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ASAD ALI
Senior Engineer - Axalto Smart Card Research

Asad Ali is a senior engineer at Axalto Smart Card Research and is currently working on next-generation smart card products. His research interests include smart card operating systems, application frameworks and network security protocols. He is the co-inventor of Network Card technology that won Card Technology 2005 "Breakthrough Award for Innovation". He holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
YVON AVENEL
Editor & Publisher - SmartCards Trends
Dr EUGENE BAEK
System S/W, System LSI - Samsung Electronics

Dr. Eugene Baek was born in 1972, in Republic of Korea. Graduated from Seoul National University, Korea in 1997.

Received the Ph.D. in 2003 in the same university. Joined in the SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS LTD. in 2003.

Main scientific interest is Cryptography.
ROB BEKKERS
Senior Security Evaluator - TNO ITSEF BV

After completing his education in electrical engineering Rob Bekkers has spend 5 years in failure analysis of electrical components at the Dutch Royal Navy. Rob joined TNO in 1996 as a hardware security evaluator focusing on security of smart card chips. Over the years Rob has become an expert on smart card security including hardware, software, RF technology, side-channel analysis and perturbation attacks. Being part of TNO ITSEF's R&D team Rob is now responsible for the company's technology level related to hardware and RF technology. Furthermore Rob is often involved in training and consultancy projects for TNO ITSEF's customers.
JEAN-PAUL BILLON
Chairman - STIP Consortium
Device Committee Chair - GlobalPlatform

Jean-Paul Billon, director Software Architecture in the Smart Cards Advanced Research Division of Schlumberger, is the incorporator of the Small Terminal Interoperability Platform (STIP) Consortium (www.stip.org), and is president and chairman of this Consortium since its creation in April 2000. He is also the chairman of GlobalPlatform Device Committee since March 2002 (www.globalplatform.org). His action in the Device Committee has led to the new GPD 2.0 specification that results of a common effort with STIP Consortium and completes the STIP specification. In addition, Jean-Paul Billon chairs the JEFF workgroup of J Consortium (www.j-consortium.org). JEFF is a new format for Java programs that allows dramatic economies of dynamic memory when executing Java programs on small devices. JEFF is now an ISO standard.

Jean-Paul Billon joined Bull CP8 in 1998, that eventually becomes part of Schlumberger. Jean-Paul Billon has managed, in California, the CP8 Java Terminal team from 1998 to end 2000. This team collaborated to the first studies and experimentations of Java configurations for very small embedded devices. For this pioneering work he received an award at JavaOne Conference in 1999. In the same time, he has been acting as consultant for Visa International. Jean-Paul Billon has been CTO of Cardsoft Inc. in 2000 and 2001 before coming back to Schlumberger Smart Cards Advanced Research division.

Before joining CP8, Jean-Paul Billon worked in France in various research and management positions for the Bull Corporate Research Center from 1982 to 1996 and from 1996 to 1998 for Dyade, a joint venture between Bull and the French governmental research institute for computer science, the INRIA. Specialist of Artificial Intelligence and formal methods, Jean-Paul Billon has also been teaching Artificial Intelligence and Automated Theorem Proving in Ecole centrale of Paris and Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité of Metz from 1984 to 1990. He received the Bull innovation award in 1988 for a new algorithm of automated demonstration that proved very effective for validating computer chips. Since 1996, Jean-Paul Billon has oriented his activity toward security and software architecture for embedded devices and smart cards.
HANS BRANDL
Senior Scientist, Trusted Computing Security Consultant - Infineon Technologies

Hans Brandl, born 1950 in Munich, Germany studied Electronics at the Technical University in Munich. After different research and development activities esp. in digital signal processing he started at Siemens with the development and project management of security devices and systems mainly for government applications. He changed then over to Infineon technologies AG where he is responsible for technical innovations, international projects for smartcard security applications as well as for new security technologies for protecting the data and integrity of integrated circuits for smartcards.
He is now active with the Infineon Trusted Computing group, where he is engaged in application scenarios for trusted computing. His special interests are new security related technologies and esp. combinations of HW and SW security systems.
ETIENNE CAMBOIS
Business Development Manager, Security Technologies - Gemplus

Industrial Computing ingeneer (INPG-SA) - R&D Security Solution manager at Landis&Gyr Communication - In charge of defining deploy security architecture for nation-wide payphone infrastructure. Then, Security risk manager for Telecom market at Gemplus before joining the Business Innovation Group, in charge of driving the security technologies business development.
DAMIEN CAUCHETEUX
CEA-LETI

Damien Caucheteux was born in 1979 in Versailles, France. He received the Engineering degree in electronics in 2002 from the Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble (INPG), France.
In 2002, he joined the Laboratoire d'Electronique et des Techniques de l'Information (LETI) in Grenoble and the Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics for Computer Architecture (TIMA) Laboratory as a PhD student. He is currently working on a new class of remotely powered contactless devices using asynchronous logic and event based communication through the inductive link.
SERGE CHAUMETTE
Professor at the University Bordeaux 1, leader of the Distributed Systems and Objects team - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI)

Serge Chaumette began his research activities in the domain of tools for parallel and distributed applications. Within this framework he has been using the Java technology since its early begining.

He then applied this knowledge to design tools to help in the process of evaluating Java Cards and Java Card applications within government founded industial projects.

Java Cards are now one of the key components of the distributed software platforms developped in his research team.
Dr BOUTHEINA CHETALI
Axalto Smart Cards Research

Head of the Formal Methods and Security group of Axalto Smart Cards Research. Doctor in Computer Science, she has been working in the smart cards arena since 1999 when she joined the advanced research group of Bull Smart Card & terminals as R&D engineer expert in formal methods. Since 2001, she is charge of the Formal Methods & Security team of Schlumberger (now Axalto), working on the application of formal methods to the security of the smart cards and to Common Criteria certifications. Main activities of the group are the formalization of the Java card platform and its components, the verification of security properties and the Common Criteria evaluation at high levels. She is also member of the Java Card Forum security group and the Global Platform security group.

IRA COHEN
VP of Business Development - M-Systems

As Vice President for Business Development, at M-Systems, Ira has been responsible for promoting and advancing secure high capacity smart cards and in particular M-Systems' innovative MegaSIM solution.

Previously he worked as business development manager and product marketing manager for Nokia in Israel where his responsibilities included tracking new technologies and trends, new product rollouts, contact with the applications developer's community and promoting and advancing new technology business ventures. He was also was Country Manager for Ericsson where he was involved in establishing Ericsson's mobile phone business in Israel.

Ira has served as a consultant on cellular communications and wireless data products and services for leading Israeli and international firms and lectures on end user implementations of wireless data applications and new communications technologies.

His professional career, spanning more than 20 years, has included roles establishing new business activities, sales and marketing executive positions, international and export marketing, and strategic business development.

He was the founder and the chairman of the Israel Mobile Internet Forum a forum of leading firms active in the Israeli telecommunications industry and is a long standing member of the Marketing Committee of the Israel Advertisers' Association.

LAURENT COUREAU
Orange

Laurent Coureau works as a strategic advisor in Orange mainly on security, SIM and handset architecture topics.

In that scope, he is in charge to contribute to the definition of the strategy, raise new business opportunities thanks to innovative technologies.

he is also in charge to drive new and innovative items in different standardisation groups (GlobalPlatform, TCG, ETSI, 3GPP, OMA).

As part of the OMTP initiative, he is taking action in the definition of the hardware in future handsets and SIM cards.
ELISABETH CROCHON
CEA-LETI

Elisabeth Crochon has been working since 1995 in contactless system development as control access in transport field, 3D identification for item management, pressure measurement for biomedical application. She is now in charge of projects focusing in contactless smart card security and more accurately on development of new Very High Data Rate Air Interface.
PHILIPPE DAVID
Vice-President Business Development, Financial Services Business Unit - Gemplus

Philippe David, Vice-President Business Development with Gemplus, has 20 years of experience in sales and marketing related functions. Trained as an engineer, Philippe holds a specialized Master's Degree in IT studies from the University of Paris VI.

After 12 years in a range of sales-related functions with IBM, he joined Bull Group to head up business development in the French insurance sector. He then moved to the smart card division of Bull CP8 in 1999 as Director of the Banking and Loyalty Business Unit. In early 2001, he was named worldwide marketing manager of Axalto's banking and loyalty smart cards. Prior to joining Gemplus, Philippe was responsible for Axalto's e-Transactions business in Asia.

Philippe David is in charge of Product Marketing, Marketing Communications, Product Development, Conventional Cards, Sales Operations, Services and Solutions within Gemplus' Financial Services Business Unit.
DOMINIQUE G. DECAVÈLE
Risk Management & Audit - Gie Cartes Bancaires

Dominique G. Decavèle is a Risk Manager at Groupement des Cartes Bancaires " CB ", a card-activated scheme which processes 4.65 billion payment transactions and 1.26 cash withdrawals in 2004.

He joined CB in 1990 to head their smartcard roll-out project. Later he took part in the lobbying effort which brought two worldwide bankcard schemes, namely Visa and MasterCard, to adopt smartcards.
Together with smartcard manufacturers, he pioneered the use of formal evaluation methods in payment schemes, first the ITSEC, later the Common Criteria, thereby facilitating the development of the French IT Evaluation and Certification Scheme.

Prior to joining CB, Dominique worked for manufacturers, designing computers in the seventies and managing a line of automatic teller machines in the eighties.
GEORGES DEBOIS

Georges Debois is in charge of the IT validation for smartcard software, at AXALTO, Department R&D, since 2001. Between 1991 and 2001, he was at BULL, in the R&D Department on projects for the conception of processor for mainframes, using verification based on formal proof. Georges is graduated from ENST Bretagne (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications).
JEAN-LOUP DÉPINAY
JavaCard OpenPlatform Architect - Oberthur Card Systems

Jean-Loup Dépinay is an engineer graduated from "L'école Supérieure d'Electricité" in 1990. After working few years for the graphical arts industry he joined Delarue Card Systems (became Oberthur Card Systems in 2000) in 1997 and has stayed in this company since this date. He has been in charge as architect or as project leader of several JavaCard platform
deployed worldwide.

He has been involved in the development of the JavaCard technology since 1998. He has attended as an active member most of of the sessions of the JavaCard Forum. He is also participating actively in the Global Platform card committee.

His current interests are security improvement and making the smart card an open device supporting network technologies.
RONNY DEPOORTERE
Senior Vice President - ZETES PASS

Ronny Depoortere is Civil Engineer in Electronics and also holds an MBA from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL).

He joined ZETES in 2002 to build and start ZETES PASS (Personal Authentication and Security Services), an international division of ZETES and a multi-competence team (Business Development, project management, software architecture, software engineering, etc.) in charge of providing turn-key People Identification solutions and of delivering value-added integration of security applications, mainly based on smart cards and biometrics, for both public and private organisations. Being in charge of ZETES PASS, he coordinates large ID projects awarded to ZETES such as the Belgian national eID card.

Prior to joining ZETES, Mr. Depoortere worked for Utimaco Safeware, where he was General Manager for Belgium and Luxembourg, and also International Executive Board Member of the Digital Transaction Security division.
SUHAS A. DESAI
Research Student, Department of Computer Science & Engineering - Walchand College, Sangli, India
JOSE MARIA DIAZ
Handsets and Smart Cards Manager - Telefónica Móviles España

José María started in Telefónica Móviles España working in handset testing in 1997 after finishing his studies at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de Madrid, with master degree. During the first period, he developed deep knowledge in GSM specifications and testing, specially in technologies such as GSM RF, Signalling, Supplementary Services, SIM Toolkit compatibility, Voice Quality, WAP and GPRS… In 2001 he was promoted to the current position working in the launch of UMTS services, Movistar branded devices, the new 128K USIM Cards Services,… Now he is working on several projects like Device Management, SIM Card Evolution, Telefónica Móviles new handsets specifications.
MORTEZA DJAFARI
PhD, Technical Advisor - KasraCard

Work Experience:
- 1968 - 1974: Television National Iranian Man. Tech. jobs
- 1974 - 1978: TV & Cinema Faculty Director·
- 1978 - 1980: Iranian steel complex Inst. Sen. Eng
- 1980 - 1990: Working in French Cos. Communication
- 1990 - 2005: Independent adviser IKCO - Emad - Kasra

Education:
- 1965: Polytechnic of Tehran MSc (Electronics)
- 1968: DEA - Paris
BERTRAND DU CASTEL
Head of Research - Axalto Smart Cards

Based in Austin, Texas, USA, Bertrand du Castel heads Research for Axalto Smart Cards. He is also Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Java Card Forum and of the Network Card Generation consortium, and he is President of the WLAN Smart Card consortium. Bertrand holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris and an Engineer Diploma from Ecole Polytechnique, France. In 2005, Bertrand received the Visionary Award from Card Technology Magazine.
PASCAL DUFOUR
Vice President, Head of Chip Products Management - MasterCard

Pascal Dufour heads up the Chip Products Management Department within the MasterCard Chip Centre of Excellence, where he is responsible for setting the strategic framework for new products and services that are based on chip technology.

Mr. Dufour joined MasterCard in 1989. He largely contributed to the development of commercial activities in Central and Eastern Europe. As from 1996 he was in charge of chip migration, expanding this role for the newly formed Chip and Mobile Centre of Excellence, which is based in Waterloo.

Before joining MasterCard, Mr. Dufour worked for the French Bank Crédit Mutuel and for the French service provider SLIGOS, in charge of connecting Banks to the Carte Bleue network.
DIDIER ELBAZ
Multicomponents Production Director, SPS

He has gained a strong know how in electronic packaging during 14 years experience in GEMPLUS and has contributed to the internationalisation of the production by starting various manufacturing plants all over the world. He has developed the actual embedding process, and many innovating products. He took the lead of different European projects.

With some colleagues he has founded Smart Packaging Solutions Company in end 2003, and has taken the direction of the development and the promotion of the Multicomponents card technology, thanks to its numerous patents and expertise in this field.
PATRICK GEORGE
Senior Architect - Gemplus Business Incubation Group

Patrick George is a Technology Expert with Gemplus Business Development Group, responsible for developing technology and their associated business cases, and for coordinating with industry partners in the field of Trusted Computing. In this position, he represents Gemplus at the Trusted Computing Group.

With over ten years extensive experience on smart cards technology and security he has received patents for his contribution to research in smart card operating systems and has participated in the development of specifications for standardization organizations like the Java Card Forum, Global Platform and the PKI Forum.

His prior positions with Gemplus include operational responsibilities for security and Smart Card Management Systems products.
CHRISTOPHE GIRAUD
Engineer - Embedded Cryptography & Security Group, Oberthur Card Systems

Christophe Giraud has been working in the Cryptography & Security group of Oberthur Card Systems for six years.

He has worked as a cryptographic algorithms developer and has been in charge of several studies in mobile phone, banking and pay-TV environments.

His main interest is Side-Channel attacks, especially Fault Induction.

He is the author of nine patents and nine international publications in Computer Science and holds an MSc in Cryptography and Discrete Mathematics.
CHRISTIAN GOIRE
President of the Java Card Forum
Axalto

2001- Present Schlumberger Architecture group manager (Cards Louveciennes)
Project : new generations of cards

1997-2001 - Director, Advanced Research (Bull CP8)
Director, Advanced Research for smart cards, terminals. My team was based partly in Louveciennes and in the USA. My mission covered a global responsability for architecture and security in various fields such as hardware, operating systems, languages, tools based on semantics and formal methods. The main objective of the work was to reach bettter time to market, reduce cost, increase performance and security, and so prepare the company to the evolution of the jobs due to the introduction of open platforms and open networks (e-Commerce, e-Business). I coordinated research with Institutes such as INRIA or CNRS. The job implied numerous contacts with the Business unit managers.

I was elected President of the Java Card Forum in April 1997.

1995-1997 - Vice President, Technology and Partnership (MCTI subsidiary of Bull CP8) Based in Washinton DC.

My mission was :
- To be MCTI technical expert and leader in the field of microprocessor card and associated terminals in order to contribute and assist MCTI in reaching and leading a position in these fields.
- To participate in the negociations of marketing, technological and industrial partnerships made by MCTI and to drive them on a technological point of view.
- To give first level support to the marketing team, contribute to its training and help the team to technically define the offer.
- To ensure technical contacts with Visa, MasterCard, CitiBank, MicroSoft, Sun, Netscape.

My achievements were:
- The negotiation and development of the Visa Viewer
- The contribution to the group which defined the VIS specifications (Visa)
- The foundation with MicroSoft of the PC/SC group to connect terminals and smart cards
Electronic benefits transfer applications development and installations ( cards, terminals and solution)
- My participation in the Government Services Administration Specification.

1983-1994 -Terminal R&D Director ( Bull CP8) - France and Spain
I had to manage 45 persons - My responsability covered hardware, software, industrialisation, and PC software and tools to handle these terminals.
My mission also covered POS and EFT POS for France.

Achievements: this unit issued more than 500 000 terminals worldwide. with 30% of benefits as an average.
BERTRAND GOMEZ
Senior Scientist - CEA-LETI

Bertrand Gomez joined CEA-LETI in 2002 as senior scientist (Design and System Integration Department). His current research include ambient intelligence and RFID systems. Before joining CEA-LETI, he worked for 6 years with Gemplus as mixed signal ICs designer (contact and contactless circuit design), and for 7 years with MATRA-MHS (now ATMEL Nantes) as design and test engineer (memories and RFICs design). He holds an Engineering degree in micro-electronic from ENSERB (Bordeaux-France) in 1988.
ADJAY GOPIE
Security Evaluator - TNO ITSEF BV

After completing his education in computer science Adjay Gopie followed a course embedded software engineering. He has been working on smart card security projects at TNO since 2000. These projects involve functional stress testing, voltage manipulation and side-channel analysis. Over the years he improved his power analysis (SPA/DPA) skills and became a senior in this field. Improving power measurement methods and delivering support in projects is one of the key tasks. Since two years Electro-Magnetic emanation have his attention. His contribution on this subject is to find methods to analyse the security impact of adjacent EM fields of smart cards and terminals.
SRINIVAS GUMMA
Masters Student - Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT BOMBAY

Srinivas Gumma is currently a masters student in Kanwal Rekhi school of Information Technology at IIT Bombay, India.
His thesis topic is XML databases on smart cards. His advisor is Prof. Deepak B. Phatak, IIT Bombay. His research interests include Main memory databases, Micro databases. He has a special interest in Smart card databases.
ANEACE HADDAD
Founder & Chairman - Welcome

Aneace Haddad is founder and chairman of software company Welcome Real-time (Aix en Provence, France). Mr. Haddad is a 20-year veteran of the point-of-sale and smart card software industry. He is the author of two smart card strategy books, "Using Smart Cards to Gain Market Share" (Gower Publishing, 2000) and "A New Way to Pay" (Gower Publishing, Summer 2005).
Dr HELENA HANDSCHUH
Applied Cryptography & Services Manager - Gemplus

Dr. Helena Handschuh is Applied Cryptography and Services Manager at Gemplus. She is actively involved in various information security and smart-card projects and has authored several papers and patents in cryptography. Her current research focuses on secret-key cryptography, as well as mobile telecommunications' security. Helena Handschuh is a Networks and Communications engineer from the ENSTA and received a master's degree (D.E.A.) in Cryptography from the Ecole Polytechnique. She holds a PhD in Cryptography from the ENST in Paris, France.
EDDIE JAFFUEL
Leirios Technologies

Eddie Jaffuel is an expert in formal modeling techniques and automated test generation at LEIRIOS Technologies. He has got a large experience in modeling smart card applications like GlobalPlatform or Identification-Authentication-Signature. Previously of that, he was first a software developer for embedded systems and then a modeling engineer at Steria-Clearsy, developing models in the automotive industry. Eddie is graduated from ENSIMAG-Grenoble.
ALAIN JARRE
Director Consumer & IT Business Unit Smartcard IC's division - STMicroelectronics

Alain JARRE works in STMicroelectronics Smartcard IC's Division since January 1996.

He is currently Consumer & IT Business Unit Director located in Geneva (Switzerland), STMicroelectronics Head Quarter.

Alain JARRE worked in Japan from May 1999 to September 2002 as Senior Regional Manager. As Vice-chairman of e-Commerce Committee of the European Business Community, he was the leader of the Smart Card Activity. Alain was also Smart MEIJI project officer (EU founding), the aim of this project was to ensure interoperability for Smartcard between Japan and Europe. 6 workshops organized between METI and Eurosmart on contactless technology and security evaluation.

Prior to this, Alain was Product Marketing Manager in STMicroelectronics Smartcard IC's Division in Rousset (France). His responsibilities included directing ST product strategy and marketing efforts for Phonecard IC's. He was an active member of the ETSI group dedicated to phonecard system.

Alain joined STMicroelectronics in January 1996 after more than seven years with Schlumberger Card & System Div, where he has held several technical positions.

Alain holds a Master of Science in Electronic and Computer Sciences Degree and a MBA.
MARC KEKICHEFF
Technical Director and Card Committee Chair - GlobalPlatform

Marc Kekicheff has over thirteen year's experience in the smart card technology industry and has two roles at GlobalPlatform Consortium, the cross industry organisation promoting a standardised technical framework for multiple application smart cards: Technical Director and Chair of the organisation's Card Committee.

Marc's main role with GlobalPlatform is to drive forward the development of GlobalPlatform specifications, and other open standards. He also acts as a central liaison co-ordinating the efforts of GlobalPlatform's five committees (marketing, planning, card, device and systems) and its working groups, ensuring that all elements of smart card solutions developed are interoperable and that backward compatibility with previous releases is maintained.

Marc joins GlobalPlatform from Visa International in California, where, as Vice-President of Emerging Technologies, he is responsible for designing, developing and implementing open standards in a multi-application, cross industry environment. Indeed, Marc together with a team of experts has been a key architect and inventor of the GlobalPlatform standard, which has been transferred to GlobalPlatform Consortium for management and evolution.

Marc has also actively participated in the original design of Java Card Specification. Following the publication of version 2.0 in November 1997 and its subsequent releases, all major industry leaders, representing 98% of the chip-card industry worldwide, have licensed Java Card from Sun Microsystems.

A native Frenchman, Marc moved to California from Cartes Bancaires, where he headed up the Terminals and Software Applications department in 1994. In that position, Marc was in charge of upgrading the entire French terminal base to chip technology during the French smart card program roll-out in 1990-1992.
Dr. KSHEERABDHI KRISHNA
Axalto

Dr. Ksheerabdhi Krishna has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He has been with Schlumberger Smart Cards R&D since 1996. Dr. Krishna was a principal member of the team that engineered the first Java Card in 1997. He has since been active in the domain of smart cards with numerous publications and patents related to this technology. He is a member of the Java Card Forum Technical Committee, where he contributes to specifications on upcoming Java Card technologies. He is also an active contributor to the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Technical Committee M1 on Biometrics. Recently, Dr. Krishna has been examining the application of .NET Card technology to smart card platforms enabling seamless integration of smart cards with the world of .NET and Web Services.
Prof. D. B KULKARNI
Head of Department of Information Technology - Walchand College, Sangli, India

He is working as Asst Professor in Computer science department and also as incharge Head of Information Technology department in Walchand College Of Engg., Sangli India. He has presented many of research papers at various national and international conferences. He is guideing various networking and smart card based industry sponsord projects at graduate and postgraduate level.
BRUNO LEGEARD
Leirios Technologies & LIFC University of Franche Comté - CNRS-INRIA

Bruno Legeard is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Franche-Comté, France and co-founder of the company LEIRIOS Technologies (www.leirios.com). He provides technical leadership for the development of the LEIRIOS Test Generator tool-set, a model-based test generator from formal models based on cause-effect and boundary-values strategies. His recent publications concerns model coverage criteria, boundary-value testing, applications of model-based testing for embedded system validation and symbolic execution of pre-post formal notations. Bruno received master's degrees from the University of Lyon in 1984 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from INSA Lyon in 1987.
ANDREAS LINKE
Giesecke & Devrient

Professional experience:
Since 2004: Assistant to the Board at Giesecke & Devrient, Munich, Germany
2001 - 2004: Head of the department of new technologies at Giesecke & Devrient
1998 - 2001: Professor of Industrial Control and Automation Systems at the University of Applied Science in Magdeburg
1992 - 1998: Project manager in the oil and pipeline industry
Dr KAREN LU
Researcher - Axalto

Dr. Karen Lu is a principal engineer at Axalto Smart Cards Research. She is currently working on network smart cards and applications. Her research interests include smart cards communication, networking, security and applications.
ANTONIO MAÑA
University of Malaga

Antonio Maña received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Malaga, where he is currently Associate Professor of Software Engineering in the Computer Science Department. His current research activities include security and software engineering, information and network security, application of smart cards to digital contents commerce, software protection, Digital Rights Management and mobile applications. He has been technical manager in several EU funded research projects. He has served the European Commission as expert for the evaluation of IP, STREP, CA and SSA proposals of the VI Framework program. He has published research papers in numerous scientific conferences and journals, and regularly participates in the organization of research events.
LAURENT MANTEAU
Gemplus

With more than 17 years experience in the IT Industry, he started to work in the 3M European Labs as a Product Engineer, then joined the European R&D center of the Océ group as Development Manager for digital printing technologies. Then, he moved to IER as expert for travel documents for the Air Transport industry. He was then an active member of IATA and AIM working groups for auto-ID applications, barcode and RFID technologies. He joined Gemplus in 1998 as Marketing & Product Manager for RFID applications, moved to R&D Corporate Innovation and finally took over the responsibility of Cooperative R&D Programs for Gemplus in year 2002. He holds an Engineering degree in Polymer Chemistry & Electronics Materials from ENSCT (Toulouse) in 1987.
Dr ULLRICH MARTINI
Giesecke & Devrient

Education and qualifications:
Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich (Diploma)
Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich (PhD)

Professional experience:
2000: founded cifro GmbH, working on virtual PIN
Since 2002, Giesecke & Devrient, Department of New Technologies
GÉRALD MAUNIER
Senior Architect - Gemplus Business Incubation Group

Senior architect in Gemplus Business Incubation Group, he is in charge of technical relationships with partner companies in the fields of Automotive and Trusted Computing, and represents Gemplus at the Trusted Computing Group.

Working for Gemplus since 1997, he has been involved in numerous GSM products as project leader, represented Gemplus at the ETSI/3GPP standards committee and contributed to create the first SIM Alliance specifications.

Before joining Gemplus, he co-founded an independent software company developing telecom products.
MICHAEL MEISSNER
Member of the the Certification Body - Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) Germany

Michael Meissner graduated in Telecommunications at Fachhochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel, Germany. After having occupied several positions in industry, especially in the GSM/UMTS area, he joined the Certification Body of BSI in 2002. Since then he has been involved in various certification projects, many of them within the smart card area. He also represents BSI in multinational Certification Projects.
JEAN-PAUL MICHEL
Production Director - NBS Technologies

Jean-Paul Michel is the production Manager of NBS TECHNOLOGIES Rousset. Previously he had the same position in Cybernétix Microélectonique (company bought by NBS in October 2004). He reached Cybernetix in 1991 to design and to develop automatic production systems for industry. In 1996, he joined the Microelectronics activity to integrate smart card manufacturing processes in industrial equipments. He designed and developed the 3rd generation Smart Card equipments in production at the moment.
JÜRGEN MOLL
Vice-Chairman - Eurosmart

MICHAEL MONTGOMERY
Scientific Advisor - Axalto

Michael Montgomery is a Scientific Advisor at Axalto, holding 22 patents for his work in communications and smart cards. He has published in dozens of technical publications and conferences, including receiving three conference Best Paper awards. His inventions have won distinctions such as CARDIS "SESAME Innovation award", Linux Journal "Best New Gadget", Nexus "E-commerce development of the year", the Schlumberger "Chairman's award", and most recently, Card Technology Magazine's 2005 "Breakthrough Award for Innovation". He is currently working on the next-generation smart card technology.
OMID F. NADJARBASHI
President & Technical Director - KasraCard

Omid Nadjarbashi funded the KasraCard Co. Ltd. Start-up On May 2004 as the first professional company in the smart-card software category in Iran. He holds B.S. on CE from Sharif University of Technology ad M.S. on CE from University of Tehran. His main honored work in the smart card domain is GSM Card Operating System which is designed and developed under his technical management on an ARM-based 32-bit IC-Card, and released as the SIM Card product of Emad Semiconductor Co. Thereafter, he was the team leader and senior designer of SIM Application Toolkit added to the SIM card OS. He was the head of Card-OS division in the Emad prior to the foundation of Kasra-Card.
GÉRARD NAJMAN
Thales Transportation Systems

Gerard NAJMAN is a graduated engineer from Ecole Centrale of Paris. He also graduated in business management from the Executive MBA CPA.

The first part of his career was dedicated to consulting in public transportation for local and regional authorities.

He then moved to the fare collection industry and worked for several international companies such as Camp and Scanpoint Technology. In between, he worked for Via Transport group (now Keolis) that operates more than 100 urban and interurban public transport networks as well as public car parks. He was then the Director for Urban Cashless Payment Systems. In that role, he advised operating subsidiaries for their fare collection and payment systems.

His experience covers sales, marketing, strategy, and business development in the various parts of the world.

He has worked for Thales Transportation Systems since 1996 with various responsibilities and has been 20 years overall in the fare collection industry, working partly for Public Transport operators, mostly for integrators, with concrete achievements in all continents. In that respect, he has appraised various cultural backgrounds and also the real time frame of major projects.
DEEPAK B. PHATAK
Head of School of Management - IIT Bombay

Dr. Deepak B. Phatak presently heads the School of Management at IIT Bombay. He was the founding head of School of Information Technology set up in October 1998 at IIT Bombay. He was the head of Computer Science and Engineering department of IIT Bombay from 1991 to 1994.
He played an important role in getting the international conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) to India and was the General Conference Co-chair for the same in 1996. He is actively involved with the new initiative on Smart Cards by the Ministry of Information Technology of India aimed at proliferating the use of smart cards in India and was chairman of the national subcommittee that defined the multi-application smart card standards for Indian payment systems.
His research interests are in the areas of Data Bases and Information Systems, Software Engineering, System Performance Evaluation, IT enabled Education and IT strategy planning. His primary research inclinations are in Technology application and deployment areas.
OLIVIER PIOU
Chief Executive Officer - Axalto
President - Eurosmart

Olivier Piou has been a general manager and member of the board of directors of Axalto since February 17, 2004. Olivier Piou, who began his career at Schlumberger, held various technical, operational and marketing management positions within Schlumberger, in connection with the Schlumberger's various activities in France and in the United States, from 1981 to 1993. From 1994 to 1997, he was Technical and Marketing Director for the Schlumberger's Electronic Transactions business. From 1998 to 2000, he was president of Schlumberger's Smart Cards division. From 2001 to 2004, he was president of Schlumberger's Volume Products and Global Market Segments businesses. Olivier Piou graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon. Olivier Piou is also president of Eurosmart, the international non-profit organization, based in Brussels, which represents the smart card industry worldwide.
DENIS PRACA
Research Scientist, System Research Lab - Gemplus

With a strong background in telecommunication and digital video processing, Denis Praca joined Gemplus in 1996 to take charge of the telecommunication and contactless development group in the reader division. In 1999 he creates the "smart object" architecture group in the research lab of Gemplus. This group works on several projects around large memory SIM cards (Pinocchio in 1999, SUMO in 2001), biometrics (First Match on card fingerprint algorithm in 2001), multicomponent smart cards (Smartscreen prototypes in 1999, pre-production screen cards in 2001). Denis Praca is the technical Gemplus representative and board member in the MultiMedia Card Association.
SYLVAIN PREVOST
Axalto

Based in Austin, Texas, USA, Sylvain PREVOST joined Schlumberger/Axalto in 1998 in Orleans, France. He holds an engineering diploma from PolyTech-Orleans, France. Moving to Austin in 2000, he is an active member of the Java Card Forum. He was also an active member of the Global Platform 2.1 Card Specification Working Group. In addition to being mainly involved in on-card software development, notably related to Cryptography, Biometry, Java Card, and on-card verifier implementation, he has created several off-card tools. He is currently working on operating system and virtual machine design for smart cards.
EMMANUEL PROUFF
Engineer, Embedded Cryptography & Security Group - Oberthur Card Systems

Emmanuel Prouff has obtained a PhD at the french national research institute for computer science (INRIA) and has a master degree in mathematics.

He has been university lecturer in Computer Science at the university of Orsay (Paris XI) and at the engineering school of Bourges. Currently working for Oberthur Card Systems, he is a research engineer in the Cryptography & Security group.

Emmanuel Prouff studies theoretical aspects of symmetric cryptology and the different ways of thwarting side channel attacks. His results in those areas were published at international conferences.
Pr GUY PUJOLLE
LIP6

Professor at the University of Paris VI and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the France Telecom Group (FT, Orange, Wanadoo).

Chairman of IFIP Working Group 6.2 on "Network and Internetwork Architectures". He is an editor for International Journal of Network Management, WINET, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, and IEEE Surveys & Tutorials.

Guy Pujolle is currently Technical Chairman of the WLANSmartCard consortium for normalizing security and mobility in wireless LANs using a smartcard. He has published widely in the area of computer systems modelling and performance, queuing theory, high-speed networks. He has published 19 influential texts and monographs in the area.

He is a Professor Honoris Causa of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications since 1988. He was awarded the Special Seymour Cray Award in 1991 for his research, and Silver Core from IFIP in 1995. Also in 1995 his book "les Réseaux" was awarded the Roberval Prize in France for the best scientific book of the year.
TANJORE RAVISHANKAR
Senior Staff Engineer, Java Card Engineering

Tanjore Ravishankar (Ravi) is the technical lead in the Java Card Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. He was one of the orignal members of the Java Card team that designed the Java Card technology. Ravi is currently working on the evolution of the Java Card standards.
NICOLAS ROUSSET
Formal Methods Group, Smart Cards Research - Axalto

He integrated Axalto in april 2004 for his master's internship. He holds an Engineer Diploma from
Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques, Sophia-Antipolis, France, in 2002.
KAPIL SACHDEVA
Axalto

Kapil is working as a software technologist in Axalto Smartcard R&E. Primary focus of his work is on design and development of next generation Smartcard operating systems, virtual machines (.NET and Java) & fast Xml parsers. Lately Kapil has been involved in Identity management space involving both Liberty Alliance and WS-Federation by designing & developing applications for Smartcards based on these standards and bringing the security provided by Smartcards to the forefront with in the domain of these new technologies.
DAVID SAMYDE
FemtoNano

Born in 1974 where he studied electronics and telecommunications.
FemtoNano is an independent engineering and design company, expert in the fields of security, smart cards, cryptography and contactless technology. The current research activities include side channel analysis, circuit security, physical security and DRM. David has published several papers in smart cards security.
He has been involved in various European projects, like G3Card, and Reset.
DAMIEN SAUVERON
Assistant Professor, LMSI - University of Limoges

Damien Sauveron worked during three years for the ITSEF of SERMA Technologies on the Java Card security. During his thesis that he carried out in the Distributed Systems and Objects team of
the LaBRI he was one of the main developeers of a Java Card emulator, he introduced the concept of pre-persistance in Java Card and he highlighted a new category of attacks on the open multiapplication smart cards.
HEE-KWAN SON
Samsung Electronics

Mr. Hee-Kwan Son was born in 1969, Korea. Since Jan. 2002, I've been working for Samsung Electronics, Korea.

Graduated from Seoul National University in Korea with MS degree of EE. Graduated from Sogang University in Korea with BS degree of EE.

Scientific interest is designing a low-power public-key coprocessor as applied to mobile devices.
Dr STEPHAN SPITZ
Project Manager for New Smart Card Operating Systems - Giesecke & Devrient

- 1998: University degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at TUM (Technical University of Munich), Germany
- 1998-2000: Senior Developer of Java Card OS at Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich
- 2000-2003: Dissertation in the field of Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Signatures at TUM
- 2000-2003: Project Manager of Trustcenter Software at TÜV, Munich
- 2003/2004: Member of the Research Strategy Department at Fraunhofer Research Headquater, Munich
- Since 2004: Associate Lecturer at TUM
- Since 2004: Project Manager of New Smart Card Operating Systems at Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich
HASHEM TATARI
Embedded Software Engineer - KasraCard

Hashem Tatari was born in 1981 in Iran. He has just graduated in B.S. degree on Computer-Software from Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, and he is candidate for higher education.
He was employed in Emad Semiconductor Co. (leading domestic card manufacturer) on May 2004 as Embedded Software Engineer. He is joined to a team designing and developing the company's new EMV compatible card operating system. He is honored to design a one-pass ESC script compiler with code-regeneration facility for the SIM Application Toolkit feature of the company's SIM card.
His major interest is in the smart card, security systems and system programming.
JEAN-PAUL THOMASSON
Marketing Director, STMicroelectronics
Eurosmart
STEFAN TRAUTNER
Product Manager RFID readers - ACG Identification Technologies

Stefan Trautner is the RFID Readers Product Manager for ACG Identification Technologies. In this position, he is responsible for managing and developing ACG's RFID reader product portfolio.

Stefan Trautner began his career as a field application engineer responsible for RFID products at Texas Instruments Deutschland, where he was responsible for the technical support of RFID products as well as for design-ins in smart label, transport, logistics and production applications. He was then promoted to field sales engineer for the RFID product portfolio, covering the area of Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining ACG in 2004, Stefan Trautner worked as a sales engineer for RFID products at the German systems integrator g-ident. Stefan Trautner holds a degree in Electronics from the university of applied sciences in Regensburg, Germany.
Pr PASCAL URIEN
Professor - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications (ENST)

Professor at Sup telecom Paris (ENST). He graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and received a PHD in computer science.
His main research interests include security and smartcards, especially for wireless networks and distributed computing architectures.
He holds twelve patents and a number of publications in these domains.
He is the father of the internet smartcard technology, that won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2000 (Paris) and Most Innovative Product of Year at Advanced Card Award 2001 (London)
He invented the EAP smart card, that won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2003 (Paris), and Breakthrough Innovation Award at CardTech/SecureTech 2004 (Washington DC).
Pascal collaborates in several industrial committees like the IETF, the Javacard Forum or the WLAN smartcard consortium.
He participated in various French and European research projects, for example MMQoS, EPIS or RESODO.
FRANCOIS VACHERAND
CEA-LETI

François VACHERAND received his engineer degree in Electronics from INPG/ENSERG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble / Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Radio-Eléctricité de Grenoble) in 1978. He received his Ph. D. degree in Information Theory and Signal Processing in 1981 from INPG/ENSIEG for works related to anomalous magnetic dipoles detection.

Since 1982 he has been a research engineer at CEA-LETI Grenoble France. In 1993, he moved to the smart cards and contactless activity that was just created at Léti to build up and manage R&D projects including industrial, national and european (4-PCRD) partnership. His main topics of interest were mainly devoted towards contacless air interface for smart cards, teleticketing and electronic tags (RFID), multi tag protocols, low cost tags and very low power IC design.

In 1996 he was in charge of a research laboratory devoted to wireless and contactless systems including a large range of applications from the mobile phone to the RFID tags. He led a multidisciplinary team in electronics, computer science, physics and systems.

In 2000 he started a new R&D activity at Léti devoted to secure electronic components for smart cards. Several new R&D projects were set up including: reduction of electrical signature, very high data rate contactless interface, fault tolerant architecture, above IC micro-battery. He also managed national and european projects (5-PCRD, MEDEA+, EURIMUS).
PASCAL VAN GIMST
Manager Business Development - TNO ITSEF BV

After completing his education in electrical engineering Pascal van Gimst joined TNO in 1993 as a hardware security evaluator. For five years Pascal was involved in many security evaluations of chips and smart cards developing detailed knowledge about smart card security. The following three years Pascal worked as a project manager at TNO ITSEF trying to help customers in their smart card security challenges. Between 2000 and 2002 Pascal worked at The Vision Web as a security consultant, after which he re-joined TNO ITSEF again. Since 2002 Pascal is responsible for marketing and business development.
IHOR VASYLTSOV
Senior Engineer

Associate Prof., Dr. Ihor Vasyltsov was born in 1971, in Ukraine. Graduated National University "Lvivska Polytechnika", Ukraine in 1993, have defended his Ph.D. in 1999 in the same university. Since 2000 he was with Ternopil Academy of National Economy, Institute of Computer Informational Technology, Ukraine, where became an Associate Professor in 2002. Since 2004 he is with the SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS LTD., System LSI. Main scientific interest is Side-Channel Analysis and Countermeasures, Applied Security Systems, Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization, High-Reliable Devices, IP Core Technology. He is an IEEE Member since 2001.
THIERRY VIOLLEAU
Staff Engineer, Java Software - Sun Microsystems

Thierry Violleau, software staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, is a member of the Java Card engineering team. Prior to the JavaCard team, Thierry was a member of a team designing a platform for end-to-end mobile enterprise applications. He also contributed to the Java BluePrints - the best practices architecture design guidelines for business solutions that use J2EE and J2ME technologies. Prior to this, Thierry was with Market Development Engineering at Sun, where he helped ISVs integrate the J2ME, J2EE, and XML technologies.
KAISHEN ZHU
Chief Technology Officer - Shera International and BlueBamboo

Kaishen commenced his career from the security and PKI industry in China, where he played a key role from late 90's. He served as the first engineer of KOAL and PM for JIT later on, Both KOAL and JIT have been the leading company in China. His experience in this period includes a couple of national wide Certificate Authority systems, the Secure Electronic Transaction(SET) technology, the Key Management System for bank card and E-Commerce platform such as online banking system. Kaishen also has worked as an independent consultant for a period of time when he was developing the mobile payment technology. After that, he moved to smart card side, he was the cofounder of GSSL and Deltaknot and worked on the security solution, cryptographic, biometric and and the multiple application Card OS for smart card. Kaishen joined Shera since 2003, takes charge of the GPD/STIP strategy, security architecture, multiple application scheme and the electronic transaction technology including EMV.

Kaishen graduated from JiaoTong University, majored in Physics.

 

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