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Ali Al-Khouri
Director General - Emirates Identity Authority (United Arab Emirates) |
| Dr.
Al-Khouri is a senior government official working in the United Arab
Emirates. He is currently working with Emirates Identity
Authority as a Director General. He has been involved in the UAE ID
Card project since its early conception phases. He obtained his
doctorate from Warwick University in the UK in field of project
management of large scale initiatives in the public sector. He has been
an active researcher in the field of strategic management in public
sector, and has published many articles in the last few years. |
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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. |
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Felix Apitzsch
Researcher - Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS (Germany) |
Felix Apitzsch holds a degree in Computer Science from University of Frankfurt/Main,
Germany. He works for the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication
Systems (Berlin, Germany), in the electronic identity research group. |
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Dirk Arendt
Vice President, Business Development and Marketing - OpenLimit SignCubes (Switzerland) |
| Dirk
Arendt was born in 1966 and is a German national. As Vice President,
Business Development, he has been a member of the board of managment of
the OpenLimit Group since January 2009. From 1988-1993 Dirk Arendt
passed a training program as assistant tax accountant. Afterwards he
studied law at the Freie Universität Berlin and successfully finished
his studies in 1999. From 1999 - 2002 he worked as a lawyer at the
German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. In 2002 Dirk
Arendt started working for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e.V. There he
has been establishing and devolping the business area "eGovernment" as
scientific assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS since October
2002. Dirk Arndt is one of the co-initators and "driving force" of the
idea of the "independent Fraunhofer FOKUS eGovernment laboratory. Dirk
Arndt represents the interests of OpenLimit in selected national and
international boards and associations |
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László Bacsa
Director
of Innovation and Marketing - Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, Innovation and Knowledge Centre of Information Technology
(Hungary) |
| László
Bacsa has been working for Budapest University of Technology and
Economics (BME) in the field of project management, R&D in IT,
innovation support, technology transfer and economics since 2003.
Currently he is the director of innovation and marketing in BME
Innovation and Knowledge Centre of IT, and the director of BME
Technology and Knowledge Transfer Office. Mr. Bacsa holds a B.Sc. in
economics and MBA specialized in fiscal economics and info
communications. |
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Cyrille Bataller
Director - Accenture Technology Labs Europe (France) |
| Cyrille Bataller is the European Director of Accenture Technology Labs, the dedicated technology Research & Development organisation within Accenture, which has been turning bold ideas into game-changing results for over 20 years. Based in Sophia Antipolis, France, Cyrille leads Accenture’s biometric R&D activities, supporting automated border clearance solutions at London’s airports, and large scale biometric identity management solutions such as US-VISIT, the European Commission’s Biometric Matching System, and the Unique ID programme in India (see www.accenture.com/biometrics). Cyrille holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, and joined Accenture in 1993. |
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Jiri Barta
Director of Sales and Marketing - IMA s.r.o. |
Jiri Barta (Dipl.Eng.) is in charge of marketing and business policy of IMA , due to his deep understanding of IT problematics and its diversification in various areas, he manages and coordinates both national and international business activities of IMA.
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Bruno Benteo
Senior Program Manager - Morpho (France) |
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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. |
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Philippe Bertiaux
VP ID Documents Product Line - Morpho (France) |
Philippe
Bertiaux has a long experience in the smartcard industry. He started
his career as one of the pioneer programmers at Sagem, evolving to the
smart card R&D executive.
He was Sagem Orga Banking product line
VP for several years and leading it in a successful manner. He is today
VP of the Morpho Identity Documents Business Line and contributing to
the evolution of company’s identity solutions.
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Eric Billiaert
Marketing Communications Manager, Public Sector - Gemalto (France) |
Eric has been appointed Marketing Communications Director for the Public Sector at Gemalto in 2006.
Before the merge, Eric was in charge of the corporate communications of
the Banking & Loyalty and Security segments. He joined the smart
card industry and Schlumberger in 2000.
From 1985 to 1999, he held various technical, business development and
marketing positions at Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation
Europe and at Bull International
He is the co-author of “e-Government 2.0: identification, security and
trust, Exploring European Avenues – September 2007” and “eGov 2.0: The
keys to success – June 2009”.
Eric, a French national, holds an MBA from French EDHEC business school in Lille.
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Ronny Bjones
Senior Architect, Identity & Security Division - Microsoft (Belgium) |
Ronny
Bjones currently is working for Microsoft Corporate as senior architect
in the identity & security division. Ronny joined Microsoft in 2002
to contribute in trustworthy computing. Later he became the EMEA
security lead for Microsoft’s enterprise business.
He has 27 years of experience in ICT, 21 of those in security.
Ronny published QuEST together with several industry specialists in the
subject of electronic signatures. The book is a comprehensive
guide on how to implement Electronic Signatures solutions and can be
downloaded from microsoft.com (http://tinyurl.com/8428q).
Ronny also co-authored “Best Practice for Applications using the
electronic Identity Card”.
Ronny oversees the whole areas of security but has a special interest
in smart cards, PKI, Identity Metasystem, cryptography and digital
signatures.
Ronny is a board member of EEMA (www.eema.org), an organisation
providing guidance on e-Business.
Ronny is also member of the ISSE program committee (www.isse.eu.com).
He is also member of the OASIS Security Conference
(http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008) program committee and
the World-eID program committee.
Since ‘89 he is active in the field of Information Security doing large
projects for the European Central banks, Police forces, big financial
institutes, European Commission, etc.
Ronny Bjones was one of the four founders of Utimaco Belgium, where he
worked ten years as R&D director. Before Utimaco Ronny worked for a
Belgian EFT specialist called Prodata and one of the first firms to
specialize in cryptography in Europe called Cryptech.Ronny Bjones is an
active speaker on conferences. |
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Werner Blessing
CEO - Biometry.com (Switzerland) |
| Mr.
Werner Blessing is the Chairman and CEO of Biometry.com. He has
directed companies in Germany, United Kingdom, France and Switzerland
for over 20 years. He was winner of the Swiss Marketing Trophy in 2002
with a company in the consumer market achieving 95% public brand
recognition. He has joined the biometric market in 2003, initially as
co founder of a company producing software for biometric passports.
Soon, he invented and patent protected a multimodal simultaneous
biometric authentication procedure. To develop and market specifically
this product, called ComBiom, (Communication Biometrics), he founded
Biometry.com. Werner Blessing began his career in Banking, followed by
studies of Business Management, specialized in Marketing. |
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Jacques Bus
Independent Consultant Trust in the Information Society |
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Kim Cameron
Chief Architect of Identity & Access - Microsoft |
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Didier Chaudun
Member of Eurosmart e-ID working group
Vice-President, e-Identity strategy adviser - Sagem Sécurité
President - GIXEL smart card group |
Expertise:
- Smart card technology and marketing, in particular for Payment, Identity, Healthcare and Identity Government applications
- Electronic payment: private and national e-purse, virtual e-purse
- Computer engineering
Experience:
- Product line management of large and medium series of industrial products
- Design and project management of application software, operating systems and database management systems
- DEA in Computer engineering |
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Charles de Couessin
Consultant - ID Partners (France) |
| Charles de Couessin is a consultant in pioneering IT sectors like aviation and electronic ID. He is a former Development Director at SITA, a major service provider of the air transport industry. He has launched various projects on passengers’ facilitation and security since the 09/11 events. He contributes to several EC funded programs and works as an expert for the French government and standardization bodies: ANTS, AFNOR, CEN, ENISA…. in parallel to various consulting activities in aviation and document security. Charles graduated from London Imperial College (Royal School of Mines) and Paris Universities. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Christopher Edwards
CTO - Intercede (UK) |
| Dr.
Chris Edwards is the CTO at Intercede Ltd, a world-leading vendor of
identity and credential management software. He is responsible
for the ‘MyID’ product, which is widely deployed in commercial and
government installations. |
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Christoph Fischer
Researcher - St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences (Austria) |
1997-2009: Bachelor Software & Information Engineering at Vienna University of Technology
Since June 2009: Master Software Engineering & Internet Computing at Vienna University of Technology
Since July 2009: Research activity at the Institute of IT Security
Research, St Poelten University of Applied Sciences
Works on the research project FaceMOC (Face matching on chip) at St.
Poelten University of Applied Sciences. This project deals with face
recognition implemented on resource-constrained chip-cards to increase
and/or replace existing security methods |
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Xiang Gao
Vice President, Product and Marketing - Watchdata (China) |
Dr.
Sean Xiang GAO, Vice President, Product and Marketing, Watchdata System
Co., Ltd. His interests focus mainly on smart card, information
security and so on. |
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Marjo Geers
Consultant - Collis (The Netherlands) |
Marjo
Geers, Ph.D., has more than 10 years of experience in IT-security,
focusing on PKI, smart cards and secure electronic transactions and
data exchange. Marjo has been involved in projects about health cards
for medical professionals (UZI-passes in the Netherlands), eID cards,
and electronic driver licenses working both on the cards and
middleware. Marjo participates in the European Citizen Card working
group (CEN WG224 TC15). |
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Martin George
CEO - Smart Sensors Limited (UK) |
Martin
George is CEO of Smart Sensors Limited, based at the University of
Bath’s Innovation Centre. Founded on the video analytics algorithm
research of Professor Don Monro, the company works with a variety of
partners to build iris recognition engines for their camera products
and systems. Recent work has focused on the challenges of combining
logical and physical access control to buildings and computing
resources, while maintaining low product cost and high human usability
factors.
Martin holds a
Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK),
and has extensive experience of developing business around the
incubation and licensing of Intellectual Property. |
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Sławomir Górniak
Technical Competence Department - European Network and Information
Security Agency, ENISA |
| Sławomir
Górniak, CISSP, is a telecommunications engineer focused on network
security. Currently he is working at ENISA (European Network and
Information Security Agency), where he is involved in the areas of
Privacy & Trust, electronic IDs and Resilience of public
communication networks. He is the co-author of ENISA reports on
electronic identity management and interoperability issues. He is also
responsible for following up European security related R&D projects
and technical developments in standardization. In the past he was
involved among others in technology risk management, incident handling
policies and systems of early recognition of network attacks. |
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Carloman Grelu
EMEA ASPAC e-ID Business Development - Inside Contactless (France) |
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Carloman GRELU is a regional sales engineer at INSIDE Contactless
focusing on secure identity and e-documents. He joined the company in
2006 as product engineer and was involved with validating the company’s
first NFC silicon. Prior to INSIDE, he was at STMicroelectronics’
R&D center in Crolles, France. M. GRELU has a PhD in
microelectronics from University of Lyon, France. |
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John B. Harris, CISSP
Product Manager, Electronic Signatures & Security Alliances,
Digital Enterprise Solutions Business Unit -
Adobe Systems, Incorporated (USA) |
As product manager for electronic signatures & security alliances at Adobe Systems, Harris guides the strategy for Adobe’s broad electronic signature and approval capabilities across a range of client and server-side products, from click-thru approvals to complex digital and certification signatures. Harris also manages relationships with over 20 partners whose security technologies extend and add value to Adobe’s security framework. These technologies include biometrics, digital signatures, encryption, rights management, single sign-on, smart cards, and much more.
Harris joined Adobe in 2006. He spent the previous six years at Sony Electronics as a product marketing manager in the company’s Media and Application Solutions Division. In this position, he worked with Sony’s security offerings, specifically fingerprint biometric & cryptographic devices. Prior to Sony, he spent five years in biometric sensor product marketing at Thomson CSF, the semiconductor division of which is now owned by Atmel. Thomson CSF specialized in semiconductor solutions for military systems and consumer electronics.
Over the past 15 years, Harris has developed an expertise in electronic signatures, biometrics, strong authentication, & digital certificates. He is a frequent speaker on these topics.
Harris holds a Bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts, and earned a Master’s degree in international security policy studies from George Washington University. Harris also holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. |
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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. |
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Dr. Detlef Houdeau
Senior Director - Business Development Identification,Chip Card & Security ICs business Infineon Technologies AG (Germany) |
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Detlef Houdeau is the Senior Director for Business Development in the
government Identification (ID) market segment under the Chip Card &
Security ICs (Integrated Circuits) business unit. As the head of
Business Development based in Germany, Houdeau is responsible for
worldwide sales, customers and partners in the ID segment. The projects
include combinations of IT security, biometric systems, digital
signature, infrastructure systems for issuing ID card and e-passport.D.
Houdeau is active in the Smart Card and ID industry and participates in
the following industry organizations: Member of EUROSMART in Brussels,
Belgium (www.eurosmart.com), member of SILICON TRUST, London, UK
(www.silicon-trust.com), Head of the expert committee, of BITKOM,
Berlin, Germany (www.bitkom.de), member of LSP ICT STORK
(www.eid-stork.eu), Member of the EU-Funding project BioP@ss
(www.biopass.eu/ComDescription.aspx) and Chairman of the Program
Committee (PC) of the annual security conference called WORLD-eID. |
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Zdenek Jiricek
Managing Director, e-Government Infrastructure Solutions - Microsoft WW Public Sector |
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Zdenek was appointed Managing Director e-Government Infrastructure
Solutions, within the Corporate Public Sector team, in February 2009.
He is responsible for developing the solution selling strategy, partner
relations, and engagement with large Government opportunities in the
areas of secure identity and access, virtualization / green IT, and
government private cloud solutions worldwide. Prior to his current
role, from 2006 Zdenek was responsible for Government programs in
Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Prior to that, he was Public
Sector Director of Microsoft Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) based
in Munich, Germany, where he led a regional team responsible for
government and education sales and marketing in the CEE region. Zdenek
graduated with a degree in Computer Science at the Technical University
of Brno, Czech Republic. He joined Microsoft in 1993, and worked in
various roles while based in Prague, Brussels, and Munich. |
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Károly Kondorosi
Associate
professor - Budapest University of Technology and Economics -Department
of Control Engineering and Information Technology (Hungary) |
Studies
and Degrees: Electrical Engineering (MSc), Technical University of
Budapest (1964-69); PhD in informatics, Technical University of
Budapest, 1997; Dr. Univ., Technical University of Budapest, 1980.
Research fields: System design methodology, service-oriented integration, modelling in law
Professional activity: President of Committee for Informatics Education, VIK, BUTE
Board-member of NESSI-Hungary (Technological Platform of Software and Services)
Membership: John von Neumann Computer Society, Scientific Society of Measurement and Automation |
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Mika Lauhde
Director, Business Security and Continuity - Nokia Corporation
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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 |
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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. |
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Benoit Liénart
Product Manager, Electronic Healthcare Solutions - Morpho (France) |
Benoît
Liénart is a Product Manager for Electronic Healthcare Solutions in
Morpho (SAFRAN Group). He began his career architecting and managing
telecommunications and IT projects for major French telecommunications
operators, and healthcare insurance companies. Benoît now leverages his
technical management skills and business knowledge to develop
electronic healthcare solutions in Morpho : from the enrolment of the
insured to the secure issuance of healthcare smartcards credentials and
the secure management of e-services.
Benoît Liénart graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications, where he specialized in Electrical
Engineering and Signal Processing. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Juha Murtopuro
CEO - Valimo Wireless (Finland) |
Mr.
Murtopuro has managed Valimo as the CEO since September 2008, and today
he is also leading the Valimo sales. Murtopuro joined Valimo in spring
2008 as SVP, Sales and Marketing. In his first role he lead the growth
of Valimo's worldwide business and the expansion Valimo Mobile ID into
a global solution for highly secure authentication.
Before joining
Valimo, Murtopuro has worked as the Chief Marketing Officer at the
location and navigation service provider Wayfinder Systems Ab which was
recently acquired by Vodafone. In 2007, Wayfinder acquired mobile phone
navigation company Navicore, where Murtopuro worked as the CEO.
Prior to Navicore, he has worked in various global management roles at
Nokia including Sales Director for China and Asia-Pacific region.
Murtopuro has MS in economics from Helsinki School of Economics. |
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Libor Neumann
Senior Consultant - ANECT (Czech Republic) |
Libor
Neumann has worked in many different projects dealing with ICT
infrastructure for government in Czech Republic for more than10 years.
He is author or co-author of several conceptual and strategic documents
dealing with e-government.
He has focused to electronic cooperation between different government
subjects and to electronic identity and electronic services access
management for many years. |
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Gillian Ormiston
Director Business development Identification Solutions - Morpho (France) |
| Ms
ORMISTON has held positions in both the private and government sectors
involving solutions design and consulting over the past 19 years.
Her current post involves ensuring that identification solutions
involving biometrics (face, finger, iris) and identity documents meet
and anticipate future operational requirements across both the
governmental and commercial fields. Over the past 3 years, she
has been involved in a number of governmental projects involving
biomeric enrolment solutions, the creation of an identity assurance
solution across a Ministry of Justice information chain, Mobile AFIS
solutions for border control, the development of a facial recognition
solution for driving licences and a biomeric identifcation solution
for the banking industry. |
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Patrice Plessis
Biop@ss technical board chair, Government Affairs & Standard Director - Gemalto |
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Gilles Polin
Head of Government Solutions EMEA -
Adobe Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) |
Gilles Polin is the lead manager of Government initiatives for Adobe EMEA.
His responsibilities include defining and implementing Government Industry business strategy in the EMEA region as well as developing and promoting Adobe partners’ solutions in all fields of Government across Europe.
Polin joined Adobe EMEA in August 2010 after working in a variety of roles for the last 23 years – including software engineering, marketing program management, sales management, European Union government relations and eGovernment leadership in EMEA – for Microsoft and HP.
He holds a master of science degree in electronics engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique-Electronique-Automatique of Paris.
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Volker Reible
Vice President - T-Systems International GmbH, STORK project |
Volker Reible studied computer science and economics at Technical University Berlin.
He started his professional career at Telematik Services GmbH. Afterwards, he worked as a scientific assistant / lecturer at Technical University Berlin. Later, Volker Reible worked at Nixdorf Computer AG in Berlin and Munich.
Volker Reible joined Deutsche Telekom Group in 1989 as Senior Project Manager for national and European projects in the R&D affiliate Berkom. He continued as Director “International projects” and as Member of the Management Board. From August 2000 until January 2003 he was the General Manager of Berkom. Later, he was responsible for the innovation activities of T-Systems. Now he works as Vice President Large Scale Project Management in the markets telecommunications and public/e-government/healthcare with focus on security projects and solutions.
Since 1990 Volker Reible has regularly worked for the European Commission as an expert, evaluator and rapporteur. He was as expert the German representative in the G7 initiative “information society”. In parallel, he built up the European ATM network as project manager as well as the connections to US and Canada. He was also active in the PAC (Programme Advisory Committee) of CANARIE and founded the cooperation between Berkom and the CRC Labs in Ottawa. He was member of the board of directors from HEXAGO, Quebec/Canada.
In project STORK Volker Reible is the German project manager, coordinating the German partners/subcontractors, and leader of application pilot 1 "cross border authentication". |
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Péter Károly Risztics (Ph.D.)
Director
- Centre of Information Technology & Associate Professor,
Department of Control and Informatics - Budapest University of
Technology and Economics (Hungary) |
Studies
and Degrees: Electrical Engineering (MSc), Technical University of
Budapest (1964-69); Ph. D. degree, Hungarian Academy of Science, 1988;
Dr. Univ. degree, Technical University of Budapest, 1980.
Research fields: Informatics, Computer Science, Software Engineering
Professional activity: Member of Nation Committee for Communication and
Informatics (1998-); President of NESSI-Hungary (Technological Platform
of Software and Services (2008-). |
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Bruno Rouchouze
Convenor of Eurosmart eID Working Group - Eurosmart |
Bruno
Rouchouze, mathematics applied and computer engineer, obtained a thesis
in image processing at CNRS in 1995. He integrated the Gemplus Group in
1997.
Since 1998, he managed the Information Security Group whose principal
missions were: infrastructure security in prudent product engineering,
threat analyses and flaw identification, and security
evaluations. His group obtained first Common Criteria
certificates in the world at levels EA1+ & EAL5+ for Java Card,
EAL4 for native OS, and EAL4 augmented with AVA_VLA.4 for a smart
card. He was Chairman of the Eurosmart Security Working Group and
Convenor of International Smart card Certification Initiatives (ISCI)
for five years. Bruno became the Deputy Director for the Applied Research and Security Center at Gemplus in 2004.
Bruno integrated the ID Department of Gemalto as senior expert in 2005.
After ID standards management, he manages governmental affairs for all
ID topics (ePassport, eID, eHealth, eResident, eDL, eRegistration,
eVisa…) at Gemalto. He is the current Chairman of the Eurosmart’ ID
group and the vice-President of the Gixel’ smart card group in France |
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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. |
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Marlies Rybnicek
Researcher - St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Institute of IT Security Research (Austria) |
2001-2006: Bachelor Medical Informatics at Vienna University of Technology
2006-2009: Master Medical Informatics at Vienna University of Technology
2006-2010: Master Computer Science Management at Vienna University of Technology
Since July 2009: Research and teaching activities at the Institute of
IT Security Research, St Poelten University of Applied Sciences.
Works on the research project FaceMOC (Face matching on chip) at St.
Poelten University of Applied Sciences. This project deals with face
recognition implemented on resource-constrained chip-cards to increase
and/or replace existing security methods |
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Amardeo Sarma
Senior Manager - NEC Laboratories Europe |
Amardeo
C. Sarma received his Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1977 and his Master’s degree
(Diplom-Ingenieur) from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1980,
both in Electrical Engineering.
He was at Deutsche Telekom and
predecessor from 1981 to 1995, where he participated in several
internal and international projects dealing with signalling, protocols,
ATM, middleware and specification techniques. In 1995, he joined
EURESCOM GmbH in Heidelberg as Project Supervisor, where he supervised
international Projects in the area of software technologies,
middleware, ATM and IP. In April 2001, he joined NEC Laboratories
Europe in Heidelberg, where he is currently responsible as Senior
Manager for Security and Identity Management.
Amardeo was Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 10 from 1996 – 2001 and then
Co-Chairman of the combined Study Group 17 on “Data Networks and
Teleccommunication Software” until 2004. Since 2009, he is Chairman of
the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Identity and access management
for Networks and Services (ISG INS). He is ACM Member and IEEE Senior
Member. |
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Frank Schipplick
Head of Sales & Prokurist - Bremen Online Services (Germany)
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Frank
Schipplick (born in 1963) holds a master degree in mathematics
(Diplom-Mathematiker) of the University of Bielefeld. Since December
2004 Frank Schipplick is employee of bremen online services (bos), a
software company which producing secure eGovernment solution. His
position is Head of Sales and authorised signatory for bos. For the
PEPPOL project Frank is the WP1 manager on eSignatures.
Before he was working for 2 years for EDS, specialized in the field of
IT-Security, electronic payment systems, biometrics and smart card
applications. From 1998 till 2002 Frank was working as Managing
Consultant for Eutelis Consult GmbH. In this position he was
responsible for the competence centre „Smart Cards, electronic payment
systems and IT-security. Further professional career steps before were:
1995 - 1997: Product Marketing Manager und Area Sales Manager at
Schlumberger Technologies GmbH, Munich for Smart Cards and Smart Card
Terminals. From 1991- 1995 he held the position of a Project Manager at
the department Information Security of the Institute of Information
Technology, RWTÜV Anlagentechnik GmbH, Essen. In 1991 Mr Schipplick
worked as an insurance mathematican at the EUROPA Versicherung, Cologne. |
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Christian Schmitz
Senior IT Security Consultant - AuthentiDate International AG (Germany)
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Christian
is Senior IT Security Consultant at AuthentiDate International AG in
Germany. Since joining AuthentiDate in 2005 he and his team
successfully implemented two of the largest Public Key Infrastuctures
in Europe. Before that he established certificate services for
the military sector and implemented information security management
systems (ISMS) according the international standard ISO/IEC
27001:2005.
He holds
several professional certifications including CISSP, CEH, MCSE:Security
and many more. In the past he delivers Technet security classes
for Microsoft and wrote several security articles published by the
Linux Magazin |
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Jon Shamah
EMEA Sales Manager - BBS (Norway)
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| Jon
is a graduate of Aeronautics & Astronautics. His experience spans
over 13 years involvement in Identity Management and Transaction
Security. He specialises in the business exploitation of large scale
Public Key Infrastructures. Jon Shamah is a Professional Consultant and
is Head of European Sales of eSecurity at BBS Norway. Jon is a Vice
Chairman of EEMA (www.eema.org) and was awarded the 2009 Fellowship
Award for Services to European eID. |
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Mario Stoltz
Product Manager - NXP Semiconductors (Germany)
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Mario
Stoltz is a Product Manager at NXP Semiconductors, focusing on Secure
Identity products. He graduated with an MS EE from the Technical
University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany in 1997. Before joining NXP in
early 2007, Mario has gained experience in the fields of fiber-optic
communications, ASIC design and electromagnetic compatibility. He is a
regular speaker at eGovernment focused industry events. |
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Ulrich Stutenbäumer
Technology Consultant - Giesecke & Devrient (Germany)
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Ulrich
Stutenbäumer (PhD) is technology consultant at Giesecke & Devrient
GmbH, Munich (Germany) since 2001, in the R&D Smart Cards division.
He coordinates security evaluations of Smart Card products according
Common Criteria and FIPS 140-2 especially in the area of electronic
identity cards. |
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Dr.
Shaun Topham
Coordinator of EU IST Projects - Sheffield City Council (UK) |
Read Economics at Cambridge
University and European Studies
at the University of Bradford
where he was a Research Fellow.
Taught for the Open University.
Researcher at UK Parliament.
For ten years was a politician
sitting on Calderdale Metropolitan
Council. Led the project PDWeb,
developing "public access
for the unskilled" to the
information society, which was
awarded the EU "e.Government
label" at the EU Ministerial
e.Government Conference of 2001.Co-ordinated
a Group of fellow "e.Government
label" winners which led
to further co-operation with
other recognised Best Practice
cities such as Bremen, Tampere,
Torino, Bologna etc. Sheffield
again won the award in 2003
for the world's largest online
election, using smartcards.
Joint winners with rest of S.Yorkshire
with EASY CONNECTS in 2005.
Responsible for co-ordinating
Sheffield's EU IST Projects,
including six current the eTen
Projects and Interreg project
Hanse Passage. Represented Sheffield
on National Smartcard Project
and Smartcities Interest group.
On Board of eForum, disseminating
European Best Practise. Founding
Director of the European Centre
for SmartMedia and eInclusion
currently being established
in the city. Committee member
of World eID Conference and
of UK Cabinet Office Smartcard
Working Group. Senior Advisor
to EU-China IST Project.
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Tomas Trpisovsky
President & CEO - Institut Mikroelektronickych (Czech Republic) |
President & CEO, Institut mikroelektronickych alikaci s.r.o (IMA) – Czech Republic
Tomas Trpisovsky (Dilp.Eng. PhD) as one of founders is heading
Institute of Microelectronic Application since 1992. This Czech SME
became internationally recognized R&D partner in FP6, FP7,eTen,
ENIAC,ARTEMIS, Eurostars projects.
TT is member of EFMI WG PPD and representing CZ in ISO and CEN bodies.
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Andre Uuldriks
Driving Licences Unit Manager - RDW (Netherlands)
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| Andre
Uuldriks is 37 years of age and has it's roots within Marketing and
Business Administration. Andre is working with the RDW for 12,5 years
and had different jobs within different fields but most of the time as
business consultant. The last 2,5 year he is the manager of the Driving
License unit and responsibly for issueance of the driving licenses in
the Netherlands. Andre is involved in the eDriving License project from
the start and is one of the driving forces behind it. |
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Guy Vancollie
Marketing - Corestreet - An ActivIdentity Company (USA)
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Guy
Vancollie is Managing Director of GVC Consulting and provides marketing
and international business development advisory and consulting services
for e-security companies.
Previously he was VP Marketing for CoreStreet, leading provider of
credential validation solutions, now an ActivIdentity company, and CMO
for Ubizen, leader in Managed Security Services, now part of Verizon
Business.
Earlier in his career Guy was SVP Marketing and MD EMEA for
CipherOptics, managed field marketing for RSA Security, was director of
EMEA marketing for AltaVista, and held several positions with Digital
Equipment Corp.
Mr. Vancollie has spoken on Internet and security topics at conferences
such as IT Asia and EEMA, as well as Gartner Sector 5, Infosecurity
Europe and the RSA Conference. Mr. Vancollie earned a master of science
degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Ghent, a
degree in management from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and
a MBA from MIT Sloan. |
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Gauthier Van Damme
Researcher - K.U.Leuven, ESAT/SCD/COSIC (Belgium) |
| Gauthier
Van Damme has been a researcher at the Computer Security and Industrial
Cryptography group (COSIC) at the K.U. Leuven since 2008. He works on
mobile security and NFC security in particular and was involved in
different NFC related projects. |
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Rene Van den Assem
Principal consultant - Verdonck - Klooster & Associates (Netherlands) |
| René
van den Assem has a background in computer science and computer
security. As a consultant to many (often government) projects, he has
been actively involved in e-signatures and e-authentication since the
mid-nineties. René chaired the EESSI Steering Group for e-signature
standardization from 2001 to its closure in 2004. |
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Dr. K. Aniyan C. Varghese
ICT for Government and Public Services - European Commission |
| At
the European Commission Dr Varghese is responsible for the policy
development and implementation of electronic identity management for
eGovernment services in the EU. He is also steering the activities on
electronic identification and authentication in the proposed Digital
Agenda for Europe. He works in the ICT for Government and Public
Services Unit, in the DG Information Society, and has wide experiences
at the Commission in policy development and research programme
management in eGovernment, trust and security, software systems, and
new methods of work. |
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Emmanuel Ventadour
Director, Strategy & Product Marketing, Government Programs - Gemalto (France) |
Emmanuel Ventadour serves Gemalto as Director, Strategy & Product Marketing, Government Programs. Markets covered include passports, national IDs, resident cards, driving licenses and healthcare cards. He is based in Paris, France.
Mr. Ventadour, 36, joined Gemalto (Gemplus at the time) in 2001 in the Telecom Business Unit's Strategy Division. In 2004, he joined the ID & Security Business Unit as Strategy & Marketing Manager. He was located in Helsinki from 2006 to 2009, following the acquisition of Setec, Finland's former National Printer. His scope of responsibility expanded in 2009 to include Product Marketing.
Prior to joining Gemalto, Mr. Ventadour was Consultant at Dictis, a Paris-based strategy consulting firm focused on electronic trust. He previously served as Consultant at Atos, focused on billing and customer relationship management in the Telecom and Internet fields.
Mr. Ventadour graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité (Supélec), France in 1997 and from Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN), France in 2006. |
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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. |
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Francis Weiss
Program Director - Morpho, Border Control Programs (France) |
| Aged
53, Francis Weiss is graduated from the French Ecole Polytechnique and
Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace. He was
also a military licensed pilot. Since 2000, he is Sagem Sécurité
airport program manager, presently in charge of the projects VISABIO
and PARAFES. |
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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). |
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Eva Winer
PsycSEARCH Product Manager -
American Psychological Association (USA) |
Eva
Winer joined the American Psychological Association in 1992 and is
managing user experience and interface design for APA PsycNET, a
platform for research databases in psychology.
Eva started her career in information science in 1986 with the National
Research Institute of Medical Information in Moscow, Russia, where she
was involved in the development of medical databases and
decision-support systems.
She studied mathematics and psychology at Herzen University
in St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds a Master of Science in
Information Systems from Russian State University for Humanities,
Moscow.
Eva's current interests include digital researcher identity, reputation systems and psychology of trust. |
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Sarah Xin Ye
Senior Industry Manager, Product and Marketing - Watchdata (China) |
| Ms Sarah got her Master degree in 2004 in Computer Science & Information Security. She joined Watchdata in 2005 and served as technical leader in research department for almost 4 years and then joined the product & marketing department and took the Senior Industry Manager position until now. Her scope of responsibility covers the business development in the telecom and public services area. |
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Martina Zorko
Area specialist - Health insurance card (HIC) system sector
ZZZS (Health insurance institute of Slovenia) (Slovenia) |
| Martina
Zorko graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana
in 2001. Since then she has been employed as HIC system engineer at the
Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia, where she deals with the
development of the HIC system and managing projects, for example
recording of the issued medicine on the card, recording of the organ
donation statement on the card, introduction of new professional cards,
introduction of SMS solution for field health care workers,
e-prescription ... She is actively involved in the international
project Netc@rds and in the national eHealth project. |
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