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

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

Selected by a panel of experts, the winner Asian SESAMES Award will be presented on Wednesday 28 March during the Asian SESAMES Ceremony at the AsiaWorld-Expo!

The Asian SESAMES Award candidates are:

• Advanced Card Systems Ltd.
• Datacard Group
• Emperor Technology
• Gemalto
• GO-TRUST
• HID Global
• Innerex Co., Ltd.
• IRIS Corporation Berhad
• ITW Card Technologies
• Oberthur Technologies
• Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
• PRADOTEC Corporation
• Raisonance
• Smart Packaging Solutions
• SmcYona
• Watchdata Technologies Pte Ltd.
• Welcome Real-time

The finalists will be announced on 8 March 2012!

The Asian SESAMES Award jury members are:

	Ki Han LEE Seoul National University IC Card R&D Center Director Korea
	Ajay MAHAJAN Technology Advisor & Smart Card Solutions Architect  India
	Greg POTE Asia Pacific Smart Card Association Chairman China
	Akio Shiibashi East Japan Railway Company - IT & Suica Business Developement Headquarters Executive Officer Deputy Director General Japan
	Thierry SPANJAARD  Smart Insights Chief Editor France
	Franck XU Smart Card Forum of China / AIT EVENTS CO.LTD Chairman China

Timetable update

The winner of Asian SESAMES Award 2011 is:

Gemalto with Smart Badge Holder

Gemalto Smart Badge Holder (SBH) – The wireless corporate badge reader solution for enterprise applications.
SBH is an intelligent electronic badge holder based on Bluetooth medium distance wireless technology. It is particularly relevant for corporate applications where the corporate badge is used for logical access on small devices such as Smartphones that can’t accommodate standard card readers.

Words from the winner

“Gemalto is delighted to be this year’s Asia SESAMES Awards winner. This recognizes our leadership in digital security innovation and ability to bring cutting-edge concepts to fruition. We will continue to invest in researching and developing ideas to benefit everyone as our world becomes more and more connected.”
Tan Teck-Lee, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer, GEMALTO

Your contact for further information:

Caroline BONDY
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E-mail: caroline.bondy@comexposium.com