Chairs' message. Open Identity Summit 2014

Welcome to the ""Open Identity Summit 2014"", which has been jointly organized by the Special Interest Groups BIOSIG within the German Computer Science Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik), the EU-funded FutureID Project, the Open eCard Project, the European Association for eIdentity and Security (EEMA), the SSEDIC2020 project, the TeleTrusT IT Security Association Germany, the organization OpenLimit, the SkIDentity Project, which aims at providing trustworthy identities for the cloud, and last but not least the Trusted Cloud Program supported by the German government. The chair furthermore wants to thank the ENX Association, the platinum sponsor of the conference. The international program committee performed a scientific review process according to the LNI guidelines with at least five reviews per paper and accepted 47 % of the 19 submitted papers as full scientific papers. Furthermore, the program committee has created a program including selected contributions of strong interest (further conference contributions) for the outlined scope of this conference. We would like to thank all authors for their contributions and the numerous reviewers for their work in the program committee.