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• First Name: Mikko
• Last Name: Väisänen
• Priority: Normal
• Job Title: Chief Specialist
• Company: Finnish Immigration Service, ID-centre
• Country: Finland
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• Session Timeslot: Friday 07/03/2025 09.50-10.20
• Session Title: Session 10 __ Navigating the digital identity landscape: balancing biometrics and traditional IDs
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• Session Track: Identity
• Session Type: Presentation
• Session Location: Aqua 3-4
• Role: Speaker
• Bio:

  Mikko Vaisanen is an Inspector at the Finnish Border Guard's Headquarters, specialising in Border Checks. He is responsible for the implementation of biometrics in border control and immigration monitoring, as well as overseeing developments in document security and control tasks. Mikko leads the advancement of document examination within the Finnish Border Guard and is in charge of improving systems, data pages, and registers related to border control and immigration.

  With nearly 30 years of service in the Finnish Border Guard, Mikko has spent over 13 years at the Headquarters and has been a document security expert for two decades.

  Mikko is also the project manager of the Finnish DTC (Digital Travel Credentials) pilot, the first in the world to undergo live testing. He is a member of ICAO’s New Technologies Working Group (NTWG) and serves as Deputy Chair of Finland's National ID-Forum Steering Group.

• Presentation Title: The Finnish DTC pilot - implementation, defect management and digital residence permits
• Presentation 2-Line Description: Finland conducted the first ever successful DTC pilot in 2023 in a multi-agency effort. In addition to testing the DTC Type1, defect management was explored as well as a study on the digitalisation of the EU residence permit into a signed 2D-barcode containing a high-quality facial image.
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