American Express, listed on the New York stock exchange, is a multinational financial services corporation and the world’s largest card issuer by purchase volume; processing millions of transactions across the world every day.Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York, the company also provides commercial payment tools and expertise, marketing information and management insights and loyalty and rewards programs and platforms, as well as operating one of the world’s largest travel networks.

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is a global semiconductor provider that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive innovation.

With 25,000 people working alongside 125,000 global customers, ADI supports edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across verticals including aerospace, automotive, sustainable energy, communications, digital healthcare, industrial automation, instrumentation, consumer, and more.

Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company headquartered in California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services to a network of customers across the world. The company paved the way for personal technology with the introduction of its Macintosh computer in 1984 and continues to operate in the consumer market with its iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV products. Apple is also a leader in the software market and has developed four platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS – to enable seamless user experiences across all of its devices; empowering customers with breakthrough services that include the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud.

Applus+ provides conformity assessment services around the world. It is one of the three largest European companies in the inspection, technical support and testing sectors and has offices in over 70 countries. In its capacity as a Visa-recognized laboratory and Common Criteria evaluation center, the Applus+ ITC Center performs a complete range of evaluation and certification services, dealing with both smart cards and acceptance devices (interoperability, functionality and security).

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions: 

• Complete open platform testing (Visa GlobalPlatform Specification / v2.1.1 in the payment systems area).
• Consultancy on Common Criteria evaluation for GlobalPlatform products.

Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate. Our advanced, energy-efficient processor designs have enabled intelligent computing in more than 160 billion chips and our technologies now securely power products from the sensor to the smartphone and the supercomputer. In combination with our IoT device, connectivity and data management platform, we are also enabling customers with powerful and actionable business insights that are generating new value from their connected devices and data. Together with 1,000+ technology partners we are at the forefront of designing, securing and managing all areas of compute from the chip to the cloud.

AT&T is a multinational telecommunications and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It specializes in providing fast, reliable and secure 5G connectivity along with multi-gig fiber internet to enable everything from smarter homes and cities to high-quality remote healthcare, augmented and virtual reality, and business collaboration tools.

Beijing Unionpay Card Technology Co., Ltd., also known as Bank Card Test Center (BCTC) is headquartered in Beijing. With its first lab established in 1998 and the company founded in 2001, BCTC has over 15 years' experience in delivering smart card product testing technical services. Accredited by People's Bank of China, EMVCo, Unionpay and MasterCard, BCTC's testing services are globally recognized and cover functionality and security for each section of the payment chain from chips and smart cards to acceptance devices and systems.

DPLS Lab is a Beijing-based third party independent security testing lab. It is committed to serving the bank card and electronic payment industry by providing training, functional testing and security assessment on IC and mobile payment chips, smart cards, embedded software, the trusted execution environment (TEE) and payment terminal and systems.

DPLS Lab also extends its evaluation and consulting services to IoT and biometric identification. It is the accreditation test lab for Alibaba ICA (IoT Connectivity Alliance) and FIDO, allowing more industry partners to add value to the market. DPLS Lab leverages the experience of its technical teams to also offer professional consultancy and training in the areas of detection and prevention, security assessment and security consulting as well as online banking.

SGS Brightsight supports companies in getting their products ready and in compliance with the latest security regulations and requirements. With over 35 years of experience and a growing global network of state-of-the-art laboratories, it provides comprehensive training, consultancy and evaluation solutions to operators in all industry sectors. SGS Brightsight became part of the SGS Group in 2021.

SGS Brightsight operates 55+ laboratory setups, employs 170+ specialist security evaluators, and performs 700+ evaluations a year. It focuses on reliability and transparency, helping customers to minimize risk while optimizing outcomes across the value chain.

BSI is a Federal Cyber Security Authority which shapes information security in digitization through prevention, detection and reaction for government, business and society. As a national cyber security authority, the goal of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is to promote IT security in Germany. The BSI is first and foremost the central IT security service provider for the federal government in Germany. BSI also offers services to IT manufacturers as well as private and commercial users and providers of information technology because effective security is only possible when everyone involved contributes.

Bundesdruckerei GmbH is driving technological developments in the areas of identity and authorisation management, administrative digitisation, data analysis and artificial intelligence as well as government payment methods and value transfer systems. In this way, it forms the basis for a modern and resilient society.

As a company of the Bundesdruckerei Group and with more than 250 years of experience, the company is paving the way to a secure digital future. Bundesdruckerei GmbH currently employs around 3,090 people and generated sales of 789.5 million euros in 2022.

CARIAD is an automotive software company in the Volkswagen Group that consolidates and further expands the Group's software competencies to transform automotive mobility. The company develops a leading tech stack for the automotive industry with the mission to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable and more comfortable in a new way – for everyone, everywhere.

CARIAD builds a uniform software platform for all brands of Volkswagen Group, which includes a unified and scalable architecture, an operating system and automotive cloud.

The company transforms cars into software-defined vehicles that seamlessly integrate the automotive experience into our digital life, turning the Volkswagen Group into a software-driven mobility provider.

CARIAD’s Headquarter is located in Germany, and co-operates with international Volkswagen Group teams in the US and China.

Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB is an interbank payment and cash withdrawal system, created in 1984. It ensures the consistency, reliability and security of the CB system. Its bank members issue CB cards, affiliate merchants and install ATMs according to their own commercial strategy. Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB is responsible for:

• establishing the rules applicable to CB members.
• defining the technical standards and contractual rules between CB members .
• managing transaction authorizations between CB members.
• equipment type approval and ensuring the CB system’s security, promotion and representation.

GlobalPlatform Based Solutions: Cartes Bancaires EMV cards which support the Dynamic Data Authentication method (DDA) contains an administration piece of software based on the SCP02 protocol described in the GlobalPlatform Card Specification version 2.1.1, March 2003.

Cartes Bancaires has chosen GlobalPlatform Specifications as a basis for the development of an admministration specification for the personalization of the EMV DDA CB cards

CEA-Leti is an institute within the French research-and-technology organization, CEA which specializes in the research of nanotechnologies and their applications. CEA-Leti’s Information Technology Security Evaluation Facilities (ITSEF) performs security evaluations of components and devices to assess their resistance to breaches that could compromise user data.

CEA-Leti’s ITSEF is licensed to perform Common Criteria evaluations in the context of the French Certification Scheme. It is also licensed by the major worldwide banking schemes (EMVCo, MASTERCARD, VISACARD) to perform security evaluations of integrated circuits and smartcards.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is a worldwide technology leader that has been making the Internet work since 1984. Its people, products and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow's digital opportunity today.

Cisco Systems shipped its first product in 1986 and is now a multi-national corporation, with over 35,000 employees in more than 115 countries. Today, Cisco solutions are the networking foundations for service providers, small to medium business and enterprise customers including corporations, government agencies, utilities and educational institutions.

Cisco's networking solutions connect people, computing devices and computer networks, allowing people to access or transfer information without regard to differences in time, place or type of computer system.

COMPRION is an international manufacturer of test solutions for smart card interfaces, terminals, and smart cards. Covering contact-based and contactless technologies, COMPRION provides its expertise to multiple industries including telecommunications, payments, and M2M. As COMPRION test systems are renowned for accurate measurement, the company serves the top mobile phone, terminal, card and chipset manufacturers as well as mobile network operators and test houses. COMPRION also acts as a technological consultant to key players in the market. The company also offers consulting and testing services.

COMPRION’s involvement in many standardization and certification bodies enables the company to integrate the latest standards and requirements into the products. Acknowledging the importance of GlobalPlatform based technologies, COMPRION contributes to the standardization work in all GlobalPlatform committees and is involved in GlobalPlatform-related topics such as SWP/HCI, eUICC, SEAC, and OMAPI.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions: 

• GlobalPlatform SEAC device: Test Solution: UT³ Platform, Prove 2
• GlobalPlatform SEAC compliance card: Test Solution: Spectro TP, Spectro 2
•  GlobalPlatform eUICC card compliance: Test Solution: PC/SC card reader, Spectro TP, Spectro 2
• ETSI TS 102 694-2 SWP: Test Solution: Spectro TP, Spectro 2
• ETSI TS 102 695-2 HCI: Test Solution: Spectro TP, Spectro 2
• OMAPI (Originally specified by SIMalliance): Test Solution: UT³ Platform, Prove 2

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) is one of the world's largest comprehensive printing companies, with annual sales of approximately US$12.88 billion and 35,000 employees (as of March 31, 2006). DNP's wide range of businesses includes publication printing, commercial printing, smart cards, business forms, network businesses and electronic components. DNP started smart card R&D in 1981 and its smart card business covers card operating system development, card application development, card manufacturing as well as bureau services.

DEKRA was founded in 1925 to ensure road safety through vehicle testing. Today, DEKRA is the world's largest independent, non-listed expert organization in the field of testing, inspection and certification. As a global provider of comprehensive services and solutions, we help our customers improve their safety, security, and sustainability outcomes.

The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) maintains the largest archive of personnel, manpower, training, and financial data in the Department of Defense (DoD). The personnel data holdings, in particular, are broad in scope and extend back to the early 1970s to cover all Military Services, all components of the Total Force (active duty, guard, Reserve, civilian), and all phases of the personnel life cycle (accession, separation, retirement). The other data holdings, however, usually are the only single source of commonly coded data on the Military Services. This data supports the management information needs of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD/P&R), other organizations within Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and many customers both within and outside of the Department. In addition to maintaining large amounts of data, DMDC operates major programs that affect individual members of the Department. These programs affect both active duty and Reserve component military members and their families and civilian employees of the DoD. These programs include developing aptitude tests for entry into the military; conducting personnel surveys; helping ensure access to military medical facilities; managing the military ID card issuance program; helping identify fraud and waste in DoD pay systems; and assisting departing military and DoD civilian members and their spouses to transition back into the civilian sector.

GlobalPlatform Based Solutions: The Common Access Card (CAC) is a Java Card which uses GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.01 and GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.1 APIs.

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs: The CAC is a smart card and DoD's standard identification card for active duty military personnel, Selected Reserve, DoD civilian employees, and eligible contractor personnel. The CAC is also the principal card used to enable physical access to buildings and controlled spaces and for logical access to the Department of Defense computer networks and systems.

As an independent company under the umbrella of the Deutsche Telekom Group, Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH offers customers the same highly professional solutions, consisting of technology and services, with which Deutsche Telekom AG is also protected worldwide. With a turnover of over 250 million euros in cyber security, Telekom Security is the market leader in Germany and one of the European leaders in the cyber security industry.

Digital Cubes offers consultancy in computer security certification and qualification solutions for products, making the process simple and understandable for its clients. These services are designed to provide support to all the actors that participate in the certification/qualification process. Involved actors may be, product developers, certification bodies or testing laboratories.

Its experts have experience as part of the developer team of products that required a high security assurance (Common Criteria EAL4+), as well as the creation of testing laboratories with the ISO 17025 requirements for Common Criteria and LINCE (Spanish lightweight evaluation) scopes.

Discover was founded in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois and is now recognized globally as a leading credit card issuer and electronic payment services company. Its flagship product, the Discover card, was one of the first cash reward cards in America and the company has now grown its portfolio to include digital banking and loan services.

Discover's payments networks - Discover Network, PULSE and Diners Club - together process billions of transactions a year. Discover Network connects millions of merchant and cash access locations; PULSE serves more than 4,400 financial institutions and point of sale terminals nationwide; and Diners Club International, which created the first multi-purpose charge card in the world, is a global payments network with acceptance in 185 countries and territories

Eastcompeace Technology Co., Ltd is one of the world's leading vendors specialized in the design, development and delivery of smart cards and smart card based solutions for the telecommunications, payments, ID and security sectors. Established in1998, Eastcompeace has set up subsidiaries in Singapore, Indonesia, Bangladesh and India. As the key State-torch High-tech Program enterprise of China, Eastcompeace is also certified by GSM SAS, VISA, MasterCard, China UnionPay, CMMI, ISO9001 and ISO 14001 for its cutting-edge manufacturing and R&D capabilities. Innovative technology, customized solutions and reliable products and services enable Eastcompeace to be the leading smart card provider in China and Top 5 vendor in the world.

GlobalPlatform Based Solutions: Eastcompeace provides SIM cards and USIM cards compliant with GlobalPlatform Specification v2.1.1 for worldwide telecom operators. Eastcompeace also provides Visa approved Visa GlobalPlatform chip card products for Visa member banks.

Eastcompeace believes that its involvement in GlobalPlatform activities and initiatives will help it to meet the demands of mobile network operators and banks, and in turn realize its vision of a smart card and smart life for everyone.

ETAS is a company focused on driving the future of mobility by combining the expertise of a leading automotive supplier with the agility of digital talent. They accelerate automotive software development through their solutions, enabling manufacturers to create clean, connected, and reliable vehicles. ETAS promotes collaboration through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and contributes to industry standards like AUTOSAR and the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle Working Group, fostering innovation in the evolving automotive landscape.

Established in 1998, Feitian is dedicated to being the leading innovator of smartcard and chip operating system based security technologies and applications. Feitian's major business covers Software Protection, Strong Authentication, Smartcard COS and Peripherals.

Feitian cooperates closely with global leading smartcard chip providers, serves valuable customers with the world's latest technologies via its expanding sales and services network internationally.

Feitian's USB interfaced Software Protection Dongle, Strong Authentication USB Key, and Smartcard Reader are CE and FCC certified and RoHS compliant. Today, Feitian High performance and Low cost devices and solutions are widely accepted from personal application to enterprise system globally.

FeliCa Networks was founded in 2004 in Japan to provide a contactless RFID Smart Card system.

Its core businesses are licensing relating to the development, manufacture and sale of devices and operating systems, mainly for Mobile FeliCa IC chip, operating platforms for its service providers and information processing and provision services.

FeliCa’s NFC technology combined with its networks service management aims to provide a powerful platform for contactless services. This is achieved by integrating its contactless IC card technology in mobile phones to provide new NFC solutions to the mobile handset market in Japan and enable the consumption of applications including e-wallets, transportation tickets, entertainment tickets and coupons.

Fime enables its clients to create and launch trusted and secure solutions with consulting and testing services in payments, smart mobility, biometrics, authentication and open banking. It offers global cross-industry perspective, local insight, and unique heritage in testing and certification. Fime’s consultants provide transformative business expertise, partnering with organizations worldwide to define, design, deliver and test their products and services.

With 400+ experts around the world, Fime works strategically to help its clients turn ideas into reality, swiftly take products to market, and achieve competitive advantage. Working together, Fime turns powerful innovations into the future of trusted transactions.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• UICC configuration V1.0 Edition
• Mapping Guidelines Edition
• GP 2.1.1 Edition

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs:

• FIME actively supports smartcard manufacturers from the early stages of the development to achieve GlobalPlatform qualification for their products.
• FIME also accompanies Mobile Network Operators and Service Providers throughout their NFC projects. FIME's key strength in this support is the technical expertise it provides during the definition of their specifications and their test strategies.

Galitt is a French company that was founded in 1990 to provide consulting services dedicated to payment systems and secure electronic transactions as well as testing software. The company  assists its clients during the whole project life cycle: the Payment Consulting Unit provide strategic  direction; consultants from the Payment Services Unit support customers implementing their payment projects; teams from Testing Solutions Unit develop test software and take an active role in test automation and certification processes; staff from the Payment Solutions Unit build and run added-value payment applications; and trainers from the Payment Education Unit share expertise.

Galitt is also dedicated to R&D and actively invests in design and development initiatives as well as partnerships with major industry players.

Catti™, KaNest®, VisuCard®, G-Tokenizer™ and VisuBank® are designed, developed and maintained by Galitt.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• Galitt is actively participating to the Compliance Programs covering cards, devices and systems.
• The KaNest® range of test tools allows functional and security testing of any GlobalPlatform component.
• KaNest® GlobalPlatform Test Suites are all qualified according to the Compliance Programs and widely used by vendors and labs in the industry.

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs:

• Galitt actively supports stakeholders of the payment industry in implementing GlobalPlatform-related solutions, developing specifications, test plans and audit services leveraging the GlobalPlatform technology.
• Based on the KaNest® set of test tools, Galitt also provides testing services to prepare for GlobalPlatform certification.

Giesecke+Devrient is a global mobile security technology company headquartered in Munich, Germany. The company is part of the Giesecke+Devrient group. Giesecke+Devrient has a workforce of 5,700 employees and generated sales of approximately EUR 812 m in the 2017 fiscal year. More than 40 sales and partner offices, as well as 20+ certified production and personalization sites and data centers, ensure customer proximity worldwide.

Giesecke+Devrient manages and secures billions of digital identities throughout their entire lifecycle. Our products and solutions are used by commercial banks, mobile network operators, car and mobile device manufacturers, business enterprises, transit authorities and health insurances and their customers every day to secure payment, communication, and device-to-device interaction. Giesecke+Devrient is a technology leader its markets and holds a strong competitive position. For more information, please visit: https://www.gi-de.com/de/de/mobile-security

Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

HID Global is an American manufacturer of secure identity solutions that is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company was formed in 1991 as a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft and is now part of the ASSA ABLOY sister company Indala.

HID Global supplies products, services and solutions related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities to device manufacturers, integrators and developers that serve a variety of markets, including physical access control; IT security, including strong authentication/credential management; card personalization; visitor management; government ID; and identification technologies for a range of applications

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• All ActivIdentity Solutions for Enterprise products support the GlobalPlatform Card Specification, including: ActivClientTM, ActivIdentity CMS, ActivKeyTM, and ActivIdentity Applets.
• All ActivIdentity Solutions for Government products support the GlobalPlatform Card Specification: ActivIdentity CMS, ActivClientTM, and ActivIdentity Applets.

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs:

• The Department of Defense (DoD) Common Access Card (CAC) program. The ActivIdentity digital identity protection platform has enabled the DoD to issue a single smart card that incorporates identification credentials including a digital photo of the user, information necessary for both facility and network access, benefits entitlement and a digital signature for electronic transactions. The card is essentially an electronic key for secure logical access to the department's computer networks, physical access to military bases and other DoD facilities, complete with a miniature computer capable of downloading programs to enable future capabilities.

Established in 2013, HONOR is a leading global provider of smart devices. With a strategic focus on innovation, quality and service, HONOR is dedicated to developing technology that empowers people around the globe enabling a smart life across all scenarios and all channels, for all people.

HONOR owns and manages 3,000+ service centres and 9 regional call centres, providing efficient services to customers in over 100 markets.

Huawei was founded in 1987 in China and has grown into a global provider of networking and telecommunication services and equipment with over 180,000 employees worldwide. The company is dedicated to establishing end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields and its products and solutions are now used in over 170 countries and regions across the world.

The company’s aim is to enrich life through communication by leveraging its experience and expertise in the ICT sector to bridge the digital divide and provide seamless access to broadband services, regardless of geographic location.

OT-Morpho is now IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, with the ambition to empower citizens and consumers alike to interact, pay, connect, travel and vote in ways that are now possible in a connected environment.

Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect this asset, whether for individuals or for objects. We ensure privacy and trust as well as guarantee secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions for international clients from Financial, Telecom, Identity, Security and IoT sectors.

With close to €3bn in revenues, IDEMIA is the result of the merger between OT (Oberthur Technologies) and Safran Identity & Security (Morpho). This new company counts 14,000 employees of more than 80 nationalities and serves clients in 180 countries.

Infineon Technologies AG, headquartered in Neubiberg, Germany, focuses on what it sees as the three central challenges facing modern society: energy efficiency, mobility and security.

Based on its core competencies in the fields of security, contactless communication and integrated microcontroller solutions (embedded control), Infineon offers an extensive portfolio of semiconductor-based security products for many chip card and security applications. With this expertise, Infineon is helping to increase security in an increasingly connected world, for example for mobile payments, IT systems and secure electronic ID documents.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• eGovernment: Oracle Java Card on SLE78 (GP 2.2.1) and jTop Java Card on SLE78 (GP 2.1.1).
• Payment: SECORA™ Pay (GP 2.2)
• Device Authentication: OPTIGA Trust P Java Card (GP 2.2.1).

The Institute for Information Industry (III) was established on July 24, 1979 as a nonprofit organization jointly founded by the private and public sectors, with a mission to “promote the effective application of information technology and improve overall Taiwan competitiveness; foster an environment for information industry development and strengthen its competitiveness.” In order to lead the development of Taiwan’s digital economy, III has recently positioned itself as a “Digital Transformation Enabler,” integrating its think tank, professional training, research and development and promotional capabilities. III develops solutions and application services to fit industry needs and drive the digital transformation of both the government and industry.

Internet of Trust is a consulting and R&D company. It provides expert consulting and development services to the hardware and software connected objects industry, service providers, evaluation labs and authorities. The core activities include the definition of security schemes for solutions based on technical components such as GlobalPlatform’s smartcards and TEE, and the support to build and implement suitable product certification strategies. The services rely on a strong background in the field of embedded security in different sectors. Today, Internet of Trust addresses payment, identity and content protection sectors.

JCB is one of the global payment brands and a major card issuer and acquirer in Japan. JCB launched its card business in Japan in 1961 and began expanding overseas in 1981. Its merchant network includes 13.5 million merchants and spans 190 countries and territories. JCB cards are now issued in 19 countries and territories, with 55.75 million card members. In pursuit of its international growth strategy, JCB has formed alliances with more than 350 leading banks and financial institutions globally to increase merchant coverage and cardmember base. As a comprehensive payment solutions company, JCB is committed to providing high-quality payment services to customers, merchants, and partners. For further information, please visit the JCB website at www.jcb-global.com/english/ or www.jcbcorporate.com/english/

GlobalPlatform Based Solutions: EMV compliant J/Smart card and applet developed with Java Card 2.1.1/2.2/2.2.1 and GlobalPlatform Card Specification 2.0.1/2.0.1f/2.1.1. For the details, please refer to: https://www.jcb-global.com/english/solution/jsmart/products.html

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs: JCB smart card based on GlobalPlatform (Open Platform) 2.0.1/2.0.1f/2.1.1 has been issued by many issuers in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.

Kaspersky Lab is a global cybersecurity and anti-virus company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia. It provides threat intelligence and security solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments and consumers around the world. This includes endpoint and cloud protection, threat management and defense solutions, anti-virus software and security training.

Kigen works to help businesses grow their Internet of Things rapidly by integrating trust and security through SIM, eSIM and iSIM solutions.

Its GlobalPlatform-compliant SIM OS products enable over 2 billion SIMs while its remote SIM provisioning and eSIM services drive this momentum further, placing it among the top 5 SIM vendors globally. Its 150 employees globally are guided by the vision of a world where every device can connect securely and reliably.

KONA I has over ten years of experience as a leading player in the smart card industry. The company was established as name of KEBTechnology in 1998. It was initially set up card systems to transportation service providing companies and provides native cards to the financial institutions in South Korea. From the early 2000s, the company has been focus on smart card and its products and services development.

As a market leader in the Korean domestic market, KEBTechnology has started to penetrate global market, and its worldwide reputation has been increased rapidly as a leading smart card total solution provider. The company has been reformed with intelligent people from worldwide to sow the KONA™ solutions internationally, and named as "KONA International" KONA I. Now, the company is concentrated on the mobile payment solutions and TSM as the industry trends, in order to lead the market, as well as whole industry.

MaskTech International is an independent company specialized in the development of high-security card operating systems. We provide MTCOS, our MaskTech operating system, and various included applications for the electronic document and authentication market.

Our product range includes generic and customized applications for chips of the leading security semiconductor manufacturers as well as security certification services. To date, MTCOS protects more than 400 million eDocuments around the globe. MaskTech is led by a stable and experienced management team, under whose direction the company has achieved an outstanding reputation for innovation and a robust financial situation.

Mastercard, listed on the New York stock exchange, was first established in 1966 under the name Interbank Card Association before becoming Mastercard in 1979. It is headquartered in New York and employs over 13,000 people across the world.

Mastercard, www.mastercard.com, is a technology company in the global payments industry.  Mastercard operates the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories.  Mastercard products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, traveling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone.  Follow Mastercard on Twitter @MastercardNews, join the discussion on the Beyond the Transaction Blog and subscribe for the latest news on the Engagement Bureau.

In 2017, the company announced the acquisition of NuData Security and completed the acquisition of Vocalink and now supports consumers, businesses, government and merchants with secure payment transactions.

Established in 1999 in Vietnam, MK Group is a leading smartcard and digital security solution company in Southeast Asia. It has years of experience in providing solutions and products across the government, banking and fintech, transport, telecoms, IoT, enterprise and consumer markets.

With more than 700 employees, MK Smart (a member of MK Group) is ranked in the top ten largest card manufacturers globally. The company’s production facilities and products are security certified by GSMA, Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Unionpay, NAPAS, ISO 9001 and FIDO Alliance. MK Smart’s system and solutions business unit offers advanced issuance solutions and software for integrators and operators.

Monetech is a consultancy firm with a clear focus on innovative projects based on mobile applications, smart cards and secured transactions applied to payment, public transport and telecoms. Monetech is currently working on several innovative topics such as contactless payment, contactless ticketing, multi-application cards and NFC mobiles. Monetech is performing GlobalPlatform trainings thanks to its GlobalPlatform certified trainer

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs: Monetech is working on a number of diverse projects that rely on GlobalPlatform Card Specifications. Monetech consultants are involved in major NFC field trials where they help their customers define the most relevant secure element configuration. Monetech consultants are also involved in the definition of standards and guidelines for the NFC industry where GlobalPlatform Card Specifications are the cornerstone.

Joining GlobalPlatform is a logical way for Monetech to feed our field experience and market knowledge into the association, while delivering the latest advances to our customers through GlobalPlatform technology.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that was founded in 1985.

Since then, the company has become one of the largest telephone operating companies by revenue and has remained committed to providing secure networks for its customers to realize communications for a productive society.

In the interest of creating a “new world of communication brought about by sharing of contextualized knowledge” in a “broadband and ubiquitous society”, the NTT is undertaking R&D to create new communication services and to foster foundational technologies that will realize communication networks to support these services. Moreover, the NTT is also actively engaging in research to address the emerging needs of AI and IoT technology.

NXP Semiconductors was founded in 1953 in the Netherlands. The company manufactures a range of semiconductor products as well as providing solutions that aim to enhance and drive the security of connected devices, particularly automotives.

As such, the company’s extensive product portfolio includes identification and security solutions that utilize NFC, secure access and authentication technology,  media and audio processing equipment, wireless, RF and powerment tools as well as single chip system solutions.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• SmartMX: Smart Card controller family ranging from 8K EEprom to 144K EEprom supporting ISO7816, 14443A, USB2.0 interface standards. 3-DES and PKI. CC-EAL5+ certified.
• MIFARE CASH: Hardware and application SW developed by NXP. Contactless payment specification 1.4.2. Visa Contactless Payment Implementation Specification Ver 1.1. MCI Specifications -- ISO/IEC 14443 Implementation Specification Version 1.0 June 2004.
• All JCOP products are GlobalPlatform based. They are used in payment applications around the world with a certain focus in Asia.

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs:

• Daejeon Project
• Mobile Banking Initiative
• SK Telecom
• Moscow Social Card

Oracle, headquartered in California, provides more than 430,000 customers in 175 countries with enterprise cloud computing solutions, including software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and data as a service. The company’s application suites, platforms, and infrastructure leverage the latest technologies and emerging ones, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT).

Oracle has more than 138,000 employees globally, including 40,000 developers and engineers and 19,000 implementation consultants, and holds more than 17,000 patents worldwide.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• Sun licenses Java Card (TM) technology to original equipment manufacturers (smart card, chip or software vendors) and their partners across several industries. The applet interoperability provided by Java Card technology allows card issuers to mix and match third-party applications, including standard payment, stored value, computer authorization, data management, and many more. The Java Card platform is the leading technology for multi-application smart cards with over 2 billion cards shipped. It is compatible with international standards for smart cards such as ISO7816, or EMV. Major industry-specific standards such as GlobalPlatform and ETSI refer to Java Card technology.

Orange has been providing communication services for 200 years and now serves 230 million customers across Europe. On 1 June 2006, Orange became the France Telecom's single brand for Internet, television and mobile services in France and the United Kingdom, and Orange Business Services the brand for services provided to corporations across the world.

France Telecom is the second largest mobile operator and internet service provider (ISP) in Europe, and one of the world leaders in telecommunications services to multinational companies. France Telecom is listed on the Euronext Paris Eurolist market and on the New York Stock Exchange. The company has 153,000 employees across Europe, holds 6930 patents and provides 4G to 18 different countries.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• A large part of Orange SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card products are currently compatible with GlobalPlatform Card specification v2.1.

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs:

• France Telecom has demonstrated GlobalPlatform Device Specification 2.0 in various places including 3GSM World Congress prototyping payment and DRM agents applications.

Originally from Oxford University, PQShield has assembled a team of leading minds in post-quantum cryptography. Collectively, its team has decades of experience in developing research, designing solutions and setting standards in the field.

The company’s world-class researchers and engineers are co-authors of multiple finalist algorithms within the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process, which will help define standards for the next generation of public-key cryptography.

PQShield has ready-made licensable hardware designs and software IP in three core areas:

• Hardware & Software for Embedded Devices: A post-quantum System on Chip crypto co-processor toolkit. Available as both a modular IP license or self-contained solution.
• Cryptographic SDK for Mobile and Servers: An SDK comprising modern, agile, and secure implementations of post-quantum and classical cryptographic primitives with applications such as PKI, TLS and VPN.
• Encryption Solution for Messaging: An SDK for enabling end-to-end encrypted messaging solutions using post-quantum algorithms, leveraging a new, provably secure, Signal-derived protocol.

Billions, maybe trillions of times a day…That’s how often people around the world touch something made better by Qualcomm. It could be the smartphone in your pocket, the tablet on your coffee table, that wireless modem in your briefcase… it could even be that navigation system in your car or that action camera strapped to your chest.

Who is Qualcomm, and what do we do? We are engineers, scientists and business strategists. We are from many different countries and speak many different languages. We come from diverse cultures and have unique perspectives. Together, we focus on a single goal—invent mobile technology breakthroughs.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• Qualcomm® Trusted Execution Environment (version >= 4.0)

Founded in 2011, Quarkslab is a dedicated team of cyber-security engineers and developers. Its expertise combines offensive and defensive security in application protection, helping companies and governmental organizations adopt a new security posture: forcing attackers, not defenders, to constantly adapt.

Quarkslab's mission is to foster innovation by bridging the gap between academic research and industry practices. Through its experienced consulting and R&D team, known as QLab, and its software, QFlow and QShield, Quarkslab shares and scales its knowledge to promote a broader understanding of cybersecurity. Quarkslab believes security is a concern for everyone, as there is no freedom without security.

Rambus was founded in 1990 and is an American technology licensing company that specializes in innovative solutions for IoT, cloud, enterprise and mobile. This includes cutting-edge semiconductor and IP products from memory and interfaces to security, smart sensors and lighting for markets including automotive, financial, transport, pay TV and IoT.

Rambus aims to improve the competitive advantage of its customers through its chip technology, customizable IP cores, and architecture licenses, tools and services. It’s products are integrated into tens of billions of devices and systems across the world.

The company is also partnering with leading ASIC and SoC designers, foundries, IP developers, EDA companies and validation labs to further power and secure diverse applications including big data, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, consumer and media platforms.

At Renesas we continuously strive to drive innovation with a comprehensive portfolio of microcomputers, analog and power devices. Our mission is to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world by providing intelligence to our four focus growth segments: Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT that are all vital to our daily lives, meaning our products and solutions are embedded everywhere.

Riscure was founded in 2001 by Marc Witteman, who has been working the field of chip security since 1993. Operating from Delft in the Netherlands, Riscure started serving customers from all around the world. During the first years, security evaluation services were the main focus, mostly for customers in the financial industry. Later on the evaluation services also evolved towards the pay- tv industry. When in 2005 the first product was sold to a customer, development of security test equipment also became integral to Riscure's business. In 2011 Riscure opened an office in San Francisco USA in order to get local presence for its customers in North America.

Riscure challenges the security of chips and devices by using thorough and inventive testing to discover security weaknesses. Use Riscure and find out how strong your security really is. Our international team of experts combines the latest attack techniques on hardware and software to explore the strength of your product. We can evaluate it for you or you can purchase our test equipment to do it yourself.

SafePay is assisting its partners to design, develop, implement and operate highly secure IoT architectures, as well as mobility services in the financial, retail and transportation industries. Its activities cover the whole service / product life cycle, from conceptualization to design and development and operation and assessment.

SafePay’s product portfolio comprises IoT access control, chip card hosting and management platform, as well as various consumer-facing service architectures.

GlobalPlatform-Based Solutions:

• CappGate: real-time, over-the-air, secure application provisioning, based on GP card and messaging specifications
• FEAM: OAuth based access management system using secure elements to decentralize secure service architectures, based on GP messaging specification
• Multi-reader Card farm: Reader device managing multiple secure elements for cloud-based card operations, based on GP card and messaging specifications

Samsung was founded in 1938 in South Korea and has grown to become one of the world's foremost electronics companies, managing more than 200 subsidiaries around the world. Today Samsung's products are recognized across the world, and the company is ranked as a top 10 global brand.

The company’s offerings include home appliances such as TVs, monitors, refrigerators, and washing machines as well as key mobile telecommunications products like smartphones and tablets. Samsung also continues to be a trusted provider of key electronic components like DRAM and non-memory semiconductors.

Samsung SDS is a leading information and communication technology (ICT) service provider with broad experience serving both enterprise and public sector customers in domestic and international markets.

Samsung SDS offers a diverse array of services based on accurate understanding of customers’ needs, and forward looking thought leadership, while paying close attention to providing value to our customers.

We can help our customers increase their competitiveness by offering the most optimal ICT services that are customized for their business environments, leveraging the most knowledgeable professionals and proven, innovative technologies.

Samsung SDS, a global ICT service provider, will be your dependant partner enabling you to create a new opportunities with the most innovative services for your most important businesses.

SERMA Safety and Security provides support to every sector for which data confidentiality, assets protection, service security, service availability and integrity and operations safety are of prime importance. SERMA experts are accustomed to managing embedded and connected systems, product and industrial security, internet of things and information systems.

SERMA Safety and Security supports designers, integrators and users of complex systems to help them manage all issues related to security and dependability: at the initial design stage, during the evaluation process and beyond.

The SERMA Safety and Security Information Technology Security Evaluation Facility (ITSEF) is one of the biggest in Europe and the world. It is the result of over 20 years’ experience of product security. Accredited by more than 15 private and national schemes (French Common Criteria ANSSI) the laboratory helps smartcard, passport, UICC and systems developers to secure their products.

Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group Co., Ltd. is a leading Chinese integrated circuit design company. It has been established in 1998 and went public in Hong Kong Growing Enterprise Market on August 4th, 2000, code (GEM HK: 8102.HK). Direct connection with Fudan University guarantees the cutting-edge technology and access to brightest talents of the industry. Meanwhile, an experienced management sustains stable growth and outstanding quality.

There are 5 product lines and system solutions provided by Fudan Microelectronics. These products include IC cards, Power Electronics, Telecommunication Chips, Motor/automobile Electronics and Consumer Electronics. We also provide solutions for businesses.

Company description : 
Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group Co., Ltd. is a Chinese integrated circuit (IC) design company. Established in 1998, it became a public company within Hong Kong’s Growing Enterprise Market in 2000 (GEM HK: 8102.HK). On January 8th2014, the enterprise transferred of listing from GEM to Main Board(stock code: 1385).

The company was founded in Shanghaiand aims to develop the microelectronics industry in China,with five product lines and system solutions: IC cards, power electronics, telecommunication chips, motor/automobile electronics and consumer electronics.

The diversification of its product portfolio has been made possible by the company’s collaboration with Fudan University, which has enabled access to cutting edge technology and resources. Today, the company employs over 700 members of staff and boasts a global customer network.

GlobalPlatform-based solutions: 
Bank card solution:
GP standards and JAVA card application Security certification of UnionPay chip cards PBOC2.0/3.0 debit/credit, electronic-cash, QPBOC and Q extended testing

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs: 
Standard financial IC cards support debit/credit application, electronic cash application and petty contactless payment application of electronic cash.

Based on ICT-based growth capacity and sound financial structure, SK Telink is focusing its capabilities to enhance the value of the Group by discovering new growth engines. On August 1, 2015, SK holdings merged with SK C&C to be newly established as a holding company to improve the value for shareholders by securing new growth engines for the future and improving the governance structure. The new holding company has gained reinforce competitiveness based on a combination of SK C&C’s ICT-based growth capacity and SK holdings’ resources and management capacity. By fostering the top five growth areas, which include information technology (IT) services, information and communications technology (ICT) convergence, liquefied natural gas (LNG), bio/pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor materials and modules, we aim to take a step forward to our vision of attaining our revenue target of KRW 200 trillion by 2020. SK holdings will contribute to the social and national economic development and create better value for the customers, shareholders and organization members by driving growth and creating new jobs based on its stable holding company system.

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. ("Spreadtrum") is a fabless semiconductor company that develops mobile chipset platforms for smartphones, feature phones and other consumer electronics products, supporting 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards. Spreadtrum’s solutions combine its highly integrated, power-efficient chipsets with customizable software and reference designs in a complete turnkey platform, enabling customers to achieve faster design cycles with a lower development cost. Spreadtrum's customers include global and China-based manufacturers developing mobile products for consumers in China and emerging markets around the world.

Founded in April 2001, Spreadtrum is headquartered in Shanghai, China with R&D centers in Shanghai, Beijing Tianjin, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Xiamen, San Diego, San Jose, Finland and India, technical support center in Shenzhen, and international field support offices in Korea, Taiwan and Mexico. Spreadtrum’s products support a broad range of wireless communications standards, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA, HSPA+ and TD-LTE.

Spreadtrum's key strength is its passion for technical innovation, with notable industry firsts in multi-SIM, 40nm baseband, single-chip multimode RF transceivers, and low-power TD-SCDMA smartphone technologies. Spreadtrum combines its expertise in wireless broadband, signal processing and IC design technology and software development to offer terminal manufacturers a comprehensive portfolio of highly integrated baseband processor and RF solutions, protocol software and software application platforms for wireless devices.

STMicroelectronics first came to market in 1987 under the name SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics before becoming STMicroelectronics in 1998. The company is headquartered in Geneva and now operates in over 35 countries, with 11 main manufacturing sites and over 7,500 employees committed to R&D.

The company develops and delivers semiconductor solutions that span the spectrum of microelectronics applications and is now one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. Its product portfolio includes discrete and standard commodity components, ASICs, full custom devices and semi-custom devices, and application-specific standard products that are today powering the IoT and smart driving markets.

A combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, intellectual property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the company at the forefront of system-on-chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence markets.

Synapse Mobile Networks is world leader in delivering telecoms and IT services, including consulting, development, support and sales. The company offers a diverse range of services based on a commitment to exceed customer expectations, such as Automatic Device Management Systems, which Synapse invented in 2001, an Equipment Identity Register, and a Roaming Service Centre. With customer service and a passion for mobile communication at the center of their ethos, their technology has been deployed in more than 180 networks globally, serving over 3 million subscribers.

T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, delivering an advanced 4G LTE and transformative nationwide 5G network that will offer reliable connectivity for all. T-Mobile’s customers benefit from its unmatched combination of value and quality, unwavering obsession with offering them the best possible service experience and undisputable drive for disruption that creates competition and innovation in wireless and beyond. Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and Sprint. For more information please visit: https://www.t-mobile.com.

The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales.
In a world that is increasingly fast moving, unpredictable and full of opportunities they come to us with big ambitions: to make life better, to keep us safer.
Combining a unique diversity of expertise, talents and cultures, our architects design and deliver extraordinary high technology solutions. Solutions that make tomorrow possible, today.
From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers think smarter and act faster - mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way.
Whatever it takes.

Today’s businesses and governments depend on the cloud, data and software to deliver trusted digital services. That is why the most recognized brands and organizations around the world, rely on Thales to help them protect sensitive information and software wherever it is created, stored or accessed – from the cloud and data centers to devices and across networks. As the global leader in data security, identity & access management, and software licensing, our solutions enable organizations to move to the cloud securely, achieve compliance with confidence, create more value from their software and deliver seamless digital experiences for millions of consumers every day.

Toshiba developed Japan's first smart card in 1981, and has continued to promote the business ever since, through development, manufacture and sales. The Toshiba Smart Card is a key part of all sorts of transactions - widely used by commerce and finance, broadcasting, government and municipal offices, traffic and communication - and Toshiba continues to devote resources to products that suit the needs of each field. Toshiba's Smart Cards bring cutting-edge technology and comprehensive capabilities to the advanced information society.

GlobalPlatform Based Solutions: Toshiba provides Smart Card PROFINIA JC series compliant to JavaCard2.2.1/GlobalPlatform Card Specification 2.1.1.

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs: Credit Card, Cash Card, and Electronic Money, etc.

As GlobalPlatform technology integrates individual requirements of wide market segments, it will lower the time and cost to develop versatile smart card products.

TrustCB is the commercial certification body operating many of the world’s most productive general purpose and dedicated schemes, including the Dutch CC scheme NSCIB, MIFARE v3.0, and SESIP.

The company builds and optimizes these schemes for trusted high-assurance certifications in predictably-short timeframes. Usually based on the rigor of the Common Criteria certification process, it is tailored to the specific industry vertical, such as transport ticketing, IoT and automotive. This expert adaptation ensures that mobile-era commercial timelines can be reliably met, while maintaining indisputable high assurance levels.

Thus it is no wonder that that TrustCB is trusted to verify many of the world’s crucial technologies as well as those on the cutting edge.

Trustonic's mission is to embed the best security into the world’s smart devices and apps, empowering mobile and IoT developers to build the trust required to deliver simple, fast and secure solutions.

The Trustonic hardware-backed security platform is embedded in 2 billion devices, including those from Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, Vivo, OPPO, LG and Casio. Trustonic’s mobile app protection solutions secure critical apps for banks, fintechs, payment providers, cryptocurrency platforms, automotive manufacturers, mobile network operators and government bodies, including Samsung Pay, Cartes Bancaires, Alipay, WeChat Pay, Hyundai and Volkswagen Group.

UBIVELOX has strong technology and accumulated experience in the area of mobile widget and web service, solutions and service platforms for telematics and mobile. In addiction, UBIVELOX is the strong and competent company that has developed and supplied competitive smart card chips in various areas including finance, communication, transportation and public services as well as integrated smart card solutions to financial institution first in Korea, based on original technology of smart card areas.

Company description : UBIVELOX is a provider of smart card and mobile payment solutions to the banking, transport, telecommunications, M2M and government sectors. It was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Korea. Each year, the company delivers over 80 million banking cards to its customers, in addition to producing up to 50 million licensed system on chip (SoC) cards. In doing so UBIVELOX focuses on two business domains: smart cards and mobile convergence solutions, including smart card systems and secure elements,and mobile wallets and service platforms. Its product portfolio includes contactless and dual interface EMV cards for high security applications, contactless cards used in access control and an embedded Secure Element(eSE) one-chip packaging solution that works in conjunction with NFC technology for a broad range of secure mobile services.

GlobalPlatform-based solutions: 
SCMS (Smart Card Management Solution)

• USCMS (UBIVELOX Smart Card Management System)
  The solution to personalize/manage the several applets to smart card/USIM/HCE based on GlobalPlatform card specifications. It is for large scale or real time personalization.
• UPMS (UBIVELOX Personalization Management System)
  The solution to personalize the several applets in one smart card based on GlobalPlatform card specification in the mid/big-sized personalization device.
• UPAS
  The solution to personalize the applet in the smart card based on GlobalPlatform Card specification. It is used for small scale personalization.

SCCS (Smart Card Communication Solution)

• UHIVE (Multi –PerSAM Communication System)
  Solution to communicate with several smart card applets based on GlobalPlatform Card specifications. It is useful to manage or use the several PerSAMs in one place.

GlobalPlatform Implementation Programs: 
Finance card personalization

• We provided the applet personalization systems such as USCMS, UHIVE (Multi – PerSAM Communication System), UPMS, UPAS to several customersfor EMV transaction in the smart card and mobile phone.

SCCS Non-finance card personalization

• We provided the applet personalization systems like USCMS, UHIVE (Multi – PerSAM Communication System) to many customers for various purposes such as access control, student confirmation, non-EMV transaction in the smart card and mobile phone.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Illinois. It is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key areas: product safety, environment, life & health, knowledge services and verification services.

UL helps companies demonstrate safety, confirm compliance, enhance sustainability, manage transparency, deliver quality and performance, strengthen security, protect brand reputation, build workplace excellence, and advance societal wellbeing. Some of the services offered by UL include: inspection, advisory services, education and training, testing, auditing and analytics, certification software solutions, and marketing claim verification.

The company is committed to serving its global network of customers and has 170 laboratories globally dedicated to testing and certification.

Valid (BM&FBOVESPA: VLID3 ON), is a global company with more than 60 years of operation and a wide portfolio of technological secure solutions for the financial and banking markets, mobile industry, people identification, objects and transactions, data management, Internet of Things (IoT) and Track & Trace. Valid has 6,000 employees, offices in 16 countries and achieved revenues of USD 537 million in 2016. Today, the company has more than 60% market share of the identification documents issued in Brazil, is among the 10 largest banking card companies globally and the 5th largest producer of SIM Cards in the world. Valid's activities consider the particularities of each region and culture to create customized and integrated solutions for its customers.

Visa was founded in 1958 in California and now operates the world’s largest retail electronic payments network, providing processing services and payment product platforms to consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries. This includes consumer credit, debit, prepaid and commercial payments, which are offered under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink and PLUS brands. Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world, and Visa/PLUS is one of the world’s largest global ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in more than 170 countries.

As an association owned by more than 20,000 financial institutions members, Visa is committed to the sustained growth of electronic payment systems and as such develops common standards and specifications to facilitate commerce and provide its member financial institutions with global payment platform development.

Since its establishment in 1994, Watchdata has been taking the lead to develop and provide security enabling solutions for electronic transaction applications and data critical e-commerce activities, based on its expertise in data security and encryption technology.

With the development of China’s first own proprietary smart card operation system TimeCOS in 1995, Watchdata has been one of the driving forces in improving security for electronic transaction systems and has played a key and defining role in the introduction of smart card technology in China. Watchdata’s offerings range from smart card operating system, smart card, card terminals, card management system, and public key infrastructure (PKI) products to security consulting.

Watchdata owns its own Operation System, TimeCOS. It is the first Proprietary Operation System in China. Having full control of the Operation System, Watchdata ensures the success of our customers with the empowerment of our high quality products and the efficient speed of delivery to the market.

Watchdata not only remains committed to providing data security to companies and organizations both in the public and commercial sectors, Watchdata aids in attaining a higher level of security for IT services. Being ranked as the worldwide No. 6 smart card vendor in 2004 (worldwide top 10 smart card vendor from 2001-2005) and the market leader in China, Watchdata has provided innovative, leading edge security solutions to meet the end-to-end security needs of many organizations. Moreover, Watchdata has also been crowned No. 1 in the Top 100 Most Promising SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) in early 2006.

Watchdata has been greatly involved in standardization organizations. Watchdata is a member of ETSI, EuroSmart and MasterCard Worldwide.

Winbond Electronics Corporation is a total memory solution provider.

The Company provides customer-driven memory solutions backed by the expert capabilities of product design, R&D, manufacturing, and sales services.

Winbond’s product portfolio, consisting of Specialty DRAM, Mobile DRAM and Code Storage Flash, is widely used by tier-1 customers in communication, consumer electronics, automotive and industrial, and computer peripheral markets. Winbond is also a leading specialty and secure memory supplier. With the introduction of TrustME Security Solution, Winbond has dedicated ourselves to providing high quality secure external storage for code and data in SoC- and processor-based systems.

Winbond is headquartered in Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP)and it has subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, Israel, China and Hong Kong.

Based on Taichung and new Kaohsiung 12-inch fabs in Taiwan, Winbond keeps pace to develop in-house technologies to provide high-quality memory IC products.

Woven by Toyota, Inc. is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, creating and managing the software for Toyota's vehicle operating system, automated driving, and safety.

Since the company was founded in 2000, XCure corp. (formally Hansol Secure Co., Ltd.) has contributed to various significant technological advances in the smart card field. XCure corp. developed the platforms and high capacity dual-interface cards for WCDMA-based USIM functions and for commercial applications such as finance and transportation, which can be installed on one chip.

XCure corp. is technologically advanced and competitive because it boasts applied technology on smart cards. The company prepares next generation technology such as NFC and large capacity products, which were developed as pilots in 2009.

Through strategic partnerships with global leading companies in various industries, XCure corp. provides convergence services and multi-function solutions related to smart cards. The company has expanded its technology and experience to the global market, for example it is co-working with various countries’ mobile network operators and mobile service providers.

Xiaomi is an internet company, with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform at its core. With the vision of being friends with its users and being the “coolest company” in the hearts of its users, Xiaomi is committed to continuous innovation, with an unwavering focus on quality and efficiency. The company relentlessly builds amazing products with honest prices to let everyone in the world enjoy a better life through innovative technology.

Xiaomi is currently the world's fourth-largest smartphone brand, and has established the world's largest consumer IoT platform, with more than 213.2 million smart devices (excluding smartphones and laptops) connected to its platform. Currently, Xiaomi products are present in more than 90 countries and regions around the world.

Zwipe is a payments security company that pioneers biometric payment card and wearable technology which enables integration of off the shelf fingerprint sensors onto devices that are currently used to complete transactions.

Zwipe also develops biometric identity and access control solutions for public and commercial spaces, leveraging existing infrastructure to address security, efficiency, identity and authenticity challenges.