Dr. Omar Abou Khaled Professor - University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland Fribourg (Switzerland) Dr. Omar Abou Khaled is Professor at the University of Applied sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg and he is the Director of "Advanced IT Systems Architects" master at the same university. He holds a PhD and a Master in Computer Science received from the "Université de Technologie de Compiègne". He is responsible of projects in the field of Document Engineering, Multimodal Interfaces, Context Awareness, Ambient Intelligence and Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval and he has several international. He is also involved in many scientific activities, coordinator of several network of excellence (XML Academy Suisse Romande, .NET technology for Egovernment, IDentity Management center), is a member of RCSO-TIC Scientific Committee.

Dr. Romain Alléaume Assistant Professor - Telecom ParisTech and co-founder of the start-up SeQureNet (France) Romain Alléaume graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris and completed his PhD at University Paris VI and ENS Cachan in 2004, on experimental quantum cryptography with single-photon sources. Based on his PhD work, he was co-recipient, together with 5 co-workers, of "magazine La Recherche" scientific prize 2004. Since September 2004, he has been working at Telecom ParisTech, in the Network and Computer Science Department, where he has started a research activity on quantum information together with work in the fields of network protocols, information theory, coding and cryptography. He has been responsible, during the period 2004-2008 of the scientific and administrative management of the network (NET) subproject of the FP6 European Integrated project SECOQC. He is also the coordinator, for Telecom ParisTech, of several national projects on quantum key distribution, in collaboration with academics and industrial such as Thales and EADS. He has co-founded a start-up company in May 2008, named SeQureNet whose goal is to develop and commercialize QKD-based network security products fulfilling the specific requirements of high-security industrial markets

Roberto Annunziata STMicroelectronics (Italy) Roberto Annunziata, was born in 1960. He received the doctor degree in Physics at the University of Milan in 1986. Since 1988 he joined the VSLI Process Development Team of ST Microelectronics, working on non-volatile memories process architecture. Until 1998 his work was focused on the development of Flash memories. Then he moved to embedded EEPROM and Flash development for Smart Card Division, with the role of Project Leader. In this function he provided NVM memory solutions integrated in advanced CMOS platform down to 90nm technology node to STMicroelectronics product groups. Currently he is Technology Line Manager for Smart Card / PCM in the Technology R&D Department of STMicroelectronics. He is author of conference contributions and patents on topics related to the field of non volatile memories.

Marc Antonini Director of Research CNRS - CNRS & University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) Marc Antonini received the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) in 1991 and the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) in 2003. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES, Toulouse, France), in 1991 and 1992. He joined the CNRS in 1993 at the I3S laboratory both from University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and CNRS and he is "Directeur de Recherche CNRS" since 2004. Since January 2008 he is scientific director of the CReATIVe project, head of the IMAGES research group and co-director of the "Signal, Images, Systems " (SIS) department of the I3S laboratory. He is a scientific co-director of the French GDR-PRC ISIS since 2003 and is responsible in this GDR of the scientific organization and chairing of the research group: "Telecommunications: compression, transmission, protection". He was also a member of the CNRS expert committee "Multidimensional and Multimodal Signals Processing" from 2005 to 2008. He is the author of 170 publications between 1988 and 2008 including 6 book chapters, 1 paper in the CNRS journal, 22 publications in referred journals, 124 conference papers, 10 invited conference papers. He is co-inventor of 7 international patents. He has been the supervisor of 12 former PhD theses and is currently the supervisor of 8 PhD theses. He is a regular reviewer for several journals (IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Information Theory, IEEE Signal Processing,..), member of the technical committee of several conferences (IEEE ICIP, IEEE ICASSP, EUSIPCO, IEEE MMSP...) and participated to the organization of the IEEE Workshop Multimedia and Signal Processing 2001 in Cannes (France) and the conference MMM 2009 (Multi Media Modeling 2009) in Sophia Antipolis (France). He is currently participating to the organization of the IEEE Workshop Multimedia and Signal Processing 2010 in Saint-Malo (France). He also participates to several national research and development projects with French industries, and in several international academic collaborations. His current research interests include image coding, video coding, 3D mesh coding and 3D+t mesh coding. Recently he is also interested in the analysis of the information contained by the neural code in the visual system, with applications in image compression.

Christian Bachmann Institute of Technical Informatics Graz University of Technology (Austria) Christian Bachmann received his MSc in Telematics from the Graz University of Technology in the year 2008 where he is also currently pursuing a PhD. He is working as a project collaborator and researcher both with the Insitute forTechnical Informatics at TU Graz and the Infineon Design Centre Graz. His research interests include low-power chip design and high-level power estimation

Guillaume Barbu PhD student - OS & Platforms/VM Group, Oberthur Technologies - SEN group, Telecom ParisTech (France) Guillaume Barbu is a PhD student from the Virtual Machine Group of Oberthur Technologies and the SEN (Systèmes Électroniques Numériques) group of Telecom ParisTech. The topic of his PhD is the security of Java Card platforms against hardware attacks. He is also involved in the development of Oberthur Technologies’ Java Card 3 Virtual Machine.

Claude Barral Research Engineer - CEA LETI & EMSE (Gardanne, France) Claude is research engineer within the shared security team between CEA LETI (Grenoble) and Ecole des Mines (St Etienne) located at CMP George Charpak in Gardanne, France. He is currently working on security evaluation of fingerprint recognition based systems in order to build basis for a future French certification scheme of such products. Claude is also part-time research scientist within Gemalto Technology & Innovation department, currently working on smart card integration within 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 still conducting a PhD thesis in Biometrics & Cryptography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland).

Bent Bentsen Senior Advisor, Group Payments and Infrastructure - DnB NOR Bank ASA General Manager - TSM Nordic AS Vice Chair, Board of Directors - Mobey Forum Working on corporate telebanking and cash management services since early nineties, Bent took a shift in his career around year 2000. With focus on business development within e-business and new services, mobile financial services evolved as his main field of responsibility within DnB NOR. Joining Mobey Forum in 2001, Bent became the main representative from DnB NOR in 2002. He has hold a seat at the Board of Directors in Mobey Forum since 2006. Bent has been involved in several bank-telcom cooperation activities in the Norwegian market since 2002. From 2004 to 2006 he managed Norwegian Banks' joint project on Mobile BankID, a SIM-based PKI solution for authentication and signing. Present position is Senior Advisor on mobile infrastructure, covering mobile banking, mobile security and mobile payments. This position also covers working as General Manager for Telenor/DnB NOR joint venture startup TSM Nordic AS.

Marc Benveniste Formal Methods Expert - STMicroelectronics (France) Marc Benveniste is the Formal Methods expert of the Smartcards Products Division at STMicroelectronics-Rousset. He has been responsible for the definition and implementation of the Common Criteria Security Evaluation Platform Flow. He has driven the shift into semi-formal & formal styled descriptions required for the higher EALs development deliverables. He is now responsible for the development of formal models both in the security evaluation flow of the secure microcontrollers, and in the advanced development of new products. He initially received an Industrial & Systems Engineering degree from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and an MSc degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, both in Mexico. He was a PhD student in Computer Science at the Université Rennes-I in France and has published several papers on Formal Methods. Among his previous positions, he participated as expert in the AFNOR Z Standardization & the RNRT Software Engineering Commission. He has been actively involved in the penetration of formal methods in industry.

Marc Bertin Chairman - Eurosmart Marc Bertin is today Chairman of Eurosmart, and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer of the Group Oberthur Technologies. Since he joined Oberthur, Marc held various positions: He was General Manager of Digital TV product Line in 2007, VP Corporate Business Development and Innovation in 2003, Director of Product marketing for Finances and ID in 2002 and General Manager of eBusiness division in 2001. In the Smart Card industry since 1996, after a career in Software edition, in particular in US, Marc has a PhD in Business Administration and Computer Sciences.

Daniel Borleteau Security Program Manager - Renesas Technology Europe (France) Daniel Borleteau became project manager for Embedded Security applications at Renesas Technology in 2007; he is seen as a Marketing specialist of secure microcontrollers in new form factor like Smart M2M and Smart USB Token. Prior to this position, he held various management positions in the IC Card business at Hitachi (which became Renesas in 2003). Daniel Borleteau’s collaboration with Hitachi began in 1989 when he was promoting IT products in Europe.Daniel is member of Eurosmart WG for new form factors and is an engineer graduate from the Ecole Superieure d’Electronique.

Eric Bourbao Security Test Engineer - Gemalto (France) Eric Bourbao holds a Phd in Signal Processing. He began his activities in underwater acoustic for the military industry. He has been working in the smart card industry since 2000 when he joined the security laboratory of CP8 to setup new benches and measurement techniques. Today, he is in charge of the evaluation of chip and product in the security lab of Gemalto with a speciality in side-channel attacks.

Jacques Bus Head of Unit Trust & Security in ICT Research - European Commission

Marco Cagnazzo University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) Marco Cagnazzo received the Laurea (M.S.) degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Napoli, Italy, in January 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies jointly from the University of Napoli and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, in March 2005. He has obtained research grants from several scientific institutions in Italy and in France. He is currently maitre de conférence (roughly equivalent to associate professor) at Télécom ParisTech (former ENST), Paris (France). His research areas are scalable, distributed and robust video compression, shape-adaptive image compression, and P2P video distribution.

Stefano Carrino University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland Fribourg (Switzerland) Stefano Carrino is currently a PhD student in a cooperation between the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg, and the University of Fribourg. He holds a diploma (Bsc and Msc) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy. He holds a diploma as OSSTEMM Professional Security Tester. His research domains are in the area of computer science security, Human Computer Interface, and Ambient Intelligence.

Núria Carrió Misas Junior Security Smart Card Evaluator - Applus LGAI (Spain) Núria Carrió received her B.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Castelldefels, Barcelona. After that, she completed her final project on current mobile technologies and modulations in TAMK, Tampere Polytechnic University, Finland. Nowadays she is finishing her M.Sc. of Science in Telecommunication Engineering and Management During her graduate courses, she was involved in Telecommunication projects both designing and dimensioning phone and fibre optics networks in a sub-contract of an important telecommunications company in Spain. Núria Carrió joined Applus+ in July 2008 where she is now a member of the security work group and she is performing security physical testing on smart card technologies and is becoming a highly-qualified expert at side channel attacks. Nowadays, she is working on new physical attacks for current smart cards.

Francis Chamberot Application Embedded Development Group Leader Oberthur Technologies (France) Francis Chamberot is an electronic engineer. He has held different technical positions in OT R&D and is now head of the embedded application development. He has worked on application and low layer security and patented different ways of countering side channel attacks and fault attacks.

Antonino Conte Microcontrollers Memories & Smart Card R&D Catania Manager STMicroelectronics (Italy) Antonino Conte, was born in 1966 in Porto Empedocle (Agrigento, Italy). He received the doctor degree in Electronic Engineer at the University of Palermo in 1992. Since 1996 he joined the Memory Product Group of ST Microelectronics in Catania, working on non-volatile memories design for Smart Card. In 1998 he take the responsibility of the Catania design team dedicated to the NVM macro cells development for Smart Card Division. Since 2005 he is the Design Manager of the MMS-RD team in Catania with the responsibility to develop NVM IP’s for Smart Card and Microcontroller Divisions. In his functions he developed NVM design solutions in advanced CMOS technology platform down to 90nm both with Flash and EEPROM memory cells. He is author and co-author of conference contributions, papers and patents on topics related to the field of non volatile memory design

Nicolas Courtois Senior Lecturer - University College London (UK) Nicolas Courtois is a Senior Lecturer at University College London where he teaches modules about cryptography, information security and smart cards. His research focuses on the security analysis of cryptographic schemes with particular focus on realistic attack scenarios where the amount of data available to the attacker is very low. He has published some 40 papers in cryptology. His works about algebraic cryptanalysis are influential and very frequently quoted. Previously he was employed by Gemalto, France, where he filed 6 patents on practical applications of cryptology, smart cards and side-channel attacks.

Jean-Pierre Delesse Convenor of the New Form Factors Working Group - Eurosmart (Belgium) Jean Pierre Delesse is CEO and founder of Rhealtys, a consultancy services company for the Smart Security Industry; he was previously the Business Unit Director-Security-at Renesas Technology since 2003. Before Renesas, he was Group Executive, Global Account Manager, at Hitachi Europe, where he actively participated to the merge with Mitsubishi which formed Renesas Technology. Jean Pierre Delesse is a generalist engineer graduate from the Ecole des Mines d'Alès. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of Eurosmart since 2006 and is also the Convenor of the New Form Factor Working Group of the association. He is President of the Lennox Club regrouping 40 Executives from the French Electronic industry.

Jean Devin R&D Director Microcontrollers, Memories & Smart Cards STMicroelectronics (France) Jean Devin is currently R&D director for the Microcontrollers, Memories & Smartcards (MMS) Group within STMicroelectronics. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris. Within the MMS group, he has the major responsibility for technologies, especially embedded NVM, definition and choices. He is also managing the overall MMS group embedded NVM development team split between France and Italy. Since 1983, he has been always involved in design and development of NVM circuits, initially EPROM, and then FLASH and EEPROM. He is author or co-author of many papers in that field and held more than 35 patents related to NVM circuits and usages.

Benjamin Drisch Senior Security Consultant - Cryptovision (Germany) Benjamin Drisch studied computer science at University Dortmund. Working as Senior Security Consultant at cryptovision since 2002, Benjamin Drisch has led various citizen e-ID and company ID projects; he is furthermore responsible for cryptovision's e-ID products and solutions as Product Manager since 2007.

Jean-Max Dutertre Research and Development - ENSME & CEA-Leti - France Jean-Max Dutertre received the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in electronics from the University of Science of Montpellier, France, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2008, he joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (ENSMSE) as an Assistant-Professor. He is with the systems and secured architecture department (SAS) a joint R&D team between the ENSMSE and the CEA-Leti. His research interests include the study of fault attacks against cryptosystems and the development of the relative counter-measures.

Dr. Jacques Fournier Research Engineer - CEA-LETI (France) Dr. Jacques Fournier is a research engineer at the CEA-LETI which he joined in the summer of 2009. Before that he has been working at Gemalto as a security architect for over eight years. He worked on several security issues ranging from hardware cryptographic accelerators, secure embedded cryptographic software to secure architectures for advanced token-based identification schemes. He has also contributed to several publicly funded projects one of which being G3Card. His main areas of interest are secure hardware architectures, asynchronous circuits and embedded vector processors. Jacques graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electicité (SUPELEC), holds a Masters degree from Georgia Tech and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Erol Gelenbe Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair, Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department - Imperial College London (UK) Erol Gelenbe, a Fellow of IEEE, ACM and IET, is the  Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London. He is a member of the  Turkish Academy of Sciences , of  Academia Europaea , and of the  French National Academy of Engineering (Academie des Technologies) . His theoretical research develops and analyses  probability models  in the computer and information sciences, while his experimental work designs self-aware adaptive network protocols such as the  Cognitive Packet Network, testing them via large scale experiments.  Erol made early research contributions to automata theory, the performance of paging algorithms for virtual memory systems, random access communication channels and data link control procedures. He has developed novel diffusion models of multiprogramming systems and of wireless multi-hop networks; he has proved optimality criteria for checkpointing policies in data bases; he contributed adaptive control policies to avoid thrashing and maximise throughput in virtual memory systems; he has introduced new product form queueing network models that incorporate control functions such as workload re-routing and work removal called "G-networks". His has introduced models of spiked neurons and their learning algorithms with numerous applications including the design of an "autonomic" packet network (CPN: the cognitive packet network) which uses neural networks in each node for routing decisions.  A graduate of METU, Ankara, Erol is active in funded research programmes in the UK and the EU, and in scientific organisations such as ACM, BCS and UKCRC. He was a founder of IFIP Working Group 7.3 (Computer System Performance Evaluation), ACM SIGMETRICS and of the journal Performance Evaluation. He has received the "honoris causa" doctorate from the University of Rome II (Italy), Liege University in Belgium, and Bogazici University (Istanbul). His scientific prizes include the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award and the Prix France Telecom of the French Academy of Sciences.

Andreas Genser Research Assistant - Institute of Technical Informatics Graz University of Technology (Austria) Andreas Genser received his Master’s degree in Telematics from Graz University of Technology in 2008, focusing on signal processing and system-on-chip design. Since 2008 he is doing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Institute for Technical Informatics at Graz University of Technology in collaboration with Infineon Technologies Austria AG and Austria Card GmbH. His research interests incorporate hardware-software co-design as well as power-aware embedded system design.

Carloman Grelu Regional Sales Engineer - Inside Contactless (France) Carloman GRELU is a regional sales engineer at INSIDE Contactless focusing on secure identity and e-documents. He joined the company in 2006 as product engineer and was involved with validating the company’s first NFC silicon. Prior to INSIDE, he was at STMicroelectronics’ R&D center in Crolles, France. M. GRELU has a PhD in microelectronics from University of Lyon, France.

François Guérin Security Program Manager, contributor in EPOMI research program - Gemalto (France) Francois Guerin has been a Security Engineer and then a Security Program Manager at Gemalto since 1997. During that period, he has been involved in many product security evaluations, using Common Criteria, ITSEC, FIPS140-2, and different private schemes. He has also participated in different research programs around smartcard technology. As active member of ISO/SC27 WG3 and ISCI working groups, he participates to review of Common Criteria and to write CC supporting documents for smartcards. He has already been a speaker in different ICCC conferences on such topics.

Josef Haid Design Center Graz Infineon (Austria) Josef Haid was born 1976 in Linz/Austria. He received a Master's degree in Telematics and a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering both from Graz University of Technology in Austria in the years 2001 and 2003, respectively. He is with Infineon since 2004 and was involved in several contactless platforms as a concept engineer with special interest on low power design. Presently he is assigned to Technical Marketing focusing on contactless applications and technology.

Sebastian Hans Senior Staff Engineer - Sun Microsystems (Germany) Sebastian Hans has been a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems for the past 11 years. He currently is responsible for all smart card standardization activities with a strong focus on SIM and UICC technology. While at Sun Microsystems Inc, Mr. Hans has also headed up business development within the telecommunications market and has driven advanced pilot projects for the deployment of Java Card in the banking, insurance and mobile communication markets. Mr. Hans represents Sun Microsystems Inc. in ETSI SCP and 3GPP CT6, he is the Vice Chair of ETSI SCP TEC. Mr. Hans has served as a GlobalPlatform Board Director since 2007.

Nader Henein Security Advisor, EMEA - Research In Motion (United Kingdom) Nader Henein works within the BlackBerry® Security Group in an Advisory role, interfacing with security agencies, governmental bodies and strategic enterprise customers, his primary focus is to aid them in understanding the various BlackBerry security countermeasures and the true extensible nature of the solution, Nader previously held various positions over the past decade, working with multiple stat-ups which allowed him to ground his technical education in strong real world business models to produce realistic usable solutions while still maintaining a scalable and secure context.

Matthias Hudler Vienna University of Applied Science (Austria) Matthias Hudler has a specific work experience from about 15 years, which he spends in several positions in the industry and at least 5 years as a research assistant and project leader in an institute of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. Since February 2008 he is employed as head of the section IT-Security at the FH Campus Wien.

Xavier Kauffmann- Tourkestansky Embedded Development Engineer - Oberthur Technologies & ENSI Bourges (France) Xavier Kauffmann is a PhD student in Payment Product Line, associated with Oberthur Technologies and the University of Orléans. He is working on a thesis, supervised by Francis Chamberot, on Dedicated Smart Card Security Checking based on Property-Driven Model.

Michel Koenig Associate Professor - Polytech’ Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France) Phd in Mathematics - Docteur d'Etat in Computer Sciences - Associate Professor at Polytech'Nice Sophia-Antipolis - Several international communications in Mathematics and Computer Sciences - Member of the panel of experts who worked on the Vision Paper 2020 of Eurosmart. - Project leader of the Secure Media SIM project (since 2006). This project, selected by the world wide cluster "Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées " is sponsored by the french Ministery of Research. It involves, at the higher level, Atmel, CNRS, F2E, France Telecom, Gemalto, NXP and Polytech'Nice. This project targets the protection of the rights attached to multimedia contents viewed through mobile phones. - In charge of courses about smart card programming, software engineering tools and software quality insurance at Polytech'Nice.

Manuel Koschuch Scientific Assistant - Vienna University of Applied Science (Austria) Manuel Koschuch finished his master studies of Telematics at the Graz University of Technology in April 2007 with distinction. In his master thesis he developed an extension to the SSL protocol for embedded systems to allow the utilization of elliptic curve cryptography. Additionally, he evaluated the impact of instruction set extensions on the performance of these severely constrained devices. His research mainly focuses on efficient implementation of elliptic curve cryptography on constrained devices, and new approaches for security in wireless sensor networks. Currently he works in the section IT-Security at the FH Campus Wien, where he teaches and supervises several student theses.

Michael Krüger Vienna University of Applied Science (Austria) Michael Krüger was born in 1977 in Munich, and finished his studies of computer engineering at the Technische Universität München in April 2006. In 2006 he began his work at the Fraunhofer institute ESK. In his work he researched the field of automatic testgeneration from UML-Models and published two papers on this subject. Since 2008 Michael Krüger is employed at the FH Campus Wien, where he teaches and researches IT security. He is especially interested in novel approaches in networking, dealing with secure and efficient routing protocols and the implementation of these on different hardware platforms.

Brian A. Kowal Head - Java Card Marketing & Business Sun Microsystems (USA) Brian A. Kowal, a recognized authentication and identity veteran of 19 years, is responsible for all business and marketing efforts related to Sun's Java Card Platform. His past includes leading NASA's Authentication and Privacy team in deploying X.500 messaging, X.400 Directories with integrated Fortezza-based encryption. Later, at ActivIdentity (formerly ActivCard), Brian assisted in the development of one of the world's most successful Smart Card ID programs, the US Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC). His assisted in architecting smart card deployment/management programs with entities such as NASA, DOI, FBI, NSA, US Treasury, Veterans Administration and the US Federal mandated PIV (Personal Identity Verification) ID. He has degrees in Classics and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Phd. Philippe Lalevée Associate Professor - ENSM.SE Philippe Lalevée currently works in the "Secured Architectures and Systems" department of the Microelectronic Center of Provence, in Gardanne, France.  He holds a Master's degree in engineering from TELECOM INT and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Paris VI University.  His research interests include network security protocols, anonymous communication and network computing.  He is currently working on trusted secured computing in an european MEDEA+ project, and on NFC security protocols in a french project. Besides, he works with Laurent Freund on a project named "hub collaboratif", especially on securing mobile applications in order to guarantee anonymous communications.

Xavier Larduinat Convenor of the Market & Technology Working Group - Eurosmart (Belgium) Xavier Larduinat received a M.S. Degree from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Lyon, France, in 1986. From 1987 till 2001, Mr Larduinat held several positions in R&D and Product Management with Schlumberger ATE semiconductor Test and Failure Analysis business unit of Schlumberger Ltd in Montrouge France, then San Jose California. Staring in 2001, Mr Larduinat joined the Smart Card Business unit of Schlumberger which became Axalto in 2004 after a spin off and an IPO, then Gemalto in June 2006 after the merger of equals between Gemplua and Axalto. Mr. Larduinat is also a member of Eurosmart, a Brussels based organization representing Cards Manufacturers and Silicon Manufacturers for the Smart Card industry, promoting new Cards applications.

Guillem Ernest Malagarriga ITC Manager Applus - LGAI (Spain) Guillem Ernest Malagarriga received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, and the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, United States of America. In 2005 he worked for the Center for Communication and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR) under the supervision of the Distinguished Professor Yeheskel Bar-Ness. He invented a new algorithm for Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) combining with Space Time Block Coding (STBC) systems in invariant and variant fading channel for OFDM wireless communications. In 2006 he joined the smart card security department of Applus-LGAI. He successfully completed the advanced CRI training in San Francisco. He has been working for 3 years on side channel attacks (SPA/DPA, glitch attack, EMA attacks and laser attacks) in both contact and contactless smartcards. Currently, he is the manager of the ITC (Information Technology and Communications) department in Applus-LGAI and the technician in charge of the smartcard security group in the ITC.

Gerald Maunier Senior Architect - Gemalto (France) Gerald Maunier is a Technology Expert with Gemalto Identity and Access Management group, in charge of advanced technical studies, relationships with partner companies, and leads the smart token roadmap and innovation. With over twelve years in Gemalto, he has been involved in numerous products in the field of GSM, automotive, M2M, and Identity. Gerald co-authored several papers, represented Gemalto at the ETSI/3GPP standards committee and contributed to create the first SIM Alliance specifications. He’s now chairing the authentication workgroup of the Trusted Computing Group. Before joining Gemalto, he co-founded an independent software company developing telecom products.

Dr. Elena Mugellini Professor - Head of MISG Research Group University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland Fribourg (Switzerland) Dr. Elena Mugellini is currently Professor and head of MISG research group at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg. She holds a Diploma (Bsc and Msc) in Telecommunications Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from University of Florence, Italy. Her research expertise lies in intelligent environment and services, end-user programming, multimodal interaction, semantic technologies and information retrieval. She teaches at graduate and undergraduate level a range of topics, including: web engineering, software engineering, human-computer interaction, and information systems. Her work is published in conference proceedings and as book chapters and has also been presented in numerous scientific conferences. She is an active reviewer for several international conferences and journals.

Julian P. Murphy Research Associate - Newcastle University (UK) Julian Murphy received the Master of Engineering degree in microelectronics and software engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, in 2003. In 2003, he joined the Asynchronous Research Group at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and is currently working on smartcard security after recieving his PhD. His research interests include developing secure VLSI hardware, side-channel countermeasures, and the implementation of cryptographic hardware in general from design to layout. He is a member of the IEEE.

David Naccache David Naccache is a member of the ENS's cryptography group, a professor at the University of Paris II. Before joining academia David managed Gemplus' Applied Research & Security Centre (100 researchers). He holds 70 patent families and served in more than 50 programme committees, all in cryptography and security. He is a Forensic Scientist by the Court of Appeal Paris. His interests are embedded electronics, cryptography and security.

Gabriel Nasser CEO - TJS (UAE) Gabriel helped launch TJS in 2005 where he initially served as IT Director and transformed the company from proof-of-concept to a viable business. Under his leadership, TJS implemented the world’s largest RFID jewellery deployment thus far. Prior to TJS, Gabriel held several positions at OATSystems, Inc., Boston as Senior Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Lead Consultant since its founding in 2001. He has co-authored and co-developed EPCGlobal's initial EPC-IS reference implementation (EPC global standard for data and communication). While at OATSystems, Gabriel was responsible for several global rollouts in RFID including The Gillette Company, Target Corporation, and Tesco Stores Ltd. Gabriel holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Computer Science, Boston University.

Mathias Neuhaus System Engineer - CV Cryptovision (Germany) Mathias Neuhaus has been a developer specialized in crypto software for eight years. His focus are embedded crypto modules and smart cards. He works for the Germany based company cv cryptovision.

Prof. Reinhard Posch CIO for the Federal Government of Austria 1971-1979: Graz Research Center 1974-1984: Assistant professor at Graz University of Technology. 1979: Leave at Sperry Univac (Roseville, MN, USA). 1984: Approved as Lecturer ("Habilitation") for "Applied Information Processing and Information Technology". 1984: Full Professor. "Applied Information Processing and Communications". 1986-today: Head of the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications Technology TU Graz 1999-today: Scientific director of the Austrian Secure Information Technology Center (A-SIT) 2001-today: Chief Information Officer (CIO), Government of Austria 2003-today: Chairmen of the board of trustees of Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies SIC 2007-today: Chairmen of the Management Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency

Olivier Potonniee Senior Research Engineer - Gemalto (France) Olivier Potonniée is the coordinator of the Global Platform Card Specification v3.0 Working Group. He joined Gemalto Labs in 1999, where he designs next generation smart cards. He previously worked in Alcatel Research Center, and France Telecom R&D. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Paris VI University (1996).

Adrian Prezioso Chief Technology Officer - TJS (UAE) Adrian Prezioso has more than 10 years of technical and management leadership for prominent US companies. As co-founder of Solvent Solutions Inc, Gaithersburg MD, (acquired by Allegent Technology Group) Adrian was the visionary and principal designer of its enterprise security management product. Before TJS, Adrian was Director of R&D for Preventive Medicine LLC, Bethesda MD, where he launched the IT organization and oversaw the development of the company’s flagship health and wellness product. He worked as Director of Engineering for Denali Solutions LLC, Columbia MD, where he led product development to next generation technologies, which enabled doubling the company’s revenue growth. Adrian holds an M.A. in Computer Science, Boston University.

Jean-Jacques Quisquater Director - UCL Crypto Group, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Jean-Jacques Quisquater is professor of cryptography and multimedia security at  the Laboratory for Microelectronics (DICE), Department of Electrical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,  Belgium, where he is responsible of many projects  related to smart cards, to secure protocols for communications, digital signatures,  payTV, protection of copyrights and security tools for electronic commerce, including the most theoretical and mathematical aspects to the applied ones.  He is responsible for the well-known group "UCL Crypto Group" (14 PhD students, 5 postdocs). From September 2001 till September 2004, he was the  head (director) of the Microelectronics Laboratory at UCL (department of electricity). See the web site of his group at http://uclcrypto.org. He published about 170 scientific papers and 20 patents including the well-known GQ protocol used by millions of computers in the world (Netware). Since 1980 he is working in the field of the security for smart cards (first smart card with DES, first smart card including a coprocessor for RSA).   1970-1991: scientist at the research laboratory of Philips (Brussels, next Louvain-la-Neuve). Head of the cryptologic research group (7 persons). Awards:   - "chaire Francqui au titre belge" for 2000-2001 (invited by FUNDP), - Montefiore prize 2000 (given only each 5 years to an international scientist), - doctorate honoris causa (2003) at the University of Limoges, France by the department of mathematics, - "chaire Pierre de Fermat" (Toulouse) for 2004-2006, - research director of CNRS (France, 2004), - IFIP TC-11 Kristian Beckman Award (2004) for important contributions to computer security.

Ashur Rafiev PhD Student - Newcastle University (UK) Ashur Rafiev is originally from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He received his masters degree in Computer Science department of Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in 2005. Currently he is a 2nd year PhD student in the School of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering of Newcastle University, UK. His research interest includes logic synthesis and design automation for security hardware, in particular multi-valued logic synthesis and mixed radix circuits. His collaboration has appeared in publications for ASYNC ‘08, ICCD ‘08 and ISMVL ‘09.

Anne-Lise Ribotta Research Engineer - Centre Microélectronique  de Provence, Ecole Mines St Etienne, Gardanne (France) Anne-Lise Ribotta received the master degree in electronic engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne in 2007. She joined the "Secured Architectures and Systems" department of the Microelectronics Center of Provence, in Gardanne, France in 2007 as research engineer. She is in charge of the “security laboratories" of the Micro-Packs platform. Her research interests include specifications, design and validation of test benches dedicated to the characterization of the security of integrated circuits.

Manel Rodríguez Junior Security Smart Card Evaluator - Applus LGAI (Spain) Manel Rodríguez received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering mastering in Electronic Systems from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, and he is currently finishing his M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering also in the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. In 2007 he joined the Applus+ smart card security department, working on side channel attacks (SPA/DPA, glitch attacks, EMA attacks and Laser attacks) and security physical testing over smart cards technologies. In 2008 he successfully completed a Cryptographic Engineering Course in the EPFL-MEAD University of Lausanne (Switzerland).Nowadays he is involved in new physical attacks for current smartcards.

Hubert Rousseau Smartcard Architect - STMicroelectronics (France) Hubert Rousseau was born in 1970. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Ecole Centrale in Marseille in 1995. He joined STMicroelectronics in 1996. After 5 years as Product Engineer, he worked for 7 years as Application Engineer in Microcontroller division. He is specialist of USB and Mass Storage applications. Since 2008, he is in charge of Smartcard product definition in Architecture Team of DSA (Digital Secure Access) division in STMicroelectronics.

Olivier Rouy Secure & Conditional Access Segment Marketing SmartCards Division - STMicroelectronics (France) After 20years in various technical and marketing positions, Olivier Rouy currently responsible since June 2009 1st of the Secure & Conditional Access Segment Marketing in the SmartCards Division. This segment covers various security sensitive applications such as the PayTV, Trusted Platform Modules and Computer or network based applications through smartUSB tokens. One of his main missions is proposing to the market innovative solutions in term of security and system integration, where new communication interfaces are key features. "

Klaus Schmeh Product Manager - CV CRYPTOVISION (Germany)

Jacques Seneca Executive Vice President Security Business Unit - Gemalto

Jean-Roland Schuler Professor Communications & Information Department - University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland Fribourg (Switzerland) Since 1998, Jean-Roland Schuler is professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg in the Communications and Information Department. Before, he worked 10 years in the industry. He teaches computer science security, focusing on embedded systems, telecommunication and microprocessors. He is supervisor of several projects Ra&D (applied research and development) in the field of security, embedded systems, and global security. He is the leader of the "Security Academy of Fribourg".

Amit Shofar VP Business Development - Discretix Inc. (Israel) Mr. Shofar joined Discretix in 2004 to head up the company’s business development and partnership activities. In this capacity he has built an embedded security eco-system comprised of the world’s leading semiconductor, OS, IP and application vendors. Also in charge of the company’s expansion into new markets, Mr. Shofar is responsible for identifying new and emerging trends in the embedded security market. Prior to joining Discretix, Mr. Shofar spent 5 years as Director of Technical Services for Trivnet, a provider of e /m-Payment platforms for the wireless market, where he oversaw all the pre-sales and technical support functions. Mr. Shofar holds a BA in Computer Science and Business Administration from Tel Aviv University.

Dmitri Shorin Project Director - Cellnetrix (Russia) Dmitri Shorin holds a position of Project Director at Cellnetrix, an independent software development company focused on secure embedded solutions for mobile networks and the Internet. Dmitri has got a 7-year experience in the smart card and wireless security area and holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. degrees from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology where he did his smart card research related to embedded operating systems based on Java Card technology. Dmitri is currently involved in all operative activities of Cellnetrix as well as in strategic planning and responsible for project management and customer support. The area of his professional interests includes smart cards, embedded technologies and system analysis.

Dr. Stephan Spitz New Technologies - Giesecke & Devrient Stephan Spitz has working experience in the field of information security from basic research projects to product developments and infrastructure rollouts. Since several years he is responsible for new technologies like the Internet Smart Card or NFC enabled SIM cards at Giesecke&Devrient in Munich. One of his working topics is the impact of new Smart Card and security technology on the telecommunication markets of tomorrow. He has a doctorate degree from the Technical University of Munich where he still lectures "Applied IT Security".

Christian Steger Institute of Technical Informatics Graz University of Technology (Austria) Ass.-Prof. Dr.techn. Christian Steger received 1990 the Dipl.-Ing. degree and 1995 the Dr.techn. degree in Electrical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria. Graduated from Export, International Management and Marketing course in June 1993 at Karl-Franzens-University of Graz. He heads the HW/SW codesign group (8 PhD students) at the Institute for Technical Informatics. He is currently working with industrial partners on heterogeneous system design tools for system verification and power estimation/optimization for RFID systems, smart cards and wireless sensor networks. Christian Steger published more than 95 scientific papers as author and co-author. He is member of the IEEE and member of the ÖVE (Austrian Electrotechnical Association).

Laurent Sustek Secure Microcontroller Solutions M2M Product Marketing Manager ATMEL (France) Laurent Sustek joined Atmel in 2006 as Technical Marketing Manager for Advanced Telecom Secure Products. Since 2007, he is managing the strategy to address the Cellular M2M applications. He has been working in the Smart Card Industry since 18 years, with various responsibilities (Design, Product Marketing, Security, and System Architect) in different companies (Smart card Manufacturer and Secure Microprocessor Manufacturer). His domains of expertise are Embedded Security (Hardware and Software) and Mobile Telecommunication applications. As company’s representative for ETSI standardization body since 2003, he actively participated in SIM Card evolutions and more recently he took part in the creation of new M2M group and M2M requirements in Smart Card Platform group.

Assia Tria Head of the LCCS Laboratory - ENSMSE/CEA-LETI Assia TRIA has a PHD from Montpellier University in electronics, optronics and systems. She joined Gemalto (the world leader in chip cards) in 1996 as a product engineer. Then in 1999 she joined their security department where she was responsible for component security and stayed there until 2005. In 2005 she moved to CEA-LETI in order to manage the Joint R&D team from ENSMSE/CEA-LETI and more precisely she is in charge of the systems and secured architecture department (SAS). SAS areas of research are: - Physical and formal attacks - Counter-measure development - The methods and safe conception tools - Anonymity and confidence - Biometry

Pascal Urien Professor - ParisTech (France) Pascal Urien is full professor at the Sup Télécom Paris. He graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and holds a PHD in computer science. He worked in CNET de Lannion, Thomson LCR, CGCT, Ericsson, BULL SA, BULL CP8, SCHLUMBERGER, SCHLUMBERGER-SEMA. He taught in CNAM, University of Marne la Vallée, and was half-time professor at the university of Paris Dauphine. His main research interests include security and smart cards, especially for wireless networks and distributed computing architectures. He holds fifteen patents and about one hundred publications in these domains.Pascal collaborates in several industrial committees like the IETF. He participated in various French and European research projects, such as MMQoS, EPIS, RESODO, INSPIRED, T2TIT, ESTER, NFC Container. He is the father of the internet smart card technology, which won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2000 (Paris) and Most Innovative Product of Year at the Advanced Card Award 2001 (London). He invented the EAP smart card, that won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2003 (Paris), and Breakthrough Innovation Award at CardTech/SecureTech 2004 (Washington DC). In 2006 he won a bronze award at the SecureTheWeb Developer Contest, organized by Gemalto and Microsoft. Pascal was one of the winners of French 9th national contest, for the support of innovative start-ups. He founded the EtherTrust company in 2007.

François Vacherand Head of Architecture & Security - Cea Leti Minatec François Vacherand is currently working at CEA-LETI Grenoble France where he is head of architecture and security for information technology. His main topics of interest are: contactless microsystems, smart cards, electronic tags and secure chips. He is also author or co-author of numerous patents, communications and papers. He is member of several standardization committees in the smart cards and contactless domains.

Walter Weigel Director General - ETSI

Reinhold Weiss Institute of Technical Informatics Graz University of Technology (Austria) O.Univ.-Prof. Dr.techn. Reinhold Weiss is Professor of Technical Informatics and head of the Institute for Technical Informatics at TU Graz, Austria. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree, the Dr.-Ing. degree and the Dr.-Ing.habil. degree from the Technical University of Munich in 1968, 1972 and 1979, respectively. In 1981 he was as a Visiting Scientist with IBM Research Laboratories in San Jose. From 1982 to 1986 he was Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Paderborn. He is author and co-author of about 170 scientific publications. His research interests focus on embedded distributed real-time architectures. He is a member of the International Editorial Board of the US- journal "Computers and Applications" (ISCA). Further, he is a member of IEEE, ACM, GI, and ÖVE.

Joerg Wolff Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin (Germany) Joerg Wolff holds a master degree in communications engineering from the University of Magdeburg. Before joining the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in 2008 he has worked in the group of Prof. Hartmann at Saarland University. The focus of this work was on the application of magnetoresistive sensors for road traffic information and for airports' surface movement surveillance. At the PTB he is a research associate in the working group of Dr. Zisky "Data Communication and Security". His work is mainly focussed on the project INSIKA. His interests include secure embedded systems, wireless networks and sensors.

Pr. Alex Yakovlev Head of Multi-Synchronous Design Research Group - Newcastle University (Uk) Alexandre (Alex) Yakovlev was born in 1956 in Russia. He received D.Sc. from Newcastle University in 2006, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. from St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering Institute in 1979 and 1982 respectively, where he worked in the area of asynchronous and concurrent systems since 1980, and in the period between 1982 and 1990 held positions of assistant and associate professor at the Computing Science department. Since 1991 he has been at the Newcastle University, where he worked as a lecturer, reader and professor at the Computing Science department until 2002, and is now heading the Microelectronic Systems Design research group (http://async.org.uk) at the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. His current interests and publications are in the field of modeling and design of asynchronous, concurrent, real-time and dependable systems on a chip. He has published four monographs and more than 200 papers in academic journals and conferences, has managed over 25 research contracts. He has chaired program committees of several international conferences, including the IEEE Int. Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), Petri nets (ICATPN), Applications of Concurrency to Systems Design (ACSD), and is currently a chairman of the Steering committee of the Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of IET. In April 2008 he was General Chair of the 14th ASYNC Symposium and 2nd Int. Symposium on Networks on Chip, and Tutorial Chair at Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) in 2009. He is on Advisory Board of Elastix Corp.

Dr. Norbert Zisky Head of the WG 8.52 Data communication and security Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin (Germany) Dr. Norbert Zisky studied information techniques and electronics. He was awarded a doctorats promotion (Dr.-Ing.) at TU Braunschweig. His career starts as scientist with specializing in the design, construction and scientific research of computer-controlled instruments for optical measurement systems. Later on, he has been a scientist at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin, and since 1994 he is head of the working group "Data Communication and Security", the research field of which includes testing of interfacing, buses and networks. Chief topics are field and system buses, development of automated interface test instruments, development of communication interfaces and the security of legal data and communication systems.