Marcel Wendt

Marcel Wendt is Founder and CTO of the online identity provider Digidentity. Under Wendt’s guidance, the company pioneered a series of already revolutionary technologies for online identity management, including virtual smartcards and face 2 face recognition via smartphones. Digidentity developed the current Dutch National Identity system, DigiD, and has a seat on the Strategic Council of the Dutch Identity Framework, Idensys. He works on several research projects and is consulted by various parties regarding various aspects of digital identities. In recent years he has worked closely with the British government to the GOV.UK Verify project in the UK.