The future of payments and mobile money will be explored
in great depth at this year’s Mobile Money & Digital Payments Global Conference,
taking place from 18 - 20 November 2014 at Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent in
Turkey.
Experts from across the globe are set to debate and discuss
the most pressing payment issues and map the route to creating a world without
cash. It will comprise a series of industry panels, cutting-edge presentations
and focused workshops.
For the first time this year, conference delegates will
be able to share their views via live polls and breakout discussion forum,
creating a truly interactive event.
The first day of the two-day conference will launch with a
strand on Creating a Global Cashless
Society with Kevin Marisia Amatesche, Product Manager for Orange Money in
Orange Kenya and Mariana Escobar, Deputy Director for the Department of Social
Prosperity, Government of Colombia among the speakers. This will examine how to
shape a world where digital money integrates seamlessly into every transaction
no matter how small or remote. Kivanc Onan, Country Director of Paypal, will
oversee a panel discussion where bank and mobile experts will debate What’s in store for payments next year
to create predications and map trends.
The Partnerships,
Interoperability and Competition strand is led by Faia Sadiq, Group Head of
Payment Services, Habib Bank Limited in Pakistan. It includes a panel
discussion with representatives from Bank PKO BP Poland, Poland’s largest bank
and the Committee on Electronic Money in Peru focusing on whether
interoperability is the key to driving critical mass globally.
Sam Maule, Managing Consultant of Carlisle &
Gallagher Consulting Group in the USA leads the conference strand on Opportunities in Next generation Payments featuring
a panel discussion on whether NFC is dead.
The second day of the conference will feature an
interesting session on Migrating social
payments to the mobile: Lessons learned from Colombia led by Maria José
Uribe Trujillo, Advisor to the Directorate General of the Department for Social
Prosperity for the Government of Colombia.
Ayhan Okcular, Business Development representative at
Turkcell in Turkey, will lead a discussion on Igniting the mobile payments landscape in Turkey, while a senior
representative from Google in Turkey will examine the consumer trends in the
country.
The Future of Payments strand will be opened by
session leader Faisal Khan, CEO of Faisal Khan & Company who will conduct
an audience poll on how digital payments are changing payment culture and
oversee an audience debate on the key issues of digital banking. Qasif Shahid
from MCB Bank in Pakistan will be leading a session on how mobile wallets are
poised to disintermediate bank accounts.
Within this strand there is also a session on The role of digital payment alternatives in
today’s economy led by Jon Matonis, Executive Director of the Bitcoin
Foundation in the UK followed by a panel discussion on what the dominant
payment channels will look like in 2024.
There will be
a panel discussion exploring whether digital banking is the ‘game changer’ for
the next
generation of financial services featuring the Principal Analyst for the Bank
of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi
UFJ in Japan. Another panel discussion will look at what the dominant
payment
channels will look like in 2024 with Victor Dostov, Director of the Russian
Electronic
Money
Association on the panel.
Hazel Miller, Marketing Manager at Organiser Clarion
Events, explains: “Our comprehensive conference sees the global payments
industry unite under one roof for two packed days of presentations and focused
workshops. The interactive debates and live polls allow the audience to become
more involved than ever before.”
To register to attend Mobile Money & Digital Payments
Global and for information visit www.mobile-money-global.com
A two-day conference pass for delegates from a
technology/service provider is £1,249 before 3 October 2014. Delegates from a
bank or mobile network operator can attend for £500 before 3 October 2014. A
two-day conference pass for delegates from the retail sector is
complimentary.
