Jean-Daniel Aussel is Chair of the eID Wallet Task Force at GlobalPlatform and previously served as Security Task Force co-chair between 2015 and 2017. At Thales Digital Identity and Security, Jean-Daniel drives the standardization strategy for all market segments. A longstanding active participant in standardization, he has contributed to several standard organizations for many market segments related to security. President of the Java Card Forum since 2020, Jean-Daniel graduated from McGill University in Montreal and the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

In his role as Chief Technology Officer, Gil is responsible for defining and implementing the technical roadmap for the organization and provides counsel and guidance to the GlobalPlatform Board. He drives forward the development of GlobalPlatform’s specifications and certifications to allow markets and geographies to deploy and manage secure, value-added services. Gil also acts as GlobalPlatform’s central technical liaison point, coordinating the efforts of the technical committees, market task forces and liaisons with industry partners.

In his role at Thales, Gil supports the evolution of the Digital Identity and Security roadmap by enabling open innovation and securing participation in funded innovation projects.

Yann Bouan is an expert of the identity and secure document industry with over 20 years of experience in companies such as IDEMIA, Paragon ID and now iDAKTO. His passion for smart cards started as a student, deploying EMV payment terminals. As head of technical support and pre-sales of Oberthur Technologies (now IDEMIA) he contributed to the deployment of the PIV card for US governmental employees and the roll out of ICAO ePassports and eIDs in numerous countries around the globe. Today as chief strategy officer of iDAKTO he continues to promote open standards and pragmatism to encourage the adoption of sovereign, inclusive and secure digital ID.

Anthony Carmoy serves as the coordinator of the use case implementation for the POTENTIAL large-scale pilot, co-financed by the European Commission and coordinated by the French Agency for Secure Titles (Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés). In this role, he oversees the deployment and integration of the European Digital Identity Wallet for numerous Member States to cover a wide range of Use Cases.

As part of the France Identité team, Anthony contributes to the development of government-led identity solutions that align with national and EU standards.

Ms. El Rhomri is the current GlobalPlatform Chair and has served on the GlobalPlatform Board since 2015. In 2017, she was appointed as the GlobalPlatform Secretary and in 2021, she was appointed as the GlobalPlatform Chair.

As Vice President Europe / North Africa at Fime, Ms. El Rhomri is supporting Fime’s growth in this region and the deployment of services across payments, banking, and urban mobility. She is a subject matter expert in testing and certification.

Daniel Goldscheider is founder and Executive Director of the OpenWallet Foundation and serves as Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board of Valamar Riviera d.d., Croatia’s largest tourism company.
Before that he started yes.com, an open banking scheme and co-founded Mediaguide with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as well as Aureus Private Equity (today Invision).

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Sławomir Górniak, CISSP, CISM, is a telecommunications engineer focused on network security. Since 2008 he works at ENISA (EU Agency for Cybersecurity), where he has been involved in the areas of standardization, certification and electronic identification. He is a coordinator and co-author of multiple ENISA reports covering various aspects of information security. Currently he is responsible for the Agency’s actions in the area of standardization and assures its liaisons with Standards Developing Organizations.

After a PhD in Computer Science, Elyes joined CertEurope early 2013 to work on digital trust research projects. Later, as the compliance and security manager, he helped maintaining the national qualification (RGS) and managed its transition to the EU regulation (eIDAS). He joined the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) mid-2024 to contribute to its industrial policy where he is in charge of the identity and digital trust unit.

Herbert Leitold is Director of the Secure Information Technology Center Austria A-SIT, a public funded association advising the public sector on information security. He has 25+ years’ experience in information security with main research interests in e-government, electronic identity, and electronic signatures. Herbert is member of the Austrian delegations to several EU and international bodies like the Common Criteria Management Committee or the eIDAS Cooperation Network and eIDAS Expert Group. He contributed to the Austrian eID. Herbert is coordinating the Austrian participation and leads the qualified signature use case in the Large Scale Pilot POTENTIAL on testing the EU digital identity wallet.

Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is a Digital Identity Architect with more than 15 years experience in developing and running large scale consumer identity services. He currently works for the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) as project lead & lead architect of Germany’s EU Digital Identity Wallet project and also serves as technical advisor at the OpenWallet Foundation. Before that, he led the consumer identity team at Deutsche Telekom and was CTO & CPO of yes.com, an open banking scheme. Earlier in his career, he helped organizations in public, banking, and railway communication domains to implement highly-scalable and secure services.

Torsten is an open standards enthusiast and has contributed to a wide range of broadly adopted identity standards like OAuth and OpenID Connect as well as standards for remote electronic signing (CSC) and Open Banking. His current focus is on Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials. For example, he is co-author of OpenID for Verifiable Credentials and supports the European Union's work on the eIDAS Architecture and Reference Framework.

Torsten holds a Diploma and a PhD in computer science from Dresden University of Technology and Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, respectively.

Iain Maxwell, also known as Max, is Chair of GSMA eSIMWG#4 for eSIM technology certification since 2020. As Product Manager for Fime’s Level 2 testing solutions portfolio including Payments, Telecoms and Digital Identity, Iain is supporting Fime’s current and new testing solutions for strategic worldwide growth these industries. He is also subject matter expert in payments, telecoms and Digital Identity technologies including testing and certification.

Jean-Baptiste is the Director of Business Development for Digital Identity at HID. Prior to that role he has been in charge of launching HID goID™ the Digital Identity platform that is enabling governmental issuing authorities to offer all sorts of official identity documents to the mobile phone of their citizen and/or residents. He has also contributed to the writing and publication of the ISO 18013-5, the most interoperable and complete standard for mobile identity to date. 

Jean-Baptiste’s role at HID is global and as such, he is in constant contact with authorities on all 5 continents, including the European Commission, USA Federal entities and USA State organizations (DMVs) which are among the most advanced regions on standardized and interoperable Digital Identity.  Prior to his dedication to Digital Identity, he has been in charge of various products and programs related to electronic digital identity like eID and ePassport. Last but not least, he has spent the last 20 years living for long periods of time in multiple countries of Europe, Asia and North America which gives him strong overview of worldwide trends.

Philippe has more than 25 years of experience in Cybersecurity. Since the late 1990’s, he has been involved in critical projects for Banking, Telecom, Identity and IoT products & services. Besides his technical contributions, Philippe has been an active actor in the setting-up of public & private certifications schemes in different eco-systems.

Dawid Wróblewski leads Digital ID Product Management activities in Europe at Samsung Electronics, where he focuses on integrating Digital ID solutions into Samsung Wallet. He spent several years specializing in creating and commercializing digital identity and API solutions focused on enhancing security and streamlining processes such as KYC, AML, and anti-fraud measures. Dawid played a crucial role in leading the development of the GSMA Mobile Connect specifications and ID Gateway platform product development to meet specification requirements, which generated new revenue streams while simultaneously reducing fraud risks for various digital companies. He is a hobby Flutter developer – supports local communities in crafting digital services. Fueled by his passion for software programming and digital innovation, Dawid strives to develop impactful solutions that enhance user experiences and ensure security in the digital realm. He loves to spend time with his family and do some rock & roll (guitarist in a local rock band).