Burcin joined Turkcell in 2004 as a project manager of different scale projects for corporate customers. He is leading the m-commerce business in Turkcell since 2005. In this position he helped Turkcell introducing m-payment in Turkey. He is also responsible for research and implementation of different m-payment and m-commerce schemes and applications in Turkcell including NFC. He represents Turkcell in different organisations and working groups across the world. Prior to joining Turkcell, Burcin worked between 1999 and 2004 in Nortel Networks Turkey. During this period he held different product and sales management positions. He also set the specifications of a new SDH product and led the product introduction. Burcin Acan received his MBA degree in 1997 and also holds MSc degree in Electronics & Telecommunication.

Dr. Nav Bains is the GSMA Project Director for the NFC and the "Pay-Buy Mobile" (M-Payment) initiatives. Nav has over 17 years experience in the telecommunications industry and has successfully managed a number of large communications projects. Prior to GSMA, Nav has worked for LogicaCMG and ICO Global communications.

Dominique Brulé is Director of Marketing for Services Solutions within the Identification Business group of NXP Semiconductors. Dominique joined NXP in 2000, with experience in the smart card industry focusing on smart card readers for Pay TV and banking applications. In 2003, he led the business development activities for NFC technology in the mobile phone industry, including helping to define the global strategy to ensure the technology needs align with market requirements. In 2006, Dominique joined the Identification Business group of NXP as Director of Marketing, developing and promoting NFC-based m-commerce services. He is based in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Nora Chen has been working in the field of smart card industry from 1996-2006 when she worked for the Institute of Information Industry (III) and Acer Taiwan. During the period, her expertise focused on smart card payment and secured ID services such as EMV, contactless applications and ePassport project. She joined to Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. in 2006, and is in charge of interactive marketing and commerce applications. She is currently the manager of Business Development & Multimedia Service in Far EasTone Telecommunications, responsible for the strategizing, development, operation and marketing of portal business and commerce applications and one of her major focus is NFC contactless payment services in Taiwan.

Thian Yee founded CASSIS in 2002. He spent more than two decades in the Smart Card and IT Industries, particularly in the application of technologies to consumer services. Prior to CASSIS, he created several Gemplus operations outside of France: Japan, Korea and Gemplus Associates in UK. He left Gemplus after successfully created the joint venture between Gemplus and Toppan Printing in Japan to provide secure shared services to the Mobile and Financial industries in Japan. Thian Yee holds an Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore, and attended executive development programs at the London Business School.

Gordon Cooper is Regional Head of Mobile Payment in Visa’s Asia Pacific Region and has overall responsibility for driving innovation in Visa payment services across mobile consumer devices. Cooper joined Visa’s Singapore head office for Asia Pacific region in 1998, working initially on smart card initiatives targeted at emerging markets. In 1999, he shifted focus to the Japanese market, where he was responsible for defining Visa’s strategy in Japan for the migration to the Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) standard for smart cards. Moving to London in 2000, he took on responsibility for business development at a start-up venture in the Internet payments space, before coming back to Visa, this time in the London head office of the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) region. While in CEMEA region, Cooper played an influential role in defining smart card strategy for emerging markets, and was responsible for various smart card initiatives in Africa and Eastern Europe. In mid-2002, he transferred back to Visa Asia Pacific to become head of Visa’s smart card department in Japan. Under his leadership, Visa’s Tokyo office grew the number of EMV-compliant Visa cards in Japan from 4 million to 10 million in just one year and set the pace for EMV migration in Asia Pacific. In 2003, his role was expanded to include oversight of regional product development in smart cards, e-commerce, mobile commerce, and money transfer solutions. His accomplishments in that role include the launch of Visa’s first contactless smart card program. Cooper moved to Ho Chi Minh City in June 2004 to establish Visa’s presence in Vietnam and to serve as Country Manager for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Securing the first operating license in Vietnam for an international payment card company, he laid the groundwork for the establishment of a national settlement solution for Visa member banks in Vietnam and oversaw the launch of Visa Debit. He subsequently oversaw Visa’s operations in Singapore and Brunei before assuming his current post as Regional Head of Mobile Payment in November 2006. Prior to joining Visa, Cooper worked and studied in various parts of Japan. Originally from Halifax, Canada, he holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with Asia specialization from York University and an Honors Degree in Political Science / International Relations from Dalhousie University – both in Canada. Cooper currently resides in Singapore with his wife, Chere, and two sons, Julian and William.

Antony de Jong was educated at the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania and also holds an honours law degree and a science degree from the University of Melbourne. He is the Director of Payments Solutions and Transaction Services at Telstra Corporation and has recently been seconded to lead Industry Marketing developing Telstra’s vertical industry offerings and new industry marketing executive team. He has lead Telstra’s recent payments innovation activities including the launch of the Telstra, VISA, National Australia Bank contactless mobile payments market trial. Antony represents Telstra on the Australian Payments and Clearing Association (APCA) industry consultation committee and has regularly spoken at conferences on technology innovation in banking, transactions and payments. Prior to joining Telstra in late 2004, Antony was a Partner with Accenture leading the Financial Services Strategy & Business Architecture practice in Melbourne. In this role, he established and grew the business, winning and leading strategy engagements with major Australian and Asian clients. He has gained experience in a broad range of strategic initiatives across the media, communications, retail and banking industries in Australia and overseas and has developed particular expertise in profit growth through new product, business development, new market entry, business and technology transformation and performance improvement. Antony is also a member of two Arts company boards, The Bell Shakespeare Company and The Duldig Gallery Inc.

Claire started her career with British Telecommunications Plc in London, during which time she held a variety of positions in business strategy, business development and her last role in London was as product manager of BT’s portable mobile satellite service which was jointly offered with Telenor. In 2000, Claire was seconded to Maxis Malaysia and was responsible for the Maxis prepaid product migration to an Intelligent Network platform and the deployment of other key initiatives within the fast growing Hotlink Prepaid segment. In 2002, Claire left BT to join Maxis and project managed multiple new product rollouts & in 2004 Claire returned to Product Management with responsibility for Prepaid and Enhanced Voice Product portfolio. In 2005, Claire started her involvement in the fascinating area of M-Commerce and is currently heading the M-Commerce team within Maxis. Her current responsibilities include managing the Maxis M-money service, Mobile International Remittance, NFC implementation and developing the overall M-Commerce strategy for Maxis.

- 1994 Founder of Adamsoft ltd in Slovenia. - 4 years worked as “one man band” in his company - Adamsoft. - Involved in many successful projects on local market as consultant and with products of company Adamsoft. - 1997 beginning of cooperation with largest non-food retailer Merkur in Slovenia - 1999-2004 many successful project of IT implementations with retailers in Slovenia - 2005 beginning of cooperation with Engrotus – 2nd largest retailer in Slovenia (food and non-food) - 2006 beginning of cooperation with Tusmobil – 3rd mobile operator in Slovenia. Main focus of cooperation is on NFC technology. - 2006 & 2007 Adamsoft has more than 35% annual revenue growth. - 2008 first production NFC solution started at Tusmobil. - 2008 Q1 and Q2, Adamsoft has more than 100% growth of revenue compared to year 2007

Hu Hsueh-hai, has been working with Chunghwa Telecom since year 1986. Started at the Information Technology Department of Chunghwa Telecom. Lab., working as a software engineer, has developed Service Order Processing System for fixed line, Calling Detailed Record Collecting System for fixed line, and Customer Care and Billing System for mobile among those years. Then switched to Chunghwa Telecom Mobile Business Group in year 1999, served as product manager in the Marketing Department. Currently being Deputy Managing Director of Valued-added Services Department of Chunghwa Telecom. Mobile.

Mr. Marko Jagodič holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Ljubljana. During 24 years of his professional career Marko worked in different roles for national and international companies in various industries. As a software R&D engineer he was involved in design of VLSI microchips, CAD systems, traffic control systems, ERP systems; as a consultant he consulted in IT related management consulting and BPR; as a sales manager he managed sales teams selling system integration services and SW development services on national and international markets; as a business manager he managed teams and customers from telecommunications, financial institutions and government institutions. Marko joined Mobitel d.d. at the end of 2004. His responsibilities include evolution of Mobitel’s mobile payment solutions and NFC solutions.

Philippe Martineau is responsible for developing INSIDE's worldwide emerging NFC business line on various market segments. Philippe's task is to enhance the company’s strategy, and position INSIDE’s offer within this strategic market.Previously, Philippe spent the past 17 years in the smart card industry working for Gemplus in France including 3 years in the United States. Back in south of France he managed the Product Line of the Telecom Business Unit and later became Vice President 'Strategy'.

Jérôme Sion is Director for contactless and m-commerce activities in the Mobile Communications segment at Gemalto. In charge of the global contactless offering, Jérôme’s brief is to support mobile operators and service providers in leveraging the full potential of NFC (Near Field Communication) and its related services. Jérôme Sion joined Schlumberger’s smart cards division in 1997, where he held various marketing positions, including Product Manager for Security, PayTV and new technologies. Since 2000, he has been committed to the Business Development of mobile communications, working as EMEA Marketing Director followed by the post of country manager in France, Belgium and Luxemburg. He then became director of Business Development for Mobile communications, where he had the opportunity to oversee many aspects of the mobile communications business, in particular working and developing multimedia services. Jérôme holds an Engineering Degree and an MBA from EM Lyon.

Louis Soong is the Business Development Manager handling the sales and marketing activities in Asia. With both his Telecom (GSM / CDMA) and Banking (EMV) experience equipped from his business exposure in Asia and Europe, he has joined the FeliCa Business Center to further venture into the contactless smart card market. Since then, he has been contributing to expand the FeliCa smart card business by recommending new business approaches to FeliCa. He is also part of the FeliCa Strategic Alliance team, spearheading new business and partnership opportunity with potential business partners.

Koichi Tagawa is the General Manager of Global Standards and Industry Relations Dept. , that is in charge of technology standards and technology industry relations of the FeliCa Business. Since 2002, he supported the popularization of NFC and FeliCa as a headquarter member from the standardization point of view. He actively contributed to establish NFC Forum, and has been taking on the position of the vice chairman from the beginning and still today. He enthusiastically continues to contribute to the enhancement of NFC Eco-system throughout the contactless application industry.

Mr. Jukka Yliuntinen, Chief Marketing Officer, heads the Sales & Marketing at Venyon. He joined Venyon in the beginning of 2007, when company was established and he is located in Helsinki, Finland. Jukka has over 10 year experience on smart cards and related solutions including for example SIM cards, payment cards, smart identification documents, security and personalization solutions. He has presented papers and given presentations on numerous mobile, payment and identification conferences both in Europe and APAC. Before joining Venyon Jukka was heading the ID Product and Solution Management at Gemalto. Venyon is a global mobile service company, established by Nokia and Giesecke & Devrient. Venyon develops and operates a secure and versatile service platform to be used for the Over-The-Air provisioning and management of the consumer applications, such as credit cards and transport tickets, to consumers’ NFC enabled mobile devices. NFC (Near Field Communication) is an emerging RFID technology in the mobile phones, which enables the mobile phone to be used as a payment and ticketing device in the existing contactless smart card infrastructure and to access mobile services by reading RFID tags embedded in posters. Venyon provides OTA services to mobile operators, banks, transport companies, retailers and other service providers, who are looking to offer NFC based applications and services to consumers. Venyon is headquartered in Finland, and has offices in Helsinki, Munich (Germany), Dallas (US) and Singapore.

Pam Zuercher is Head of Global Product Innovation for Visa Inc. In this role, Pam is responsible for developing new product and service strategies to address new market and technology opportunities for Visa. Her responsibilities include market analysis, technology assessments, consumer research, business case development, and product concept design and testing. In addition to general product innovation responsibilities, Pam also leads global product innovation initiatives, including Visa’s mobile and contactless (Visa payWave) initiatives.