Dennis Hannemann | Head of Regulatory Strategy & Digital Identity
Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH

Dennis Hannemann Director Regulatory Strategy & Digital Identities Bundesanzeiger Verlag - Germany‘s Company Register and UC Lead of WE BUILD Consortium Dennis Hannemann has been working for Bundesanzeiger Verlag since 2016 and is currently responsible a.o. for the introduction of digital identities and the European Business Wallet (EBW) in Germany in the context of the EUDI-Wallet initiatives as part of the eIDAS 2.0 implementation. Previously, Dennis worked for 15 years as a strategy consultant in various client projects for national and international companies from different industries - including in China, Hong Kong and the Philippines. The business graduate studied business and computer science at the University of Cologne and started his professional career as a strategy consultant for digital business development and digital transformation in a management consultancy specializing in information and risk management. During this time, Dennis has supported a large number of startups in different industries. Dennis currently leads the use case expert groups KYC/KYS/KYB and Corporate Banking in the work packages “Wallet for Business” and “Wallet for Payments & Banking” within the new EU Large Scale Pilot “WE BUILD Consortium” and is a member of the expert groups (L)PID Provider, Semantics and Trust registry infrastructure. As a representative of the German company register in the European Business Registry Association (EBRA), Dennis supports the implementation of eIDAS 2.0 in the European business register landscape and has also already contributed to the Business Register expert group of the European Wallet Consortium (EWC). In addition, Dennis leads the data space initiatives of the Bundesanzeiger Verlag at energy data-X and Manufacturing-X of the Platform Industry 4.0. His actual work focuses in particular on the development of digital strategies using verifiable credentials along the continuously changing regulatory requirements, for example the reorganization of complex KYC/KYB processes at financial institutions due to new EU anti money laundering directives (AMLR, AMLD/6) or the implementation of DORA guidelines as part of KYS processes at large corporations.