Smart Card Alliance Invites Topic and Speaker Proposals for NFC Solutions Summit 2012, May 22-24, Grand Hyatt San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, California

Proposals for speakers and topics are now being accepted for the NFC Solutions Summit 2012. Proposals for educational conference presentations should be submitted online by February 3, 2012, and will be reviewed multi-industry conference steering committee, lead by members of the Smart Card Alliance, and NFC Forum.

The committee will be selecting presentations for the first comprehensive American showcase for the burgeoning technology of Near Field Communications. Co-produced by the Smart Card Alliance and NFC Forum under the theme “Smart, Secure Mobile Payments and Non-Financial Apps,” the conference will cover the state of this promising technology, developments in new NFC devices and add-ons, the status of the growing NFC ecosystem, the promise of NFC-enabled payments and other popular applications, NFC implementation, and American and international market forecasts.

The committee seeks proposals that are consistent with this theme. Presentations should involve the issuance and usage of NFC technology in any of the following categories:

Standards and Technology: Smart Phones and Devices, NFC System Architectures, Standards for Trusted Service Manager (TSM), and NFC Forum Specifications

Security and Applications Management: Security Architectures for NFC, Bank Card Payments Application Security, Identity Credentials Storage in NFC Devices, NFC Secure Element Architectures, NFC Application Download and Management

Implementation and Applications: Financial Service Applications, Identity and Security Applications, Ticketing and Fare Collection Applications, Retail Applications

Market Drivers and Business Models: Challenges and Opportunities for Financial Institutions, Non-Financial NFC services based on data transfer and peer to peer NFC modes, NFC Business Partnership Opportunities and Challenges, Use Cases for NFC, Reports on Commercial Services and Pilots

The committee favors end-user presenters and perspectives, and vendor-neutral educational presentations that focus on the real-life applications of NFC technologies, systems, and business models. Front-line implementers and end-users are given preference in the speaker selection process. Vendors are encouraged to recruit clients and partners who are front-line implementers or end-users as presenters.

NFC Solutions Summit is arriving in a breakout year for NFC in the Americas, and the Smart Card Alliance and NFC Forum have joined forces to leverage the extensive expertise and resources of both organizations, in an effort to attract key players from across the entire NFC value chain.

For presenting speakers and organizations the event offers several benefits: As part of the leading showcase for industry innovation and best practices, presenting speakers and organizations are recognized as thought leaders by hundreds of high-level conference attendees, by the business media that cover the event, and by thousands of industry readers who follow the resulting coverage. Speakers receive free all-access admission to the event, with the opportunity to network with hundreds of participating colleagues. Speakers also receive special discount conference passes for their colleagues and clients.

For additional information please contact Randy Vanderhoof at events@smartcardalliance.org or 800-556-6828.

Proposals must be submitted online at http://www.smartcardalliance.org. The deadline for submission is February 3, 2012.