Jérémie Albert PhD student – Labri, University of Bordeaux (France) Jérémie Albert obtained his Research Master in Networks and Systems from the Univerity of Bordeaux in 2007. He is since then a PhD student in the team of Professor Chaumette. He is working on context and interaction primitives for middleware dedicated to the design of secured mobile ad hoc network applications.

Jonas Anderson VP Business Development - Precise Biometrics Jonas Anderson, 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 the ID cards of Qatar, Bahrain and Portugal. 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.

Houssem Assadi Head of the "security and trusted transactions" lab - Orange Houssem Assadi is Head of the "security and trusted transactions" lab. His team is in charge of R&D projects in mobile contactless, m-banking services and security of networks, platforms and devices. He is involved in the rollout of the Orange "Payment & Contactless" product line in several countries. He is a graduate of ENSTA – ParisTech and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Paris 6 University. He started his career working for Electricité de France R&D Division, on knowledge engineering projects. He then joined the Bibliothèque nationale de France IT Department, working on large software development projects, before joining France Telecom R&D Division to be in charge of projects dealing with Customer Intelligence.

Hassen Aziza Associate professor - Im2np, Institut Materiaux Microelectronique Nanosciences de Provence (France) Hassen Aziza received his B.S. and M.S. degrees (Electrical Engineering) in 1998 and 2001, both from the University of Marseille, France. Aziza received his Ph.D degree (Electrical Engineering) in 2004 from the University of Marseille, France. In 2005, he joined the Institut MatÈriaux MicroÈlectronique Nanosciences de Provence (IM2NP), Marseille, France, where he is currently associate professor. His research interests focus on Non Volatile Memory (EEPROM & Flash) design and test as well as SIMCard based applications.

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.

Vincent Berge Co-Founder and CEO - Mobile Distillery Vincent has 20 years of international experience in high tech, including Internet, 3D, Video and Mobile, in various Marketing and Business Development positions, within games, film, broadcast and telecom market segments. Before co-founding Mobile Distillery, Vincent worked at Discreet/Autodesk Europe, Middle East & Africa for 7 years as European Marketing Director. Before that he spent 7 years with IBM as European Segment Manager across a variety of high tech sectors including European eBusiness, 3D and VR business. Prior to IBM, Berge worked for 2 years at Scientific Software as project manager in Australia. Vincent has a degree in Computer Engineering from the HEI/ESTIT School.

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.

Ugo Biader Ceipidor Professor, Director - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) Full Professor of Computer Science at the Mass Communication Faculty of Sapienza University of Rome. Director of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and Distance Learning Tecniques) of the same university, member of IASTED  (International Association of Science and Technology for Development). Director of the RFID Lab, a joint venture research center with economic and engineering departments of Sapienza and of Genova University, as well as with EC JRC of Ispra and CNIPA of Italian Government. He started his academic career as Chemist, experiencing also the role of entrepreneur in Electronic, to end with Computer Science. His researches are concentrate on e-learning, simulation for “learning by doing” and networking software. Recently he is involved in m-learning by using RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) also in various service fields. He also won an international price in economy and author of 100 papers. He conjugates the figure of entrepreneur-manager with the one of academic and he has particular experiences of programming, planning and management in the following fields: Information and Communication technology, Radio Frequency Identification, Didactic and training, wbt, e-learning, Analytical Chemistry, Economy and Corporate structure.

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

Pr. Serge Chaumette Professor - University Bordeaux 1, Leader of the Distributed Systems and Objects team, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (Labri) (France) Serge Chaumette began his research activities in the domain of tools for parallel and distributed applications. Within this framework he has been using the Java technology since its early begining. He then applied this knowledge to design tools to help in the process of evaluating Java Cards and Java Card applications within government funded industial projects. Java Cards are now one of the key components of the distributed software platforms developed in his research team. He is a member of the IFIP WG 8.8 Smart Cards, of the IEEE, and the IEEE group on Portable Information Devices (PID). He is an expert for UE FP7 and non FP programs, ANR and AERES.

Ben Chelf Chief Technology Officer - Coverity (USA) Before he co-founded Coverity, Ben was a member of the Stanford Computer Science Laboratory team that architected and developed Coverity's underlying technology. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the commercial use of static source code analysis. In his role at Coverity, Ben works with organisations such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cisco, Symantec, RIM, Symbian, and Nokia among others to improve the security and quality of software globally. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Ben frequently provides expert insight into software security and quality to the press, public audiences, and in published writings.

Christophe Colas Device Committee Chairman - GlobalPlatform (France) Christophe Colas leads the Device Committee in GlobalPlatform since March 2009. He is also Professional Services Manager in the Professional & Consumer Devices Business Unit at Trusted Logic where he is responsible for technical marketing and integrations of Trusted Logic Trusted Execution Environment solutions in wireless devices. Christophe Colas was previously R&D Software Manager and Chief Software Architect within the Ingenico Group, leader in EFT/POS terminals market, where he has lead the development of Terminal Management Systems and embedded software for terminals. Earlier, Christophe was with Bull CP8 in the USA and in France building several software security architectures around smart cards. He is graduate of the "Ecole des Mines" and holds a Master of Science in Computer Science.

Phil d'Angio Business Development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) - Verisign Phil D’Angio joined VeriSign in 2003 and is responsible for developing Authentication projects with the company’s largest customers and partners. He currently leads the development of new business relationships for VeriSign’s Authentication Services in EMEA.  Phil’s recent focus has been on consumer protection initiatives based on two-factor authentication, a shared authentication network, and National Identity programs.  During his time at VeriSign, Phil has worked with customers to design and deploy Identity Management and Authentication programs, leveraging VeriSign’s layered security elements including two-factor authentication, PKI, and fraud protection services.  Phil has worked with customers in all of VeriSign’s key verticals including the financial industry, healthcare, energy and public sector.  His experience gives him a unique perspective on the complexities and balance required for business to consider for authentication services targeted at consumers and business partners. Prior to joining VeriSign in 2003, Phil spent four years as the Director of Sales at Evincible, a Secure Forms and Electronic Signature Firm that was acquired by Exostar in January 2005.  Phil holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Florida Southern College.  Phil and his wife Elizabeth live in London, UK.

Jan De Meester CEO - Integri a Clear2Pay company (Belgium) Jan De Meester has been active in the card payment world for more than 20 years. He started his career as a business consultant for corporations including Eurocheque International, S.W.I.F.T. and MasterCard Europe. In 1992, Jan co-founded Integri, a company specialised in providing test tools and expertise to the card payment industry. As CEO, Jan has been involved in the design of the INQ platform and the on-going business development of the company. He actively contributed in different projects, based on electronic purse, ticketing, voucher, EMV and ISO8583 technology. Since Integri was acquired by Clear2Pay, Jan became VP of the card and eCommerce business unit within Clear2Pay. Jan holds an M.Sc. in electric engineering and a master degree in applied economics from the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Jean Loup Dépinay Program Manager R&D Fundings, Automatics - Oberthur Mr. Dépinay serves now as Program Manager R&D Fundings (collaborative projects) at Oberthur Card Systems (formerly Delarue Card Systems).  Mr. Dépinay ,as Java Card OpenPlatform Architect, has architected and managed several Java Card platforms which have been deployed in banking, identity and mobile markets worldwide and which have focused on single market and converging market programs.  He was also responsible for developing Java Card security improvements which led to the delivery of several security certificates, including common criteria and FIPS 140, for Oberthur’s smart card products. Mr. Dépinay is currently a member of the Java Card Forum. Mr. Dépinay has been an active participant in the GlobalPlatform Card Committee since the very beginning of Globalplatform and was elected to serve as Card Committee Chair in 2007.

David Dix Electronic Payments Expert - Cryptomathic (UK) David Dix is Electronic Payments Expert at Cryptomathic. In this role, David is responsible for developing the company’s offering into new areas of payment and emerging payment technologies, such as contactless and mobile. Formerly of First Data International, David has expertise in the retail banking sector, particularly card issuance, as a solutions architect of both core platform and enterprise systems functionality in the areas of EMV, card personalization, PIN management, authorization, risk and fraud solutions. To date, David has delivered a number of key Cryptomathic projects, including providing consultancy for APCAS and its member banks on EMV (chip card) implementations for the UK payment cards market, and carrying out Visa Inc logical security audits for various European card personalisation bureaux. In addition, David worked on the functional architecture and design of the new Cryptomathic Token Manager product. Prior to First Data International, David held various business and systems analyst posts at Oberthur Card Systems and NatWest Bank. He has a Masters in Physics from the University of Essex and currently holds an (ISC)2 CISSP, an NCC certificate in Systems Analysis, an ISEB certificate in Software Testing and a PRINCE 2 Foundation certificate.

Damien Dubernet Research engineer - Labri (France) Damien Dubernet obtained his Master's degree in computer science from the University of Bordeaux in 2008. He is now working as a research engineer at the LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique) in the SOD (Systèmes et Objets Distribués) team led by Pr. Serge Chaumette. His main focus lies in smart card related technologies (Java Card, GlobalPlatform, (U)SIM, SIM Tool Kit, etc).

Rolland Dudemaine Senior Software Engineer - Green Hills Software (USA) Rolland Dudemaine has over 6 years of experience in the software industry, including embedded and real-time systems development, device driver development and various designs. At Green Hills Software, Rolland Dudemaine is the EMEA region technical lead for industry partnerships. Mr Dudemaine holds a Master's Degree in Real-Time Systems and Networking from UTBM, France.

Rémy Fugier Professional Services Manager, NFC & Payment - Trusted Logic (France) Rémy Fugier is Professional Services Manager at Trusted Logic. He is responsible for Near Field Communication and Payment Software products in the Professional & Consumer Devices Business Unit. Rémy has been working with Mobile and Payment solutions for over 6 years. Thanks to a strong background in secure coding, security mechanisms implementation including cryptography and communication, he has lead key products to the certification approval. Rémy was previously Software Engineer within the NexGen Software company expert in embedded and connected solutions. He is graduated of “TELECOM Saint-Etienne” in France and holds a Master of Telecommunication and Computing Sciences.

Dr. Neil Garner CEO - Proxama Neil has over 10 years of IT management consultancy experience advising retailers, financial service organisations, network operators and media companies on their use of consumer technologies to deliver payment, authentication and marketing applications. Over 3 years ago he founded his company Proxama, with the aim of bringing the sectors and technologies together to deliver simple and intuitive consumer facing applications. With in-depth knowledge of consumer technologies such as NFC, mobile, smart cards and interactive TV Proxama creates products and services for commerce, loyalty, service discovery and advertising response. Clients include MasterCard, RBS, Virgin Mobile, BT, Tesco and Sky. Neil has a MEng and DPhil in Electronics, both from York University and is a Chartered Engineer. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and daughters. The company became part of the ABnote Group in March 2008.

Frank Gielen CEO - Siruna Frank Gielen, Prof.Dr.ir. (Speaker) holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Brussels (1993). From 1993 untill 2002, he held a number of technical and international management positions in the software industry and at high tech start-ups. In 1998, he joined Tellium, a US based start-up company in optical network technology, as the executive director of software engineering. He returned to Europe in 2001 as the CEO for Tellium EMEA. Currently, Frank is part time professor of software entrepreneurship at the University of Ghent and CEO of Siruna, a managed solutions provider for mobile internet applications.

Rodrigue Gil Convenor of the Task Force Smart Security Segmentation - Eurosmart (Belgium) Rodrigue Gil started his career at Inside Contactless, as application engineer to support the first generation of contactless smartcard chips. He moved to Germany in 2000 to Infineon Technologies’ Security and Chip card division, as an application engineer position to launch the contactless high security controller SLE 66-family which is used today in contactless applications such as PayPass™ and ePassport and later as Product Manager in the Government Identification product line. He represented Infineon at the JavaCard Forum and teamed up with Trusted Logic the development of the first EAL5+ Dual interface JavaCard Open Platform for government identification application. Rodrigue joined in 2009 Giesecke & Devrient, Corporate ID - IT-Security product line, as USB Token Product Manager

Steve Gussenhoven Sales Manager - Raisonance (France) Steve Gussenhoven currently leads the marketing communication and sale activities for Raisonance Smart Card and Microcontroller Tool organizations. He has eight years of experience in defining communication, marketing and sales strategy for both consumer electronic and microelectronic products. For the past six years his product specialty has been largely focused on development, diagnostic and testing tools for microprocessors. In the Smart Card industry, Raisonance specializes in laboratory test tools, where their technology in products like ProxiLAB, ContactLAB and ProxiSPY has won the company a solid reputation with component manufacturers, integrators and certification laboratories.

Christian Hämmerle Research Assistant - University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Research Centre for Process and Product Engineering (Austria) Mr. Christian Hämmerle works as a research assistant at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences. Mr. Hämmerle is currently involved in several EU Projects, including PERIMETER - "User-Centric Paradigm for Seamless Mobility in Future Internet" (FP7 - 224024), where he is working with specific focus on human-machine-interface (HMI) and Quality of Experience (QoE). His main research interests are in mobile computing and living labs.

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.

Andrea Ingrosso Researcher - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) Andrea Ingrosso obtained his master degree in “Publishing and Multimedia Communication” at the University of Rome “Sapienza” on July 2007, with a thesis on Wi-Fi Location Based Services. He has been collaborating with RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) of “Sapienza” University of Rome since July 2005. Andrea is now a PhD candidate at the University of Milan “Bicocca” and, in the RFID Lab of CATTID, he is currently the coordinator of RTLS and LBS research group.

Edmondo Marchi Researcher - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) Edmondo Marchi obtained his master degree in “Publishing and Multimedia Communication” at the University of Rome “Sapienza” on July 2008, with a thesis on Wi-Fi Location Based Services application for visually impaired people. He has been collaborating with LUA of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) of “Sapienza” University of Rome since February 2005.

Carlo Maria Medaglia Professor - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) Carlo Maria Medaglia was born in Rome, Italy in 1974, he had his degree in physics at “Sapienza” University of Rome in 1999. He has got his PhD in Remote Sensing at the Engineering faculty of “Sapienza” University of Rome in 2004. Since 1999 he has been working at several international research institutions around the world as ISAC-CNR (Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate), NASA (National Atmospheric and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), NOA (National Observatory of Athens) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Admospheric Administration). He also worked as visiting professor in several universities as: University of Madison-Wisconsin, University of Baltimore, University of Washington. Now he is working as consultant in the RFID/Wireless Group of the CNIPA (National Center for Informatics in the Public Administration), as full professor of Human Computer Interaction at Mass Communication Department of “Sapienza” University of Rome  and as Coordinator of the RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) of “Sapienza” University of Rome . He has more than 70 contribution in peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. His principle research activities are RFID, Geolocalization, satellite remote sensing and mobile/wireless communication.

Henri Mikkonen Researcher - Helsinki Institute of Physics Technology Programme (Hip-Tek)(Switzerland) Henri Mikkonen is a researcher working for Helsinki Institute of Physics Technology Programme (HIP-TEK), currently located at CERN, Switzerland. Henri has been part of major EU-funded Grid-projects and also Finnish industrial collaboration Grid-projects. In these projects, his main research interests have focused on security, especially identity management in Grids and Web, exploiting open standards like SAML specifications, Liberty Alliance Project results and OpenID specifications among others. He has given many conference and workshop presentations on topics varying from Grid security, federated identity management and their integration. Henri holds M.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Alice Moroni Researcher - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) Alice Moroni was born in Rome, Italy, in 1982. She graduated in “Publishing and Multimedia Communication” at the University of Rome “Sapienza” on April 2007, with a master degree thesis about Mobile Government services using Near Field Communication technology. She has been collaborating with RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) of “Sapienza” University of Rome since March 2006. In the RFID Lab she coordinates the Mobile and NFC research activities, and is in charge, for the lab itself, of the FP6 European project “StoLPaN” (Store Logistics and Payments with NFC). She attended several conferences about NFC and Smart card and has been a speaker for a number of NFC and RFID related events as well. She obtained a certificate for the “Smart University” NFC course. She has been also a finalist for the “Nokia University Program 2007” with an NFC project called “PosteTouch”.

Sirpa Nordlund Sales Director, Europe - Venyon Oy (Helsinki, Finland) Ms. Nordlund is Sales Director, Europe for Venyon Group, headquartered in Helsinki. Venyon offers trusted service management services for mobile network operators as well as for banks, transport companies and other service providers in order to provision their applications securely over the air to the consumers’ NFC phones. The service is white-labeled, meaning that the issuers will maintain branding and consumer facing activities. Before joining Venyon Ms Nordlund was working for Nokia in several positions, latest responsible for NFC product line as Head of Operations.             Ms. Nordlund holds Master of Science in Economics degree (M. of Sc. in Econ.) from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

Jari Nyholm Director, Product Management - SmartTrust (Stockholm, Sweden) Mr. Jari Nyholm, is Director, Product Management at SmartTrust based in Stockholm. Mr. Nyholm has a background of working within the mobile industry for 10 years and IT Security sector for 12 years and specializing in Public Key Infrastructure, mobile banking and Trusted Services Management solutions. Prior to joining SmartTrust, Mr. Nyholm worked as IT Security Manager at Nordbanken heading the IT Security Group. He has been working as a Security Consultant at Infosec, Systems Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Security Expert within the Swedish National Taxboard.  Mr. Nyholm holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Stockholm.

Jonathan Ouoba Research engineer - Labri, University of Bordeaux (France) Jonathan Ouoba has obtained a Research Master in Networks and Systems, and is now an engineer in the research group of Professor Chaumette. He is working on the concept of a multi-level Java Card Grid (mobile secured framework combined with multiple wireless technologies ), in the context of a european project.

Philippe Pannier Professor - Im2np, Institut Materiaux Microelectronique Nanosciences de Provence, UMR (France) Philippe Pannier received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Lille, Lille, France, in 1997. From 1994 to 1997, he was involved with electromagnetics with the Institut d’Electronique et de Microelectronique du Nord, Lille, France. In November 1997, he joined the Institut MatÈriaux MicroÈlectronique Nanosciences de Provence (IM2NP), Marseille, France, where he is currently Professor. His current research is concerned with high-frequency discontinuities and interconnect simulation, as well as RF identification (RFID) circuits and antennas.

Chris Parsons Chief Marketing Officer - Vesta Payment Solutions Chris Parsons is a telecommunications industry veteran and Chief Marketing Officer for Vesta Corporation. Vesta has been a pioneer and leader in electronic payment solutions since 1995, and offers mobile operators worldwide the most efficient and cost-effective way to provide direct top-up services. Parsons has over 25 years of experience at leading global telecom and technology companies and previously served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Development for VeriSign, Senior Vice President-Strategy, Alliance and Business Development for BellSouth, and Chief Marketing Officer at MCI Systemhouse. Mr. Parsons earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing from Memorial University, Newfoundland.

Mariela Pavlova R&D engineer - Trusted Labs Mariela Pavlova is currently  working in the Research and Development team of Trusted Labs, a security certification laboratory for the embedded and mobile market. She is involved in the design of the security analysis tools used in the certification process at Trusted Labs. M. Pavlova has a Phd degree in application security certification using formal methods  from the  University of Nice which she did at  INRIA (short for National French Institute of Computer Science and Automatics). Her domain of expertise addresses issues as code quality,  program safety and security, certification of untrusted code and covers  technologies and techniques like the Java technology and its security aspects, Proof Carrying Code infrastructure, tools for logic based verification, static analysis techniques, type systems, formal specification languages, program semantics, compilers.

Dr Justin Picard Chief Scientist - Advanced Track & Trace Dr Justin Picard has been working for the last ten years on the development of digital technologies to fight counterfeiting and piracy. His innovations have led Advanced Track & Trace to be selected as “Technology Pioneer 2009” by the World Economic Forum. He is a regular speaker at conferences on brand protection and document security, and the author of several publications and patents in document and information security. Justin Picard has a Bachelor and MSc in physics engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and a post-doc from EPFL, Switzerland.

Nicolas Ponsini Project Manager - Trusted Logic Nicolas Ponsini is Project Manager in the Professional & Consumer Devices Business Unit at Trusted Logic where he manages Software Integrations of Trusted Logic Wireless Security products. He manages also several Research and Development collaborative projects. Nicolas has extended knowledge in different areas such as Java‐based embedded platforms, embedded security, cryptography and digital rights management. He was previously a software engineer at Trusted Logic where he designed and developed several components related to security on embedded devices and PC platforms such as  DRM agents, cryptographic modules, secure data storage. He is graduated in Information Technology of the “ESIL”, a postgraduate school of engineering.

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

Davide Pratone IC Cards Lab Manager - Telecom Italia LAB, Research & Trends (Italy) Davide Pratone is a graduate of Physics at Turin University and joined Telecom Italia R&D in 1997. He contributed in the development and deployment of the ISDN Payphone Network designing its Payment Architecture. In 2001 he participated to the European research projects named SINCE (Secure and Interoperable Networking for Contactless in Europe). From 2002 he works on SIM card projects dealing with new services development, testing and validation. Actually he is responsible for the Telecom Italia IC Cards Lab. Moreover he represents Telecom Italia in the following standardization body: ETSI SCP TEC and 3GPP CT6.

Bart Preneel Cosic's research leader - professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) Bart Preneel is COSIC's research leader. He is a full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and has been a visiting professor at several universities in Europe. His main research interests are cryptography and information security. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cryptology and of the IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Information Security. He has participated to 25 research projects sponsored by the European Commission, for five of these as project manager.

Alessandro Rabbini R&D Engineer - Telecom Italia Labs Alessandro Rabbini studied telecommunication engineering at the Università degli studi di Firenze (Italy) and received his degree in 2002. The thesis resulted in an article published on IEEE Transactions on Communications. In 2002 he joined the Telecom Italia Labs, the R&D area of Telecom Italia group, working at the analysis of advanced signal-to-noise ratio estimation techniques on the up-link of UMTS networks. Since the beginning of 2003 he moved to the SIM cards research group where he has worked at smart card testing and development of advanced SIM-based services. Now he"™s responsible for the mobile Machine-to-Machine activities within Enabling Technologies for Innovation area.

Victoria Richardson Head of Marketing - Proxama (UK) Victoria has over 10 years experience working in the smart card and secure transactions business. In sales and marketing roles for technology and consulting companies she has experience of working with financial services, retailers and network operators in a number of different countries. Victoria is Head of Marketing at Proxama which was founded over 3 years ago with the aim of bringing market sectors and technologies together to deliver simple and intuitive consumer facing applications. With in-depth knowledge of consumer technologies such as NFC, mobile, smart cards and interactive TV, Proxama creates products and services for commerce, loyalty, service discovery and advertising response. Clients include MasterCard, RBS, Virgin Mobile, BT, Tesco and Sky. Victoria has a BA Hons in English and Russian from Strathclyde University. Proxama became part of the ABnote Group in March 2008.

Mathias Rieder Research Centre for Process and Product Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg (Austria) Mathias Rieder is a member of the research team at the Research Centre for Process and Product Engineering in Dornbirn where his research interests include distributed mobile computing and mobile agents. Mathias has a BSc in computers science from the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg and besides working at the research centre he is currently working on his Master Thesis in computer science.

David Rogers Director of External Relations - OMTP Ltd (UK) David Rogers is the Director of External Relations for OMTP, liaising with standards bodies and other members of the mobile phone industry. He is the Chair of OMTP’s Incident Handling task, Programme Manager for the ‘Advanced Trusted Environment: OMTP TR1’ and is currently working on the BONDI mobile web initiative. In 2007 he authored the OMTP’s security whitepaper, ‘Mobile Handset Security: Securing Open Devices and Enabling Trust’. David joined OMTP in 2006 after 8 years at Panasonic Mobile. Whilst there, he headed up Panasonic’s Product Security initiatives in Europe, including investigating hacking against mobile devices. He also managed a development team specialising in hardware, software and security solutions for service centres worldwide. Prior to this David worked for Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd, in their Newton Aycliffe DRAM fab. David continues to champion the pioneering work in the mobile phone industry on embedded security within handsets. This started with the ‘Security Principles Related to Handset Theft’ and the ‘IMEI Weakness Reporting and Correction Process’ in 2003, progressing to the current work on the ‘Advanced Trusted Environment: OMTP TR1’ which sets up future security sensitive enablers such as m-commerce. He has advised the UK Home Office and international law enforcement agencies on a number of mobile phone theft, security and forensic issues. He is a regular speaker at conferences on the subjects of hacking, mobile forensics and handset security. David holds an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford and a HND in Mechatronics from the University of Teesside.

Carsten Rust R&D Project Manager - Sagem Orga Carsten Rust received his degree in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 1996. Until 2004, he held a research position at a joint research lab operated by the University of Paderborn and Siemens, where he worked on the design of embedded real-time systems. In August 2004, he joined ORGA Kartensysteme (which became Sagem Orga in 2005) as a project manager for R&D projects. He coordinates Sagem Orga"™s activities in funded cooperative research projects. He has been in charge of the company"™s contribution to the FP6 project "Simple Mobile Services". Currently, he is in charge of an FP7 project on identity management.

Stefano Salsano Assistant Professor - Radiolabs University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Stefano Salsano received his PhD from University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1998. He then joined Coritel, a research consortium in Telecommunications. Since 2000 he is assistant professor at University of Rome "Tor Vergata". His current research interests include Pervasive Computing, Architecture and protocols for Multimedia over IP, peer to peer networking., wireless networking.

Zbigniew Sagan Chief Technology officer - Advanced Track & Trace (France) Zbigniew Sagan, 49 years old, studied Biomedical Engineering at Warsaw Technical University. He joined the Advanced Track and Trace team in 2003 as Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for the choices, evaluation and industrialization of the authentication and traceability technologies developed or adapted by the company. The Seal Vector Technology was first implemented under his guidance in early 2004. He holds several patents in the field of document and brand protection. A long record of experience as Technical Director of the Technology Valorization entity of a large French electronic group provided a solid background for his current mission. Zbigniew SAGAN participates in the AFNOR consortium (the French ISO organization) notably in the ISO/WD 12931 project "Performance criteria for authentication tools for anti-counterfeiting in the field of material goods".

Dr. Andreas Schauer Product line manager Mobile Payment - Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (Germany) After studying computer science and doing his PhD theses, Andreas was used to work for the IT department of banks for a couple of years. In 2000 he joint G&D where he took over the responsibility for the product management for the Industry and Government division. His products there comprised operating systems (native and Java), certification, card bodies, tachograph, electronic passports and contactless technologies. In 2006 he was responsible for the creation of Venyon, the JV with Nokia, where he held a management postion for 1.5 years before he came back to G&D to take care of the Mobile Payment product line within Cards&Services.

Lars Schnake R&D Engineer - Sagem Orga Lars Schnake studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Science in Lippe and received his diploma in 2001. He then joined the ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH (which became Sagem Orga in 2005) as a software engineer, developing equipment and software for smart-card mass personalization systems. Since 2003 he has worked on new Java Card applications and solutions for the telecommunication market.

Tom Schultz Director of Products - Coverity (USA) Tom Schultz brings 30 years of experience to his role as Director of Products at Coverity, where he is responsible for all product areas: management, marketing and strategy. Previously, Tom was founder and CTO of Codefast, a venture backed vendor of build management software, which Coverity acquired in 2007. Leading up to this, Tom spent over 10 years at Rational Software and later IBM Rational. During this time, he held leadership roles in engineering and product strategy, highlighted by leading the product and engineering effort of the award-winning Rational Rose product line. He was also a contributor to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 1.0. Earlier in his career, Tom was at GE, where he helped found GE's Advanced Concepts Center. As a lead technologist, he helped introduce the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) OO method and OMTool. Tom holds a B.S. in Biology-Geology from the University of Rochester.

Prof. Jens Schumacher Research Professor - University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Research Centre for Process and Product Engineering (Austria) Prof. Dr.-Ing Jens Schumacher started as a research Engineer at the Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH (BIBA) in 1992 where he was work package leader for several EU projects. From 1998 onwards he was Head of Department for "Logistics and Globally Distributed Production" at BIBA. From March 2003 until 2005 he was a research assistant at the University of Bremen. From 2005 he has been appointed a research professorship at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences. Mr. Schumacher is currently involved in several EU Projects and is Dissemination Manager for the IP Project PERIMETER - "User-Centric Paradigm for Seamless Mobility in Future Internet" (FP7 - 224024).

Eliseo Sciarretta Researcher - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) Eliseo Sciarretta had his degree in Mass Communication at “Sapienza” University of Rome. Since 2006, he’s been collaborating with the LUA (Usability and Accessibility Lab) of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) as an accessibility expert. His main research fields regard human-machine interaction, with a specialization on design tools and interfaces for disabled people.

Jacques Seneca Executive Vice President Security Business Unit - Gemalto

Pranav Sharma Researcher - Helsinki Institute of Physics Technology Programme (Hip-Tek) at Cern (Switzerland) Pranav Sharma is presently a researcher in Helsinki Institute of Physics Technology Programme (HIP-TEK) at CERN, Switzerland. His areas of interest include PKI in mobile devices and secure credential storage technologies. Before moving to Europe for further studies and research, Pranav has designed and developed Intelligent Network (IN) products and peer-to-peer applications during his 6 years stint in software industry in India. Among his other projects, Real Time Converged Billing System has facilitated quick deployment of new services to mobile operators across the world. Pranav holds a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from Lucknow University, India and a MS in Security and Mobile Computing from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Serena Sposato Researcher - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) Serena Sposato was born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1983. She graduated in Computer Science at “Sapienza” University of Rome on February 2008. She wrote her diploma thesis about a Ticketing application for NFC phones. She has been collaborating with RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) of “Sapienza” University of Rome since February 2007. In the RFID Lab she's developing several Java-based applications for NFC mobile phones. She attended Smart University Program and obtained a certificate for “Smart card and RFID security” and “NFC technology” courses. Currently she is also Sun Campus Ambassador for “Sapienza” University of Rome.

Frank Steigberger Managing Director - ARYGON Frank Steigberger joined ARYGON as Managing Director in January 2008 to reposition the company's activities. Frank is on the Management Board of ARYGON and now Director of Sales. Prior to ARYGON, Frank was able to collect valuable work experience when assisting the Managing Board at Assa Abloy ITG / HID (ACG, Omnikey, Sokymat, etc.) and worked on several projects across the companies. Additionally he successfully worked on various projects with the regional headquarter of Siemens Dubai, the Industry Solutions Lab Zürich IBM, Horvath & Partners Management Consulting and a leading IT / ERP consulting firm (Navision Solution Center).

Karin Sveheim Director of Markets - Precise Biometrics Karin Sveheim, Director of Markets, joined Precise Biometrics in October 2000. With more than 8 years’ experience from the biometric industry, Ms Sveheim has been working closely with Precise Biometrics’ global partners within smart cards, systems integration and channel sales in her Partner, Product and Marketing Management positions; driving sales, marketing and strategic initiatives with regards to fingerprint recognition and the company’s Match-on-Card technology, Precise Match-on-Card™. The company’s technology is contracted to 80 million users and deployed in large-scale national ID card schemes, traveler, government and commercial programs. Karin Sveheim, born 1975, is a Swedish national, who has lived, studied and worked in the US, and holds a degree in International Marketing.

Gauthier Van Damme Phd student on lightweight cryptography - Cosic (Belgium) Gauthier Van Damme holds a degree in electrical engineering and has been working for COSIC on the IBBT/NFC-Voucher project since September 2008. The topic of his masters thesis was the design and im- plementation of a secure, small and fast symmetric cipher for RFID-tags. Currently he is also working on a PhD on lightweight cryptography.

Gerrit Van Der Bij Security Analyst - Riscure (Netherlands) Gerrit van der Bij has been professionally involved in the security industry for over five years and has always closely followed the developments on network, computer and embedded security, including JavaCard/GlobalPlatform smart card technology. As a security analyst for Riscure, he has developed security requirements and test tools for the emerging technologies in the UICC smart cards, such as the Smart Card Web Server and GlobalPlatform Confidential Card Content Management. Gerrit van der Bij has a BSc in Electrical Engineering. He started work for a large telecom operator in the Netherlands where he was involved with implementing ISO27001 security systems and technical security reviews on IMS architectures.

Pascal Van Gimst Director Sales & Business Development - Riscure (Netherlands) Pascal van Gimst has been professionally involved in the smart card security industry for over fifteen years. Pascal started his career as a smart card security analyst at TNO, where his responsibilities changed over the years to project and account management. Pascal has been closely involved in more than hundred security evaluations of smart card products for the global payment, telecoms and government industry. At Riscure Pascal is in charge of Sales and Business Development for both security testing services as well as security testing tools, including the side channel analysis tool Inspector and the Java Card security test tool JCworkBench.

Robert Virkus CEO - Enough Software Robert works in the mobile industry since 1998. He experienced mobile fragmentation first hand by developing and porting a mobile sports betting client on the Siemens SL42i phone, which happened to be the first mass market phone with an embedded Java Virtual Machine. With this experience he launched the Open Source J2ME Polish project in 2004 that aims to overcome the device fragmentation barrier. Over the years, this framework became an ubiquitous set of tools which not only allows automated porting to a wide range of handsets and other platforms: It speeds up the whole development process and keeps the software flexible, e.g. by separating the application design from the functionalities. Robert is the CEO of Enough Software who markets this framework and also offers development and porting services.

Walter Weigel Director General - ETSI

Marc Witteman Chief Technology Officer - Riscure (Netherlands) Marc Witteman has a long track record in the smart card security industry. He has been involved with security and smart card projects for over a decade and worked on applications in mobile communications, payment industry, identification, and pay television. Recent work includes electromagnetic security analysis and ePassport security issues. Marc Witteman has an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. From 1989 till 2001 he worked for several telecom operators, the ETSI standardization body and a smart card evaluation facility. In 2001 he founded Riscure, a security lab based in the Netherlands. Riscure offers consulting and testing services to manufacturers and issuers of advanced security technology. Today he is the Chief Technology Officer of Riscure.

Karel Woulters Researcher - Cosic (Belgium) Karel Wouters has been a researcher in the COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography) lab since 1999. He has been working in several applied research projects (EU and National), focusing on security aspects. His main research interests include applications of cryptography in NFC and privacy, while he also focuses on standards for cryptographic techniques.

Zhong Yuan Xu R&D Engineer - Siruna Zhong Yuan Xu, Ir (co-Author) holds Master degree in Computer Science from the University of Ghent. In 2008, he did an internship at VDK bank Belgium to create a mobile internet banking application and has gathered as result significant experience in adapting secure web applications to mobile. Currently, Zhong is working for Siruna a managed solutions provider for mobile internet applications. He’s responsible for the testing and technical sales support within Siruna. He is currently developing an automated mobile testing platform for web applications. He has also his own company specialized in web and point of sales applications. Besides his technical skills he also speaks five languages including Chinese.

Dionisio Zumerle Technical Officer - 3GPP ETSI (France) Dionisio Zumerle is Technical Officer at ETSI, where he is responsible for Mobile Security. Since 2007 he is Secretary of the 3GPP SA3 Working Group on UMTS and LTE Security. He joined ETSI in 2005 and was in charge of IT and Network Security standardization. Before joining ETSI he worked in the Chief Information Office of Poste italiane. He holds an MSc in Telecommmunications Engineering from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and he is a CISSP.