3rd Annual Payments Summit

February 23-25, 2010
Marriott City Center Hotel
Salt Lake City, UT

The Smart Card Alliance will hold the 3rd Annual Payments Summit on February 23-25, 2010, at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Salt Lake City, UT. This 2.5-day meeting will focus 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 will allow everyone present to gain more insight into the commonalities that connect these two markets. Also, time is set aside in the agenda for separate breakout sessions focused on topics relevant to each market and for discussions about emerging developments in the transportation, retail payments and evolving mobile and NFC markets.

The Summit will include sessions on current U.S. and international transit programs, contactless payments developments and status, NFC/mobile payments technology developments, prepaid card initiatives, payments industry fraud, EMV implementations, and technologies that address payments security.

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The 2010 Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference is back again, returning to the original successful format as an independent, standalone conference after two years partnering with the CTST Conference. The Annual Conference returns to one of its most popular meeting venue locations from past years–

The Camelback Marriott Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, AZ, May 17 - 20, 2010

Join us for what the Smart Card Alliance conferences do best–bringing experienced smart card practitioners and end users together with innovative solutions developers and suppliers to network and share information on smart card-based technology developments and market adoption trends in the payments, security, and mobile markets. Come and enjoy the best that the smart card industry has to offer.

2010 Conference Theme–“Smart Cards in Action”
Issuers and Users in Payment, Security, and Mobile

The 2010 Annual Conference is going to focus on the ISSUERS and USERS of smart card technology in payments, security, and mobile markets. No single chip technology, business application, or market implementation truly defines how smart cards are seen in 2010 and beyond. The choices of the appropriate chip technology for payments applications, identity management and security applications, and mobile commerce applications varies greatly as does the network of hardware and software system components, the security and privacy demands, and the policies and business rules that govern its usage. What binds all of these use cases together within the smart card industry is the secure digital transaction at the core of every chip transaction. The program will feature individual presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions about how issuers and end users leverage the security and data management capabilities of chip technology to enable secure digital transactions–over the internet, in retail stores, in transit centers, on mobile devices, and in government and commercial enterprises. By bringing together examples of ISSUERS and USERS in various markets that leverage smart cards for secure digital transactions, attendees will learn how different markets use common chip features and functionality to address their transaction needs.

For speaker proposals, sponsorship opportunities, and exhibitor opportunities, please contact events@smartcardalliance.org or contact Randy Vanderhoof at (1) 609 587-4208.