Smart Card
Industry Associations Eurosmart and GlobalPlatform, together
with the Java Card Forum, present this 4th edition of e-Smart
taking place at the International Advanced Communications Centre (CICA)
in Sophia-Antipolis.
The e-SMART Conference aims at delivering a global and objective overview,
an update of the last technological trends as well as the business ones
and a sharp vision of the smart card future.
Smart
Card Issues in 2003
After
the successful 2002 edition, e-Smart 2003 continues to advance
these topics : Strategy, Technology,
and Business trends.
THE
FUTURE OF SMART CARD
| Strategies
: |
Convergence
or Divergence ? |
| Technology
: |
Driving
or Driven ? |
| Business
Trends : |
Explosion
or Implosion ? |
1 - Strategies :
Convergence or Divergence ?
The decline of the Telecom market and lack of convergence of Telecoms
with other markets segments has had a tremendous impact on the Smart
Card Industry over the last two years. In this section, the conference
will highlight such questions as : Research and Innovation in
Europe, SC Platform Standardisation, Trusted Personal Devices as future
of the SC, trends and shifts of the market …
2 - Technology :
Driving or Driven ?
The Smart card Industry, in order to survive, is condemned to grow.
Innovation is a classical way to generate growth. Smart Card Technology
will be featured at e-SMART through 3 complementary tracks :
Security, Java and Operating Systems Technology, Terminals and
Devices, including more than 25 presentations by the best worldwide
experts.
3 -
Business trends : Explosion or Implosion ?
Taking into account new business models and recent innovations,
how is the market going to evolve ?
Presentations such as : "Acceleration of SC in North America",
"Contactless in Transportation", "CEPS in India",
"802.11 as a new eldorado for SC ?", and many others will
allow the attendees to figure how is going to look like the SC Market
in 2004.
e-Smart is
also a great opportunity to create and develop dialogue and exchanges
between various professional communities.
The most recent industry developments and applications are presented
through a Demos Programme. A workshop on biometry will
deliver all the fundamentals and state of the art of this new major
technological issue.
A
must attended event
Each
edition gathers 200 international attendees who consider "e-SMART"
as a must attended event. They belong to leading organizations involved
in the Smart Card Business : vendors, standardization and certification
bodies, international organizations and governmental agencies, issuers,
corporate end users representing application fields : telecommunications,
banking and finance, health, electronic commerce, security, government
and public services, transportation …
