ID:Smart Workshop 2024 — Programme Committee

Detlef Kraus

Detlef Kraus already analyzed cryptographic methods with regard to their security properties during his mathematics studies. He has been responsible for the design, analysis and implementation of IT security systems in various application areas. Since the founding of SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH, he has been responsible for the development of the business areas for "Security Assessment" and "Test" as an authorized signatory and at the same time the head of sales.

Detlef Kraus hat bereits während seines Mathematikstudiums kryptographische Verfahren hinsichtlich ihrer Sicherheitseigenschaften analysiert. Er hat in unterschiedlichen Anwendungsbereichen bei Konzeption, Analyse und Implementierung von IT-Sicherheitssystemen verantwortlich mitgewirkt. Seit Gründung der SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH war er dort als Prokurist für die Entwicklung der Geschäftsbereiche „Sicherheitsbegutachtungen“ und „Tests“ zuständig und gleichzeitig der Leiter des Vertriebs.

Dr. Gisela Meister

Dr. Gisela Meister works as Senior Security Adviser on behalf of Eurosmart, whom she represents in the European Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardization and its Task Force, as well as the European Expert Group on Radio Equipment (RED). In this role, she has been a member of the recently founded CEN/CENELEC JTC 3 WG 8, as well as DIN Head of Delegation representing the DIN/DKE Cybersecurity mirror committee. She was Rapporteur with ETSI TC Cyber regarding the development of the Technical Standard TS 103701 “Cyber Security Assessment for Consumer IoT”. Previously, Dr. Gisela Meister has represented Giesecke+Devrient in various international bodies as Standardisation Director and headed up the company’s R&D Technology Consulting Department. She earned her PhD in mathematics from Hagen University and graduated in mathematics and economics from the University of Münster, Germany. Gisela has received the SIT Fraunhofer Smart Card prize 2004 and engages herself in several program committees regarding Cyber Security, e.g. the German BSI’s annual  IT-Security Congress and the ID:SMART Workshop.

Peter Rost

Peter Rost is Director Business Development at secunet Security Networks AG, Germany. He actively contributes to EU-wide and German working groups for a better cyber-protection of our society and economy. He is co-chair of ECSO WG 2 on cybersecurity market development and investment, and contributes to TeleTrusT’s cybersecurity state-of-the-art compendium. For more than a decade, Peter has been working on conceiving, managing and promoting Cybersecurity products for government, critical infrastructure and enterprise use cases, with a focus on network and device security. Previously, he has managed global audio/video and DRAM businesses for leading semiconductor vendors. He has earned a Master in Business Administration and Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

Uwe Schnabel

Uwe Schnabel holds a masters degree in radio frequency technology. In the nineties he founded several companies which later were merged with others into Omnikey. As part of an acquisition Omnikey became part of HID in the AssaAbloy group. Uwe Schnabel lead international engineering teams for the Omnikey portfolio. In this role he attended and actively contributed to the international standardization of RFID technology. About 2012 he started leading the engineering teams for mobile government credentials issuance and validation systems. Today he consults as own business companies in different roles around hard- and software product development.

Dr. Friedrich Tönsing

Dr. Friedrich Tönsing studied mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig and also received his doctorate there. After four years as an assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig, he moved to the Deutsche Telekom Group, of which he is still a member today. There he worked on the development of various innovative security solutions and products, in particular systems with hardware-based security anchors (smart cards, security elements). Mr. Tönsing currently heads a security department at Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH.

Christian Wiebus

1994: Christian graduated in 1994 at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany in Electrical Engineering „Diplom Ingenieur (FH)“
Dec 1994: Start at Philips Semiconductors in Hamburg as Quality Engineer for stand-alone non-volatile products for generic and automotive purposes
1998: Project Leader for various automotive projects including car immobilizer (Ford), dashboard Micro Controller in close co-operation with the Philips development team in Sunnyvale/CA US.
2000: Joined the Identification Business Unit of Philips as Product Manager for Crypto Controllers in the application of Signature Cards (US) and SIM cards (France, Germany) and PayTV applications.
2004: Christian was assigned to the position as Head of Product Management for eGovernment HW and was responsible for implementing various key eGov. programs such as UK ePassport, German ePassport and various others.(2006 Philips Semiconductor became NXP Semiconductors)
2009: Additional responsibility for the strategic Program ManagementGerman eID in NXP in close cooperation with the German government. The program was successfully ramped from Q4 2010 onwards.
2013: With the foundation of the new Business line NXP SCS in 2013 Christian became Head of Platform Management and Business Development Support, being responsible for the entire security portfolio development for payment and identity in NXP.
2018 - 2022: Christian leads the NXP Industrial System Innovation (ISI) Team as Senior Director New Business & Innovation, responsible for innovations in Industry 4.0 and Industrial Automation within the NXP CTO organization.
2022 - today: Christian leads the NXP combined System Innovation Team for Automotive, Industrial and Medical

Dr. Andreas Wolf

Dr. Andreas Wolf studied mathematics and computer science at Humboldt University in Berlin and Technical University Munich, where he received his doctorate in computer science in 1999. In his dissertation, he dealt with parallel automated reasoning, a special aspect of artificial intelligence. In the past, he worked in technology-oriented positions with IT companies in Munich, Jena and Berlin, focusing on IT security and in particular on biometric technologies. He initiated the first European certification of a product for biometric speaker recognition according to Common Criteria. Today Dr. Wolf works as Principal Scientist Biometrics with Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin. He has published several book and journal contributions as well as conference papers and received more than 30 patents. He teaches applied biometrics at the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the Free University of Berlin. He is one of the German DIN experts delegated to the ISO/IEC JTC 1 committees SC 17, SC 27, SC 31 and SC 37 and to the European standardization committee CEN/TC 224. He is chairman of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 "Information security, cybersecurity and data protection", convenor of CEN/TC 224/WG 19 "Breeder documents" and editor or co- editor of several standards, including the ICAO Technical Report on Portrait Quality and the biometric face image data formats ISO/IEC 19794-5/39794-5 which are used in all electronic ID documents.