So the first day of this year's EVOTE2010 conference, the 4th International Conference on Electronic Voting in Bregenz is over and the official paper presentations and discussions started.

Yesterday evening the pre-conference program started with the POLYAS Welcome Cocktail at which our participants immediately started networking and exchanging ideas as well discussed recent trends. The opening speech of Kai Reinhard, CEO of Micromata, was the shortest opening speech of a sponsor I experienced at a conference so far.

Before the evening event, the Council of Europe invited to a small workshop on e-enabled elections, transparency and certification of such elections.
There, several experts discussed the drafts of guidelines for a general overview, transparency issues and certification of e-enabled elections.

Pictures and impressions are available on facebook and later here on our website.