Davide Pratone is a graduate of Physics at Turin University and joined Telecom Italia R&D in 1997. He contributed in the development and deployment of the ISDN Payphone Network designing its Payment Architecture. In 2001 he started to work on contactless card participating to the European research projects named SINCE (Secure and Interoperable Networking for Contactless in Europe). From 2002 he works on SIM card projects dealing with new services development, testing and validation. Recent projects deals with NFC and M2M. Actually he is responsible for the Telecom Italia IC Cards Lab. Moreover he id vice chairman of 3GPP CT6 and represents Telecom Italia in the ETSI SCP TEC.