NFC World Congress

Speakers

	John Ambrose President, Ambrose Connection, Canada
	John held senior management positions at MasterCard Worldwide for 15 years prior to starting Ambrose Connection Inc. in 2009. During his time at MasterCard he held positions with global responsibilty. He has been enaged in mobile payment initiatives since 2006 when he lead the regional teams for MasterCard’s Mobile Centre of Excellance.

	Dr. Nav Bains Business Lead Mobile NFC Services, GSMA, UK
	Nav Bains, Senior Director Mobile Money, GSMA. Nav is responsible for the mobile money initiatives in the GSMA, primarily involved in the Pay-Buy-Mobile (PBM) initiative where Near Field Communications (NFC) is used to enable SIM-based mobile payments. Nav has been project director on PBM since its inception in 2007 and which today boasts over 61 Mobile Network Operators participating in the project and with the first commercial service launches beginning to happen. Nav has been with GSMA for over 4 years and has over 22 years experience in the telecommunications industry.

	Deborah Baxley Principal, Financial Services Business Unit, Cap Gemini, USA
	Deborah Baxley is a Principal with Capgemini Financial Services Consulting. She is a recognized expert in the payments industry and 30-year IBM veteran with 20 years consulting experience in 14 countries. She possesses in-depth experience in mobile payments and credit cards. She is an officer on the Smart Card Alliance Payments Council, advisory Board Member at Brighter Planet, socially responsible company helping manage and mitigate carbon emissions using cutting-edge analytics linked to payment cards, and Certified Smart Card Industry Professional. She is a frequent keynote speaker and prolific author on topics of mobile and advanced payments innovation.

	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.

	Anne Bouverot Director General and Member of the Board, GSMA
	Anne brings to the GSMA a wealth of experience and a proven track record of success in the highly dynamic mobile industry. With a deep understanding of the opportunities and the challenges facing mobile operators today, she leads the GSMA in driving strategic programmes and initiatives for the benefit of its membership. Before joining the GSMA, Anne was Executive Vice President for Mobile Services for France Telecom Orange. In that role, she defined the strategic priorities and led transformation programmes for the mobile business, and was also responsible for the selection of mobile devices sold to customers with mobile offers. In 2010, this represented more than 120 million mobile customers, 29 million new mobile phones distributed and more than 14 billion euro in revenue. She previously was responsible for international business development at France Telecom Orange, and her achievements include the privatisation of Telkom Kenya, new mobile licences in Armenia and Tunisia, and partnerships in Portugal and UAE. Prior to France Telecom Orange, Anne led a 600-person business unit of Equant and was responsible for developing IT services for Equant’s multinational business customers. She began her career in telecommunications as project manager for Telmex in Mexico in 1991. Anne holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and computer science from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and an M.S. degree from Telecom Paris. She has served on the Board of the GSMA, representing France Telecom Orange, for the past two years. She also serves as a non-executive director of Groupama, a major French insurance company, and as a non-executive director of Edenred, the world leader of prepaid corporate services.

	Oliver Burke General Manager Business Development, Bell ID, Netherlands
	Oliver joined Bell ID in 1999 and has been the architect of several strategic government and financial deals and extended Bell ID’s market reach by establishing a solid partner network and strategic alliances all over the world. Prior to joining Bell ID, Oliver has obtained a Master’s degree in Business Planning and Coordination

	Cyril Caillaud Manager NFC Product Line & Devices Partnership, Morpho, e-Documents Division, France
	Cyril Caillaud is Manager NFC Product Line & Devices Partnerships at Morpho, e-Documents Division. Before he was Product Marketing Manager at Mobiwire (formerly Sagem Wireless), responsible for the NFC, Luxury and Androïd product lines. Prior to this, he was responsible for SMS & Payment Gateway platforms at Netsize and Technical Account Manager at Sagem Mobiles in charge of various worldwide zones & T-Mobile Intl. Group. Cyril began his career at SFR, where he was responsible for SFR’s Hotspot roll out.

	Thibaud Cavin GFI Labs Director, GFI Informatique, France
	Thibaud CAVIN is director of GFI Labs, the R&D laboratory at GFI informatique which has a technology watch and expertise role. It relies on innovation to develop new offers and update existing ones in areas as mobile and wireless technologies (Smartphones, NFC, M2M)

	Jay Chinnadorai Marketing Director Contactless, Everything Everywhere

	Toon Coppens Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Wallet Service, Belgium
	Toon Coppens is marketing director of the Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Wallet Service, providing turnkey mobile payment and marketing solutions to operators and enterprises in developed and emerging countries since 2008. Prior to that, he was involved at Alcatel-Lucent ventures and Alcatel in mobile advertising, IPTV, user generated content and web 2.0 products. He received a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001 at VUB in Brussels (Belgium).

	Lawrence Cosh-Ishii Director, Mobikyo, Japan
	Based in Tokyo since 2001, dedicated to covering the mobile industry, I’ve gained a unique understanding of – and developed a wide network of contacts with – telcom operators, handset makers as well as many content, application and service providers both in Japan and abroad.

	Etienne Costes Partner, Greenwich Consulting

	Jean-Paul Cottet Executive Vice President, Marketing an Innovation, Orange
	Jean-Paul Cottet, 55, who attended the Ecole Polytechnique-Télécom, is Executive Vice President, Marketing and Innovation. He has had a highly varied career within the Group since he joined, working in the Marketing and Sales departments, the Public Shareholding department for the initial public offering, the Paris Region directorate as well as in the Communications and External Relations, Information Systems, and International departments, then has been Director of the Enterprise activity for France since 2008.

	Dominique Descolas Head of Digital Services, Veolia Transdev, France
	Dominique has joined in 2004 Veolia Transport (Europe’s leading private operator of public transportation). He is coordinating Veolia automatic fare collection systems projects, and supervises development of new range of innovative services, especially on mobile phones. He has initiated Veolia NFC field trials (2005 in Nice, 2007 in Provence district, 2008 in Bordeaux) which has fed BPASS: Veolia "solution" for services on mobile phone, ticketing + passenger information + infotainment. BPASS is commercially in operation in Nice (France) since June 2010. Before joining Veolia, Dominique has worked 15 years in electronic transactions (for Gemalto, Parkeon, and Sema), in marketing, business development and general management.

Jean-Claude Deturche
Senior VP Financial Trusted Services, Gemalto

Jean-Claude Deturche is senior vice-president Mobile Financial Services, encompassing NFC and other mobile payment activities, responsible for the related software and services supplied to telecom operators and banks worldwide.
Jean-Claude joined Schlumberger in France in 1990 and headed the software department of the Schlumberger Smart Card division for 5 years. His team pioneered the introduction of Java technology for smart cards. Then, based in Hong-Kong, he took on the position of vice-president marketing and sales for smart cards for Asia where he actively participated in the development of the fast-growing GSM local markets. In 2001, following the acquisition of the IT company Sema by Schlumberger, he became vice-president consulting and services Asia for the combined entity, SchlumbergerSema.
Back to France in 2003, Jean-Claude was appointed vice-president strategic marketing of Schlumberger Smart Cards. In May 2004, he played a key role in the creation of Axalto and its IPO.
Jean-Claude Deturche holds a master in computer science from the University of Lyon in France.

John Devlin
Group Director, AutoID and Smart Cards, ABI Research, UK

Research Focus: As Group Director, AutoID and Smart Cards, John Devlin focuses his research and management efforts on markets and technologies for smart cards and chip cards, authentication, identification, payments, and data protection. He also heads ABI Research’s services covering Mobile Money, RFID, and Security.

Past Experience, Memberships, Accolades and Media: John is an experienced market analyst and research director with strong relationship-building and sales skills. His research focus has been on mobile, contactless/NFC, smart cards, payment acceptance and ID. From 2001 until he joined ABI Research in 2010, he held positions of increasing seniority at IMS Research in the UK, eventually becoming Research Director, Financial & I.D. Technologies Group, a new business area which he developed for the firm.
Prior to his work at IMS, he served as Business Development and Technical Sales Engineer at PPC Cranfield Ltd, addressing western European markets for the company’s high precision, engineered composite machine bases and components.
John has spoken, sat on panels, and chaired a number of industry events, including Cartes, SIMposium, The Smart Event, NFC World Congress, NFC Payments Europe, and The Smart Card Club. He has chaired industry roundtables and taken part in GSM Association (GSMA) webinars that involved companies such as Barclays Bank, HSBC, Ingenico, MasterCard, Orange, Samsung and Velti. John has served as a judge for the GSMA for its Best Mobile Money Service since its inception and is a panel member for the SIMAlliance’s SIMagine industry awards.
He has also been quoted widely in industry publications such as Smart Insights, Payments, Cards & Mobile, NFC Times, Smart Card News, SecureID News; Card Technology Today, and others.

Education: John earned a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from De Montfort University.

	Dhananjay Dixit Business Development, Evolute Systems, India
	Dhananjay A Dixit is Head of Business Development for Evolute Systems Private Ltd, company specializing in embedded products design, development and manufacturing operating out of Bangalore, India. His prime responsibility promote Evolute products, handle business development, marketing and sales. Prior to Evolute he was associated with NXP Semiconductors for 7 years handling various roles in Applications Engineering. He completed his Electronics and Telecommunications Engg from University of Mumbai in 2001. He has a Post Graduate Diploma in VLSI Designing and PGD in Business Administration as well.

	Didier Durand Mobile Contactless Services Director, Orange
	Didier Durand began his career in 1993 in France Telecom Group. From 1998 to 2002, he was group internal auditor and had done recommendations to the top management of audited entities. He then joined the mobile activity as business owner on prepaid and loyalty information system on consumer market. From 2005 to 2007, as MNP (Mobile Number Portability) Program Director, he was responsible for the stage 2 of MNP implementation in France launched in May 2007. In January, 2008, he was promoted as Director of project transverse within the partnerships direction of Orange France. In addition, since April 2009, he became Mobile Contactless Services Director to deploy theses services in France, and especially to establish partnership with the contactless service providers. He is administrator in the boards of the AEPM (European association payez mobile: www.payezmobile.com), the AFSCM (French association of mobile contactless services: www.afscm.org) and the forum SMSC (French association created by the French government: www.forum-smsc.org). He graduated as engineer from INSA Lyon Information System speciality.

	Stephanie El Rhomri New Services Marketing Manager, FIME, France
	Stéphanie El Rhomri is employed by FIME and joined the company in 2007 after spending 10 years working as head of technical support for a portable and embedded terminal manufacturer. She created FIME’s international pre-sales force and today is in charge of developing new service offers for FIME. She works closely with all of FIME’s international offices in order to provide new services for the banking, transportation and telecom sectors. Stéphanie has recently taken the lead of the Transportation Sub-Task Force within GlobalPlatform.

	Laetitia Gazel-Anthoine CEO, Connecthings, France
	After several years in the mobile phone industry, Laetitia founded her own consultant firm in 2001. As a freelance consultant she worked for mobile operators, solution providers and technical consultancies. Her strong expertise in project management and her knowledge of the mobile phone industry, leaded her to found Connecthings in 2007.

	Didier Geiben Managing Partner, GM Consultants & Associés (France)
	Didier Geiben is a GM Consultants Managing Partner since 1992. Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telécommunications (Paris). Hhe spent 10 years with American Express (France,UK, USA). As a consultant he has been actively working on Payment, Telecom and innovation strategies.

	Thomas Gregory Head of Digital Consumer Payments, Barclaycard, UK
	Tom was appointed to Head of Digital Consumer Payments for Barclaycard at the start of 2010, and is responsible for the digital payments strategy, partner development, execution and delivery, and management of the digital payments service including NFC / mobile payments, online payments, and adjacent areas in the payments cycle. Prior to this role, he was Head of Change, Business and International with Barclaycard and had various roles in the Barclays Bank Group.

	Julien Groslambert Product Manager, NFC & Mobile Payment Solutions, Trusted Logic, France
	Julien Groslambert is Product Manager in the Professional & Consumer Devices Business Unit at Trusted Logic, where he’s responsible for NFC & Mobile Payment Solutions. Julien Groslambert was previously responsible for testing activities within Trusted Labs and he holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science, about Java security & testing.

	Jordi Guaus Head of Mobile Payment, La Caixa, Spain
	Jordi Guaus is Telecom Engineer from Polytechnic University of Catalonia and also holds a degree in Business Administration (Open University of Catalonia). He started working at "la Caixa" in 2000 after 5 years working in Vodafone (Spain) as Product and Service Development Manager for Corporate Market. At "la Caixa", Jordi has been working in Mobile Financial Services, developing services as Mobile Internet Banking and in the last 4 years has been focus on Mobile Payments working together with the Cards Unit of "la Caixa".Since 2008 is member of the Mobile Channel Working Group of the European Payments Council (EPC) working in the definition of the payments instruments and rules for mobile payments in SEPA (Single European Payments Area). Since 2009 is member of the Board of Directors of Mobey Forum that facilitates banks to offer Mobile Financial Services. In addition, Jordi is the Chair of the Business Working Group of Mobey Forum and currently is working in a white paper analyzing the Business Models for NFC (Near Field Communication). At "la Caixa" he is also focus on mobile contactless payments and he is the Project Manager of "Mobile Shopping Sitges 2010", the first NFC trial in Spain that was launched in May 2010 jointly with Telefónica and Visa.

	Aymeric Harmand Business Developper, Oberthur Technologies, France
	Aymeric Harmand is Business Developer at Oberthur Technologies in charge of NFC products (TSM, Secure Elements, Mobile Applications) worldwide. He is also responsible of building a comprehensive vision of the NFC ecosystem’s stakes and key players. Moreover, in his role of Oberthur Technologies’ representative in AFSCM (Association Française du Sans Contact Mobile) and AEPM (Association Européenne Payez Mobile) he played an essential role to position Oberthur as a key contributor to the successful deployment of NFC in Nice. Aymeric joined Oberthur four years ago as NFC SIM Product Manager and has developed since then a unique experience of the NFC field. In his previous job position he was Market Studies Manager for mobile operators at TNS Sofres.

	Mary Carol Harris VP-Mobile Strategic Alliances, Visa Europe

	John Harvey Director, Business Development EMEA, ViVotech, Germany
	John Harvey is Business Development Manager for ViVOtech’s NFC Software products in the EMEA region. With 24 years experience in the payments industry including special expertise in mobile retail applications for the last 10 years, John is well positioned to recognize those mobile payments and mobile marketing platforms which can succeed and those which will not. Having studied computer engineering at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, prior to joining ViVOtech, John has worked with companies such as Trintech, Verifone and paybox.

	Robert Hasson Head of Mobile Development, Accenture
	Robert Hasson is the Accenture Mobility Services product manager for mCommerce solutions. With extensive experience in mobile architecture and solutions, Robert is also an expert in Machine-to-Machine as well as in networking and telephony infrastructure. Prior to his current role, he was the Accenture Technology Labs EALA Lead for mobility development.

	Dr. WonPyo Hong Executive Vice President of Global Product Strategy, Samsung Electronics, Mobile Communication Division

Dr. Francesco Iarlori
Editor & Independent Journalist, BizDev & Strategy – Managing Director

Francesco Iarlori (www.iarlori.com) has been active in the technology powered industry since the early 90s and has been an active management consultant liaising with multinational companies since this time. Past work includes the Iridium project in Arizona for Sun Microsystems and the WISHES project in Europe, which supported the first mobile payments systems in North and Southern Europe (involving Nokia, TeliaSonera, and Gemalto).

Francesco joined Omnitel in 1999 (now Vodafone Italy) where he participated in the Omnitel 2000 project (later Vodafone live!), subsequently moving to set up the Vodafone Business division. Francesco joined TTYL (the Telenor mobile branch) in 2001 and was instrumental in implementing the first cross messaging solution across Europe. Within Siemens he participated to defining and selling global solutions for media & content download, RFID-SMS parking systems and UMTS wireless camera systems. Since spring 2007 he has worked within the Value Partners Group working in the mobile commerce and mobile advertising arena developing new business models and aiding technological adoption such as NFC and QR codes within the retail and brand sectors.

Francesco covers the Managing Director position in the international consulting firm BizDev & Strategy active in Telco, Media, Finance & Transport space.

Francesco holds a degree in computer science from Pisa University (Italy) and is an active keynote speaker, columnist in industry magazines and blogs, as well as covering advisory roles within UN and EC projects. Francesco is the Editor of TheBestAdvise project (www.thebestadvise.com).

	Park Jang-Hyuk Director, Mobile Payment, KT Corp., Korea

	Mattias Johansson Eld Director of TSM services, Ericsson IPX
	Mattias Johansson is Director of TSM services at Ericsson IPX. Prior to his current position, Mattias was at Ericsson Research where he was active in NFC standardization in both NFC Forum (since 2007) and Global Platform (since 2009). He has also been involved in numerous European research projects, most notably the EU FP7 project SENSEI where he was manager for the Architecture Work Package. Apart from this Mattias has been involved in 3GPP standardization for M2M devices and is a holder of more than 10 patents and patent applications.

	Laurent Jullien President, AFSCM, France
	Laurent Jullien is Director of contactless services (mass transit, payment, loyalty…) in the new businesses Division of Bouygues Telecom, and President of the French Association for Mobile Contactless (wwwAFSCM.org). Laurent joined Bouygues Telecom in 1995 and held several positions including Back Office Director in charge of billing and collection as well as Director of fraud prevention and security. Prior to Bouygues Telecom Laurent has a 10 years track record in the credit card industry, in France (GIE Cartes Bancaires, Société Générale, Banques Populaires..) and in Europe (Hellenic Bank Association, Visa Europe).

Jayden Khakurel
CEO, Red Solution Finland

Jayden Khakurel completed his degree in communication engineering with business as Minor. In 2008 he founded Red Solution Finland Oy, specializing in solutions and products for NFC technology and applications. At Red solution he holds position of CEO, company which grew tremendously well not only in Finland but also within Europe.

Apart from managerial abilities Jayden Khakurel also has technical skills. Therefore he takes part in the technical details of key projects for Red Solution Finland Oy’ssignificant customers such as several city councils, Retail stores.
His current focus is on NFC technology both to support mobile operators, banks and other information service providers in leveraging the full potential of NFC and its related services.

Dawood Khan
Head m-Payment Think Tank, Partner, Redmobileco

Dawood’s passion is to drive strategic and complex initiatives involving the convergence of ICT with other industry verticals, through innovation and collaboration. Anticipating the emerging need created as a result of the convergence of the Mobile, Financial, and Retail sectors, in 2008, Dawood founded the Canadian Mobile Payments Think Tank, as partner at Red Mobile Consulting. The Think Tank brings together the top 25 thought leaders from Canada and the World to engage in devising an ecosystem-level strategy for the successful implementation of mobile payments in Canada. This initiative has resulted in several cross-industry market trials and has grown to include mobile transactions across transit, retail and other sectors. Dawood has also been instrumental in helping Municipalities and Public safety organizations leverage wireless technologies to better deliver services to their citizens, and to become open, connected and innovative cities. His work has directly led clients to win National Awards and Millions of dollars in funding for initiatives.

As Partner, he currently drives innovation at Red Mobile Consulting. Recognized for its innovative Methodology, Red Mobile provides independent, niche Management Consulting services to the Telecom, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Municipal and Public Safety Sectors. Previously, Dawood held roles in Engineering, Product Management, and Sales at Lucent Technologies. He has directly worked with executives and decision makers at global conglomerates at SK Telecom, KTF, NTT DoCoMo, Verizon, Sprint, Telcel, as well as all major Canadian operators. Prior to that, he established the wireless practice for the PSC Group in 1995, and guided key ICT firms including Nortel, Motorola, etc. on emerging wireless technologies and trends.

Dawood holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in New York, and Bachelors in Aerospace, Electronics and Computer Systems Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa. He enjoys writing, and his articles on strategy have been published in the Canadian Wireless Telecom Magazine; his expertise is frequently sought out by the media and he has been quoted on relevant topics by the Globe & Mail, National Post, Network World, and has been interviewed by CBC Radio. He sits on industry committees of the Wireless Telecom Association (CWTA) and has held roles as the Canadian Regional Director of the WiMAX Forum. Most recently, he has also been on the Strategic Board of Advisors of a major North American operator.

	Hoojong Kim SVP, Global Technology Research Institute, SK Telecom, Korea
	Hoojong Kim has been in charge of mobile device and service development in position of VP and SVP for over 20 years in SK Telecom R&D Center. He is now responsible for researching and sourcing new global technology and standardization of them.

	Thierry Koeberle Marketing & Product Director TSM Business Unit, Gemalto, France
	Thierry Koeberlé is Marketing and Product Director in the newly created TSM business unit at Gemalto. He has 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor and smart card industry, having held various management positions in both R&D and System Integration with the main objective of developing technology for card issuance and personalization infrastructure across market segments. In the past six years, Thierry has held several business positions to develop Services and Solutions for Government (Health & ID cards, ePassport) and the financial sector (EMV/Contactless migration, Instant Issuance, Picture cards programs…); he is calling up this experience to support NFC ecosystem development and associated service offering for Telecom Operators and Services Providers

	Pekka Koponen Development Director, Forum Virium representing the City of Helsinki

	Elena Korotkova NFC Program Manager, Processing Technologies Ltd, Russia
	Elena Korotkova graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University, majoring in Software Engineering. Has got vast experience of IT project management in retail banking industry.

	Jorn Lambert Head of Emerging Payments, MasterCard Europe

	Francois Lecomte Chair Conference Program Committee Managing Director Mobile Contactless Services Forum
	Francois Lecomte is managing the "mobile contactless services Forum" (Forum des services mobiles sans contact), a non-profit making association initiated by the French Ministry of Industry to centralize thoughts and reinforce synergies between stakeholders : MNO’s, banks, retail, transport and industry. The goal is to make commercial roll-out of NFC mobile phones happen in France. He is also heading Lobary, a strategic consulting firm focusing on innovation on mobile phones and contactless technologies. As a pioneer of innovative technologies, Francois played senior European executive roles at companies like MDSI/Ventyx (an ABB company focusing on mobile Workforce Management solutions in Telcos/Utility segments), Aspective UK Ltd (CRM and eBusiness solutions delivered over an SaaS model), Fujitsu Personal Systems (Tablet PC’s worldwide pioneer) and IBM France. He is graduated from the Paris ESLSCA Business School.

	Philippe Ledru Convergence and Solutions Europe Director, Oberthur Technologies, France
	After his study of Management at the ISG in Paris, Philippe Ledru joined Oberthur Technologies as Sales Manager Covering Africa and Western Europe. He held several Sales Management position in mobile or finance market. He participated to the creation of "Convergence and Solutions Europe" team that he is heading since May 2010. He represents Oberthur in both AEPM and AFSCM.association in charge of defining NFC usage and brand in France.

	Jérémie Leroyer CEO, Airtag, France
	• Former Marketing & Business development Director Index Europe (subsidiary of Index Corporation JASDAQ 4835). • Cofounder in 2002 of Haiku renamed Index Europe after acquisition by Index Corporation in 2004. • 3 years of Strategy Consulting for Arthur D. Little Paris Office, Telecommunications & Media practice. • ESCP-EAP / IEP Paris

	Christian Luehrs Managing Director, Stollmann, Germany
	Christian Luehrs, who holds a university degree in engineering (Dipl.-Ing), has been managing director of Stollmann E+V GmbH since 1999. Having studied telecommunications technology at Hamburg Technical College, he served – after a period in development – in sales, marketing, and project management at Stollmann E+V GmbH.

	Philippe Martineau Executive Vice President for Mobile NFC
	Philippe Martineau is responsible for the development of the group’s NFC-related business. He is tasked with properly defining and positioning the company’s services at the heart of this strategic sector, and with enhancing its market share. Prior to joining INSIDE, Philippe spent seventeen years working in the smart card industry with Gemplus. From 1989 to 1992, he became a veritable SIM card pioneer, during a period when this technological innovation was establishing itself as the worldwide cell phone standard. Subsequently, while based in the United States from 1995 to 1998, he set Gemplus’ GSM and mobile telephony business in motion. Upon returning to work at the firm’s French headquarters, he was handed the role of Product Manager for the Gemplus Telecom business unit, and later became Stategy Director. Philippe is a graduate of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Aix-Marseille, France).

	Pedro Martinez Business Development Manager for Mobile Transactions EMEA, NXP Semiconductors
	Pedro Martinez is Business Development Manager for Mobile Transactions EMEA at NXP Semiconductors. He has more than 25 years experience in the semiconductors industry, where he has held different senior marketing and sales positions in various market sectors and geographies. He engaged in the electronics identification markets in 2007, addressing the whole NXP Semiconductors market leader portfolio in ID technologies, mobile and secure transactions, contact and contactless, banking and e-government, NFC, RFID tags and labels and authentication. In 2007 he also founded Avant Studio S.L., company providing business development and relationship management services for the electronics and semiconductors industry.

	Roberto Mauro Director Strategy & Business Development, Samsung Electronics France
	Roberto Mauro joined Samsung in 2004, where he was a Director at Samsung Global Strategy Group. During his five years at Samsung Group headquarters in Korea, he led strategic projects in marketing, business development and corporate strategy in Europe, North America, China and Asia Pacific. He was also a business lecturer at Samsung HR Development Centre on leadership and marketing. In 2009 Mr. Mauro moved to France as Director of Strategy and Business Development of the French subsidiary office. Before joining Samsung, Mr. Mauro worked in European and US high-tech companies in international sales, marketing and business development roles, most recently with Cisco Systems. Mr. Mauro holds an MSc in Electronics Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Milan (Italy) and an MBA from IMD (Switzerland). A dual citizen of USA and Italy, he also studied Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University (China).

	Pierre Metivier Associate and co-founder, NET-7, an IT consulting network Blogger, “Avec ou sans contact”, a blog focussed on contactless technologies and innovation
	Within NET-7, Pierre is helping SMEs to understand and integrate in their innovation strategy and development, the new digital technologies and specifically those around contactless (including RFID/NFC) and the Internet of Things. Pierre is also sharing his ideas around innovation and contactless technologies in the “Avec ou sans contact” blog and on Twitter: PierreMetivier. Prior to NET-7, Pierre has been part of the development of two major and exciting technology adventures, the micro-computing (Commodore, Apricot, Borland) in the 80′s and the Internet (CompuServe, AOL) in the mid 90′s in product marketing executives roles in France, Europe and in the US.

Thierry Millet
Vice President, Mobile Payments and Contactless
France Telecom-Orange

Thierry Millet is Vice President for Mobile Payments and Contactless Services, and is in charge of mobile payment activities and development of contactless services across the group?s footprint. This area is one of six strategic programmes driven by Stephane Richard, CEO of The CEO of the France Telecom-Orange Group and launched since May 2011.

Before assuming responsibility for this area, Thierry played a vital role in making Romania the country?s Number One operator as its Chief Executive Officer of Orange Romania where under his leadership, he improved and maintained its value share and built the Orange brand and business successfully despite the worst economic crisis in Romania?s history.

Thierry also previously headed up the Commercial operations of Orange Romania as Chief Commercial Officer for over 3 years. During that time, he was responsible with customer service, marketing and sales for consumer and enterprise customers. As CCO, Thierry achieved the milestone of securing 10 million customers in March 2008, launched HSPA services and helped to establish Orange Romania firmly as one of the country?s leading operators.

Thierry?s career with France Telecom-Orange spans over twenty years, and he has held a variety of international senior roles, such as Regional Director Sales Unit ?Pays de la Loire?, Chief Information Officer of Intelig Brazil, Sales and Distribution Methods Director Mass Market Division.

A 46 year old French national, Thierry graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1986 and the National School of Telecommunications in 1988.

	Yin Ming Senior Expert Mobile, Innovation Development, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
	Ming Yin graduated in Computer Science at Technical University of Berlin in 2001 with emphasis on telecommunication engineering and networks. After the study, he joined T-Systems Innovation where he worked as research engineer. In 2008, he joined Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, the main stream of his activities is centred on NFC and SIM based business and application development.

	Batiste Mitchell NXP Semiconductors
	Batiste Mitchell graduated from a French electronic engineering school in 2007, started his career as a digital design engineer and working in hardware development within NXP Semiconductors Identification department. Still in the same business unit today, he has been developing digital components for contact card readers and contactless near field communication circuits where he expanded his competencies in the field of hardware designs, test development (DFT) and system integration in the NFC ecosystem. In 2009, Batiste extended his role in business unit Identification to support and deploy NFC technology in the market, participating to the Smart Urban Spaces project where he acts as WP leader to coordinate technical developments and build NFC ecosystem for European cities.

	Nick Norman Head of Sales, Consult Hyperion, UK
	Nick has over 10 years experience in the Mobile Payments industry with Gemplus and Consult Hyperion. He has helped many leading Financial Institutions, MNOs, Transit Operating Companies, Payment Schemes and their suppliers to formulate their strategies towards contactless and mobile payments, for both local and remote transactions.

	Norman Parkin CEO, Integrat (Pty), South Africa
	Norman Parkin, an Electronic Engineer from the University of Pretoria, CEO and Co Founder of Integrat, and the inventor of products like TAPTAG, PrepayLotto, MEA (Mobile Enabled Access) has more than 15 years of experience in mobile industry.

	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.

	Christian Pilters Mobile Contactless Services Program Director, Orange Business Services, France

	Oyvind Rastad Vice-Chairman Eurosmart, Director Corporate strategy, Gemalto
	· Since 2003, telecom and corporate strategic development at Gemalto · CEO for the Spanish subsidiary of start-up Iterieum.net, one of Scandinavia’s prime pure-play ASP companies · Business consultant, deputy CIO and marketing manager in the successive launches of three Spanish mobile operators · MBA from IESE and Engineer in Computer Science from NTNU Norway and Telecom Paris

	Dirk Reddmann Managing Consultant, Söllner Consult GmhG, Germany
	Dirk Reddmann is Managing Consultant at SÖLLNER CONSULT. On behalf of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) Dirk works since 2004 in different NFC projects. RMV is the public transport authority for Frankfurt Greater Metropolitan Area, Germany. As a Managing Consultant, Dirk was responsible for the concept development and the project management in the first NFC trial of the world, the NFC Ticketing Hanau. Afterwards Dirk leads as part of RMV’s NFC project team different NFC projects (e.g. the NFC HandyTicket of Frankfurt). These projects are mostly concentrated on Greater Frankfurt Rhine-Main. Before SÖLLNER CONSULT, Dirk has worked as employee for RMV’s Innovation and New Business Development department. Dirk studied Geography in Potsdam and Helsinki.

	Hajo Sandschneider Product Manager, COMPRION, Germany
	Hajo Sandschneider is Project Manager at COMPRION GmbH and co-leads the company’s NFC program. He has a strong background in conformance testing by actively participating in standardisation and regulation bodies such as 3GPP and GCF. As COMPRION’s delegate at the NFC Forum, Hajo advances the development of NFC test specifications and at the same time ensures the delivery of compliant test equipment.

	Kurt Schmid CEO, Nexperts, Austria
	Kurt Schmid has more than 25 year of business experience in the Security, Smart Card and RFID industry: He is founder and CEO of NEXPERTS, a solutions provider using NFC and mobile phones for tracing and tracking, m-marketing, m-payment, m-ticketing and couponing. Before NEXPERTS Kurt Schmid was CEO of OMNIKEY, a company he grew to one of the world’s top three players in the smart card reader business. Previously Kurt worked as CTO at Utimaco Safeware AG, a security and encryption specialist, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Kurt Schmid, born in 1961, holds a Master in Business Administration and Computer Sciences from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and is holder of several patents. He is on the advisory board of the NFC academy.

Emmanuel Schneider
Senior Manager Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Accenture, France

Passionate about land transportation industries and trends of urban mobility evolution, Emmanuel Schneider has strong experience in delivering large transformational programs for Transit agencies and in developing long term relationships with client and partners. He is currently Business development Lead of the ‘Ticketing as a Service’ Accenture offering for the Fare Management industry.

	Ergi Sener Product Manager, Mobile Wallet, Turkcell Ilestisim Hizmetleri, Turkey
	Ergi Şener has been working as the Product Manager of Turkcell Mobile Wallet in Mobile Finance Business since March 2010. He was the Business Development Director of New Tone Technology Solutions, an R&D Company, shareholded by Sabancı Universtity. His focus was to improve awareness for NFC applications on focused markets including payment solutions, access systems and loyalty applications. He implemented many RFID & NFC applications which include sport clubs, universities, hospitals and factories. Before Turkcell, Ergi Şener worked for Garanti Payment Sytems in CRM division. He is continuing his PhD education in the field of marketing and he has been attending courses as visitor lecturer in some universities in the field of management. He is also in the advisory board of Sabancı School of Management

	Dr Akio Shiibashi Executive Officer, Deputy Director General, IT & SUICA Business Development Headquarters, Japan

	Kaisa Spilling Forum Virium, City of Helsinki

	Jorg Suchy Group Leader, Strategic Business Development, Smart Card and NFC Products, Samsung Semiconductor Europe, Germany
	Jörg joined Samsung Semiconductor Europe GmbH in 2002 as Marketing Manager Microcontrollers EMEA. Since 2007, he’s responsible for the Strategic BusinessDevelopment Chip Card and NFC products, covering smartcard IC for Telecommunication (UICC), Machine – To – Machine (M2M), Near Field Communication (SWP-UICC and eSE), Finance, Security and Identification operations. Jörg represents the Samsung NFC Controller domain throughout the entire market value chain and contributed in the development of several NFC white papers. Furthermore, Jörg represents Samsung Semiconductor Europe at the Eurosmart Association as a Steering Committee Member and in different working groups; he’s equally part of the eSmart and Smart Mobility Program Committees as well as of the SIMagine Judging Panel. Before joining Samsung, Jörg started his career in 1994 at the Semiconductor Production of Philips RHW in Hamburg. In 1997, he joined NEC Electronics (Germany) GmbH in Düsseldorf as Field Sales Engineer for ASICs and Microcontrollerfor strategic OEM Accounts and, later on, Distribution Channels. In 1993, Jörg graduated in electrical engineering from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

	Jukka Suikkanen CEO, Bonwal
	Jukka have a long career with data and mobile services and concepts. He was developing ex. Mobile Wallet concept in TeliaSonera and now continuing that development work in Bonwal. Jukka have contributed to international standardization forums like GSM Association, NFC Forum, Ficom. Jukka is now CEO in Bonwal, spin-off company from TeliaSonera, Scandinavian telco and responsible for sales & marketing.

Koichi Tagawa
NFC Forum Chairman and General Manager Global Standards and Industry Relations, Sony

Chairman of the NFC Forum. He is also General Manager of Global Standards and Industry Relations Department at Sony that is in charge of technology standards and technology industry relations of the FeliCa Business. Since 2002, he has supported the popularization of NFC and FeliCa from the standardization point of view. He actively contributed to the establishment of the NFC Forum, holding the position of Vice-Chairman from the start of the Forum in 2004 until becoming Chairman in September 2008. He enthusiastically continues to contribute to the enhancement of the NFC ecosystem throughout the contactless application industry.

	Masayuki Takezawa Deputy General Manager, FeliCa Business Division, Sony, Japan
	Masayuki Takezawa is Deputy General Manager in charge of marketing communications and business development for FeliCa Business in Sony. After participation in product development throughout Sony for various consumer devices, he was then involved in business development for network products. In 2003 he joined FeliCa Business

	Gerd Thys Head of Card Technology Test Tools, Clear2pay, Belgium
	Gerd Thys is Head of Technology Test Tools, a part the Clear2Pay’s Test Competence Centre. The Technology Test Tools team’s focus is on development of protocol layer test tools for the interface between card and acceptor device, implementing international test standards (EMV, NFC, ETSI, 3GPP,…). With 12 years of experience in different aspects of card payment testing Gerd is particularly intrigued by the migration paths in different markets, triggered by evolution of technology.

	Jean–Pierre Tual Director, Industrial Relations, Technology & Innovation Department, Gemalto, France
	Jean-Pierre Tual is currently Director, Industrial Relations, in the Technology and Innovation Department of Gemalto. He is especially in charge of the corporate strategy for developing R&D collaborative projects in all business areas of the Company. He has been especially involved in the setting-up and management of large projects related to Digital identity, Security and Embedded SW for SIM/UICC or smart-cards. He is also representing Gemalto in the Executive Boards of the TES and System@tic Competitiveness Clusters, and in the Eureka “Catrene” Steering Group Applications and Eureka “Celtic” Core Group. He was formerly R&D manager of the smart-card operations of Schlumberger SEMA (2001-2003), VP in charge of the R&D and technical support at Bull CP8 (199-2001), VP smart-card Business Unit at Bull-CP8 (1996-1999). Before 1996 he held several Management Position within the Large System Product Department of Bull, especially in the area of EDA for Very Large System Integration (VLSI) devices. Jean-Pierre Tual holds an Engineering Degree from the French “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées” (1976), a PhD in Mathematics (1979) and is also “Agrégé des Sciences Mathématiques” (1980).”

	Tuomo Tuikka VTT Finland
	Dr. Tuomo Tuikka is a senior research scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He has been leading ITEA based projects in Europe, and is currently coordinating the Finnish participation in Smart Urban Spaces projects. He leads Mobile Contactless Services research in VTT’s internal strategic OPEN-S research programme and has a research team on this topic. Previously, until 2008, Dr. Tuikka was the coordinator of SmartTouch project, focusing on Near Field Communication (NFC) between smart devices. Earlier Dr. Tuikka has been a Director of software product development with responsibility of international software product development at CCC Group and positioned mainly in Japan. Until 2002 he held Assistant Professorship at the University of Oulu. Dr. Tuikka has been involved in many European Union and nationally funded research projects and published in the area of collaborative systems, usability, and virtual product development. Dr. Tuikka is also the founder of the NFC-based company 6Starz.

	Randy Vanderhoof Executive Director, Smart Card Alliance, USA

	John Verity Chief Advisor, ITSO and Eu-IFM Project Coordinator, UK
	John Verity is Chief Advisor to ITSO Limited, the UK national interoperable contacless ticketing organisation, having had a wide ranging career spanning six decades. John is also co-ordinator for the EC-funded EU-IFM Project, a collaborative effort to publish a route-map to interoperable contactless ticketing across Europe on behalf of member countries and the European Commission.

	Mathieu Veron R&D Director, Adelya, France
	Holder of a PhD in IT and Artificial Intelligence from INP engineering School, Mathieu Véron is co-founder and R&D Director at ADELYA. He manages the team in charge of the development of SaaS Loyalty Solutions based on NFC, web 2.0 and mobile technologies. Prior to ADELYA, Mathieu was in charge of R&D team developing configuration engine, streching the limits of constraint programming algorithms.

	Hyunmi Yang, Ph.D EVP & CCO, KT Corp., Korea
	After her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from State University of New York, Stony Brook, Ms. Hyunmi Yang has begun her career in financial industry and gained a broad experience in marketing strategy and customer service at major financial companies like American Express, USA, and Shinhan Bank, Korea. She joined KT as a CSO of Mobile Business in 2009 and is now a chief customer officer in charge of m-payment and NFC businesses as well as customer strategies. With her background in marketing and financial services, she is recognized for her pioneering efforts especially in analytics-based marketing, global collaboration, and promoting industry transformation based on NFC and financial convergence.

	Burak Yetiskin Senior Consultant, Accenture Switzerland
	Burak Yetiskin is a senior consultant, specializing in Mobile Money for Accenture Mobility Services. With a background on payment systems and core banking, Burak works on the strategy development and operating models of the mobile ecosystems. Having worked in several conceptual design to market delivery projects for Trusted Service Management and Payment hubs, he focuses on sales and business development within the Accenture Mobility initiative.

Dr. Hankil Yoon
Vice President Smartphone Product Planning Group, Mobile Communication Division, Samsung Electronics

Dr. Hankil Yoon joined Samsung as a vice president in May 2005, and currently is in charge of Product Planning for Smartphones in the Mobile Communications Division. His primary responsibilities include product planning for Samsung’s smartphone products for the global market.

Prior to the current position, Dr. Yoon was head of Linux Lab in the Mobile R&D team. He was responsible for development of a mobile S/W platform based on Linux kernel and development of mobile handsets based on this Linux-based platform. He played a key role in the successful launch of the LiMo Foundation with other founding members in early 2007. He led overall technical activities with the major members of LiMo Foundation as the chair of Architecture Council from the inception to February 2009.

Dr. Yoon worked in the Data Mining Group of Oracle Corporation, and in the Information Technology Lab of LG Electronics before that. He was instrumental to the successful development of Java Data Mining standard (also known as JSR-73) and its implementation in the Oracle Data Mining Suite. While with LG Electronics, Dr. Yoon was the leader in the development of PC firmware, including GS-BIOS, a first in Korea using the clean-room approach.

Dr. Yoon received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Florida in 2000, and Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from University of California at Irvine in 1995. He graduated from Seoul National University in Korea with Computer Engineering major in 1985.