The AFSCM (Association for Mobile Contactless in France) is a non-profit association established in April 2008 by three MNOs: Bouygues Telecom, Orange France, and SFR. AFSCM mission is to facilitate the technical development of mobile NFC applications and to promote their benefits for end users and service providers. AFSCM members comprise MNOs, service providers and technology vendors. The AFSCM has published a complete set of specifications, labeled Cityzi specifications, to facilitate the quick launch of mobile contactless services and to enable the development of interoperable mobile contactless products and services. To define a mutually beneficial mobile contactless ecosystem, AFSCM proposes a comprehensive marketing toolset comprised of a shared brand and logo, a target mark and a menu icon. The Cityzi marketing toolset will enable Cityzi mobile users to recognize immediately any location, equipment or NFC tag that belong to the Cityzi ecosystem and that are compatible with their Cityzi handsets.

Sagem Wireless provides customised connected lifestyle devices and services to leading consumer lifestyle brands and mobile network operators worldwide. Using technology innovation and customer insight as strategic tools in the product design process, Sagem Wireless develops a range of connected lifestyle devices personalised to the specific needs of different customer segments. With industry leading technology partners and its own R&D centres based in Europe and Asia, Sagem Wireless offers pre-requisite manufacturing expertise intrinsic to the product design process that relies on both flexibility and the highest level of quality to assure successful entry into new and existing markets.

Gemalto is the leader in digital security with 2008 annual revenues of over €1.6 billion, more than 85 offices in 40 countries and about 10,000 employees including 1,300 R&D engineers. In a world where the digital revolution is increasingly transforming our lives, Gemalto’s solutions are designed to make personal digital interactions more convenient, secure and enjoyable. Gemalto provides end-to-end digital security solutions, from the development of software applications through design and production of secure personal devices such as smart cards, SIMs, e-passports, and tokens to the deployment of managed services for its customers. More than a billion people worldwide use the company's products and services for telecommunications, financial services, e-government, identity management, multimedia content, digital rights management, IT security, mass transit and many other applications.

Sony Corporation is one of the founder companies of the NFC Forum and continues to contribute as a Sponsor Member since its founding. Sony has shipped over 400M contactless chips in Japan and Asia Pacific region, which includes mobile phone (60M), PC (8M) and DTV (launched in April, 2009). In the WIMA exhibition, Sony will present healthcare/wellness use case as one of the emerging CE application for the NFC industry.

Founded in 2001, Over-C is the leading provider of hosted Near Field Communication software applications focused on the management of tag events, from tag scan through the back office. Over-C's hosted solutions help companies get the right data to the right person at the right time. Over-C is at the forefront of development of both the technological and business potential of NFC, and is committed to the provision of innovation, quality and technology-based experience to all its customers. With clients in a broad range of industries, Over-C consistently monitors around one million NFC activities each month.

Innovision R&T delivers market leading, innovative ICs for wireless connectivity solutions. Our primary focus is on short-range data communication from one device to another, passive and/or active, with a special emphasis on Near Field Communications (NFC) and RFID solutions. As a leading fabless custom RF IC design and systems provider we offer a complete engineering capability to our clients, including research engineering, custom IC design and production, and system design engineering. Topaz®, by Innovision R&T, is mandated by the NFC Forum as the Type 1 NFC tag format. To be used for the NFC Forum Member Roster web site feature IRT to be listed in the following categories: Consumer Electronics, Mobile Handsets, Semiconductors, Smartcard/RFID, Computing and computer peripherals, Terminals and other devices, Service provider: Research engineering, Service provider: Custom IC design & production

OYTEK is providing innovative, creative, and high added value products, services, solutions. OYTEK serves both the public and private sectors as a systems integrator. The company supplies the market with card technologies and services, communications center infrastructure and technologies, turnkey delivery custom-designed projects, e-business and e-learning, ERP, CRM as well as software, hardware, and network-related products, services, and solutions. Demo at WIMA OYTEK NFC solutions can be considered as an R&D Project, supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). Supported applications of OYTEK NFC solutions are: Retail (Mobile Cart), Entertainment (Smart Poster), NFC Access Control, NFC Kiosk, NFC Payment (Mobile Purse).OYTEK is an NFC Application Developer in NFC Ecosystem.

The NFC Forum, http://www.nfc-forum.org, was launched as a non-profit industry association in 2004 by leading mobile communications, semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. The Forum’s mission is to advance the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services and educating the market about NFC technology. The Forum’s 140 global member companies currently are developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery and device capability. The NFC Forum’s Sponsor members, which hold seats on the Board of Directors, include leading players in key industries around the world. The Sponsor members are: Innovision Research & Technology plc, INSIDE Contactless, MasterCard Worldwide, Microsoft Corp., NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Inc., NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, Renesas Technology, Samsung, Sony Corporation, STMicroelectronics and Visa Inc. The NFC Forum is proud to sponsor the 2010 Global Competition. Near Field Communication is proving to be an exciting and intuitive consumer technology with multiple applications. Products and services presented at WIMA showcase only a fraction of the variety and innovative uses NFC enables.

Micropross Tools (Spy, Testers & Emulators) allow the user to characterize his NFC product either on the analogic or protocol side. Whatever he needs to test: the Clf, the secure element (ISO 7816, USB, SWP) or contactless technology (ISO 14443, RFID, NFC). Some reference in NFC world: St Micro, NXP, Inside.

M2t is an editor and a leading actor in Morocco & Senegal, serving 600 000 customers per month, managing & processing over 48 million secured transactions per year in a network of over 1 100 franchised service points. M2t designed, developed & operates GETI®, a multi channel, high security electronic transaction processing solution. GETImob®, is a high security, NFC enabled, M-Banking /M-Payment solution, which ensures the processing of highly secured electronic transactions from and to mobile phones

COMPRION supplies devices for the testing of Smart Cards, Smart Card interfaces and terminals for both the contact based and contactless world. We work in very close collaboration with standardisation bodies (e.g. NFC Forum) and key players in the market. Our active contribution enables us to implement the latest technologies and standards in our products. Among COMPRION’s customers are terminal and Smart Card manufacturers, chipset vendors, network operators and test laboratories.

Clear2Pay is an innovative financial technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely electronic payments. The company operates from 14 international offices and currently employs over 450 staff. Integri is the Clear2Pay product brand for test tools and expertise covering payment, ticketing and mobile applications.

FIME is a worldwide supplier of test solutions in the domain of smartcards, RFID and NFC. Providing an overall and integrated service consisting of consulting, laboratory testing, test tools and innovation through outsourced R&D, FIME holds a strong position as a real business accelerator. FIME provides its leading abilities in the contactless world with branches in France, Canada Taiwan and India. FIME offers you a solution adapted to your local needs.

SOLIATIS provides test tools for card and terminal in contact and contactless technologies NFC, ICAO, ISO 14443, PayPass, ISO 7816, etc.). SOLIATIS LAB, accredited ISO 17025, is the laboratory activity enabling debug sessions as well as Conformity Reports on these technologies.

Forum Virium Helsinki
TagAge by Hansaprint
MSG Software
City of Oulu
Oulu Innovation Ltd
University of Oulu of Applied Sciences
UPM RAFLATAC
VTT

Cassis International
Extelia
GFI
SCS CLUSTER “Secured Communicating Solutions”

Connecthings
Monetech
Novabase
VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT RECHERCHE & INNOVATION

BUZY.BE
HEALTHY SWEET MARKETING
NFC Vision
TAZTAG
think&go NFC

The 10 finalists in the Commercial Track are:
- Adamsoft d.o.o. (Slovenia)
- BCNTouch (Spain)
- Clear2Pay (Belgium)
- ITN International, Inc. (USA)
- Mautilus (Czech Republic)
- MoLo Rewards (USA)
- Objecs LLC (USA)
- NEXPERTS (Austria)
- NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (Japan)
- VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland)

The 10 finalists in the Research Track are:
- Artesis University College Antwerp (Belgium)
- Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (Germany)
- Interactive Research & Development (Pakistan)
- LaBRI, University of Bordeaux I (France)
- Lancaster University (UK)
- NTTPC Communications, Inc. (Japan)
- Technische Universität München, Chair for Information Systems (Germany)
- Technische Universität München, Chair for Information Systems (Germany)
- Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Club de Innovacion (Spain)
- Universite Joseph Fourier -- Polytech'Grenoble (France)