This year's edition broke a new record for attendance,
achieving over 15% growth compared to 2007.

2008 figures show a true recognition of Smart Event's positioning, combining scientific and strategic content a to foster debates, exchanges and networking around Smart Cards & Digital Security, Trusted Mobile Platforms & Applications, e-ID management & e-Government applications.

Some quick facts about the audience:

► More than 500 participants attended the 3 co-located international conferences, the advanced educational program and the 4 parallel meetings and workshops.

► International scope strengthened: attendance coming from more than 30 countries. Europe gained weight and reached this year 88 % of the total audience, of which EU countries represent 68 %. The relative share of France lost ground to other large EU countries and incoming ones.

► More than 300 companies and organizations joined the event.