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Nikolai DobbersteinNikolai Dobberstein
Head of Strategy & New Business
Maxis Communication, Malaysia
 
Rahul KhoslaRahul Khosla
Head of Asia Pacific Products Group & Head of Global Products
VISA
 
Piyachart Ratanaprasartporn
General Manager
True Money Co., Ltd
 
Hara Ara Harianja
Division Head VAS Development and Management
PT Indosat, Indonesia
 
Tan Eng Peng
Cluster Director - Finance, Tourism, Trade and Manufacturing
IDA
 
conference details
Pre-conference masterclass:
10th Sept: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Conference:
Day 1
10th Sept: 9:00am - 5:30pm
Day 2
11th Sept: 9:00am - 5:30pm

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PRE-CONFERENCE MASTERCLASS: 10 September, Wednesday
CONFERENCE DAY ONE: 10 September, Wednesday
CONFERENCE DAY TWO: 11 September, Thursday

last modified: 02/09/2008 07:26:29 (GMT)

PRE-CONFERENCE MASTERCLASS: 10 September, Wednesday
12.30pm
Registration
 

1pm
NFC World Tour by Dave Birch
  • What is happening around the world and how is the NFC ecosystem developing?
  • Detailed case studies (including London Fashion Week)
  • What lessons can we learn from the early pilots, trials and deployments?

2pm
Technology in practice by Stuart Fiske
  • Exploring technology investment options and issues on standards and interoperability
  • Implementation with Point-of-Sale and 3rd party personalisation
  • Developing NFC enabled terminals and points of connection
  • The NFC-enabled handset and how this will impact technology adoption

3pm
Networking refreshments
 

3.30pm
Commercial drivers by Dave Birch
  • Value creation and key applications: where are the new business opportunities?
  • Determining the ideal business models for implementation of NFC
  • Consumer education to drive acceptance and awareness of NFC

4.30pm
Rolling-out by Stuart Fiske
  • Security and privacy issues and how to deal with them
  • Practical lessons in "card" issuing
  • Best of class methodologies for management of roll-out: good and bad implementation examples

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CONFERENCE DAY ONE: 10 September, Wednesday
8.15am
Registration
 

8.45am
Chairperson's opening remarks
 
 
Mr Howard C Allen, Principal,
Optima Capital

OPENING KEYNOTES
 

9am
The future of payments: The convergence of financial and mobile services
  • Impact on developing and developed economies
  • Overview of key learnings, best practices, and business models
  • Presentation of Visa's strategy to commercialize mobile payments and services
 
Ms Pamela Zuercher, Head, Global Product Innovation,
Visa

9.30am
Introducing the ability for customers to use their mobile handsets to make payments: Smart Communications case study
  • Reviewing Smart's service offerings: SMART money, E-load and Padala
  • Elaborating on the Smart Mobility Loop program
  • Utilising these services to increase smart's market share, profitability and customer loyalty
 
Ms Maybelle M. Santos, Senior Manager - MFI Solutions Consulting ,
SMART Communications, Inc.

10am
Thought leaders roundtable: Differentiation through customer service and technology
  • Reviewing the motivating factors
  • Bridging the cyber world to the mobile world
  • Tying up with the right partners: point for consideration
 
Mr Sertac Ozinal, CEO,
Bankalararasi Kart Merkezi
Mr Eng Pheng Tan, Cluster Director,
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Dr Nikolai Dobberstein, Head of Stretegy & New Business,
Maxis Communications Berhad
Mr Rahul Khosla, Head of Asia Pacific Products Group & Head of Global Products Strategy,
Visa
Moderator:
Mr Howard C Allen, Principal,
Optima Capital

10.30am
Morning refreshments and exhibition viewing
 

11am
Mpayment: What is still missing?
  • Is certification still an issue?
  • Provisioning banking applications in a mobile phone?
  • Usage: Are we really in need of a wallet?
 
Mr Philippe Martineau, Executive Vice President - NFC Business Line,
Inside Contactless

MOBILE CARRIERS' PERSPECTIVES (I)
 

11.30am
Defining the framework required for commercial roll-out of Mobile Payments
  • Pay-Buy-Mobile project status
  • Pay-Buy-Mobile business model
  • Pay-Buy-Mobile next steps/liaisons
 
Dr Nav Bains, Projects Director,
GSM Association

12pm
Case study: Mobile payments expansion in India
  • Reviewing airtel's mobile payment services: mChq & mChek
  • Benefitting from a secured POS terminal and payment platform for merchants and consumers
  • Understanding consumer requirements and how the mobile payment platform can address this
 
Mr Lawrence Fernandez, Head of Domestic & International Remittance Products - Mcommerce Division,
Bharti Airtel Limited

12.30pm
Networking luncheon and exhibition viewing
 

BANKER' INSIGHTS
 

2pm
Facilitating the future of Mobile Financial Services (MFS) in India
  • Identifying and building suitable business models for the delivery of successful MFS
  • Elaborating on partnership strategies between operators and merchants
  • Lesson learnt from ICICI's mobile payments initiatives
 
Mr Srinivas Nidugondi, Assistant General Manager - Technology Management Group,
ICICI Bank Limited

2.30pm
Serving the customer with next generation Mobile Financial Services
  • MFS - how partnership builds ecosystem
  • Identifying consumer trends and hot-buttons: how can innovative mobile financial products serve this space?
  • Mobile Money Ventures expanding beyond conventional m-banking
  • Demo of user experience design approach
 
Mr Satish Menon, Asia Pacific Venture Leader, Growth Ventures and Innovation,
Citibank

3pm
Revolutionising mobile banking with quick, convenient and secure access for customers
  • Examining the business drivers
  • Leveraging on mobile technology for next generation access to financial services
  • Addressing areas of concern: risk, security, consumer protection, etc
 
Mr Mohamed Kazi, Channel Manager,
Absa Cellphone Banking

3.30pm
Afternoon refreshments and exhibition viewing
 

4pm
Bankers roundtable: Strategising for success in the face of convergence between mobility and banking environments
  • Identifying customers' hot buttons: how can banks satisfy this via the mobile handset?
  • Elaborating on the best business models for partnership as a key driver for success
  • Cash management value offering: how are m-payments and NFC impacting this?
  • Examining regulatory issues
 
Moderator:
Mr Matthew Teo, i-mode Services - Mobile Services,
Starhub Ltd
Mr Mohamed Kazi, Channel Manager,
Absa Cellphone Banking
Mr Satish Menon, Asia Pacific Venture Leader, Growth Ventures and Innovation,
Citibank
Moderator:
Mr Srinivas Nidugondi, Assistant General Manager - Technology Management Group,
ICICI Bank Limited

MERCHANT PERSPECTIVES
 

4.30pm
Capitalising on mobile commerce as a commercially feasible service
  • Creating a trusted framework for consumer-oriented m-commerce transactions
  • Incentivising consumers to switch from e-commerce to m-commerce
  • Will mobile payments only be essential for time-sensitive products: online trading, travel and online entertainment booking
 
Mr Sachin Bhatia, CMO & Co-Founder,
Makemytrip (India) Pvt Ltd

5pm
Panel discussion: Mobile payments - bringing new opportunities to the merchant and retailer
  • Determining the business drivers: ease of use for the customer, increase operating efficiencies, cost-effectiveness, etc.
  • Identifying sectors who can benefit from m-commerce initiatives
  • Technology considerations: fraud, scalability, etc.
 
Moderator:
Mr Tom Wills, Senior Analyst - Risk, Security & Fraud,
Javelin Strategy & Research
Mr Andrew Lane, Head of Online Sales,
Crazy John's
Mr. John Cornelius Butler, Managing Partner & Co-Founder,
Dubizzle
Mr Sachin Bhatia, CMO & Co-Founder,
Makemytrip (India) Pvt Ltd
Mr Sanjay Chakravarti, Customer Care Associate & Senior General Manager - Finance and Accounts,
Shoppers Stop Ltd

5.30pm
End of conference day one
 

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CONFERENCE DAY TWO: 11 September, Thursday
8.45am
Chairperson's opening remarks
 
 
Mr Shubhrendu Khoche, Sales Director,
Venyon

9am
Globalising NFC - The essentials
  • Role of the NFC forum and work in progress
  • Status of the ecosystem to support NFC
  • NFC in the field today
 
Mr Koichi Tagawa, Vice-Chairman,
NFC Forum

9.30am
Moving beyond pilots: Commercializing NFC payments
  • Lessons to date: how have early pilots influenced the path to commercialization?
  • More than payment: how do value-added features improve the business case for mobile contactless payment? 
  • Building a viable long-term NFC business: standardized market approach or market-by market business models?
 
 
Mr Gordon Cooper, Regional Head of Mobile Payment,
Visa

10am
Toward a common global goal for NFC adoption
  • Pay-Buy-Mobile/NFC technical guidelines
  • Progress with the NFC standards
  • Roadmap for rollout of more pilots
 
Dr Nav Bains, Projects Director,
GSM Association

10.30am
Morning refreshments and exhibition viewing
 

11am
Virtualising ticketing solutions in Mass Transit Systems with NFC
  • Optimising ticketing distribution and minimising operational costs
  • Ensuring backward compatibility with existing contacless infrastructure with MIFARE4Mobile
  • Exploiting the phone capabilities to change customer experience
  • Enabling additional value-added services 
 
Mr Dominique Brule, Director of Marketing - BCT Services,
NXP Semiconductors

11.30am
Wide usage of FeliCa smartcard and FeliCa/NFC mobile payment and its future
  • Relationship between FeliCa and NFC
  • Expansion of multi application on FeliCa smartcard and mobile phone
  • Future of consumer electronics with NFC technology
 
Mr Louis Soong, Business Development Manager - FeliCa SmartCard Business,
Sony Electronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

12pm
Mpayment: How much is enough?
  • Certification: what makes it mandatory
  • Is there a real need for a wallet in the phone
  • Over The Air vs Over The Wave. Let's be pragmatic
 
Mr Philippe Martineau, Executive Vice President - NFC Business Line,
Inside Contactless

12.30pm
NFC: Transforming the mobile handset to enhance consumer experience
  • Understanding consumer needs and determining the real business motivators for all stakeholders
  • What are the barriers to achieving critical mass adoption of NFC services?
  • The importance for manufacturers to standardise NFC whilst ensuring security and flexibility
 
Moderator:
Mr David Birch , Director,
Consult Hyperion
Dr Nav Bains, Projects Director,
GSM Association
Ms Min-Jeong Kim, Director and Head of Terminal Application Development Team,
KTF
Mr Koichi Tagawa, Vice-Chairman,
NFC Forum
Ms Pamela Zuercher, Head, Global Product Innovation,
Visa

1pm
Networking luncheon and exhibition viewing
 

MOBILE CARRIERS' PERSPECTIVE (II)
 

2.25pm
Track Chairperson's welcome remarks
 
 
Mr Howard C Allen, Principal,
Optima Capital

2.30pm
Developing a profitable mobile payment strategy: a True Money perspective
  • Exploring the best business methodologies to generate profit and increase traffic: merchant and bank partnerships, marketing, education
  • Incorporating consumer behaviour into the True Money strategy
  • Exploiting contactless technology as an added channel to enhance the True Money value proposition
 
Mr Piyachart Ratanaprasartporn, General Manager,
True Money Co. Ltd

3pm
Accelerating the adoption of mobile payments in the Asian region
  • Analysing the business case for mobile payments and it’s impact on operators’ ARPU and loyalty energising strategies
  • Responding to varying consumer behaviors in different market segments
  • Regulatory framework: what needs to be in place for the service to take off 
 
Moderator:
Dr Nav Bains, Projects Director,
GSM Association
Mr Lawrence Fernandez, Head of Domestic & International Remittance Products - Mcommerce Division,
Bharti Airtel Limited
Ms Batchimeg Ariunbold, Manager, Business Development and Project Management Dept., New Business Development Division,
MobiCom Corporation
Mr Matthew Teo, i-mode Services - Mobile Services,
Starhub Ltd
Mr Piyachart Ratanaprasartporn, General Manager,
True Money Co. Ltd

3.30pm
Afternoon refreshments and exhibition viewing
 

BOUNCE!
 

4pm
We want your participation!
In this fun, informal session, delegates will be broken up into groups and given the opportunity to have a discussion over the proceedings of the two days. It will also be a session for question generation on the hottest themes which will be posed in an exciting pan-industry panel discussion to close the conference.

4.30pm
Pan-industry panel discussion
This concluding panel discussion will feature selected speakers of the conference as panelists. This discussion will aim to address the questions and issues raised by delegates during the earlier BOUNCE! session.

5pm
End of conference, followed by evening cocktail reception
 

Mobile Payments World
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