challenges by providing a consolidated workflow across the full lending lifecycle—identity verification, onboarding, and funding.

By offering KYC, KYB, and PPSA registration and search in a single platform, RegHub enables organizations to see more connected data across the lending process—from identity verification through to security lien activity sourced from trusted government registries.

For Know Your Business (KYB), RegHub provides an automated attestor workflow aligned with the requirements of Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) to capture Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) information, combined with PEP and sanctions screening and government-sourced corporate registry results. An interactive ownership diagram visually maps multiple layers of ownership, helping compliance teams clearly identify and validate the true UBO.

By connecting identity verification with registry and lien activity, RegHub gains broader visibility across the onboarding and funding process. This allows the platform to actively monitor data signals and generate insights that help organizations combat fraud and manage risk more effectively. Through Next-Generation Registry technology delivered via APIs and the RegHub Portal, organizations can automate compliance workflows, improve operational efficiency, and significantly reduce onboarding and funding costs.

Together, this integrated approach helps organizations build trusted digital relationships, strengthen compliance, and support the continued evolution of digital identity in Canada and global markets.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada is well positioned to lead in digital identity by advancing trusted, privacy-focused frameworks that support secure digital transactions while maintaining strong data protection. With established regulatory oversight and trusted government registries, Canada can set global standards for transparency, fraud prevention, and responsible identity verification.

RegHub supports this leadership by connecting KYC, KYB, and PPSA registration and search within a single workflow, leveraging trusted government data to verify identities, confirm Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) through an attestor process aligned with Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada requirements, and provide visibility into security lien activity. Through API-driven and portal-based registry technology, RegHub helps organizations improve compliance, reduce fraud, and operate more efficiently in a trusted digital identity ecosystem

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

RegHub joined the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) to support the development of a trusted and interoperable digital identity ecosystem in Canada. As digital identity becomes critical to financial services, lending, and digital commerce, collaboration between industry and government is essential to establish strong standards and reduce fraud.

RegHub contributes practical expertise through our integrated KYC, KYB, and registry solutions, helping advance secure, compliant identity verification while improving efficiency and trust in digital transactions

6. What else should we know about your organization?

Key Points About RegHub

1. End-to-End Digital Verification: RegHub offers a consolidated workflow across KYC, KYB, and PPSA registration/search, giving organizations a full view of individuals and businesses throughout the lending and compliance lifecycle.

2. Regulatory Alignment: Our KYB workflow is automated and attestor-based, fully aligned with Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) requirements, including UBO collection, PEP/sanctions screening, and government-sourced corporate registry validation.

3. Fraud Prevention & Risk Insights: By combining identity verification with registry and security lien data, RegHub actively monitors and generates insights to combat fraud and reduce operational risk.

4. Interactive Ownership Transparency: Our ownership diagrams map complex corporate structures, helping organizations identify and validate the true Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO).

5. Next-Gen Technology: Delivered via APIs and the RegHub Portal, our platform supports automation, operational efficiency, and cost reduction while providing seamless access to trusted government data.

6. Trusted Partner in Canada’s Digital Identity Ecosystem: RegHub is committed to supporting DIACC’s mission to create a secure, interoperable digital identity ecosystem, helping Canada set global standards for privacy, trust, and innovation

1. What is the mission and vision of Dabadu.ai?

Digital identity will transform the global economy by enabling instant verification, reducing friction, strengthening fraud prevention, and supporting cross-border trust. In Canada, this transformation is particularly important given the country’s leadership in privacy protection, interoperability, and standards-based frameworks.

Dabadu embeds digital identity directly into dealership and lender workflows rather than treating it as a separate step. Our ID Verification and TrustShield services operate within the sales and finance process, helping ensure every transaction meets lender-grade compliance requirements while safeguarding consumer data. By integrating identity, compliance, and workflow automation, we help automotive organizations reduce risk, eliminate manual verification, and scale digital operations with confidence.

2. Why is trustworthy digital identity critical for existing and emerging markets?

Trustworthy digital identity is a cornerstone of any digital economy. It enables organizations to confidently verify who they are interacting with, reduces fraud, and builds consumer confidence in digital transactions.

In industries like automotive retail and financing, where high-value transactions, sensitive personal data, and regulatory obligations intersect identity assurance is not optional. Without trusted digital identity, digital transformation cannot scale safely or sustainably. At Dabadu, we view identity as foundational infrastructure: the connective layer that enables secure, compliant, and efficient digital experiences across the entire customer journey.

3. How will digital identity transform the Canadian and global economy? How does your organization address challenges associated with this transformation?

Digital identity will transform the global economy by enabling instant verification, reducing friction, strengthening fraud prevention, and supporting cross-border trust. In Canada, this transformation is particularly important given the country’s leadership in privacy protection, interoperability, and standards-based frameworks.

Dabadu embeds digital identity directly into dealership and lender workflows rather than treating it as a separate step. Our ID Verification and TrustShield services operate within the sales and finance process, helping ensure every transaction meets lender-grade compliance requirements while safeguarding consumer data. By integrating identity, compliance, and workflow automation, we help automotive organizations reduce risk, eliminate manual verification, and scale digital operations with confidence.

4. What role does Canada have to play as a leader in this space?

Canada is uniquely positioned to lead globally in digital trust by demonstrating how innovation can coexist with strong privacy protections, transparency, and user control. Through initiatives like the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework and the leadership of DIACC, Canada is establishing a practical, interoperable model for digital identity.

As a Canadian company, Dabadu is committed to advancing this leadership by translating these principles into real-world industry adoption. We embed trust, privacy, and compliance directly into automotive workflows, ensuring that digital identity is not theoretical but operational, measurable, and impactful.

5. Why did your organization join the DIACC?

We joined DIACC because we share a common vision: a Canada where digital interactions are secure, privacy-preserving, and trusted by design. DIACC’s collaborative approach bringing together government, industry, and innovators is essential to building a resilient digital identity ecosystem.

For Dabadu, membership represents both a responsibility and an opportunity: to align our technology with nationally recognized trust frameworks, to contribute industry insight from the automotive sector, and to help accelerate adoption of trusted digital identity across high-impact commercial use cases.

6. What else should we know about your organization?

Dabadu.ai is an automotive technology ecosystem that unifies CRM, digital retailing, identity verification, and lender connectivity within a single platform. By reducing reliance on fragmented systems, Dabadu enables dealerships and lenders to operate from a shared, trusted source of data from lead intake and identity assurance through credit submission and funding.

Our platform is designed to ensure that every step of the customer journey is secure, compliant, and data-driven. With built-in identity verification, fraud prevention, and lender integrations, Dabadu is helping modernize automotive retail through a privacy-first, trust-centric approach. As a DIACC member, we are proud to contribute to Canada’s leadership in practical, interoperable digital identity adoption.

Quote from Pulkit Arora, Founder & CEO, Dabadu.ai

“You can’t build trust on disconnected systems. We built Dabadu to unify identity, compliance, and credit into a single trusted automotive ecosystem, one that works for businesses, lenders, and consumers alike.”