MobiSecNFC is sponsored by the IEEE Gainesville Florida IEEE Section. It is also under consideration for sponsorship by IFIP. 

The goal of the "Workshop on Mobile Applications Secure Elements and Near Field Communication" is to explore the challenges, issues and opportunities both for academic researchers and industrial innovators. We are looking both for research papers on new applications and presentations of deployment experiments or new business opportunities. NFC technology enables communication in close proximity within a few centimeters. Today, one million NFC smartphones are sold every week. With NFC mobiles surfacing the market so quickly, mobile operating systems are prepared for support with dedicated frameworks. This offers researchers and developers a great opportunity for getting quick traction with novel applications. So far, the main NFC-enabled services deal with payment, access control, or ticketing. Commercial applications today mainly target contactless payments, i.e. eWallets or eTickets managed by transportation companies. The broad availability of NFC-technology fertilizes research and development of novel applications and can go well beyond these intended applications. This workshop aims to bring researchers and industrial experts together to discuss the latest frontiers of NFC-technology and also novel applications that have not been thought of beforehand.