Harm Jan Arendshorst, Msc is the Director of iLabs and General Partner of the iLabs Venture Partners Venture Capital, LLC. He is currently working for the World bank as an expert in Digital Identity and Trust in Digital Public Infrastructure.

Harm Jan Arendshorst was a member of the Board of Directors of Trust in Digital Life and has been recognized as a visionary leader and advisor to the European Commission, World bank, United Nations, Dutch Government, IATA, ICAO, IDSA, NIST, Open Wallet Foundation and FIDES with 25 years of experience in Digital Identity, Trustworthy AI and IoT Security. He is also board-member in Almelo Energy Energy Cooperation.

His mission in life is developing a Trustworthy Internet of Everything for the
wellbeing of People and Planet. He has been recognized as an expert in International Standards
& Policy, Research & Innovation, and driving global Trust Frameworks.

He is the Valuetrack Leader of People Flows of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and has been driving global trust framework and interoperability of covid health passes and certificates,
safe and seamless travelling, and access to events with biometrics. He has successfully organized
a global test event for mobile driving license based on the new ISO standard as foundation for
the EUDI Wallet.

He has worked more than 9 years at Verizon in leadership roles in Digital Identity, IoT Security
and Digital Transformation and responsible for PKI and eIDAS in Belgium for the Passports and
FEDICT Identity Federation Gateway, Malta PKI, UAE SmartPass, GovUK Verify in UK and many
international countries including Australia. He then founded iLabs Technologies and joined as a
Strategic Council the Institute for Future of Living to create impactful programs and public
private partnerships to help realize the SDG’s with a focus on Digital Identity, IoT Security and
Digital Transformation.
He is one of the co-authors of the Smart Cities Roadmap of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Harm Jan is one of the co-editors of the latest Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) Report
on Implementation of Secure Authentication Technologies for digital financial services together
with the ITU and World Bank Group as a member of the Security, Infrastructure and Trust
Working Group supporting the ID4D initiative.
Harm was the co-chair of the IoT security task force in the Alliance of Internet of Things
Innovation (AIOTI). He has successfully contributed to the standardization work in the field of ’A
coordinated approach for Security/ Privacy and (Semantic) interoperability of standardized IoT
Platforms’ as an expert in Specialist Task Force 547 from March 2018 to 28th of February 2020 at
ETSI. He was also a member of the new ETSI group to develop a standardization framework for
secure smartphone- based proximity tracing systems, helping to break COVID-19 transmission
chains. He is top 30 winner of the world’s largest hackathons EUvsVirus with the OpenGate
project to reopen the skies and save lives with touchless biometric travelling and biometric proof
of quarantine while protecting privacy when sharing contact tracing, health status & vaccine
certificates across borders.