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Managing Director of e-Smart® Korea to Address the 6th Annual CardTech Conference in Seoul, Korea

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2006/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., (OTC: ESMT) ("e-Smart®" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Richard Kim, the Managing Director of e-Smart® Korea, will be a featured speaker at the 6th Annual CardTech Korea Conference on July 12-14th in Seoul, Korea.

The Korea CardTech Conference is the largest smart card and RFID international exhibition in Korea and the industry's leading trade show and conference representing the latest in security solutions, including smart cards, electronic payments, e-Government, RFID, contact/contactless cards, banking, IT security, retail, electronic payment and transportation applications.

Mr. Kim, e-Smart® Korea's Managing Director will speak about "Bio-technical security systems and the multifunction card," focusing on the multi-application use of the advanced biometric Super Smart Card™ and the Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)™. Other speakers include Rudolf Ohnesorge, Infineon Technology, Spencer Clark, Dynamic Card Solutions, Sung Hyun Kim, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Hiroshi Shimada, NICSS, Lyung Joo Lee, Cyclops Inc., Tae Hyun Lee, Hyundai Information Technology, Jim Dray, NIST (USA), Jae Suk Lee, Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea, and Jong Myun Lee of Samsung SDS, to name a few.

"It's an honor and a pleasure," said Mr. Kim, "to have the opportunity to share with so many of the world's leaders in smart card technology the unique multi-application security advantages of our Super Smart Card™ and Biometric Verification Security System™." The need for safe, efficient and effective security solutions continues to be a priority," said Mr. Kim, "and e-Smart® has the solutions to meet today's security needs."

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 high technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism. e-Smart®'s systems and products enable government agencies and commercial enterprises 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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