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Cathy Medich: Director of Strategic ProgramsPast Role: HP, Team Member
Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association that stimulates the understanding, adoption, usage, and widespread application of smart card technology. The alliance invests in education on the appropriate uses of technology for identification, payment, and other applications and advocates the use of smart card technology in a
way that protects privacy and improves data security and integrity.
Through specific projects such as education programs, market research, advocacy, industry relations, and open forums, Smart Card Alliance keeps its members connected to industry professionals. . The alliance is the single industry voice for smart card technology, conducting industry discussion on the impact and value of smart cards in the U.S. and Latin America.
Smart Card Alliance is comprised of over 200 members worldwide, including participants from financial, government, enterprise, transportation, mobile telecommunications, healthcare, and retail industries. It is a mix of issuers and adopters of smart card technology work in concert with industry suppliers of the full range of products and services supporting the implementation of smart-card based systems for secure payments, identification, access, and mobile communications.
Smart Card Alliance was founded in 2001 and is based in Princeton, N.J.