UGO BIADER CEIPIDOR
Full Professor, Mass Communication Faculty - La Sapienza University of Roma

Director of CATTID (Centre for Application of Television and Distance Learning) of the same university, member of IASTED  (International Association of Science and Technology for Development). Director of the RFID Lab, a joint venture research center with economic and engineering departments of La Sapienza and of Genova University, as well as with EC JRC of Ispra and CNIPA of Italian Government. He started his academic career as Chemist, experiencing also the role of entrepreneur in Electronic, to end with Computer Science. His researches are concentrate on e-learning, simulation for "learning by doing "and networking software. Recently he is involved in m-learning by using RFID (Radio Frequency IDEntifier) also in various service fields. He also won an international price in economy and author of 100 papers.
He conjugates the figure of entrepreneur-manager with the one of academic and he has particular experiences of programming, planning and management in the following fields: Information and Communication technology, Radio Frequency Identification, Didactic and training, wbt, e-learning, Analytical Chemistry, Economy and Corporate structure.

CHARLES BROOKSON
Assistant Director, Dept Trade and Industry - CEng FIEE FRSA

Charles Brookson works in the Department of Trade and Industry and is a Professional Electronic Engineer. He previously was Head of Security for one2one (now T-Mobile UK), and worked within British Telecom for twenty years before. He has worked in many security areas over the last 30 years.
He has been Chairman on the GSM Association Security Group. He has been working the GSM and 3GPP security standards, first chairing the Algorithm Expert Group way back in 1986. He is Chairman of the NISSG, a group that was set up to co-ordinate security standards amongst the three European Security Standards Organisations and other bodies outside Europe. He is also Chairman of ETSI OCG Security, which is responsible for security within ETSI He is also on the Permanent Stakeholders group of ENISA, The European Network and Information Security Agency.

DOMINIQUE BRULE
Director of Marketing, Services Solutions, Emerging Businesses - NXP Semiconductors

Dominique Brule is Director of Marketing for Services Solutions within the Emerging Business group of NXP Semiconductors (formally Philips Semiconductors)
Dominique has been with NXP since 2000; he has worked in the smart card industry focusing on smart card reader for Pay TV and banking applications. In 2003, he led the business development activities for NFC technology in the mobile phone industry, including helping to define the global strategy to ensure the technology needs align with market requirements.
In 2006, Dominique joined the Emerging Business Unit of NXP as Director of Marketing, leading the definition of Mifare4Mobile initiative. He is based in Sophia Antipolis, France.

SAMIA BOUZEFRANE
Associate Professor - CNAM

Samia Bouzefrane is an associate-professor in CNAM (Paris). She has a long experience in real-time systems. During the last few years, she has been working with other partners on measuring performances of Java Card platforms. This work is carried out under the MESURE project, funded by ANR (french administration), which aims at developing a set of open source tools for benchmarking Java Card platforms.

YOULEI CHEN
Associated Researcher - WatchData Research & Innovation

His research interests focus on trusted computing architecture and related techniques, also includes secure operating system, authentication methods and security protocols. He has an MS in computer architecture and a PhD in computer software and theory (information security) from Wuhan University, China.

BORIS DOLGUNOV
Chief Architect - SanDisk Security Group

Boris Dolgunov is serving as Chief Architect of SanDisk security group and has been specializing in security and cryptography for the last nine years. Mr. Dolgunov has been the author of many whitepapers, technical documents and patents on security and is an active member in leading organizations such as OMA, TCG, IEEE-1667 and additional standard bodies. Mr. Dolgunov holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Ben Gurion University in Israel.

SEBASTIEN GAJEK
Student, Institute for IT-Security - University of Bochum

Sebastian Gajek is a Ph.D. student at Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr-University Bochum. The research interests include Applied Cryptography, Browser-based Security, and Web Services Security.

SEAN XIANG GAO
Director - WatchData Research & Innovation

He was awarded the doctor degree by Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994. His interests focus mainly on Automaton Theory, Cryptography, Smart Card, and so on.

STEPHANE GIRODON
Marketing Product Manager - Oberthur Card Systems

Stéphane started his career for Gemplus, Europe Middle East and Africa sales area in 1999. His first experience in smart card industry was in field marketing and pre sales activities to promote smart card solutions. In 2002 he joined GFI consulting, French consulting company, as Consultant taking responsibility for various missions for mobile operators, financial institutions and banks. He joined Oberthur Card Systems' Marketing team in September 2005 as Marketing Product Manager. He is in charge of a complete products range including strategic partnerships in the wireless industry. Taking care of advanced SIM-web-based solution, he also have the Chairman position of S@T working groups within SIM Alliance and is conference's speaker during various conferences and exhibitions in the industry.

LOUIS GOUBIN
Professor, Cryptography & Security - Versailles University

Louis Goubin is a Professor at Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines University and Cryptography & Security Consultant at Gemalto. A former student of the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris), he holds a PhD in Pure Mathematics from Paris XI University (1995) and an Habilitation to supervise research from Paris VII University (2003). He published more than 30 papers, about the design of new asymmetric cryptosystems, cryptanalysis of existing algorithms and protocols, and the protection of software implementations against physical attacks. He has also filled 15 patents on practical cryptology and smart cards.

LIJUN LIAO
Associate researcher, Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security- University of Bochum

In 2005, he received his Diploma in Security in Information Technology from RUB. His current research interests include email security, XML security, and security in ad-hoc networks.

YANN LOISEL
Chief Security Officer at Innova Card CSO - Innova Card

After his degree in Cryptography from University of Limoges, Yann LOISEL began his activities in the domain of cryptanalysis at the French DoD. After gaining position of Cryptanalysis Team Manager at DoD, he joined SCM Microsystems GmbH where he led security activities for secure readers and DVB decoders. He was involved in standardization bodies such as FINREAD and DVB for multimedia contents copy-protection and had filed 5 patents.   Yann LOISEL is now the Chief Security Officer at Innova Card, a fabless company providing secure solutions for trusted terminals. He is in charge of all security-related topics: physical protection, cryptography, applications security and certifications.

Dr. H. KAREN LU
Principal engineer- Gemalto Technology & Innovation Group

Dr. H. Karen Lu is a principal engineer in Gemalto Technology & Innovation group. She has been working on advanced smart card application frameworks to secure Internet access. Her research interests include smart cards communication, networking, security and applications.

LAURENT MANTEAU
MaXSSIMM Program Consortium Director - Gemalto Mobile Com

With almost 20 years experience in the 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 in 1995 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 Manager for electronic tags (RFID) applications, moved to R&D Corporate Innovation in 2001 and took over the responsibility of Cooperative R&D Programs manager for Gemplus in year 2002. He is involved in European and Trans-national R&D projects for the Smart card industry for about 5 years and led from 2004 to 2006 the InspireD consortium as an integrated project within the European frame FP6.
He holds an Engineering degree in Polymer Chemistry & Electronics Materials from ENSCT (ENSIACET Toulouse) in 1987.

CARLO MARIA MEDAGLIA
Full professor - Department of University of Roma

Carlo Maria Medaglia was born in Rome, Italy in 1974, he had her degree in physics at University of Rome " La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, in 1999. He has got his PhD in Remote Sensing at the Engineering faculty of University of Rome " La Sapienza", Rome, Italy in 2004. Since 1999 He is working at several international research institutions around the world as ISAC-CNR (Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate),NASA (National Atmospheric and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), NOA (National Observatory of Athens) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Admospheric Administration). He also worked as visiting professor in several universities as: University of Madison-Wisconsin, University of Baltimore, University of Washington. Now he is working as consultant in the RFID/Wireless Group of the CNIPA (National Center for Informatics in the Public Administration), as full professor of Human Computer Interaction at Mass Communication Department of University of Roma" La Sapienza" and as Coordinator of the RFID Lab of CATTID ( Centre for Television Applications and Distance Learning Techniques ) of University of Rome "La Sapienza". He He has more than 70 contribution in peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. His principle research activities are RFID, Geolocalization, satellite remote sensing and mobile/wireless communication.

DAVIDE PRATONE
Mobile Access & Terminals HW/SW Innovation - SIM Lab Manager - TELECOM ITALIA

Davide Pratone is a graduate of Physics at Turin University and joined Telecom Italia R&D in 1997. He contributed in the development and deployment of the ISDN Payphone Network designing its Payment Architecture. In 2001 he participated to the European research projects named SINCE (Secure and Interoperable Networking for Contactless in Europe). From 2002 he has been working on SIM card projects dealing with new services development, testing and validation. Actually he represents Telecom Italia in ETSI SCP TEC, 3GPP CT6 and follows the OMA SEC SCT works on Smart Card Web Server standardization.

MICHEL RIGUIDEL
Director, Department of Computer Science and Networks - ENST

Michel Riguidel is the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Networks, at ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) in Paris, where he lectures in security and advanced networks.
In the IST Integrated Project of FP6, he is Key Researcher of the Secoqc Integrated Project ( Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography) . He also contributes to Deserec, Challengers, he is in the Advisory Board of the Coordinated Action SecurIST.
In the FET of the FP6, he was the Security & Dependability Task Group Leader of the Beyond the Horizon Project.
In Italy, he is scientific member of the international Think tank on telecommunications ThinkTel.

CARSTEN RUST
R&D Project Manager - Sagem Orga

Carsten Rust received his degree in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 1996. Until 2004, he held a research position at a joint research lab operated by the University of Paderborn and Siemens, where he worked on the design of embedded real-time systems. In August 2004, he joined ORGA Kartensysteme (which became Sagem Orga in 2005) as a project manager for R&D projects. At Sagem Orga he is currently in charge of the European 6th Framework Programme project "Simple Mobile Services" (http://www.ist-sms.org).

STEFANO SALSANO
Assistant professor - University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Stefano Salsano received his PhD from University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1998. He then joined Coritel, a research consortium in Telecommunications. Since 2000 he is assistant professor at University of Rome "Tor Vergata". His current research interests include Pervasive Computing, Architecture and protocols for Multimedia over IP, peer to peer networking, wireless networking. He is currently leading the Architecture Work Package of the IST project "Simple Mobile Services" (http://www.ist-sms.org).

DAMIEN SAUVERON
Permanent Assistant Professor, XLIM, UMR CNRS 6172 - 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 developers 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. From 01/02/2006 to 31/03/2006, he was an invited researcher at the ISG-SCC (Information Security Group - Smart Card Centre) of the Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). Then, from the 01/04/2006 to 10/08/2006 he was in a postdoctoral position at the ISG-SCC of the RHUL. Damien Sauveron is member of the IFIP WG 8.8 Smart Cards and member of the IFIP WG 11.2 Small System Security. He is also registered as Expert for the EU FP6 and for the french ANR (National Agency for the Research).

LARS SCHNAKE
R&D Engineer - Sagem Orga

Lars Schnake studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Science in Lippe and received his diploma in 2001. He then joined the ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH (which became Sagem Orga in 2005) as a software engineer, developing equipment and software for smart-card mass personalization systems. Since 2003 he has worked on new Java Card applications and solutions for the telecommunication market.

Dr. JORG SCHWENK
Chair, Network and Data Security - Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security

Jörg Schwenk is the chair for Network and Data Security at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at RUB since 2003. From 1993-2001 he worked in the security department of Deutsche Telekom on different projects. He has written more than 60 patents, and more than 20 scientific publications. His research interests include cryptographic protocols (especially multi-party protocols), broadcast encryption schemes, XML and Web Service security and Internet security (especially protection against real world challenges such as pharming or WWW-based attacks).

JACQUES SENECA
Eurosmart Chairman

LAURENT SOURGEN
Director of cooperative R&D programs - STMicroelectronics Smartcard division

He received his degree in Electronic Engineering from the Institut Supérieur d'Electronique du Nord in Lille. He worked two years for Fairchild Semi-conductors in England as logic designer. He joined ST in 1985 as designer for the Smart Card Division. He has been in charge of development teams for the Smartcard activities of STMicroelectronics, following both technology and product architecture. He held more than 20 patents and presented various papers in conferences linked with Smartcard technology, architecture and security. He has been involved in various European and national cooperative R&D programs as task and project

Dr. STEPHAN SPITZ
New Technologies Manager - Giesecke & Devrient

Stephan Spitz has working experience in the field of information security from basic research projects to product developments and infrastructure rollouts. Since several years he is responsible for new technologies like the Internet Smart Card or NFC enabled SIM cards at Giesecke&Devrient in Munich. One of his working topics is the impact of new Smart Card and security technology on the telecommunication markets of tomorrow. He has a doctorate degree from the Technical University of Munich where he still lectures "Applied IT Security".
See http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/studium/vorlesungen/applied-it-security

JACQUES STERN 
Professor - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris
Chairman of the board - ANR Agence Nationale de la recherche
CNRS 2006 Gold Medal

A former student of ENS, Jacques Stern has received a PhD from the University Paris 7 in 1975. Jacques Stern is an expert in cryptology. He is the author of over a hundred publications in scientific journals, focussing on all aspects of this research area, and of a book entitled « The Science of Secrecy » (O. Jacob, editor). He is the inventor of a dozen patents. His main research has been devoted to the cryptanalysis and provable security of public key cryptosystems, as well as to the design of cryptographic algorithms suitable to environments where computing resources are limited.
Jacques Stern has been a member of numerous editorial and scientific committees, and the chair of those of ACM CCS (Communications and Computer Security) in 1996, and Eurocrypt in 1999. He has also been an invited speaker in many conferences, notably Asiacrypt 1996 and Eurocrypt 2003 and has delivered the « IACR distinguished lecture» at EUROCRYPT 2007. He was awarded the « prix Lazare Carnot » by the French Academy of Sciences in 2003, the CNRS Silver Medal in 2005, the CNRS Gold Medal in 2006, and the RSA award for excellence in mathematics in 2007.

Jacques Stern has regularly served as a consultant on cryptology for various companies and organizations. He is a former member of the French Scientific Defense Council, and a member of the Strategic Council for IT, and the Observatory on the Security of Credit Cards.

HUGUES THIEBEAULD
Engineer - Cryptography & Security Group, Oberthur Card Systems

Hugues Thiebeauld has been working in SmartCard industry for six years.
He started as Javacard API developer at Oberthur Card System six years ago, before moving to the security group to work on fault attacks. After an experience in the CESTI of Thales, he came back to Oberthur Card System to be in charge of security evaluation of OCS's products.
His current interests are Side-Channel and Fault attacks, security in native and JavaCard products.

PHILIPPE VALLÉE
Executive Vice-President, Telecom - Gemalto

Philippe Vallée has been Executive Vice-President, Telecom of Gemalto since June 2006.
He was previouslyChief Technology Officer of Gemplus, supervising the Product and Marketing Center. Prior to this, he was President of the Telecom Business Unit and has also worked in Singapore as Executive Vice-President of Gemplus Technologies Asia.
Mr. Vallée has more than 18 years of experience in the Telecom industry and has worked with Gemplus in various marketing, product management and sales capacities. Before joining Gemplus, M. Vallée started his career with Matra Communication (now Lagardère Group) in France as a product manager on the first generation of GSM mobile phones.
Mr. Vallée has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and a Masters of Science in Marketing Management from ESSEC French Management School.

Dr. IHOR VASYLTSOV
Engineer, SoC R&D - Samsung Electronics LTD

Dr. Ihor Vasyltsov was born in 1971, in Ukraine.
He gets his Ph.D. in 1997 from National University "Lvivska Polytechnika", Ukraine. Since 2004 he is with the SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS LTD., SoC R&D Center in South Korea.
Research interest includes Security Systems in Embedded Applications, True (Deterministic) Random Number Generation, Side-Channel Analysis and Countermeasures, Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization. He is an IEEE Member since 2001.

BERTRAND WENDLING
Engineer, New Technologies, Nagravision

Bertrand Wendling is, since 2003, in charge of the Standards, new technologies and some business development related activities at Nagravision (Kudelski group). He worked 10 year for Thomson Multimedia R&D labs on new video processing technologies and internal R&D auditing at corporate level. He joined Canal+ in 1997 as program manager for the deployment of the Canal+ security technology "Mediaguard" and middleware technology "Mediahighway" outside the Canal+ group. He joined the Scientific department in charge of standards and new technologies when moved to Canal+ Technologies in 2000. He has an engineer degree from the "Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité" (SUPELEC) in networking technologies and also an engineer degree from the "Ecole National Supérieure D'Arts et Métiers" (ENSAM) in energetics.