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e-Smart® Technologies Inc., President and CEO, Mary Grace addresses the first Asia IC Card Forum

TUESDAY, June 9, 2004 - LAS VEGAS, June 8, 2004 — e-Smart® Technologies, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: ESMT) (“e-Smart®” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that on June 10, 2004, Mary Grace, President and CEO of e-Smart® Technologies, Inc, will be a keynote speaker at the Inaugural General Meeting of the First Conference of Asia IC Card Forum in Seoul, Korea -‘One Card - One Asia, on the Silk Road’.

The IC Card Forum will bring together more than 300 scholars and IC Card experts from Korea, China, Japan and Singapore, and from around the world as a first step in considering the technical standards and policy issues involved in establishing the one IC card for the three nations.

e-Smart® is the exclusive supplier for Asia and the USA of the Biometric Verification Security System™ (“BVS2”)™ interoperable, secure platform, featuring the Super Smart Card ™, believed by e-Smart® to be the world’s only commercially available smart card with an on-card fingerprint sensor and a full on-card system for biometric ID verification that has both ISO 7816 contact and ISO 1443(B) wireless compatibility.

The subject of Ms. Grace’s speech will be ‘Toward a More Secure IT World” and in addition to discussing the company’s advanced Biometric Verification Security System, as the solution for a more secure world, Grace will provide detailed information about the company’s recently announced Super Smart Passport, ™ which is believed to be the world’s first 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.

“It’s an honor,” says Grace, “to be chosen as the only speaker from a US company to address the IT leaders from Korea, China, Japan, Singapore and all of Asia and the world at this important IC card conference. For the sake of all nations, for the sake of global stability, all of us at the conference, as IT innovators, Government Leaders and Professionals, have the unprecedented duty and obligation to insist upon the creation and implementation of a global, interoperable, secure, operating platform that allows our many and diverse technologies to work together to protect all people and secure all countries.”

About e-Smart®
e-Smart® Technologies seeks to be the leading provider of high technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism. e-Smart® products such as the BVS2 ™ (Biometric Verification Security System ™ or the BV-HDS ™ (Biometric Verification Homeland Defense System) ™ interoperable secure platforms, working with the Super Smart Card ™ subsystem and now, the Super Smart Passport ™ subsystem enable government agencies and commercial enterprises to continuously verify, certify and manage identification and access of citizens, personnel, customers and any other persons seeking physical or logical access. e-Smart® Technologies offers what it believes to be the highest form of identity based and credential based security available with no profiling or erosion of civil rights.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Statements in this news release that relate to future plans, financial results or projections, events or performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. While these statements are made to convey to the public the Company’s progress, business opportunities and growth prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent the management’s opinion. While management believes such representations to be true and accurate based on information available to the Company at this time, actual results may differ materially from those described.

For more information about e-Smart® Technologies, please contact e-Smart® Media Relations at 703-768-7477 or mediarelations@e-Smart®technologies.com.

About e-Smart® Technologies, Inc.
e-Smart® Technologies seeks to be a leading provider of high technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism. e-Smart® products such as the BVS2™ (Biometric Verification Security System™) or the BV-HDS™ (Biometric Verification Homeland Defense System™) working with the Super Smart Card™ subsystem and now, the Super Smart Passport™ subsystem enable government agencies and commercial enterprises to continuously verify, certify and manage identification and access of citizens, personnel, customers and any other persons seeking physical or logical access. e-Smart® Technologies offers what it believes to be the highest form of identity based and credential based security available with no profiling or erosion of civil rights. For more information on e-Smart® Technologies, please visit http://www.e-Smart®technologies.com/ .

Safe Harbor Statement:
Statements in this news release that relate to future plans, financial results or projections, events or performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. While these statements are made to convey to the public the Company's progress, business opportunities and growth prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent the management's opinion. While management believes such representations to be true and accurate based on information available to the Company at this time, actual results may differ materially from those described.