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Hatim Aboalsamh
Professor of Computer Science - King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)
Former Vice president for Development and Quality at king saud university (KSU). Former Dean, College of Computer and Info. Sciences at KSU. Professor of Computer Science at KSU.


Ammar Alkassar
CEO, Sirrix AG security technologies (Germany)
Ammar Alkassar is the CEO of Sirrix AG security technologies, one of the technology leaders in Trusted Infrastructure and Communications solutions for the enterprise, mobile, and embedded market. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and his distinguished M.Sc. in Computer Science from Saarland University. Before joining Sirrix, Mr. Alkassar was principal researcher at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He had research stays at Helsinki University of Technology and the Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ.

Mr. Alkassar’s work includes numerous scientific contributions and regularly invited speaker to security, communications, and military conferences. His contributions include fast hardware architectures for authenticated encryption, policy enforcement, and multilateral security. Moreover, he also holds the position as executive board member of Germany's industry association TeleTrusT and of the association “IT-Security Made in Germany”. Furthermore, he is managing director of the European Competence Center for IT-Security (eurobits), Bochum.

Jonas Andersson
Vice President, Business Development - Precise Biometrics (Sweden)

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.
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.

Javier Bajo-Perez
Associate Professor - Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)

Javier Bajo (PhD.) is an associate professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. His research interests include multi-agent systems, decision support systems, and intelligent environments. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Salamanca, Spain. He has been member of the organising and scientific committee of several international symposiums such as CAEPIA, IDEAL, HAIS, KES, IWANN, etc. and co-author of more than 150 papers published in recognized journal, workshops and symposiums.


Encarnacion Beato-Gutierrez
Professor - Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)

Mª Encarnación Beato (PhD.). Received a PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Valladolid in 2004. At present she is Professor at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Spain). She obtained an Information Technology degree at the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) in 1994 and a degree in Engineering in Computer Sciences at the Universidad de Valladolid in 1997. She has been a member of the organizing and scientific committee of several international symposiums such as IWPAAMS, SPEDEDE, etc. and has co-authored papers published in a number of recognized journals, workshops and symposiums.


Balázs Benyó (PhD.)
Associate Professor, Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology -
Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Balázs Benyó received his MSc degree in electrical engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Budapest, Hungary in 1992. He received CSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and PhD degree from BME in 1998. Currently he is an associate professor at the Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, at BME. He has published more than 110 scientific papers, several book chapters, he was leader or participant in more than 30 research and development projects sponsored by European and Hungarian national research organizations. Balázs Benyó is program committee member or reviewer of several international conferences and journals, member of the IEEE, IFAC Technical committee 8.2, and the Scientific Society for Measurement, Automation and Informatics, Hungary. His main research fields are - among others - novel application opportunities of mobile and contactless technologies, and medical diagnostic and information systems

Roberto Berjon-Gallinas
Professor - Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)
Roberto Berjón (PhD.). Received a PhD. in Computer Science from the Universidad de Deusto in 2006. At present he is Professor at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (España). He obtained a degree in Engineering in Computer Sciences at the Universidad de Deusto in 1993. He has been a member of the organizing and scientific committee of several international symposiums such as IWAAPMS, SPEDECE, etc. and has co-authored papers published in a number of recognized journals, workshops and symposiums. He is currently developing applications for mobile environments, focusing his work on iPhone and Android devices.


Mehdi Bermy
Marketing Director - OpenTrust (France)

Mehdi Bermy: He has over 10 years experience in global market development and product management in IT security, creating strategic value propositions for IT solutions for both B2C and B2B markets.


Gil Bernabeu
Technical Director - GlobalPlatform

Mr. Bernabeu has served as GlobalPlatform’s Technical Director since 2005.  His main role is to drive forward the development of GlobalPlatform’s smart card specifications and related technical initiatives.  Mr. Bernabeu is also the Technical Advisor for the Standardization and Technology Department at Gemalto. 


Jean-Philippe Betoin
President - CASSIS International Europe (France)

Jean-Philippe Betoin has a 15 year background in the Smart Card and Mobile Industry.
He previously spent 10 years with Gemplus in various managerial positions, and then was VP marketing in charge of NFC at Inside Contactless. Jean Philippe Betoin has been Chairman of SIMalliance and a member of the Board of NFC Forum.


Ugo Biader Ceipidor
Director of CATTID, Full Professor Computer Science - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

Full Professor of Computer Science at the Mass Communication Faculty of "Sapienza" University of Rome, he is the Director of CATTID and a member of IASTED. His researches are concentrate on e-learning, simulation for "learning by doing" and networking software.


Jan Blonk
Card Evaluation Manager - Brightsight (Netherlands)
Jan Blonk has a bachelor degree in applied physics and a masters degree in Information and Knowledge Technology. He has been involved in many software engineering projects, either as a systems designer/developer of real time systems, or as a project manager. He has been involved as a security specialist in many evaluations concerning smart card technology mainly in the payment domain. Currently Jan Blonk is a manager in Brightsight responsible for card evaluations.

Peter Broekroelofs
CTO, Co-founder - Service2Media (Netherlands)

Peter has over 15 years experience in the IT and telecommunications industry, 11 of which he spent at LogicaCMG. In his last position as Vice President Marketing and Strategy within Wireless Networks and before, he served the global mobile telecommunications industry with messaging and mobile data solutions in management, strategic marketing, product management, business development and market communications roles. Peter has demonstrated the ability to drive new products such as the Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) from initial concept to commercial success. He was also leader of the CMG product management team that defined the world's first global 3G messaging solution. Peter holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente.


Sherley Brothier
CTO - OpenTrust (France)
Sherley Brothier: He has successfully managed the R&D team since 2005, leading and directing all strategic technical decisions concerning the company's products and services.

Jacques Bus
Independent Consultant Trust in the Information Society






Inhyok Cha
InterDigital Communications
Inhyok Cha has graduated from Seoul National University with a B.S (’88). and a M.S. (’90), and from the University of Pennsylvania (’95) with a Ph.D. in EE. Dr. Cha did R&D and cellular wireless R&D management for Lucent Technologies between 1996 and 2003. Since 2004, Dr. Cha has been with InterDigital Communications Corporation. His interest includes machine-to-machine communications, wireless communication security and trusted computing. Dr. Cha is an author of a number of journal and conference papers and an inventor with numerous patent awards.

Paolo Cianchi
CEO - NEGENTIS (Italy)

Paolo Cianchi is Chief Executive Officer of NEGENTIS Srl., a software engineering company providing net-centric middleware software products and services enabling smart operations in several application domain including transportation and logistics, homeland security and defense, telecommunications, finance, energy and public administration. He got his degree Electronic Engineering cum laude at the University of Florence and a PhD in System Engineering from the University of Bologna.


Christophe Colas
Product Marketing Director - Trusted Logic (France)

Christophe Colas is Product Marketing Director at Trusted Logic for the wireless devices software products and solutions. He is also Chairman of GlobalPlatform Device Committee.
Christophe was previously Chief Software Architect within the Ingenico Group.

He is graduate of the "Ecole des Mines" and holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and a MBA.

Sergio Cozzolino
Mobile ICT SM Vice President - Telecom Italia
Chairman - GSMA Smart Card Application Group

Sergio Cozzolino got an Enginering degree in 1992 and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) in 1995. He has been in TELECOM ITALIA MOBILE since 1995 in charge of new services and development on end user products acquiring a significative experience on activities related to SIM and SMART Cards. From 1996 he is taking part to the standardisation activities (ETSI SMG9 and later SCP). As of 2002 he is GSM Association SCAG (Smart Card Application Group) Chairman and in 2003 he chaired the SIM Task Force within the GSMA. Responsible for TIM for the European Research Progrem SCARAB (1998-1999) and TASSC (1999-2001) Esp@ss (2002-2004). Project Manager for applications based on SIM and Smart cards (FINECO Moving, Easybuy,UIC, … ).He was up to the end of 2002 director of the Smart Card and Services development Dept. In 2003 he was Director of the Technical Marketing and System Engineering Dept. for the Corporate Division. Since 2004 he is in charge of the Innovative ICT Mobile Service development Dept, as Vice President, dedicated to the Corporate Customers.


Claudia Crielesi
RFID Lab of CATTID - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

Claudia Crielesi: graduated in Publishing and Multimedia Communication at "Sapienza" University of Rome, she has been collaborating with RFID Lab of CATTID since September 2009. In the RFID Lab she's in charge of the re-design of Sapienza Smart Campus project.


Stefano Cuomo
Project Manager - National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT)

Stefano Cuomo got his degree in Electronic Engineering cum laude at the University  of Florence and a Ph. D. degree in Remote Sensing Engineering. He has been dealing with Innovation Management, technology transfer and advanced use of telematics, and  is currently attending a second Ph.D. in Telematics and Information Society. He has a long and proven experience in managing complex research project at national and European level.


Ylenia de Rosa
RFID Lab of CATTID - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)
Ylenia De Rosa: graduated in Computer Science at "Sapienza" University of Rome, she has been collaborating with RFID Lab of CATTID since January 2009. In the RFID Lab she's in charge of developing Java-based applications for NFC mobile phones.

Jaap de Vos
Senior Security Evaluator - Brightsight (Netherlands)
Jaap de Vos owns a BSD in Computer Engineering and has been active as all-rounder for security investigations at Brightsight. He has been involved in many evaluations including CC and he has been active as consultant in smart card related security projects for the development of security requirements. Since 2009 he is overseeing Brightsight’s R&D activities for mobile payment/banking.

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.

Gary Douglas
Assistant Director, CCIR Centre for Communication Interface Research - University of Edinburgh (UK)

Gary Douglas: PhD. Assistant Director, Centre for Communication Interface Research, University of Edinburgh, UK. Specialist in usability engineering for smart cards, mobile phones, Web services.


Saul Rodriguez Duenas
RaMSiS Group/School of ICT Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm (Sweden)

Saul Rodriguez Duenas received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Systems at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the RaMSiS group. His research area covers high speed CMOS circuit design for wideband radio front-ends.


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.

Wolfgang Effing
Group Vice President, Deputy CTO - Giesecke & Devrient
Wolfgang Effing, born 1948, studied electronics at the Technical University in Karlsruhe. After  8  years work as R&D engineer in  telecommunications and avionics industry he joined GAO, a subsidiary of Giesecke & Devrient, as head of smart card development in 1984.  In 1993 he took over the management of smart card R&D at Giesecke & Devrient and is today Deputy CTO of  Giesecke & Devrient.
He has been member of several international and national standardisation committees for smartcards since 1984.
He is co-author of the “Handbuch der Chipkarten” or “Smart Card Handbook”, 5th edition published in 1998.

Fernandez Fidalgo
Doctoral Student of Computer Science - Pontificia University of Salamanca (Spain)






Carsten Fischer
Product Marketing Manager - Morpho, e-Documents Division (Germany)

Carsten Fischer acts as Product Marketing Manager and Global Technical Account Manager in the Morpho Product Line Telecommunication since 2007. He holds a university degree of the University of Paderborn in Computer Science. Carsten Fischer joined Morpho in 2001, working first as Development Engineer and representing Morpho in standardisation bodies. 


Gergely Fördős
Researcher, Department of Control Engineering & Information Technology - Budapest University of Technology & Economics (Hungary)

Gergely Fördős received his MSc degree in electrical engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary in 2002. Currently he is a researcher at the Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and involved in several research projects at the field of information technology, biomedical enginnering and bioinformatics. His main interests are - among others - mobile technology especially multi-application environments, and smart card security.


Nicolas Fort
Product Manager - Vasco (Belgium)

Mr Nicolas Fort is Product Manager for Digipass for Mobile solutions at VASCO (NASDAQ VDSI) since 2007, after being Product Architect for the same portfolio. Nicolas Fort works at Vasco since April 1999.
In this role he is responsible for the worldwide positioning and management of all Software Digipass solutions.
Prior to joining VASCO, Mr. Fort held different positions in the IT Industry; IT Manager WW (Eagle Intl.), Technical Manager (Supporter- France), Consultant (Cap-Gemini & Microsoft).
Mr. Fort obtained two degrees (Computer Science & Sales Methodology) in University of Bordeaux, France.
He also has Legal Expert certification in Computer Security & Banking Security to work with French justice.


Juan Fraile-Nieto
Analysts of Smart Cards at the Data Process Center - Pontificia University of Salamanca (Spain)

Juan A. Fraile is a PhD. student at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He obtained the Information Technology degree at the Pontificia University of Salamanca (Spain) in 1996 and Engineering in Computer Sciences degree at the Pontificia University of Salamanca in 2000. He has been involved in the development of automated systems in the DMR Consulting company and the Data Processing Centre (Pontificia University of Salamanca). He has also been a co-author of papers published in recognized scientific journals, workshops and symposiums.


Virginie Galindo
Technical Marketing - Gemalto (France)

 


Dino Giuli
Full Professor, Dept of Electronics and Telecommunications - University of Florence (Italy)

Dino Giuli is Full Professor in Telecommunications at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the University of Florence. Since 1996 he is Promoter and Director of the Ph.D. School in "Telematics and Information Society". His research activities have been principally oriented in the domain of Telematics and Environmental Monitoring Systems. Dino Giuli is author of more than two hundred and fifty scientific publications, mainly published on scientific journals and international conference proceedings. He is AEI member of and IEEE senior member.


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.


Mark Hopper
Vice President, Product Management & Product Marketing Multimedia & Convergence - Smith Micro Software (USA)

Talented and visionary leader with a reputation for integrity and the proven ability to influence results. Hands-on manager, providing leadership, direction and unity among employees. Creative entrepreneur with track record of rapid success in substantially increasing revenues and entering new communications and business markets. Over 20 years combined experience in the communications and multi-media industries.


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.

Antoine Huber
Product Marketing Manager, Professional and Consumer Devices - Trusted Logic (France)

Antoine Huber is Product Marketing Manager within Trusted Logic. He previously handled positions as Product Marketing Manager for EFT/POS terminals within Gemalto and Public Telecom within Schlumberger.


Andrea Ingrosso
PhD Student, CATTID - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

Andrea Ingrosso: graduated in Publishing and Multimedia Communication at "Sapienza" University of Rome, he is currently a PhD student. At CATTID he coordinates the activities of "Location Based Service & Real Time Location System" team.


Mohammed Ismail
Professor, Director of RaMSiS Group/School of ICT - Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm (Sweden)

Mohammed Ismail is a professor and director of the RaMSiS Group, the ICT School at the Royal Institute of Technology. His interest lie in the area of chip set development for high volume low cost wireless,multimedia and bio applications. He is a Fellow of IEEE.


Markus Jaton
Professor - University of Applied Sciences Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Markus Jaton is professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)


Liisa Kanniainen
Executive Director - Mobey Forum

Liisa Kanniainen has around 15 years of working experience with the mobile IT Industry, focusing on the mobile financial services. Currently she is working at Mobey Forum in order to full time concentrate on creating the cross-industry collaboration required for making the mobile financial services market as the Mobey Forum Workgroup Executive.
Liisa Kanniainen holds Master of Science degree in International Economics


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

Armand Lecorche
Solution Design and Business Development Director - Oberthur Technologies (France)

Armand Lecorché has been working for 11 years within Oberthur Technologies, on Mobile Solutions towards all types of Solutions products.
After several years as Technical Director for Project Management, Support and Maintenance, he is in charge of Solutions Design (Marketing and Business Development).


Pr Ronald Leenes
Professor in Regulation by Technology, 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.

Andreas Leicher
Senior Researcher - Novalyst IT (Germany)

Andreas Leicher received his diploma in computer science at Frankfurt University in 2009. Having his main focus on IT security, he developed a framework for Trusted Computing applications, implementing a Trusted Ticket System by enhancing the Kerberos authentication protocol. He is working as a senior researcher with Novalyst IT, in the areas of Trusted Computing, IT security, privacy, Identity Management, mobile systems and 3GPP.


Robert G. (Bob) Logan
Director - Dialogic Media Labs (USA)

Bob Logan is Director at Dialogic Media Labs, a division of Dialogic Corporation that develops advanced video algorithms for the next generation of IP video platforms and applications.  Dialogic develops open systems based telephony voice, video and signaling products targeted for both the enterprise and service provider market segments.  Bob joined Dialogic in 2008 from OpenMediaLabs, a New Jersey-based startup that was developing intelligent video technologies.
Bob has more than two decades of experience in the telecommunications and multimedia software fields.  He has previously held a variety of technical and business positions within Bell Laboratories, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies.  In the late 1990s, Bob led the Sales and Business Development effort at elemedia™, a pioneering venture that developed software to enable multimedia communications over IP networks.  Bob specializes in business and channel development, and is a frequent contributor to global industry conferences and events that focus on enabling telecom service providers and enterprises to create high-margin services and applications.
Bob holds BS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.


Fabio Lombardi
RFID Lab of CATTID - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

Fabio Lombardi: graduated in Computer Science at "Sapienza" University of Rome, he has been collaborating with RFID Lab of CATTID since February 2008. In the RFID Lab he is in charge of developing web based applications (such as Sapienza Smart Campus) and iPhone applications.


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.

Geoffrey MacGillivray
Senior Product Manager - BlackBerry Security
Geoffrey MacGillivray is a Senior Security Product Manager at RIM supporting BlackBerry smartphone security. He is responsible for providing security requirements to the product development process and ensuring BlackBerry continues to maintain it’s high level of security.

Prior to RIM, Geoff also worked with Semiconductor Insights in their TechInsights group. He led their Smart Card and security group in analyzing security on integrated circuits. He led initiatives to develop advanced security penetration tests designed to assess the security of smart cards. Mastercard and Visa used this security analysis to certify smart card integrated circuits for use in their products.

Mr. MacGillivray holds a Bachelors of Applied Science in Engineering Physics as well as an Executive MBA, both from Queen’s University. He has written for several publications on smart card security and semiconductor technology.

Vasileios Manolopoulos
PhD student - RaMSiS Group/School of ICT Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm (Sweden)

Vasileios Manolopoulos is a Ph.D. student at KTH, School of ICT, Stockholm, Sweden. He  received his M.Sc. Degree in Internetworking, at KTH and his research is focused on security and privacy on location based services.


Alex Manea
Team Lead, BlackBerry Security - RIM (Canada)

Alex Manea is a Team Lead at RIM supporting BlackBerry security. He is responsible for providing security requirements to the product development process and ensuring BlackBerry continues to maintain its high level of security. Over the past 4 years, Alex has managed the security of BlackBerry smartphones, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and the BlackBerry Internet Service, along with products such as S/MIME, PGP and the BlackBerry Smart Card Reader.


François-Xavier Marseille
Senior Engineer, Embedded System Labs - Gemalto (France)

With more that 10 years of experience in smart card industry, François-Xavier has been working on many advanced projects for Gemalto.
Among these projects, were the introductions of external memories like NAND and protocols like USB. He has also worked on various new form factors like USB tokens or microSD.
Lastly, he has contributed to MASSIM, introducing MEMS usage into smart cards, which has already won several prizes as ‘Sesames 2009’ in mobile category and ‘2009 SmartGrid Product of the Year’ award from TMC.com.


Montserrat Mateos (PhD.)
Professor - Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)

is Professor at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain, and received a PhD. (with distinction) from the University of Salamanca in 2006. She has participated in several research projects related with mobile technologies; also she has published in a number international conference proceedings and in several recognized scientific journals. At the present her researches are focusing on NFC technology.


Carlo Maria Medaglia
Scientific Coordinator - CATTID Labs
Full Professor - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

Carlo Maria Medaglia: Full Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the Mass Communication Faculty of "Sapienza" University of Rome, he is the Scientific Coordinator of CATTID labs. He has more than 70 contribution in peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. His principle research activities are RFID, satellite remote sensing and mobile/wireless communication.


Silke Mergler
Manager Business Strategy - Brightsight (The Netherlands)
Silke Mergler is member of the management and as such responsible for Brightsight’s Business Strategy. In her current role she is controlling Brightsight’s strategic research activities in the field of mobile payment/banking. Silke holds an M.A. in communication science from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.

Tero Mononen
Customer Projects - Venyon (Finland)

Tero Mononen has been working for more than 10 years in the smart card industry covering payment and telecom customer segments. Before that he has been active in sales of various industrial IT solutions. He joined Venyon in 2007 and is responsible for Customer Projects.

Alice Moroni
PhD Student CATTID - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

Alice Moroni: graduated in Publishing and Multimedia Communication at "Sapienza" University of Rome, she is currently a PhD student. At CATTID she coordinates the Mobile and NFC research activities and is in charge, for the lab itself, of the FP6 European project StoLPaN.


Pierre Noizat
Managing Director - Association for Mobile Contactless in France, AFSCM

Mr. Noizat is a technology and innovation business leader with more than 15 years of international experience in program management, product management, marketing and business management. Through direct experience in these roles, Pierre contributed significantly to the success of major digital television projects from 1991 through 2000, including the launch of DirectTV in the USA and TPS in France. Prior to that, Mr. Noizat worked as a project manager for France Television in Paris. Mr. Noizat received his MBA in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University in New York, 1991.Mr. Noizat is also a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.


Federica Paganelli
Senior Researcher - National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT)

Federica Paganelli is Research Scientist at the National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT). She holds a PhD in Telematics and Information Society from the University of Florence. Her research interests include context-aware and Ambient Intelligent system, for the eTourism, eHealth and infomobility application domains.


Surinder Paul
Director Market Development - SAP (France)

Surinder was Director Market Development at Highdeal, a pricing, rating, and charging software provider that was recently acquired by SAP.
Prior to joining Highdeal, Surinder worked as a marketing & business development consultant for Mobile & VoIP solution providers in France, UK and India.
Before that, Surinder spent 14 years at Nortel Networks in the UK, Canada & France.


Adrian Prezioso
Chief Technology Officer - TJS (USA)

A seasoned information technology executive and entrepreneur, Adrian Prezioso has more than 10 years’ record of technical and management leadership for prominent US companies, where he has provided expertise in the architecture, design, and development of enterprise software from inception to production. Mr. Prezioso holds an M.A. in Computer Science from Boston University.


Julien Probst
CEO - Sysmosoft (Switzerland)

Julien Probst is a Telecommunication engineer and is co-founder of Sysmosoft SA. Sysmosoft is a  spin-off of the Institute for Information and Communication Technology in Yverdon-les-Bains.



Tajjeeddine Rachidi
Associate Professor of Computer Science - Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Morocco)

Dr. Tajjeeddine Rachidi holds the position of  Associate Professor of computer science at Alakhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. After successfully passing les concours des Grandes Ecoles, He received his first degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG), France in 1989 specializing in real-time and operating systems. He earned a Ph.D. from Essex University, U.K in 1995 specializing in Machine Vision.
His current research interests include QoS provisioning in 3rd G wireless networks (patented some findings), Multimedia protocols, distributed and Embedded systems, Smartcards security, Embedded systems


Brian Reed
Vice President, Products - BoxTone (USA)

As BoxTone’s Vice President of Products, Brian Reed brings more than 16 years of experience in strategy, product development and marketing in the technology industry. Brian oversees the strategic direction and positioning of BoxTone, including market strategy, go-to-market activities, product marketing, product management and marketing communications.


Jean-Francois Rubon
Director, Handsets Technology & Mobile Innovation, Wireless - Gemalto (France)






Ana Rusu
RaMSiS Group/School of ICT Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm (Sweden)

Ana Rusu is Assoc. Prof. at KTH, School of ICT, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research interests include design and development of mobile systems and applications. She has participated in several projects and authored more than 100 scientific publications.


Jean-François Salaun
Business Development Director, Convergence Product Line - Oberthur Technologies (France)

Jean-François Salaun joined Oberthur Technologies in 1999 to lead a team dedicated to the STK application on the first Java card. He also held several positions in marketing, R&D and business development on Mobile Solutions. He is now in charge of Convergence Solutions (NFC and Authentication).


Miguel A. Sanchez-Vidales (PhD.)
Associate Professor - Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)

Miguel A. Sanchez-Vidales is an associate professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. His research interests include mobile and smart cards systems applied to dependent persons. He is the director of the Innovation Club, an innitiative that has developed more that 50 projects based on mobility and smart cards. Received a PhD. in Computer Science from the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Madrid campus) in 2007. He has published in a number international conference proceedings and in several recognized scientific journals. He is member of the ACM Sigmobile group.


Andreas U. Schmidt
Director - Novalyst IT (Germany)

Andreas U. Schmidt received his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Frankfurt/Main in 1999. After research stays in Durban and Pisa, he became a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany, and was area head for security at the CREATE-NET research centre, Italy. He is co-founder and director of Novalyst IT, a consultancy specializing in IT security R&D and knowledge transfer. Andreas produced 50+ publications in various fields, works as reviewer for renowned journals in security and served in the program committee of numerous conferences He organizes the conference MobiSec on mobile security


Lars Schnake
Product Marketing Manager - Morpho, e-Documents Division  (Germany)

Lars Schnake acts as Product Marketing Manager for SIM card Applications and Solutions in the Morpho Product Line Telecommunication since 2009. He holds a diploma in electrical engineering and has more than 10 years experience in software engineering and system design in the telecommunication area. 


Yogendra Shah
R&D Department Manager - InterDigital Communications

Yogendra Shah earned a BSc and a PhD in EE from The City University, London in 1982 and 1985 respectively. Dr. Shah has worked in the wireless industry developing consumer products incorporating wireless technologies from the early CT2 digital cordless telephony standard through to the current generation 3G systems. He is currently a Manager in the R&D Department at InterDigital with research interests in developing advanced communications modem technologies and wireless security technologies. He is an inventor or co-inventor on several US patents and has been awarded the President’s and CTO innovation awards at InterDigital


Bálint Sódor
Research Assistant - Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Bálint Sódor received his MSc degree in computer science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Budapest, Hungary in 2006. Currently he does his PhD studies at the same university. He has published more than 10 scientific papers. Beside his PhD studies he works for the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a research assistant. His main research fields are - among others - novel application opportunities of mobile and contactless technologies, modelling mission critical and medical system.

Serena Sposato
RFID Lab of CATTID - "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

Serena Sposato: graduated in Computer Science at "Sapienza" University of Rome, she has been collaborating with RFID Lab of CATTID since February 2007. In the RFID Lab she's in charge of developing Java-based applications for NFC mobile phones.


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





Gijs van Kersen
Head of Mobile & SP Security Marketing - Juniper Networks

Gijs van Kersen joined Juniper in 2006 and is responsible for the marketing of Juniper’s mobile and convergence solutions. In his role Gijs, works closely with customers and channel partners as well as internal sales to promote Juniper’s products and solutions for UMTS and LTE, alternative wireless (WiFi, WiMax) and IMS-FMC networks.
Mr. van Kersen has 20 years experience in the networking and datacomms industry. He has held various product management and marketing positions in the Netherlands, New Zealand, California and Belgium.
Mr. van Kersen has a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and a post-graduate degree in business administration from Antwerp University.


András Vilmos
SafePay Systems Ltd.

András Vilmos, Managing Director of SafePay Systems Ltd. and Project Manager of DIAD_NFC, has pursued a long carrier in corporate finance.
In the past few years Mr. Vilmos was actively involved in concept and application development for NFC technology as well as in the development of mobile payment solutions.
As Project Manager of DIAD_NFC, a project supported by the National Office for Research and Technology, Mr. Vilmos coordinates the research and development activity to establish a dynamic, multifunction NFC service provisioning environment for applications like payment, ticketing and loyalty programs.
Mr. Vilmos holds a number of patents related to electronic transactions and is the author of a number of publications on the topic of "e" and "m" payments and NFC services.


Mark Vincent
CTO - Sysmosoft SA

Mark Vincent is a Software engineer and is co-founder of Sysmosoft SA. Mark Vincent CTO Sysmosoft SA, Markus Jaton Professor at HEIG-VD.



Jukka Yliuntinen
Chief Marketing Officer - Venyon (Finland)

Jukka Yliuntinen joined Venyon in 2007 and is responsible for sales and marketing of Venyon’s Trusted Services for NFC. Before joining Venyon he spent over 10 years in smart card industry in various positions covering all major customer verticals from telecom to payment.


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