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XAVIER APPÉ
Project Leader in the Technology & Innovation department - Gemalto

Xavier Appé graduated both, from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec) and from the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie Mellon Univerisity in 2003. He then spent two years working in the travel industry at Amadeus before joining Axalto in October 2005. Currently Project Leader in the Technology & Innovation department of Gemalto, he designed and developed the first Single Wire Protocol (SWP) UICC operating system allowing a SIM card to communicate with external Contactless devices through the NFC interface. He is now involved in most of the Gemalto's NFC pilot projects and is in charge of all types of innovations surrounding this technology.
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JEAN-PAUL CARUANA
Contactless Technology Center Manager - Gemalto

Jean-Paul Caruana drives the Contactless Technology Center, one of the Gemalto Research and Development department. He is specialized in contactless proximity area: (ISO/IEC 14443 product) and in charge of Gemalto Products design, Contactless Operating system development, technology support for the Business Unit and advanced R&D around contactless from Radio frequency to applications. Since 1996, he has been representing Gemalto as an active member inside the WG8 ISO Working group in charge of ISO/IEC 14443 standard. He also takes part to different international task forces around the contactless technology.

M. Caruana is graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure Ingénieur de Marseille, France.
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CÉDRIC COLLOMB
Senior Vice President Identity and Access Management - Gemalto

Cédric Collomb is senior vice president Network Identification Solutions (NIS), responsible for developing the strategy and the offering related to security products and solutions. These cover logical access for enterprise and government employees as well as Internet access for online consumers.
Cédric joined Schlumberger's electricity metering division in France in 1992 where he served as manufacturing engineering manager for 5 years. He then held various managing positions in the smart cards and terminals division and actively participated in the launch of Value Added Services (VAS) with leading operators in Europe. In 1999, he was appointed marketing director for financial cards and services and played a key role in the initial roll out of EMV cards in the UK. Two years later, he took on the position of marketing director Asia, based in Beijing, and launched several large-scale high-end cards deployments in the region.
Cédric holds an engineering degree in computer science and automation from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon.
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Ajdenbaum_Gemalto LAURENT GAUTERON
Pay-TV Security Expert - Gemalto


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Ajdenbaum_Gemalto PIERRE GIRARD
Security Expert, Manager of the Open System Security Team - Gemalto

Pierre Girard holds a PhD in computer security from École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (Sup’Aéro’) and an engineering degree in computer science from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (I.N.S.A.) de Toulouse.

Pierre has 14 years of experience in computer security including 10 years of experience in smart card security.

Prior joining Gemplus (recently merged with Axalto and renamed Gemalto), Pierre Girard has been a researcher in computer security at the Office National d’Études et de Recherches en Aéronautique (ONERA) in Toulouse.

Since 1997 in Gemplus, Pierre Girard has been working as a security architect and currently manages a team of 10 security experts, exclusively dedicated to embedded Java security. The missions of this team are: security architecture, design, and evaluation of embedded virtual machines and applets (Java Card, J2ME, Finread, …) as well as the delivery of security building blocks such as byte code verifiers. The team also conducts research projects alone or in collaboration with external labs.

Pierre Girard has been the chairman of the Java Card Forum security task force, which designs the security architecture of Java Card, from 2000 to 2005.

Pierre is the author or co-author of 20+ security papers and 20+ security related patents.
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Ajdenbaum_Gemalto CHRISTIAN GOIRE
Head of Advanced Technology Strategy and Promotion, Technology and Innovation - Gemalto

Christian has wide experience in the banking sector and security industry as a whole and over the years, has introduced concepts of mainframe computers into smart cards.

He is one of the founders of Java Card™ technology and its SIM applications as a researcher and President of the Java Card Forum.Christian previously managed a subsidiary of Bull CP8 in the USA on the technical side (Visa, MasterCard, Microsoft, DoD, etc), as well as starting and managing a wealthy terminal activity and the creation of the formal method group in Bull CP8.

Christian stayed with Bull through the change to Schlumberger and then Axalto, and is now Head of Advanced Technology Strategy and Promotion at Gemalto.

He has a number of Patents, a large communication portfolio and has written a number of articles. He is also a prolific speaker on Java Card technology.
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STÉPHANE GRELLIER
R&D Manager for Banking & Transport Activity - Gemalto

MoneyLine company from 1992 to 1995 in R&D.
1995 --> today Schlumberger/Gemalto - Application development SIM and banking.
From 2000 R&D manager for Banking & transport activity.
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FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARSEILLE
Technology & Innovation Engineer - Gemalto

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FREDERIC MARTINENT
Marketing Manager for MultiMedia Business Group - Gemalto

Frédéric Martinent is the marketing manager for MultiMedia Business Group within Gemalto: In this position, he is leading marketing and product management for Gemalto MultiMedia offer, including cards, applications, tools, and services. He has pioneered the MultiMedia SIM technology since 2005, as product manager for applications and services.

Prior to this position, he was leading the engineering team behind Gemplus OTA platform, the leading platform for remote management of SIM cards, deployed in more than 140 telecom operators worldwide.

Previously, he has held various positions within Thales, Hewlett-Packard, Schlumberger and Gemplus, in the fields of engineering and professional services.

Frédéric Martinent has a Master Degree in Information Technology from Grenoble Institute of Technology (ENSIMAG), and he is the author of 4 patents.
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STÉFANE MOUILLE
Marketing Director Healthcare Solutions - Gemalto

Stéfane has many years experience in the smart card industry, leading projects in both the Banking and Public Sector’s.

His responsibilities include the definition and implementation of worldwide strategy for e-health within Gemalto. This involves managing Gemalto’s activities within several national health schemes such as in France, Germany, Mexico, Algeria, Finland, Slovenia, China and also the Pan European Healthcare Insurance card program NETC@RDS. Prior to his current role, Stéfane was Marketing Manager for Banking and Retail within Gemplus and has also held several positions in Product Marketing.

Stéfane holds a Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Master Degree in Marketing and Management from ESC Wesford Grenoble, France.
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GABRIEL RANGONI
Mobile-TV Product & Marketing Director - Gemalto

Gabriel Rangoni is mobile TV product and marketing director at Gemalto.
Gabriel joined Schlumberger as a telecom engineer in 1999 and worked in the R&D team of this segment. Then he served as project manager in France and in the UK, as part of the telecom activities of the EMEA region.
In 2002, he became EMEA marketing manager for value-added services and two years later, he was responsible for developing the multimedia and convergence offerings and introducing these new technologies in the market.
In 2007, Gabriel was appointed head of mobile TV product and marketing, in charge of the offering related to this sector.
Gabriel Rangoni owns several patents related to mobile TV and smart card technology. He holds a master degree in electronics engineering from INSA (Lyon, France) and a specialization in image and signal processing (DEA).

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VINCENT VÉRAN
NFC Marketing Manager - Gemalto

Vincent Véran is Marketing Manager at Gemalto, in charge of Near Field Communications (NFC) applications. Prior to the Gemplus-Axalto merger, he has been with Axalto since 2000, holding various team management and marketing positions both in France and the Czech Republic. He also has experienced core networks businesses, working for two years in Korea with Sagem and with Ericsson in Paris. Vincent holds a MA in Information Technology from ENPC (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées).


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