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Speakers

  • Jan Krahnen
    Professor of Finance, Goethe Universität Frankfurt and Director, Center for Financial Studies
  • Irmfried Schwimann
    Acting Director for Financial Services and Health-related markets (in Directorate D at DG Competition)
  • Bo Harald
    Chairman to the EU Expert Group on Electronic Invoicing
  • Charles Bryant
    Senior Adviser to the Euro Banking Association with a focus on e-invoicing and supply chain integration
  • Dave Rietveld
    Equens General Manager
  • Maarten Mol
    Head Transaction Banking ABN AMRO
  • Piet Mallekoote
    CEO Currence and brandowner of iDEAL
  • Christophe Uzureau
    Analyst in Gartner Banking Industry Advisory Services
  • John Bullard
    Global Ambassador IdenTrust
  • Christian Westerhaus
    Chairman of the EPC's SPS Working Group
  • Mung-Ki Woo
    In charge of developing mobile payment and mobile contactless services within France Telecom, Orange

 

Conference Chairmen

 

Program 1 April

The program consists of pre-conference expert sessions followed by two full conference days.
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Speaker information
Pre-conference workshops
Program 31 March 2009
Hotel reservation

8:00

Reception and coffee

Conference Lounge

Setting the stage

8:30

Christoph Uzureau (to be confirmed), Research Director, Banking and Investment Services, Gartner

The future of on-line payments

  • Search and buy
  • What are the opportunities and threats?
  • What is the role of non bank players?
  • Should banks be worried?

09:00

Christian WesterhausDirector Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank

SEPA and its impact on payment innovation

  • Linking m-payments and value add services
  • Pan European core schemes for CT and DD
  • Envisioning eSEPA – how a fully electronic and paperless end to end STP scheme can be realised

9:30

Piet Mallekoote CEO, Currence

The European e-payments landscape

  • Building on the success of iDEAL in The Netherlands
  • European opportunities and challenges
  • Combining networks and/or standardization?

10:00

Break

Conference Lounge

 
 

Track 1
Cards and Cards related Payments

Track 2
Innovations and new channels

10:30

Growth and trends in the pre-paid card market
Speaker to be decided

  • What are the results so far – how are pre-paid cards doing?
  • Applications and demographics?
  • Where are the further opportunities?
  • What are the challenges?

E-identity – what exactly is the problem to the solution?
John Bullard
Global Ambassador, Identrust

  • What exactly is the problem?
  • Where are the opportunities?
  • State of the e-identity market
  • The banking perspective – customer focused identity management

11:00

Opportunities in the Healthcare industry
Speaker to be decided

  • Massive changes in healthcare industry – opportunity for banking and cards
  • Trend analysis
  • Where and how should financial institutions participate

Payment innovation - roles for financial players
Speaker to be decided

  • Where are financial services going?
  • New products and delivery paradigms
  • Cut time to market
  • How will the market evolve?

11:00

Short break

Conference lounge

11:30

Do market changes require the card business model to change?
Robert Wastyn
4P Square

  • Drive to limit cash payments
  • New technologies: contactless payments and M-Payment
  • Business impact of regulatory pressure
  • New bank strategies focusing on profitability

Send money home and by phone – innovative banking applications that work
Eva King
Western Union

  • Tapping the ubiquity and ease-of-use of mobile communications to enable the world's 200 million international migrant workers to easily and securely send remittances to dependents
  • Creating a new market and increasing the overall penetration and usage of m-transfers, m-payments, and m-banking globally
  • Effectively straddling network and geographic boundaries for best service and end-user experience in the EMEA region

12:00

Building connectivity in an open skies environment
Ernst Verbeek
Managing Director, Trionis

  • Transaction switching: new routes of choice
  • SEPA’s (lack of) influence on the payments landscape
  • Re-using what’s already out there

Beyond contactless and mobile – Biometrics is here now!
Benjamin Syrbe
Advisor to the Board, Equens

  • What are biometric payments and how do they work?
  • Results of 6 month pilot in Germany and The Netherlands
  • Global popularity of biometric payments
  • Security issues

12:30

Panel session – Cards and card related payments

  • All speakers from morning sessions
  • What is the future of cards and related payments in Europe?
  • What is happening in other geographies that is likely to impact Europe?
  • Where are the opportunities to “break down walls”?
  • Panel coordinator – to be decided

Panel session – Innovations and new channels

  • All speakers from morning sessions
  • Which innovations have been successful in the last 12 months
  • Which innovations to watch in the coming 12 months?
  • What is the killer app for mobile payments?
  • Managing consumer identities – financial institutions or the State?
  • Where are the opportunities to “break down walls”?
  • Panel coordinator – to be decided

13:00

Closing followed by Lunch

 

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