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# **Featured Content**




![](https://www.securetechalliance.org/wp-content/resources/photos/2012/vanderhoof_150w.jpg)

**Dear Members and Friends of the Alliance,**

[![](https://www.securetechalliance.org/newsletter/0713/0713_thumb.jpg)](https://www.securetechalliance.org/newsletter-201307)The graduation parties, 4th of July fireworks and other festivities are over and my email inbox is filled with “Out of Office Message – On Vacation” notices. Summer is typically when we step back from our computers and smart phones and remember that we are supposed to work to live, not live to work.  Yet, I can’t seem to get myself into vacation mode when there is so much happening around the smart card industry that draws me in.

Developments within the EMV Migration Forum and a busy fall focused around the 2013 Smart Card Alliance Government Conference  has made those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer just a memory of my younger self. But I love being busy, and so I find myself energized. Please read my letter to learn about all the activities surrounding the industry. And thank you for your support of the Smart Card Alliance.

Sincerely,

Randy Vanderhoof

Executive Director, Smart Card Alliance

Director, EMV Migration Forum

[View the July edition of Smart Card Talk.](https://www.securetechalliance.org/newsletter-201307)

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