Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights

Summary

The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success; the energy and enthusiasm was just incredible!We were delighted to be the anchor sponsor - thanks to The Matrix Foundation and everyone else that organised the conference, those who presented, the others sponsors and of course all those who attended!The overriding vibe of the conference was one of incredible momentum - with so many governments presenting on their Matrix-based initiatives, there was a genuine realisation that Matrix is the future of government and inter-governmental communications.The discussion between sessions, and in the evenings, had a consistent theme. Governments want communications that are:1. Digitally sovereign - meaning end-user organisations have complete autonomy over their technology stack. Crucially, that means no vendor lock-in. That so many competing vendors sponsored and attended The Matrix Conference underlines the health of the Matrix ecosystem.2. Interoperable - to both enable digital sovereignty and ensure that separate organisations can easily communicate with each other. The interoperability delivered by the Matrix open standard is absolutely crucial in enabling large-scale federated communications between multiple organisations.3. Resilient - a decentralised communications network provides a far more robust communications architecture than a centralised network, which is paramount for government communications (as we write this blog post, Signal, Slack, Zoom and others are down due to their centralised design and a dependency on AWS).4. Secure - end-to-end encryption is, of course, fundamental and viewed as ‘table stakes.’An open standard based on open source software, Matrix delivers the digital sovereignty, interoperability, resilience and security that governments need to transform the way they communicate; both within their own nation and across borders. These are the key benefits driving Matrix adoption.The Matrix Conference on-demandAll the presentations given at The Matrix ...