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e-Smart® Technologies CEO Keynote Speaker at Cairo Card-Ex Conference

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., (OTC: ESMT ) ("e-Smart®" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Mary Grace, the Company's President and CEO, will deliver a keynote address at the 4th Middle East & Africa Card Technology Exhibition and Conference on May 6th in Cairo, Egypt.

The Card-Ex 2006 Conference is the leading smart card event in Egypt, focusing on the latest developments in Banking and Smart Card applications and providing the perfect venue for exploring potential opportunities in the Middle East and Africa in Smart Card security, ID Solutions and e-Government systems with a global audience of high-level decision-makers in Smart Card technology.

The conference will be opened by Egypt's Minister of Information Technology and Communication and the Minister of Administrative Development, followed by the keynote speakers, Ms. Grace and Mr. Olivier Piou the Chairman of Eurosmart and president of Axalto.

As a keynote speaker, Ms. Grace will address the advances in biometric security for e-Government and e-Banking, highlighting the secure identification verification made possible by the Company's Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)™ platform and the Super Smart Card™, the world's first commercially available ISO compatible, contact and wireless, secure, interoperable multi-application biometric smart card with fingerprint sensor & fingerprint matching system completely on card.

Participants in the Card-Ex Conference include a diverse gathering of industry leaders from Axalto, Gemplus, Infineon Technologies, Corestreet and Visa International (Egypt), Omnikey, Setec, and Aspects Software.

"The Middle East and Africa," said Mary Grace, "is an ever-expanding market in this advanced technology and I'm honored to have been invited to provide one of the keynote speeches. Every nation in the world today understands the necessity of protecting its citizens and financial and government institutions and is moving to biometric solutions. I'm happy to have the opportunity to share with all in the Middle East and Africa the extraordinary advantages of e-Smart®'s Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)™ and our Super Smart Card™."

e-Smart® is the exclusive licensee in the US and Asia of the Super Smart Card™, the Super Smart Passport™ and the Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)™. The Company seeks to be the leading provider of advanced technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism. e-Smart®'s systems and products offer to government agencies and commercial enterprises the ability to continuously and securely verify the identity of citizens, personnel, customers and any other persons seeking physical or logical access. e-Smart® Technologies offers what experts believe to be the highest form of identity-based and credential-based security with no profiling or erosion of civil rights.

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