Meeting Theme:The Retail Revolution
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Meeting Theme:The Retail Revolution
Date:Tuesday, 1st April 2014
Venue: Park Tower Knightsbridge,101 Knightsbridge, London SW1X Venue Map
Start:9.30am for 10.00am
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Time / Topic / Speaker9.30 / Arrivals, registration and refreshments
10.00 / Introduction to the day and news update / Richard Poynder, Smartex
10.15 / Disruptive technologies in retail payments
Typically,there is one significant advance in retail payment solutions every 10 years. Yet today, new initiatives are launched every month.This presentation will explore the emerging transaction types being presented today and demonstrate innovative examples of disruptive solutions. It asks why, with so many new payment channels becoming a reality, the payment industry has not been able to support omni-channel payments? Finally, it poses the question - are we fundamentally going about payments in the wrong way? / John Rozek, Polar Moment
11.00 / Refreshment break
11.30 / The opportunities for mobile in retail / Neil Garner, Proxama
12.15 / Managing your customers with hyper local IP geolocation
IP geolocation with street level accuracy: how it can be an important feature in managing customers in the rapidly evolving retail environment. / Simon Goodale, Nanjee
12.45 / Luncheon
1.45 / Panel session: The changing nature of the High Street
Panel members will give their views as to the High Street revolution and will then take questions from the floor. / Richard Braham, BRC;
Rene Batsford, McDonald’s;
Simon Goodale, Nanjee;
John Rozek,Polar Moment;
Neil Garner, Proxama;
Jerome Ribot, Ribot
2.30 / The upcoming crypto-singularity
From Ebay to dropbox and even banks, centralisation requires users to 'trust' companies to transact, often at a great financial or personal cost when said services fail or go bankrupt. How decentralisation is about to disrupt verticals you might not have expected, and how users will soon regain full control over their funds and personal information. / Stephan Tual, Ursium
3.00 / Refreshment break
3.15 / Changes in the B2B world for retail
How the B2B world for retail is changing, and the place technology has in this. How do you incentivise Gen X, Y and Z with retail products/cards? / Brian Dunne, SVM Cards
3.45 / Meeting summary and close / Richard Poynder, Smartex
4.00 / Informal networking session
Next Smart Card Club Meeting: - Tuesday, 10thJune 2014, London
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