Speakers

Pavel’s experience comes from different cybersecurity fields and the projects related to PKI have always stood out in his professional activities. He believes that PKI is a source of great technological benefits, it provides the mechanism to protect information and can be a key to the improvement of your company’ cybersecurity resilience if you give it a chance.

Adam Ross is an IT security professional with two decades of experience in diverse sectors. For the past nine years, he has served as Product and Sales Manager for eID solutions at cryptovision. Adam has been actively involved in several national electronic identity card projects around the world where he actively advises enterprises and government agencies on how best to deal with the challenges of integrating and securing smart documents.

Axel Sandot is a Product & Business Manager in charge of security and digital identities of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS, V2X). Member of the Atos Expert Community and lead of its IoT standardization taskforce, he has been performing his duty inside the Digital ID entity of the Group already for four years. Beforehand, he managed the business development and technological projects of European companies in Latin America around identity, biometrics, digital trust, dematerialization, and deployment of main infrastructure projects for more than 10 years.

Tomas Gustavsson has a MSc from KTH in Stockholm and has been researching and implementing PKI systems since 1994. He has founded and developed the open source enterprise PKI project EJBCA. Also Tomas contributes to numerous open source projects, and is a member of the board of Open Source Sweden. As a co-founder of PrimeKey, he is passionate about helping users worldwide find the best possible PKI and digital signature solutions. Tomas believes that PKI is the backbone of internet security and as such it is imperative for all of us that it is available to everyone who needs it.

Sven Rajala is a very well seasoned cyber-security consultant with a specialization in PKI and automation of PKI using EJBCA. He has over 15 years of experience working in both the private sector and with the US federal government departments and agencies. Sven is frequently called upon to participate in client discussions and seminars on topics including PKI, EJBCA, and PKI Devsecops (automation).

With more than thirty years of experience in IT, from networking to Defence classified projects, Olivier brings a holistic view of security to our customers. For the last twenty years, he has focused on trusted identities with IDAM solutions, PKI, and Digital signature implementations in Europe, the US, and MEA. Olivier believes that the power of PKI – establishing trusted and secure communication by only exchanging public elements – is key to securing all IT layers starting with the Internet. He is passionate about explaining the concepts of PKI to make them understandable by every stakeholder for successful and fruitful implementations.

Dr. Benjamin Herdeanu has been working as a consultant at secunet in the mobility and information security team within the Industry division since January 2022. The focus of his work at secunet is on PKI and Data Science projects. Benjamin works on image recognition machine learning projects as well as on the conceptual and technical PKI planning and implementation. Previously, he did a PhD in physics at Heidelberg University studying the “Emergence of Cooperation in Evolutionary Social Interaction Networks”. He has co-founded Utopia, an open-source software modeling framework for a complex and evolving system used in more than 20 Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD thesis so far.

Secunet is Germany’s leading cybersecurity company. In an increasingly connected world, the company’s combination of products and consulting assures resilient digital infrastructures and the utmost protection for data, applications and digital identities. Secunet specializes in areas with unique security requirements such as cloud, IIoT, eGovernment and eHealth. With security solutions from Secunet, companies can maintain the highest security standards in digitisation projects and advance their digital transformation.

Mohamed Ghattas has over 20 years of experience in the IT field and over 10 years specifically in information security. He has worked with international cross-functional teams to build road maps for continuous innovative products and solutions, especially in smart cards and applets. Mohamed was the product manager of “SLCOS“ TrustSEC smart card operating system and was leading a team of professionals to implement the transformation of biometric smartcards and smart card applets as well.

X Infotech is a global provider of software solutions for electronic identity documents and smart cards. Our solutions are behind and integrated in ePassport, national eID card, financial smart card and eDriver's license projects all around the world. Headquartered in Europe, X Infotech boasts of having 100% projects successfully implemented in nearly 50 countries worldwide.

Pavel’s experience comes from different cybersecurity fields and the projects related to PKI have always stood out in his professional activities. He believes that PKI is a source of great technological benefits, it provides the mechanism to protect information and can be a key to the improvement of your company’ cybersecurity resilience if you give it a chance.

Adam Ross is an IT security professional with two decades of experience in diverse sectors. For the past nine years, he has served as Product and Sales Manager for eID solutions at cryptovision. Adam has been actively involved in several national electronic identity card projects around the world where he actively advises enterprises and government agencies on how best to deal with the challenges of integrating and securing smart documents.

cv cryptovision GmbH is one of the leading specialists for modern, user-friendly cryptography and solutions for secure electronic identities. With its products and complete solutions, 250 million people worldwide and a multitude of institutions in the digital world protect themselves against hacker attacks, manipulation, misuse of identities and espionage.

Tomas Gustavsson has a MSc from KTH in Stockholm and has been researching and implementing PKI systems since 1994. He has founded and developed the open source enterprise PKI project EJBCA. Also Tomas contributes to numerous open source projects, and is a member of the board of Open Source Sweden. As a co-founder of PrimeKey, he is passionate about helping users worldwide find the best possible PKI and digital signature solutions. Tomas believes that PKI is the backbone of internet security and as such it is imperative for all of us that it is available to everyone who needs it.

Sven Rajala is a very well seasoned cyber-security consultant with a specialization in PKI and automation of PKI using EJBCA. He has over 15 years of experience working in both the private sector and with the US federal government departments and agencies. Sven is frequently called upon to participate in client discussions and seminars on topics including PKI, EJBCA, and PKI Devsecops (automation).

With more than thirty years of experience in IT, from networking to Defence classified projects, Olivier brings a holistic view of security to our customers. For the last twenty years, he has focused on trusted identities with IDAM solutions, PKI, and Digital signature implementations in Europe, the US, and MEA. Olivier believes that the power of PKI – establishing trusted and secure communication by only exchanging public elements – is key to securing all IT layers starting with the Internet. He is passionate about explaining the concepts of PKI to make them understandable by every stakeholder for successful and fruitful implementations.

Makan Rafiee has been working as a consultant at secunet Security Networks AG in the Automotive division and in the Industry division since 2020. Previously, he studied cryptography with elliptic curves during mathematics and computer science studies. The focus of his work at secunet is PKI projects, the planning and commissioning of Certificate Authorities (CAs) in the automotive environment. Makan participated in the Summer School for Post-Quantum Cryptography as well as the PQ Conference in 2017 and has been working on post- quantum primitives since then.

With almost 20 years of experience in the IT-Security space, Jan Quack worked as a senior solution engineer at Yubico and managed the DACH and CEE markets. Before joining Yubico he worked as an IT-Security architect for a global telecommunication company being in charge of the global PKI and 2FA solutions.

As an entrepreneur and businessman, Magdy M. Sharawy founded his first Advanced Computer Company Assel in 1994. Later in 2015 to expand the business and compete in the European market, he established TrustSEC in Poland. Mapping the digital protection and security future in the Middle East, they acted as leaders of the IT industry serving the Egyptian government as the main provider of digital security solutions. Over 25 years, they have significantly expanded their products and solutions and now they are working with biometric smart cards. They value innovation and technology and are proud to be one of the most trusted providers of information security solutions in the region.

Adam Ross is an IT security professional with two decades of experience in diverse sectors. For the past nine years, he has served as Product and Sales Manager for eID solutions at cryptovision. Adam has been actively involved in several national electronic identity card projects around the world where he actively advises enterprises and government agencies on how best to deal with the challenges of integrating and securing smart documents.

I am currently Senior Sales Manager at Feitian Technologies located in France. I have been developing Feitian Technologies presence in EU, Africa and the Middle East. I have participated in the elaboration of projects related to e-ID, online banking, 2FA, PKI and smart cards

Having had more than 30 years experience in IT I was involved in many PKI projects, mostly for banks and global corporations. PKI is a mature technology, but still exciting, irreplaceable in many security projects. Although some other technologies arrive for user authentication; I think PKI and smartcards are here to stay. Digital signature, IoT device authentication, use on mobile phones are some of the exciting areas to explore with PKI.