| Day One: Monday 10 March 2008 |
| 08:30 |
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 10:55 |
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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?
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| 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
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 18:15 |
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Closing remarks from the Chair |
| 18:25 |
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End of day one |
Jump to start 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 11:50 |
Gerhard Romen
Director of NFC
Market Development

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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
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| 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
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| 13:00 |
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 15:45 |
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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?
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| 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
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| 17:15 |
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Closing remarks from the Chair |
| 17:25 |
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End of conference |