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Today, UNICC serves over 100 UN entities and other international organizations, operating in a global environment where secure, cross-agency collaboration is essential to fulfilling its mandates. Therefore, UNICC is uniquely positioned to identify and promote the reuse of open-source solutions across the UN system and beyond.\n\nOperating within the UN context requires strict adherence to institutional independence,\ntechnological neutrality, data privacy, and digital sovereignty. Matrix’s open, decentralized standard has helped UNICC ensure that sensitive inter-agency communications, crisis management, and incident response operations remain under complete institutional control, protected by end-to-end encryption.\n\nThis session explores UNICC’s practical journey in deploying Matrix at scale. Attendees\nwill gain insights into multi-tenant federation, open-source governance, and how\ndecentralized protocols provide a resilient, sovereign digital backbone for global public\ngoods.\n\nKey Takeaways:\n\n- Strategic Evolution: How UNICC shifted to open standards for global UN collaboration.\n- Digital Sovereignty \u0026amp; Data Protection: Protecting sensitive data through decentralized, end-to-end encrypted architecture that strengthens institutional control and reduces dependency on proprietary platforms.\n- Operational Value: Real-world benefits of federated communication in emergency response and automated workflows.\n\nLicensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","original_language":"eng","persons":["Sameer Chauhan"],"view_count":8,"promoted":false,"date":"2026-10-21T17:15:00.000+02:00","release_date":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000+02:00","updated_at":"2026-10-21T23:45:12.526+02:00","tags":["DNNLEW","2026","matrix-conf-2026","Public Sector sponsored by Element","Katherine","matrix-conf-2026-eng","matrix-conf-2026","Day 2"],"length":1257,"duration":1257,"thumb_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/103133-66fbc441-ce99-52e3-9c2a-df9f710b0bc9.jpg","poster_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/103133-66fbc441-ce99-52e3-9c2a-df9f710b0bc9_preview.jpg","timeline_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/103133-66fbc441-ce99-52e3-9c2a-df9f710b0bc9.timeline.jpg","thumbnails_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/103133-66fbc441-ce99-52e3-9c2a-df9f710b0bc9.thumbnails.vtt","frontend_link":"https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conference-2026-103133-open-secure-collaboration-at-scale-how-unicc-leverages-matrix","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/66fbc441-ce99-52e3-9c2a-df9f710b0bc9","conference_title":"The Matrix Conference 2026","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/matrix-conf-2026","related":[]},{"guid":"f67e16b0-034b-54fa-86af-4f4efa7fedc8","title":"Next Generation Matrix: P2P, DMLS and more!","subtitle":null,"slug":"matrix-conference-2026-102417-next-generation-matrix-p2p-dmls-and-more","link":"https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/7GYBAP/","description":"2026 has seen the resurgence of Next Generation Matrix research funded by Element, as we get back to futureproofing Matrix for the medium-long term.\n\nThe main project has been the return to P2P Matrix: embedding homeservers inside modern Matrix clients, speaking the very latest Matrix room versions, supporting arbitrary overlay networks.  This opens up the world of Matrix for pure mesh communications, and can radically improve metadata footprint (given in a world with no servers, there's nowhere for metadata to gather).  Funded by the Dutch Government, we announced this at last year's Matrix Conference in the Matrix State of the Union, and work began in earnest in April.  With first releases due in July, we should have an awful lot to talk about by the time of The Matrix Conference in October!\n\nAlongside this, there's also been a bunch of work around next generation encryption and yet more ways of marrying together Matrix and MLS, the IETF standard for group key exchange.  One of the more interesting directions has been Project Tachyon: what happens if you layer all of Matrix over Decentralised MLS, using MLS to define which devices can participate in the conversation - but use clientside Matrix state resolution for decentralised authorisation having decrypted the traffic?  In return you entirely solve the metadata problem: the server doesn't even know rooms exist; all it does is pass DMLS payloads around over to-device messages.\n\nIn this talk, we'll do a deeper dive into the latest P2P Matrix and DMLS work - and explore how Tachyon might also provide an answer to the eternal question of \"Portable Matrix\": how do you run Matrix over an existing store-and-forward protocol like SMTP, XMPP, ActivityPub, etc?\n\nLicensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","original_language":"eng","persons":["Matthew Hodgson"],"view_count":36,"promoted":false,"date":"2026-10-21T16:45:00.000+02:00","release_date":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000+02:00","updated_at":"2026-10-22T01:15:05.742+02:00","tags":["7GYBAP","2026","matrix-conf-2026","Next Gen Spec","Sofya","matrix-conf-2026-eng","matrix-conf-2026","Day 2"],"length":1620,"duration":1620,"thumb_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/102417-f67e16b0-034b-54fa-86af-4f4efa7fedc8.jpg","poster_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/102417-f67e16b0-034b-54fa-86af-4f4efa7fedc8_preview.jpg","timeline_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/102417-f67e16b0-034b-54fa-86af-4f4efa7fedc8.timeline.jpg","thumbnails_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/matrix-conf/2026/102417-f67e16b0-034b-54fa-86af-4f4efa7fedc8.thumbnails.vtt","frontend_link":"https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conference-2026-102417-next-generation-matrix-p2p-dmls-and-more","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/f67e16b0-034b-54fa-86af-4f4efa7fedc8","conference_title":"The Matrix Conference 2026","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/matrix-conf-2026","related":[]},{"guid":"0d58e4c6-483f-50b2-aae0-ebc8ece70243","title":"Digital Sovereignty Is No Longer a Buzzword — It's Procurement Policy","subtitle":null,"slug":"matrix-conference-2026-100495-digital-sovereignty-is-no-longer-a-buzzword-it-s-procurement-policy","link":"https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/MFBXVD/","description":"Just days before this conference, the European Commission adopted the **European Technological Sovereignty Package**, placing open source explicitly at the centre of Europe's digital strategy for the first time. The timing is not coincidental. It is the political response to a structural dependency Europe can no longer afford to ignore: critical infrastructure — including healthcare — running on platforms controlled by others.\n\nThis talk makes a practical argument: digital sovereignty has moved from political rhetoric to **procurement reality**. Across Europe, more than 20 governments have already chosen Matrix as their foundation for sovereign, vendor-agnostic communication — from Germany's Bundeswehr and BundesMessenger to France's Tchap and LaSuite, Sweden's SAFOS Chatt, and the European Commission itself. This is no longer a pilot phase. It is production infrastructure.\n\nHealthcare is where the argument becomes hardest — and most compelling. Germany's **TI-Messenger**, mandated by gematik and built on the Matrix open standard, connects over 150,000 healthcare organizations and reached 74 million statutory insured citizens in July 2025, making it the largest Matrix deployment worldwide. Yet real-world adoption reveals a tension that no technical standard alone can resolve: clinical staff default to WhatsApp not out of ignorance, but because it works and patients are already there. Studies show 82% of healthcare organizations carry significant shadow IT exposure, and the NHS has internally described WhatsApp use as a *\"privacy and clinical safety timebomb\"*. The problem is not the technology. It is incentives and governance.\n\nDrawing on experience as a healthcare IT vendor building on the Matrix protocol, this talk examines **three dimensions of sovereignty** — data, infrastructure, and protocol — and shows how Matrix uniquely addresses all three simultaneously, in contrast to WhatsApp, Signal, and Microsoft Teams. It traces lessons from government deployments to their implications for regulated healthcare, and covers the regulatory drivers now turning sovereignty from aspiration into obligation: NIS2 designates healthcare as an \"essential entity\" subject to proactive audits and fines up to €10 million; the EHDS mandates structured interoperability; and the EU Technological Sovereignty Package is beginning to shape procurement criteria directly.\n\nThe talk closes with a challenge to the Matrix community: the TI-Messenger specification is a blueprint, not a ceiling. Building shared certification frameworks for healthcare across Europe — and treating interoperability between Matrix vendors as a competitive strength rather than a threat — is the next step. The window, opened by this week's EU package, will not stay open indefinitely.\n\n**Attendees will leave with:** a clear framework for positioning Matrix in regulated procurement; an honest account of where adoption stalls and why; and a concrete call to action for the Matrix ecosystem in European healthcare.\n\nThe presentation argues that digital sovereignty in healthcare IT has shifted from an abstract ideal to a concrete procurement requirement, using the Matrix protocol as the case study for sovereign communication. It builds the case in three acts:\n\n1. The problem — clinical staff still default to WhatsApp despite sovereignty rhetoric; sovereignty means independence, not isolation.\n2. 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