Dirk Backofen is the Tribe Lead Digital Identities of T-Systems International GmbH. In this role Dirk is accountable for the set-up of a new business area within Deutsche Telekom including all Identity technologies like EUDI-Wallet, eID, Smart eID and OIDC.
Dirk orchestrates all Telekom / T-Systems activities regarding the project “Eco-System of Digital Identities in Germany”. His current focus is laying on the development of an EUDI-Wallet with a maximum of implemented use cases to support the idea of a Public-Private-Partnership between the Federal Government of Germany and the economy to push a mass market breakthrough of secure Digital Identities in Germany.
Dirk is responsible for Telekom’s contribution in uses cases, architecture and in EUDI compatible ID-Wallet systems for the EU-Large Scale Pilots LSP I (Potential) and LSP II (We Build).
Dirk also represents Deutsche Telekom / T-Systems as board member in the shareholder board and in the supervisory board of Verimi. Dirk has developed the Business Model “Wallet as a Service” in which T-Systems and Verimi deliver the Sek-IPD for BARMER and AOK, an innovative cloud-based identity-solution based on Confidential Computing, HSM-Support and operator exclusion running in the Open Sovereign Cloud of T-Systems.
In 2016 Dirk Backofen successfully established the business unit Telekom Security – a startup within Deutsche Telekom AG. Dirk run this business until April 2020.
Dirk Backofen has a master’s degree in information technology (Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany)) and has been working for Deutsche Telekom since 1991.