Mario D. Hoffmann is "Head of Security & Privacy Consulting" at Continental AG, Frankfurt, Germany. He is responsible for several teams worldwide supporting Continental's automotive business units making future vehicle architectures robust against security threats and compliant to privacy regulations.

Before moving to Continental in May 2016 he had been head of department “Service & Application Security” at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) in Garching (near Munich), Germany, for more than seven years. From 1999 to 2008 he had been with the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), responsible for the department ”Secure Mobile Systems” from May 2004 to Dec 2008.

His master degree in computer science he received from Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1998. His master thesis he completed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

In Dec 2013, Mario Hoffmann was awarded “Privacy by Design Ambassador” by the Information & Privacy Commissioner Ontario. He had been chair of the Working Group ”Security&Trust” of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) from 2005 to 2012. Since 2009 he had been playing an active role in the Kantara Initiative for more than six years – hosting the yearly conference in 2012. Moreover, he is a member of ACM, Germany’s Gesellschaft für Informatik, Chaos Computer Club, and Digitalcourage.