Day 1 - Tuesday 15 May 2007

8:30

Reception and coffee

9:00

Douwe Lycklama à Nijeholt, CEO Innopay
Harry Smorenberg, CEO SCC

Welcome

Opening

Setting the stage

9:05

Francesco Vanni d'Archirafi
Chairman Citibank Europe Plc.

The new shapes of European payments

9:40

Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell
Member of the Executive Board European Central Bank

The new landscape

• Up to 2010 and beyond
• How to change customers?
• What’s next

10:20

Break

SEPA update: key essentials

10:50

Gerard Hartsink
Chairman European Payments Council

Update on SEPA

• What has been achieved?
• What will be achieved?
• How to realize gains in SEPA?

11:20

Philippe Menier
Deputy Chief Executive Visa Europe

Cash, the remaining barrier?

• Soft and hard barriers to be resolved
• The role of pricing
• How to change customer behavior

11:50

Alain Raes
Head of Banking Industry Division SWIFT

The need for standard channels

• How can we harvest?
• The key to reachability
• How can corporates benefit?

12:20

Lunch

How to get customers moving? Corporate and Public Administration view

14:00

Juergen Weiss
Consulting manager SAP

SEPA: cost driver or strategic opportunity

• Challenges for corporates and software vendors
• The role of software vendors in the change process
• Corporate requests for financials

14:30

Pablo Castillon
Partner Banking, Global Business Services, IBM

Physical and Financial Supply Chain Convergence: the Challenge of Building Critical Mass

• Requirements and current offerings in cash management and payments
• Critical roadblocks to standardisation
• Moving forward: thoughts on bridging the gap

15:00

Gianfranco Tabasso
Tom Buschman
EACT/TWIST

Which role do customers play?

• Will interoperability be ensured?
• How to harvest back office efficiencies?
• Will SEPA deliver more choice?

15:30

Break

Internet sales and payment: the short path to full STP

16:00

Chris Pickles
BT Radianz

Payments: solving your customers’ problems

• What is your customer’s business?
• Addressing your customer’s community needs
• Integrating your solutions

16.30

Petra van Duuren
GT News

GT News Corporate poll results
Presentation of the GT News poll which will be run in the week prior to the conference

16:45

John Chaplin
CC Associates
EPCA/ECR awards

Payment innovation 2006

• Overview presentation
• Nominee presentation
• Award ceremony

17:30

Citi Cocktail party

19:15

End of conference day 1