Florent Bernard is an assistant professor at Laboratoire Hubert Curien (France) in CESAME team headed by Pr. Viktor Fischer. He received his M.S degree in cryptography at Joseph Fourier University (2003) and his Ph.D degree at Paris 8 University (2007). His research areas include true random numbers generation and hardware implementation of asymmetric cryptography.

Henk Birkholz graduated in Computing Science at the University of Bremen in 2006. After 6 years as a member of the Research Group Networking at the Center for Computing and Communication Technologies in Bremen he joined the research department Trust and Compliance of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in 2012.

His research focuses on information security and security automation. As an important part of his work, he researches and engineers semantic representations of complex and dynamic networks as an crucial foundation for automated processes and advanced decision making. He is involved in several international and German security automation projects in the context of Industrial Control Systems and resilient critical infrastructure.

Dominique mains area of expertise are security and formal methods. After having funded and managed for more than ten years Trusted Logic, a company specialized in security and formal methods, he has recently funded Prove & Run, whose objective is to democratize and broaden the use of formal methods, and apply it first to the mobile security use case.

Joerg Borchert was born in Hamburg, Germany. He studied Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He achieved his PhD in Economics before he joined Siemens AG in 1988. Initially Joerg was on the staff of the Corporate Board of Directors handling Mergers & Acquisitions in Munich, Germany. In 1992 he joined Siemens Semiconductor which became Infineon Technologies in 1999.
Joerg moved to the US in 1998 when he was appointed Vice President. He worked for three years in the wireless division and has more than 10 years experience in the security and chip card semiconductor area. He was instrumental for the roll out of the German Payment Smart Cards in 1996 and the success of the world’s largest electronic Passport program in US. In 2008 he became VP and General Manager for the Business Line Government ID.
The major success has been the business win of the German National ID card system in fall 2010.
Joerg took over in September 2010 the responsibility for Chip Card and Security for the region Americas. He resides in the US HQs in Milpitas, CA. Currently he and his team are involved in semiconductor security solutions for the smart grid and mission critical embedded systems. He contributed to four patent filings in this area.
He has one daughter and his favorite sports are sailing, skiing, mountaineering and playing beach volley with his daughter.

Mike Borza is CTO and founder of Elliptic Technologies Inc., where he is responsible for technology strategy. He has over 20 years of technology leadersihp with high technology companies. He has been an active contributor to Global Platform standards and the Security Task Group of IEEE 802.1 and was an editor of the 802.1AR Secure Device Identifier standard.

Laurence Bringer belongs to the Standardisation and Technology Department of Gemalto.Since 2006, among other activities, she contributed to different GlobalPlatform specificationsrelated to the NFC-mobile environment in the GlobalPlatform Mobile Task Force (Requirementsand specification for the management of multiple contactless Secure Elements or for theembedded SE – terminal interface), in the GlobalPlatform Device (SE Remote ApplicationManagement or SE Access Control specifications), System (Messaging specification for MobileNFC Services) and Card Committees. Prior to this role, Laurence has carried out severalpositions such Technical Expert, Card Application Architect and Project Leader. Laurencejoined Gemplus in 1999.

Stacy Cannady, CISSP, is technical marketing – Trustworthy Computing TRIAD (Threat Response, Intelligence, and Development) for Cisco and a member of the Trusted Computing Group’s Embedded Systems Work Group. He is an alternate board member representing Cisco.

Stacy has worked in the field of trusted computing for a number of years. As a subject matter expert in trusted computing, his responsibilities require an in-depth understanding of the trusted computing market, including advances in hardware and software security as well as vendor and customer market dynamics.

Prior to his work with Cisco, Stacy was responsible for marketing leadership for trusted computing at DMI, IBM and at Lenovo. At IBM, he played a principal role in making the TPM standard equipment in ThinkPad and ThinkCenter PCs.

Abdelkarim Cherkaoui is a post-doctoral researcher at Laboratoire Hubert Curien (France). He received his M.S degree in microelectronics at Joseph Fourier University (2009) and his Ph.D degree at Jean Monnet University (2014). His research areas include hardware applied cryptography (random key generation, physical unclonable functions …) and asynchronous circuits design.

Peter leads Intercede’s sales effort in all geographies outside the Americas and has been in the computer industry for over 30 years, having spent the last 15 years concentrating on cyber, computer and IT security. His previous roles include Senior VP Sales at AEP Networks (an ULTRA company), and Head of Sales (UK & USA) at Cassidian Cyber Security, an EADS Group company.

Jean Christophe Courrège graduated from the Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) in Electronics and received his PhD in 1998. Since 2000 he is in charge of the security evaluation of information systems at Thales ITSEF. Jean-Christophe is the technical manager of the Laboratory, in charge of projects and the development of the laboratory.

Jamie Cowper is the Senior Director of Business Development and Marketing and Nok Nok Labs, responsible for driving international business and global marketing strategy. Jamie has over 15 years of experience in Information Security and Networking technologies. He has previously served as the Director of European Marketing at Veracode and PGP Corporation, as well as business development and product marketing roles at Symantec, Mirapoint and Critical Path. Jamie has extensive experience in Authentication, Encryption, Messaging Security and Application Security issues. He has spoken at a large number of industry events, including RSA, Gartner and Forrester conferences and contributed articles to many leading IT publications. He has a BA in European History from the University of Leeds.

Jean-Loup Depinay is program manager in charge of the collaborative R&D projects of Oberthur Technologies and he has coordinated or participated to 15 projects funded by French or European programs (FUI, ANR, Eniac…). Jean-Loup DC)pinay is currently a member of the Java Card Forum.

Rajiv Dholakia is responsible for the development, marketing and strategy of the company’s products and solutions.  His global operating experience in private and public companies spans security, ecommerce, operating systems, and artificial intelligence technologies.  Prior to Nok Nok Labs, Mr. Dholakia was VP & General Manager at Symantec, responsible for the operations of PGP TrustCenter, a Cloud-based platform for Identity, Encryption & Trust Services.  Prior to Symantec, Mr. Dholakia was VP Strategy & Corporate Development at PGP Corporation where he was responsible for new product initiatives and M&A activity.  He has held senior leadership positions in business, technology and product development at ValiCert, Taligent, Sun Microsystems and IntelliCorp.  Mr. Dholakia is an advisor to startups and incubators in Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia.  He has been a frequent speaker at industry events and consults as an expert for policy and legislative initiatives at the state and federal level.  He is passionate about science education, robotics, and the maker movement in the local school district where he is both an organizer and volunteer.  Mr. Dholakia holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.

Dr Chris Edwards is CTO at Intercede and has over 30 yearsb senior level experience within the IT industry, 12 of them within the security sector. He is directly responsible for Intercede’s R&D team, and has a special interest in mobile identities and credential convergence. His current work is heavily focused on mobile credential management and the use of NFC in identity and access applications.

Benoit Feix joined UL Security Laboratory in 2013 where he manages the embedded cryptography evaluation team. He is also in charge of the UL Mobile Security Expertise centre in Marseille. Previously Benoit lead the security team at Inside Secure and worked also for Oberthur, Thales CEACI and Gemalto. He graduated a PhD in Embedded Security from the Limoges University.

Viktor Fischer is a full-time Professor at the University of Saint-Etienne. From 1991 to 2006, he has worked as a custom chip designer and consultant in the semiconductor industry. His research interests include cryptographic engineering, secure embedded systems, and especially true random number generators embedded in logic devices.

Salvatore Francomacaro is an Information Security SM. He is a recognized leader in Security Tokens and Cybersecurity standards development. He has served as Chairman of the US B10.12 standard body (IC with Contacts and Interoperability). Currently is the vice chair of the US CS1 standard body (Cybersecurity, Cloud Security and ID Management). He is also editor of the NIST FIPS 201 Specifications and its related Special Publications.

Georges Gagnerot spent more than 10 years in years evaluating the security embedded products. He has been security expert for Inside. He also worked as security expert on Linux and PayTV products for WYPLAY. He has recently joined Underwriters Laboratories where he evaluates the security of mobile applications and products.

Herve Ganem is currently serving as a system architect at Gemalto. In this role, he is involved in several projects involving M2M communications, focusing more specifically upon the underlying security issues.
Herve holds a Phd in satellite communications from Essex University (UK), and a Maitrise de Mathematiques from Paris VII university. He also completed engineering studies at Ecole Superieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et d’Electrotechnique in Paris

As Executive Director of GlobalPlatform, Mr. Gillick is responsible for driving awareness and accelerating adoption of the GlobalPlatform Specifications within worldwide markets. Mr. Gillick coordinates and manages the organization’s strategic planning and oversees all marketing and business development initiatives within key vertical market sectors. He works closely with GlobalPlatform’s Technical Director, all three of the organization’s technical committees – Card, Device and Systems – and the GlobalPlatform Task Forces. Mr. Gillick is directly responsible to the Board of Directors and the GlobalPlatform membership.

Mr. Gillick has served as GlobalPlatform’s full-time Executive Director since 2006. Prior to this appointment, and while in the employment of Datacard Group, he was actively involved in the organization as GlobalPlatform’s Marketing Center Chair.

Dr. Christine Hennebert has worked on several wireless communication demonstrators, especially on communication protocol and embedded software for Network on Chip. Since 2011, she has been working on the security aspects of the low power wireless standards transmission. She has realized the security system deployed in the wireless sensors of the Santander city.

Dr. Hühnlein has more than fifteen years of professional experience in the area of IT-security, received a doctoral degree in cryptography from TU Darmstadt, gave lectures about electronic signatures, internet security and identity management at various universities, (co-)authored
more than 70 papers for refereed journals and conferences and frequently gives talks at national and international IT security events. He has been actively involved in standardization committees within DIN, CEN, ISO and OASIS and is founder and CEO of ecsec GmbH b a specialized vendor of innovative solutions in the sector of security in the information and communication technology, security management, smart card technology, identity management, web security and electronic signature technology.

Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb is chair of GP Ad Hoc Committee (SmartSD solutions in collaboration with Global Platform) at SD Association.SD Association is a global ecosystem of about 1000 companies setting industry-leading memory card standards.
microSD is supported by more than 80% of mobile devices and growing.
Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb has more than 15 years of experience in security, contactless, NFC and microSD. He’s currently VP products and BD EMEA at DeviceFidelity.

Bob Jones is head of the CERN openlab project (openlab.cern.ch) which is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community.

Bob is a member of the management team of the Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud initiative (), a public private partnership to explore the use of commercial cloud services for science applications supported by the EC under grant 312301, for which he is the project coordinator. Bob also participates in the EIROforum IT Working Group (http://www.eiroforum.org/)and is the editor of the recently published series of e-infrastructure documents (http://zenodo.org/record/7592). His experience in the distributed computing arena includes mandates as the technical director and then project director of the EGEE projects (2004-2010).

Rolf Lindemann brings more than 15 years of experience in product management, R&D and operations from the IT security industry. He works for Nok Nok Labs, Inc. as Senior Director Products & Technology.
Prior to Nok Nok Labs Rolf Lindemann worked as Senior Director Product Management in the user authentication group at Symantec, where he was responsible for research and product strategy on device authentication in smart grids and mobile networks. Before Symantec’s acquisition of TC TrustCenter, he was Executive Director Product Strategy at TC TrustCenter GmbH.
Before that, Dr. Lindemann headed up the Betrusted research team and was development manager at TC TrustCenter GmbH. In that position he was responsible for the architecture and ITSEC evaluation of the PKI core components.

Pawel Lubomski is the Deputy Director of the Information Systems Development at Gdansk University of Technology IT Service Center. He is responsible for IT architecture of the central systems of the university. He also leads R&D team. His scientific research focuses on the security of large scale distributed e-service systems.

Dr James Mitchell is Co-founder & CEO of StrategicBlue. He was hired into Morgan Stanley’s commodities division where he originated $500 million of structured commodities deals, each of which was a first of its kind at Morgan Stanley requiring sign off from the Global Head of Commodities. These included major off-takes of power from credit-constrained generators, long-term shaped electricity sales to independent suppliers, and a major investment in Atlantis, a renewable energy company.
He is a regular speaker and panellist at cloud computing conferences, speaking about cloud broker-dealing at and cloud computing market development in Europe and the US. He has also contributed to GigaOM on cloudonomics, and been quoted in Joe Weinman’s definitive book on Cloudonomics.
James holds a 1st class M.Sci. in Experimental and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and a D.Phil. in DNA Nanotechnology from Oxford University.

Silvana focuses on high-level strategy building, business acquisition, coordination and strategic marketing and communication developments in ICT for the company. More recently she has been analysing the standardisation scenario in the distributed computing arena and semantic knowledge-based communication platforms in today’s networked society.  She has served as the technical coordinator of OGF-Europe, driving the Cloudscape workshop series and served as an at-large director for the Open Grid Forum OGF. She is currently Coordinator of CloudWATCH, which aims to accelerate the uptake of cloud across the public and private sector. She was the Technical Coordinator of the SIENA initiative, successfully bringing to the same table all relevant standards groups (OASIS, OGF, ETSI, DMTF, SNIA, IEEE, ITU) as key drivers of progress, pinpointing gaps and avoiding overlap.

Michael Osborne, IBM Research Division, Zürich Research Center, Säumerstrasse 4,8804 Rüschlikon, Switzerland. Mr. Osborne has a background in quality and security, including numerous FIPS 140 and Common Criteria evaluations. He was subsequently lead technical architect for a number of large scale government projects in the security and identity space. Mr Osborne currently leads the security and cloud solutions activities at the lab.

Jean-Claude Paillès is a senior consultant in the domain of security and mobility. He is a former engineer of the research department of ORANGE. His current activities include cryptography, security and system architecture, development of applications for android and javacard, etc.

Aljosa Pasic current position is Business Development Director in Atos Research & Innovation (ARI), based in Madrid, Spain. He graduated Information Technology at Electro technical Faculty of Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and has been working for Cap Gemini (Utrecht, The Netherlands) until the end of 1998. In 1999 he moved to Sema Group (now part of Atos) where he occupied different managerial positions. During this period he was participating in more than 50 international research, innovation or consulting projects, mainly related to the areas of information security or e-government. His current interests include Secure Software Engineering (as the chairman of NESSOS industry advisory group), electronic identity and privacy, GRC (governance, risk and compliance) as well as cybersecurity. He is member of EOS (European Organisation for Security) Board of Directors, and collaborates regularly with organisations such as ENISA, IFIP, IARIA, FI-PPP and others.

Jérôme POGGI is IT security for more than ten year. He was, before security architect at the city hall of Marseille, a security consultant for 7 years and work for bank, petroleum industries, telecom.

Michael Poitner is Global Segment Marketing Director of Cyber Security Solutions of the Identification Business Unit within NXP. In this role, he is responsible for market and business development activities, value proposition as well as Go-To-Market strategy of the key market segments Cyber-Security and Counterfeit-Protection. Prior to joining NXP, Michael spent more than 10 years working for Giesecke&Devrient in Munich/Germany, San Mateo/CA and Dulles/VA in several marketing roles in the Digital Security field. Before joining G&D in 2001, Michael held several product management, marketing and sales positions with the Security and Chipcard IC group of Infineon Technologies in Munich, formerly known as Siemens Semiconductor. Michael is certified as CISSP as well as CSCIP and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the Academy for Business and Administration in Munich and a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich.

Carsten Rust is Senior Project Manager and Corporate Research Manager in Research and Development at Morpho. He is responsible for funded cooperative projects and collaborations with research organisations.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi is the head of the System Security Lab at the Center for Advance Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), Technische Universität Darmstadt and the Scientific Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Systems (SIT). Since January 2012 he is the Director of Intel-TU Darmstadt Security Institute for Mobile and Embedded Systems in Darmstadt, Germany.

He received his PhD in Computer Science with the focus on privacy protecting cryptographic protocols and systems from the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany. Prior to academia, he worked in Research and Development of Telecommunications enterprises, amongst others Ericson Telecommunications.  He has been leading and involved in a variety of national and international research and development projects on design and implementation of Trustworthy Computing Platforms and Trusted Computing, Security Hardware, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF), Cryptographic Privacy-Protecting Systems, and Cryptographic Compilers (in particular for secure computation). He has been continuously contributing to the IT security research community and serving as general or program chair as well as  program committee member of many conferences and workshops in Information Security and Privacy, Trusted Computing and Applied Cryptography. He is on Editorial Board of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

Prof. Sadeghi has been awarded with the renowned German prize “Karl Heinz Beckurts” for his research on Trusted and Trustworthy Computing technology and its transfer to industrial practice. The award honors excellent scientific achievements with high impact  on industrial innovations in Germany. Further, his group received the second prize of German IT Security Competition Award 2010.

Jerome Schang is currently Cyber Security Global Segment Marketing Manager at NXP Semiconductors based in San Jose, California.
Jerome spent the last 13 years in the semi-conductor industry as a wireless product engineer then low power microcontroller marketing manager with Texas Instruments.
Jerome holds an MBA focused on marketing of innovation since 2010 and a MSEE with a major in microelectronics since 2000.

Mr Ralf Schedel has 10+ years professional experience in the field of semiconductors and smartcards. He held several product manager and program manager positions at G&D and formerly at Infineon Technologies. Mr Schedel is since 2008 with G&D where he lead several business development initiatives and customer pilot projects in the mobile authentication and mobile security fields.

Stephan Spitz has more than fifteen years working experience with research, development and consulting in the field of information and communication security. He is at Trustonic responsible for the global R&D organisation and drives the development of new mobile security technologies in this Joint Venture formed by ARM, Giesecke&Devrient and Gemalto.

Didier is responsible for defining and implementing SecureKey’s partner and channel strategy along with partner programs, partner support, co-marketing, and associated partner solution development activities. He brings SecureKey two decades of experience in contactless, near field communication (NFC), and secure microprocessors together with broad engineering, operational, sales and marketing experience in international markets.

Prior to joining SecureKey, Didier was general manager and executive vice president of sales for North America at INSIDE Secure, a company he had co-founded in 1995.

Didier earned a technical degree in physical measures from Technical Institute St. Jerome in Marseille, France, and a master’s degree in engineering and microelectronics and transmission of information from the Institute of Industrial Physics and Chemical in Lyon, France.

Eric Simmon is a systems expert in the Cyber Infrastructure Group  at the National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST). He graduated magna cum laude from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA) with an electrical engineering degree in 1989 and joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology to work on precision measurements for high voltage and high current. In 2003, he joined the EIG working on systems modeling and using modeling to improve the standards development process.  

Mr. Simmon is a member of the NIST Smart Grid Infrastructure Task Force. He leads the NIST Smart Grid architecture effort and is the NIST representative to the SGIP Smart Grid Architecture Committee. Mr. Simmon is also responsible for EV (electric vehicle) to Grid interoperability standards at NIST and leads the SGIP Plug-in Electric Vehicle Task Group. In addition to his smart grid activities, Mr. Simmon is involved in a number of other information management activities, including chairing the iNEMI Product Lifecycle Information Management Technology Working Group and leading the data format sub-team in the IEC TC111 Material Declaration working group.

Alexander Summerer has been working for Giesecke & Devrient since 2008. As system architect he was responsible for the implementation and integration of Mobile ID and PKI solutions. Currently he is working as a technology consultant. In this role, he is responsible for driving technology developments for mobile security and strong authentication solutions for mobile platforms

Salman is a technical director at Kasra Technologies, a Cambridge-based R&D company. He graduated from University of Cambridge (UK) with a PhD thesis in data fusion and analytics. He’s applied his models to several application areas. In 2009, he spinout a green-tech company to deliver an energy saving solution for UK Whitehall departments, and in 2010 he founded Kasra Technologies to help businesses analyze data. He’s presently leading a UK-funded work to prevent fraud in m-commerce services.

Hugues Thiebeauld is security laboratory manager in UL, Underwriters Laboratory handling the security evaluation of secure elements, like smart cards, USIM or ID products. Hugues has been working in the security industry for 15 years and he has developed a strong expertise in a high range of attack techniques as well in the evaluation methodology to address the security of emerging and innovative products.

Pascal Urien is full professor at Telecom ParisTech. He graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and holds a PHD in computer science. His main research interests include security and secure elements, especially for wireless networks and cloud computing architectures. He holds fifteen patents and about one hundred publications in these domains. Pascal was one of the winners of French 9th an 11th national contest (in 2007 and 2009), organized by the French research ministry, for the support of innovative start-ups. He is the cofounder of the EtherTrust company.