WISEKEY SA REPORTS RESULTS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

WISEKEY SA REPORTS RESULTS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

WISeKey celebrated its annual shareholders´ meeting on the 28th of June at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Geneva which was attended by a substantial majority of the company´s shareholders. The issues put to the shareholders were analyzed and debated with enthusiasm and all were approved by an almost unanimous majority.
Among the issues discussed were the financial statements of 2009 (approved by 98 % of the shares represented) as well as a review of the results of the first 6 months for 2010. The Board of Directors also presented WISeKey´s ongoing strategy to expand geographically into the BRIC countries as well as the USA and EU, and to expand into new markets related to eSecurity such as Mobile Security and Trusted Cloud Computing. This expansion strategy was backed by a series of resolutions adopted by the same overwhelming majority, empowering the Board of Directors with substantial resources to work towards its execution.
As an indication of their backing to the current Board of Directors and management, the shareholders re-elected the current board in full for a new 3 year term and approved the election of 2 new board members, namely, Maryla Shingler and Thomas J. Egger.

The Board of Directors closed the meeting thanking the shareholders for their ongoing support to continue making WISeKey a unique offering globally in the secure electronic identity market and the company from which the global privacy and security problems that plague the Internet today can be managed substantially better for the good of consumers, enterprises and governments.

WISekey Releases WISePhone+

WISekey Releases WISePhone+ a secure GSM Phone developed by WISekey to provide end-to-end secure communication across the GSM network

http://www.wisephoneplus.com/?page_id=16

WISePhone+ brings Swiss trustworthiness to the world of Mobile communications

WISePhone+ is a secure GSM Phone developed by WISekey supporting Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, IPhone and Android using strong military grade encryption to provide end-to-end secure communication across the GSM network. The WISePhone+ technology and management system is designed to be secure and flexible. Digital keys and delivers X.509 certificates are created for all entities in the solution, each WISePhone+ secured Smartphone and the WISePhone+ Gateways are strongly identified using Public Key Infrastructure technology provided by WISeKey SA, a global innovative leader in this domain.
•Secures your mobile phone communications (Voice, SMS’s, E-mails)
•Secures all the information stored on mobile devices (contacts, e-mails and attachments)
•Provides a strong level of end-to-end encryption (typically used by governments to exchange top secret/classified information) to all customers
•Installs easily on commonly available mobile devices (Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android, IPhone)
•Fully compatible with existing mobile infrastructures, and does not require altering the mobile device

WISePhone+ Secure Mobile Phone
WIsePhone+ is a secure mobile solution which provides swiss privacy to your mobile communications.
It globally secures your communications, providing security and comfort that your mobile communications are secure wherever in the world you may be; especially in territories where eavesdropping is quite common.
WISePhone+ works with most PDAs and mobile Smartphones, is easy to use, and only requires a GSM network to operate.
It safely protects your mobile data (email, contacts) and communications (voice, SMS) using strong military grade encryption, and provides additional features such as secure data storage and restore (Swiss high security data center, or on-premise server), and secure emergency remote deletion of data.
How it works
• The roaming mobile user establishes a secure GPRS/UMTS connection usnig the WISePhone+ software to the WISePhone+ Gateway hosted in neutral Switzerland.
• WISePhone+ Gateway relays an encrypted connection to another WISePhone+ unit (if relay is being done to a normal phone via the corporate PSTN connection then this portion of the conversation is relayed unencrypted)
• WISePhone+ users are protected against interception attempts of their mobile communications

WISePhone+ User Benefits

Data Loss Prevention

•Prevent the loss or exposure of data as a result of a phone is stolen or lost. Sensitive information is encrypted on the device, and only the WISePhone+ user can access this information with his PIN.
Travellers Visa Pass

•One button erases all your sensitive related information on your phone before travelling, and one code reloads it at your destination. Safely cross border points.
Intercept Prevention

•Secure your phone conversations, SMS’s, conference calls and emails against any kind of interception.
Prevention of Phone Hacking

•A firewall protects the phone against hacking attempts (malware, Trojan horses…)
WISePhone+ Platform Benefits

Low Cost of Ownership

•Fast deployment using a smart (thin) client architecture and consolidated fleet management,
•Very good ratio between cost of the solution and “value” of the protected data

High Scalability

•Scales from 10 to several million of users
Flexibility & Interoperability

•The WISePhone+ solution functions in the regular mobile environment and with off the shelf mobile phones
Resiliency

•WISePhone+ offers multiple ways to propose your encryption continuity.
•Applications on end-users devices can be upgraded remotely

Green

•WISePhone+’s encryption solutions consume significantly lower battery power that other encryption solutions


For more information please contact sales@wisekey.com and site http://www.wisephoneplus.com/?page_id=16

WISekey reaches an agreement with the Liaoning Government to establish a WISekey Anti Counterfeiting Center at the Liaoning Watch Factory

WISekey reaches an agreement with the Liaoning Government to establish a WISekey Anti Counterfeiting Center at the Liaoning Watch Factory, located in Dandong City.

Liaoning Province, is one of China's biggest watch movement manufacturers with over 50 years experience. The range of movements made by the factory include hand-winding tourbillons, automatic chronographs and several variants of the Chinese Standard movement including skeleton and open-heart. Liaoning Watch Factory is a major supplier of movements to Million Smart Enterprises and other OEM companies.

The agreement will allow WISekey unique breakthrough solution to help reduce counterfeiting among the luxury watch industry and to protect the 3 million watches produced at the Liaoning Watch Factory. This solution arrives during a period on which the watch industry is also impacted by the crisis and needs to reassure its clients.

The Liaoning Watch Factory will use WISekey technology WISeAuthentic®, a certification system of authenticity through a smartcard.to secure their local production.

"Counterfeiting represents approximately five to seven percent of all world trade," said Carlos Moreira, CEO of WISeKey. "Therefore, with the luxury brand industries estimated to reach one trillion dollars (US) by 2010, these companies need a solution that will prove authenticity. We are pleased that WISeKey technology can be used in the fight against counterfeiting."

XIII Annual MIT Latin American Conference:

XIII Annual MIT Latin American Conference: Latin America’s top business leaders to gather at MIT to explore building a solid financial base for a sustainable future
Conference open free of charge to the public

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the wake of the Great Recession, Latin American countries face the challenge of building a solid financial base while providing quality education for all, developing clean and diversified sources of energy, and using natural resources in a sustainable way.

On April 24, top business leaders, government figures, and academics will gather under MIT’s iconic dome in Cambridge, Massachusetts to explore the fundamentals of shaping a new development cycle during the XIII Annual MIT Latin Conference. This year’s them, “Building Bridges to a Sustainable Future”, will address the unique opportunities these countries have to implement pending reforms, leverage natural resources, and initiate an era of integration and development across the region.

Panel topics will include:

•The Founder’s Perspective: Entrepreneurship in Latin America
•The Wall Street Perspective on Latin America
•The Integration of the Americas: The Next 1 Billion People Market?
•Land of Resources: Energy and Food as Tools for Growth
•Growth of the Consumer Base
•The Leader’s Perspective on Latin America
Slated key note and panel speakers will include, among others:

•Pratini de Moraes, Chairman, Brazilian Beef Export Industries Association (ABIEC); He has held several positions in the Brazilian federal government;
•Natalisio Almeida, COO, Banco Itau, the largest bank in Latin America;
•Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO, Wisekey, world leader in solutions for secure electronic transactions and digital identity management.;
•Helio Rottenberg, CEO, Positivo Informatica, the largest PC Manufacutuer in Brazil and largest educational conglomerate in Latin America;
•Jose Carlos Grubisich, CEO, ETH, bio-energy arm of Odebrecht, the largest infrastructure conglomerate of Latin America; and
•Mario Garnero, Chairman, Brasilinvest, Brazil´s foremost merchant bank, known as the “Father of the Ethanol.”
Academics from MIT Sloan will include, among others, Dean David Schmittlein, Deputy Dean Richard Locke, and Bill Aulet, managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

For more information and to register, please visit: www.mitlac.com

The MIT Latin Conference is held in partnership with by Jornal do Brasil, widely known as JB, one of Brazil´s most traditional and influential news dailies.

The MIT Latin American Conference is a student-organized event held once a year that gathers influential leaders from business, government, academia, and society in Latin America. In this context, speakers share their views and debate about opportunities and challenges for the region. Last year more than 500 people attended including business leaders, students and professors from MIT and other leading institutions.

Le potentiel technologique de Valence

Le potentiel technologique de Valence
Posted By Le Courrier d´Espagne On 11 mars 2010 @ 9 h 40 min In Affaires | No Comments

Valence se veut premier port espagnol méditerranéen, pôle logistique du sud de l’Europe, porte d’entrée du commerce vers l’Amérique du Sud et centre technologique capable d’attirer les grandes firmes technologiques. Aujourd’hui, elle est plébiscitée par Microsoft, Google ou l’Agence Spatiale Européenne qui y implantent leurs activités.


L'Agence Spatiale Européenne qui avait inauguré en 2008 l'European Space Astronomy Center à Villanueva de la Cañada, à Madrid (photo) devrait inauguré en juin son laboratoire de détection des pannes à Valence. Photo ESA.

Alors que le départ de la première régate de la 33e Coupe de l’America prenait du retard pour cause de vent, des entrepreneurs suisses, américains et espagnols refaisaient le monde, et surtout le futur de Valence dans les salons du Palau de la Generalitat. Objectif : réfléchir à la manière de transformer la région en nouveau centre technologique de la Méditerranée.
Cette table ronde informelle, modérée par l’entrepreneur suisse d’origine espagnole, Carlos Moreira, président de l’entreprise de sécurité informatique Wisekey, sponsor de l’équipe d’Alinghi et impulseur du hub technologique de la Méditerranée, a souligné le potentiel de la ville. Bien sûr, les entrepreneurs valenciens ont vanté la qualité de l’innovation menée dans divers secteurs traditionnels. Mais pour les intervenants internationaux la question du développement de Valence va plus loin. Selon eux, il est maintenant nécessaire de trouver des idées neuves, fraîches, et de mettre l’innovation au service des secteurs du futur.
Que faut-il de plus pour transformer Valence en ce grand pôle méditerranéen, en la Seattle de l’Europe? La Silicon Valley du Vieux Continent ?
Elle compte certes un atout de poids : son port. Pour Claude Beglé, ex-président du service postal suisse et expert en logistique internationale, son développement est tel qu’il pourrait remplir les fonctions de «porte d’entrée» de toute l’Amérique latine en Europe. «Les pays émergents vont croître plus que l’Union Européenne dans les prochaines années, c’est la conquête à l’envers.» Or, selon Rafael Aznar, président de l’Autorité portuaire, Valence, premier port de la Méditerranée, dispose déjà de très bonnes connexions avec Shanghai et facilite les formalités douanières aux cargos au travers de plateformes technologiques.
Mais les atouts logistiques sont une chose. Ils ne remplacent pas le capital humain. Pour Claude Beglé, cité dans le journal El País, la région doit et peut attirer les élites intellectuelles. «Vous avez des universités, le soleil, la mer, vous pouvez dupliquer le style de vie de la Côte Ouest des Etats-Unis. »
Un laboratoire de détection des pannes sur satellites
L’homme d’affaires ne pensait pas si bien dire. Car à peine quelques jours plus tard, l’Agence spatiale européenne annonçait le choix de la ville pour accueillir le laboratoire de détection des pannes sur satellites et navettes spatiales. Et côté cerveaux, cette nouvelle implique la venue de 25 chercheurs et, selon les estimations de la ville, la création de 800 emplois à haute qualification au travers de l´implantation d´entreprises de pointe dans la zone technologique.
Selon la maire de la ville, Rita Barbera, Valence était en compétition avec des établissements français, anglais et allemands ainsi qu´avec l´institut espagnol de technique aérospatiale, l’INTA. Mais c’est elle qui finalement a été choisie pour abriter ce deuxième centre espagnol de l´Agence Spatiale Européenne. Sa mission ? Mesurer et contrôler les effets des radiations provoquées par les satellites, établir les normes de référence de la télécommunication spatiale, surveiller la bonne application de celles-ci, et donner une réponse rapide aux incidents survenant sur les satellites en orbite.
Et pour mener à bien cet objectif, l’investissement est de taille : 15 millions d´euros financés par l´Université polytechnique de Valence, l’Université de Valence, la Generalitat et la municipalité. Mais en échange, Valence peut prétendre à une réputation technologique et scientifique internationale. Pôle de recherche, siège de colloques scientifiques et de congrès internationaux sur les techniques aérospatiales, elle en aura toute la légitimité.
Microsoft s’installe à Torrevieja
Une légitimité que confirment encore d’autres annonces. Comme celle du géant de l’informatique créé par Bill Gates, Microsoft, qui vient d’annoncer qu’il installera à Torrevieja (Alicante) le premier Centre de Développement Technologique Sanitaire du groupe. Le choix de la ville n’est pas anodin puisque Microsoft équipe déjà l’Hôpital de Torrevieja, un centre hospitalier ultra moderne inauguré en 2006 (voir encadré). Sans oublier que la Province d’Alicante concentre un grand nombre de résidents retraités.
Ce centre d’innovation lié aux applications technologiques pour la santé et les services destinés au troisième âge emploierait une dizaine de professionnels sur une surface de 300 m2. L’investissement initial serait couvert par la Generalitat valencienne qui pourrait débourser 800 000 euros durant les deux premières années, selon le quotidien El Pais.
Google Transit commence par Valence
L’autre géant américain, Google, a pour sa part choisi Valence pour lancer en Espagne son Google Transit, sa plus ambitieuse plateforme virtuelle de mobilité urbaine. Le système intégre dans l’application Google Maps tous les moyens de transport locaux et interurbains. Un outil innovant qui permet de planifier les trajets métropolitains en transport public.

S.M.

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WISekey is organizing an executive roundtable the 9th February in Valencia, hosted by the Generalitat (Government of Valencia).

WISekey is organizing an executive roundtable the 9th February in Valencia, hosted by the Generalitat (Government of Valencia).

This round table will include speakers from both Valencia entrepreneurs and visitors attending the Americas Cup.

After the roundtable a secure platform developed by WISekey will be
activated http://valencia.wisekey.com allowing the Valencia citizen to
access securely all government services together with the distribution of a
cryptographic eKey.

The project will operate as a PPP and will be mainly financed by the
private sector, which will include a state of the art technology hub. The
Hub will become both a super-platform for optimising commercial,
technological and cultural links and also meeting-point and a place for
research and study. We will include the mobility aspects to this project as
a one of the conclusions of the meeting.

El Hub Valenciano de Alta Tecnología para el Mediterráneo

El Hub Valenciano de Alta Tecnología para el Mediterráneo


Valencia tiene la posibilidad de convertirse en el Hub de Altas Tecnologías del Mediterráneo. Esta visión ha sido ya comprobada por varias personalidades a nivel mundial que, durante la 32ª Américas Cup tuvieron la posibilidad de comprobar esta realidad. Hoy en día ciudades del mundo entero se están equipando con las tecnologías e infraestructuras para el desarrollo de Hubs y Nubes Computacionales (Cloud Computing que les permitan ofrecer servicios a sus usuarios tales como acceder de forma segura a los servicios disponibles "en la nube “sin tener que preocuparse en la gestión de los recursos tecnológicos complejos y costosos que ello implica) que intensifican procesos de investigación, desarrollo e innovación.

El Hub Valenciano de Alta Tecnología se posiciona frente a un ecosistema de innovación de 100 millones de personas repartidas en 25 países principalmente dentro de la región del Mediterráneo, incluyendo África. El compromiso incluye el de un despliegue de un Hub informático (en cooperación con las empresas tecnológicas y de telecomunicaciones) y de un Hub operacional multisectorial y multidisciplinario. Lo crítico es lograr que el trabajo arduo de investigación y desarrollo resulten en innovaciones que resuelvan problemas concretos o produzcan cambios disruptivos en los procesos del mercado tradicionales y que por ello resulten atractivos para el mercado.

Las oportunidades son ilimitadas siempre y cuando se sepan aprovechar. Lograr aprovecharlas implica crear dinámicas que realicen investigación y desarrollo que resulten en innovación aplicable en el mercado. Valencia goza de una serie de ventajas comparativas en diversos sectores de reconocida trayectoria en el desarrollo de la economía futura, como lo son las industrias de la sanidad, la agroalimentaria, la logística y la cerámica, entre otras.

El concepto del hub o cluster, es uno que ha sido acogido en distintas regiones del mundo. En Valencia, ha sido reconocido que hay necesidades concretas de incrementar la inversión en I+D+i, de incrementar las personas dedicadas a I+D+i, de internacionalizar el I+D+i, y de aumentar la participación del sector privado en el I+D+i.

En esta mesa redonda se lanza el reto a sus participantes de debatir como un Hub de Alta Tecnología en la región podría impulsar de manera contundente la innovación como mecanismo de desarrollo económico y de diversificación de la economía valenciana para un posicionamiento de liderazgo mundial hacia el futuro en sectores específicos. En Valencia ya se están desplegando diversos esfuerzos e iniciativas tanto para incrementar la investigación científica y tecnológica como para poder incentivar la aplicación de sus resultados en áreas especificas con vistas al desarrollo regional y su posicionamiento internacional. Los recursos tecnológicos y de innovación tienen fuerte peso en la economía Valenciana, por lo que la agregación sistemática de valor que este Hub le traería a sus diversas etapas de producción, industrialización y comercialización a través de innovaciones basadas en resultados de investigación, reviste la mayor importancia tanto para el sector privado como el sector publico.

Los mejores resultados regionales en innovación se han realizado históricamente como respuesta a los cambios económicos ocasionados por momentos económicos de crisis. Está comprobado que la innovación y el avance tecnológico surge después de periodos de crisis económicas donde las ciudades y regiones económicas debieron centrarse en la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación para mejorar su capacidad de crecimiento económico.

Para avanzar y poder recomendar acciones concretas, la mesa redonda debatirá cómo mancomunar esfuerzos a nivel de empresas para asegurar un desarrollo regional a través de la innovación. Se comentará cómo otros países representados en la mesa (Suiza, EEUU, Brazil,) se han desarrollado a través del concepto del HUB, sistemas de innovación en los cuales se combinan diferentes mecanismos de administración, organismos de financiamiento, instituciones de investigación y estructuras para la colaboración académica y de negocio y empresarial con el objetivo de reforzar y operacionalizar la estrategia de innovación.

Round Table Participants



Carlos Moreira
(Moderador)
Carlos Moreira was during 15 years a UN expert on IT and Telecommunications, Internet Pioneer; Founder, WISeKey, a Swiss security company. Founder and Secretary-General, OISTE.org Foundation which helps developing countries access Internet and provide digital identification services and secure electronic transactions. Founder of the Geneva Security Forum, Member Global Clinton Initiative, Founding Member World Economic Forum New Champions. Member of the Business Advisory Board, International Organization for Migrations. Entrepreneur in EU and investor in technology companies. Recipient of award, Man of the Year, AGEFI, Switzerland (2007), Vice President Malaga Valley, CoFounder Association International Mobility AIM. Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1995 to 1998. Head of the Trade Efficiency Lab at the Graduate School of Engineering at RMIT and the Electronic Commerce research project leader at the University of Minnesota.
Carlos Moreira is Swiss and was born in Cadiz, Spain, 1 Septembre 1958. He has over 20 years experience working with information systems for large multinationals, consulting groups, international organizations and the United Nations. 

Originally a former United Nations expert in Telecommunications, Security and Information Networks, Carlos Moreira has been responsible for research, development, implementation, analyses and negotiations related to technology, e-security and e-commerce for the United Nations and specialized agencies.





Mario Garnero Chairman of Brasilinvest, President of UNA-Brazil & Fórum das Américas
Entrepreneur Mario Garnero, 70, has a Law Degree from the Catholic University of São Paulo. During his career he was director of Volkswagen do Brasil, chaired the National Automakers Association (ANFAVEA) and the National Confederation of Industries (CNI). He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Brasilinvest Group and also the President of Fórum das Américas and United Nations Association – Brazil (UNAB-Brazil). "Father of the Ethanol Car" Mario Garnero still today is called the father of the ethanol car in the private initiative, remembered by his tireless contribution for the implementation of over 1 million ethanol cars while president of the National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers and also for his unshakable belief in the future of alternative energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Garnero


Claude Beglé Dr. Claude Béglé was born 1949 in Bern, Switzerland. He studied in Geneva and Lausanne where he obtained a Ph.D. in economics, a Masters in Law and a Masters in International Relations. He began his career in 1975 in Nepal, working for the Swiss ministry of foreign affairs. In 1976 / 1977 he was active for the International Red Cross in Lebanon and in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. In 1978, Claude Béglé joined Néstle, which led him all over the world in many varying fields in Mexico, Egypt, Switzerland, Spain, Nigeria, Ecuador, Colombia and Czechoslovakia. As Managing Director for Phillip Morris in Poland from 1993 to 1996, he was responsible for the largest privatization and foreign investment made in the country. In 1977 he joined Dutch TNT as Vice President for Europe, in charge of 58 countries. From 1999 Claude worked for the La Poste Group, as CEO of GeoPost International Division and Chairman of the DPD Group. He led the European and world wide expansion of the group. From October 2005 to January December 2008 he was CEO DHL Express Germany and Managing Director for DHL Express Central Europe. Mr. Beglé´s latest post was as Chairman of the Swiss Post.

Leonard Schrank Leonard H. Schrank was CEO of SWIFT, the bank owned financial messaging service, from 1992 until 2007. During this time he was a regular participant at the Davos World Economic Forum and Microsoft CEO Summit. From 1998-2007 he was President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. During the 1980’s, Mr. Schrank was head of International, based in London, for Chase Manhattan Bank’s Interactive Data Corporation, a global information services company. He joined Chase/IDC in 1977, when it acquired the software company he co-founded in 1970 with four MIT partners.
Mr. Schrank currently is Chairman and co-founder of a new company for transforming the way marketing is done on the Internet. He holds Board mandates and Senior Advisory positions in Qatar, Belgium and the USA. He is President of the MIT Club of Belgium and is an MIT Educational Counsellor. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.


Francisco Pons Alcoy Presidente del GRUPO IMPORTACO. Presidente de AVE (Asociación Valenciana de Empresarios). Vicepresidente de ETNOR (Fundación para la Ética de los Negocios y las Organizaciones). Vicepresidente de EDEM (Escuela de Empresarios
Fundación de la C.V.). Miembro del Consejo Territorial de TELEFÓNICA. Miembro del Consejo Territorial de IBERDROLA.
Fue: Fundador de CAIXA POPULAR y Presidente de la misma durante los primeros 10 años. Vicepresidente de GRUPO EROSKI. Presidente de CONSUM durante 5 años. Director General de CONSUM más de 20 años. Presidente de EDEM
Formación académica: Profesor Mercantil, cursado en la Escuela de Comercio de Valencia. PADE del IESE, cursado en Barcelona.

WISekey to present its unique patented anti counterfeiting technology at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva.

WISekey to present is unique patented anti counterfeiting technology at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva.

WISekey to present is unique patented anti counterfeiting technology at SIHH its 20th exhibition, the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) will be held in Geneva from January 18th to 22nd 2010.

Every product made by a luxury goods manufacturer – a watch, handbag, piece of jewellery, etc. – would be accompanied and sold with a smart device, such as a SmartCard, containing the encrypted full details of the product, ie registration number, bar code, date and place of manufacture, etc. Manufacturers, sales outlets and purchasers would then be able to use the SmartCard to verify instantly via the Internet the authenticity of the product using WISeKey-developed technology – namely, WISeAuthentic©.

“The technology,” explains Carlos Moreira, WISeKey CEO, “is based on digital identification encrypted in each product’s SmartCard. What we provide is the service by which the smart device can be used to access the manufacturer’s website and gain access to a special area of the website where the product can be identified as part of the company’s inventory. If the encrypted information on the device is not recognized, access to the website’s special area is denied.”

The technology is virtually fail-safe, as the encrypted digital information within the SmartCard’s chip is impossible to replicate and will remain so for the foreseeable future, according to analysts, mathematicians and academic experts who participated in the development of WISeKey’s technology.

WISeKey developed its WISeAuthentic solution to this with a world-first launch at BaselWorld 2009 (the watch industry’s global premium event). Essentially, it enables the purchaser of a Hublot watch to validate the authenticity of the watch online as well as access the Hublot Certified Owners Club, where unique privileges are available to its members.

WISeKey is now expanding the application of WISeAuthentic to many other luxury brands and expects its patented technology to become a standard in the avoidance of counterfeit luxury goods globally.

“Counterfeiting represents approximately five to seven percent of all world trade,” said Carlos Moreira, CEO of WISekey. “Therefore, with the luxury brand industries estimated to reach one trillion dollars (US) by 2010, these companies need a solution that will prove authenticity. We are pleased that Hublot saw the value in WISeAuthentic and look forward to helping them, and others, in the fight against counterfeiting.”

As a trusted and secure platform, WISeAuthentic will be used by the purchaser to access an encrypted area of Hublot’s Website where the watch can be definitively identified as part of Hublot’s inventory. Each smartcard that is given at the time of purchase, in addition to its Certificate of Origin, is unique to each watch and contains full details of the product including registration number, barcode, place where it was manufactured, among other details. If the encrypted information on the watch, does not match that of the WISeAuthentic smartcard, access will be denied.

Meeting this week in Geneva with Mario Garnero after reaching an agreement to launch the second phase of WISekey Brazil with Brasilinvest.

Meeting this week in Geneva with Mario Garnero after reaching an agreement to launch the second phase of WISekey Brazil with Brasilinvest. The agreement includes an injection of capital into WISeKey Brasil by the Brazilian group Brasilinvest, accelerating the setting up of a distribution network in Latin America with 22 subsidiaries to distribute WISeKey technology in a regional market with 1 billion potential users.

Carlos Moreira, Founder and President of WISekey said "this new joint venture agreement with Brasilinvest will allow us to enlarge our existing community of users in the targeted markets increasing WISeKey international positioning and leveraging our unique trust and security model of WISeKey, now considered as the fastest e-security company in the world.


Mario Garnero, the Chairman of Brasilinvest Group http://www.brasilinvest.com.br), a holding company located in Sao Paulo with interests in the financial, telecommunications, infrastructure, real estate and agricultural sectors in Brazil and abroad, said: "This agreement to establish WISekey Brasil will allow us to internalize WISeKey's technology in our market and to introduce this unique Swiss technology to be used in other leading Brazilian sectors such as alternative energies. Mr. Mario Garneiro is also the Chairman of Forum das Americas and president of the United Nations Association-Brazil, both non profitable organizations active in Brazil.


WISeKey Brasil will extend its presence to all Brazilian States and main cities, partnering with local software services providers to respond to the accelerated demand of the private and public sectors for Internet trust services.

La Copa del América recupera la idea de Valencia como enclave tecnológico

La Copa del América recupera la idea de Valencia como enclave tecnológico
Wisekey creará una red social para relacionar empresarios suizos con la ciudad
MIQUEL ALBEROLA - Valencia - 11/01/2010

El regreso de la Copa del América a Valencia en su judicializada 33ª edición no sólo devuelve la emoción al mar y levanta expectativas en la hostelería. También reabre la posibilidad de recuperar proyectos para la ciudad que quedaron truncados con el interminable contencioso del BMW-Oracle contra el defender Alinghi.

El regreso de la Copa del América a Valencia en su judicializada 33ª edición no sólo devuelve la emoción al mar y levanta expectativas en la hostelería. También reabre la posibilidad de recuperar proyectos para la ciudad que quedaron truncados con el interminable contencioso del BMW-Oracle contra el defender Alinghi. La 32ª Copa del América, celebrada en 2007, puso en contacto a un nutrido grupo de empresarios y banqueros suizos con la ciudad. No les pasó desapercibido que Valencia, a diferencia de las dos capitales náuticas Niza y Montecarlo, poseía algo infrecuente en la Europa cálida: un hinterland litoral plano idóneo para complementar actividades de alto turismo y de nueva economía.

La pasada edición de la competición de vela, con el puerto de Valencia como epicentro, apuntó la posibilidad de impulsar un nuevo modelo productivo antes de que la crisis económica agudizara su necesidad. Anticipó ese debate con la resistencia del empresariado local menos sensible a los intangibles, atrincherado en la única opción de un puerto ocupado por la gestión de contenedores y los intereses que concurrían en la ampliación de la instalación frente a la posibilidad de un espacio multiactivo para el conocimiento y la innovación.

Fue el empresario suizo Carlos Moreira, presidente de la compañía tecnológica World Internet Security Key (Wisekey), empresa encargada de la seguridad electrónica del Alinghi, quien detectó el potencial de Valencia para convertirse en lo que él denominó como "el hub tecnológico de la cuenca del Mediterráneo", abonado además por la solvencia en el sector de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia y el Campus Party. Moreira, aprovechando el acontecimiento náutico, vio la oportunidad de que el puerto se convirtiera en un enclave lúdico con un alto nivel de tecnología y un parque tecnológico integrado para empresas con infraestructura de seguridad e incubadores electrónicos.

Los empresarios ginebrinos, con la expectativa de que el modelo de Copa del América que barajaba el propietario del Alinghi, Ernesto Bertarelli, fijaba la siguiente edición para 2009, llegaron a preparar una reunión con empresarios valencianos para concretar proyectos que impulsaran ese modelo que pudiera posicionar a Valencia en la economía del conocimiento, pero nunca se celebró por la deriva que tomó el evento.

Wisekey regresa a Valencia no sólo como proveedora exclusiva de software y servicios de seguridad de alta tecnología para el Alinghi y el perímetro de la Copa del América, sino también como principal patrocinador del sindicato suizo junto a Hublot. La empresa, que ha sido distinguida por el Foro Económico Mundial como "Nuevo Campeón" entre las compañías de crecimiento global, también vuelve con el propósito de rescatar en lo posible su proyecto geopolítico. En su agenda de prioridades figura la creación de una red social que facilite los contactos de los empresarios que se dan cita en el evento con Valencia y que prolongue la relación en el tiempo creando un foro de amplias posibilidades interactivas.

La Copa del América atrae a importantes empresarios extranjeros, aunque en la anterior edición la Comunidad Valenciana desaprovechó ese potencial para abrirse nuevas oportunidades de negocio. La crisis ha alterado por completo la situación y ha extinguido el flujo inversor. También se ha debilitado la posibilidad de anclar en Valencia el acontecimiento deportivo, como pretendía Bertarelli, aunque la probabilidad de lograr una sede permanente de alguna prerregata, aprovechando las sinergias del Gran Premio de Fórmula 1, sigue siendo una expectativa interesante. Pero pese al oscurecimiento del panorama, ahora la necesidad de cambio y de nuevos horizontes para la economía valenciana es mayor. También es mayor la permeabilidad de la mayoría de los empresarios valencianos hacia propuestas que conduzcan hacia un nuevo modelo productivo.

Los empresarios suizos ya han establecido contacto con la Asociación Valenciana de Empresarios (AVE), el principal lobby de patronos de la Comunidad Valenciana. Como consecuencia de un encuentro celebrado en vísperas de Navidad, una delegación de empresarios ginebrinos visitará en breve Valencia con el objetivo de ahondar en la relación, intercambiar experiencias y estudiar proyectos conjuntos que apunten en esa dirección.

Una nueva oportunidad

La celebración de la Copa del América es también una confrontación tecnológica mundial. La más sofisticada tecnología se pone al servicio de los sindicatos en liza, tanto en el diseño como en los materiales y las comunicaciones. Detrás del Alinghi, del BMV-Oracle y del perímetro establecido por el acontecimiento en la dársena del puerto de Valencia hay un pedestal de alta tecnología sin el cual no se podría sustentar el evento. El éxito del Alinghi en 2007 fue el resultado de su estrecha colaboración con Wisekey y la Escuela Politécnica Federal de Lausana, que no sólo ha espoleado la investigación universitaria sino que ha involucrado en ese esfuerzo de I+D+i a unas 250 empresas suizas. Desde ese punto de vista, la 33ª edición de la Copa del América supone una nueva oportunidad para la Comunidad Valenciana. La apuesta de los empresarios de Ginebra por una ciudad que les "trae suerte" es pública y no es nueva. Sin embargo, necesita correspondencia. Valencia protagoniza un acontecimiento de alta visibilidad con un colosal despliegue tecnológico que supone una interesante tarjeta de presentación internacional en la materia. Su posición estratégica en el Mediterráneo, además, añade condiciones para intentar convertirse en un enclave tecnológico internacional. Sin embargo, faltó convicción oficial para aprovechar ese potencial en la pasada edición.



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