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e-Smart® Technologies CEO to be Featured Speaker at Premier China Smart Card Conference

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2005 / PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT); ("e-Smart®" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Mary Grace, the company's President and CEO, has been invited to be a featured speaker at the 7th Smart Cards + Smart Label, China & Users' Conference 2005, which will be held April 19 - 21, 2005, in Beijing, China.

The Smart Cards + Smart Label, China & Users' Conference is the official and premier event on Smart Cards and Smart Label (RFID) in China with nearly three thousand delegates from 20 countries in attendance, making this China's largest conference and exhibition on Smart Cards and Smart Labels. This year's conference will highlight the increased interest in Smart Cards and Smart Labels from all industry sectors, including urban public transport, banking, telecom, social welfare, National ID and passport, tax-control and RFID/tag technology application for logistics.

Ms. Grace will have the pleasure of discussing e-Smart®'s revolutionary Biometric Verification Security System™ (BVS2™) featuring the Super Smart Card™. e-Smart®'s Super Smart Card™ is believed by experts to be the world's first and perhaps only commercially available ISO standard-based, interoperable, multi-application, biometric smart card with a full on-card biometric matching system and personal on-card biometric sensor. The card has both contact and wireless compatibility and the BVS2™ system is designed to provide complete protection to its holder against identity-based crimes as well as to protect society from the risk of misidentifying a person in a public situation where there exists risk of harm or fraud due to misidentification.

Furthermore, with more than 4,000 border check-points in China from land to airports and sea-ports there is great interest in extending the use of biometrics in passports. Ms. Grace is eager to address the conference about the company's Super Smart Passport™, which experts believe to be the first and perhaps only market-ready "e-passport" that authenticates its holder's identity via its own on-board fingerprint sensor and on-board biometric matching system, both powered wirelessly.

Jointly organized by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and China RFID Standard Working Group, the VIP attendants from China include the Ministry of Information Industry, Ministry of Railway and the General Custom Administration. International keynote speakers will come from India, Korea, China Hong Kong and Taiwan. The conference is endorsed by the China Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Construction, Department of Urban Construction, Article Numbering Center of China Organizers, China Nation Registration Center for IC Cards, China Urban Public Transport Association, Information Center of Ministry of Social Welfare & Security and the Smart Card Forum of China.

"It is a great honor," said Ms. Grace, "to have the opportunity to address experts from around the world and, specifically, here in China about our advanced biometric technology, including our Super Smart Card™ and Super Smart Passport™. For years now, e-Smart® has been a close and respected partner with Guo Xin Wll-tel Technology Co., Ltd., and EarthNewMedia Trading Corporation, which are owned by an agency of the Ministry of Information Industry, (MII) for the purpose of implementing the BVS2 system in China as a national ID and for use in the financial sector." "We, along with our partners in China, are so pleased to have the opportunity to share with government and private industry decision-makers from around the world the unlimited uses and applications of our extraordinary biometric technology."

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