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Gemplus announces the third edition of the Gemplus Developer Conference June 20th and 21st 2001 in Paris Organized at CNIT - La Défense, this event is the only developers' conference in the world focused exclusively on smart card technology. It will be followed by a day of workshop on June 19th.



Luxemburg, May 9, 2001 - Reuniting for the third consecutive year the panel of expert speakers of the smart card , the "GDC" has an objective of exchanging information, sharing experiences, discovering technical methods, and familiarizing to development tools.

Among the speakers, there will be developers, technical consultants, enterprise researchers for such companies as SUN Microsystems, Mondex International, Philips Semi Conductors, RSA Security, Precise Biometrics… as well as a number of renowned international universities.

For this edition of 2001, the participants will also have the occasion to attend the <> which will allow them to have a hands-on experience of development tools for the smart card based solutions. Gemplus developers will provide training and technical support on the lap-top of each participant.

Last year, this conference brought a great success with 500 international participants, coming from 54 different countries across the globe.

Themes Covered at the GDC 2001:

Open OS and Multi-applicative: discover the tools of Java development and of their inter-operability
Mobile services: update of available technologies for the applications development for SIM cards: SIM Toolkit, Over The Air Technology.
E-services: familiarization with the applications to get the best use of the smart card in the security: PKI, cryptography, payment security.
Detailed program and registration : http://www.gemplus.com/gdc2001
Tel. : 33 (0)1 41 49 04 43

GDC 2001 - June 20/21 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM at CNIT - Paris, La Défense
2, place de la Défense
92 053 Paris La Defense



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About Gemplus
Gemplus (www.gemplus.com) is the number one in the world for the smart card based solutions and plastic cards for electronic business, security and wireless applications. Gemplus equally provides services of conception consultancy, software, material, personalization and implementation and collaborates with worldwide clients allowing to propose systems based completely on smart card, integrated and personalized.

With a turnover of 5,029 billion francs in 1999 (767 million Euros), Gemplus counts close to 6,300 employees in 17 different sites of production, 7 R&D centers and 44 commercial & marketing offices, all in 37 different countries across the world.





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Contacts
Gemplus, Marielle Bricman/Séverine Percetti
tel: 33 (0)4 42.36.50.00
e-mail: marielle.bricman@gemplus.com
severine.percetti@gemplus.com


Agence Brodeur SRRP, Marianne Levy /Ines Brudey
tel: 33 (0)1 53.04.23.00
email: marianne.levy@srrp.com

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