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Are you looking to enter the next generation of contactless and mobile payments?

SMi's 6th annual 'Contactless Cards and Payments' conference will deliver a comprehensive analysis of this exciting and modern market. Consumers are embracing the next generation of payment methods and banks and retailers cannot afford to get left behind. By attending these two days of high level networking and debate you will ensure that your business is able to keep up.

Key topics to be dicussed include:

• Payment applications - hear about current developments and progressions in the global contactless cards market
• The European rollout of contactless cards - hear the future plans
• Technological advancements - identify the progressions made within the industry
• Case studies - ascertain the current successes and upcoming projects within the transport and communication sectors
• Mobile payments - the latest in NFC communications

Confirmed speakers include: Dr Toni Merschen, Group Head, Chip, MasterCard International Guido Mangiagalli, Head of New Channels, VISA Europe Shashi Verma, Director of Oyster Card, Transport for London Laurent Jullien, Head of Contactless Services, Bouygues Telecom Mike Short, Vice President, Research and Development, O2 Paul Rodford, Head of Card Payments, Cards and Fraud Control Division, APACS Carl Chandler-Mullins, Head of UK Programmes, Orange Group Kirsteen Robertson, Head of Marketing and PR, Chiltern Railways Paul McKeown, Customs, Ports and Border Management Executive, IBM Bertrand Moussel, EVP of Sales for EMEA and LatAM, Inside Contactless Sandra Fisher, International Marketing Manager, NXP Semiconductors Christian Delporte, Member of the Board, EMVCo Charles Walton, Member, Eurosmart Dominic Peachey, Senior Policy Advisor, Financial Services Authority Robert Courtneidge, Founder, PrePaid International Forum Connie Penn, Managing Director, Kilrush Consultancy

Participants in our 2007 'Contactless Cards' event included:

Advanta National Bank, ACI Worldwide, Alliance & Leicester, American Express, Antkart Kart Technoloji, APACS, Arval, Bank of Georgia, Bankalararasi Kart Merkezi, Bayern Card Services, BBS, Ceska Sporitelna, CPP Plc, DnB NOR KORT, EDS, Elavon Merchant Services, EnterCard, ESP Systex, Etisalat, Eurobank Cards SA, Frost & Sullivan, Gemalto, Gie Cartes Bancavies, Giesecke & Devrient, HSBC Bank, IBM, ID Data Ltd, idtechex, Ingenico UK Ltd, Inside Contactless, Integri NV, Isracard Ltd, Kabira Technologies, Keane Ltd, Komerci Banka a.s, LINK Interchange Network, Logica CMG, MasterCard Europe, Medmera AB, Mellon Technologies, Miles & More International, Mobile Payments World, Modul-System Sweden AB, Monet+ A S, MoneyCard Ltd, Monitise Group Ltd, NORSIK, NXP Semiconductors, Oberthur Card Systems, Slovenska Sporitelna, Smart Card Group, SSB Group, Taiwan Mobile, Tatra Banka AS, Thales e-Security, The Logic Group, Trans Link Systems, Turiye Garanti Bankasi, Verisoft, Virgin Mobile, Welcome Real-Time