SPEAKERS 2024

Gatis Ozols

Deputy State Secretary on Digital Transformation Issues at the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia

Government CIO. Responsible for national and government digital transformation policy & strategy development and steering. The current focal areas of the team are public service digital transformation, government ICT governance & government as a platform implementation, and building an ecosystem to fuel the data economy.


Hans de Moel

Director at the Biometrics Institute

Hans de Moel was appointed as a Director of the Biometrics Institute in 2016, actively promoting the Institute’s mission of responsible, ethical and effective use of biometrics.  Hans is a chemical engineer with extensive experience in biometrics, document examination and border control and has worked for the Netherlands Forensic Institute, the Ministry of Defence, and participated in several FRONTEX Working Groups.

Claudio Kavrecic

Head of the Operational Support System Unit

Claudio Kavrecic joined Frontex in July 2007 and worked in the Operations Division of Frontex as Head of Air Border Sector, leading external border operations the EU airports until January 2018. Since, he started the Centre of Excellence in Frontex and participates regularly in ICAO, European Commission and INTERPOL meetings related to document and identity fraud.

Jack Hamande

Director General at BOSA

Jack joined the FPS BOSA in 2021 as Director General Digital transformation. Jack holds a master's degree in industrial and commercial psychology from ULB with a specialization in organization development. 

BOSA

Ēriks Vismanis & Liis Vilde

Ēriks Vismanis, Head of the development of IDs and related technological solutions at LATVIA, Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs.

Liis Vilde, Sales Director Nordics and Baltics at Veridos GmbH.

Veridos

Vincent Gourmelen

Marketing Director at Linxens

Experienced in different technological fields such as: M2M, Industrial IOT, GPS, security printing, issuance system, microcontrollers, operating system, biometric identification, card manufacturing.

Linxens

Olatunji (Tunji) Durodola

Founder/Executive Chairman at URBAN ID

UrbanID is a project offering a robust disruptive Personal Identity ecosystem, built for Personal Identity across borders with mutual recognition. Security and Data Privacy are our watchwords. We will NEVER compromise on the demands to maintain and sustain the highest standards for Person Identity and Assurance expected of us.

UrbanID is about creating a new world of Identity Management.

Udo Sommer

Manager Regional Marketing at Infineon Technologies  


Udo Sommer is working at Infineon Technologies as Regional Marketing Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. In more than 20 years in the smartcard industry he gained a broad knowledge about the market and solutions for eGovernment projects.

Infineon Technologies

Oliver Hitz

Senior Consultant at secunet Security Networks AG

Oliver Hitz has spent his whole career in the id document and border control sector, starting out as a working student during his studies at the Technical University in Munich. His first full time role was developing border control software, followed by different positions in technical consultant roles at different companies with a high focus on solutions regarding security documents, border control and especially biometric systems. At the moment he is supporting secunets customers to build solutions in anticipation of the Entry-Exit System launch in Europe.

Secunet-Protecting Digital Infrastructures, Germany’s leading cybersecurity company.

András Horváth

Sales Director Government Business Unit at Jura JSP GmbH 

András Horváth is a lawyer by profession, who works as the Sales Director for Jura’s Government Business Unit. Before joining Jura, he had already been involved in the field of photo-carrying documents as a Special Advisor for the KYC unit of an international bank. Since joining Jura he has been responsible for the global promotion of ICAO-recommended software-based graphical art solutions to crossprotect the portrait with the document data.

Seyit Ali KAYA

Regional Manager at Iris ID Systems Inc.

Seyit Ali Kaya is the Regional Manager of Iris ID Systems Inc., overseeing Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Türkiye. With two decades of professional experience in information technology, telecommunication, analytics, and biometrics, Seyit Ali has made significant contributions to various multinational high-tech companies and spearheaded numerous national and regional projects. His expertise spans diverse domains, including smart cities, data centers, telecommunication, border management, and biometrics among others.

Iris Recognition from IRIS ID.  Leading the World of Identity Authentication.

Sergey Yeliseyev

Head of government eID unit at X INFOTECH

Sergey Yeliseyev has 15+ years of experience in the smart card and identity document business. Prior to setting up X Infotech in 2006, he worked in sales positions at a major Nordic software and services company.

Antonello Mincone

Business Development Director at Neurotechnology

Antonello Mincone is the Business Development Director for Neurotechnology. He has more than 17 years of experience in the biometric industry, working in direct contact with leading system integrators for national biometric systems worldwide. He has developed fingerprint-matching algorithms for both large-scale systems and innovative microcontrollers, and he has academic experience with iris recognition algorithms as well.

Neurotechnology

Rein Süld

Program Manager at the Information Technology and Development Centre at the Estonian Ministry of the Interior (SMIT) 

Head of IT architecture with 12 years experience in banking and public sector. Broad expertise in e-banking, biometrics, identity management, telecommunication, software development management, security architecture.

Edgars Stafeckis

CEO & Co-founde at TrustLynx

Edgars Stafeckis had advanced in his career from consultant and project manager to pre-sales to member of the board position in charge of marketing, pre-sales and innovations. That is where he, together with his co-founder, came up with the innovative solution for companies to easily and securely integrate trust services in business systems and processes - TrustLynx. 

Ingemārs Liakovicus

Director of commerce department at Latvijas Valsts Radio Televīzijas Centrs (LVRTC)


Ingus Staltmanis

CEO at Undecim

For over 20 years, Ingus Staltmanis has worked in IT with banks, fintech, telco, and blockchain projects. He has a wide network in the European Union, as he has worked with leading companies in the industry.

Rocío Martínez Vidaurrázaga

Regional Director at Entrust 


Rocío Martínez Computer Engineer, Master in Software Engineering and CISA certification. She has more than 15 years of experience in the Information Security sector, specializing in Digital Identity solutions: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Identity Management, Encryption, Electronic Signature and Authentication.

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