e-Smart Technologies CEO to Speak at International E-Passports Conference
November 07 2005 - 10:10AM
PR Newswire (US)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- e-Smart Technologies,
Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT) ("e-SMART" or the "Company") is pleased
to announce that Mary Grace, the Company's President and CEO, will
be a featured speaker at the 4th International Interoperability
Testing Workshop and Conference on E- Passports (InterFest
International) on November 9th in Singapore. The InterFest
International conference is sponsored by the International
Standards Organization (ISO), Working Group 3 of Standards
Committee 17 (SC17) on e-passports, the Asia IC Card Forum (AICF),
the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the Ministry
of Home Affairs (MHA) and Cards & Personal Identification
Technical Committee (CPITC) of the national IT Standards Committee
(ITSC), providing industry leaders around the world the opportunity
to learn of the latest advances in biometric passport technology.
In the conference section devoted to 'Cryptography, Privacy
Measures and Identification Protection' Ms. Grace will address
"Preventing ID Fraud & Enhancing Smart Card Solutions," which
will focus on the Company's Biometric Verification Security System
(BVS2)(TM) platform and its Super Smart Passport(TM), the world's
first digital passport that authenticates the passport holder's
identity via wireless completely on-board-the-passport fingerprint
sensor and biometric matching system. Other Conference speakers
include such industry leaders as Detlef Eckert, Chief Security
Advisor, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa, Xavier Fricout,
Director of Identity Marketing Solution, Oberthur, Ian Christofis,
Public Sector Consulting & Integration, Technology Solutions
Group, Hewlett- Packard Asia Pacific & Japan, Jean-Paul
Caruana, Gemplus, Xavier Passard, Axalto, and Ram Banerjee of Sun
Microsystems. "This is a gathering of not only some of the best and
brightest in biometric passport technology" said Mary Grace, "but
also many of the players who will decide the international
standards for biometric passports." "It's an honor," continued
Grace, "to have the opportunity to share with industry leaders the
extraordinary advantages of our Super Smart Passport(TM), which we
believe, and many experts agree, provides the most advanced
passport security in the world, and is the future in 'Creating
Secure Borders' and a 'Secure Global Village,' the theme of the
conference. e-Smart is the exclusive licensee in the US and Asia of
the Super Smart Card(TM), the Super Smart Passport(TM) and the
Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)(TM). The Company
seeks to be the leading provider of high technology security
systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism. E- Smart's
systems and products enable government agencies and commercial
enterprises to continuously and securely verify the identity of
citizens, personnel, customers and any other persons seeking
physical or logical access. e-Smart Technologies offers what
experts believe to be the highest form of identity-based and
credential-based security with no profiling or erosion of civil
rights. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Statements in this news release that
relate to future plans, financial results or projections, events or
performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section
21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. While
these statements are made to convey to the public the Company's
progress, business opportunities and growth prospects, readers are
cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent the
management's opinion. While management believes such
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available to the Company, at this time, actual results may differ
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