Speakers & Authors

	DAVID BENINI Director, Product Marketing - Aware Inc. David Benini is director of product marketing at Aware, Inc., where he is engaged in a broad variety of activities to grow Aware's biometrics and imaging software business. He also participates in development of M1 and ISO SC 37 biometrics standards. David holds a BS Degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA Degree from Cornell University. Aware provides software tools to compress, analyze, and format biometric images in compliance with all relevant standards.
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	MARCEL BOOGAART Director - HSB Cards & Cards Systems Marcel Boogaard (1966) is director at HSB Cards & Card Systems, The Netherlands. He helds a master degree of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. After this he has he followed several business courses. He started in the field of product development for a large multinational. In a following international management position he developed a succesful strategy for introduction of new products. Now, he is working for over 7 years within the identification industry with smartcards and biometrics. In his present position at HSB Marcel Boogaard is responsible for strategy and business development of the company. He is working on international partnerships to disseminate HSB's innovative knowledge and products. Main focus areas are large scale smartcard and biometric solutions for healthcare, government and financial institutions.
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	HELLMUTH BRODA European Chief Technology Officer, Strategic Insight Office - Sun Microsystems Inc.
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	Ing. BUD. P. BRUEGGER OpenPortalGuard Project and Town of Grosseto (Italy) Bud P. Bruegger holds an engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Maine. His work experience spans academic research and teaching in the field of Geographic Information systems as well as private and public sector consulting and system development work, including the development of TADinfo, an animalepidemiology information system for FAO, and the promotion of open source in for healthcare in the EU-funded SPIRIT project. Currently, he is working on the Italian eID pilot project for the town of Grosseto. He is developing client-side software to use the Italian eID cards on Linux and Unix platforms and server-side software for single-sign-on and access control. His special interests are open source and interoperability in the eID domain.
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	JEAN-PAUL CARUANA R&D Contactless Technology Center - Gemplus Jean-Paul Caruana drive the Contactless Technology Center, one of the Gemplus Research and Development department. His focus is contactless proximity area: (ISO/IEC 14443 product), in charge of Gemplus Product design, Contactless Operating system development, technology support for the Business Unit and advanced R&D around contactless from Radio frequency to applications. He is for Gemplus since 1996, active member inside the WG8 ISO Working group in charge of ISO/IEC 14443 standard. He has participated to different international task forces around the contactless technology. M. Caruana graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure Ingénieur de Marseille, France.
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	DIDIER CHAUDUN Assistant Director Smart Card Department, in charge of Business Development and strategy - Sagem DEA in Computer engineering Passed experience: Design and project management of application software, operating systems and database management systems. Product line management of large and medium series of industrial products. Recent experience: Electronic payment by means of bank card, private and national e-purse, virtual e-purse. Smart card technology and marketing, in particular for Payment, Identity, Healthcare.
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	ETIENNE COMBET President - e-Forum
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	NICOLAS CONSO Local e-Government Program Manager - Caisse des Dépôts First part of Nicolas conso curriciulum is related to the field of information security. He has he has been responsible for international relations at European and international level at the ministry of defense He joined Caisse des Depots in January 2001 to develop its action in the field of local e-government. He first created Service-Public Local platform to allow interconnection and sharing of public data between local and national authorities. He is now in charge of e-governement for citizens and regional e-government platform programs.
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	PAUL CROOK Government Lead Partner for Immigration, Justice & Public Safety, CRM and Customer Contact Transformation in Atlantic & Europe - Accenture
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	Dr SABINE DELAITRE Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of Seville Joint Research Center - European Commission Sabine Delaitre is a Computer Scientist with a Doctorate in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management and Risk Management from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and in collaboration with the French Research organisation INRIA at Sophia Antipolis. During the period 2001-2004, she worked on a number of EU-funded projects in areas of computer network security, Knowledge Management for eGovernment, eBusiness and eLearning domains. In July 2004, she joined the ICT unit, IPTS, European Commission's DG JRC. She is currently working on projects related to Cybersecurity activities (Future of Identity, Privacy, Security, Threat and Ambient Intelligence Space) and on FIDIS: Network of Excellence for the Future of IDentity in the Information Society.
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	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.
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	BAUDOIN DE SONIS Executive Director - e-Forum
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	JIM DRAY NIST US Department of Commerce Mr. Dray is a senior computer scientist at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST). He is the Principal Architect of the U.S. Government Smart Card Interoperability Specifications. Mr. Dray was responsible for developing NIST Special Publication 800-73, the technical interoperability specification for the Personal Identity Verification card mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 for deployment across all U.S. Federal agencies. Mr. Dray has directed NIST's smart card research and development program since 1988.
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	CYRIL DUJARDIN Product Manager, Government Solutions Business Unit, Security Division - Sagem A graduate from the French engineering school Polytechnique, Cyril Dujardin's professional career in the Security Business begun at Certplus - a company specialised in digital ID and PKI - where he quickly became Marketing Manager. Shortly after Cyril joined Certplus, the company became one of the major players of the French PKI market and, in order to continue its growth, merged with a SAGEM Group subsidiary, to form Keynectis, a European operator of Trusted Services. The merger created opportunities for Cyril who decided to join SAGEM SA's Governement Solutions Business Unit, the undisputed World Leader in the field of biometrics solutions. Today Cyril looks after SAGEM SA's offering in terms of biometric identity cards and travel documents.
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	Dr JOHN ELLIOTT Principal Consultant - Consult Hyperion John is a Principal Consultant with Consult Hyperion and is recognised internationally as an expert on multi-application smart cards, PKI and biometrics. Recent work John has undertaken includes: - Security assessment and tender specification for the Hong Kong National ID card - Biometrics framework for the UK Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Directorate. - Biometric technology roadmap for UK Police IT Organisation - Contactless smart card strategy for the Malaysian national ID card John is UK Contributing Editor for Card Forum International magazine, where he has a regular column, 'Smart Talk'.
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	JOHAN ERIKSSON COO - BankID
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	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.
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	DIANE HARVEY Director of Business Development - Axalto As director of business development for Axalto, based in Austin, Texas, Diane Harvey drives Axalto’s strategy for strong authentication solutions. A specialist in consumer privacy and prevention of identity theft, Ms. Harvey helps Blue Chip Fortune 100 Internet and software platform providers expand their market share by securing online communities and mobile devices. She represents Axalto on several standards setting bodies including OATH, and is a leading advocate for the industry, promoting interoperability and strong authentication solutions through alliances and new products. Her past experience includes work for IBM and Schlumberger to define and develop new technologies for the Internet and secure communications.
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	AMIR HAYAT Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications - Technical University of Graz Mr. Amir Hayat is currently residing in Graz, Austria where he is working on his PhD thesis at the technical University Graz. His area of research is an interoperable electronic identity management system for Europe. He has got bachelors in Engineering from Pakistan and Masters in Information System Technology from the George Washington Univ. in USA.
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	STEF HOEBEN OpenSC Project and Zetes PASS Stef Hoeben studied Civil Engineer and joined COSIC for 3 years. After that, he worked 3 years at Utimaco and is currently employed at Zetes, issuers of the Belgian EID and social security cards. In these jobs, he has been doing analysis, design and development of security related products such as smard card and internet security solutions. He is also active as OpenSC developer.
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	ANTONINO IACONO Opensignature Project Antonino Iacono is the founder of the OpenSignature project (opensignature.sf.net) whose main objective is to make Italian official smartcards for digital signature accessible on Linux and other platforms. Particular focus is put the integration of cards from different vendors and multiple platforms. An important part of his work is the experimentation with a multi-platform Url Programming Interface to smartcard services.
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	MARC LANGE Manager - EHTEL Marc Lange is involved in European ICT projects for social security since 1992 and has therefore a long experience in supporting EU Member States in coordinating the deployment of their eGovernment or eHealth projects. In February 2004, he has been granted an award by the eEurope Smart Card Charter constituency for its contribution to the specifications of the “Open Smart Card Infrastructure for Europe”, and in particular on the interoperability framework for eIdentification, eAuthentication and eSignature. The ICT domains in which he has the most significant experience are smart cards and identification and interoperability with EDI. He has been convenor of WG 1 of the CEN/ISSS Workshop on eAuthentication and is co-author of Part 1 of the CWA: “Architecture for a European interoperable eID system within a smart card infrastructure”. Since November 2003, he is also leading the EHTEL management team for running, to the benefit of the members of the association, a platform for information, lobbying, representation, networking and co-operation in support of the implementation of eHealth solutions in Europe.
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	JEROME LENA Government Solutions Manager - Identity market - Oberthur Card Systems Jérôme Lena is Marketing Manager at Oberthur Card Systems for the Government and Security Markets. He started his career as a corporate sales representative at PartnerSoft, a system integrator specialized in Client-Server and Business Intelligence solutions, before holding positions as business developer and marketing manager in the software edition market. He joined Oberthur Card Systems in 2001 as Field Marketing Area Manager for Asia-Pacific Region and Banking market, before moving to the Government & Security division as Marketing Manager. Jérôme Lena holds a Master of Science in Management from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Rouen and a Master Degree in Technology and Management from the Ecole Centrale Paris.
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	ELSA LIGNOS Researcher - ITPS European Commission DG JRC Elsa Lignos is a Researcher at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), one of the seven joint research centres of the European Commission DG JRC. She studied Natural Sciences and Computer Science at Cambridge University. Prior to joining IPTS, she held internships with Boston Consulting Group, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and has worked in the field of telecommunications with Analysys in London. Ms. Lignos holds dual British and Greek nationality. She was one of the co-authors of the report Biometrics at the Frontiers: Assessing the Impact on Society, commissioned by the European Parliament's LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs).
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	BENGT LINDSTEDT Swedish ministry of Finance
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	IOANNIS MAGHIROS Senior Research Officer - European Commission DG Joint Research Centre IPTS Ioannis Maghiros is a Principal Scientist and Project Leader of PRIDIS (Privacy and Identity in the Information Society) at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), one of the seven joint research centres of the European Commission DG JRC. He has a Master's Degree in Information Science from the University of Birmingham, UK. He worked at IBM in Greece before joining the IPTS-JRC. His main research interests include identity, security and privacy issues, data protection and payment system technologies.
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	LIBERO MARCONI Director of Public Administration Division and Certification Services - Trust Italia S.p.A. (Verisign Trust Network) Libero Marconi is Director of the Pubblic Administration Division and of Certification Services for Trust Italia S.p.A., the Italian subsidiary of the Verisign Trust Network. Since 1984, he has covered a wide range of activities in the ICT field, including teaching and planning of learning events for distributed informatics systems; data networks; IT security systems; analyst and consultant for network environments; informatics systems; systems integration; ICT security; PKI technologies; integration of CAs . Spokesperson in the major conventions such as: Futurshow, Infosecurity, Webbit, Java Conference, Forum PA.
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	PAUL MCKEOWN Emea Customs, Ports and Border Management - IBM BCS Paul has had many roles in his 22 years with IBM, and they share a common theme - adding value to customer facing organisations through innovative use of new technologies. His work has covered most industry sectors and his client list includes central and local government, airlines, retailers and banks. His roles incude solutions sales, marketing manager, product management and consultancy. Having spent most of the last 12 years working with smart cards, including leading IBM's global smart card business from 2002 to 2004, he is very familiar with the challenges of introducing new technology to the general public. In the role of systems integrator he has evaluated many providers of secure authentication technologies and is well placed to provide a realistic and objective view of the potential for e-passports. Paul currently leads IBMs Customs Ports and Borders solutions intiatives in Northern Europe. He holds a BSc in Technology and Business Studies, the Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing, and is both Senior Marketing Manager and an accredited Consulting IT Specialist.
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	JÜRGEN MOLL Vice-Chairman - Eurosmart
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	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.
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	PROF. ENRICO NARDELLI NESTOR - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Enrico Nardelli is full professor of Computer Science at University of Roma "Tor Vergata". His research is focusing on: algorithms and data structures, data models, tools and environments for inter-organizational information systems. He is a consultant to the italian Public Administration on security and certification issues in e-Government services, through the NESTOR Laboratory of University of Roma "Tor Vergata". He has authored more than 130 refereed papers in the fields of interest, published in the most reputed international scientific journals and conference proceedings. He is also President of the Italian Association of University Professors in Computer Science.
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	FLORIAN PACQUELIN Government & Security Marketing Manager - Oberthur Card Systems Florian Pacquelin is Marketing Manager at Oberthur Card Systems for the Government and Security Markets. He started his career as a Computer Engineer at Schlumberger within the smart card division for GSM market. He then joined Oberthur card system in 2000 as ebusiness and banking product manager and became marketing manager for Government & Security. He represents Oberthur Card Systems at the Smart Card Section of Gixel. Florian graduated from the University of Paris as an electronic and computer engineer.
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	YVES PAINDAVEINE ICT for Trust and Security Unit - European Commission Microelectronics and computer science engineer by education, previous experience as a research assistant in distributed systems and multiprocessors and, prior to joining the Commission services, at the Open Software Foundation, experience in security (secure intranet/internet), mobile agents and smart-cards projects. At the European Commission, in the "ICT for Trust and Security" unit, he is in charge of projects dealing with secure smart tokens.
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	MARTIN PALJAK OpenSC Project Martin Paljak is the author of the de facto cross-platform cryptoki implementation for Estonian national eID cards. He is also a founder of Ideelabor OÜ (Idealab LLC), a 3rd party solution provider for Estonian eID solutions from cross-platform card access to custom cross-platform digital signature (XAdES) library. His special interest is the real life usability of two main features of smart cards - added security and ease of use.
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	NEVILLE PATTINSON Director of Business Development, Technology & Government Affairs; Access & Public Sector - Axalto Americas Neville Pattinson is a leading expert on smart cards and using the microprocessor chip to keep identity credential data and biometrics secure and private. He's been heavily involved in planning and implementing a number of federal government security initiatives including the Dept. of Defense Common Access Card (CAC); State Dept.'s Electronic Passport; Transportation Dept.'s Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) and Transportation Security Administration's Register Traveler program. Mr. Pattinson works closely with several other agencies -- General Services Administration, Treasury, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and NASA - which have smart ID programs underway. Pattinson has been active in helping define the new FIPS201, SP 800-73 & SP800-76 suite of specifications for credentialing of Federal employees and contractors. Mr. Pattinson is an ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and is member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He is a Board Member of the International Biometric Industry Association (IBIA) and Chairman/Secretary for OpenCard Consortium. As Program Manager for the DoD CAC card program, Mr. Pattinson is credited with obtaining the first-ever FIPS 140-1 Level 2 certification for the Java-based Cyberflex Access Smart Card and its integration in the DoD CAC card program. He was also responsible for the introduction of Cyberflex Access and accompanying middleware into the Schlumberger-wide corporate smart card-based PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). From Axalto's Austin, Texas U.S. headquarters Mr. Pattinson leads a global team of product engineers, field marketing managers, manufacturing and technical support personnel to serve the U.S. access market, the largest in the world, with secure, smart card-based credentialing solutions. Since 9/11 2001, interest in security from the public sector has steadily increased as the U.S. federal government standardizes on smart card technology as the underlying technology to secure its people, data and borders. Mr. Pattinson's strategic vision and customer focus have made Axalto the leading supplier to the four GSA smart card prime contractors BearingPoint Inc. EDS, Maximus Inc. and Northrop Grumman. Axalto has shipped more than 5.7 million Cyberflex Access cards in the U.S. for the DoD Common Access Card (CAC) program. Axalto makes its Cyberflex Access cards for the U.S. market in its facility in Owings Mills, MD, near Baltimore. The 250-employee plant boasts a 40-year heritage of secure card manufacturing, producing cards since 1964 at an annual rate today of 60,000,000. Pattinson holds seven patents related to metering, prepayment and smart cards, and has published several papers on related security matters. Notably, on the topic of smart cards for identification credentials, he wrote the Schlumberger White Paper entitled "Smart Cards as Government ID cards" and the Smart Card Alliance White Paper entitled "Chains of Trust in Secure ID Systems." He was also referenced as a valued contributor to the Markle Task Force paper, "Creating a Trusted Information Network for Homeland Security." Mr. Pattinson's public speaking on security, smart cards, and identification credentials include a CardTech/SecurTech presentation, "Smart Cards are the Vital Link in the Chain of Trust for Credentialing Systems" in April 2004 and a Smart Card Alliance presentation, "Smart Cards as Corporate Badges in PKI systems" in July 2003. His perspectives on security-related issues are published regularly in Government Computer News, Federal Computer Week, Card Technology, Electronic Engineering Times and ID Newswire. Pattinson graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Leicester Polytechnic in England in 1984.
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	Dr JEAN-CHRISTOPHE PAZZAGLIA Eurecom Institute Jean-Christophe Pazzaglia is working as a research engineer in the Network Security Team of Eurécom and he is mainly involved within eJustice and MOSQUITO European projects. Before joining Eurécom, he acquired an International experience working for 7 years abroad (in Cyprus, Italy and UK); both for research labs (I3S, Cardiff University, CRS4) and for private companies (Mediatech, Albourne Partners and Softeam). He applied his initial background on adaptative and distributed object oriented programming on different domains including Multi-Agents System (KRAFT), Adaptative distribution of services (EIHA/eMate), Distance Learning (Nuraxi), Network Security (K2/eJustice/MOSQUITO) and Financial Services. His current research interests encompass IT security from the user and citizen perspective, with a strong accent on adaptative and contextual security, traceability and privacy aware architecture. Jean-Christophe Pazzaglia hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (1997) and an engineer degree from the Superior School in Computer Sciences (ESSI) of Sophia Antipolis, France (1992).
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	PÄIVI PÖSÖ Senior Supervisor - Population Register Centre, Ca Services - Helsinki Päivi Pösö is a lawyer and is currently working at Finnish Population Centre (PRC) as Senior Supervisor. She started in 1998 at PRC, which is the Certification Authority (CA) in Finland. She is responsible for the CA policies and policymaking, contracts, RA guidance and legislation preparation. She is also in charge as team leader of the certificate registration team at PRC and project manager for Porvoo Group Meetings.
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	YVES PUNIE Senior Researcher - ITPS European Commission DG JRC Yves Punie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), one of the seven joint research centres of the European Commission DG JRC. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) where he worked as interim Assistant Professor. He also was senior researcher at SMIT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunications). Yves Punie has published on the use and acceptance of ICTs in everyday life, also known as 'domestication of ICTs'; on the social and technological aspects of Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life; on the future of the media and the media industries; on social capital in the knowledge society; and on privacy, security and identity in the future information society.
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	RAINER RETTIG Director Business Unit Secure ID - ACG Identification Technologies Rainer Rettig is the Director of Secure ID, the business unit of ACG Identification Technologies dedicated to the markets of personal identification documents. In this position, he is responsible for the growing ACG's business in the area of banking and governmental projects involving RFID technology, such as RFID based EMV, electronic passports and e-visas. Rainer Rettig joined ACG in 1998 just after it was founded and was involved in a variety of functions such as purchasing, product management and operations. Most recently, he served as ACG's Director of Sales EMEA. Rainer Rettig began his career with Hoechst AG, and subsequently worked for VKW Staufen Folien and at PAV Card as Head of sales. He holds an engineering degree from the university of applied sciences of Darmstadt.
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	HENRY RYAN Managing Director - Lios Geal Consultants Henry J. F. Ryan is an information scientist and contributes to the development, evolution, implementation, impact and assessment of standards and e-business strategy in private and public enterprises. His expertise spans a wide range of developments and issues in information technology, its application for socio-economic benefits and related standardization aspects including business models, interoperability, ontologies, metrics, regulation and legislation, conformance testing and certification, identity management, data protection, and digital rights management. He is the founder and Managing Director of Lios Geal Consultants Ltd, an Irish consultancy specialising in ICT Standards Strategy and Knowledge Management. Prior to this he worked in both university and private industry. He has postgraduate qualifications in Experimental Physics (University College Cork) and in Information Studies (University of Sheffield). He has also studied and completed courses at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD, Lausanne). His leadership roles in international standardization have included: - Convenor of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Global Information Infrastructure - Convenor of the JTC 1 Marketing Group - Chairman of the Irish ICT Standards Consultative Committee and National Head of Delegation to JTC 1 - Member of the Management Board and Vice-Chairman of the Technology Committee of the Digital Audio Visual Consortium - Expert project team member on several European projects and standards activities including CEN/ISSS Data Protection Group and the CEN/ISSS Workshop on eAuthentication - Standardization Expert for the DG Enterprise eBusiness W@tch - General Secretary of the eEurope Smart Card Charter
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	ALBRECHT SCHMIDT IT-staff - German Federal Ministry of the Interior - Born 1968 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany, married, two children - Graduated in electrical engineering, special subject: communication engineering - Until October 2001 member of the unit for Security in Networks / Cryptology, Scientific Fundamentals of IT Security with the Federal IT Security Agency (BSI) - Until January 2004 member of the unit for IT security strategies, IT security consultancy with the Federal IT Security Agency (BSI) - Since January 2004 member of the IT-staff, unit IT4 - biometrics, passports and ID cards, matters related to registration with the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI)
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	TERESA SCHWARZHOFF ISO/IEC SC 17/WG 4/TF 9 Chair - U.S. Department of Commerce Teresa Schwarzhoff works at the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her focus is smart card standards. She was the primary editor for NIST InterAgency Report 6887, Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification v2.1, a foundation document for the US Federal government smart card framework. She is the Chair of the United States ANSI InterNational Committee for Information Technical Standards (INCITS) B10.9 Task Group, Smart Card Interoperability, a group responsible for smart card interoperability standards at the national level. Ms. Schwarzhoff is the Convenor of the international standard technical group, ISO/IEC SC 17 WG4 Task Force 9, a task force responsible for developing the new suite of international smart card interoperability standards entitled ISO/IEC 24727, Integrated circuit cards with contact - Identification cards - Smart Card Interoperability. She is a one of the authors of the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard 201: Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors. FIPS 201 PIV is in direct response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 12 that mandates a Federal standard for identity. She holds a B.B.A. degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and M.S. degree from St. Mary's University.
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	MICHAL SHAI Director of Marketing - Metaform Ms. Shai has extensive experience in the software and high-tech industry. Ms. Shai has held positions in R&D (software and embedded systems), project and product management and international marketing & sales. Ms. Shai has extensive experience in various Imaging areas, from both technological and marketing aspects. Ms. Shai holds a B.Sc. in Statistics & Operations Research from Tel-Aviv University.
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	PAUL SMITH Senior Consultant - Consult Hyperion Paul is a Senior Consultant with Consult Hyperion, with over 15 years experience in the IT sector. Before joining Consult Hyperion Paul was the Applications Group Manager at University of Edinburgh, where he was responsible for the introduction of the MULTOS/Mondex based University smart card. In total, over 20,000 University cards were issued in a multi-organisation environment, both within the University and with Bank of Scotland. The card replaced student identity, library and building access cards. He has advised Governments, Payment Schemes and global blue chip companies on the development and use of new technology to revitalise existing products or services. This advice has ranged from business plan validation through to product definition and implementation planning. Recent projects include: - Assessing the mobile payments products markets for a mobile network operator with a view to identifying the critical success factors for a mobile payment service - Reviewing the use of Multi-application Smart Cards for identity and payment on behalf of a leading IT service organization and, separately, a major payments organisation - Analysing the adoption of EMV in 42 markets across the globe on behalf of a major financial services company.
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	MARC STERN Computer Sciences Corporation (Belgium) and Apache/Modssl Project Marc Stern graduated in Civil Engineering and currently manages the Security Solutions Group at CSC Belgium. He has been working for is working for 15 years in the PKI and general IT security domains, first at Philips, then at Texas Instruments Software, before joining CSC in 1997. Marc is the main designer and architect of the Belgian eID card project. As part of that project, he participated in the Open Source Apache Web server development (mod_ssl) to extend that component to the Government's needs. He also participated in the design of the Belgian social insurance card, and in a number of other public sector projects.
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	JAN VAN ARKEL Ambassador CEN/ISSS WS eAuthentication Co-Chairman - eEurope Smart Card Charter Jan van Arkel is an independent consultant with more than 15 years of experience in the chipcard domain. He is Co-Chairman of the eEurope Smart Card Charter since it's start in December 2000. He represents the card issuers community and co-ordinates activities in the fields of eGovernment, user requirements, public identity, digital signature, biometrics, global interoperable framework GIF and proof of concept demonstrators. He coordinated the development of the OSCIE (Open Smart Card Infrastructure for Europe) documents. He took -in close cooperation with CEN/ISSS management- the initiative for the Workshop eAuthentication and drafted the Businessplan. He holds the function of Ambassabor on behalf of the Workshop eAuthentication and is responsible for the liaisons with CEN 224, ISO SC 17, the US (NIST) and Japan (NICSS). He has initiated and co chaired the meetings of the Porvoo group (Government officials active in eID) and has initiated and chaired the meetings of the Global Collaboration Forum (Europe, Japan and US on global interoperable eID). He has been active in the standardisation domain as the chairperson of the Dutch national commission on ID cards and is a member of the Dutch Biometrics standardisation commission. He took part in the CEN/ISSS Workshop eSign and the CEN/ISSS Workshop NIS (network information security). He has participated in the Workshops Finread, Embedded Finread, Fastest, Distinct, URI and extended URI. He started his career with various functions in local and central government. He has been head of the Dutch Passport and ID card department. From its start in October 1993 till December 2000 Jan van Arkel has been the Secretary General of the National Chipcard Forum (NCP) of the Netherlands. He chaired various study groups within the NCP and represented the forum in national and international meetings. Since 1996 Mr. Van Arkel has his own independent consulting agency, which engages in chipcards and chipcard systems. In 1998 and 1999 he was project manager of the National Health Insurance Chipcard Project. He was advisor on the Dutch National ID-card project, the fingertip sensor card for Parkinson patients and in some other projects on digital signature and PKI. Mr. Van Arkel has graduated in Government Administration with a specialization in local government.
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	HENK VANDENDOOREN Business Unit Manager, System Integration - Steria Benelux Henk Vandendooren, civil engineer, is responsible for System Integration at Steria Benelux. In this role he is responsible for the implementation of large IT-projects (Belgian electronic Personal Identity Card project for example). He joined Steria in late 2000 as Business Unit Manager for Managed Services. Before that he was Programme Director for Siemens Business Services. In this role he was responsible for the outsourcing project of the Flemish Community. In his younger years he was active in the finance sector (Fortis).
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	EMMANUEL VENTADOUR Strategy & Marketing Manager, ID & Security Solutions - Gemplus Emmanuel Ventadour serves Gemplus as Strategy & Marketing Manager, ID & Security Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for government ID and enterprise security segment marketing, establishing Gemplus' positioning and business plan, and marketing solutions composed of smart cards and issuance systems. Mr. Ventadour, 31, joined Gemplus in 2001 in the Strategy Division, Telecom Business Unit to establish business and organizational directions, which contributed to a strong recovery of the business unit after the economical and telecom downturn of 2001. He was in particular responsible for the unit's business planning. Prior to joining Gemplus, Mr. Ventadour was a consultant at Dictis, a Paris-based strategy consulting firm focused on wireless data, trust, smart card and payment solutions. He also served as consultant at Atos-Origin, focused on billing and customer relationship management in the Telecom and Internet fields. Mr. Ventadour graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité (Supélec), France.
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	JUKKA YLIUNTINEN Senior Vice President Government & Corporate Business Unit - Setec Mr. Jukka Yliuntinen works in Setec's headquarters in Finland heading the Government & Corporate Business Unit, which is responsible for the global sales of different identity products for public and corporate sectors. He has nine years experience in different identity products and services, smart card technologies including banking, telecom, identification as well as infrastructures related to these products. Setec develops, manufactures and delivers products that require extreme security, such as biometric and visual passports, electronic and visual ID cards, EMV cards and SIM cards for various countries. Setec's major customers are public authorities, banks, and telecom operators. The company has operations in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Thailand. At the end of 2004, the Group's net sales totalled EUR 58.5 million and it employed 353 people.

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