Innovation Day #2

Electronic Identity
and Digital Security

for the financial and corporate sectors

10 October 2024, Thursday, 09:00 – 15:00

2020 Event Space (BTV Administrative Building)

AGENDA

09:00 – 09:30 – Registration & Welcome Coffee

09:30 – 09:40 – Opening
Victor Petrov, CEO, Comitex

SESSION 1
Identity Verification & Digital Card

09:40 – 09:55 – ENTRUST – Company Overview
Jaroslav Kosek, ENTRUST*

09:55 – 11:10 – Identity Verification & Fraud Prevention
Mihkel Raag & Michael van Gestel, ENTRUST ONFIDO*

11:10 – 11:30 – COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 11:50 – Digital Card Solution
Sebastian Theisen, ENTRUST *

SESSION 2
NIS2 Directive Compliance. Electronic Identity Solutions

11:50 – 12:15 – NIS2 Directive Compliance
Mircea Murgu, THALES*

12:15 – 13:00 – Thales Identity and Access Management Solutions
Endre Pasztor, THALES*

13:00 – 14:00 – LUNCH BREAK
and tasting of limited edition wines from Midalidare Estate and presentation of a DiVino wine expert

SESSION 3
Digital Identity & Digital Security

14:00 – 15:00 – Interactive Demo Sessions, Q&A: Entrust Onfido IDV, Digital Card Solution & Thales Identity and Access Management

*English is the official language of the event.

SPEAKERS

Jaroslav-Kosek

Jaroslav Kosek

Finance Secure Issuance Regional Sales Director, Europe & CIS
ENTRUST

Yaroslav has more than 26 years of extensive experience in ID card issuance, specifically within the financial sector. Over the course of his career, he has worked closely with banks and card service centers across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, gaining a deep understanding of the industry’s unique challenges and needs. He has been with Entrust, a global leader in secure financial issuance, for nearly 27 years. Yaroslav began his journey with the company in December 1997, where he served as a Sales Director for over 22 years, overseeing operations and fostering key client relationships. Since September 2020, he has held the position of Senior Sales Executive in Financial Secure Issuance, based in Prague, Czechia. 

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Mihkel Raag

Regional Director
ENTRUST Onfido

Mihkel has been a prominent business executive in the identity verification space for over six years. As a co-founder of an identity verification company, he has played a critical role in driving innovation and ensuring secure digital identities. Prior to his entrepreneurial venture, Mihkel worked for the Estonian government’s digital identity scheme, where he contributed to one of the most advanced digital identity systems in the world. For the past five years, Mihkel has been working at Onfido as a corporate account director. Onfido is a technology company that helps businesses verify people’s identities remotely, through their IDs and with the help of selfies and artificial intelligence algorith

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Michael Van Gestel

VP Exper Services / Global Head of Fraud
ENTRUST Onfido

A leading expert in ID Document security and fraud, Michael is VP of Onfido’s expert services and has also headed up Onfido’s Global Document and Fraud Strategy Team. Prior to Onfido, Michael worked as a Document Expert and international trainer at several global document checking and referencing companies. Michael has also served as a ID Document Authentication trainer at the Expertise Centre Identity Fraud and Documents (ECID), sharing his knowledge with embassies, consulates, airlines, security agencies, immigration offices and police departments all over the world. Currently he is still providing combined training sessions together with Interpol.

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Sebastian Theisen

Sales Director
Digital Payment Solutions
ENTRUST

Sebastian is a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience in the banking and financial technology sectors. He has an extensive background in business development, having worked with PayPal, where he expanded the company’s digital payment services. Additionally, Sebastian has served as a strategy consultant for digital payments at Germany’s largest banking group, Savings Banks Finance Group, where he advised on the future of payment solutions. Currently, at Entrust, Sebastian is responsible for the company’s digital card solutions, helping banks transition to a digital-first approach by integrating comprehensive digital card features into their services.

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Michael Heinrich

Senior Solutions Engineer, ID Verification & Fraud Prevention
ENTRUST Onfido

Michael is a Senior Solutions Engineer with over three years of experience at Onfido, specializing in cutting-edge identity verification and fraud prevention technologies. He works primarily with enterprise customers in Central and Eastern Europe, helping them implement robust solutions to enhance security and streamline their operations. In his role, Michael brings a broad skill set to the table, including extensive knowledge in international sales and pre-sales technical consulting. He is well-versed in eKYC processes, which are vital for businesses looking to securely onboard customers in the digital space.

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Mircea Murgu

Regional Sales Manager, PKI – CEE, CIS, Israel, Greece & Cyprus
THALES

Mircea is a highly experienced Regional Sales Manager at Thales DIS, specializing in the CPL-PKI line of products across 16 countries, including Central and Eastern Europe, CIS, Israel, Greece, and Cyprus. With over 4 years and 6 months of tenure at Thales, based in Bucharest, Romania, he has consistently demonstrated a strong focus on selling through partners and with partners, building lasting relationships with governmental agencies, large-scale manufacturers, and financial institutions. His role includes developing robust working relationships with channel partners such as Value-Added Distributors (VAD), System Integrators (SI), and Value-Added Resellers (VAR) to drive sales of PKI products to midsize and enterprise-level customers.

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Endre Pasztor

Pre-Sales Consultant
THALES

Endre is an accomplished architect and senior sales engineer with over 15 years of experience in the field of Identity and Access Management (IAM). Currently serving as a Senior Presales Consultant at Thales, he specializes in providing technical expertise and solutions for IAM systems, helping clients design and implement secure access strategies. With a strong background in both architecture and engineering, Endre excels at bridging the gap between complex technical requirements and business needs, delivering tailored solutions that enhance security and efficiency. His extensive experience in sales engineering and consulting allows him to effectively guide customers through the entire sales lifecycle, from technical demonstrations to solution delivery.

ENTRUST is a trusted global leader in providing solutions for identification, secure payments and data protection. Entrust’s history began in 1969 with the founding of Datacard Corporation and the production of high-speed card printers for issuing payment and identity cards. Since then, the company has acquired other brands and developed new technologies. At present, Entrust specializes in the provision of digital identities, financial transactions, immigration, access control and data security in the financial, commercial, healthcare and public sectors.

Headquarters: Minneapolis, USA

Comitex is official representative and Integrated Service Partner of Entrust for Bulgaria.

THALES Group offers technologically advanced solutions for defense and security, land transport, aviation and space, and the company is world leader in digital identity security. Businesses and governments rely on Thales to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Thales’s products meet the growing demand around the world for mobile awareness, identity and data protection, credit card security, health and transportation services. E-policy and national security solutions has been expanded to include cybersecurity solutions such as data encryption, strong authentication and access management, and digital identity.

Headquarters: Paris, France

Clico Bulgaria is official distributor of Thales for Bulgaria.

COMITEX is a Bulgarian IT company founded in 1995. We provide complete digital solutions for physical or remote identification of individuals. The company delivers, integrates and supports Digital Identification and Security technologies from leading global developers and manufacturers. We have established ourselves as a reliable, correct and preferred long-term partner for the implementation of numerous innovative projects for digital identification through smart cards or ID documents. Comitex is a leading supplier of the full range of professional personalization card systems and software, scanners and software for ID document authentication and identity verification, mobile terminals and identification software, card readers and specialized software for smart cards, terminal devices and specialized hardware, smart cards of all types and functionality.

Comitex Ltd., phone: +3592 9 714 714, GSM: +359 886 123 456, e-mail: events@comitex.net