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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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Ing 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.

During this period, he has managed several international projects and programmes and has in particular worked, as author, co-author, editor or director on a large variety of reports related to the deployment of ICT systems in Europe, including business plans, conceptual and strategic analysis, project specifications, functional pre-standards (CWA), impact analysis and best practices reports on business issues, quality systems and service level agreement, commercial proposals …

For the last three years, he is managing EHTEL (www.ehtel.org), a member-based international association dedicated to supporting implementation of eHealth solutions in Europe. EHTEL activities are benefiting to all eHealth stakeholders (i.e. ministries of health, European Commission, industries, health professionals and institutions, patient representatives, insurers, academics, NGO …).

EHTEL has recently organised several conferences and workshops on key eHealth issues such as Identification Management, Interoperability of infrastructure as well as on some eHealth applications like ePrescribing and Home care.
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ARNAUD LOTIGIER
Senior Product Manager - Gemalto

Arnaud Lotigier joined Gemalto in 1996, after several years spent in the Printing and in Telecom industries.

He held several positions at Gemalto, in the Telecom Business Unit, then in the Financial Services Business Unit, and joined the Identity and Security Business Unit in 2002.
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CHARLES LOWE
Electronic Government Consultant

Charles Lowe was educated at Cambridge and the London Business School. Following an early financial career, he led the creation of the BT Intranet as one of the first, largest and most successful corporate Intranets, realising an audited saving of over £1 billion in its initial two years. He followed this by establishing first BT's eBusiness consultancy, then BT's eGovernment unit, Stepchange.gov, where he was at the centre of BT's collaboration with the UK Government to deliver UKonline. Since leaving BT he has further enhanced his standing as an eGovernment expert, working around the world in roles as diverse as delivering an IT strategy & implementation plan for a large Middle Eastern county and managing a series of voter engagement projects for the 2003 UK local elections.

For the past three years he has been running a large ICT/modernisation programme for the London Borough of Newham's Adult Services & Children's & Young People's Services Departments. In addition he is a co-founder and Board Member of e-Forum, the EC-sponsored EU-wide association for encouraging eGovernment excellence in Europe (www.eu-forum.org) and a Trustee of Citizens Online, the charity dedicated to eliminating the digital divide (www.citizensonline.org.uk).
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EIKAZU NIWANO
Service Integration Laboratories - NTT Corporation

Eikazu Niwano is head of innovation and standardization under Smart Card Platform Development Project. Mr. Niwano joined NTT Corporation in 1989 and has been engaged in research and development on distributed system architecture at Laboratories. From 1999 he has headed developing the concepts and framework of PKI based smart card management system as chief architect and project manager. From 2002 to 2005 he worked in Paris as general manager of Europe Office under Information Sharing Laboratory Group and was engaged in globalization of the PKI-based smart card management framework. He was editor of eEurope/Smart Card Charter/TB7/WG4 (multi-application architecture) and a member of CEN Workshop on eAuthentication. He is currently NICSS Fellow, chair of GlobalPlatform-NICSS Collaboration Expert Group of NICSS, board of directors of GlobalPlatform, a member of CEN TC224 WG15(European Citizen Card) and ISO/SC17 national committee of Japan.
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Ing JIRI OCHOZKA
APROKS

He has engineer diploma in the branch of electronics, Technical University Brno, and PhD diploma in the branch of mathematics, Charles University Praha. He has been a long years activded as a Leader and Main Engineer in the industrial automation and technological process control systems. Several years has been external teacher for Modern mathematical methods and Automation systems in Technical University Ostrava. Last 15 years has been interested for information systems, information technlogy and chip-smart - card application. With close collaboration with the Czech Ministry of Health was a member of team for creating national health - card system and realized a pilot project. He was joined in several EC projects, like NETLINK-CEE (as a national co-ordinator), NETC@RDS project and CZ eHealth project.
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JON OLNES
Senior Researcher - Det Norske Veritas

Jon Ølnes is Senior Researcher in Det Norske Veritas (DNV). He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oslo, Norway and has more than 10 years experience in the PKI area as a researcher and consultant.
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TROND OVERLAND
Vice President - Det Norske Veritas

Trond Øverland is Vice President in Det Norske Veritas (DNV) with responsibility for IT business development. He holds an MSc in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, USA and an MBA from the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, Norway.
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JEAN-CLAUDE PELLICER
VP Business Development - Trusted Logic

Jean-Claude has been working in the transaction industry for over 20 years going back to 1985 when he then started the Australian branch of Ingenico, now a successful node of Ingenico group. He has also held management positions at other prestigious organisations such as Gemplus, Incard and Telstra in France, Italy and Australia. To be noticed his contribution as a co-founder of Incard where he held marketing & R&D positions in the initial 4 years of the company set-up. He has been now 5 years with Trusted Logic working as VP Business Development.
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SYLVAIN PREVOST
Gemalto

Based in Austin, Texas, USA, Sylvain Prevost joined Gemalto in 1999. He holds an opto-electronic engineering diploma, laser/plasma major, from PolyTech-Orleans.
Active member of the Java Card Forum, he has been involved in numerous smart-card aspects encompassing banking, mobile-com, corporate, cryptography, biometry, operating systems, on-card verifiers, Java Card and .Net virtual machines. He has authored and co-authored numerous patents.
He's currently the R&D lead engineer for the .Net smart card program within Gemalto.
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J.R. REAGAN
Managing Director and Solution Leader - Public Sector Security Group - BearingPoint

Mr. Reagan is the Senior Executive responsible for the strategy & direction of solutions and services for the BearingPoint Public Sector Security Group. He has over 20 years of Federal, Intelligence and Commercial sector experience managing Enterprise Security, Technology, Fraud & Risk Management initiatives.

Prior to joining BearingPoint in 2004, Mr. Reagan held a number of technology and executive positions with American Management Systems (AMS), Averstar (Titan Corporation), First Union National Bank, and the Department of Defense. Within the Federal and Defense arena, Mr. Reagan has security operations and program management experience with the NSA, DIA, FBI, NASA, DISA, DARPA, JCS, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Army. In the commercial sector, as VP and Group CSO of a Fortune 500 bank, he established an overall Consumer Banking Group Security Strategy and Risk Management Program, the first in company history. As CTO of two technology companies, he developed global product strategy, architecture and development of CRM and Wealth Management solutions for over 800 clients in the financial and insurance industries.

Mr. Reagan holds a Masters of Science Degree in Management Information Systems and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology. He is a graduate of the NSA National Cryptologic School; the Advanced Korean Language Studies Program at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea); the Graduate School of Banking Technology & Operations (Vanderbilt University); the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives (Harvard Law School); and the New Market Growth Innovation Workshop (Harvard Business School). Mr. Reagan holds a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) designation from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and is a member of ITAA, AFCEA, AFEI and many other public & private sector organizations.
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PAWEL ROTTER
Iinstitute for Prospective Technological Studies European Commission' s Joint Research Centre

Pawel Rotter is currently working at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, doing research on Privacy and Identity in the Information Society, Radio Frequency Identification and Biometrics. He is also an assistant professor at the Automatics Department of the AGH-University of Science and Technology in Krakow where his research are related to automatic control and computer image analysis. Prior to this he was working at the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Traffic Control and Management Laboratory of the Krakow University of Technology. He has PhD degree in Computer Science (thesis on application of multicriteria optimisation to image interpretation, completed with honours) and MSc in Electronics and Telecommunication.
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BRUNO ROUCHOUZE
Gemalto

Bruno Rouchouze, mathematics applied and computer engineer, obtained a thesis in image processing at CNRS in 1995. He integrated the Gemalto Group in 1997.

Since 1998, he managed the Information Security Group whose principal missions were: infrastructure security in prudent product engineering, threat analyses and flaw identification, and FIPS & Common Criteria evaluations. Bruno's group was also in charge of corporate Java Card & J2ME security researches & developments, and had consulting missions about security (MIPD1&2, JSR177, obfuscator, etc.). Concerning certifications based on Common Criteria, his group obtained a first Common Criteria Evaluation in the world for EA1+ & EAL5+ for Java Card, EAL4 for native OS, and EAL4 augmented with AVA_VLA.4 for a smart card. He became the Deputy Director for the Applied Research and Security Center at the end of 2004. He was also Chairman of the Eurosmart Security Working Group and convenor of International Smart card Certification Initiatives (ISCI) for five years.

At the beginning of this year, Bruno integrated the ID Department as senior expert, and manages all standard activities connected with ID. He develops also the Gemalto' group strategy for ID topics. He interfaces with all standard groups such as ISO CEN of AFNOR for that, and participates to Eurosmart marketing WG as security expert.
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KAPIL SACHDEVA
Software Technologist - Gemalto Smartcard Research and Innovation

Kapil is software technologist in Gemalto Smartcard Research and Innovation. Primary focus of his work is on design and development of next generation Smartcard operating systems, virtual machines (.NET and Java) & fast Xml parsers. Lately Kapil has been involved in Identity management space involving both Liberty Alliance and WS-Federation by designing & developing applications for Smartcards based on these standards and bringing the security provided by Smartcards to the forefront with in the domain of these new technologies. He has a blog called Smartcard Serenity [http://www.dotnetcard.com/blogs/ksachdeva] where he writes about upcoming Smart card technologies and their role in Identity Management related solutions.
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JON SHAMAH
EMEA Sales Director - CoreStreet

Jon Shamah is a graduate of Aeronautics & Astronautics. His roles at Hitachi, McDonnell Information Systems, Thales, and now CoreStreet span over 10 years involvement in Identity Management and Transaction Security. He specialises in the business exploitation of Public Key Infrastructures and their usage, especially in critical national infrastructures and programs.
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ZSOLT SIKOLYA
Director General - Ministry for Informatics & Communications - Hungarian Republic

He studied electrical engineering and mathematics. Formerly he was the manager of several CAD, real-time system development and GIS projects. From 1996 until 2002 he was involved in coordination of governmental IT developments as department head of Prime Minister's Office. He chaired the Interdepartmental Working Groups for GI, Data Management and PKI, and was the project director of government portal, metadata service, thesaurus, PKI and intranet projects. Presently he is responsible for the electronic government policy and projects and sectorial programs. He chairs the Interdepartmental Committee of Electronic Government. He is President of the Hungarian Association for Geo-Information (HUNAGI).
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MAX SNIJDER
CEO - Biometric Expertise Group
CEO - European Biometrics Forum

Max Snijder is one of the leading independent biometrics experts in Europe. His practical experience and integrated approach has lead to an overall view on the biometrics business. This includes strategic aspects of biometrics deployments (like costs/benefits, risk analysis and business models), as well as issues on functional requirements, use cases and processes. In the field of testing and certification of biometric equipment and systems he plays an important role in the MIT Project on finger print template interoperability testing (www.mitproject.com) and in the setting up of an European network of testing and certification organizations.

After a career as entrepreneur in the not-for-profit sector Max Snijder became one of the pioneers of biometrics in the Netherlands. After several years of extensive experience with numerous biometric projects like Privium at Schiphol Airport, he founded the Biometric Expertise Group in 2004 with the purpose of bringing together the fragmented knowledge and experience in the field of biometrics. His network of experts cover all relevant areas of biometrics, from strategic to operational, from legal to technical.

As an expert himself he is involved in several projects and consortia, ranging from passports and visa to large scale watch list applications and physical access control. Today, Max Snijder is involved in the key areas of the biometrics business. On European level he is involved in numerous workshops, committees and expert groups. As independent consultant he is frequently being hired to review, supervise and monitor projects that involve biometrics. He works for several European member states' governments as well as for the European Commission. Max Snijder is member of several high level bodies, like the Consortium on Security and Technology of the EastWest Institute, The Porvoo Group and CEN Working Group on Integrated Border Management. As CEO of the European Biometrics Forum he is chairman of the International Biometrics Advisory Council.

Having a broad knowledge about the market for biometric technologies and applications he is increasingly involved in the business aspects of biometrics, meaning creating and assessing business plans, providing strategic business consultancy to industrial players and venture capitalists and accompanying mergers and acquisitions.
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Eric STYLEMANS
Business Unit Manager for Security Services - Steria Benelux Sa/Nv

Eric Stylemans is a 35 years old engineer in electronics from the "Institut Supérieur d'Electronique du Nord" (high school in Lille). He also has a PhD in Computer Science (University of Valenciennes) and a Master in e-Business (ULB/Solvay Business School in Brussels).

Eric Stylemans started his career in the Security Business at Thales as a R&D engineer and project manager in the military domain, developing some submarine solutions. He then worked at Altran in the spatial and in the banking market as a security consultant and project leader. He joined Gemalto in 1999 and worked 7 years as an EMEA Technical Consultant Manager in National ID and Enterprise Security projects.

He joined Steria in early 2006 as a Business Unit Manager for Security Services in charge of developing Steria's Security offer in the Benelux, regarding the Belgian eID card in particular.
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EUAN TENNANT
e-ID Business Consultant, ACI Worldwide

Euan Tennant is an e-ID Business Consultant for ACI Worldwide where he is responsible for assisting in the deployment of electronic identity solutions. He has over 16 years of smartcard experience in the payment, telecommunications and e-business sectors.
He began his career as a systems engineer with De La Rue Fortronic. Since then he held a number of positions within De La Rue Card Systems including systems support, project delivery and consultancy roles. During this time he was actively involved in the development of smartcard based loyalty, payment and e-purse solutions across the UK. In 1997 he was expatriated to Hong Kong to establish a local development and support office for De La Rue. Prior to the acquisition of De La Rue Card Systems by Oberthur Card Systems he managed the technical activity of both terminal and on-card applications. In 2000 he was appointed General Manager and subsequently Technical Director for the Asia Pacific region with responsibility for all smartcard support and application development teams.
On returning to the UK he specialised in smart card consultancy in both the public and private sectors. During this time he acted as the Technical Programme Manager for the City of Sunderland Council and was seconded to North East Regional Smartcard Consortium (NERSC) and was responsible for the technical implementation of a Trusted Services Network within the North East of England. Most recently he provided business development, consultancy and programme management to Scotcomms Technology Group, the leading UK provider of end-to-end smart card solutions.
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RESHMA THOMAS
Legal Researcher – K.U Leuven

Reshma Thomas obtained her law degree from University Law College, Bangalore (India). She was awarded a full tuition waiver to pursue her Masters at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Reshma is currently working as a legal researcher for the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI); At ICRI she works on SERENITY , which is an EU project relating to the enabling of security solutions and dependability in future networks. She has contributed research to the IDEM project (Identity management in e-government). She also edits and compiles the contributions received from different countries for the International Encyclopedia of Laws (Cyber Law).
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Dr SHAUN TOPHAM
Co-ordinator of EU IST Projects - Sheffield City Council (UK)

Read Economics at Cambridge University and European Studies at the University of Bradford where he was a Research Fellow. Taught for the Open University. Researcher at UK Parliament.

For ten years was a politician sitting on Calderdale Metropolitan Council. Led the project PDWeb, developing "public access for the unskilled" to the information society, which was awarded the EU "e.Government label" at the EU Ministerial e.Government Conference of 2001.Co-ordinated a Group of fellow "e.Government label" winners which led to further co-operation with other recognised Best Practice cities such as Bremen, Tampere, Torino, Bologna etc. Sheffield again won the award in 2003 for the world's largest online election, using smartcards. Joint winners with rest of S.Yorkshire with EASY CONNECTS in 2005.

Responsible for co-ordinating Sheffield's EU IST Projects, including six current the eTen Projects and Interreg project Hanse Passage. Represented Sheffield on National Smartcard Project and Smartcities Interest group. On Board of eForum, disseminating European Best Practise. Founding Director of the European Centre for SmartMedia and eInclusion currently being established in the city. Committee member of World eID Conference and of UK Cabinet Office Smartcard Working Group. Senior Advisor to EU-China IST Project.
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Tomáš TRPIŠOVSKÝ
Institute Microelectronic Applications

1. Managing director and co-owner of Institute of Microelectronic Applications. Institute is focused onto smart card system integration, id systems dissemination and competence outsourcing for foreign partners. Managed by TT IMA became one of leading companies implementing smart card technology on CZ market.

2. TT is participating on international programs incubation, like
eEurope Smart Card Charter, TB11 (Health) and TB7 (Multiapplication Cards),
EFMI (European Federation of Medical Informatics),
EHTEL (European Health Telematic Association),
Europay vendor forum (EPI/MasterCard - banking),
in order to ensure international harmonization and interoperability.

3. TT/IMA are contractual partners for smart card oriented projects of Czech ministries of Labour and Social Affairs, of Finance, of Informatics and for Personal Data Protection Office.
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KRISTINA UNVERRICHT
Project Manager – Consumer Council of DIN e.V.

My background is a university degree in linguistics, business informatics and political economics. After a few years in university research and as a linguist in standardisation, I am since 1999 coordinating consumer representation in more than 30 projects of the standardisation areas "Services" and "Information technologies". Employer is the Consumer Council of the German standardisation institute DIN. I am chairman of the information and communication technologies (ICT) working group in ANEC (the European organisation for consumer representation in standardisation). I have been involved in the work of the Smart Card Charter and the CEN/ISSS Workshop eAuthentication, where they have dealt with consumer requirements. On International level, I am working as an expert and co-editor of the project on "jurisdictional and societal aspects" in the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 committee on biometrics.
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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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JAN VAN DER SLUIS
Management Consultant, LogicaCMG

Jan van der Sluis is a management consultant at LogicaCMG NL. He has a MSC degree in Mathematics and Information Technology and worked in software engineering, product management, project management, smart cards, system integration, biometrics and consultancy since the early 90's. Since 2000 he specialises in biometrics, PKI and ID cards, and especially system integration within Governmental environments. In the projects he is currently assigned to, his role is mainly to understand the business requirements and to translate them into solutions. Jan has contributed to smart card platform specifications like GlobalPlatform and Multos and worked on several ID card implementations around the globe. He was involved as ID consultant in a number of larger projects with biometrics and smart cards, such as Privium®, the Dutch Ministry of Defense, the Dutch Parliament, the Hong Kong ID card and other ID card programmes. Jan is also responsible for the development of the portfolio on ID / Smart card solutions within LogicaCMG.
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Dr KLAUS VEDDER
ETSI SCP Chairman – Giesecke & Devrient
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EMMANUEL VENTADOUR
Marketing Manager Government ID solutions – Gemalto

Emmanuel Ventadour serves Gemalto-Setec as Marketing Manager, Government ID with a specific focus on Driving License and Vehicle Registration applications, as well as polycarbonate technology. He is based in Vantaa, Finland.

Mr. Ventadour, 32, joined Gemalto in 2001 in the Strategy Division, Telecom Business Unit and became Strategy & Marketing Manager, ID & Security Business Unit in 2004.

Prior to joining Gemalto, Mr. Ventadour was a consultant at Dictis, a Paris-based strategy consulting firm focused on electronic trust. 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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JÜRGEN VON STEBUT
INPL University of Nancy France

Jürgen von Stebut is a senior CNRS research fellow at the Ecole des Mines in Nancy, France. He holds a Diplom Physiker degree from the Technical University München and Doc-torate in Physics from University of Paris (Orsay) He is the author of some 200 publications in physics, materials science, and tribology and is heading a research team among the world leaders in numerical modelling and micro mechanical testing with highly specialised equip-ment. Investigations comprises polymer composite materials with applications in the field of chemical and mechanical reliability assessment of biometric passports with probably the most complete e-passport-specific testing equipment in the world.
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FRANCIS WEISS
Airport Program Manager - Security Division Sagem Défense & Sécurité

Francis Weiss has been working as a flight engineer for the French MoD at first, then in a French software company. Fall 1996, he joined Aeroports De Paris as a senior advisor for baggage handling and security systems.

Since early 2000, he is SAGEM airport program manager, responsible for biometric access control for employees and automated border control for passengers. He also represents SAGEM in some ACI Europe (Aviation Security) and IATA (Simplifying Passenger Travel) working groups.

Francis is graduated from the French Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace. He was also a military licensed pilot (IFR / two engines).
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Dr ANDREAS WOLF
Vice President Border Control Solutions - Cross Match Technologies

Dr. Andreas Wolf studied Mathematics at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, and helds a Ph. D. in Computer Science from Munich University of Technology. In industry, he worked with NorCom Information Technology AG, Munich, as Technical Product Manager for IT Security Products, and With VOICE.TRUST AG, where he worked as Technical Director. He initialized the first European Common Criteria certification of a biometric product together with the TÜViT GmbH, Essen, as the evaluation body. Since 2004, Dr. Wolf works with Cross Match Technologies GmbH, Jena, currently in the position of the VP Border Control Solutions. He is responsible for the product management of, e.g., passport readers. Dr. Wolf has published several book and journal contributions as well as conference papers. He is member of the DIN standardization groups NI-17.3 and NI-37, and one of the experts delegated to the ISO committees SC17 and SC37.
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