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Asad Ali
Senior Research Engineer - Gemalto (USA)
Asad M. Ali is a senior research engineer at Gemalto Technology & Innovation group and is currently working on next-generation smart card products. His research interests include smart card operating systems, application frameworks, network security protocols, embedded file systems, smart card usability, and secure portable tokens. He is co-inventor of the xID architecture for plug-n-play smart card tokens, and the Network Card technology that won Card Technology 2005 "Breakthrough Award for Innovation." He holds several patents in the field of Smart Card connectivity and their ubiquitous use, and has published extensively on these topics. Mr. Ali received a Master's degree in Engineering from MIT.

Dr. Romain Alléaume
Assistant Professor - Telecom ParisTech
and co-founder of the start-up SeQureNet (France)
Romain Alléaume (former student of ENS Ulm, PhD Paris VI) is assistant professor at
Telecom ParisTech, where he has created a resarch group in quantum information. 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 has co-founded a spin-off company in May 2008, named SeQureNet.

Ahmadou Al Khary Sere
PhD Student, Smart Secure Device (SSD), XLIM Labs - University of Limoges (France)

Ahmadou Al Khary, PhD student, member of the SSD Team work on the security of application and virtual machine for Java Card based smart card.


Dieter Arnold
Team Leader R&D - Albis Technologies Ltd (Switzerland)

Dieter M. Arnold received and diploma degree in electrical engineering and a PhD both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1996 and 2002 respectively. He is now a team leader in embedded security at Albis Technologies Ltd, a management-buy-out of Siemens Switzerland.


Sylvain Bacquet
CEA-LETI (France)

In 2002 he joined the Department of System-CEA LETI with an engineering degree in electronics, delivered by the INPG (ENSERG).
He worked on antenna systems and innovative architecture for specific applications such as RFID reading volume, the energy transfer in supercritical coupling or respect of privacy, as well as the development of systems to tag sensors for industrial or general public needs.

Jacques Bus
Independent Consultant Trust in the Information Society







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, Centre de Microélectronique de Provence -Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne Founder of Bactech (France)

With more than fifteen years of experience in the field, Claude founded Bactech, a company providing training, consulting and development services about Security, Smart Cards, Biometrics and Cryptography.
Recently, he was 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 worked on security evaluation of fingerprint recognition based systems in order to build basis for a future French certification scheme of such products. 
He is also lecturer in many universities and part-time research scientist within Gemalto Technology & Innovation department, currently working on smart card integration within biometric systems.
He earned an engineering degree in Electronics from the French "Conservatoire National des Arts & Metiers" and a PhD in Information and Communication from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland).

Patrick Benaben
Senior Professor - Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne (France)
Patrick Benaben is full professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (EMSE), in France. He is Research Director Habilited (HDR) by the French Ministry of Research and Universities.
He is currently in charge of the Research Department of Packaging and Flexible Substrate in the Provence Microelectronic Center of EMSE, in Gardanne. His research works are focused on nanomaterials and new processes more precisely on model materials including studies on high ordered alumina obtained by anodic oxidation and on use of ionic liquids as a complement of aqueous processes. He has published as author more than 100 papers and is inventor or co-inventor of 10 international patents.
Patrick Benaben is member of the National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF – USA), the European Academy of Surface Technology (EAST) and French Surface Treatment Organizations. He has been awarded by silver and gold medals for outstanding papers respectively in SUR/FIN 1990 (Boston) and SUR/FIN 2000 in Chicago.

Marc Benveniste
Formal Methods Expert - STMicroelectronics (France)
Marc Benveniste is 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 holds an MSc degree and was a PhD student both in Computer Science.

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.

Samia Bouzefrane
Assistant Professor - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers CNAM (France)
Samia Bouzefrane is an associate-professor at the CNAM (Paris). She is the head of the
Master "Mobile and Embedded Systems". She worked on how to measure the performance of Java Card platforms.
Since March 2008, a set of open source tools for benchmarking Java Card platforms is freely available on line. Currently, she takes part in the FC² project that aims to manage digital identities through federated circles of trust.

Cécile Canovas Dumas
Research Engineer - CEA-LETI (France)
Cécile Canovas-Dumas is a research engineer at CEA-LETI Grenoble France since 2000. She works at the LETI ITSEF and she is head of the cryptographic aspects of the security evaluation of hardware products.

Dr Boutheina Chetali
R&D Group Manager - Gemalto
GlobalPlatform Member Representative (France)
Head of the Formal Methods team, into the Security Labs of Gemalto’s Technology and Innovation Department. Main activities of its group are the Java card platform and its  security properties, model-based security testing and Common Criteria certification. She is also member of Global Platform security group and leads the CC taskforce of the JavaCard forum. The main achievement of its group was the first smart card certificate using formal assurances from the EAL7 level, the highest Common Criteria certification level.

Dr Nicolas T. Courtois
Senior Lecturer - University College London (UK)
Nicolas Courtois is a Senior Lecturer at University College London where he teaches about cryptography, computer security and smart cards.
He has published some 40 papers in cryptology and filed 7 patents on practical applications of cryptology and cryptographic hardware security. His research focuses on the security analysis of cryptographic schemes with particular focus on realistic attack scenarios. His works about algebraic cryptanalysis are influential and very frequently quoted.

Elisabeth Crochon
Information Technology Security Evaluation Facility - CESTI-LETI (France)
Elisabeth Crochon has been working since 1995 in contactless system development focusing in control access in transport field,  3D identification for item management, pressure measurement for biomedical application, security for contactless smart card. She is now in charge of  the "Information Technology Security Evaluation Facility": CESTI-LETI.

Jean-Luc Danger
Professor, Institut TELECOM / TELECOM ParisTech - CNRS LTCI (UMR 5141) (France)
Jean-Luc Danger is Professor at TELECOM-ParisTech, he received the engineering degree from SUPELEC in 1981. After 12 years in industrial laboratories (PHILIPS,NOKIA), he joined TELECOM-ParisTech in 1993. He is currently the head of the digital electronic system research group and conducts research in the field of security for hardware cryptoprocessors, configurable architectures and complex algorithms implementation. He is a co-founder of the TELECOM-ParisTech spin-off "Secure-IC".

Blandine Debraize
Cryptologist - Gemalto (France)
Blandine Debraize obtained in 2008 a Ph.D. in cryptology at the PRISM laboratory (University of Versailles, France). Since February 2008, she has been both a crypto engineer and a researcher in cryptology in Gemalto Security Labs, the world leader in smart cards and digital security.

Jan de Meer
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Engineer Smartspacelab.eu (Germany)
Jan deMeer is Appointed Professor at the HTW University of Technology and Business Berlin and is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Engineer of the Scientific Enterprise smartspacelab.eu GmbH.
He was fellow researcher invited by IBM Labs in Toronto, the Boeing Company in Seattle, Canadian Centers of Excellences i.e. CRIM Institutes in Montreal and Ottawa and by the University of Aizu in Wakamatsu Japan. He worked for more than 20 years – as deputy manager - of the Fraunhofer FOKUS institute department “Systems Engineering and Methods”.
Jan de Meer currently holds the vice chair of the German Chapter of  the ACM and, the chair of the Regional Group Berlin-Brandenburg of the German ACM, i.e. Gesellschaft f. Informatik (GI) and is member of the IFIP/ACM Steering Committee of Middleware.
He is involved in standardization projects devoted to IT Security: ETSI TISPAN WG7, ISO/IEC SC27 (DIN NIA27) and, Distributed Applications and Platforms of ISO/IEC SC38 (DIN NIA38). He provides a list of ca. 110 papers and speeches on smart card / Security and Safety / middleware Technology issues presented at international journals and conferences hosted by IFIP, ACM, and IEEE.

Dr. Willie Donnelly
Head Research and Innovation - Waterford Institute of Technology
Dr Willie Donnelly is the Director of the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) and Head of Research & Innovation at Waterford Institute of Technology. He has over 20 years experience working in the Telecommunications and Power industries as a software Engineer and project manager.  He co-founded the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group at WIT in 1996, which has grown to 150 people and with over €60M in competitive funding to date and created 14 spin out companies.
Dr. Donnelly’s main research interests are Autonomic Network Management, Bio-inspired network management techniques and the challenges of managing the future internet. He is presently Principle Investigator on two major national research projects called FAME and Futurecom which are defining next generation communications solutions. Dr. Donnelly has played a leading role in the European IST/ICT framework programme since 1989. He has a lead more than 20 European projects including SecurIST, Think-Trust and Cefims. He is the Irish National representative on the Future Internet Member States Forum.

Rémi Duclos
Embedded System Developer - Inside Contactless (France)
Rémi Duclos joined Inside Contactless in 2006 as Research and Development System Engineer after many years of subcontract at Gemplus in the security department. He has 6 years of experience in embedded software with specific knowledge in security aspects related to this environment. He is actually involved in the native operating systems development and in payment application coding.
He is graduated from INSA Lyon.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert
Director - Fraunhofer Institute SIT (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute SIT in Darmstadt and Munich. She is also a professor at the Technische Universität München and heads the research group IT Security of the Computer Science department.

As a member of various national and international industrial advisory boards and scientific panels she advises private enterprises, trade associations and public authorities in all matters concerning IT security. The expertise she provides in a number of scientific committees helps to form the technical and scientific research programmes within Germany as well as in defining scientific programmes funded by the EU or NATO.

Jan Eichholz
Technology Consultant - Giesecke & Devrient (Germany)

Jan Eichholz is working as Security Consultant within Giesecke & Devrient GmbH. His main focus is on middleware architectures, which are necessary to support the usage of electronic identity cards in public and private environments. Jan Eichholz is an active contributor to CEN prTS 15480 and ISO/IEC 24727.


Emilie Faugeron
Security Evaluator Engineer, Thales Security Solutions & Services, Thales Itself (France)
Emilie Faugeron has obtained is Master of Information Security and Cryptology in 2009. She was co-author of an invited conference at C&sar08 with Jean-Louis Lanet et Anthony Dessitanikoff : "EMAN : Un cheval de Troie dans une carte à puce".

Benoît Feix
Product Security Team Manager - Inside Contactless (France)

Benoit Feix joined Inside Contactless in 2007 as Security and Cryptography Engineer after have been working in cryptography and security departments of Oberthur, Thales CEACI and Gemplus. He is actually leading the product security team of Inside Contactless. This team is specialized in the development and the evaluation of cryptography routines and embedded security functionalities (side channel attacks, fault attacks, code analysis, tamper resistance…).  He is graduated from the Limoges University and is the author of patents and publications in the security domain.


Anthony Ferrari
Senior Security Evaluator - Trusted Labs (France)

Anthony Ferrari is senior security evaluator at Trusted Labs, a Trusted Logic subsidiary specialized in security services and evaluation.
Since 2003, he performs and coordinates security works in the field of smart card, payment terminals, mobile terminals, and sensitive applications for payment and authentication.
He participates actively to source code reviews, specifications analysis, architecture analysis and test strategy development of cards, terminals and applications.
He holds a Master degree in Engineering, Real Time Embedded Systems and Mobile Applications, from Nice-Sophia Antipolis Polytechnic School, France.


Jacques Fournier
Research Engineer - CEA-LETI (France)

Dr. Jacques Fournier is a research engineer at the CEA-LETI which he joined in 2009 after working for over eight years as a security architect for Gemalto. His main technical areas of interest are hardware cryptographic accelerators, secure embedded cryptographic software, secure architectures for mobile & embedded systems, asynchronous circuits and embedded vector processors. Jacques graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), holds a Masters degree from Georgia Tech and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Philippe Gaborit
Associate Professor - Limoges University (France)

Philippe Gaborit obtained his PhD in Mathematics from University of Bordeaux in 1997. After a two-year post in Chicago he became Associate professor at Limoges University in 1999. He was appointed full professor in the Computer Science department in 2008. His main research interest are Information security cryptography and coding theory.

Georges Gagnerot
Security Engineer - Inside Contactless (France)
Georges Gagnerot joined Inside Contactless as R&D Engineer in 2006, after 3 years experience in other companies. He joined the product security team in 2008 and specializes in the tamper resistance of products and the development of the security laboratory.  His domains of expertise are the side channel attacks, signal processing, fault attacks and network security. He is graduated from the Marseille University and is the author of patents and publications in the security domain.

Khaled Garri
PhD student - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers CNAM (France)
Khaled Garri is a PhD student from the SEMpIA team (embedded and mobile systems
towards ambient intelligence) of the CNAM in Paris. He has a Master’s degree. He gives
lecturers at the CNAM and at the ESIEA (a computer science engineering school).

Christian Goire
Head of Advanced Technology Strategy - Gemalto (France)
JavaCard Forum President.
Head of Advanced Technology Strategy Gemalto.
Head of Terminal R&D Bull CP8.

Louis Goubin
Professor - Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines University (France)
Louis Goubin, Professor at Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines University since 2004, published more than 40 papers about the design and cryptanalysis of algorithms and protocols, and the protection of software implementations against physical attacks.

Aline Gouget
Cryptographer - Gemalto (France)
Aline Gouget is a cryptographer and a co-founder of CryptoExperts. In 2006, she joined Gemalto Security Labs, where her work mainly focused on cryptoanalysis and secure implementations of cryptographic primitives (e.g. hash functions, stream ciphers, blockciphers) and protocols (e.g. anti-skimming, e-cash, e-vote). Before joining Gemalto, she was a post-doctoral researcher at France Télécom R&D for 18 months. In 2004 she obtained a PhD in symmetric cryptography after being for 4 years member of the algorithmic team of the GREYC Laboratory (University of Caen, France).

Sylvain Guilley
Scientific Board Advisor - Secure-IC S.A.S (France)
Sylvain Guilley is a member of the scientific board of Secure-IC S.A.S, a company that helps security businesses to reach top-level security of their integrated circuits.



Abdelhakim Hafid
Professor - University of Montreal (Canada)
Abdelhakim Hafid is Full Professor at the University of Montreal, Canada and co-founder of the smartspacelab.eu scientific enterprise at which he works on safe and secure Near Field Communication technologies.

He  provides more than fifteen years of industry and research experience in the areas of mobile communication protocols and systems; as a senior research scientist with Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), NJ, USA; as a Research Director of the Advance Communication Engineering Center (venture established by UWO, Bay Networks, and Bell Canada) Canada; as a Faculty with the University of Western Ontario, Canada at the department of Computer Sciences and the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; as a Research scientist at the Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), Canada and recently as a Director of the Network Research Lab at the University of Montreal, Canada.

As an invited scientist he stayed at Fraunhofer-Institute FOKUS Berlin, where he worked on the QoS verification of distributed multimedia systems; at IHP/BTU Frankfurt(Oder) he worked on Sensor Communication Technologies as a member of the BMBF WINcell project. Prof. Hafid published in premium international journals from IEEE, ACM, IBM, IFIP and others.   

Udo Helmbrecht
Executive Director - ENISA
Dr. Udo Helmbrecht was born in 1955, in Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
He studied Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science. In 1984 he was awarded a PhD in Theoretical Physics.
He has more than 30 years of professional management experience in the IT sector.

Dr. Helmbrecht’s experience in the field of security has been acquired through various sectors of society, which include: energy industry, insurance, engineering, aviation, defence, and space industry.
He became the President of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in 2003.
He has held a variety of lectures on IT Security and Data Processing at universities in Dortmund and Munich.
Udo Helmbrecht took office as Executive Director of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) in October 2009.

Roland Horsch
Chairman of Card Compliance Working Group - GlobalPlatform
Working with Giesecke & Devrient in the area of smart cards, Roland Horsch has gained
his most recent experience in compliance testing as Chairman of GlobalPlatform ‘s Card Compliance Working Group. He has used formal methods for describing data types and linguistic grammars, implementing a command tracking method (Prolog), and creating tests for smart cards.

Julien Iguchi-Cartigny
Assistant Professor, Labs XLIM, Team Smart Secure Device - University of Limoges (France)

Assistant Professor in Computer Science, in the SSD Team at University of Limoges. Interests by security on Smart Card and hypervisors for embedded systems.

Keith Jackson
Principal Engineer - RFI Global Services (UK)

Keith Jackson has a BSc and a PhD in Physics and currently works for RFI as one of their Principal Security Engineers. Keith has worked in Computer Security for over 25 years, and previously worked in University Research for many years. Keith is the author of more than 20 scientific papers, wrote a monthly review for Virus Bulletin for 10 years, and has written several books on Computer Security.


Nassima Kamel
Ph.D. Student, Labs XLIM, Team SSD - University of Limoges (France)

Nassima KAMEL, Ph.D. Student at University of Limoges, work on intrusion detection in smart card with embedded web server.


Brian A. Kowal
Principal, Java Card™ Business, Java Development Group - Oracle (USA)






Jean-Louis Lanet
Professor, Leader of the Smart Secure Device Team, Labs XLIM - University of Limoges (France)
Professor of Computer Science at University of Limoges, Leader of the Team SSD (Smart Secure Device), interest research on the security of smart card and software.



Mika Lauhde
Director, Business Security and Continuity - Nokia Corporation

Born 1964 in Helsinki, Finland. Got B.Sc in 1989 and later M.SC in 1993 from Finland.  
M.Sc from Germany (Osnabrück) 1993.

Professional References:
2004- Ongoing Director, Business Security and Continuity.
In charge globally Nokia business risk and crisis management. This includes regulator and authority relationships globally in risk and crisis management area. Running operational crisis management and authority processes in Nokia.
Member of Finnish government security advisory board.
Member of ENISA PSG.

2000 - 2004: Director Technology Management as well other positions in Nokia Corporation
In charge strategic technology projects globally.

1999 - 2000: Fujitsu Computers LTD, European PC Marketing
                                          
1994 - 1999: NEXTROM Oy (former Nokia-Maillefer Oy)
Member of management team

1993 - 1994: Technical Research Center of Finland, senior researcher
1991 - 1993: Leuze electronic GmbH+Co, Owen/Teck, Germany researcher

Pr Ronald Leenes
Professor in Regulation by Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg University

Prof.dr. Ronald Leenes is professor in Regulation by Technology at TILT, the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University). His primary research interests are privacy and identity management, regulation of, and by, technology. He is also involved in research in ID fraud, biometrics and Online Dispute Resolution.

Ronald was work package leader in the EU FP6 PRIME project for socio-cultural aspects of privacy enhanced identity management.

He is currently responsible for TILT's contribution to the FP7 project PrimeLife and leads the work package on social networks and collaborative workspaces.

He has contributed to and edited various deliverables for the EU FP6 Network of Excellence 'Future of IDentity in the Information Society' (FIDIS) and he participates in the Network of Excellence 'Legal Framework for the Information Society' (LEFIS).

Ronald is project leader for the Layla project and contributor to the Delta G project which aim at developing ICT support for citizens/consumers to resolve their conflicts.

Florin Lupescu
Director for ICT Addressing Societal Challenges - European Commission

Mr. Florin Lupescu is currently the director for ICT Addressing Societal Challenges with
the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission.
Until 2009 he was a Minister Counsellor and Director of European Affairs for the
Government of Romania.

He previously served as the Counsellor of State for Euro Atlantic Affairs for the Office of
the Vice-Prime Minister for Coordination on European Union (EU) Affairs (May 2004 to
January 2005), Counsellor of State for EU Affairs and NATO to the President of
Romania (January 2001 to May 2004), Consultant for the Convention on the Future of
Europe (2002-2003), Counsellor and Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Romania (2000-2001), and Director in the Department for European Integration,
Government of Romania (1997-2000). Between 2006 - 2009 he acted as a member of
the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration. He was also a
coordinator of various EU, UN and UNDP funded projects dedicated to the
strengthening of the administrative capacity of different institutions.

Furthermore, Mr. Lupescu is a Visiting Professor at the Department for International
Relations and European Studies at the University of Bucharest, and at the International
Centre of Euro-regional Research, University of Oradea.

Christophe Malherbe
Manager, SecureCodex - AVRUL (France)

Christophe Malherbe was born in Paris, France, in 1977. After being mathematics teacher in french secondary school during 6 years, he obtained Master of cryptography from Limoges University in 2008. During his various professional experiences – including Thomson Security Lab – , Christophe Malherbe has studied many alternative cryptographic algorithms. Now he runs the company expert on cryptography algorithms : SecureCodex


Ricardo Malherbi Martins
Researcher Engineer - CEA-LETI (France)
Ricardo MALHERBI MARTINS is a researcher Engineer at CEA-Leti. He began his studies in Brazil at Federal University of Paraná. In 2007 he moved to France, as scholarship holder of Brafitec’s program between Brazil and France. In 2009 he graduated at ENSICAEN, France, in Master of Engineering.  Most of his research centers is security on RFID technologies.  

Laurent Manteau
MaXSSIMM Program Director, Handset Technology & Mobile Innovation, Telecom BU - Gemalto (France)
With more than 20 years experience in the industry, he started to work in the 3M European Labs as a Product Engineer, then joined the European R&D center of the dutch Océ group as Development Manager for digital printing technologies. Then, he moved in 1995 to IER (French SME, WW leader in the Air Transport industry) as expert for travel documents (he is an active member of IATA and AIM working groups for auto-ID applications, barcode and RFID technologies) and in charge of business development for supplies and travel documents.
He joined Gemplus in 1998 as Marketing Manager for electronic tags (RFID) applications, moved to R&D Corporate Innovation in 2001 and took over the responsibility of Cooperative R&D Programs for Gemplus in 2002. He is involved in European and Trans-national R&D projects for the Smart card industry for more than 5 years and the coordinator from 2004 to 2006 of the InspireD integrated project within the FP6 European framework.
From 2006, he leads the MaXSSIMM program initiated by the former AII agency and then the OSEO (French agency supporting innovation in the industry).
He holds an Engineering degree in Polymer Chemistry & Electronics Materials from ENSCT (ENSIACET Toulouse) in 1987.

Dr. Gisela Meister
Chair of the European Standardisation Group for Electronic Signature
Head of Technology Consulting R&D, Standardisation Manager C-TO - Giesecke & Devrient (Germany)
As G&D's standardisation manager, Dr. Gisela Meister is a member of the Corporate Technology office C-TO within G&D. She also is the head of R&D's Technology Consulting Department and thereby she is responsible for the conduction of G&D's evaluation projects. Dr. Meister has been employed with G&D since the end of 1989 and henceforth she has made a large number of expert contributions to national and international standardization activities. She chairs the European standardisation working group for digital signature applications on smart cards (SSCD), deployed in Germany in connection with the electronic health card, ID Card and banking cards. Additionally she heads the - just installed -Task Force within CEN to maintain the European Citizen Card's Software Smart Card Interface. Since 1994, Dr. Meister has been a member of the DIN national committee on Card Standardization Since 2006, she has chaired the technical committee NIA 17.4, and acts as head of German delegation of its international mirror technical committee within ISO/IEC. Dr. Meister has degrees in mathematics and economics from the University Münster and has received the SIT Fraunhofer Smart Card prize 2004. Dr. Meister is a member of several program committees regarding smart cards and security aspects.

Julien Mercier
Hardware Security Engineer - STMicroelectronics (France)
Julien Mercier has 6 years of experience in power and secure device development. He holds a PhD on power analysis methodology of smart card products. Today, he is responsible of power analysis verification of secure ICs product development.


Aurélien Miana
Renesas Electronics Europe (France)






Marc Muller
Head of Common Technologies - Gemalto (France)
Marc Muller started with Schlumberger at the Montrouge research center in charge of communication protocols and devices for satellite communications and metering applications. Over the years he held numerous positions in Technology development, Product development in the field of metering systems , SMSC and OTA servers in Gemalto. Since 2009 he is in charge of a Technology and Innovation group covering Security , Silicon chips Standards and Process for all the Business units of Gemalto.
He is graduated from Telecom Paris in 1980.

David Naccache
ENS Paris - CIM PACA (France)
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.

Sébastien Nérot
Embedded Software Architect - Inside Contactless (France)
Sébastien Nérot joined Inside Contactless in 2006, the time where his company SmardTech became part of Inside Contactless. He has a strong expertise in embedded software for secure devices. He started his career with Motorola, then left and created his own company where he provided Operating Systems and other software solutions for smartcard providers. At Inside he provides his expertise to develop efficient and secure embedded software with the R&D engineers on inside chips.

Philippe Nguyen
Technical Director - Secure-IC (France)

Philippe is the technical director of Secure-IC. After a PhD in sciences on smart silicon retinas, he held several positions at Thales and Thomson. He was formerly scientific and technology director in a start-up company he co-funded, dealing with securities on multimedia contents.

Dr Quang-Huy Nguyen
Research Security Specialist, Security Labs - Gemalto Technology & Innovation (France)

Research Security Specialist in the Formal methods Group Of Gemalto since 2003. Doctor in Computer Science, his research focused on the improvement of Computer-Aided Verification Tools, and their Application to smart cards Software. Since 2003, he works on the formal verification of the Java Card platform, the verification of security properties and the high-level Common Criteria certifications. Since 2006, He contributes to the Common Criteria Evaluation of open platform.


Karsten Nohl
Chief Scientist, Security Research Labs - Berlin (Germany)
Karsten unifies the worlds of scientific research, hacking laboratories, and corporate risk management in executing high impact security projects.  His current research focuses on smart cards and cell phone technology.  His hacking projects disclose and usually break proprietary encryption.  Through his consulting projects, Karsten designs 'secure enough' security technology in private and public applications.

Agnès C. Noubissi
Ph.D Student, Smart Secure Device Team - University of Limoges (France)

Interests by Virtual Machine for Smart Card and Security during update of system components for JavaCard.

Charles Palmer
Project Hydra Project Manager - Onzo Limited (UK)

Charles Palmer works for Onzo, a company active in the smart meter industry. He is project manager for Project Hydra collaborative R&D programme. Charles has a particular interest in novel uses for cryptographic technologies.

Florian Pebay Peyroula
Engineer - CEA LETI (France)

Florian Pebay Peyroula, graduate from INPG ENSIMAG Telecom, has been working since 2005 at the CEA-LETI in contactless system development, focusing on security and privacy issues. He is now working on development of a new Very High Data Rate contactless air interface.

Jorge Pérez Velasco
Researcher - Tecnalia-Robotiker (Spain)

Jorge Pérez obtained his First University Degree in Telecommunications Engineering by the University of Valladolid (Spain). He developed his Degree Final Project in the University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochshule Deggendorf (Deggendorf, Germany). He works for TECNALIA-Robotiker since November 2008 in the Service Platforms group within the Telecom unit. Related to the uService work, he is currently participating in several projects like MUGGES; and in fact, he is Project Manager of MUGGES (GALILEO, call 1).


Jean-Claude Perrin
Vice President LTE, Gemalto - France
Jean-Claude Perrin, is Vice President LTE at Gemalto, Telecom and LTE Working Group. Chairman at SIMalliance.
His role is to define and implement the strategy and major changes in the Company product, solution & service offerings linked the LTE mobile broadband disruption.
During his 20 year career with the Smart Card Solution Industry, Jean-Claude held several International Marketing, Sales and Business Unit Management Positions, always working on leading edge and security subjects
Jean-Claude has a Master degree in Business Administration (IAE Paris – Sorbonne) and graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

Marcelo Pias
University of Cambridge (UK)




Ernst Piller
Head of Research Institute - St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences (Austria)

Head of the Institute for IT Security Research and professor for IT-security, cryptography and smart card systems at the St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences and professor at the Vienna University of Technology and consultant in the field of smart cards for 26 years.


Seda Polat
Researcher, Computer Engineer - Tubitak-UEKAE (Turkey)

Seda POLAT is working as an researcher at National Research Institute of Turkey (Tubitak-UEKAE) in a smart card operating system project called AKiS. She has taken her BSc degree from Bogazici University Computer Engineering Dept. and dealing with MS thesis at same department.


Emmanuel Prouff
Manager of the Security Research Activities - Oberthur Technologies (France)

Emmanuel Prouff has obtained a PhD at the french national research institute for computer science (INRIA). He is currently managing the Cryptography Research Activities of Oberthur Technologies and studies theoretical aspects of symmetric cryptology and the different ways of thwarting side channel attacks. His results in those areas were published at international conferences.


Marc Renaudin
CTO - Tiempo (France)

Marc Renaudin received the Engineering and PhD degrees in microelectronics and signal processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, respectively in 1987 and 1990.
From 1990 to 1998, he served as an assistant professor at Telecom Bretagne, France, a Graduate School of Telecommunications Engineering where he was in charge of the Grenoble entity. In 1998, he joined Grenoble INP as a Professor and he founded the Concurrent Integrated Systems Group at Tima Labs where he carried out research work on asynchronous circuits design and associated CAD tools.
In 2007, Professor Marc Renaudin co-founded Tiempo, a startup company located in Montbonnot St-Martin, near Grenoble (France), and became its CTO. Tiempo is developing a complete solution – IPs and EDA tools – for the design of innovative asynchronous delay insensitive integrated circuits that are ultra-low power, ultra-low noise, variability-tolerant and secured against attacks by power analysis and fault injections.


Jacques Reverdy
CEA-LETI (France)

In 1988, he joined the Department System of the CEA-LETI with a diploma of electronics engineer delivered by the CNAM. Since 1997, he is attached to the laboratory of "contactless" systems where he develops readers and contactless cards with discrete front-end RF. He takes part in the realization of a proximity system at 13.56 MHz with high data rates. He currently works to the extension of this system to "very high data rates". He is also in charge of a project in the security of contactless system at 13,56MHz.


Fabrice Romain
System Architecture Manager - STMicroelectronics (France)

Fabrice Romain has 15 years of experience in secure devices development. He started with cryptographic software development for smart card products, and then moved to secure product architecture definition, and is now in charge of System Architecture department for Secure Microcontroller Division.


Mylène Roussellet
Security Engineer - Inside Contactless (France)

Mylène Roussellet joined Inside Contactless in 2008 as Cryptography and Security Engineer after have been graduated by the Limoges University of a Master in Cryptography and Security.  In the Inside Contactless Product Security Team she is in charge of developing secure symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic libraries for the Inside Contactless products. Part of her domains of expertise is cryptography, side channel attacks and fault attacks. She is the author of patents and publications in the security domain.


Carsten Rust
R&D Project Manager - Morpho, e-Documents Division (Germany)

Carsten Rust holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn, Germany. He joined Morpho in 2004 as a project manager for R&D projects. Currently, he is in charge of the German uService project as well as of Morpho’s part in an FP7 project on Identity Management.


Marc Saisse
Secure IC Design Project Leader - Inside Contactless (France)

Marc Saisse joined Inside Contactless in 2002 as Digital IC Designer. He has 12 years of experience in hardware design of chip as he worked previously for VLSI/Philips and Sorep Erulec companies. Marc is in charge of the design of a secure chip product family, managing resources and planning; he is also involved in the characterization of IP blocks and has a strong competence in memory block design.
He is graduated from the ENST engineer school in Bretagne.


Sebastien Sanaur
Researcher, Assistant Professor, Centre de Microélectronique de Provence - Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne (France)

Sébastien Sanaur received his M.Sc. in "Condensed Matter: Chemistry and Organization" from Pierre et Marie Curie University (France) in 2000 and completed his PhD in 2003 at the Department of Composites Materials and Physical Measurements at ONERA (French National Aerospace Agency) in Palaiseau (France).
He then joined Provence Microelectronics Center (School of Mines) and spent one-year post-doc research period in Columbia University (NY, USA) at the Nanoscience Center, focusing on realization of printed organic transistors.
Since 2005, he is assistant professor in Organic Electronics at the Department of Packaging and Flexible Substrates at Provence Microelectronics Center (School of Mines).
His research interests cover improving performances and characterization of organic TFTs based on p-conjugated polymers and molecules for plastic and printed electronics.


Laurent Sauvage
TelecomParisTech (France)

Laurent Sauvage received his M.S. in electronics, electrotechnique and cybernetics in 1998 and the ``agrégation'' (french national competitive exam for high school teachers) of electrical engineering in 2002.He is currently pursuing a PhD in practical side-channel attacks (mainly DPA & EMA).
He is responsible for the experimental aspects linked to the physical cryptoanalysis platform of TELECOM-ParisTech. He is a co-founder of the TELECOM-ParisTech spin-off "Secure-IC".


Julien Schrek
PhD - Limoges University (France)

Julien Schrek was born in Paris, France, in 1986. He is student in PhD in cryptography from University of Limoges since 2009. He is working on programming and improvements about cryptographic algorithm using the error-correcting code.


Yannick Sierra
Crypto group - Oberthur Technologies (France)

Yannick Sierra has been working in the development of cryptographic algorithms on constrained devices for 4 years. He holds an Engineering School diploma from ENSIMAG. For two years he worked within Texas Instruments, studying and implementing the cryptographic services embedded in their low resources processing units designed for the mobile market (OMAP series) with a strong focus on performances and software security. He then joined the Crypto Group of Oberthur Technologies in 2007 and has worked since then on the improvement and the development of cryptographic algorithm implementations in smart cards with a particular concern on physical attacks.


Gib Sorebo
Chief Cybersecurity Technologist - SAIC (USA)

Gib Sorebo is an Assistant Vice President and Chief Cybersecurity Technologist for SAIC where he assists government and private sector organizations comply with legal and regulatory requirements.  He is the co-lead of SAIC’s Smart Grid Security practice.  He is currently establishing the SAIC Smart Grid Security Solutions Center for product security testing and solution development and contributing to a variety of other smart grid security research efforts.


Dr.-Ing. Stephan Spitz
Giesecke & Devrient (Germany)

Stephan Spitz has more than ten years working experience with research, development and consulting in the field of information and communication security. As Programme Manager New Technologies he is responsible for new security solutions from Giesecke&Devrient beyond the classical smart card and SIM technology such as new security services and secured consumer devices.
He has a doctorate degree from the Technical University of Munich where he still lectures "Applied IT Security" and he is co-author of the book "Kryptographie und IT-Sicherheit" published by Vieweg+Teubner.


Laurent Sustek
Technical Marketing - ATMEL (France)

Smart Grid, its ambitious challenges and the security requirements
Laurent Sustek joined Atmel in 2006 as Technical Marketing Manager for Advanced Telecom Secure Products (32 bits based high end). Since 2007, he is managing the strategy and the offer to address the M2M applications with a focus on the Smart Metering application.
He has been working in the Smart Card Industry since 19 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.


Salman Taherian
Research Associate - University of Cambridge (UK)

Salman is a Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
He works on several sensor-related projects, one of which is CSK Energy. Previously, he has looked at event-based middleware solutions for sensor networks as part of his PhD studies in Cambridge, and he holds a Computer & Electronic Engineering degree from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.


Thierry Thomas
CEA–LETI (France)

He joined the CEA in 1986 where he started to develop magnetic measurement instruments for the petroleum industry and geophysics institutes. Then from 1992 to 1995, conducting research and development of a tri-axis magnetometer, his work addresses the spatial instrumentation domain too. Since 1995, he became an expert in short range contactless systems at 13.56 MHz then in the UHF domain, especially in antennas, signal propagation and physical layer. He’s now member of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 comity.


Jean-Paul Thomasson
Programs Committees Chair, e-Smart & Smart Mobility (France)





Pascal Thoniel
Chairman Executive & CTO - NTX Research (France)

Pascal Thoniel holds a Master of Finance from IEP Paris (Sciences Po). After 10 years of
experience in Business IT, Pascal has created NTX Research in 1997, a company specialized in Information Systems security. Pascal has 15 years of experience in IT Security: IT Security.
Audit and Policy designer, inventor XC Technology (strong authentication and confidentiality - patented), inventor of a new user-centric approach for PKI. NTX Research plays also an active role in the FC² project.


Assia Tria
Head of the LCCS Laboratory - ENSMSE/CEA-LETI (France)

Assia TRIA has an HDR in engineering sciences since 2009. She received 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, and Biometry.

Pascal Urien
Professor - Télécom ParisTech (France)

Pascal Urien is full professor at Télécom ParisTech. His main research interests include
security and smart cards, especially for wireless networks and distributed computing
architectures. He holds 15 patents and about one hundred publications in these domains. He founded the EtherTrust company in 2007.


Sébastien Valette
Program Manager & Crypto Engineer, Thales Security Solutions & Services - Thales itself (France)
Sébastien Valette has obtained is Master of Information Security and Cryptology in 2000. He worked for now ten years in security and especially on embedded systems and is heading the EMVCO/Visa evaluation team of Thales CEACI ITSEF.

Jérôme Vasseur
Secure IC Design Project Leader - Inside Contactless (France)

Jérôme Vasseur joined Inside Contactless in 2002 as IC Senior Designer. He has 16 years of experience in the design of secure components. He started his career with Matra (System & Information then Matra Defense), then VLSI/Philips. He specializes in the definition and development of microprocessors including security and low power consumption features. He is now in charge of leading the design of one of the Inside chips and remains focused on security and micro-core technical aspects and evolutions.

Vincent Verneuil
Cryptology Engineer, PhD student Inside Contactless - Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (France)
Vincent Verneuil is a cryptology engineer at Inside Contactless and works as a PhD student on the subject of elliptic curve cryptography and side-channel attacks on embedded devices.

Pim Vullers
PhD Student - Radboud Univ. Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Pim Vullers is a Digital Security Ph.D. Student at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He conducts research in the area of "Applet-based e-Ticketing", currently focussing on privacy friendly public transport e-ticketing solutions using smart cards.

David Ware
Security Technology Manager - RFI Global Services (UK)
David Ware is the Security Technology Manager at RFI Global Services Ltd., UK. David supervises RFI’s expansion of services, security evaluation projects, R&D programme, and external activities. His specific interests include the implementation of vulnerability analysis and penetration attacks against embedded systems used in financial transactions. Formerly, David has performed research in side channel analysis and perturbation techniques, and has worked as a security evaluator within several certification schemes for ICC and PED products.

Hallie De Lesslin Warren
President - OpenID Society, Director of Electronic Publishing - APA
OpenID Society - Open Identity Exchange - American Psychological Association (USA)
Hal Warren is President of the OpenID Society and serves on the Advisory Board of the Open Identity Exchange. He is Senior Director of Electronic Publishing for the APA and a member of the Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishing Association, and the American Society of Association Executives.

Dr. Stefan Weiss
Advisory, Risk & Compliance - KPMG
Stefan Weiss is a director at the audit and advisory firm KPMG in Germany. He is an internationally recognized technical expert on data protection and privacy management and supports KPMG clients on issues such as compliance and risk management, internal control systems and privacy and data protection management. Stefan's PhD thesis, titled "An Information Architecture Framework for Enhancing Privacy in Social Network Applications", was published earlier this year. One of the aspects Stefan looked at in his research work was the question of addressing risks for the user's privacy due to the data portability in social network applications. He also contributed parts of his research results to the EU-funded international research project Privacy and Identity Management for Community Services (PICOS).

Abdel Yakoub
Research Engineer, Microelectronics Center of Provence - ENSM-SE (France)
Abdel Yakoub was born in Setif, Algeria on February 9, 1982. He received the five-year degree in materials engineering in 2007 from National polytechnics school of Algiers (Algeria), and Master’s degree on physics and materials in 2008 from the national polytechnics institute of Lorraine (France). Since 2009 he has been a research engineer, working on various aspects of materials processing in printed electronics at the department of "flexible materials packaging" of the microelectronics Center of provence.

Gilles Zémor
Professor - Mathematics Institute of Bordeaux University (France)
Gilles Zémor was born in Paris, France, in 1963. He received the Agrégation de Mathématiques in 1984, the Ph.D. Degree in computer science from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, in 1989, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in mathematics from Paris 6 University in 2002. From 1990 to 2006, he was Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Network Department of ENST. Since 2006 he is Professor at the Mathematics Institute of Bordeaux University. From 2003 to 2006 he was an Associate Editor for Coding Theory for the {\sc IEEE Transactions on Information Theory}. His research interests include combinatorial mathematics, coding theory, additive number theory, and cryptography.

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