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MEA Workshop
September 30 - October 1
Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
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ICMA Completes Successful Workshops in Three Continents
ICMA recently hosted a very successful 2009 Academy Workshop series with three Workshops around the globe. This feat could not have been accomplished without the help of the 2009 Academy Workshop chairs. We would like to give a big thank you to Green Summit chair Karen Henk of Versatile Card Technology, U.S. Workshop chair John Herslow of CompoSecure, MEA co-chairs Jan Cerajewski of All About Cards and Kazim Awan of Cupola Plastic Cards and European Workshop chair Thies Janczek of COCASO.
This year’s 2009 U.S. Workshop and Green Summit took place at the same location as last year, the Renaissance Hotel and Conference Center located just outside of Chicago in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Topics at ICMA’s Green Summit II – Greening the Factory focused on providing attendees with techniques needed to reduce their carbon footprint and ultimately reduce operational costs. Topics included: a global study on the carbon footprint of cards, a review of authentic sustainability, recovering rejected waste materials, energy saving lighting solutions, secondary packaging, energy efficiency, best practices and a panel addressing what card manufacturers are doing today to be environmentally conscious.
Following on the heels of the Green Summit, ICMA held its U.S. Workshop ,topics included: card market trends & statistics, phone stickers, security of polycarbonate identity documents, testing, barcode quality, NFC, multi-layer foils, OVD detection, equipment preventative maintenance, personalize cards, efficient operations, ID card construction and security features.
The inaugural MEA Workshop took place in Dubai Media City and boasted a strong turn-out for a first time event! Attendees from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and India attended this event. Topics included: the MEA card market, RFID inlays, card layers, flip chip technology, government challenges of the ID market, contactless & dual interface cards and solutions for PIN applications.
The European Workshop, the last of the 2009 Academy Workshops, took place in mid October in Rome, Italy. Identification and security were hot topics at the European workshop. Other topics included: contactless & dual interface cards, personalization, lamination process, Teslin, single card printing, flip chip technology and inks to authenticate and protect cards.
All three of the Academy Workshops included a networking dinner at a local off-site restaurant. These off-site dinners provided attendees, exhibitors and speakers an opportunity to network and mingle in a fun and relaxed environment.
Greening the Factory
Chair: Karen Henk, Versatile Card Technology
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Green Summit II - Greening the Factory: Wednesday, September 16 |
8:00-8:30am |
REGISTRATION / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
8:30-9:00am |
Opening Remarks, Al Vrancart, ICMA |
9:00-9:45am |
A Global Study on the Carbon Footprint of Cards, Uwe Truggelmann, Consultant to MasterCard |
9:45-10:30am |
Beyond Being Green: A Look at Authentic
Sustainability, Tom Carpenter, Waste
Management – Green Squad |
10:30-11:00am |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
11:00-11:30am |
Recycling Solutions – Recovering “Rejected”
Waste Materials, TR Mitchell, New Wave Plastics |
11:30am-12:15pm |
Energy Saving Lighting Solutions for the
Factory, Osram Sylvania, Bruce Ryman |
12:15-1:30pm |
LUNCH |
1:30-2:30pm |
Card Manufacture Panel – What Card
Manufacturers Are Doing Today,
Michael Dorner, Plantaplast/Cindy Emery, PSA/Barry Mosteller, ACE-M, Oberthur/John Tomczyk, Travel Tags |
2:30-3:00pm |
Save the Earth and Money through Secondary Packaging, Dennis Salazar, Salazar Packaging |
3:00-3:30pm |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
3:30-4:00pm |
Carbon 101 – What the Card Manufacturing Industry Needs to Know, Melissa Hart, Environ |
4:00-4:30pm |
Energy Efficiency – the Key to Reducing Costs in a Low Carbon Future, Andrew
Sheaffer, Environ |
4:30-5:00pm |
Best Practices and ISO 14000, Brad Paulson, ICMA Standards Rep, Thor Engineering |
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Chair:
John Herslow, CompoSecure
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Thursday, September 17 |
8:30-9:00am |
REGISTRATION / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
9:00-9:15am |
Opening Remarks, John Herslow, CompoSecure |
9:15-9:45am |
Card Market Statistics and Trends, Al Vrancart, ICMA |
9:45-10:15am |
Innovations in Security for Polycarbonate Identity Documents, Laurence Holden, JDSU |
10:15-10:45am |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
10:45-11:30am |
Phone Stickers 101: Manufacturing Challenges and Future Predictions, Barry Mosteller, ACE-M, Oberthur |
11:30am-12:00pm |
Card Testing Options – The Ins and Outs of In-House vs. Outsourcing, Jeff Bedell, Q-Card |
12:00-12:45pm |
Barcode Quality in Card Printing and the ISO/ANSI Specifications, John Nachtrieb, Fotel Incorporated |
12:45-1:45pm |
LUNCH |
1:45-2:30pm |
NFC: Everything a Card Manufacturer Needs
to Know, Tom Kleeman, Spartanics |
2:30-3:00pm |
Layers of Significance – Technologies Used
to Manufacture Multi-layer Foils, Dan Szumski, ACE-M, CFC International |
3:00-3:30pm |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
3:30-4:00pm |
Ultimate in Card Security – Enhancing the
Security of RFID/Smart Cards Using Secure OVD Detection, Victor Zazzu, ZBA Inc. |
4:00-4:30pm |
Preventative Maintenance Program for Your Personalization Equipment,
Jason Anderson, Pittsburgh Embossing Services, Inc. |
5:30-6:30pm |
NETWORKING RECEPTION / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
7:00pm |
NETWORKING DINNER |
Friday, September 18 |
8:30-9:30am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
9:30-10:00am |
Deliver Unique, Highly Personalized Cards Quickly, Alyssa Arredondo, Datacard Group |
10:00-10:30am |
Maximizing Financial Resources to Drive Efficient Operations – Maximizing Limited Resources to Optimize Peak Operations,
Merrill Martin, VCT-NJ |
10:30-11:00am |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
11:00-11:30am |
Evolutionary Products and Technologies
for Plastic Card Manufacturers - ID Card
Constructions and Security Features,
John Herslow, CompoSecure |
11:30am-12:00pm |
Alternative Materials for Cards, Dan Gilliland, Mirel |
1:00-4:00pm |
ACE Accreditation Exam (separate registration required) |
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Chairs: Jan Cerajewski, All About Cards LLC and Kazim Awan, Cupola Plastic Cards Ltd.
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Wednesday, September 30 |
1:00-4:00pm |
ACE Accreditation Exam (separate registration required)
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4:00-5:00pm |
REGISTRATION / WELCOME REFRESHMENTS / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
5:00-5:30pm |
Opening Remarks, About ICMA, Kazim Awan, ICMA Board of Directors, Cupola Plastics Card Ltd. |
5:30-6:00pm |
Changing Nature of the Card Market in MEA, Muhammad Abid, Cupola Plastics Card Ltd. |
6:00-7:00pm |
NETWORKING RECEPTION / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
Thursday, October 1 |
8:30-9:30am |
WELCOME COFFEE / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
9:30-10:00am |
Card Manufacturing – Current Market Situation, Challenges, Opportunities and
Ideas to Improve Sales, Jochen Scheil,
Köra-Packmat Asia |
10:00-10:30am |
RFID Inlays - Significance of Material and Inlay Durability, Joby Mathew, HID Global |
10:30-11:00am |
Card Layers - Diffractive and Printed Scratch-off Foils and Labels for PIN and
Data Protection, John Drinkwater, Holographic Security Innovations Limited |
| 11:00am-11:45am |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
11:45am-12:15pm |
Progress in Flip Chip Technology in Manufacturing Contactless Cards, Rainer Rettig, ARE-Con GmbH & Co. KG |
12:15-1:30pm |
LUNCH |
1:30-2:00pm |
The Governmental Challenge: Serving the Needs of Today's ID Market, Mario Weinfurtner, Böwe Cardtec |
2:00-2:30pm |
Industrial Production Process for e-NID Cards in PC Material, Andreas Sasinski, Melzer |
| 2:30-3:00pm |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
3:00-3:30pm |
Full-Contactless & Dual-Interface Cards –
Recent Update on Trends and Production
Technologies, Ralf Henn, Smartrac |
3:30-4:00pm |
Solutions for PIN Applications, Otto Künnecke, Küennecke |
7:00pm |
NETWORKING DINNER |
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Chair:
Thies Janczek, COCASO
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Monday, October 19 |
1:00-2:00pm |
REGISTRATION / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
1:45-2:00pm |
Opening Remarks, Thies Janczek, COCASO |
2:00-2:30pm |
From Personalization to Mailing – Review Development in Recent Years, Jean-Louis Meyer, DataCard |
2:30-3:00pm |
Full-Contactless & Dual-Interface Cards –
Recent update on Trends and Production
Technologies, Uwe Adamczyk, Smartrac |
3:00-3:30pm |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
3:30-4:00pm |
Non-Standard Card Visual Features, Construction and Materials, Fernando Lourenco, MasterCard Worldwide |
4:00-4:30pm |
What Happens in the Lamination Process,
Bill Crawford, Waytek |
4:30-5:00pm |
Teslin in the Card Market - Benefits and
Durability Considerations, Pierre Scaglia, PPG |
5:00-5:30pm |
Single Card Printing vs. Sheet Printing, an Economic Overview, Günter Meyer, KBA-Metronic |
6:00-7:00pm |
NETWORKING RECEPTION / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
7:00pm |
NETWORKING DINNER |
Tuesday, October 20 |
8:30-9:30am |
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
9:30-10:00am |
Innovations in Security for Polycarbonate
Identity Documents, Adam Scheer, JDSU |
10:00-10:30am |
EU Driver’s License – Complex Card Structure, Roland Gutmann, Bundesdruckerei GmbH |
10:30-11:00am |
BREAK / TABLE TOP DISPLAYS |
11:00-11:30am |
Authentication of Cards and ID-Documents
by Laser Scanning, Georgios Tziovaras, Bayer
MaterialScience |
11:30am-12:00pm |
Progress in Flip Chip Technology in
Manufacturing Contactless Cards,
Bernhard Wernberger, ARE-Con GmbH & Co. KG |
12:00 -1:00pm |
LUNCH |
1:00-1:30pm |
Using Inks to Authenticate and Protect Cards, Nick Cooper, LUMINESCENCE |
1:30-2:00pm |
Best Practices and ISO 14000, Brad Paulson, ICMA Standards Rep, Thor Engineering |
2:00-2:30pm |
Evolutionary Products and Technologies
for Plastic Card Manufacturers – ID Card
Constructions and Security Features,
John Herslow, CompoSecure |
3:00-6:00pm |
ACE Accreditation Exam (separate registration required) |
3:00-6:00pm |
Green Task Force Meeting (Observers Welcome)
Email info@icma.com if not a member of the
Task Force. |
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