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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.