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CLAUDE
BARRAL
Senior Research Engineer - Gemalto
Claude is in the Gemalto Research
Labs since 1998 where he was
involved in innovative
projects such as ScreenCards,
High Memory Capacity Cards and
Biometrics. He is currently
working on Smart Card integration
in biometric systems and is
member of the French national
body (Afnor) for ISO standardization
about Biometrics & Smart
Cards. He earned his engineering
degree in Electronics from the French
"Conservatoire National
des Arts & Metiers"
and is preparing a PhD thesis
in Cryptography & Security at
the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (EPFL Lausanne,
Switzerland).
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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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PÄTRICK
BÉNON
Product Manager Identity Marketing
& Solutions – Oberthur
Card Systems
Patrick Bénon is Marketing
Product Manager at Oberthur
Card Systems for the Government
and Security Markets.
He started his career 2000 at
Gemalto in the Research &
Development department, before
holding positions as Consulting
Engineer at Accenture.
Patrick Bénon is graduated
Engineer and Doctor of Philosophy
from the "Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications
of Paris".
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MARCEL
BOOGAARD
HSB Cards & Card Systems,
The Netherlands
Marcel Boogaard is presently
director of HSB Cards &
Card Systems, The Netherlands.
Since Boogaard has joined HSB,
the company has implemented
several leading biometric projects.
The speaker is involved in biometric
& eID projects for immigration
services, automated border control,
Dutch visa, refugees, healthcare
and many others. Before HSB
he held several international
management positions for product
and business development. He
received a master degree from
Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands. He is a frequent
speaker on international conferences.
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PAOLO BOSCOLO
Responsible of distributed system
infrastructure and for EU project
- "Comune di Prato"
(Italy)
Master degree in Electronics
Engineering in 1986. He has
worked for Infogroup S.p.A.
and Nuovo Pignone S.p.A. From
June, 1988, to May 1991 he worked
at ALCATEL Italia in Florence,
where he took part in some research
projects funded by the European
Community. In 1992 he joined
the Comune di Prato as head
of the Telecommunications group.
During the last 13 years he
contributed to setting up a
Metropolitan Area Network using
proprietary fibre optic cable
and leased lines. With Comune
di Prato he is taking part to
several European Projects in
the field of advanced IT infrastructures.
He is also in charge for the
participation in some national
eGovernment projects, among
them the implementation of the
Italian Identity Card project
in the City of Prato aiming
to release to all the citizens
the new Electronic Identity
Card. The project is successfully
running having already released
35.000 new cards.
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CASPAR
BOWDEN
Chief Privacy Advisor EMEA -
Microsoft EMEA Technology Office
Caspar Bowden leads the privacy
pillar of the Trustworthy Computing
initiative across Europe, Middle-East
and Africa. His goal is to ensure
that users of Microsoft products
and services are in control
of their personal data and that
fair information practices are
respected. He is a specialist
in data protection policy, privacy
enhancing technology research,
identity management and authentication.
He was formerly director of
the Foundation for Information
Policy Research, an independent
think-tank that studies the
interaction between computers
and society, and promotes public
understanding and dialogue between
UK and European civil society
and policy-makers in the fields
of e-commerce, copyright, law
enforcement and national security,
e-government, cryptography and
digital signatures. He was appointed
expert adviser to the UK parliament
for the passage of three bills
concerning privacy issues, and
was co-organizer of the influential
Scrambling for Safety public
conferences on UK encryption
and surveillance policy. His
previous career over two decades
ranged from investment banking
(proprietary trading risk-management
for option arbitrage), to software
engineering (graphics engines
and cryptography), including
work for Goldman Sachs, Microsoft
Consulting Services, Acorn,
Research Machines, and IBM.
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LEIF
BUENE
Business Development Manager
- Det Norske Veritas
Leif Buene is Business Development
Manager within ICT Risk Management
in Det Norske Veritas (DNV).
He holds a PhD in Physics from
the University of Oslo, Norway
and has worked for DNV in various
positions for more than 20 years.
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THIERRY
COLLIN
Senior Corporate Marketing –
Thales e-Transactions
Engineer graduated from ENSM
(now, Ecole Centrale de Nantes),
first in raw, and post-graduated
in Automation, Thierry Collin
has been working for more than
20 years within Dassault Group,
now part of THALES group.
Involved in the development
of civilian applications for
more than 15 years, he has been
in charge of software developments
for Automated Teller Machines
and set up software development
teams for Point of Sales (EFT-POS)
payment systems and telecommunication
systems (3 departments, 40 people).
In addition to operational responsibilities,
he focused his interest on Smart
Card and Smart Card applications
from late seventies as part
of its security expert position
in banking systems. He is one
of the few international experts
involved in the standardization
work undertaken by ISO (JTC1/SC17
and TC68/SC6) and later on by
CEN (TC224) in the 80's. When
payment systems endorsed smart
card technology and developed
common specification (EMV),
he has been involved as adviser
and by actual implementations.
When Thomson-CSF bought Dassault
Electronic, he moved to the
position of deputy chief technical
officer of Dassault AT, in charge
of electronic transactions activities.
He gave lectures worldwide.
Merging activities from RACAL
gave him a new opportunity:
At present Senior Manager Corporate
Marketing, he is in charge of
strategy & partnership to
set up advanced Research &
Development for Point of Interaction
product line. He is also Chairman
of an AFNOR standardization
committee and member of several
international organizations.
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BARBARA
DASKALA
Iinstitute for Prospective Technological
Studies European Commission'
s Joint Research Centre
Barbara Daskala works in the
Institute of Prospective Technological
Studies (IPTS) of European Commission's
Joint Research Centre, where
she currently conducts research
on the social implications of
emerging technologies and the
ambient intelligence environment,
especially regarding privacy,
security and identity issues.
Before that, she had been working
for over 3 years with Ernst
& Young in Athens, Greece,
as an IT auditor and information
security consultant. She is
a Certified Information Systems
Security Professional (CISSP)
and a Certified Information
Systems Auditor (CISA). She
also holds an MSc in Analysis,
Design and Management of Information
Systems from the London School
of Economics & Political
Science and also a BSc in Business
Administration from the University
of Piraeus.
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NICOLAS
DELVAUX
Sagem Défense Sécurité
Nicolas Delvaux is an Engineer
from the Université Catholique
de Louvain. Nicolas participates
to several projects in the telecommunications
fields within SAGEM Communication.
Since 2002, Nicolas is in charge
of biometric standardisation
activity within the Security
division of SAGEM Defence Security.
Nicolas is chairman of CN37
at AFNOR, the biometric committee.
He is also in charge of the
Biometric Focus Group in CEN,
and convenor at EBF of the Special
Interest Group concerning Standards,
Testing and Certification. Nicolas
chairs the French delegation
at the Biometric ISO/IEC SC37.
Nicolas is also member of the
expert group of Border security
of CEN BT/WG 161, and contributes
as expert to ESRAB. Nicolas
is implicated in various research
programs. His biometrics skills
are fingerprints and facial
recognition.
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BAUDOIN
DE SONIS
Executive Director - e-Forum
Association
Baudouin is executive director
of e-Forum association, a non
for profit organisation which
delivers to its members products,
services and representation,
to encourage e-Government excellence
in Europe, improve the use of
information- and communication
technologies within the Public
Services sector.
Prior to this appointment he
was Director, Partnerships and
Alliances for Groupe Bull, with
responsibility to set-up right
partnerships for Bull, other
responsibilities were establishing
consortia, joint venture's and
Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV's)
for specific large bids.
Baudouin was previously Director
International Business for the
Customer Services Division.
During this time, Baudouin was
mainly responsible for negotiating
a number of multi-country contracts.
He has been with Bull for 9
years, Baudouin was awarded
a BA in 1979 and a Master of
Business Administration degree
in 1989.
Baudouin' s career started in
IBM France as sales representative
and sales manager. He went on
to work for General Electric
(USA) as sales and marketing
manager, France and Benelux
and as Director EC operations.
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ALISTAIR
DOE
Managing Technical Architect
/ GPS - CTO / Technology Services
- Capgemini
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JIM
DRAY
Senior Computer Scientist -
US National Institute of Standards
and Technology
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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Dr
RALF DUJARDIN
Portfolio Manager Security Systems
- Bayer Innovation GmbH
Dr. Dujardin began his career
with Bayer in 1986 as a Polymer
Scientist serving as Project
Manager in some major multinational
project. He had held various
management positions in Research
and Development, Production,
Intellectual Property Management,
New Business Development and
Corporate Venturing. He has
extensive experience in commercializing
Intellectual Property of Early-Stage
Technologies and using Intellectual
Property as a cash equivalent
for equity investments in new
ventures.
Prior to his current position
Dr. Dujardin was responsible
as Marketing Manager for Bayer
Industry Services's Chemistry
Start-Up Promotion providing
infrastructure, services and
seed financing for new technology
ventures. Till the end of 2002
he was responsible as Manager
New Business Development for
the commercialization of services
and intellectual property products
from Bayer's Central Research.
From 1998 to 2000, he worked
in the United States as Vice
President Technology for Exatec
LLC, a new cooperative venture
of Bayer AG and General Electric
for the development and manufacturing
of plastic automotive glazing.
Dr. Dujardin graduated in Chemistry
with First Class Honors at the
University of Siegen
in 1986. He is named as an inventor
on more than 75 patents and
author of 15 scientific and
economics publications. He serves
as advisory board member for
several new ventures in Germany
and the US.
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MOURAD
FAHER
Project Leader & Coordinator
- Gemalto
Held the position of software
engineer before to join Bull
CP8 as technical advisor.
Mourad has been working from
2002 as Project Leader for Schlumberger
then for Gemalto S.A Smart Card
department (R&D), in charge
of European projects and standardization
follow-up in relation with Public
Sector.
Participation to standardization
committees in relation with
Citizenship:
Membership to CEN/TC 224 WG15,
WG16, WG17
Editorship to prCEN/TS 15480-3
(ECC-3)
Co-editorship to prCEN/TS 15480-2
(ECC-2)
Membership to ISO/JTC1 SC17
WG4/TF9 (ISO 24727)
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OLIVIER
FAUCHER
Program Director of Governmental
Projects – Thales Security
Systems
Olivier Faucher is Program Director
of Governmental Projects in
THALES SECURITY SYSTEMS. In
this position Olivier has led
major ePasseport and ID Project.
Previously he was Manager of
the IT Security Domain in THALES
SECURITY SYSTEMS. His role was
to direct the IT Security domain
which encompasses both Information
Security Systems and e-government
security projects. Olivier was
previously head of the Strategy
& Business Development for
the Business Group Secure Operations
at THALES . His role was to
direct the Strategy and Business
Development activities of the
Civil and Governmental markets,
develop the THALES security
businesses geographically and
drive key partnerships in the
security domain. THALES SECURITY
SYSTEMS is a subsidiary company
of the THALES Group, focusing
on providing complete turnkey
Security Systems for Private
and Governmental customers.
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ARJAN
GELUK
Business Development Manager
- Collis
Arjan Geluk is Business Development
Manager, responsible for e-Passport
solutions of Collis' e-ID Competence
Centre.
Previously, Arjan was responsible
for Collis' test solutions for
the chip based European Digital
Tachograph and EMV chip payment.
He contributed as a senior business
consultant to several chip-related
projects, including:
- project management of tachograph
card test projects for several
European governments
- project coordination for the
EuropeAid TACIS project Legal
Assistance for the Development
of eCommerce in Russia
- research for the Visa Asia
Pacific large retailer chip
migration study, resulting in
the Visa Smart guide for retailers
- market research for EMV chip
migration in several countries.
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GILLES
GRAVIER
Chief Technology Strategist
for Security - Sun Microsystems
After 11 years at Sun, Gilles
is responsible for communicating
Sun's security vision and strategy
to Sun's top customers worldwide,
and helping them engage on the
path to better corporate IT
security.
Gilles holds an MS degree in
computer systems design. He
has held positions ranging from
systems engineer to consultant,
architect and market development
manager for security with an
international focus during the
past 8 years.
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PAUL
GRIBBON
Consultant, e-Identity Unit
- LogicaCMG
Paul Gribbon is a Consultant
in LogicaCMG's Global e-Identity
unit, with specific responsibility
for the "Enterprise Corporate
Card" proposition. Paul
was previously in the Global
Financial Services team, where
he specialised in Card Systems
and Consumer Payments, helping
clients to define their card
strategy, advising on market
developments and continuously
shaping customer propositions.
Prior to joining LogicaCMG in
2001, Paul was with First Data
International, working in a
number of business, IT and Product
Management positions, giving
him over ten years experience
in the 'Cards' industry.
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Dr
HEINER GRÖNEWALD
Sales Director - Sagem Orga
Born in 1951, studied Electrical
Engineering at the University
of Hannover. After having passed
his diploma, he joint the 'Helmut-Schmidt-University'
in Hamburg as a scientific assistant,
where he took his PhD in 1982.
Already in the first phase of
his professional life, he worked
on the introduction of new technologies.
He started in a big machine
tool manufacturer to establish
Technical Data Processing (CAD,
CASE, Document Management Systems,...),
after this in a company in the
electronics industry.
In 1994 he started his second
professional phase in the smart
card industry. Heiner Grönewald
took over the product segment
'Card Readers and -systems'
in the Hagenuk GmbH, which mainly
was dedicated to the German
Health Insurance Card. He finally
joint ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH,
now Sagem-Orga, in order to
be in charge of applications
in the health and identification
sector.
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GORDON
HANNAH
Managing Director, Public Sector
Security and Identity Management
Group - BearingPoint
Mr. Hannah is the Executive
responsible for the strategy
& direction of Identity
Management solutions and services
for the BearingPoint Public
Sector Security Group. He has
over 17 years of Homeland Security,
Federal, Intelligence and Military
sector experience and seven
years of managing Enterprise
Identity Management initiatives.
Within the Federal and Defense
arena, Mr. Hannah has identity
management operations and program
management experience with the
DoD (including DMDC, BMO, WHS,
Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marine
Corps), DHS (TSA), State Department,
GSA, GAO, MoD UK, and DfEE UK.
As the Program Manager for the
TSA Transportation Worker Identification
Credential, he fielded an operational,
nationwide end-to-end identity
management and biometric credentialing
system just 96 days after contract
award. In addition, Mr. Hannah
has worked with the Department
of State to upgrade the existing
Passport program to comply with
the Visa Waiver program.
Mr. Hannah holds a Bachelor
of Science Degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University
of Connecticut. He is a qualified
Nuclear Engineering Officer
on Submarines; Mr. Hannah holds
a Top Secret Security Clearance
and is a member of the Smart
Card Alliance, M1/B10, ITAA,
Biometric Consortium, European
Biometric Forum, Government
Smart Card Interagency Advisory
Board, FICC, FIXS and many other
public & private sector
organizations.
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DETLEF
HOUDEAU
Senior Director Business Development Market Segment
Identification - Infineon
Detlef Houdeau has a diploma
in machine construction, promotion
in microsystem technology in
Germany. Since 1985 Detlef worked
at Siemens AG and later moved
with the IPO of Infineon, at
the location Berlin, Erlangen,
Munich and Regensburg in Germany;
working on many projects and
business units at Siemens; covered
various function at Infineon,
business unit Security and Chipcard
Ics; Today, Detlef holds the
position af Senior Director
Business Development, Marketsegment
Identification in Munich, Germany.
Round 30 published papers and
40 patents, project head of
an EU funding project, called
DIGITAL PASSPORT, w/ 6 partner
companies in 4 countries, member
of EUROSMART (voice of the smart
card industry in Europe) in
Brussels, Belgium and head of
BITKOM, working group Smart
Cards and ID-Systems (german
central IT organisation) in
Berlin, Germany.
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FRANK
JORISSEN
VP International Business Development
- Safeboot
Frank Jorissen started his ICT
Security career in 1985 at the
"COSIC" crypto laboratory
of the University of Leuven,
Belgium. From 1987 onwards Frank
held various senior positions
at ao Cryptech, Utimaco and
GlobalSign (Cybertrust).
Since 1999 Frank is Vice-Chairman
of EEMA (http://www.eema.org).
Frank also co-founded EEMA's
ISSE (Information Security Solutions
Europe) Conference, of which
he currently co-chairs the Steering
Committee (see http://www.eema.org/isse).
Since 2005 Frank is VP International
Business Development at mobile
data security specialist SafeBoot,
manufacturer of the awarded
SafeBoot® suite of security
enforcement solutions for PC's,
laptops, PDA's and smartphones.
In this capacity Frank is in
charge for defining innovative
solutions such as eg the use
of eID cards.
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KIMMO
KARPPINEN
Marketing Manager Government
ID - Setec - a Gemalto company
Kimmo Karppinen (34) is a marketing
manager for National ID products
and solutions at
Gemalto’ corporate level
Government ID marketing group,
which is based in Vantaa, Finland.
After Gemalto acquired Setec
Oy in June 2005, the Vantaa
office became the excellence
center of Gemalto’ Government
ID products.
He has over 10 years of experience
in Telecom and Government project
and sales
management. He joined Setec
1999 and has held various positions
in sales, IT and marketing
and he has participated in some
of the world’s first biometric
passport projects.
Prior to joining Setec, he worked
for Siemens AG Mobile Networks
sales, both in Finland and
Germany. He holds a Master degree
in Technical Sciences (M. Sc),
from the University of
Oulu.
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KLAUS
J. KEUS
European Expertise Group for
Biometrics
Studied Mathematics, economics
and computer science at the
"Rheinisch Westfälischen
Technischen Hochschule Aachen
(RWTH)" and got a degree
as "Diplom mathematician".
He has around 25 years of experience
in information technology, worked
in SW development for several
international computer and SW
companies, worked as consultant
and projektmanager for key accounts
special in IT-security. Actually
he is working within the German
Federal Office for Information
Security (Bundesamt für
Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
(BSI)) since more than 15 years,
currently as head of the section
"New Technologies".
He was very actively involved
in all European activities in
the area of electronic signatures,
e.g. such as member of the former
European Electronic Signature
Standardisation Initiative Steering
Board, as technical head of
the German delegation for the
EU directive for electronic
signatures and as member of
the German delegation for "Electronic
Signature Committee" (Article
9 Committee). Currently he is
very active in the field of
Biometrics (e.g. member of the
European Expertise Group for
Biometrics). He is author of
multiple national and international
publications and member of many
national and international program
committees, conference committees
and advisory boards.
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Dr.
KSHEERABDHI KRISHNA
Gemalto Research & Innovation
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 has
been a member of the InterNational
Committee for Information Technology
Standards (INCITS) Technical
Committee M1 on Biometrics.
Recently, Dr. Krishna has been
examining the application of
Microsoft .NET to smart card
platforms and the role of smart
cards in Web 2.0.
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PETER
KRONEGGER
Chief Technology Officer - ACG
Identification Technologies
Peter Kronegger is CTO (chief
technical officer) of ACG Identification
Technologies and manages ACG's
RFID reader R&D facility
in Graz/Austria.
Peter Kronegger has been involved
in RFID research and development
since 1990. Before joining ACG
in 2003 he acted as a founder
and co-founder of several high
tech start-up companies: based
in Graz/Austria, he started
Codekey Identification Systems
in 1990 pioneering contactless
access control systems. In 1996
Kronegger RFID Systems was founded,
generating generic RFID reader
components. Peter Kronegger
also was a founding member of
Omnikey and co-founded the RFID
solution company United Access.
He also was founding advisor
and initial head of the supervisory
board of Sensor Dynamics, a
company specialized on silicon
designs for the automotive market.
Peter Kronegger is a graduate
of Ohio/USA (master of science
in electrical engineering) and
Graz Technical University (PHD
in control theory).
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MARC
LANGE
Manager - EHTEL
Marc Lange is involved in European
ICT projects for the public
sector (i.e. social security,
customs and indirect taxation,
legal identity, health) since
1992 and has therefore a long
experience in supporting EU
Member States in coordinating
the deployment of their projects.
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