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List of sponsors 
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at this event then please contact:
Sophia Ku, Sponsorship Sales Manager
Email: sophia.ku@terrapinn.com
Tel: (65) 6322 2720
Fax: (65) 6226 3264
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Founding sponsor
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NXP is a newly independent semiconductor company. Founded by Philips over 50 years ago, we use our experience in mobile communications, consumer electronics, security applications, contactless payment and connectivity, and in-car entertainment and networking to provide engineers and designers with semiconductors and software that enable them to deliver better sensory experiences. These include brilliant images, crisp clear sound and easy sharing of information in homes, cars and mobile devices.
We are insightful, inventive and engaging, while constantly striving for excellence in everything that we do.
NFC is the perfect solution for controlling data in our increasingly complex and connected world. It is central to NXP's vision of a world where everyone can always connect to information, entertainment and services - anytime and anywhere. Its intuitive operation makes it particularly easy for consumers to use, while its built-in security makes it ideal for payment and financial applications.
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Platinum & Masterclass sponsor
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Visa connects cardholders, merchants and financial institutions through the world's largest electronic payments network. Visa products allow buyers and sellers to conduct commerce with ease and confidence in both the physical and virtual worlds. Visa is committed to the sustained growth of electronic payment systems to support the needs of all stakeholders and to drive economic growth.
Visa products currently generate more than $4.6 trillion in sales volume worldwide. Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world. In addition, Visa/Plus is one of the world’s largest global ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in over 170 countries.
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Silver sponsors
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Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.
The simplicity of a touch is changing the way consumers interact with devices and services in their surrounding and is the driver for Nokia´s NFC strategy. Nokia participates in developing NFC standards further through the open NFC Forum, and aims to create an interoperable environment with other members.
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Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and on-line businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading personal broadband entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $63 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006.
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Associate sponsor
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ViVOtech is a market leader in contactless/NFC payment software, over the air (OTA) card provisioning, promotion, NFC smart posters, and contactless readers/writers. These innovative solutions allow consumers to make contactless payments with radio frequency-enabled credit/debit cards, key fobs, and NFC-enabled mobile phones. ViVOtech's products are used by some of the most prominent retailers in the United States. Currently, with more than 250,000 units in 22 countries, ViVOtech's products are in use at movie theaters, fast food restaurants (QSR), casual dining establishments, convenience stores, gas stations, drug stores, grocery stores, buses, taxicabs and vending machine locations, enabling a wide variety of businesses to accept contactless/NFC payments.
In 2007, ViVOtech was named #1 in the new ABI Research contactless reader ranking and recognized Top Contactless Payment Technology Vendor in Aberdeen Group’s “Retail Contactless Payment Report”.
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Session sponsors
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CASSIS is a leading end-to-end security solution and service provider. CASSIS is specialised in co-create value for our clients through collaborative business partnerships to optimize our clients’ investment in Smart Card Technology. We build application environments for our clients to register and process smart cards and other chip-enabled devices so that cardholders and users can dynamically and securely access multiple applications offered by service providers.
Established in 2002, CASSIS is an independent company headquartered in Singapore with an experienced international management team and a strong core customer set. CASSIS has four operations worldwide: Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and France, and a VISA and MasterCard certified centre called CASSIS Digital Security Centre (CDSC).
CDSC provides business process outsourcing to Card Issuers for the end-to-end smartcard management services and technology. New innovative services, such as Over-The-Air (OTA) Remote Management, On-demand Mobile Advertising and Mobile Bonus Points leveraging on NFC technology are also provided through the CDSC. CDSC is ISO 27001 certified.
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Gemalto is the leader in digital security with pro forma 2006 annual revenues of €1.7 billion and 10,000 employees.
As the digital revolution is transforming our lives, Gemalto’s solutions make personal digital interactions more convenient and secure. Gemalto provides end-to-end solutions, from the development of software applications to design and production of secure personal devices such as smart cards, SIMs, e-passports, and tokens.
More than a billion people worldwide use the company's products and services for telecommunications, financial services, e-government, digital rights management, IT security and mass transit. Gemalto was formed in June 2006 by the combination of Axalto and Gemplus.
Strong relationships with mobile operators, banks and transport companies give Gemalto a unique position in the NFC ecosystem. The company combines unequalled experience in banking / transport personalization at its 30 personalization bureaus with worldwide OTA expertise - 170 installed platforms currently manage 700 million SIMs. The result is a complete, operated service solution for the deployment and lifecycle management of NFC applications.
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Founded in 1995, INSIDE is headquartered in France and with global presence in China, Singapore, Poland and the USA. INSIDE is uniquely positioned as the only fabless semiconductor company solely dedicated to the advancement of contactless technology, leveraging one of the industry’s largest intellectual property portfolios. Through strategic emphasis in Contactless Payments and Near Field Communications (NFC), INSIDE has been on a rapid growth track over the past two years with more than 12M chips delivered for contactless payment cards in the US market and a dominant position in driving NFC standardization and pilot deployments.
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RFCyber is an emerging software technology company with focus on RFID/NFC mobile payment and e-payment solutions. RFCyber started with providing a RFID platform in the middleware layer and offers now a complete software solution for RFID ticketing-/payment systems, especially through the public network. E.g. its mobile payment solution enables the mobile phone to become a new adventure device, by bringing the mobile phone users into the new era of the RFID world. Contact RFCyber at: sales@rfcyber.com or visit www.rfcyber.com
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Venyon is a global joint venture of Nokia and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) incorporated in Dec 2006 as a neutral and independent service company.
Venyon is facilitating all stakeholders in the rapidly growing contactless mobile NFC applications market by offering its’ secure chip management and convenient top-up services for stored value applications, such as transport and event tickets. Venyon acts as a trusted third party for application management and provisioning these applications via the mobile network.
Venyon has a white-label business model for its hosted services, whereby mobile operators, banks, transport companies and other service providers can utilize the Venyon services for downloading and managing application life-cycle on the consumers’ NFC phones while the branding and consumer facing activities remain with these service providers. Venyon is headquartered in Helsinki and has offices in Munich, Dallas and Singapore.
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Premier research partner
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Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York, ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in broadband and multimedia, RFID & contactless, M2M, wireless connectivity, mobile wireless, transportation, and emerging technologies. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500. |
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