Tracks
The competition is divided into two tracks: a Commercial Track for NFC services based on a business case; and a Research Track open to university students and research institutions.
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Track A: COMMERCIAL The most ambitious and successful commercial service
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Track B: RESEARCH Most innovative new service developed by university individuals or teams
The Pre-selection Committee will evaluate each entry, and 20 finalists will be announced on March 17, 2008. Each team of finalists will be asked to deliver a presentation and live demonstration at the WIMA event on April 29, 2008, after which the jury will vote to select first-, second-, and third-place winners for each track.
Pre-selection Committee
The Pre-selection Committee includes reviewers from both, academia and industry:
- Heikki Ailisto (VTT)
- Jean-Philippe Betoin (Inside Contactless)
- Hank Chavers (Nokia)
- Michael Elliott (Over-C)
- Neil Garner (Glue4)
- Ian Keen (Innovision)
- Helmut Krcmar (Technical University Munich)
- Christian Lührs (Stollmann)
- Florian Michahelles (ETH Zurich)
- Serge Miranda (University of Nice)
- Manfred Müller (SCM Microsystems GmbH)
- Klaus Rebensburg (Technical University Berlin)
- Kurt Schmid (NEXPERTS GmbH)
- Albrecht Schmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Spyros Tombros (BlueChip)
Jury members
We are happy to announce the jury members on site in Monaco:
- Hank Chavers (Nokia)
- Jean-Philippe Betoin (Inside Contactless)
- Christian Lührs (Stollmann)
- Michael Elliott (Over-c)
- Manfred Müller (SCM Microsystems)
- Serge Miranda (University of Nice)
- Josef Langer (University of Hagenberg)
- Marc Borrett (Innovision)
- Heikki Huomo (NXP)
