About the SESAMES

The Asian SESAMES Awards aims to reward the most innovative technological applications developed for the Asian Pacific market in the field of smart cards, digital security, identification, secure transactions, and contactless technology. The competition is open to all companies operating in the sector and the jury is composed of experts from the industry.

The Asian SESAMES Awards reward the best projects in 3 categories:

• Card technology, manufacturing, personalization, covering everything that relates to the card technology and manufacturing process, and its personalization, and provisioning until final delivery to the card holder. 
• Hardware, including readers, validators, and more globally products and projects that enable interactions with the card. 
• Software and applications, that covers all sector dedicated applications (payment, telecom, healthcare, transport, identity, etc.), and software that enables the running of the applications. 

This contest is a unique opportunity for candidates to present their energy and their achievements to professionals and journalists from the region, who are all on the lookout for new products in this market.

Selected by a panel of experts, the Asian SESAMES Awards’ winners will receive their awards on Wednesday 19 March 2014 during the Asian SESAMES Ceremony at CARTES Asia!

Testimony

“The CARTES Asia Sesames Award we received in 2012 helped confirm our company as a leader in innovative smartcard and mobile payment research. It’s definitely the highest honor available in the APAC market. We’re very pleased to be part of an industry that provides secure, trustworthy and cost-effective digital solutions, and feel privileged to help advance the frontiers of knowledge in this area.”  Watchdata Technologies

Your contact for further information

Antoinette ROCHOT Communications Executive Phone: +33 (0)1 76 77 14 38 [email protected]