Expired Digital impact for companies – Digital signatures

July ABAL lunch webinar. 6th July, 2020 at noon-1pm;

Amcham Luxembourg is please to invite you to a webinar on July 6th, 2020 with speaker Victor Gallavardin from Digits.Solutions.

Who are concerned or would be interested: Business leaders from Bank and Corporate entities, Entrepreneurs, Consultants, Auditors all people who sign contracts, hire and represent companies.

Digital signatures overview: business impact, key controls and future

Digital signatures are part of the digital transformation of companies which will impact our businesses and practices. We will answer three questions:

Why will digital signatures have an impact on business?

Companies must meet the digital signatures’ challenge to follow the needs of their clients, suppliers and stakeholders. Leaders and managers face issues regarding implementation:

• Understanding the roles of the different tools: qualified and advanced electronic signatures ; electronic seals ; time stamps…
• Ensuring stakeholder authentication
• Protecting company’s identity and controlling third-party signatures.

What are the risks of digital signatures?

Digital signatures use different technologies compared to handwriting. Our company’s leaders and managers have the fear to missing out this business opportunity: User experience, authentication, data collection… But companies should also pay attention to security and confidentiality by implementing procedures and controls to safeguard their assets.

We will provide couple of concrete examples. We will propose to you a walk through those real life examples and current applications of the technology, as well as implementation pitfalls: confusing terminology, identity theft…

What is the future of digital signatures?

Digital signatures are now a matured technology implemented in most of the EU ID cards. We are seeing the main changes and benefits that digital brings to people. Those technologies will have impact on corporate reputation, employees’ skills, customer experience… your day to day business and investments.

Bio & company presentation

Victor Gallavardin is a certified public accountant in Luxembourg whose IT skill focus on developing the connection between Tech teams and business leaders. He also teaches data management to future controllers and managers. A few years ago, the title of Victor’s dissertation for his accountancy diploma was : “Can the validation of the probative force of digital documents be a new engagement for chartered accountants?”

Digits.Solutions was founded in 2017 as a continuing professional development organization focusing on digital transformation for finance departments: use of digital signatures, digital procedures, automation and data controlling management. In 2019, Digits.Solutions became also an accounting firm in Luxembourg.