CARTES &
IDentification 2010, the largest European trade show and conference
for digital security, smart technologies, payment and mobility,
will be held in Paris from 7 to 9 December 2010.

Celebrating its 25th
anniversary this year, “business, innovation, foresight and
celebration” are the main themes of this year’s CARTES, with around
20,000 visitors and 1,300 delegates expected to attend.

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Around 500 exhibitors
will participate in the trade show, focused on four major
areas:

  • Cards, devices, data processing equipment
    manufacturing;
  • Software and security systems, including
    data security, mobile and terminal security;
  • Engineering / Services, including
    electronic data interchange, and
  • Identification, including biometric
    technologies.

Slobodan Petrovic,
Director of the CARTES & IDentification trade fair said: “The
issues relating to smart technologies and card payment solutions
have become global, and companies active in this industry need
international exposure. CARTES is there to encourage these
exchanges.”

Exhibitor workshops
include presentations from Thales on advances in entitled cloud
computing; Oberthur has a session on innovations in prepaid
contactless cards, instant issuance and delivery solutions of
prepaid cards and PIN code and picture card solutions.

Giesecke & Devrient
is presenting a workshop on online and mobile financial services; a
session from Gemalto also focuses on internet banking.

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CARTES 2010 will again
feature the Sesames Awards, with the year’s most innovative
smartcards and related products selected by a panel of
international judges.

The 2010 sector
finalists, in alphabetical order include:

Hardware:

  • Infineon Technologies
    with Infineon SLI 76 “in-car” family;
  • Morpho e-Documents with
    ConnectSIM, and
  • Watchdata System with
    Contact Smart Card Adaptor.

Software:

  • Giesecke & Devrient GmbH with
    Application Authentication InsideContactless with Open
    NFC;
  • Kentkart Ege Elektronik Ltd. with
    INFINITE KENTKART, and
  • Oberthur Technologies with Full Secure
    Services Management

Identification/ID Card:

  • Applied DNA Sciences with
    RapiDNA;
  • Giesecke & Devrient GmbH with
    FEEL-ID, and
  • HID-Global with HID-Global veriCLASS
    & identiCLASS embeddable hardware platform IDEX ASA with
    SmartFinger Film

IT
Security:

  • Gemalto with eGo;
  • Konica Minolta Business Technologies,
    Inc. with Universal Design High-security MFP with Body Area Network
    (BAN) Smart Card, and
  • Oberthur Technologies with ID-One Cosmo
    microSD

Banking/Retail/Loyalty:

  • Blackboard Inc. with Blackboard MF4100
    Multifunction Contactless Reader;
  • natural security with natural security,
    and
  • ViVOtech with ViVOtech end-to-end
    solution for NFC Mobile Payments and Promotions.

e-Transactions:

  • BPC Banking Technologies with
    SmartGuard;
  • Gematik GmbH with Practice-fee and
    receipt service, and
  • PassWindow Pte Ltd with
    PassWindow