Digital Identities & Wallets NOBID Seminar

Begin the day with a light breakfast and coffee served before the seminar. This provides an opportunity to meet other participants and prepare for the sessions ahead.

How are countries preparing for the European Digital Identity Wallet? In this session, representatives from Nordic-Baltic countries discuss their plans, progress, and challenges in delivering national wallets aligned with eIDAS 2.0. Guided by a moderator, the conversation will explore key implementation questions, user adoption strategies, and the road ahead for cross-border functionality—offering participants a real-world view of how Europe is making the EUDIW a reality.

Being a lawyer by education, Mikael af Hällström has had an extensive career as a Development Specialist at the Finnish Tax Administration, starting in the late 90s with organizational webpages, e-Service design, information exchange modeling and general digitalization issues. Throughout his career he has been involved in governmental working groups and projects in both Finland, the Nordics, the EU and OECD. As a specialist on semantic interoperability and integrated public-private service design, he has lately been active in both the Nordic cooperation around digital identity and wallets as well as the EU Large Scale Pilots EWC and WE BUILD.

In his presentation he will highlight the importance to distinguish between the personal EUDI wallets that will provide individuals a practical tool for identification and authentication and on the other hand “business-oriented wallets” that should be seen as and be developed towards enabling cross-border business process automation and the effective use of Agentic AI. Mikael will give insights in how this way of thinking got started in the EWC LSP’s “Business Scenarios” and how the recent EU Business Wallet regulation proposal reflects and supports this initiative. He will also give some examples of the most valuable proposed use cases for the business wallets, both from the WE BUILD LSP context as well as other business oriented regional or global initiatives

eIDAS 2.0 introduced certified EUDI Wallets as a mandatory component in the digital ecosystems of all member states. This session introduces the wallet certification scheme - what are the elements, the challenges and the timeline? The Joint Nordic-Baltic Certification Scheme will be presented: what are the objectives, which problems does it address and where do we go from here?

The European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) is an ambitious project that aims at disrupting the digital identity area in Europe, ensure European and national control, and enhance user autonomy, privacy and security. Provided it is a success, which most people wish for and many seem to take for granted. But in reality, the outcome can also be a failure or a part-success where the EUDIW "makes it" in some countries but not in others. To make it a success, we must be aware of the threats that could make the EUDIW fail and how to avoid them.

Kalev Pihl is the CEO of SK ID Solutions and has long experience in the field of electronic identification and digital trust services. In this session, he will explore how the eIDAS 2.0 revision is being implemented across the Baltic countries — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — from a market participant’s perspective. You will hear about the current state of readiness, practical challenges in adoption, and how businesses are preparing for the evolving European digital identity framework. Moreover, the broader EU trends, including the delays in the eIDAS 2.0 rollout and the implications for countries with already mature digital ecosystems will be presented.

As provider of BankID in Norway, the digital identity solution used by 95% of the Norwegian population, Stø welcomes the move towards a new digital identity ecosystem in Europe. At the same time, the advent of EUDI Wallets to identify and authenticate nationally as well as cross border in the EU, creates uncertainty for private providers of similar services, as well as opportunities. Stø will present the perspective of BankID in Norway and showcase how Stø is working towards delivering a Digital Identity Wallet and related eIDAS Trust Services in view of these framework conditions.

Martin Koksrud Bekkelund is interim product manager for the BankID app at Stø AS. He has worked on large and small technology projects as a consultant, project manager, and manager. He has headed product and technology departments and helps customers with technology management and transition.

Mobai, together with academic and industry partners, exploit legal and technical possibilities for safe digital (re-)use of biometric information from National ID-documents. The regulatory landscape in this field is evolving. New technologies provide efficient privacy-protection of sensitive data during use as well as storage. In this talk, Mobai gives an introduction to these concepts for safe use of biometrics and how they can be applied in the market, for example with the NOBID IdM sandbox, and their potential contribution towards more resilient and democratic digital infrastructures.

Brage Strand is the CEO of Mobai, a Nordic biometric technology provider.

The project started with the development of a solution for automated identity matching. The first phase focused on establishing a solution between two countries, using test data to demonstrate both successful matches and non-matches between the countries’ datasets. In the next phase, the solution has been expanded to include additional countries and services. This will be illustrated with a short demonstration during the meeting

After a death, there are many practical tasks that need to be handled. The bereaved must obtain an overview of the estate, meaning the deceased’s assets, debt, pensions, insurance policies, properties, vehicles, and other registered documents. This is a complicated process for the heirs and involves contacting many different institutions, usually without much legal - or other - assistance. Digdir has now developed a new national public service called “Digitalt dødsbo” (“Digital Estate”), which gathers information about the deceased’s assets and liabilities from a range of public and private actors in one place, making the estate settlement process easier for heirs.

Bredo is Director of Strategy and Business Development at the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency (Digdir). He has extensive experience through many years of work in strategic management, innovation, and project management in both the public and private sectors. Bredo also leads the life event Death and inheritance and is responsible for Digdir’s work related to the business sector.

A buffet lunch will be served. This break offers participants a chance to continue discussions, exchange insights, and network in an informal setting before the afternoon program resumes.

Professor Marte Eidsand Kjørven, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, is project manager for the research project Societal Security and Digital Identities (SODI). Drawing on findings from this project, she will discuss how experiences with fraud, identity theft, and coercion in Scandinavia reveal critical vulnerabilities in digital identity systems. These insights shed light on the challenges Europe may face as the European Digital Identity Wallet (EDIW) is introduced — and how law and technology must evolve to ensure that the EDIW strengthens, rather than undermines, societal security and individual trust.

Anna Stålsby has over 20 years of experience in intelligence and security work, including with Säkerhetspolisen and Kriminalvården. For the past two years, she has been COO at the Swedish security company Vesper Group, specializing in clients with complex needs for tailored security services to protect themselves against organized crime and insiders, intelligence threats from foreign powers, and other effects of hybrid warfare against the public and private sectors.

Meet the award-winning journalists behind The Black Swan — the documentary that exposed hidden ties between power, money, and crime in Denmark. In this seminar, the creators reveal how years of undercover work, ethical dilemmas, and high-risk decisions turned an idea into one of the country’s most talked-about investigations.
A gripping behind-the-scenes story about courage, integrity, and the price of uncovering the truth — offering lessons in transparency, teamwork, and ethics that resonate far beyond journalism.

Wrap up the day with an aperitif and a chance to mingle. We’ll share a glass of wine and some light bites while connecting with fellow participants, speakers, and organizers. It’s a great moment to chat, exchange ideas, and unwind after the conference in a friendly atmosphere.