The future? Or a present reality? For Remco Voorhorst, Founder/CEO of Siip Group, it's crystal clear: 'Agentic AI and identity wallets are fundamentally changing how we organize access, ownership, and trust within the event landscape. Not as a distant future, but as something that is already happening now.'
January 6, 2026
Hanneke Kruijf fully concurs. As a Channel Consultant for Events at Siip Group, she sees that ID Wallets are a must-have in the events industry, and that, alongside Siip, more and more industry partners are writing about this topic. 'It's logical; an account and password are no longer sufficient. With AI, you can already disrupt queues and clone profiles.'
That's why Siip is participating in the panel at ESNS26, where this topic will be central
The topic that is central to Remco and Hanneke's daily work will be the focus of a panel at ESNS26.
During ESNS, Siip will discuss this with industry peers, focusing on what is already technically possible, what is legally necessary, and what remains socially desirable.
What does it mean when software can act on behalf of people, buy tickets, and arrange access, but only based on verifiable identity and explicit rights?
And what does that demand from organizers, artists, platforms, and visitors?
Good news for organizers and visitors
Without revealing too much about the answers to these questions, here's a reassurance:
Siip encourages the shift from tickets to credentials and to a verified, reusable digital identity that works seamlessly for purchase, access, and experience. Convenience, flow, and efficiency are paramount in this process, for both organizers and visitors.
The technology is already being widely applied.
Tens of thousands of visitors in Dutch professional football use it weekly, demonstrating that identity-based trust can function invisibly in large-scale environments.
Find Siip at ESNS here
During the panel discussion “From Ticket to Tribe”
on Friday, January 16 from 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
at De Oosterpoort – Kunstpunt.
And on Thursday and Friday, we'll be there for sure for interesting meetings.
Will you join us?
How ID wallets contribute
Watch the video here that Siip showed at ESNS26:
How agentic AI with an ID wallet can become a reliable reality.
