2022 Speakers:

Shiv Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of EarthId, an award-winning decentralised identity management platform. Shiv is currently leading EarthId towards a vision of driving inclusion through the power of a self-sovereign identity for all human beings. Shiv is a thought leader in the blockchain and...

Mr. Bach comes along with a vast experience in the semiconductor industry for chip card IC´s. After finishing his university studies with a degree in industrial engineering and management at the technical university of Darmstadt, Germany he joined in 1996 the Chip Card & Security IC group of...

Barna graduated at the University of Szeged (Hungary) in 1996 and obtained an MBA diploma from University of Pecs (Hungary) in 2004.He had already a background in printing when he joined JURA in 1996. During his years with Jura, Barna worked with many high security and government...

Carolyn Bayer-Broring is a Senior Forensic Document Examiner with the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Forensic Laboratory in McLean, Virginia (USA), specializing in the examination of international travel and identity documents.  She started her Federal Government career in 1997, working...

I am the chief specialist in biometrics in the Finnish Immigration Service and responsible for identity management. I deal with a wide array of matters having quite vast and versatile erudition. These areas of specialization include rule of law, immigration, integrated border management and...

Bart Brouwer worked as a border guard at Schiphol for over 5 years before transferring to the Expertise Center Identity Fraud & Documents (ECID) to become a document expert and investigator at the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. For the past 15 years he worked as a document expert at the...

Andrew Bud CBE is the founder and CEO of iProov, the London-based provider of large-scale face-based authentication services to the private and public sectors worldwide.  iProov has pioneered the delivery of Genuine Presence Assurance®, providing strong verification that an online user is...

Alexander Castanon Reglero has been with the Identity Fraud & Documents Centre of Expertise (ECID), part of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (KMar) for over 13 years. After some years as analyst he switched to the Advice department of the ECID and since 2015 he is Senior Advisor head of this...

Shashank Dhariwal is an AI Specialist with 8+ years of experience. After specializing in biometrics at the University of Southampton, UK, he has worked extensively in the biometrics domain with several biometric modalities (ears, fingerprints, iris, face & emotions) and various use cases...

Ivan has over 20 years of experience in Identity & Access Management and enterprise security architecture. During his career he held roles in R&D, solution architecture and consulting with several organisations, including British Telecom and Deloitte. Ivan has co-authored 3 patents and a...

Jaume DUBOIS is leading expert on digital Identity systems for governments, advising on digitalization of identity and of administrative processes. He has spent 20 years in ICT implementing technologies around the world for private sectors and governments, after having been a software developer, a...

Cathrine has a masters degree in Law and has for 20 years been employed by the Norwegian Government, working with migration and identity management. She started her career working in the law department of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration where she also worked with asylum, residence permits...

Highly qualified professional with 18 years of experience in supporting international organizations, security authorities, border security, and police for solving the issues related to national security, physical security, and public safety for preventing, detecting, and investigating terrorism...

I have spent 17 years in the Home Office working in a variety of operational roles, namely Customs, Immigration, Intelligence, Training and now Document Examination. I have worked at both Heathrow and Bristol Airports and I have deployed overseas to deliver identity document security training and...

Nuno Ferreira-Martins is the International Senior Business Development and Partnerships Manager of FacePhi, a leading Spanish company in technology for user identity verification, specialized in digital onboarding and biometric solutions: face recognition, periocular, fingerprint and voice. With a...

Luca Francese has been working in the Technical Marketing environment since 2006 with a solid background in market and business development. At Thales he’s in charge to promote and develop the benefits of biometric technologies to the public with a special focus on enrollment and identification...

Mikko Hakkarainen works as policy officer in the Unit for Schengen and External Borders in the European Commission, dealing with document security policy and legislation. He has previously held positions in the field of migration and home affairs at both national and EU level, from visas and travel ...

Joseph is a seasoned software engineer & architect with over 25 years’ experience, who started writing mobile apps before mobile apps existed and went on to co-found a successful mobile software development consultancy based in Glasgow in 2010. He’s a co-chair of the OpenID Foundation GAIN...

Alan Henderson is a cross-industry experienced executive who studied business administration at the University of Mississippi. Alan brings a professional background from logistics, pharmaceutical drug development, and AI and IT automation to the biometric world to help companies harness the latest...

Supervisory Special Agent Steven Hunter is currently a National Program Manager for Homeland Security Investigations in Washington, DC.  He manages the operational and administrative functions of 35 Document and Benefit Fraud Task Forces with over 250 task force members from federal, state, and...

Ms. Salma Jan born in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan is currently serving as a Sub Inspector Immigration at the Bacha Khan International Airport Peshawar, Pakistan. She has over 17 years of experience working in different wings of FIA primarily in the Immigration and Investigation...

I am a specialist document examiner for the National Document Fraud Unit, United Kingdom. As a Specialist Document Examiner, it is my duty to examine passports and other identity documents for evidence of counterfeiting, forgery and other unlawful alteration or abuse. I have been currently working...

Manish has 19 years of experience in Banking, Payments & wider Fintech sectors involving innovative Digital/Card Payments, Wearables, Biometrics/AI-ML products. He has demonstrated leadership experience of developing & launching B2B/B2C digital products & services, delivering complex...

Juan Manuel Martín Doñas received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies from the University of Granada, Spain, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. From 2016 to 2020, he held an FPU Fellowship from the Spanish Government for...

Charlie is a specialist document intelligence officer attached to the National Document Fraud Unit of the Home Office. He has worked with travel and identity documents since 1980 and has worked in the document forensic environment since 1990. In addition to the examination of identity and travel...

Phillip is Director of Digital Technology and Innovation at UK Finance, the trade body for the financial services industry. His portfolio includes digital identity, payments innovation, new digital money and open banking/finance. Before that, Phillip worked at Payments UK on payments regulation and ...

Javier Mira is President and CEO of FacePhi, the leading Spanish company in user identity verification technology, specialized in digital onboarding and biometric solutions: facial, periocular, fingerprint and voice recognition. With a multicultural profile and more than 20 years of experience, he...

Nick is Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, a community for all those involved in the ID sector to connect and collaborate. Together we develop the guidance needed for interoperable, trusted identities on a global basis. Through OIX’s definition of, and education on, Trust...

Steve is Managing Director and digital identity lead at Consult Hyperion, a leading independent payments and identity consulting firm. He advises payment schemes, banks and governments around the world on digital identity strategy and implementation having worked on several ground breaking digital...

I work as a security graphic designer and security document expert in the Ministry of Interior of Republic of Bulgaria.

Benoit Poletti is leading INCERT, a Luxembourg public agency founded in August 2012 by the State of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, and acting as a national cybersecurity custodian of the digital society. INCERT is a centre of expertise developing and providing products and...

As an expert in counterfeit deterrence technologies, Tony leads AJW’s Document Security practice and supports industry leading companies in formulating and implementing strategies for the development, introduction, and adoption of sophisticated anti-counterfeit security devices/documents, high...

Luca Pronzati is the “Chief Business Innovation Officer” of MSC Cruises. He is Seasoned Keynote Speaker and Innovation Influencer in several worldwide events.Mr. Pronzati is responsible to leverage on emerging technologies accelerating the digital innovation of the company for the worldwide market...

With over two decades of management and C-level leadership in the fintech and identity technology space, Milko is responsible for rapidly growing iProov's customer and partner base in Europe, Middle East and Africa.Milko holds an MBA from London Business School (UK), a Masters of Engineering from...

Jörg Reinhold studied physics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena from 2002 to 2008. He then became a researcher in the fields of photonics and light-matter-interaction at the Institute of Applied Physics in Jena. Afterwards he switched to the biometrics industry and was part of the team...

Adolfo is an experienced consultant with over 20 years working in the Travel & Tourism Sector. Adolfo is currently Head of Membership and Associates at the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), responsible for coordinating activities with WTTC Members and developing a program for small and ...

Dr. Karl Ricanek Jr. received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State Univ in 1999 in the research area of AI/ML for computer vision and face recognition. His current research area focuses on AI/ML for biometrics, computer vision, signal processing, time series, facial ...

I am an experienced manager with a demonstrated history of working in the fin-tech, online gambling and e-commerce industry. Currently I hold a position of Head of Onboarding at Vodeno. Vodeno is a modern cloud-native ‘360’ ecosystem and one of the most comprehensive ‘Banking-as-a-Service’...

Martin Sandren is a security architect and delivery lead with over twenty years of experience of various information security related roles. Primarily focused on security architecture and digital identity including global scale customer, privileged and internal IAM systems using Microsoft Azure...

Rob Schotman has been with the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee for over 20 years. After some years in border control he joined the Identity Fraud and Documents Centre of Expertise (ECID), where he has worked as a document expert at Schiphol Airport and as an identity expert. Since 2018 he holds a...

Mirjam Schuitemaker is a document expert, currently working at the ID desk in Zwolle, the Netherlands, the northern branch office of the Identity Fraud and Documents Centre of Expertise (ECID). After 20 years of being an operative within different fields of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee she...

My name is Bruno Moreira and I am a Biologist. Since 2013, I have been working in the brazilian Federal Police. First, I have lived in Foz do Iguaçu/PR, a city that has border with both Paraguay and Argentina. There, I have worked with all sorts of police jobs, including border control, crime...

Tim Speelman is Policy Officer on Digital Identity for the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in the Netherlands. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and a Master’s degree in Computer Science. At the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, he wrote a thesis on proving power ...

Miguel is responsible for the technology function in iProov, including engineering and platform and IT operations.Prior to joining iProov, Miguel was Chief Information Officer for Operations and Economic Crime at Santander UK, where he had various engineering and transformation roles overseeing...

Alex is a reserve officer at the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. In this task Alex is an advisor for the design, proces and implementation of the Entry Exit System on Schiphol Amsterdam.  Alex worked for the Expertisecentre IdentityFraud and Document (ECID) for over 11 years and 18 years in total...

Hendrik van Ruiswijk is a document expert within the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee with a passion for didactics. He held multiple operational positions at the border control brigade at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The majority of his time he spend training and mentoring staff at the border control...

Head of Development of Security Documents Department, part of the Ministry of Interior, Republic of Bulgaria.

Dr Sarah Walton is a digital consultant, author, coach and public speaker and has worked in digital for 25 years. She founded Counterpoint in 2003 to support organisations become digital, innovate and grow. She’s authored identity white papers, fostered successful partnerships in the identity...

Mario Wiesen joined the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000. He held a.o. the position of Consul in Belgium and in the USA.He holds an MSC in Development Management and an MA in Environment, Policy and Society from the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK.Currently Deputy Director for...

In my current role I am a specialist document intelligence officer and currently serve at the National Document Fraud Unit (NDFU), the Home Office’s centre of expertise and information in the examination of travel and identification documents. I joined NDFU in October 2020 but have worked for the...