Institutional Partners

(as of 04/01/12)

 APSCA is the only regional industry association for organisations in the smart card, contactless, NFC and ePassport businesses in Asia Pacific. APSCA has over 50 members and provides smart card business intelligence to nearly 11,000 smart card industry executives. APSCA has organised over 120 leading industry forums covering smart card business and technology across 10 countries in the Asian region.
 www.apsca.org

CIITA is the nationwide first-grade corporate organization registered at the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. Over the past 21 years, it has tried its endeavour in promoting the development of China ICT, advancing its application and information resources to serve the national modernization and normalization construction. There are 16 branches with over 1000 enterprises as its entity members. Its businesses are under the centralized management of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China.
 www.ciita.org.cn

中国信息产业商会是在国家民政部注册的一级社团组织。成立20年来致力于推动中国信息产业发展、推广信息技术应用、开发信息资源、服务于国家现代化 与信息化建设。现有16个分会，1000多个企业等集体会员单位。
  www.ciita.org.cn

ePayments Laboratory Inc.  provides research and consulting for specific business developments in the following business segments.  
 - e-payments (credit card, debit card, e-money, e-commerce, mobile payments etc),Smart card technology (including NFC and Smartphones), Authentication technology (including Biometrics), CRM / marketing, IT-security.
 We also provide original Web-magazine(ePayments.jp), and contributes for Nikkei (Japan's major economic newspaper) and other industry papers/magazines.

http://www.epayments.jp/

Eurosmart is an international non-profit association located in Brussels and representing the Smart Security Industry for multi-sector applications. Founded in 1995, the association is committed to expanding the world's Smart Secure Devices market, developing Smart Security standards and continuously improving quality and security applications.
Members are manufacturers of smart cards, semiconductors, terminals, equipment for smart cards system integrators, application developers and issuers who work into dedicated working groups (communication, marketing, security, electronic identity, new form factors, and prospect emerging markets).
Members are largely involved in political and technical initiatives as well as research and development projects at the European and international levels.
Eurosmart is acknowledged as representing "the Voice of the Smart Security Industry".
Eurosmart members are companies (Austriacard, EM Microelectronic Marin, FNMT-RCM, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Infineon Technologies, Inside Secure, LFoundry, Morpho, NedCard, NXP Semiconductors, Oberthur Technologies, Prooftag, Renesas Electronics, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba), payment systems (GIE Cartes Bancaires, MasterCard), laboratories (CEA-LETI), research organisations (Fraunhofer Institute), associations (Smart Payment Association, Mobismart, Danish Biometrics) and independent experts (Michel Koenig, Bernard Morvant, Jonas Andersson).
For more information, please visit www.eurosmart.com

GS1 Hong Kong was founded in 1989 as the Hong Kong Article Numbering Association (HKANA) by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and was renamed GS1 Hong Kong in 2005 under the GS1 Global Charter.  As the local chapter of GS1, GS1 Hong Kong is dedicated to helping companies in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region continuously improve their supply chain efficiency and visibility through the innovative use of GS1 System of Standards including BarCode, B2B e-Commerce, Global Data Synchronization and Electronic Product Code/Radio Frequency Identification (EPC/RFID). For more information about GS1 Hong Kong, please visit: www.gs1hk.org.

Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies (LSCM R&D Centre)was founded in 2006 with funding support from the Innovation and Technology Commission of the HKSAR Government. It is hosted by three leading universities in Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
www.lscm.hk 

Maverick China Research provides business-to-business research and market entry services for clients seeking opportunities in China. Since 2006 our primary focus has been on China's payment industry; areas of expertise include mobile payment, online payment, prepaid products, credit and debit cards, remittances, and contactless payments. Our Beijing-based team provides on-the-ground research through regularly published market reports and customized research projects. To learn more about us, please visit www.maverickchina.com or contact Boaz Rottenberg at boaz.rottenberg@maverickchina.com.

Meetings & Exhibitions Hong Kong (MEHK), office of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, was established to promote Hong Kong as the premier destination for meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions.  The office provides one-stop-support to exhibition organizers including facilitation, government liaison/collaboration, publicity, visitor promotion, and hospitality services.  Hong Kong is Asia’s World City, an international marketplace that links the booming economies of Mainland China and the rest of Asia with the world.
  www.mehongkong.com

www.rfidchina.org

SIMalliance is a non-profit industry association made up of the world’s leading SIM card manufacturers responsible for nine in every ten SIM cards sold worldwide. Its role is to promote the SIM as a secure & flexible multi-application device for the deployment of pioneering mobile multimedia and communications services & educate the market about the technology; advance interoperability between SIM, Handset and OTA Platform through the creation of dedicated “Working Groups” in charge of concrete programmes (ie. Concept workshops, reference implementations etc.); consolidate and communicate annually an overview of market (U)SIM shipments; produce annually SIMposium, the international conference where the mobile eco-system meets the SIM Industry and SIMagine, the global competition honouring the most innovative SIM-based application or start-up project.SIMalliance members are Datang, Eastcompeace, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Incard, Inkript, KEBTechnology, Microelectronica, Oberthur Technologies, Prism, Morpho, Watchdata & Wuhan Tianyu.
SIMalliance Strategic Partners are Comprion, Movenda and TCS. www.simalliance.org

UBIFRANCE, the French Agency for International Business Development is proud to be part of Cartes in Asia in Hong Kong and presents the latest innovative companies in the field of card technology on the French Pavilion. UBIFRANCE promotes trade, business and cooperation between French and foreign Companies. We are looking forward to welcoming you on the French Pavilion where you will find new partners and adapted solutions. www.ubifrance.fr 

Press Partners

Australian Banking & Finance Magazine (AB+F)is the flagship publication from Australian Financial Publications - a financial media company that produce, manage and deliver magazines, online newsletters, conferences, forums, briefings and custom communications.
AB+F is Australia’s only magazine devoted to the banking and finance sector, covering the entire gamut of the market including dedicated sections on capital markets, banking, insurance, New Zealand markets, Asian markets, professional development and banking & finance technology.  Supported by AB+F daily online we take a strategic look at the news - fleshing out issues, analysis and opinions that are important from an industry perspective. www.australianbankingfinance.com

Published eight times a year,   Card Manufacturing is the official publication of the ICMA and reaches more than 3000 industry participants worldwide. The magazine supports, promotes and encourages the success and growth of companies and organizations that participate in the plastic card industry-including manufacturers, industry suppliers and service providers.

With about 200 advertisers in CNA magazine, it does not take much to explain why your article features and advertisements should be seen in the industry’s defacto magazine – CNA, – the only one you need to meet all your marketing communication needs. We are recognised because you are recognised! And now, you are recognised because we are recognised! www.cardsnowasia.com

PassAgeNow, or in short P.A.N., is the unique magazine that features anything and everything contactless! At P.A.N., we believe that the age of contactless has arrived; thus, we want to share all these latest news from the wonderful world of contactless by picking out only the best news for your eyes.
  www.passagenow.com

Cards Tech & Security (CTS) is a bilingual publication including monthly Chinese version and
 quarterly English version.
 CTS is the subordinate publication to Smart Card Federation of China while an exclusive official publication of Asia Pacific Smart Card Association(APSCA). It has developed its market in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, CTS is having a meticulous revision to the global trend and expanding its circulation worldwide. The objective of CTS is to promote the global market of cards, RFID, security industry, innovative products as well as release the updated news.
  www.scfc.org.cn

Electronics Today, India's first Techno-economic electronics monthly journal, now in 43rd year of publication, is the only publication in India devoted to Electronics Hardware, Components, Materials and Production Equipment. Electronics Today brings out the latest technology trends and happenings in the industry for it's over 500,000 readers. A 20-page pull-out, SmartCards Today, India's only monthly publication devoted to Smart Card, RFID, Biometrics and Communication technologies and Applications is a regular feature of Electronics Today.
www.electronicstoday.org 

Founded in 1993 under instruction of the People's Bank of China, Financial Computerizing is supported by many financial institutions and become a China's leading finance journals specialised in IT. The purpose of the magazine is to provide service to China's financial innovation, financial information services business and information industry by reporting domestic and overseas financial and information industry, financial information technology and financial business process innovation and development and then help China's financial sector in its reform and development.

An ambitious and forward-thinking monthly, the Korea IT Times  provides its readers with comprehensive industry and latest technology-related business news, with a focus on Korea's increasingly global presence and its relationship with the international investment community.  Each issue features up to 100 pages of insider knowledge and insight on Korean industries -- in English.

SmartCardsTrends is a 24-page newsletter dedicated to Smartcards, Smart Objects, Trusted Devices & Softwares and Secure Platforms. It brings critical information on technologies and strategies to smart security industry, application developers and service providers in the fields of telecommunications, banking, e-government, health, transportation and IT smart security.
www.smartcardstrends.com

Smart Insights is the best information source on the Secure Transactions industry.
Smart Insights Weekly is a newsletter covering the smart card industry, its businesses, its technologies, its markets as well as its technology suppliers. Smart Insights covers all the major trends in the industry, it encompasses worldwide business, standardization bodies ...
Smart Insights Reports are research reports providing key facts and figures as well as strategic insights about a technology, an area or a major issue in the secure transaction industry. Smart Insights Reports bring business modeling, forecasting and competitive analysis.
Smart Insights: facts . intelligence . now . More information at:
www.smartinsights.net

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by thousands of companies to transmit their full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other multimedia content to journalists, news media, trade publications, financial information services, regulatory authorities, Internet portals, information web sites, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers worldwide. Business Wire’s multi-channel delivery network has access to the main international and national news agency networks throughout the world.
  www.businesswire.com