Technology Pioneers 2006 in Information Technology

Altiris Inc., USA I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Greg Butterfield, President and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Altiris, Inc. is a pioneer of IT lifecycle management software that allows IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service desktops, notebooks, thin clients, handhelds, industry-standard servers, and heterogeneous software including Windows, Linux and UNIX. Altiris automates and simplifies IT projects throughout the life of an asset to reduce the cost and complexity of management. Altiris client and mobile, server, security and IT asset management solutions natively integrate via a common Web-based console and repository.
Innovation: Altiris is a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of IT ownership. Altiris Asset Management Suite, launched in June 2004, helps an IT organization proactively address Sarbanes Oxley requirements by discovering and tracking inventory, and determining how it is being used and how much it costs. In today’s business environment, Altiris addresses a market need both from a regulatory and cost perspective. Through its products and services, Altiris helps companies lower the total cost of ownership and comply with Sarbanes Oxley regulations.

BitBand Technologies Ltd., Israel I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Ervin Leibovici, Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: A leading provider of video content distribution and delivery solutions over IP broadband networks for Telcos. BitBand offers cutting-edge solutions for streaming high quality video and audio content to a wide variety of TV audience over IP networks, with comprehensive content and server management tools that enable easy operation and administration of services. BitBand technology enables applications such as Video On Demand, TV broadcast, Audio On Demand and Radio recast.
Innovation: BitBand offers unique approaches to best suit IP networks environment. BitBand uniqueness is its total technology focus on IP networks (versus Cable or Satellite), its market focus on TELCO residential services

Fortinet Inc., USA I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Ken Xie, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Fortinet is the pioneer and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based Antivirus Firewall systems for real-time network protection.
Innovation: Around the turn of the millennium it became apparent that conventional network security solutions were inadequate for addressing modern network threats. Content-based viruses, worms and Trojans were causing major damage to company computing systems and networks, threatening the viability of open networks like the Internet as a critical tool for delivering information, entertainment and commerce. Recognizing the need for integrated, high-performance network and content security solutions to handle the increasingly sophisticated network threat environment, Fortinet launched its FortiGate product family to deliver a complete range of security technology at higher performance and dramatically lower costs than competitors.

Holografika Kft., Hungary I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Tibor Balogh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Holografika is a Hungarian venture active in the field of photonic technologies. The company developed a proprietary technology in 3D visualisation, including holographic 3D displays, software applications and 3D data compression solutions and holds several patents.
The company started selling its 26” and 32” HoloVizio™ 3D displays in 2004, and plans to offer larger-scale holographic projection systems from next year for professional CAD, first of all for automotive applications. The R&D activities partly funded by the EU focus on developing next generation 3D displays, inherent 3D applications, further a 3D camera system and a full software environment, which can serve as a basis for future 3D television.
Innovation: Following the major trends in the display technologies and television (B/W, Colour, HD) it is evident that the next step is the 3D. Despite improvements in the image quality, resolution, colour, contrast, etc., the view still looks artificial. The difference is the missing third dimension. Viewers should see a 3D image on the screen as they would see in the reality. When hanging on the wall, future displays should look like a real window, undistinguishable, except the technology working behind. Holografika developed this technology, and true 3D can be the most important development, a paradigm shift in the display technologies for the coming years.


Icera Inc., United Kingdom
Representative: Mr Stan Boland, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Icera is enabling the next generation of mobile phones and cellular wireless terminals. We are delivering the world’s first flexible wireless communications chips running entirely in software. Delivered as full wireless terminal platform designs, Icera’s semiconductor devices provide a complete solution for 3G-HSDPA and beyond to handset and datacard OEMs.
Innovation: Icera Inc. is pioneering wireless platforms for the next generation of mobile terminals. To enable this, Icera has developed a breakthrough baseband processor and advanced wireless modem technology, which exceed the requirements of handset equipment companies in delivering high performance, low power and cost-effective multimode wireless terminals.

Matrix Semiconductor, Inc., USA I Co-Founder Interview
Representative: Mr Michael Farmwald, Co-Founder
Company Profile: Matrix Semiconductor, Inc. has pioneered the design and development of three-dimensional (3-D) integrated circuits.
Innovation: This fundamental breakthrough in IC design enables a new class of low cost, high density, secure One-Time-Programmable (OTP), non-volatile memory products, designed to meet the unique requirements of high volume consumer electronic markets. Matrix® 3-D Memory sets new standards for low-cost, programmable memory chips and cards.

mobileATM Ltd., United Kingdom
Representative: Mr Steven Atkinson, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Company Profile: mobileATM™ is a mobile banking service provider.
Innovation: mobileATM™ provides consumers with a greater level of control over their finances, allowing them to securely access their card-based accounts via the mobile handset. Security is assured through the use of banking grade encryption technology on the handset. The handset acts as the personal item in the possession of the account holder and in order to access mobileATM™ services, the consumer is always required to enter a self selected passcode.

Navio Systems Inc., USA I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Stefan Roever, President and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Navio is a pioneering digital commerce, payment and fulfillment service. By enabling publishers to sell rights and not just files, Navio unleashes the power of digital commerce to deliver revenue, retention, and customer relationships via any consumer touchpoint, on the Web or mobile phone.
Innovation: Navio turns buyers into sellers. Navio's digital commerce solutions enable secure, authenticated transaction capabilities for online selling. Navio's service involves the creation and distribution of certified offers that enable a mediated transaction between two parties. Using any existing communications architecture to execute transactions -- email, instant messages, SMS, P2P, or Web sites -- Navio ensures the exchange of rights and eliminates transaction risks between buyer and seller.

Rosum Corporation, USA I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Howard (Skip) Speaks, Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Rosum provides seamless indoor/outdoor location technology that is rapid, available, and accurate. Rosum TV-GPS integrates signals from existing commercial TV towers with signals from GPS satellites to support positioning in all environments.
Innovation: Rosum is the only company to successfully use TV signals to provide mobile positioning capability. Rosum has developed a unique mobile positioning system that is particularly effective in urban and indoor areas, where traditional location systems often have difficulty maintaining reliability and accuracy. The system, Rosum Positioning Technology, uses broadcast television (TV) signals to position mobile users and provide accurate and dependable tracking. Rosum TV-GPS technology is a cost-effective wide-area location technology based on reliable infrastructure run by professional broadcast engineers and designed to work indoors. In contrast, other location technologies are not cost effective in wide area deployments (RFID, and GSM network location technology), are not based on reliable infrastructure (WiFi), or do not work indoors because they are based on satellite signals (GPS, A-GPS).

Silicon Optix Inc., USA I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Paul Russo, Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Company Profile: A fabless semiconductor company and a leading supplier of advanced video/image digital processing integrated circuits (ICs).
Innovation: The Company makes digital image processing chips that correct distortion in video displays by adjusting the scale and warp of projected images. The chips, which reduce the distance needed to project big-screen images and allow for flexible placement of projectors, are used in applications such as rear projection TVs, security cameras, and video conferencing systems.

Tao Group Ltd, United Kingdom I Chairman Interview
Representative: Mr Francis Charig, Co-Founder and Chairman
Company Profile: Tao Group has developed intent®: open multimedia middleware designed to power the current and future generations of mobile phones and other digital client devices.
Innovation: Tao has developed intent®, a functionally rich multimedia platform now used by many of the world's leading mobile networks, OEMs and ODMs in their digital client products for mobile and home networks. intent allows them to provide music, gaming and Java services enabled by Tao's industry-leading spot solutions, or they can deliver a single content and software infrastructure strategy across all of their platforms, irrespective of operating system, hardware and function. intent, with more than 10 million licensed sales to date, is now being used in products including mobile phones, PDAs, cameras, home servers and digital television.

Telmap Ltd., Israel
Representative: Mr Oren Nissim, Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Telmap is a leading technology and software provider of a wide range of innovative applications designed for the mobile mapping arena. The company prides itself as the creator of some of the most progressive Mapping, Navigation, Location Management and Telematics products available on the market.
Innovation: Telmap strives to be a leader in the design and development of the industry's most advanced mapping and navigation technology. The company translates these advanced technologies into value for the customers through professional solutions and services worldwide.

The Cloud Networks Limited, United Kingdom I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr George Polk, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: The Cloud offers sophisticated national wireless LAN coverage in nearly 6000 hotspot locations throughout the UK, Sweden and Germany. The Cloud is expanding this network at a rate of about 100 sites a week, and the overall plan in these three regions is to build approximately 25,000 sites. The Cloud is also planning to begin site deployment in France and Italy by the end of the year, and is in discussions in Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland as well. The Cloud’s infrastructure is a multi-service provider platform, which allows providers such as ISPS, mobile operators and cable companies to offer a fully branded wireless LAN experience to their customers. With The Cloud, site owners maximise their revenue potential by supporting all major service providers at their location and customers enjoy the best possible experience and maximum ease of use.
Innovation: For its “open” network, The Cloud provides “carrier-grade” (a novelty in the WLAN industry) network access on behalf of all services providers “invisibly” to the end user, so a customer of BT can access their full BT services over the Cloud’s network, having a BT branded user experience and for all intents and purposes seeing the network as a BT network.

Transmode Systems AB, Sweden I CTO Interview
Representative: Mr Magnus Oberg, Chief Technology Officer
Company Profile: Transmode researches, develops, markets and sells intelligent Optical Networking systems based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology for the transport of data, voice and video traffic within and beyond Metropolitan Networks. Our customers include telecommunications operators, cable/multiservice operators, internet service providers, utility companies, the financial sector, media companies, government and municipal bodies and educational establishments.
Innovation: Telecommunications has endured turbulent times during the industry downturn and the optical sector has faced some of the toughest challenges of all. Innovation has been a key factor in the rise of Transmode Systems amidst this backdrop of an industry experiencing unprecedented challenges. Intelligent Wave Division Multiplexing or iWDM is one such innovation that has revolutionised the use of WDM, enabling end customers to deploy and manage WDM solutions more quickly, more simply and for less cost, which ultimately has enabled Transmode to flourish in this difficult environment.

UPEK, Inc., USA I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Alan Kramer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: UPEK offers the full range of capabilities needed to deliver end-to-end biometric fingerprint authentication solutions, including silicon fingerprint sensors, biometric algorithms, companion processors, and client-server application software.
Innovation: The Company provides a variety of biometric authentication products including fingerprint sensors, biometric algorithms, and software. Customers use the company's products to secure access to notebooks, mobile devices (including personal digital assistants and handhelds), and desktop PCs, as well as managing physical access to doors, safes, and automobiles.

Varioptic SA, France
Representative: Mr Etienne Paillard, Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Varioptic pioneers the development of Electrowetting Technology for revolutionary Auto Focus lenses and Zooms with absolutely no moving parts. Our products feature several crucial advantages versus traditional technologies in terms of cost, dimensions, power consumption and speed.
Innovation: Our solution is a technological breakthrough for the next generation of mobile devices integrating miniature autofocus lenses. Some other targeted markets include endoscopy and ophthalmology, and automotive industry.

VOICE.TRUST AG, Germany I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Michael Kramer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: VOICE.TRUST enables secure user authentication via the voice as a valuable alternative to unreliable password mechanisms or technologically complex and costly authentication processes for password management. The easy-to-install VOICE.TRUST Server makes it possible for the user to authenticate himself via existing telephony hardware - secure, convenient and inexpensive.
Innovation: The VOICE.TRUST Server is the stable platform for all VOICE.TRUST authentication solutions. Because of its modular structure, the VOICE.TRUST Server can be modified and implemented easily and inexpensively. Standard interfaces and connectors provide quick integration into existing IT infrastructures. Graphic admin interfaces help keep running costs low. The VOICE.TRUST Server uses a recording of the user's voice - the so-called voiceprint - for highly reliable verification during subsequent business or access dialogs. In contrast to other authentication technologies, the VOICE.TRUST user needs only a normal telephone to be authenticated by the VOICE.TRUST Server.

VoiceObjects AG, Germany I CEO Interview
Representative: Mr Karl-Heinz Land, Chief Executive Officer
Company Profile: Works with Voice Application Management Systems (VAMS). The VoiceObjects product portfolio enables businesses to operate voice-driven telephony services with minimal risk, maximal flexibility, and the very highest level of efficiency.
Innovation: VoiceObjects Server is the only true voice application server that routinely processes millions of calls in live deployments. Just as web application servers simplify the use of Internet applications in enterprises, the voice application server empowers organizations to efficiently manage the complexities involved in operating voice applications. VoiceObjects Server is the central hub of a complete life cycle approach to the management of voice applications. It dynamically generates intelligent dialogs for each caller. This is the basis for the personalization of telephone services. With VoiceObjects, one and the same voice application can also be deployed in parallel in several languages without major effort and expense. Because VoiceObjects X5 is based on open standards, companies’ IT infrastructure investments are protected.

Voltage Security Inc., USA I Co-Founder Interview
Representative: Dr Guido Appenzeller, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Company Profile: Voltage Security delivers the leading enterprise privacy management platform for protecting all forms of digital business communication.
Innovation: Based on an award winning breakthrough in security and usability called Identity-Based Encryption (IBE), Voltage provides solutions for secure communication to leading financial services, healthcare, government and pharmaceutical companies.