In 2016, many mobile phones have already been launched with biometric identification in standard models. How, then, can we better protect personal biometric data? How can biometric information be used more safely? In February, GSMA released a Remote Provisioning for Technical Specification for M2M, which brought eUICC products and their future developments under the spotlight. 

The smart card industry is facing a rapid fall in profits as a result of years of fierce competition, and bearing pressure from all kinds of rising cost in card manufacturing. Although fully automated lean manufacturing has been applied to many other manufacturing sectors, the smart card industry, a veteran with twenty years' experience in the smart industry, is still groping its way to lean manufacturing. Energy conservation and innovation are the permanent pursuit of engineers in smart card manufacturing and the persistent challenges to this industry. On Mar. 25, 2016, SCA will invite leading experts in the smart card industry to discuss this issue, with an aim to open your mind, broaden your horizon, pool your ideas and help you work together for a win-win situation. 

Nowadays, online personal data theft is quite rampant and private personal data are often sold without restriction. Even some large websites' databases are frequently hacked, which causes huge losses to businesses and individuals in terms of assets and information. Under such circumstances, SCA and Shanghai Aohsmart Technology will host the "Online & Offline Secure Authentication Application Workshop and SCA Annual Meeting" in Shanghai on January 15, 2016. The event will invite experts from all fields in the industry to share their experiences in identity authentication applications in online and offline scenarios and to discuss the challenges they face. 

To what scenarios have these technologies already been applied? And to what scenarios will they be applied in the future? How can the technologies be synergized to meet users’ demands? What are their technical or business challenges? How should players in the industry collaborate to address these existing challenges? How to build a win-win or multi-win business model? The conference will provide in-depth discussions on these issues.