Programme

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Day One: Monday 10 March 2008
08:30   Registration and coffee
09:00 Alastair Gilchrist Director of Parking WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL Opening remarks from the Chair
EXPLORING THE EMERGING PAYMENTS SOCIETY
09:10

Chris Skinner
Chief Executive
BALATRO LTD

Why cash is stupid

  • Why cash is irrelevant in the twenty-first century
  • Why people won’t let go of it
  • How to create a cashless society
  • The rise of the invisible payments world

09:45

Dr Michael Salmony Member
EUROPEAN PAYMENTS COUNCIL

The European banks' view of payment-based value-added services

  • Status and plans of EPC e- and m-payments
  • Further value-added services based on SEPA payments
  • The perspective of banks and the European Commission on payment-based innovations

10:20

Stuart Butler
Head of Business Development and Sales
ALTAIR FINANCIAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL PLC

Convergence of the mobile telecom and prepaid card industries

  • Why telecommunication companies are well positioned to exploit the prepaid debit/stored value opportunity
  • Why consumers adopt mobile payment systems
  • How consumers, telecom companies and prepaid card suppliers can benefit
  • Proximity pay, RFID, contactless mobile and the convergence of technologies

10:55   Morning refreshments
11:25

Chris Reddish
Group Head
PrePaid Europe MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE

Reviewing the constantly changing prepaid card industry

  • Clarifying the market opportunities
  • Determining the different business models available
  • Exploring the new regulatory issues that have arisen
  • Highlighting some success stories

12:00

Dietmar Wiedemann Project Manager SEMOPS

Detailing the European e- and m-payment markets

  • An overview of the mobile payment procedure SEMOPS
  • Analysing the e- and m-payment markets within the member states
  • Identifying different payment service providers and their offers to get a holistic view on the European market
  • Providing an index to assess the mobile payment maturity in each member state

12:35

Liisa Kanniainen
Executive Director MOBEYFORUM

Exploring the mobile financial services ecosystem

  • The key challenges for successful MFS developments
  • The evolvement of different revenue streams
  • Directions for standards within the ecosystem business model
  • Evaluating alternative directions for the future success of MFS
13:10   Lunch
14:15

John Strand
CEO
STRAND CONSULT

The fight against micro-payments: the winner takes it all

  • Different perspectives from industry players
  • Price vs number of transactions
  • Volume is king: who is King Kong?
14:50

Dr Key Pousttchi
Head of Mobile Commerce Working Group
UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG

How technology influences consumer uptake of mobile payments

  • Outlining the various realisation technologies for m-payments in different payment scenarios
  • Evaluating how the technology can determine m-payment usage
  • Presenting the results of the MP4 consumer usability study on
    m-payments
  • Exploring the possible impact on the industry

NAVIGATING THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT

15:25

Dermot Turing
Partner
CLIFFORD CHANCE LLP

Ensuring the new payment services legislation is no surprise

  • Understanding the danger areas in new payments-related legislation
  • Coping with the legal and regulatory environment in establishing a non-cash payment channel
  • Handling the international issues
  • Addressing the risk factors
16:00     Afternoon refreshments
16:30

Dominic Peachey
Policy Advisor
FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY

The financial regulator's approach to new payments channels

  • The UK approach to financial regulation
  • The FSA: a new regulator for the new millennium
  • Staying ahead of the game: the challenge of balancing high regulatory standards with facilitating innovation, competition and business efficiency
17:05

Wiebe Ruttenberg Head of Market Infrastructure Division EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

The ECB's views on SEPA and its impact on payment innovation

  • The creation of a Single Euro Payments Area and the first experiences
  • The impact of SEPA on payment innovation
  • Views from the ECB to ensure a continued success of SEPA
17:40 Jay Chinnadorai
Managing Director SUMTOTAL

A global perspective: lessons learnt from Japan and Asia

  • Reviewing the history of contactless solutions in Japan and Asia
  • Lessons learnt and data from Japan: differences in customer behaviour between card and mobile based contactless solutions
  • A vision of the future for contactless:
  • Multi-application (eg. Ticketing, eCash, Loyalty, ID etc)
  • Multi-device (Card, Mobile Phone, PC, TV, Games etc)
  • A customer centric view of the contactless ecosystem
  • The future of contactless and key success factors for making it happen
18:15   Closing remarks from the Chair
18:25   End of day one

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DAY TWO: Tuesday 11 March
08:30   Registration and coffee
09:00

 

Opening remarks from the Chair
EMERGING NEW PAYMENT CHANNELS AND THEIR POTENTIAL IN THE MARKETPLACE
09:10

Mung Ki Woo
Group Strategic Marketing - Advanced Products and Services
Vice-President Payment and Contactless
ORANGE

Mobile contactless: an evolution or a revolution for payment?

  • Why mobile contactless is much more than the contactless card
  • Why it is a major business opportunity for banks
  • How mobile operators and banks can collaborate to deliver this promise
  • Concrete examples of service deployments by Orange
09:45

Alastair Gilchrist
Director of Parking WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL

How much does £25m in mixed coinage weigh? A council case study into elimination of cash

  • What's wrong with cash, why take an alternative, what options were looked at and where we are now
  • Issues with moving to alternative payment mechanisms and how some have been overcome
  • Benefits of using new channels and what this means for the future
10:20

Julian Niblett
Head of Cash and MI
Retail Operations
BOOTS

Case study: Boots’ approach to the new payment trends

  • Is cash dead?
  • Contactless: speed vs cost
  • What is needed for contactless to be widely adopted
10:55   Morning refreshments
11:15

Omar Rifaat
New Channels
Innovation and Acceptance
VISA EUROPE

The Visa payWave London Launch

  • Visa payWave: what is it?
  • Learnings so far from the London Launch
  • Other launches in Europe
  • Mobile payments: the next wave
11:50

Gerhard Romen
Director of NFC
Market Development

Mobile: the phone as a credit/debit card, the consumer’s ticket and more

  • User interaction
  • Acceptance and usability
  • Experience and learnings from real commercial projects using NFC devices
12:25

David Birch
Director
CONSULT HYPERION

Experiences with NFC

  • Case studies regarding the implementation of new payment services
  • Exploring the lessons learned
  • Analysing what this means for the retail e-payments world
13:00   Lunch
14:00

Mary-Carol Harris
Head of NFC Programme
O2 UK

Payments in mobile

  • Successfully introducing mobile payments
  • Overcoming the challenges
  • Maximising the opportunities for the future
14:35

Jean-Marc Meslin
Head of Innovation and Business Development
OBERTHUR TECHNOLOGIES

At the crossroads of contactless technology

  • Meeting the challenges of increased speed in contactless transactions
  • Maintaining the highest level of security required by EMV standards
  • Outlining the future opportunities and threats facing the contactless technology landscape

15:10

Michel Barjansky
Head of Business Development
RATP

Introducing mobile ticketing in transport to facilitate distribution for the user
  • Assessing the different ways in which mobile ticketing can be implemented
  • Combining contactless, NFC and m-payments in a single handset
  • Examining the possibilities of a revolutionised ticketing system
15:45   Afternoon refreshments

ADDRESSING CRUCIAL SECURITY ISSUES TO PROTECT THE END USER

16:05 Graham McKay Executive Director ATMIA EUROPE AND GASA

Will security be a ‘driver’ or ‘inhibitor’ for mobile banking? The criminal learning process

  • Past, present and future learnings
  • Is there a global criminal pattern that we can learn from?
  • Will security be a driver or inhibitor to mobile banking?
16:40

Erkki Poutiainen
Head of Strategy and Infrastructure
NORDEA CASH MANAGEMENT

Analysing risk issues in corporate bank channels and new e-services

  • Issues behind emerging corporate requirements for communication standards
  • Introducing standards as a way to reduce complexity: improving risk management for customers and banks
  • Counterparty risks for customer-to-customer services using e-invoicing as an example
17:15  

Closing remarks from the Chair

17:25  

End of conference

     
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