Dependable Connectivity Alliance Announces New Chair and Expanded Board

The Trustworthy Connectivity Alliance (TCA) – a international, non-profit sector association that brings with each other SIM ecosystem members to get the job done in the direction of enabling a safe related long term – has introduced the election of Claus Dietze as chair. Dietze succeeds Remy Cricco who actions absent next a productive 3-12 months tenure in the function.

The TCA has also announced the growth of its board, increasing the selection of obtainable board seats from 5 to 7. The TCA board is dependable for defining the organization’s concentrate and strategic route and will be made up of the pursuing members for 2020-21:

• Chair: Claus Dietze – senior director world standardization, Giesecke+Devrient Cell Security
• Jean-Philippe Betoin – director, strategic marketing IoT system, Arm
• Benoît Collier – vice-president of cellular operator item line and MVNO IoT, IDEMIA
• Cyril Caillaud – head of eSIM, products administration and advertising and marketing, NXP Semiconductors
• Michele Scarlatella – strategy technology and methods architecture, STMicroelectronics
• Stephane Quetglas – director of internet marketing for embedded goods, Thales
• Bertrand Moussel – R&D director, smartcard & platforms, Valid

Commenting on his appointment, Dietze claimed: “I seem forward to operating with my board colleagues, broader membership and association associates in our shared intention to empower a protected, connected upcoming.

“As we search toward the opportunities and problems that lie in advance in an progressively linked future, the capability of SIM technology to supply trusted connectivity and dynamic security is extending its applicability across new sectors.”

On the lookout forward at the upcoming 12 months, the TCA board has recognized the following actions as important roadmap priorities:

• Ensuring eSIM interoperability
• Expanding eSIM advantages to far more IoT use-cases
• Leveraging SIM technology for IoT security, which includes ongoing collaboration with GSMA on IoT Harmless
• Addressing fragmentation across built-in SIM technologies
• Evolving and optimizing 5G SIM technology to enrich 5G network solutions and increase investments, though advertising and marketing and preserving cellular subscriber privacy

Dietze concluded: “On behalf of the membership, I would also like to thank Remy Cricco for his valued contribution more than the earlier three yrs. Under his leadership, our corporation underwent a considerable transformation which strongly positions it to guidance the foreseeable future improvement of the SIM industry.”