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Leading suppliers of equipment, materials, components,

or services used in the manufacturing and personalization

of cards exhibited their latest and greatest products. The

exhibition offered suppliers a place to showcase new

and advanced technologies, products, and speak with

manufacturers face-to-face. As Jeff Barnhart, executive

director, ICMA, stated in his opening remarks, these

formal face-to-face meetings and informal discussions

have, over the years, helped to create mergers and acqui-

sitions as well as facilitate many business partnerships.

The EXPO kicked off with keynote speaker Jack Uldrich,

a leading futurist. Uldrich impressed the audience with his

knowledge of the card industry, crafting his presentation

so that attendees began to think about the future of their

businesses and about the future of the card industry

in a different way. Uldrich broke down the traditional

strategic thinking process so that the audience was able

to look at disruptive technologies and other factors in

a more decisive manner. The day continued with ICMA

Founder Emeritus and Industry Advisor, Al Vrancart,

presenting Global Card Market Trends and Forecasts:

The Next Five Years, an intuitive look ahead at the

trends in different market segments within the industry.

Barry Mosteller of CPI Card Group gave the first Pop Up

IICMA’s 2015 EXPO celebrated our 25th year as an association. Through the years, ICMA has brought

outstanding education and networking to the card manufacturing industry. The EXPO continued

this tradition and exemplified ICMA’s status within the industry. This year, attendees had the oppor-

tunity to use ICMA’s new event app which allowed real-time access with the click of a finger to the

agenda, speaker presentations, attendee list, exhibitor listings, speaker evaluations and live polling.

The live polling became an attendee favorite as it allowed for greater interaction with the presenter

and the rest of the audience. Also new this year were ICMA’s Pop Up Learning sessions. These new

presentations gave attendees a quick burst of education that were sprinkled throughout the agenda.

Topics ranged from industry-leading ideas to tips and tactics to help improve businesses.

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Learning session detailing the new personalization per-

formance metric standards that ICMA will have available

for members of ICMA.

Next, Karen Brooker of ABnote North America presented

What You Need-to-Know about Gift/Loyalty Promotion

Cards, and David Tushie, ICMA Standards Representative,

spoke on Future Card Products, which took a look

at new and upcoming products that will be used in

card manufacturing. Monday also saw presentations

from Anna Lopez of ICMA, speaking on The Impact of

Social Media and how it should fit into each attendee’s

business model, as well as Barry Mosteller speaking on

process control for card manufacturers. The sessions

ended with ICMA’s famed Speed Networking. Suppliers

and manufacturers were paired together for a five-

minute quick networking, making for fast and easy

business connections that are sure to lead to future

business partnerships. ICMA’s Block Party reception,

sponsored by VFP Ink, took place on the Golf Island

Green and featured great food, networking, and friendly

games of glow golf which proved to be very popular

among those that attended.

Tuesday began with a Pop Up Session presented by

Eitan Avni of SMARTRAC Technology Group speaking

on how access control has become a dynamic market

that continues to be a stronghold within the industry.

Keith Yeates, president of Bristol ID Technologies and

president of ICMA followed, educating attendees on

tactics to help motivate and retain employees. Prior

to lunch attendees were encouraged to participate

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in ICMA’s roundtable discussions. Another EXPO

favorite, participants choose from five pertinent

industry topics and engaged in lively discussions

that helped to facilitate interactive thinking. Check

out a future issue of Card Manufacturing for an

article on the Roundtable Roundup. The afternoon

allowed attendees to choose which track session

they wished to follow in ICMA’s popular Your Focus

sessions. Providing tracks on Personalization and

Fulfillment and Card Manufacturing, speakers

included Larry Brown of Pittsburgh Embossing Ser-

vices, Brian Summerhayes of Barnes Interna tional,

Tim Klabunde of Entrust Datacard, Eitan Avni of

SMARTRAC Technology Group, Adam Lowe of

CompoSecure, and Mitch DeYoung of SMARTRAC

Technology Group.

Tuesday ended with ICMA’s Élan Awards ceremony

and dinner. ICMA awarded member companies

for excellence in the card manufacturing industry.

Congratulations to all our winning entrees and

companies! For more on the winning and finalist

entries, see page 16. Also awarded were David

Tushie, ICMA Standards and Technical Representa-

tive for his continued outstanding support of ICMA,

Barry Mosteller of CPI Card Group for Outstanding

Member Support and Alan Scott and Michael

Swiecicki for their lifetime support of ICMA. Members

showed off their wild West attire during our Wild

Wild West Casino Night. Attendees sipped on themed

cocktails sponsored by Apollo Colours, and showed

off their betting skills while playing black jack,

craps and poker.

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The EXPO concluded with Jörg Fischer

of Bundesdruckerei, speaking about

new technologies and advances in

ID documents and the use of on-card

fingerprint technology. Tony McGee of

CPI Card Group followed and showcased

different tactics to help manufacturers

manage customer demands. Alan

Fontanella of NBS Technologies finished

the EXPO with an engaging session on

Transaction Growth & Customer Loyalty

through Mobile Application Development.

New business connections and partner-

ships were made while old ones were

solidified. On behalf of ICMA, we thank

you for your attendance, enthusiasm

and membership. We look forward to

seeing you next year as ICMA joins the

Smart Card Alliance (SCA) in present-

ing a co-located event that will bring

together twice as many exhibitors and

educational sessions, while still giving

attendees the same high quality net-

working they have come to expect from

the ICMA EXPO. The 2016 ICMA Card

Manufacturing and Personalization

EXPO and SCA Payments Summit will

take place April 4-7 at the Loews Royal

Pacific Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Will we see you there?

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ICMA ÉLAN AWARDS CAST SPOTLIGHT ON GLOBAL CARD INDUSTRY LEADERS FOR 18TH YEARICMA announced the winners of the Élan Awards of Excellence on Tuesday, March 31, 2015,

at the awards ceremony held during its 25th Annual Card Manufacturing and Personalization

EXPO at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Submissions were judged on the following criteria for cards: Graphical Design, Printing,

Complexity, Technology, Security (if applicable), Quality, Innovation, Uniqueness, Practical-

ity, and the Judge’s View.

2015 Judges: Thies Janczek, COCASO • Chuck Pilsy, Kurz Group • David Tushie, Magellan Consulting, Inc.

The 2015 finalists and winners are:

Secure Payment Cards:

Winner: CompoSecure, L.L.C. for Visa Corporate manufactured for Visa, Inc.

Finalist: CompoSecure, L.L.C./ Goldpac Secur-Card (Zhuhai) Ltd. for the League of Legends manufactured for China Merchant Bank

Finalist: CPI Card Group for the Arrival/Arrival Plus Campaign manufactured for Barclaycard US

Winner: Production Services Associates (PSA) for the Steak ‘n Shake Halloween Card manu-factured for Steak ‘n Shake

Finalist: Valid USA for the Starbucks Asami Kiyokawa manufactured for Starbucks

Finalist: Production Services Associates (PSA) for the Mills Fleet Farm’s Merry Christmas Lights on Wagon Wheel Card manufactured for First Data

Loyalty, Promotional, Gift Cards:

Winner: VTT GmbH for the VTT Fly-Eye Technology

Finalist: VTT GmbH for the VTT-Holophotic Technology

Finalist: H.W. Sands Corp. for the MSA4368-Reflective Silver UV Screen Ink

Best Supplier/Vendor New Product, Service or Innovation:

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Winner: ABnote for the Western Australia Driver’s License/ID manufactured for the Government of Western Australia

Finalist: ABnote for the DR Voter and NID/ Non Voter NID manufactured for the Grupo CSI/Junta Central Electoral República Dominicana

Finalist: Checkpoint Card Technology LLC for the Honduras Driver’s License manufactured for Blue Star

Winner: CompoSecure, L.L.C. for the Capital One Venture Card manufactured for Capital One

Finalist: Goldpac Secur-Card (Zhuhai) Ltd. for the Bank of Suzhou CUP Platinum Credit Card manufactured for the Bank of Suzhou

Finalist: Bristol ID Technologies for the Livings-ton Aquarium Business Card manufactured for Livingston Aquarium

Winner: Goldpac Secur-Card (Zhuhai) Ltd. for the 2015 China & City Series My Starbucks Re-wards Cards personalized for Starbucks (China) Company Limited

Finalist: HID Global for the Western African Examinations Council Electronic Student ID Card personalized for the West African Examinations Council

Finalist: Argo Card for the Argo Card—Matras Christmas Gift Pack personalized for Matras S.A.

Winner: Schreiner PrinTrust for the Ceska Debit Black Card, manufactured for Ceska Sporitelna (personalized by Austria Card)

Finalist: Valid USA for the Virgin Airlines Premium Card, manufactured for ADS/Virgin Airlines

Finalist: CompoSecure, L.L.C. for the Starbucks Keycard, manufactured for Starbucks

ID and Access Control Cards:

Unique Innovation:

Personalization & Fulfillment (P&F) Product, Service or Project:

People’s Choice (selected by ICMA EXPO delegates):