Calinel is recognised by his peers for his exceptional contribution to the Java Card Forum’s work

To celebrate the work of Bertrand du Castel (one of the Founder members of the JCF who sadly passed away in February 2019), the Java Card Forum (JCF) has worked with his family to initiate an Annual Award in his memory: The “Bertrand”. The JCF has been keen to showcase the “Bertrand Award” as a visible recognition of the continued drive and dedication still shown by its Members, over 25 years since its inception.

Each year the Business and Technical Committee Chairs nominate up to four Members who have made a significant contribution to the Forum and voting is then open to each individual JCF participant. This year’s nominees were:
Calinel Pasteanu (Oracle)
Nicolas Regnault (Thales)

Although Calinel could not be present at the Award ceremony held during the JCF Autumn Plenary in person, he participated via TEAMS and could be congratulated by his peers.

“Calinel is a well-deserved winner,” said Jean-Daniel Aussel, President of the Java Card Forum e.V. “In his position at Oracle, he gave unwavering support to the JCF. His long standing active participation in the steering and advancement of the Forum’s activities was instrumental in shaping and making a success of the successive Java Card releases.”

“The Java Card Forum has been designing the most advanced APIs to match up to date security requirements for billions of devices. Java Card technology has been and remains, the first choice for mass deployments in several markets, e.g. ID, Payment, Telco, and several IoT industrial profiles and fulfilling security requirements defined by different security schemes at different security levels (CC, FIPS, EMVCo, SESIP, etc.),” declared Calinel. “I am honoured to have been nominated for and to have received this Java Card Forum award. And I recommend joining the Java Card Forum to be part of designing the future – Java Card technology is getting more and more relevant as time goes on, due to the increasing importance of security requirements and the technology relevance reflected in setting standards organizations.”

Congratulations to both of the selected nominees and, in particular, Calinel for his win.