Aug 08

LETTER FROM GLOBALPLATFORM'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - KEVIN GILLICK

New Member Update

I am pleased to announce that Barnes International Ltd., a leading provider of testing tools and software to the global card market, has joined GlobalPlatform to align its testing solutions – which simplify the identification of interoperability issues – with GlobalPlatform's own work towards smart card interoperability. 

As our newest Observer Member, Barnes will be actively participating in our Advisory Council and various task force initiatives.  To learn more about Barnes and the company's association with GlobalPlatform, I encourage you to read the recent press announcement.

With the active engagement of Barnes, GlobalPlatform is now 52 members strong!

Member Spotlight

The GlobalPlatform website 'Member Spotlight' feature this month casts light on another one of our Full Member companies, MasterCard Worldwide.  Toni Merschen, Group Head of Chip and member of the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors, answers questions about MasterCard's objectives, challenges and rationale for being a member of GlobalPlatform.  To view the MasterCard Member Spotlight, click here. To learn how your organization can be showcased in an upcoming Member Spotlight, please contact iseepr.

In September, we will shine the spotlight on Trusted Logic, another of GlobalPlatform's Full Members.

GlobalPlatform at Smart Event 2008

GlobalPlatform will once again have a very strong presence at Smart Event 2008 in Sophia Antipolis, France, which is taking place between 17-19 September.  The conference will feature four GlobalPlatform presentations and will also be the site of our first joint committee and task force meetings. 

Presentations:

• Kevin Gillick, GlobalPlatform Executive Director, will speak on Wednesday, 17 September about 'Applying Open Standards to Future-Proof Smart Card Implementations'.
  
  
• Olivier Potonniee, Coordinator of the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v3.0 Working Group, will also speak on Wednesday to provide a 'GlobalPlatform Card Specification v3.0 Overview'.
  
  
• Roland Horsch, GlobalPlatform Card Compliance Working Group Chairman, will speak on Thursday, 18 September on 'Formal Methods in Compliance Testing for GlobalPlatform'.
  
  
• Finally, on Friday, 19 September, Gil Bernabeu, GlobalPlatform's Technical Director and Jean-Loup Depinay, GlobalPlatform Card Committee Chairman, will address 'Trusted Path Standardization for Secure Match on Card'.

For further information on Smart Event 08, and other forthcoming GlobalPlatform presentations, please click here.

Meetings:

In addition to Card Committee meetings taking place at Gemalto and NXP during the week of the conference, we are in the initial planning stages for two additional joint meetings to be held on Friday, 19 September.

• Joint Systems Committee and Mobile Task Force Meeting (AM)

  The purpose of this joint meeting is to reassess the systems technology in the context of the mobile contactless environment.  This reassessment will map new actors required by the mobile contactless environment with the current actors and responsibilities defined by the systems technology.

• Joint Card Committee and Government Task Force Meeting (PM)

  The purpose of this joint meeting will be to discuss the future direction of Secure Channel Protocol development for ID and the potential integration of the CEN-14890 framework. There will also be an update on recent activity towards the development of a white paper which focuses on GlobalPlatform's value proposition for biometrics match on-card.

For more information about these meetings, and to sign up to attend, please see the GlobalPlatform Meetings and Events Calendar which can be accessed via the homepage of the members-only website.

We hope to see you in Sophia Antipolis for these informative presentations and important joint meetings.  Until then, take care!

With kind regards,

Kevin Gillick
Executive Director, GlobalPlatform

MEMBERSHIP OFFERS

To view further details about the latest membership discounts available to GlobalPlatform members at industry events worldwide, please click here.

10-12 September 2008: Singapore
10% off registration for GlobalPlatform members

16-19 September 2008: Sophia-Antipolis, French Riviera
€275 off registration for GlobalPlatform members

22-24 September 2008: Miami, Florida
10% off registration for GlobalPlatform members

30 Sep-1 Oct 2008: Sydney, Australia
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1-2 October 2008: Budapest
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6-7 October 2008: Paris, France
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8-9 October 2008: Hong Kong
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