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IDA Singapore
Koichi Tagawa
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Vice Chairman
NFC Forum, USA
Dr Nav Bains
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Projects Director
GSM Association, UK
Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper
Regional Head of Mobile Payment
VISA
Dr Sungcheol Hong
Dr Sungcheol Hong
Executive Vice President - Internet Business Division
SK Telecom, South Korea

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PRE-CONFERENCE MASTERCLASS: 10 September, Wednesday
CONFERENCE DAY ONE: 11 September, Thursday
CONFERENCE DAY TWO: 12 September, Friday

last modified: 03/07/2008 20:42:24 (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

6pm
End of masterclass
 

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CONFERENCE DAY ONE: 11 September, Thursday
 

8.15am
Registration
 

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: Commercialising 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: standardised market approach or market-by market business models?
     
 
Mr Gordon Cooper, Regional Head of Mobile Payment,
Visa

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

10.30am
Morning refreshments
 

11am
Virtualising ticketing solutions in Mass Transit Systems with NFC
  • Optimising ticket distribution and minimising operational costs
  • Ensuring backward compatibility with existing contactless 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
Plenary roundtable: 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
 
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
Moderator:
Mr David Birch , Director,
Consult Hyperion

1pm
Networking luncheon
 

NFC & THE CARRIER (I)
 

2.30pm
SK Telecom: Innovating mobile-based services with contactless technology
  • Reviewing the motivational drivers for NFC implementation
  • Evaluating consumer preferences and presenting the right offering: contactless payment, ticketing, access control, active posters, loyalty, etc.
  • Elaborating on dual interface card technology
  • Determining the required conditions to drive mass adoption of NFC: what challenges lies ahead?
 
Dr. Sungcheol Hong, Executive Vice President - Internet Business Division,
SK Telecom

3pm
NFC pilot trials in taiwan - responding to the potential ahead
  • Taking the mobile beyond traditional voice and data services
  • Showcasing the mobile handset as a value added payment device, bringing NFC one step closer to commercial availability
  • Lessons learnt from pilot trials carried out in Taiwan
 
Mr Hsueh-Hai Hu, Deputy Managing Director, Department of Value-added Services, Mobile Business Group,
Chunghwa Telecom

3.30pm
Defining the shaping the m-payments environment with the use of contactless technology
  • Revolutionising the consumers' lifestyle by introducing payment capabilities into the mobile device - benefitting through secure and convenient payments
  • Exploiting NFC and contactless technology to benefit the mobile customer: what education insights are required
  • Lessons learnt from leading the "Pay Buy Mobile" project initiative and trial in South Korea
 
Ms Min-Jeong Kim, Director and Head of Terminal Application Development Team,
KTF

4pm
Afternoon refreshments
 

4.30pm
Creating an exciting mobile lifestyle for the consumer through contactless payment services
  • Setting the stage for the growing popularity of mobile contactless and service provisioning applications
  • Exploring ways to integrate the NFC chip with other forms of personalised applications: loyalty, membership cards, etc.
  • Feedback from Beep 'N Go NFC pilot trials
 
Ms Nora Chen, Manager,
Fareastone Telecommunications Co., Ltd.

5pm
Leveraging on NFC to increase consumer appeal to current m-commerce applications
  • Exploring the benefits NFC brings to m-commerce arena: increased functionality, ease of use, extension of usage and customer base of m-commerce
  • Will NFC benefits justify the required investment needed to implement the technology?
  • Which elements of NFC have been effective at driving this success and which elements of the service require more attention?
 
Mr Marko Jagodic, Advisor to Chief R&D Office,
Mobitel d.d.

5.30pm
Panel discussion: Opening up new revenue streams for operators with NFC deployment
  • How are the regional Asian markets looking in terms of a NFC future?
  • Carriers' confidence with NFC integration into mobile handsets: the impect of availability on growth of NFC adoption
  • Examining the need to balance the level of security, interoperatibility, convenience and risk exposure
 
Mr Hsueh-Hai Hu, Deputy Managing Director, Department of Value-added Services, Mobile Business Group,
Chunghwa Telecom
Ms Nora Chen, Manager,
Fareastone Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
Mr Marko Jagodic, Advisor to Chief R&D Office,
Mobitel d.d.
Mr Chai Chung Phua, Deputy Director, Consumer Products - Mobile,
SingTel Mobile
Dr. Sungcheol Hong, Executive Vice President - Internet Business Division,
SK Telecom
Moderator:
Mr Thian Yee Chua, CEO,
CASSIS International Pte Ltd

6pm
End of conference day one followed by evening cocktail reception
 

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CONFERENCE DAY TWO: 12 September, Friday
 

8.15am
Registration
 

8.45am
Chairperson's opening remarks
 
 
Mr David Birch , Director,
Consult Hyperion

DEFINING THE NFC ECO-SYSTEM
 

9am
Keynote operator presentation: Realising the vision of a truly mobile society through NFC technology
  • Elaborating on the motivating factors for Australia's first NFC contactless payment pilot
  • Addressing key implementation and technological hurdles: benefits with stroing NFC applications in the SIM card?
  • Lessons learnt and feedback from pilot trial participants
 
Mr Scott Moorhen, General Manager, Mobility Enablers,
Telstra

9.30am
Enhancing the mobile lifestyle through secured, seamless and personalised services for the connected consumer
  • Going beyond payments: how can mobile marketing, multimedia and other value-added services help drive the NFC business case
  • Exploring the benefits of wireless provisioning with NFC
  • Understanding the customer dimension and how operators can address this to create a win-win model
 
Ms Claire Featherstone, Head of M-Commerce, Product & Infotainment Business,
Maxis Communications Berhad

10am
Starting NFC with NFC value added services and cooperation with retailers
  • Why are NFC value added services important for NFC start at mobile operator?
  • Information on NFC start at Tusmobil in Slovenia
  • How can retailers help the mobile operator with NFC start?
  • Information on NFC loyalty pilot in Slovenia
 
Mr Adam Flis, Director,
Adamsoft d.o.o.

10.30am
Market leaders roundtable: How does NFC feature in stakeholders plans for the future?
  • Reviewing NFC trends in various Asian regions
  • Examining the evolving business drivers in the marketplace: what are the relevant services?
  • Partnership models to best satisfy all stakeholders
  • Focusing on the technology and regulatory roadmap for NFC services
 
Mr Satish Menon, Asia Pacific Venture Leader, Growth Ventures and Innovation,
Citibank
Dr Geok Leng Tan, Chief Technology Officer,
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Ms Claire Featherstone, Head of M-Commerce, Product & Infotainment Business,
Maxis Communications Berhad
Mr Michel Barjansky, Head - Business Development,
RATP (Paris Transport Authority)
Mr Scott Moorhen, General Manager, Mobility Enablers,
Telstra
Moderator:
Mr Gordon Cooper, Regional Head of Mobile Payment,
Visa

11am
Morning refreshments
 

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTS
 

11.30am
Moving from NFC trials to commercial roll-outs
  • Key learning points from pilots
  • Business and technology progress over the last 12 months
  • The Trusted Service Manager as a business facilitator
 
Mr Jerome Sion, Contactless and M-Commerce Director,
Gemalto

12pm
Trusted Services Manager (TSM): Part of the contacless mobile service commercialisation equation
  • What motivates mobile operators and service providers?
  • Role of the trusted services manager: SIM-based NFC phones and other handset types
  • Why do scale and scope matter?
  • Case studies worldwide and recommendations
 
Mr Jukka Yliuntinen, Chief Marketing Officer,
Venyon Oy

12.30pm
Asia Pacific is leading the world's NFC deployments
  • Why Asia Pacific?
  • Uncover the NFC opportunities
  • Understand the issues to effectively implement NFC ecosystem
 
Mr Thian Yee Chua, CEO,
CASSIS International Pte Ltd

1pm
Getting NFC mobile mayments ready for commercialisation!
  • Examining ecosystem and platform requirements to enable commercial roll out of NFC mobile payments and promotions
    o        Reviewing business relationship requirements, evolving business models, and needed ecosystem architecture for scalability
  • Learning from multiple NFC mobile field trials done in multiple countries
  • Would 2009 be the year of NFC commercialisation? How to get ready for it?
 
Mr Mohammad Khan, President & Founder,
ViVOtech Inc

1.30pm
Networking luncheon
 

2.30pm
Technology brainstorm panel: Determining the best technological enablers for NFC deployments
  • Mapping the ROI for NFC implementation
  • Utilising a streamlined user interface to provide customers with a real wallet solution comprising of multi-payment and transaction options
  • Why hybrid technological solutions can be adopted until there is substantial NFC handsets availability?
 
Mr Adam Flis, Director,
Adamsoft d.o.o.
Mr Thian Yee Chua, CEO,
CASSIS International Pte Ltd
Mr Jerome Sion, Contactless and M-Commerce Director,
Gemalto
Mr Philippe Martineau, Executive Vice President - NFC Business Line,
Inside Contactless
Mr Dominique Brule, Director of Marketing - BCT Services,
NXP Semiconductors
Mr Jukka Yliuntinen, Chief Marketing Officer,
Venyon Oy
Moderator:
Mr Stuart Fiske, Technical Director,
Consult Hyperion

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
 

3pm
A point of view from Europe: Impacting the transportation industry with NFC in the mobile
  • Understanding how NFC technology in mobile phones can make public transport more attractive
  • Examining consumer behavior toward NFC technology: feedback from trial participants
  • How will NFC change the way transport industries operate in the future? The promises of "Ulysse" specifications
 
Mr Michel Barjansky, Head - Business Development,
RATP (Paris Transport Authority)

3.30pm
Afternoon refreshments
 

NFC & THE CARRIER (II)
 

4.30pm
Introducing a new wave of security and convenience with contactless payment technologies
  • Utilising e-purse capabilities: information, discount coupons, smart posters
  • Incentivising to make NFC service attractive to both merchants and users: NFC acceptance points
  • Lessons learnt from starhub's public trials
 
Ms Siew Ling Chua, VP - Payment and Transaction Services,
StarHub Ltd

5pm
NFC and the purchasing consumer
  • Paving new ways to connect the mobile lifestyle with the convenience of contactless applications
  • Understanding consumer behaviour toward NFC technology: feedback from trial participants
  • How will NFC change the way retail industries operate in the future?
 
Mr Burcin Acan, Financial Services Expert,
Turkcell

5.30pm
Close of conference
 

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Founding sponsor:

NXP Semiconductors

Platinum and masterclass sponsor:

VISA

Silver sponsors:

Adamsoft

Inside Contactless

Sony

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look back at NFC 2007

  • 176 attendees 
  • 83 companies present at NFC World Asia 2007
  • 23 countries represented
  • Over 42% of senior level executives attended
  • 11 sponsors and exhibitors

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