With explosive growth in mobile wallets, mobile payments and digital currencies, the race to the cashless economy is on. Will the first one across the line be an Asian nation?
In this exciting opening keynote session, we explore the challenges we need to overcome to go cashless, how to scale up cashless transactions and get insights from central banks on how they are working to support the cashless journey in Asia.
Amit Kurseja,
Head,
Amazon Pay India
Le Anh Dung,
Division Director, Payment Department,
State Bank of Vietnam
Neal Cross,
Chief Innovation Officer & MD,
DBS
Naphongthawat Phothikit, Director, Payment Systems Policy Department,
Bank of Thailand
Ajey Gore,
CTO,
Go-Jek
Paul Stoddart,
CEO,
Vocalink
As more and more transactions move online, and with more cross-border transactions happening than ever before, you need the right infrastructure in place to create a seamless customer experience. In this session, we explore how to increase customer stickiness by streamlining payments, how to make cross-border e-commerce easy and more, with insights from world-leading businesses.
Masaya Mori,
Executive Director & Global Head of Rakuten Institute of Technology,
Rakuten
JiaJia Han,
Principal Engineer,
Airbnb
J.Alan Bird,
Global Business Development Leader,
W3C
Allan Goldring,
Head of Acquiring & HICAPS,
National Australia Bank
With e-commerce growing at an incredible rate, retailers are stepping up their game, focusing on instore experience and technology. But as more brick & mortar retailers work to establish their online presence, we’re also seeing e-commerce players building their own stores. So how do we make sense of it? Join us for this dynamic session as we explore the future of commerce in Asia.
Jason Hsu,
Legislator and Congressman,
Legislative Yuan Republic of China (Taiwan)
Tim Kobe,
Founder,
Eight Inc.
Which side are you on? Join the exciting debate on who’s going to win in Asia
Son Tran
CEO
Tiki.vn
Ian Ho
Regional Managing Director
Shopee
Benjamin Bland
South China Correspondent
Financial Times
Ton Chirathivat
Head of Customer Strategy
Central Group
Victor Paterno
CEO Philippines
7-Eleven
Alwyn Chong
Managing Director
Luxasia
How can eTailers attract customers, lead them towards the purchase, bring them back for more? This and more will be discussed over 2 days.
Delivering your products to customers can be ruinously expensive for eTailers. In this track we’ll be discussing how eTailers can improve efficiency to reduce supply chain costs.
With so much competition, ensuring that your eTail site is designed effectively is of utmost importance. We will be discussing how to do so in this track.
This track will discuss all the back-end technology retailers need to do to improve efficiency. IoT, Merchandising Technology, Inventory Management and more will be covered here.
This track will cover the front-end experiential strategies retailers need to implement to make their brick & mortar stores more appealing to visit.
How is Payments technology changing? Over two days we’ll be going over blockchain, cryptocurrencies, P2P payments and more.
How is innovative new technology being adopted? We’ll be covering this over two days in this stream.
In this track we discuss how the backbone of payments – Digital ID systems – are changing to make commerce more ‘seamless’.
Get your FREE expo pass for 3-4 May and get access to these free-to-attend sessions at the exhibition
We will be discussing what SME retailers who want to go online need to do. It’s broken down into 4 segments: Make It, Sell It, Ship It and Grow It.
In this collaboration between the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies and the Seamless Asia conference, we’ll be covering what SMEs who want to sell through marketplaces need to know.
In this track, free to attend for all conference visitors, we’ll be covering the tactical implementation of payments technology.
In this track, free to attend for all conference visitors, we’ll be covering the tactical implementation of eCommerce and retail technology.
100 local and international exhibitors with new and innovative Payments, Ecommerce and Retail products, solutions and services
Exhibition details:
Thursday 3 May 2018: 10am - 6pm | Friday 4 May 2018: 10am - 5pm
Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore
The Seamless Asia exhibition is where leading solution providers can showcase a wide range of technologies to partner with retailers, ecommerce companies and payments companies in Asia.
Making their customer's experience more seamless.
The conference is for those serious about providing a seamless customer experience.
With inspirational keynotes from across the world, innovators already changing commerce in their companies and technology leaders from retail, ecommerce and payments across Asia.
We bring together thousands of professionals in ecommerce, payments and retail from across the region to share, learn and create.
Part of a series of events that spans the globe, attendees benefit from the very latest trends, cutting edge technologies and collaboration opportunities.
Seamless Asia offers a unique opportunity to reach the entire commerce ecosystem across Asia.
From solutions providers, to disruptors in the field, to peers in the industry.
Download our brochure to see how you can get involved.
Priyanka brings with her over 13 years of diverse experience of insighting, planning, analytics and operations across telecom, e-commerce, airline, manufacturing and retail. Previously she has worked at Nielsen, Tata group, Jet Airways, IMRB-Kantar. She has generated insights and implications from...
I am an experienced banker with over 26 years of experience with HSBC - across Asia, UK and Middle East, followed by a stint as the CEO of an independent Private Bank in India. Having done a variety of global, regional and country roles, my knowledge of the financial services industry ranges from...
AI enthusiast and a strong advocate in the field of B2C marketing automation, personalization and retargeting. Clement has 8 years of experience working for various entities from MNC to Asian Start-ups across the software industry. He is now responsible for the development of the Channel Practice...
Mike Ghasemi is the founder and chief analyst of Mike Ghasemi Research Pte Ltd. He is one of APAC’s most respected retail and hospitality industry futurists, analyzing trends and the use of emerging technologies to digitally transform organizations. His intellectual work and thinking have covered...
Ajey Gore is group CTO at GO-JEK primarily focussing on Payments and organisation wide technology and team strategies. He helps the group deliver a transport, logistics, lifestyle and payments platform of 20 products. Ajey has 18 years of experience building core technology strategy across diverse...
Hugh Haley is a mobile messaging veteran with 15 years of experience in the mobile and IT sector. Prior to launching CLX in Australia and New Zealand, Hugh held several management positions at mBlox and is now Commercial Director of the APAC region. Hugh holds a BA in Politics and Philosophy from...
David Jou is co-founder and CEO of Pomelo, the leading online fast fashion brand in Southeast Asia. David previously co-founded Lazada where he served as Managing Director. During his tenure, Lazada Thailand grew to be one of the leading online shopping sites in Thailand. Prior to Lazada, David was ...
Edgaras was recently appointed Assistant Marketing Manager for iPay88 Sdn Bhd, a leading regional Payment Gateway Provider in South East Asia. Prior to joining iPay88, Edgaras worked for 5 years across Europe in NGOs and public sector, specialising mainly within the fields of anti-corruption, human ...
Tim Kobe founded the globally recognized strategic and experience design firm Eight Inc. in 1989. Today, Eight Inc. has offices in San Francisco, New York, Honolulu, Tokyo, London, Singapore, and Dubai and across China and is a leader in innovation and branded experience working with companies such ...
Gustav Liblik is a Partner and CPO of Change. He left his role as a CEO at a Singaporean fintech company to launch Change, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency-enabled consumer finance platforms. Recently Change carried out a community-driven token sale which raised $17.5 million USD through...
Mireya Lumbreras is the CMO of Mallness. Mireya has a wide international experience in both European and South East Asian markets (Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand). She is a technology enthusiast with a passion for developing new ideas and adapting products and marketing strategies into different...
Krishnan is a serial entrepreneur originally from India. He is currently CEO and founder of Fabelio, a design centric furniture ecommerce company in Indonesia which dominates the online furniture space. Previously he was one of the early guys who set up Lazada Indonesia. He also worked with Zalora...
Shailesh Naik, the founder and CEO of MatchMove Pay (www.matchmove.com), one of Singapore’s fastest growing FinTech companies. MatchMove launched its first pan-Asia virtual cloud-based mobile payment card with American Express and MasterCard, helping millions of un-carded Asians to go online with...
Varun Rai has over 16 years of experience in strategy, marketing and business development across multiple industry sectors including technology, energy and retail. Currently he is Director of Business Development for Shell’s Specialties business. Before this role, as the Regional Marketing Manager...
Dato’ Arif was the Head of System Development and IT support at the Standard Chartered Bank in Pakistan where he first joined SCB in 1990. He assumed the role of Head of Technology in 1999. Dato’ moved from Pakistan to Malaysia in 2005 and joined Scope International Malaysia, Standard Chartered’s...
Tejinder Singh is the Chief Operating Officer at Arvind Internet with 14 years of diverse experience in various sectors. He is an alumnus of IIM-Bangalore and has been with Arvind Group for the past 3 years where he has build CREYATE - a custom clothing brand from scratch. He is currently working...
A passionate electronic/mobile payments practitioner over the past decade, Chee Wai has worked on a multitude of initiatives to promote their adoption and usage in both the public and private sectors. During his tenure at the Infocomm Development Authority (presently known as GovTech), he partook...
Mr David Watson has more than 30 years of retail experience and was a private industry trainer and academic in Australia prior to starting what would become a series of businesses. His efforts lead him to have one of the top 100 fastest growing businesses in Australia for 3 consecutive years prior...
Jackson Aw (Forbes 30 under 30 Asia honouree) is a Singaporean entrepreneur and the founder of Mighty Jaxx, a multi-million dollar award-winning design studio specializing in art collectibles as well as MagicMon Technologies, a global manufacturing portal. In 2017 he was awarded New Entrepreneur of ...
Christine Fellowes is Managing Director, NBCUniversal International Networks, Asia-Pacific, a division of Comcast NBCUniversal, with oversight of NBCUniversal’s TV channels, Video on Demand and Branded digital service operations across the region.She has held this position since June 2011, managing ...
Duke is CTO and head of International business development at Fin2B. He was trained as an engineer receiving B.S., M.S., Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley specializing in communications and algorithms. As an engineer, he had developed an unmanned automotive...
Kumar Srinivasan joins MatchMove to accelerate the company’s expansion in India and capitalize on the country’s fast-growing digital payments scene. Kumar is a veteran of driving innovations and developing new technologies and products with almost 20 years of experience in the United States, India...
Thomas Stroo is a business enthousiast with a global orientation, strong leadership and organizational skills, with numerous experiences in international business environments. He has a passion for logistics and e-commerce driven by technical innovation together with an intense commitment to bring...
Mr Ben Tan is Country CEO of COURTS Singapore. He joined COURTS as Designate Country CEO in January 2017, assuming his current role as Country CEO of COURTS Singapore Pte Ltd in April 2017. As CEO, he oversees and is responsible for driving all of COURTS’ local retail and business operations across ...
To discuss the show and reserve your space contact the team now on +65 6322 2786 or email seamless.asia@terrapinn.com