Cardex 2009, the 8th Digital Identity Assurance conference and expo for Middle East and Africa, focuses on smart cards alongside biometrics, rfid, information security and efinance banking technology for a more comprehensive event for identity security solutions and technologies. The regional focus is key to building networking success.

Cardex 2003, was the first and leading event for digital identity and assurance in Middle East. It was previously held under the support of Egyptian Ministry of Communications & Information technology and Ministry of State for Administrative Development. This year, the event is also held in Cairo, Egypt.

In the last event, May 2008 the event attracted over 65 exhibitors from over 26 countries. International and local exhibitors presented products and services to over 2900 visitors from the business sectors of loyalty & retail, government, banking & finance, information & telecommunication, border control.

Total number of trade visitors : 2,977
Total number of exhibitors : 115
Total number of exhibition space : 4,924.00 sqm
Total number of participating countries : 21
Conference tracks : 2
Delegates : 227
Official delegations : 11
Countries represented (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco Kuwait, Lebanon, Yemen, Senegal )
Total number of sponsors : 10
Total number of represented companies : 182
Total number of multinational companies : 31

List of past exhibitors

At the conference, over 300 delegates and 42 international speakers covered topics relating to smart cards and biometrics technologies. As the Arab region is becoming a major growth engine for this industry, key issues of institutional building, training and education, regional cooperation and standards setting were tackled in the forum.

Past event conference topics

Awards were also presented to "Individual Leaders", "Outstanding Achievers", and "Outstanding Suppliers", in recognition of efforts in digital assurance, smart cards and biometrics industries.

Past event awards received