As the biggest highlight in user forums this year, 2nd NFC Asia Pacific Summit 2008 is an only special summit which focused on near field communication (NFC) technology. The content of two-day Beijing summit covered the topics of the newest development of global NFC technology, the application and development of NFC technology in Asia, the application prospect of NFC technology in China, the solutions of NFC and its newest application cases. The summit was jointly held by Smart Card Federation of China and NFC Forum and also got the supports from China Electronic Standardization Institute, China Unionpay E-payment Institute, China Mobile communication Institute and Value-added Service Department of China Unicom. The important honored guests from China and other countries that were present at the summit are as follows: Researcher Jin Qian from China Electronic Standardization Institute, Patrick Henzen, the spokesman of NFC Forum, Greg Pote, Chairman of Asia Pacific Smart Cards Association, John Chiu , Chairman of Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association Ltd, Joseph Leung , vice chairman of Hong Kong Retail Technology Industry Association, Guo Manxue from key product research and development office of the Research Institution of China Mobile Group, Xu Haixiang, vice manager of new products development division of Value-added Service Department of China Unicom etc.
In addition, the summit also invited the representatives of local carriers such as Xiamen ?Mobile, China Unionpay, representatives of bank card organizations such as MasterCard Worldwide, as well as experts from famous enterprises such as Nokia, ZTE, BenQ, NXP semiconductors, Inside Contactless, Innovision, Watch Data, Shanghai COS, SUN Microsystem, ViVotech to address at the summit and discuss together the application mode and professional popularization prospect. The two-day summit attracted the presence of representatives of users, leading manufactures, research institution and professional media.? |
