Clarc Invited to Global Digital Collaboration 2026, Geneva

Clarc has been invited to attend the Global Digital Collaboration (GDC) Conference 2026, taking place September 1–3 in Geneva, Switzerland. GDC is an invitation-only summit, hosted by the Swiss Confederation at Palexpo, that brings together roughly 2,000 sector leaders working on the world's digital trust infrastructure. Clarc is joining this year's edition.

What Global Digital Collaboration Is

The Global Digital Collaboration Conference is co-organized by the standards bodies, intergovernmental organizations, and industry alliances actively writing the rules for digital identity, verifiable credentials, and — increasingly — autonomous AI agents: ISO, IEC, W3C, the FIDO Alliance, GLEIF, GSMA, the Linux Foundation's Trust Over IP project, and the World Bank Group among them. Attendance runs by invitation from GDC's Co-Organizers rather than open registration, which makes the guest list itself a signal of who the ecosystem sees as building infrastructure that matters.

Built for Enterprises, Designed for the Ecosystem

For Clarc, the invitation is a recognition of the work we've been doing since our founding: building the trust and governance infrastructure that lets AI agents transact with real accountability. Clarc is built for enterprises and designed for the ecosystem — we don't compete with the commerce protocols, digital wallets, or payment rails an agent happens to use; we sit underneath all of them, verifying that an agent was authorized to act, enforcing the policy an enterprise set, and creating the audit trail finance and compliance teams need. That's exactly the layer GDC's 2026 agenda is wrestling with.

On the Agenda: Agentic Commerce and Agentic Payments

This year's programme spans three days of keynotes and more than 100 breakout sessions, and agentic payments gets real, dedicated airtime for the first time. Sessions on the agenda include:

• Trusted agent identity for commerce — how the industry is converging on standards for agent identity, consumer intent, merchant discovery, and payment execution, spanning emerging protocols in the AP2 and x402 family.
• Know Your Agent (KYA) in payments — demonstrations and debate on applying identity and control frameworks to agentic AI, grounded in real payment use cases.
• Trusted agentic payments built on digital identity — how the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), verifiable intent, and standards-based digital wallets can combine into one interoperable trust architecture for agent-initiated transactions.
• Delegated authority for agents acting on an organization's behalf — how an AI agent can carry an enterprise's verified credentials and mandates to complete real business tasks, with auditable limits on what it's allowed to do.
• A unified trust infrastructure for the "Internet of Agents" — extending decentralized identity and verifiable-credential standards to cover AI agents alongside people.

These are the exact questions Clarc exists to answer, not in theory but as AI agent governance infrastructure enterprises can deploy today. We're looking forward to sitting in these rooms, comparing notes with the standards bodies and protocol teams building the surrounding ecosystem, and finding the partners who want to build new solutions, strengthen protocols, and grow agentic payments together.

If you'll be in Geneva for GDC 2026 and want to compare notes on agentic payments, AI agent governance, or where Clarc Trust™ fits into your stack, talk to our team — we'd like to meet.