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SHEILA ALTING VAN GEUSAU-GOSH
Principal Consultant - Dutchland Digital B.V.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 with a B.A., Sheila received a Masters of Arts in Communications from Stanford University in 1993. She worked from 1993 to 1999 as an information architect for the Research & Development divisions of Hewlett Packard automating the product specifications and engineering change processes. At Agouron, a division of Pfizer, she later automated the entire submissions proces, from R&D to Clinical studies, and regulatory affairs.
Since returning to The Netherlands in 1999, Sheila has specialised in digital identity management (DigiD), personalisation, multichanneling en eGovernment solutions for the Dutch government. She currently works for Dutchland Digital on eGovernment projects, such as the Personal Internet Portal for citizens and for businesses.
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JONAS ANDERSSON
Vice President Business Development at Precise Biometrics

Jonas Andersson, Vice President of Business Development at Precise Biometrics, has 10 years of experience from the smart card industry. Among his positions in the area are New Business Development Manager and later Business Segment Director at Schlumberger Cards. Since 2002, Mr. Andersson has headed Precise Biometrics' Match‐on‐Card initiatives for National ID Card programs and strategic partnerships with the major smart card companies and system integrators worldwide. Among the accomplishments are the wins of Thailand National ID Card, the world's largest Match‐on‐Card based smart ID card program, as well as Qatar and Portugal National ID card programs, and others still under NDA.

Jonas Andersson, born 1957, is a Swedish national, who has lived, studied and worked extensively abroad, and holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science.

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TIM BEST
Director, Global Identity Solutions - LogicaCMG

Tim Best is director of LogicaCMG's Global Identity Solutions unit. His background is in UK intelligence and security, where he promoted security solutions across the UK business and managed secure Government accounts. His focus is upon delivering services to Government organisations which are responsible for immigration and border control, administering the criminal justice system and managing national security. Tim specialises in the area of personal identity, including identification and verification techniques, biometric technologies, multi-modal developments, smartcards and measures to combat identity fraud. Tim has joined the international team formed to create LogicaCMG's e-ID centre of excellence.

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Security strategist - Microsoft EMEA

Ronny Bjones is working for Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa) headquarters as security strategist.  He has 23 years experience in ICT, 17 of those in security.

Ronny published QuEST together with several industry specialists in the subject of electronic signatures.  The book is a comprehensive guide on how to implement Electronic Signatures solutions and can be downloaded from Microsoft.com.

Ronny oversees the whole areas of security but has a special interest in smart cards, PKI, cryptography and digital signatures.

Ronny is a board member of EEMA, an organisation providing guidance on e-Business.
Since '89 he is active in the field of Information Security doing large projects for the European Central banks, Police forces, big financial institutes, European Commission, etc.  
Ronny Bjones was one of the four founders of Utimaco Belgium, where he worked ten years as R&D director. Before Utimaco Ronny worked for a Belgian EFT specialist called Prodata and one of the first firms to specialize in cryptography in Europe called Cryptech. Ronny Bjones is an active speaker on conferences and acts as auditor for government sponsored projects.
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PIM BONENKAMP
Business Consultant, Electronic identity and biometrics - LogicaCMG

Pim Bonenkamp is a business consultant specialising in electronic identity and biometrics. Having worked on ePassports, Identity Documents and Biometric Solutions since 1999 Pim now focuses the public sector, running the Biometrics & Electronic Identity Competence Centre within LogicaCMG.  Pim has amassed a great deal of experience in setting up national ID card systems across the world have worked on some of the largest deals throughout Europe.

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OLIVER BURKE
General Manager, Partners & Marketing - Bell ID

Oliver Burke is a General Manager at Bell ID, responsible for Marketing, Partners and Business Development. He was born in Germany and received a degree as Diplom Engineer (equivalent of Masters Degree) for Business Planning and Coordination in Berlin. He joined Bell ID in 1999 with the task to transfer the company from a regional market leader into a global market leader for card management solutions. Today he is a member of Bell ID's management team.

During his professional career at Bell ID Oliver has been involved in several strategic government and financial projects (including the Macau National ID card project, the TWIC III card project in the US and BC Card and KT Corp. projects in Korea) and extended Bell ID's market reach by establishing partnerships and strategic alliances with organisations such as Siemens, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Visa and MasterCard.

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JACQUES BUS
Head of Unit, D4 - ICT for Trust and Security
DG Information Society - European Commission

Jacques Bus, born in the Netherlands in 1947, studied Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD with a thesis in Numerical Mathematics. He worked as a researcher at CWI (Amsterdam) for 15 years. In 1988 he joined the European Commission services in the Unit for Computer Integrated Manufacturing in the Esprit programme. Since then he has been responsible for programme wide operational and organisational affairs in the Esprit and IST programme and for Informatics support in DG Information Society. From June 2000 till March 2004 he was Head of the Unit Software Technologies and Distributed Systems in the IST programme, which included the coordination of activities on Open Source Software within the IST programme. Since early 2003 he has been active in the preparation of a European Security Research Programme addressing development of multidisciplinary, integrated solutions for the security of citizens. From March 2004 he has taken responsibilities for the unit ICT for Trust and Security in the IST Programme, which includes Research and technology Development for Network and Information System Security, Trustworthy Computing and DRM, Biometrics, Identity management and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection.
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TATJANA DOSTALOVA
Head of Paediatric Stomatology Department - Charles Univesity, 2nd Medical School

Tatjana Dostalova, born in the Czech Republic in 1955, is Charles University professor. She is responsible for Paediatric department at 2nd Medical school. After graduating from the Charles University in Prague with Doctor in Medicine diploma, she received two Specialisations in General Destistry and also in Prosthetic Dentistry. She obtained the degree of Master of Medical Science, Doctor of Medical Science and later Master of Bussines Administration. She headed the Clinical Center of Institute of Dental Research and Department of Prosthodontics 1st Medical Faculty Charles University.

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JAN EICHHOLZ
Security Consultant - Giesecke & Devrient GmbH

Jan Eichholz is working as Security Consultant within Giesecke & Devrient GmbH. His main focus is on middleware architectures, which are necessary to support the usage of electronic identity cards in public and private environments. Jan Eichholz is an active contributor for CEN prTS 15480 and ISO/IEC 24727. Additionally, he is a member of the German DIF group, which is responsible for defining the terminal and middleware architecture for the German identity card.

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CLAUDE EZRAN
Director of Marketing - LaserCard Corporation

Claude Ezran is a Silicon Valley veteran with more than 20 years of experience in technology marketing. He is responsible for the Marketing function at LaserCard Corporation, a leader in secure ID solutions. Prior to that, he was Director of Product Marketing in the Acrobat Group at Adobe Systems. Before that, he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Strategy at Xerox ColorgrafX Systems, a manufacturer of large format printers for the graphics art market. Mr. Ezran also held a variety of management positions in Marketing and Finance at Intel Corporation. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MSEE from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite in France.

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Dr. HEINER FUHRMANN
Senior Manager, Product Marketing - Infineon Technologies AG

Dr. Heiner Fuhrmann graduated in engineering sciences and law and holds a Ph.D. in economics. He conducted extensive research in technical, legal and economic aspects of electronic communication for commercial and social purposes. A focus of his work was on the establishment of security and trust in remote electronic interaction. He was directly involved in the emergence of digital signature infrastructures and the accompanying German and European regulatory framework.
Heiner has more than 10 years of academic and professional experience in design, commercial and legal assessment of secure telecooperation infrastructures, ranging from integrated workflow systems over public key infrastructures down to secure smartcards on silicon level. He worked for the Directorate General of Telecommunications at the European Commission in Brussels and Deutsche Post Signtrust. Since 2004, Heiner works as senior manager of product marketing at Infineon chipcard.

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JEAN-YVES GRESSER
IT advisor - Governor of the Banque de France

JY Gresser held several CIO positions in the telecom, commercial, central bank and insurance sectors. He was a full time IT advisor to the Governor of the Banque de France from 1989 to 1996.  In 1995 he launched the first cross-administrations working group on electronic signature, edited 'Financial EDI and payments' on behalf of the French Conseil national du credit and published the first study on the security of payments over the internet, in 1996.
Since 2002, he focuses his activities on security and trust of e-commerce and records with innovative partners in Europe an the US. He is also vice-chairman of The Black Forest Group, a non-profit trade organization incorporated in New York.

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RONALD HACK
Business Development e-Identity & Biometric Solutions - LogicaCMG

Ronald has 8 years of experience in the e-Identity & biometrics industry, starting with the program management of the successful Privium project at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. He was involved in several biometrics projects in the Netherlands and abroad. Ronald specializes in the area of personal identity, including identification and verification techniques, biometric technologies, multi-modal developments, smartcards and measures to combat identity fraud. Ronald is part of the international team formed to further promote LogicaCMG's e-ID centre of excellence. His main focus areas are the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Ronald holds a degree in Information Technology, and a degree in Economics and Business Administration.
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PETR HANZLICEK
EuroMISE Centre, EFMI

He graduated in 1996 on Faculty of Electrical Engineering CTU Prague, Czech Republic in computer science. In 2003 he received the Ph.D. title in a new line of study of biomedical informatics at the First Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague. Since 1997 he is employed at the Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences. His main professional interests cover the area of electronic health record, decision support tools and standards of health informatics. He has participated in several national and international research projects and national research centres. He is member of several national professional societies, since 2004 is chair of HL7 CR.
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Dr. DETLEF HOUDEAU
Director of Business Development, RFID Components and Solutions - Infineon

Dr. Detlef Houdeau is a member of Eurosmart, head of the Bitkom working group 'Chip Card and Identification Systems' and head of the EU funding project 'Digital Passport'. Houdeau's career in the industry spans over 20 years. He has worked at Siemens Corporate Technologies, where he was responsible for new production process for fiber optic components and Siemens Semiconductor as Head of Packaging Material Development, Head of Packaging & Process Improvement for smartcards and Head of Marketing for Preassembly and Packaging for smartcards.
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ASBJORN HOVSTO
ITS NO

Born: 14/03/1954; Nationality: Norwegian

Education:
1978 BSc, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

Positions:
2006 - Project manager: eTEN - NETCARDS - phase B: Health insurance card deployment
2006 - Project manager: Europe INNOVA - BioHealth - Identity Management for eHealth
1998 - 2005: Manager for research and development of PKI & smartcards, ErgoGroup, Norway
1990 - 1998: Coordinator for standards and projects in TEDIS-programme, Norsk EDIPRO
1991 - 1995: Secretary for UN/EDIFACT Message Development Group on Health

Five recent publications:
1. BioHealth - The Need for Security and Identity Management Standards in eHealth 
Claudia HILDEBRAND, Peter PHAROW, Rolf ENGELBRECHT, Bernd BLOBEL, Mario SAVASTANO, Asbjorn HOVSTO (GSF - Research Centre for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany; eHealth Competence Center, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Germany; IBB-CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Napoli, Italy; ITS-Norway - Norwegian Association for Multi-modal Transport Services, Norway)
2. Requirements for reader equipment in airports and border control - Asbjorn HOVSTO and KNUT LINDELIEN, Standards Norway
3. Biometric Profiles for Interoperability and Data Interchange - Part 3: Biometric Based Verification and Identification of Seafarers - co-editor Asbjorn HOVSTO, Standards Norway
4. Guidelines for the use and management of Trusted Third Party services - co-editor 1998, Asbjorn Hovsto
5. Norwegian guide for UN/EDIFACT - Asbjorn HOVSTO, Norsk EDIPRO

Areas of expertise:
- Information security
- Digital signatures
- Trusted third parties
- Risk management
- Biometrics
- Public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Project management.
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CATHERINE JOHNSTON
President and CEO - ACT Canada

Catherine Johnston is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Advanced Card Technology Association of Canada. She works with users, governments, regulators, suppliers and privacy advocates. Catherine is also the Chair of the International Smart Card Associations Network. Catherine sits on the Advisory Board of CAN ID? VISIONS FOR CANADA: Identity Policy Projections and Policy Alternatives.
Catherine is an international speaker talking about advanced card technology, identity theft, privacy and Canada’s place in the world’s card market. She is a leading expert in privacy and card technologies. With the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario, she co-authored three 'Privacy Impact Assessment Procedure for Smart Cards Applications'.
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WILLEM JONKER
Vice President - Philips Research

Willem Jonker (1962) studied mathematics and computer science at Groningen University. He then joined Delft University of Technology for his PhD research on knowledge-based systems. After receiving his PhD from the university of Utrecht he joined KPN Research to work on knowledge based systems, database systems, and distributed systems. In 1992 he joined the European Computer industry Research Center in Munich (ECRC, a joint research laboratory of Bull, ICL and Siemens) to work on intelligent and federated database systems. Late 1994 he returned to KPN Research to become the head of the database group and to work on applications of database technology in telecommunication systems and services. In 1999 he founded the new research department of KPN Research at the campus of Twente University. Till September 2001, he headed the department, focusing on IT infrastructures supporting multi-media content management services. In September 2001 he joined Philips Research. He started in the PACMan (Processing and Architectures for Content Management) group at Philips Research to work on secure content management in networked environments and to coordinate the cluster activities in this field. In April 2004 he became the department head of the Information & System Security group. In October 2005 he became the sector head of the Digital Lifestyle Technology sector. Finally, he is a part-time full professor of computer science at Twente University. Among his research interest are database systems, multi-media databases, distributed applications, content management, DRM, and security.
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GARY KLINEFELTER
Vice President of Technology - Fargo Electronics

Gary Klinefelter serves as Vice President of Technology for Fargo Electronics, Inc an HID Global Company. In this role Gary directs new product research, the incubation of new product ideas, intellectual property research and the development of new business frontiers. Gary has been with Fargo for 15 years in a variety of engineering and engineering management roles. He holds over 25 patents with Fargo and a BSEE degree from the University of Minnesota. Gary is a long-time member of IEEE and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. He is currently the Chairman for the Open Security Exchange.

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GREGOR KOLTZSCH
Business Development Manager - Bundesdruckerei Group

Gregor Költzsch joined Bundesdruckerei Group in 1999. He works as Business Development Manager, primarily in the field of biometric border control and embassy solutions. Prior to this, Gregor held various positions within the Bundesdruckerei Group, including Project Manager and Assistant to the management board of Bundesdruckerei. As part of Germany's biometric passport system project he was responsible for conception, development and manufacturing of the ePassport readers that were rolled out at German registration offices and embassies. Gregor is vice chairman of the biometrics experts committee of BITKOM. He holds a diploma in business administration and an MBA.

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ZIVKO LAZAROV
Senior consultant - DigiNotar

Having studied Business Administration at the University of Rotterdam, Zivko Lazarov became Management Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, before moving into the field of software solutions.
With a specific interest in innovative software solutions Zivko managed projects at the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) in the old millennium.
Zivko joined DigiNotar in 2000. At that time an innovative ICT start-up providing certificates as a Trusted Third Party. Nowadays market leader in the Netherlands for e-Identity, Digital Signatures and Trust Services. Zivko contributed to the growth holding functions in Consultancy and Product Management.
Zivko is also lecturer at universities and a frequent speaker in the e-Identity area.
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DRAGAN MILICEV
Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science - University of Belgrade

Dragan Milicev received his diploma degree in 1993, MSc in 1995, and PhD in 2001, all in Computer Science at the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of the same school and the founder of Serbian Object Laboratories d.o.o. He has served as a researcher, chief software architect, project manager, or consultant in more than twenty academic and international industrial projects. He authored or co-authored three books on object-oriented programming and modeling. He has published more than thirty scientific papers on model-driven software development, object-oriented programming, concurrent programming, and parallel processing, some of them in most prestigious international journals, like IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, International Journal of Parallel Programming, and others. His research interests and expertise include object-oriented software engineering, model-driven software development, parallel processing, and information systems. He is married and has three children, two sons and a daughter. His personal web page can be found at http://www.rcub.bg.ac.yu/~dmilicev.
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HERVE NAULLET
Product Marketing Manager - ASK

Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electronique of Angers, France, Hervé Naullet started his career working for Bull, French computer manufacturer. He then joined Accenture previously known as Andersen Consulting and worked over a period of 12 years as senior project manager on European wide projects for the Government and the Supply Chain industry. Hervé joined ASK in 2004, and is now Product Marketing Manager for the Secure eID Documents products' range.

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GILLIAN ORMISTON
Senior Consultant, Identity Management and Security Solutions - Motorola Ltd

Ms Ormiston has held positions in both the private and government sectors involving IT solutions design and consulting during the past 17 years.

Within Motorola, she is responsible for ensuring that identity management solutions meet operational requirements within a European context. She is currently involved with two key European Projects: the implementation of a combined e-passport and Schengen visa biometric enrolment solution to be deployed throughout Norway and in over 100 Norwegian Consular posts throughout the world, the first of its kind in Europe and the implementation of BIODEV II, an EU funded Visa Pilot Project involving Austria, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg and the UK.

Before joining Motorola, she worked in the capacity of Deputy Programme Officer and Project Officer for the European Commission DG Justice, Freedom and Security Large Scale IT unit. In this capacity she was instrumental in developing the requirements and managing the implementation of projects such as EURODAC, DubliNET, the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the Visa Information System (VIS).

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PATRICE PLESSIS
Security & Identity Business Line - Gemalto

Coming from electronics industry and working for Gemalto since 1997, Patrice Plessis is involved in Government Affairs for ID programs (Passport, Identity, Healthcare and Driving License). His main activity is focus on Standards strategy for eID and coordination of this activity within Gemalto.
As chairman of French group of experts for travel documents at AFNOR, he participates to various developments of standards and especially in Europe to the ePassport on EAC specifications, Interoperability session and also as co-editor of the EAC conformity tests.
Patrice as French delegate represents the National standard at EU BIG organization. In same time; he is leading as chairman, the national group of experts for the Drivers License and head of delegation at ISO. He is also member of several international organizations for eID standards.
Prior to Gemplus in 1990, he was responsible of the B0' project for the French banking cards organization "Groupement Cartes Bancaires CB" (roll out of 24Mu cards for the 1st French banking cards in 1992).
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TEEMU POHJOLA
Product Manager, Identity products - Gemalto

Teemu is currently working in Gemalto Finland as the product manager in charge of materials development for Gemalto's high-security ID products world wide. This covers e-passports, e-ID cards, e-driving licenses, and also their chipless counterparts. Prior to this, he has worked in various R&D positions in different high-tech companies. Teemu's academic background is in materials physics research carried out in Helsinki University of Technology and Karlsruhe University in Germany.
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ANDY PURDY
Former Acting Director, Department of Homeland Security - National Cyber-Security Division

Earlier this year Andy Purdy formed DRA Enterprises, Inc., specializing in information assurance, cyber security, software assurance, business ,development, and government relations. Andy conducts independent consulting work focusing on business strategy, business development, and technology
ventures. In addition, Andy currently serves as a Special Government Employee on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Software Assurance. Andy is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of BigFix, Inc.

Andy served as the nation's "cyber security czar" for the two years in his role as Acting Director of the National Cyber Security Division/US-CERT of the Department of Homeland Security. Andy served for three and a half years at DHS beginning with his role in the set up and launch of the NCSD beginning
in April 2003 after he moved to DHS from the White House staff. After leaving DHS is October of 2006, Andy served as a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon, working on the Resiliency Engineering Framework with the Financial Services Technology Consortium.
Prior to beginning his work in support of DHS, Andy served as a member of the White House staff as Deputy to Howard Schmidt, the Vice Chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (PCIPB), where he helped to draft the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Previously, at the
United States Sentencing Commission Andy served as Acting General Counsel from November 1999 to January 2001 and was Chief Deputy General Counsel from 1989 until that time.

Andy served as a Federal prosecutor in Philadelphia, Special Counsel to the House Ethics Committee, Counsel to the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee, and Assistant Attorney General in Missouri. He also worked as Senior Staff Counsel to the House Select Committee on Assassinations' investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. Andy served for five years in network news in Washington at NBC and CBS News.

Andy is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia Law School, and is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Missouri, and Pennsylvania.
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MICHEL RIGUIDEL
Director, Department of Computer Science and Networks - ENST

Michel Riguidel is the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Networks, at ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) in Paris, where he lectures in security and advanced networks.
In the IST Integrated Project of FP6, he is Key Researcher of the Secoqc Integrated Project ( Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography) . He also contributes to Deserec, Challengers, he is in the Advisory Board of the Coordinated Action SecurIST.
In the FET of the FP6, he was the Security & Dependability Task Group Leader of the Beyond the Horizon Project.
In Italy, he is scientific member of the international Think tank on telecommunications ThinkTel.

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BRUNO ROUCHOUZE
Identity/Products & Solutions Management - 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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JACQUES SENECA
Eurosmart Chairman

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CLAIRE SHUFFLEBOTHAM
Global Marketing Manager, Security & Fraud Prevention - NCR Financial Solutions Group Ltd

Claire's connection with the financial industry began almost twenty years ago, with four years in Japan. It was her Japanese skills and banking experience that led to her joining NCR in 1993. She has led global software marketing programs as well as new business discovery initiatives in key areas such as biometrics. For the past three years she has had global industry marketing responsibility for NCR's holistic ATM security portfolio, NCR Secure, technology and services that cover fraud prevention best practice, standards and compliance, software and physical security.
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DAVID M. SULLIVAN
President - Fargo Electronics Inc

David M. Sullivan is president of Fargo Electronics Inc. His experience includes 13 years with HID Global in a number of senior executive roles. His most recent position was as managing director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) division for HID. With a 20-year record of professional achievement, including substantial growth in the EMEA division, Sullivan will use his experience to set the strategic direction and business objectives for Fargo.

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Dr. TREVOR THOMAS
Manager, Identity Management Enabling Technologies - Cybertrust

Dr. Thomas has over 25 years experience in the design and deployment of practical PKI solutions. He is currently Head of Identity Management Enabling Technologies at Cybertrust, responsible for the UniCERT line of business. UniCERT is used by over 120 governments, financial institutions, and service providers to manage digital identities. With roles at Betrusted, Baltimore Technologies, and GTE Cybertrust, he has been Head of Professional Services and Head of Technical Sales working with customers across EMEA. Prior to this, he was Director of Engineering at GTE Secure Systems in the USA, creating secure communication solutions for the US Government.

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TOMÁŠ TRPIŠOVSKÝ
Managing Director and Co-Owner - Institute of Microelectronic Applications (IMA) - Praha (CZ)

1. Managing director and co-owner of Institute of Microelectronic Applications (IMA). IMA 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.

More than 350 running applications. Participation on project in banking (Funchip, CLIP), health care
(Medikarta, Mácha, EHIC&NETC@RDS) and emerging applications in security and contactless and biometrics technology.

2. TT is participating on incubation of international activities, like eEurope Smart Card Charter, TB11 (Health) and TB7 (Multiapplication Cards), EFMI (European Federation of Medical Informatics),
MasterCard Vendor Information Forum (GVIF - banking), in order to ensure international harmonization and interoperability.

3. TT/IMA provides consulting 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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TOM VERREPT
Strategic Marketing Manager Smartcards Division - STMicroelectronics

Tom Verrept is strategic marketing manager in the smart card division of STMicroelectronics. He obtained a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1996 where he evaluated the security of the first Belgian e-purse scheme for his thesis. He was hired as cryptography & security engineer by BANKSYS, the Belgian EFT provider. Tom became technical consultant and project manager within PROTON WORLD, a spin-off from Banksys in 1998. Within Proton world, Tom was consecutively sales manager in the San Francisco sales office of ERG Group, product manager for Smart Card Management Systems (SCMS) and application development tools (SDK). When STMicroelectronics acquired Proton World in 2003, Tom managed the products & marketing team in charge of Proton activities. Since 2005 Tom has been focusing on the emerging government market as strategic marketing manager. Over a period of 10+ years, Tom has built up a unique smart card experience. He was involved in the definition, development and deployment of many large-scale projects around the world.
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JURGEN VON STEBUT
Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Sciences and Surfaces Engineering - École des Mines

Jürgen von Stebut is a senior research fellow at LSGS/CNRS, a research laboratory specialised in surface engineering (heat treatment, nitriding carburizing, PVD and CVD coating as well as associated structural and compositional analysis). He is of German origin, holds a Diplom Physiker degree from the Technical University München (1967) and Doctorate in Physics (Dr. es Sc. d'État, 1973) from University of Paris (Orsay). He is member of the French Tribology Society and the French Society of Materials Engineers as well as member of the editorial boards of Surface and Coatings Technology and Matériaux et Techniques.
He is the founder and head of the group Tribomat, a research team among the world leaders in micromechanical testing as well as modelling of stress fields in coated materials with unique, highly specialised equipment, developed in close collaboration with industry.
The general field of investigation comprises polymer composite materials with applications in the field of chemical and mechanical reliability assessment by an independent institution of biometric passports with an extended e-passport-specific testing equipment.
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WALTER WEIGEL
ETSI
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JOHN WOOD
Chief Executive Officer, StepNexus and Chairman - MULTOS Consortium

StepNexus was formed in 2005 with the vision of growing MULTOS and using the STEP provisioning platform used with MULTOS with additional Trust environments.
Mr. Wood has been working in the smartcard, security and trust industries for more than 20 years.  He was the founder of Keycorp Limited in Australia and in 2001 after Telstra Australia secured control of Keycorp Limited, Mr. Wood joined Payment Technology Enterprise @POS until it's sale to Symbol Technology.
Mr. Wood has led the formation of StepNexus in conjunction with Oak Hill Ventures, Hitachi and Keycorp Limited.

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DAVID WRIGHT
Consultant - Trilateral Research - Consulting LLP

David Wright is Managing Partner of Trilateral Research & Consulting LLP, based in London, which specialises in ambient intelligence, risk communication and security policy issues. He initiated the consortia and wrote much of the proposals for two successful projects under the EC's Sixth Framework Programme, namely SWAMI (Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence) and STARC (Stakeholders and Risk Communication). Prior to those projects, he researched and wrote reports on organisational scenarios and the civil protection sector under the EC's GMES programme and on public-private partnerships and dual-use technologies under the Galileo satnav programme.
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DIONISIO ZUMERLE
ETSI

Dionisio Zumerle is Technical Officer in ETSI, in charge of Technical Committees that deliver standards concerning IT and Telecommunications Security aspects. Among standards he is in charge of are those of Electronic Signatures, Lawful Interception and Data Retention. He is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and has received his MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from "La Sapienza" University of Rome. In the past he has worked in the ICT Central Directorate of Poste Italiane, as Programme Management Officer for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) design and implementation."

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JANA ZVÁROVÁ
Director - European Center for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology,
Full Professor - Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Head of the Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Computer Science - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

She graduated in 1965 at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. She has delivered presentations and published internationally since 1969 on medical informatics and statistics issues. She received Ph.D. scientific degree in 1978 at Charles University in Prague. She passed the habilitation for Doc. (Associated Professor) at Charles University in 1991 and she was nominated by the president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel as Prof. (Full Professor) at Charles University in Prague in 1999. She reached the highest scientific degree DrSc. (Doctor of Sciences) in the Czech Republic in 1999 at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 1994 she is chairing the European Center of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (EuroMISE Center) the joint workplace of Charles University, Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computer Science, University of Economy in Prague and two hospitals. She is the representative of the Czech Republic in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). She has significant professional participation in national and international initiatives in biomedical informatics and statistics, especially in the field of research, higher education and continuing education using new information technology. She has been a member of the editorial boards of national and international journals. She has served as the expert in the field for the EC and Czech governmental institutions. She has published more then 200 of papers in national and international literature. She initiated the development of Ph.D. studies in Biomedical Informatics under the school of Postgraduate doctoral studies of biomedicine of Charles University and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and she is chairing the board of Biomedical Informatics.

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