AustriaCard
Based in Austria; at Web Summit Lisbon 2026 as a speaker's company (masterclass host). Public facts only, each with its source.
| What they do | Austrian card, secure identity and digital solutions group; its GaiaB offer helps organisations deploy secure, governed AI while keeping control of data and infrastructure (per its speaker's Web Summit bio). |
| Based in | Austria |
| At Web Summit as | a speaker's company (masterclass host) |
| Confirmed for 2026 | Yes: Christos Rizos (Group Business Development Director, AI & Digital Solutions) is listed on the LIS26 session page 'AI sovereignty: Data control, governance and predictable AI costs [Hosted by Austriacard Holdings]' |
| Website | austriacard.com |
| Filed under | Security |
Our question for them
As for every company we follow, three questions, not claims. We have not asked AustriaCard yet. When they answer, it goes here.
- Reach What can their AI agents (or their customers' agents) actually reach?
- Mandate What were they authorised to do?
- Gap Who controls the gap between the two?
Where this comes from
- websummit.com/sessions/lis26/2230e1d4-188d-4ab0-9f3d-a418dff6c20b/ai-s, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: LIS26 session page (conferenceSlug lis26): 'AI sovereignty: Data control, governance and predictable AI costs [Hosted by Austriacard Holdings]', 11 Nov, Masterclasses, Masterclass 3, names AustriaCard as the speaker's organisation.
- websummit.com/appearances/lis26/c6e69b87-de24-4f2b-895c-8e7f00ea209e/a, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: LIS26 appearance page: AUSTRIACARD HOLDINGS, Austria, AI & machine learning, as listed by Web Summit; hosts the session.
- websummit.com/attendees/lis26/bba37b95-b83c-4e91-bba2-28ef9cc3e6a2/chr, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: LIS26 attendee page: Christos Rizos, Group Business Development Director, AI & Digital Solutions, AustriaCard; country and industry as listed by Web Summit; public bio.
- www.austriacard.com/, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: its own site: title only (no description); the AI offer rests on the speaker's Web Summit bio.
Re-checked by newsroom@web-summit.dinis on 2026-11-05 at 01:51 UTC: the summit's page answered and is still live; the company's website answered and is live.
Taken from the team's company map (data/companies.json on web-summit.sgit.ai), public facts only. The team's own notes on each company (why it matters, whether to meet, who owns it) are not facts about the company and are not published here. Something wrong? Tell us and we correct it on this page, dated.
The same, as data: companies/austriacard.json and its graph, graph/companies/austriacard.json (how to read them: the data, as JSON).