Smart Card Alliance Events

• Next Conference
• Past Conferences
• Web Seminars

The Alliance hosts three important industry conferences each year–the Payments Summit in February, the Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference in the Spring, and the Smart Cards in Government Conference in the Fall–in addition to periodic in-person council meetings and web seminars. These popular events attract a broad audience to learn about new smart card initiatives, applications and technology.

The annual Payments Summit focuses on exciting new trends and projects that are accelerating the widespread acceptance, usage and application of contactless and NFC mobile payments technology for transportation and general retail payment applications. The transit and retail markets have many common industry stakeholders including the chip and card manufacturers, terminal manufacturers, payment brands, issuing banks, payments processors, systems integrators and new mobile technology suppliers. Having a summit for Alliance Councils and common stakeholders to meet in joint sessions to discuss the opportunities and obstacles ahead allows everyone present to gain more insight into the commonalities that connect these two markets.

The Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference is a multi-track, annual event that covers all smart card markets and applications. While held in conjunction with CTST in 2008 and 2009, the Annual Conference is back in 2010 as a standalone Smart Card Alliance event. The 2010 event will cover payments, mobile, NFC, security, identity, and healthcare applications, as well as emerging technologies and innovations.

The Smart Cards in Government Conference focuses on the massive deployments of smart cards in government programs worldwide. Each year, the smart card industry gathers in Washington, DC, to hear from government leaders and industry professionals on what is happening in this rapidly moving and changing security and identity credential industry segment. This event also features an exhibit hall that provides vendors with the opportunity to demonstrate their industry-leading technology to a large body of government decision makers and end-users.

Additional members-only events are held to provide our Industry Councils, who normally work via teleconference, with the opportunity to meet in-person to discuss new ideas and present committee work to the larger Alliance organization. The Alliance also sponsors periodic web seminars and briefings on topics of interest to the industry.