NY Forum leaders are briefed on multifold project portfolio across the country
New York, Geneva and São Paulo, 29 June 2010 - WISeKey, a world leader in cloud computing, digital identification and E-security has put in motion its deployment plan in Brazil. It aims at partnering up with local companies and governments in the establishment of transactional platforms and innovative products.
Chairman and Global CEO Carlos Moreira briefed an audience of 500 business leaders on its Brazil action plan during the New York Forum gathered at the Hyatt Hotel this week. Attendees included Telmex´s owner Carlos Slim, Nobel prize laureate Edmund Phelps, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberg and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
WISekey has initiated negotiations to put together a technological hub in Southern Brazil centered at Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul. The hub will extend tech tools and innovation-bound platforms to Mercosur countries and the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Paraná. WISekey champions similar platforms in Spain as of hubs to be deployed in Malaga and Valencia.
Governor Yeda Crusius of Rio Grande do Sul welcomed the company's initiative at a recent meeting with WISeKey´s Brazil CEO Marcos Troyjo. She highlighted that "Rio Grande do Sul is ready to partner with this knowledge-intensive front that certainly potentializes our State's competitive edge in tech-based companies".
An additional hub project in Brazil is to be engineered focusing Rio de Janeiro and the heavy investment calendar towards the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
WISekey officials are to meet Governor Sergio Cabral in early July and lay out plans for the Rio hub, which will benefit from WISeKey´s technologies such as the Citizen's Key. This USB biometric Key with digital identification, to be made available to all Rio´s citizens, allows for user-friendly and totally secure online transactions such as Government services, banks, citizen protection, social networks, cultural life, events and public transportation.
Apart from its citizen-oriented applications, the future hubs intend to match physical infrastructures such as ports and airports with a dynamic network provided by high-tech resources, academia and an on-site ambiance designed to drive innovation forward. This is particularly promising in Rio de Janeiro, home to most of Brazil´s telecom operators and creative industry firms.
WISeKey is designing an innovative key to allow for the establishment of a pilot cloud community of students under the auspices of CIEE (Brazil´s Center for the Integration of Companies and Schools), Latin America's largest not-for profit institution. The community will be accessed through a biometric key that reveals a multitude of education and training applications, including interactive information on the company's history and corporate goals, as well as the student's performance under training.
Some of these applications, such as intelligent E-cards, are to be offered as a result of alliances WISeKey has forged with leading Brazilian tech players such as Datacom, Khronus and Nexcard, as well as local subsidiaries of global software giants like Microsoft.
WISeKey´s Brazil operations have been established in association with Brasilinvest, Brazil's foremost merchant bank, led by global entrepreneur Mario Garnero.
WISeKey has additionally announced that it is to co-host a conference on venture capital channels for tech start-ups in partnership with YouNoodle in São Paulo late October. This is to prove an important step prior to the First Venture Capital Conference of the Americas to be held in Miami late November 2010.