Hugues Marie is the product manager for CBDC and Digital Currencies at IDEMIA. Passionate about blockchain and DeFi, he started his career as a blockchain product manager in a start-up in Mexico City, where he participated in the development of several blockchain-based SAS platforms in the financial sector, leading a team of 10 engineers.

As a leader in identity technologies, IDEMIA is on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer. IDEMIA offers its public and private customers payment, connectivity, access control, travel, identity and public security solutions. Every day, around the world, IDEMIA secures billions of interactions in the physical and digital worlds. With nearly 15,000 employees, IDEMIA is trusted by over 600 governmental organisations and more than 2,300 enterprises spread over 180 countries, with an impactful, ethical and socially responsible approach.