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Speakers 
Shydee Buizon-Tiambeng,
Head, Platforms, Sims & Convergence Service Creation Division,
Globe Telecom
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 Gordon Cooper,
Regional Head of Mobile Commerce, Emerging Products & Technology, Asia Pacific Region,
Visa International
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Claire Featherstone,
M-Commerce Product Manager, Product & Infotainment Business,
Maxis Communications Berhad
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Johan Aris Ibrahim,
Vice President and Head,
Maybank
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Sabri Ismail,
General Manager, IT Division,
Rapid KL
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 Laurent Jullien,
Director of Contactless Services,
Bouygues Telecom, France
Laurent Jullien is Director of the contactless project (transport, payment…) in the multimedia and innovation Division of Bouygues Telecom. 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 & Bad d debt 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).
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 Sammy Kam,
Technical Director,
Octopus Cards Ltd
Mr. Sammy Kam is Technical Director of Octopus Cards Limited. He has been involved in the development, implementation and operation of the Hong Kong Octopus system since he joined the company in 1995. He is the head of technology in Octopus managing a team of IT professionals with diversified skills and extensive experience in contactless smart card applications, central clearing house system design and large-scale international projects. Mr. Kam has over 20 years of experience in software development and system integration projects. He is a chartered engineer and holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Management and an MBA degree. Before joining Octopus, he has worked in the software engineering departments of leading computer vendors.
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Shubhrendu Khoche,
Manager, Business Development, Asia Pacific,
NXP Semiconductors
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 Pasi Koistinen,
Director Busines Initiatives,
TeliaSonera
TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic region and also holds strong position in mobile communications in Eurasia, Turkey and Russia.
Pasi Koistinen has some 20 years business experience from food industry and retailing where he held COO and CEO positions in branded consumer goods operations. Last eight years he has been at TeliaSonera working with new businesses: during1999-2001 he founded and headed the internal start up Sonera Mobile Pay specializing in parking, vending and POS-payments through mobile phone. Currently he is Director at TeliaSonera R&D, having NFC as one of the interest areas.
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 Nicholas Lee,
Senior Vice President, Business & Technology,
EZ-Link, Singapore
Nicholas started his engineering career in a local systems integration company prior to joining the Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA) in early 1997 as a systems engineer. In the LTA, he was involved in the design and development of turnkey projects such as the Expressway Monitoring & Advisory System and provided technical support on supervisory control systems for various transit projects in Singapore that included the Bukit Panjang Light Rail and the North East Line. Nicholas also served in the LTA policy division and was responsible for overseeing international relations issues including the development of various business models for national systems such as the new contactless smart card system now known as EZ Link.
In 2000, he was assigned to manage the island wide implementation of a contactless multipurpose stored value card system (EZ Link card) worth $300million. This included the design, development and implementation of a national clearing-settlement system and the rollout of acceptance terminals across all mass rapid transit and bus transport systems in Singapore. He also spearheaded the early adoption of the ezlink card in various non-transit application trials that enabled the use of the ezlink card as a means of payment in food courts, car parking and school canteens.
Following the launch of the ezlink card in 2002, Nicholas was seconded to EZ Link Pte Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Land Transport Authority) as business manager with the primary responsibility of developing its business model and operating structure. In 2003, Nicholas was appointed as Senior Vice President of EZ Link Pte Ltd with overall responsibility for its strategic business development and technology activities. His other key responsibilities include supervising the marketing efforts of the company and overseeing card operations and corporate communication activities.
During his term in EZ Link, Nicholas has implemented various technology initiatives such as the ezlink credit card auto top up facility and a transactional architecture for secure reloading and payment of smart cards via the internet. He has also established strategic alliances with various financial institutions to innovate the use of the ezlink card in various application segments. In operations, Nicholas introduced key changes in card initialization and issuance processes and established a revenue / risk assurance framework for the organization.
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 Yih Lin,
Chairman,
Cards and Personal Identification Technical Committee (CPITC), Singapore IT Standards Committee (ITSC)
Mr. Lin Yih is Director of Digital Applied Research and Technology Pte Ltd. A company he co-founded with his wife in 1985. He is also Chairman of Cards and Personal Identification Technical Committee, under Singapore IT Standards Committee. Highly active in the ISO standards community, he is also international Convenor for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 WG11 "Application of biometrics for cards and personal identification". He was born and raised in Singapore, and holds three degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
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 Michael Mullagh,
CEO,
ViVOtech Inc
Michael Mullagh is the Chief Executive Officer of ViVOtech, Inc. Mr. Mullagh is an experienced wireless industry leader who has served as the head of two wireless carriers (Rogers Wireless and BC Tel, now Telus Corporation) and two growth stage start ups (Telephia and Whisper Communications). With 18 years of executive-level experience Mullagh has a successful track record of building and managing fast-growth businesses. Mr. Mullagh, received a Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree in Economics from Trinity College Dublin, and a Masters Degree in Economics at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
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 Silvester Prakasam,
Deputy Director, Fare System Division,
Land Transport Authority, Singapore
Mr Prakasam has degrees in Science (Statistics) and Engineering (Electrical). He was with the Singapore Airlines for 10 years, working in various departments involved in technical support and development work, before joining the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation in 1983. There, he was involved in the building of the first rapid transit system for Singapore.
Since 1989, he has been involved in ticketing systems and several initiatives, notably the Integrated Ticketing System.
Since 1994, he spearheaded trials on the Contactless Smart Card and launched the Enhanced Integrated Fare System project for the public transport system in 1998. Mr Prakasam is the Project Director for this project which implemented a common smart card system across the public transport network with six million cards issued to date.
Currently, he is involved in enhancing the system to extend its use to non-transit applications, as well as the acceptance of a wider number of cards.
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 Juha Risikko,
Chairman,
Mobey Forum
Mr. Juha Risikko is Senior Product Manager at Nordea Netbanks. He is responsible on the development of mobile banking services. Mr. Risikko is also the Chairman of the Board at Mobey Forum, financial industry led organisation encouraging and promoting the use of mobile technologies for financial services. For three years, he acted also as the Work Group Executive at Mobey Forum being responsible on the operations. Mr. Risikko has background in telecommunications industry where he has been working at Sonera Corporation. Mr. Risikko has M.Sc. degree in Industrial Management and Telecommunications Software from Helsinki University of Technology.
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 Gerhard Romen,
Marketing Committee Chair,
NFC Forum
Gerhard Romen is the NFC Forum Marketing Committee Chair and Head of Global Market Development, Nokia NFC and Work Force Solutions. Mr. Romen has 20 years' experience in the IT / software industries. He was VP for Borland International, and has held senior management positions with Sybase and SoftSwitch Inc. He started his career as a programmer analyst at Data Organisation Services, Germany.
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 Dr Andreas Schauer,
NFC Director,
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
From 2000 onwards Andreas has been responsible within the Industry and Government Division for the ISO operating system family STARCOS, for all contactless technology and for the development of tachosmart, the digital tachograph solution from Giesecke & Devrient.
Furthermore he was responsible for the Java Operating System, card bodies with security features, biometrics, all evaluations and certifications and all electronic passport developments.
During the second half of 2005 he was responsible within Strategic Marketing for all operating systems (Open Platform based and ISO) and for all contactless issues for all card related divisions.
Starting January 2006 he took over responsibilities within the new division New Business for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology worldwide.
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 Ginger Schmeltzer,
Manager,
Edgar Dunn & Company
Ginger Schmeltzer is a Manager in EDC's San Francisco office. Ginger has provided strategic planning and analysis to the payments industry to clients including global payments associations, consumer products companies, issuing banks, processors and technology suppliers to the payments industry. Her work has included developing new products and business strategies, assessing market opportunities, and evaluating the application of emerging payment products and technologies to the consumer environment.
Ginger has worked with issuing banks and other payments industry players globally in evaluating opportunities and challenges in the emerging mobile financial services sector, producing go-to-market strategies and competitive analyses. She recently conducted a survey to assess the collective vision for mobile payments from global thought leaders in payments and financial services.
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Risto Sipila,
Senior Manager, Business Development,
Nokia Ventures Corporation
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 Philippe Staib,
Chairman,
Payzy Corporation
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 Steffen Steinmeier,
Global Business Development Manager (NFC),
NXP Semiconductors
Career at Philips/Philips Semiconductors since 1995:
- Purchaser for active and passive components at Philips Communications Industries
- Central Purchasing Coordinator for non bill of material products at Central Purchasing Department of Philips Germany
- Project Manager at Philips National Organization
- Account Manager for Philips Semiconductors in the market segment of Identification
- Segment Manager Identification
o Sales management of European customers for embedded security solutions and RFID
- Global Business Development Manager Near Field Communication (NFC)
o Global market introduction of NFC solutions in the mobile communications-, PC and CE market
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 Matthew Teo,
m-Commerce Specialist,
Starhub Singapore
At StarHub, Matthew Teo has been tasked to chart the mobile commerce strategies and i-mode service.
Matthew, recognised for his specialty in mobile commerce, has acquired his expertise and knowledge in various executing and planning positions in the Telecommunications and Banking sectors. Particularly, he has been actively involved in the mobile payment, mobile commerce service, card and payment processing space in Singapore and Asia Pacific in recent years.
Prior to joining StarHub, Matthew has worked with OCBC Bank, ComexGenesys, a Temasek Holdings subsidiary and a regional telecommunications company.
Matthew holds an economics degree from the University of London and a diploma in Electronic Engineering.
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Vincent Veran,
Marketing Manager,
Gemalto
Vincent Veran is Marketing Manager at Gemalto, in charge of mobile contactless applications. Prior to the Gemplus-Axalto merger, he has been with Axalto for six years, holding various team management and marketing positions both in France and the Czech Republic. He also has experience core networks businesses, working for two years in Korea with Sagem and with Ericsson in Paris. Vincent holds a MA in Information Technology from ENPC (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees).
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 Paradorn Wichayapinyo,
Strategic Planning Specialist,
Advanced Info Service Public Co. Ltd
Paradorn Wichayapinyo has joined Advanced Info Services (AIS) since 2002, taking care of GSM 1800, a postpaid mobile network operator brand in Thailand. Then had been assigned to overlook the new products and services execution department including the special project like mobile payment before turning to fully charge on marketing part of mPAY both merchant management and consumer marketing. Now, he is a strategic planning specialist of mPAY to focus on the long-term company direction.
Before joining AIS, he was in the consumer industry (FMCG business) for almost 10 years. The lastest one was a product manager of Beiersdorf, being known as “NIVEA” brand by taking care of 2 market leader sub-brands – Nivea Deodorant and Nivea for Men. Besides, he also worked with the distribution company to widen distribute the responsible products to both modern trades and traditional trades to make sure that they were visibly by all prospect customers.
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Toshio Yoshihara,
Senior Manager, FeliCa Business Center,
Sony Corporation
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Samee Zafar,
Director,
Edgar Dunn & Company
Samee Zafar is a Director in EDC's London office. He has advised some of the largest financial services organisations in Europe and North America on competitive strategy, operations and technology. His expertise covers retail banking and retail payments especially internet and mobile payments. He has deep experience in helping clients set up internet and phone based banking and brokerage operations including the selection and management of technology providers and outsourcing partners. He has written several articles in leading publications, has spoken at conferences including the Visa Business School in Cambridge, UK (on emerging alternative payments), and has recently co-authored a book on retail card payments. His most recent article focuses on mobile payments and is being published in the American Banker.
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 Joseph Zheng,
NFC Director,
Nokia China
Joseph is the director of NFC business in the Nokia Ventures Organization Asia, responsible of the overall NFC solutions and businesses, based in Shanghai, China. Before joining Nokia, Joseph was the CEO of Sinya Online Ltd, a joint-venture between Yahoo and Sina.com. He developed Sinya Online into one of the three largest online market places in China with 150 employees and more than 5 million users. Prior to Sinya Online, Joseph was the General Manager, Greater China Online Services for Intel Corp. In this position, he built an organization of 250 employees in a co-op program with China Telecom. Before Intel, Joseph was the Asia Pacific Marketing Director for Parametric Technology Corp, a leading CAD/CAM/CAE software vender.
Joseph has a MBA from Rutgers University in the U.S.A and an EMBA from Tsinghua University in China.
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