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<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Overview</h2>
<p>The verification of legal entities and their attributes in the EU can be difficult; establishing trust can be complicated and time-consuming. Seamless verification, necessary for digital information ownership, remains a challenge. The European Commission will explore these issues in a new event, tackling the many hurdles of the verification process for legal entities. Diverse stakeholders will come together to brainstorm potential cross-border solutions to these problems.</p>

<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Agenda</h2>
<p>The European Commission's Directorate-General for Digital Services (DIGIT) is organising a conference on  22 February 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, that aims to explore challenges legal entities encounter in proving ownership of digital information and  to seek potential solutions with a focus on the role of Web3 technologies. The conference will feature interactive panels to connect industry initiatives with policy experts, fostering collaboration to address common challenges.<br>Discover our programme!</p>

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          >The European Commission has recently initiated a proposal to expand
          and upgrade a Directive concerning the use of digital tools and
          processes in company law. In this context, the Commission has been
          focused on developing a better understanding of the needs and
          challenges related to organisations when it comes to proving their
          ownership and verification. An overview of the Directive will be
          presented to contextualise them.
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            <span class="d-block"><strong>Antonio Lai</strong></span>
            <span
              ><i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for Justice and
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          >During this panel, European policymakers will present different
          regulations that aim to address the challenges related to the
          verification of legal entities across the European Union. The
          panellists will focus in particular on the verification of economic
          operators, data sharing between organisations, and the establishment
          of cross-border trust in the EU internal market.
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            <span class="d-block"><strong>Joachim Schwerin</strong></span
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              ><i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for Internal
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Michele Galatola</strong></span
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                ><i>European Commission </i>/ The Directorate-General for
                Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG
                GROW)</span
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Maya Madrid</strong></span
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                ><i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for
                Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT)</span
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Coen Janssen</strong></span
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                <i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for
                Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT)</span
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Giulia Ferraris</strong></span
              ><span>European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)</span>
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          >What is the role of organisational identifiers in the context of the
          verification of legal entities? What is the current state of play of
          the different identifiers that organisations are owning in Europe
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          The panel will be introduced by a presentation of the EBSI-ELSA
          project by <strong>Nicolas Hauw (EUIPO)</strong>, who will showcase
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            <span class="d-block"><strong>Pierre Marro</strong></span
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Georg Kotschy</strong></span
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                ><i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for Taxation
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Karlheinz Kadner</strong></span
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                ><i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for Taxation
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Stephan Wolf</strong></span
              ><span>Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)</span>
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Antonio Lai</strong></span
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            ><span>European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)</span>
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          >During this panel, the audience will have the opportunity to explore
          the role of pioneering technologies in solving the challenges related
          to the verification of organisations. Among these technologies,
          speakers will discuss distributed ledger technologies, verifiable
          credentials, decentralised identifiers and digital wallets.
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            <span class="d-block"><strong>João Rodrigues Frade</strong></span
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              ><i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for Digital
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Christian Klugow</strong></span
              ><span>ID-Union</span>
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Eugenio Reggianini</strong></span
              ><span>European Blockchain Association</span>
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Marina Markezic</strong></span
              ><span>EU Crypto Initiative</span>
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Steven Capell</strong></span
              ><span
                >The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic
                Business (UN/CEFACT)</span
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              <span class="d-block"
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                ><i>European Commission </i>/ Directorate-General for Digital
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          >This section will present the business case for organisational
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          emerge when using innovative technologies, to address the complexities
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Nancy Norris</strong></span
              ><span>Government of British Columbia, Canada</span>
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>David Magård</strong></span
              ><span>European Wallet Consortium</span>
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              <span class="d-block"><strong>Antti Kettunen</strong></span
              ><span>Real Time Economy Project</span>
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<p class="panelist-content">Koen Nomden is currently Team Leader for “Transparency and Recognition of Skills and Qualifications”, within the Skills Agenda Unit of the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion). Before that he was a policy officer in charge of the validation of non-formal and informal learning and career guidance. Other positions he held within the European Commission were that of Erasmus Mundus Programme Manager and of policy officer in charge of setting up a European Executive Agency in charge of implementing programmes in education, training, culture and media. Before joining the Commission in 2003 Koen worked at the University of Antwerp (researcher) and at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht (the Netherlands). Koen studied public policy and public administration at the University of Twente (NL) and holds a Master degree in European Studies from the College of Europe.</p>
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<p>Marc Taverner is the Executive Director of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (<a href="http://inatba.org/">inatba.org</a>), the pre-eminent nonprofit organisation supporting the growth of DLT & blockchain technologies. INATBA does this by engaging public and private audiences to address and reduce frictions that inhibit market growth. As executive director, Marc works with INATBA’s Members to host bilateral conversations between governments (including the European Commission) and companies to inform policies and regulations and advance the international adoption of blockchain.</p>
<p>Most recently, INATBA, under Marc’s leadership, has been working to respond to the European Commission’s proposed Digital Finance Package, engaging with members and governments worldwide to discuss the future of blockchain and crypto-asset regulation. Marc has been active in the global blockchain ecosystem for more than six years, working across 20 countries, engaging with organisations from governments and financial institutions, to large corporates and industry associations. Prior to joining INATBA, he was the Global Ambassador and head of Business Development for the Bitfury Group, one of Europe’s largest blockchain unicorns.</p>
<p>To INATBA he brings a unique set of experiences gained from a career in start-ups and industry-leading companies. The founder of a successful modem distribution company, Nuvo, Marc has held leadership roles with many top technology companies, including Genesys Conferencing, the world's largest provider of unified communications services, and Promethean, a market leader in educational technology solutions.</p>
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<h4><span class="d-block"><strong>Sebastiano</strong></span><strong>TOFFALETTI</strong></h4>
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<p>Sebastiano Toffaletti heads the Brussels secretariat of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance, which he contributed to found in 2008. DIGITAL SME is Europe's largest association for digital Small and Medium sized Enterprises, representing about 45.000 companies across the continent. The association covers EU initiatives, legislation and policies related to topics such as cybersecurity and privacy, data economy, IoT, Artificial Intelligence and blockchain. In 2019, DIGITAL SME published its Manifesto for Europe’s digital future highlighting 10 key priorities and the role of SMEs in the digital revolution.</p>
<p>Sebastiano authored several articles and position papers on topics such as Intellectual Property Rights, Standards, data economy and digital skills, and serves as an expert in EU working groups and task forces, where he brings forward the interests and views of SMEs. He is a member of the EU multi-stakeholder Platform on ICT standardisation. He is currently chairman of the Working Group on SMEs at the European Cybersecurity Organisation and has led the creation of the label “Cybersecurity made in the EU” in support of SME cybersecurity providers .</p>
<p>Since 2014, Sebastiano is a member of the Board at ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. Since 2020, Sebastiano is also a Board member of EIF, the European Internet Forum.</p>
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<h4><span class="d-block"><strong>Katrien</strong></span><strong>VANELVEN</strong></h4>
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<p>Katrien Vanelven studied Ancient History and graduated with a master’s degree from KU Leuven. She joined KU Leuven’s International Policy Unit in 2009, as Advisor on Europe and North America. She coordinated KU Leuven’s participation in Erasmus Mundus Action 2 and Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility.</p>
<p>Since spring 2018, she has been contributing to the establishment of Una Europa, an alliance of 11 European universities. In Una Europa’s 1Europe project, she leads the work package ‘The European University Ecosystem’, creating a sustainable ecosystem in which Una Europa can thrive. The supporting technology and infrastructure is put in place to support smooth administrative processes, to support access for students and staff to all services within Una Europa and to support blended and virtual education.</p>
<p>The partners in the Una Europa alliance join forces to further elaborate and test blockchain technology to register and exchange credits obtained by students during an exchange period at a partner university as well as for the authentication of digital degree certificates.</p>
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			Natalia Aristimuño Pérez is the Director for Digital Enablers & Innovation at DIGIT, European Commission. Before she has been the head of the unit delivering solutions on human resources, decision making, document management and knowledge management domains. Since she joined the European Commission in the year 2000, she has always been involved in providing solutions allowing making users’ life easier and the institution more efficient. She has an IT background, graduated in Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain) and has a deep knowledge of the business domains she works with.
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		  Antonio Lai is a policy officer working for the European Commission at
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		<h3><span class="d-block">Antti</span> Kettunen</h3>
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		  Antti is an experienced Digital Identity and trust ecosystem expert,
		  pioneering decentralized identity in Finland with Tietoevry Create.<br /><br />He
		  currently works with the Finnish government in the EWC LSP and Real Time
		  Economy program in Finland, focusing on the topics of Organization
		  Digital Identities and Verifiable eReceipts. In addition, Antti works in
		  EU-funded Healthcare trust ecosystem program PHEMS, designing research
		  trust ecosystem infrastructure, and is a technical advisor to FindyNet
		  cooperative, a public-private organisation developing trust
		  infrastructure in Finland.<br /><br />He views decentralized trust &
		  data ecosystems as a key component of EU digitalization. Working closely
		  with public and private organizations in multiple sectors has given
		  Antti deep understanding in the multi-dimensionality and complexity of
		  decentralized ecosystem design.
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		  responsible for the entire data lifecycle of each of the datasets under
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		  data to serve all ESMA’s stakeholders. In its role, Giulia is
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		  notably with the development of the data record keeping requirements for
		  CASPs under MiCA. This is the dataset envisaged by MiCA that will need
		  to be collected and used by EU supervisors for monitoring crypto
		  markets.
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		  European Commission. He is responsible for developing the policy
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		  Technologies as well as their applications for industry and SMEs. His
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		  and Web3. In 2020, he contributed to the Digital Finance Strategy,
		  including the MiCA Regulation. Previous responsibilities included the
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		  Research, then in DG ENV and since 2019 in DG GROW. After having lead at
		  European level the EU Ecolabel, in the period 2010-2019 Michele
		  initiated and led the development of the Environmental Footprint life
		  cycle assessment methods. Since 2019, Michele has been leading the
		  Commission work towards integration of sustainability approaches into
		  European industrial policies and strategies, including the recently
		  adopted new legislation on the ecodesign of sustainable products (ESPR).
		  In this context, Michele is the chair of the Commission cross-DG Working
		  Group for the conceptual development and deployment of the Digital
		  Product Passport (DPP).
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		  parliamentary assistant. Joining Deloitte in 2017 as senior consultant,
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		  2018. Nicolas has a high interest in the potential impact of new
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		  ‚Trusted Technology Environment‘. Between January 2017 and June 2020,
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		  Standardization Technical Committee 68 FinTech Technical Advisory Group.
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		  Identity by One World Identity. Mr. Wolf co-founded IS Innovative
		  Software GmbH in 1989 and served first as its managing director. He was
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		  IS.Teledata AG. Mr. Wolf holds a university degree in business
		  administration from J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
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		  platform and includes standards for digital product passport, product
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