The World Card Summit, a major event which marks the official opening of the conference, brings together all the leading directors of the card and identification market. After the success of previous years, come and take part in the various debates which will enliven the morning and discover the industry’s future.

Chairman: Aglaé EMELIEN - Aglaé EMELIEN Consulting

Contactless payments are real: the conference will present the progress and pilots learnings of contactless payments. The card becomes contactless and additional means such as USB key are also developing. Are users ready and is transaction ergonomics satisfactory? Which business sectors are the most demanding? Are technology and security mature and standardised enough? Which planning is considered for a large roll-out? Is the business case already beneficial? All these items to be discussed during this conference on contacless payments…

Chairman: Brigitte THOUVENIN – Spheragone

Technological advances in cards in recent years have made it possible to host several applications on a single chip, whatever the form factor. This should make it possible to offer cardholders numerous services – services in relation to traditional cards, contactless cards and also mobile services. What are the innovative offers in this field? What obstacles are encountered when implementing solutions such as these (business models, regulatory and technological barriers)?

Four topics will be discussed over the course of the day. They will offer specific and very precise explanations (marketing, techniques, etc.) in relation to a technology, a concept, a standard, a product, etc.
Chaired by recognized experts, these subjects are of genuine educational value.

Chairman: Michael L. DAVIS - Security Industry Association

This conference will focus on two of RFID's hottest topics - Security and Privacy.  Delegates attending this session will gain valuable insight into the techniques and strategies to mitigate both the risks and consequences of data security and privacy breeches. Topics will include the latest security research, key management, best practices, secure network infrastructures, responsible disclosure and much more presented from the perspective of both the cardholder and the server/service provider.

Chairman: Stephen F. RASMUSSEN - The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

Mobile banking holds great promise in the developing world, where mobiles outnumber payment cards by a large margin.  But programs to date are still not reaching the bottom of the pyramid and are not necessarily replicable.  This conference will look at some of the success factors needed to create a sustainable system, including the right business model, ease of use, reliability, legality, and security.

Chairman: Liisa KANNIAINEN - Mobey Forum

Can I pay with my mobile?" Will that be the obvious question at the point of sale soon? Pilot results are confirming that mobile payment is the next feature and important enabler required by consumers. Mobile phone has the power of combining both over the air and local communications. Which is the optimal combination of these for payments? How will the consumers prefer to pay in the traditional shops? How about payments in the virtual world, which is rapidly moving to mobile space? Person to person payments? Banks have existing payment networks globally available. However, these have not been linked to the global telecom networks. Which are the required actions from the industry to make this happen?

Chairman: Georges LANGEAIS, Paris XII University

How are the different market players positioning themselves as a result of the emergence of new services linked to new payment methods (contactless and NFC)?
The gradual implementation of SEPA is opening up the payment market to competition and allowing a range of players – telco operators and major retailers – peripheral to the banking world to become bankers.
What changes will these new arrivals bring with them? What services will be developed? What projects are moving in this direction? What are the benefits for the end consumer?

Chairman: Bernard MORVANT - ABC Business

The markets of mobility and identity are the ones which greatly influence the development of smart card products and will continue to do so over the next 5 years. Due to the challenges faced by the use of numerous new technologies and their roll out in large scale, the cooperation between issuers, services operators, technology suppliers, legislators has accelerated.
Whether it is the world of transportation, identity, mobility and contactless, convergence is evolving based on a more important cooperation between all the stakeholders to develop products and services with a better performance to increase the chance of success and uptake by the market.
Convergence and Collaboration will be the two key words of this conference.

Chairman: Hervé PIERRE – SIM Alliance

Today’s universal integrated circuit cards (UICC) or SIM cards are more powerful, more flexible, have more functionality and support more applications than ever before and form the hub of a new generation of converged services and applications. The conference will highlight the increasingly vital role played by the UICC or SIM card in provisioning and securing a highly personalised access to networks whatever the device (Identity Management) and will also discuss how using the latest innovations such as Smart Card Web Server and Mobile NFC, the mobile industry can effectively suit up against the new generation of Internet competition.

Chairman: Gérard DE MOURA - Galitt

Is prepaid the new market opportunity for payment cards? Mid-term forecasts are providing huge figures of growth for a diversity of markets. Beyond existing and nevertheless increasing number of gift cards, “war on cash” using prepaid cards addresses social benefits, insurance, under or unbanked… And industry players including payment schemes are taking strategic positions now. Will prepaid pay cash?

Chairman: Georges LIBERMAN - XIRING

E-Banking and E-commerce: Securing remote transactions with Home Chip & PIN solutions. Home Chip and PIN strong authentication solutions based on the bank card are being widely adopted in Europe to secure online banking transactions and e-commerce payments. These solutions are based on the global security standard being promoted by MasterCard and Visa. The session will cover the status of the technology, the benefits and the implementations to date with case studies from European banks that have successfully put a physical, easy-to-use, and dedicated security device in the hands of their customers: A Home Chip and PIN device.

Chairman: Randy VANDERHOOF, Smart Card Alliance

The demand for government employee and government to citizen identity programs continues to drive innovation in the identity and security markets involving smart card technology and biometrics for national IDs, ePassports, drivers’ licenses, health ID cards and emergency response personnel credentials. This increased demand has moved secure identity credentialing into the mainstream of chip technology. This session will highlight the advances in citizen ID programs from around the globe.

Chairman: Jay CHINNADORAI - Sumtotal

Typically at industry conferences much of the focus is placed around issues such as technology, standards, business models and ecosystems. Sadly, the customer is often completely left out from the stage. This time, by taking a customer-focused approach, the conference aims to understand clearly WHY contactless and NFC has been so successful in other regions (eg Japan, Asia). We will also explore WHAT can be done to replicate the success in other regions on a global basis. We will also discuss WHO needs to kickstart this process as waiting for a perfect ecosystem to manifest itself does not appear to be working so far!

Chairman: Gavin DEIN - Reward - The Sports Loyalty Company

With the retail industry in a global slowdown, more gift cards, loyalty programmes and co-branded payment cards are coming to the market than in ever before. During our session we will be exploring why loyalty programmes have always thrived in a recession and how the combination of new technology, changing laws and global brands are about to make the loyalty industry one of the most exciting places be to in 2010.

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Chairman: André GRISSONNANCHE - Exense

This session will address the major to-day’s themes regarding the security of the smart supports:
- What is the actual level of security provided by the present smart supports? What are the new threats, the vulnerabilities?
- Dematerialization requires a suitable level of security for each application. What will the smart card role be?
- To-morrow, what will the place be for other form factors such as USB tokens and NFC telephones?
- Are contactless supports less secure than supports with contact?
Speakers will present the most recent state of the art illustrated by real cases.

Chairman: François BRION - Atos Worldline

How to ensure the merchant and to his customer as well, that a POS terminal will have a genuine behaviour, i.e. the customer will pay the indicated amount, without any hacking of his sensitive data, and that the merchant will not be in a delicate situation towards the banking community and the card networks, especially regarding the PCI requirements? Which consequences will be generated by taking into consideration these new security issues in the payment chain? Will savings made on fraud justify security additional cost?