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NFC Industry Events
From IC Card World to NFC & Smart World: Formerly focusing on smart card technology, the NFC & Smart World exhibition now introduces the latest trends in the world of the NFC standard. It bills itself as the only NFC and smart card technology event in Japan.
Billing itself as the only independent European event to cover global updates for other continents (Latin Ameria and Asia-Pacific) and is one of the few NFC events to cover two of the main planned uses for NFC–payments and transport.
The NFCP Global Summit 2012 aims to bring all the key stakeholders from different geographies together under one roof and discuss practical solutions to common key challenges in the industry. This will offer attendees and speakers a chance to brainstorm on new sustainable business models and look at ways of creating a less fragmented market where there is more trust and quick growth for all.
NFC Ticketing Europe 2012 is the only European event that focuses on working out profitable and scalable NFC ticketing solutions. Join the likes of Visa Europe, Arriva, O2, Deutsche Bahn, MasterCard, Deutsche Telekom, Renfe, United Airlines, Barclaycard, ATM spa Ravenna, First Rail, Citi, TfL, Austria Telekom, and many more are already confirmed speakers.
In order to take full advantage of emerging payment platforms and mobile retail services, retailers must fully integrate commercial transactions with POS and financial management systems. As importantly, they must integrate the new wealth of incoming customer data into their existing customer management and marketing initiatives. Every mobile coupon, loyalty campaign and mobile offering represents a commercial exchange. Each customer interaction, be it payment or service based, represents a data collection opportunity.
400-plus retailers, restaurants and industry executives debate the full spectrum of mobile commerce and mobile retail services at the Advanced Commerce & Mobile Retail Services Summit.
Deploying a system that simply enables mobile transactions is no longer sufficient; in today's era of new commerce, retailers, merchants and all players in the mobile space must also address loyalty, rewards, offers, data analytics and the ability to leverage social networks when considering implementing a mobile payments solution.
The 4th Mobile Contactless Payment Innovations Summit showcases best practice strategies and solutions for monetizing all consumer interactions and driving revenue growth over multiple devices and media and retail channels.
The WIMA 6th Global NFC Applications Products & Services Congress bills itself as the largest international conference and exhibition exclusively dedicated to Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, bringing together industry leaders, start-up companies, application developers, service providers, standards organisations, government bodies and research & educational institutions to its annual event in Monaco.
The Payment Trends China 2012 is collecting the latest and hottest issues in online payment, mobile payment, payment cards, e-bank technology and payment security, bridging the gap between developing and developed countries. It seeks to provide a better understanding of the opportunities, development trends and challenges for payment and bank technology innovations.
Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2012 will draw together highly-regarded speakers representing mobile network operators, banks, money-transfer providers and networks, mobile wallets, retailers, public transit providers, "interoperability hubs", handset manufacturers and other technology and equipment providers to share their latest efforts in launching mobile-financial services and the key challenges facing them. The event topics include mobile payments, NFC technologies, mobile money transfer and mobile remittance and mobile banking.
The 7th annual Near Field Communication (NFC) World Asia is the leading conference in Asia that is dedicated to NFC technology and brings together all key stakeholders from the payments, mobile communications, retailer and merchant sectors. NFC World Asia will also be co-located with 7 other events over three days: Cards & Payments Asia, Prepaid Cards Asia, RFID World Asia, Retail World Asia, Online Retail World Asia, Digital Signage World Asia and Digital ID World Asia.
Now in its sixth year, the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference (CISC) continues to deliver the latest in contactless and NFC activity, providing participants with access to the implementers themselves: retailers, transport operators and local authorities. The conference combines presentations, panel discussions and workgroups, reviewing contactless and NFC applications and discussing how the technology can be implemented on a wider scale.
PLUS Journal will hold Innovations, Remote Services, Cards and Payments 2012–the 3rd International Forum, in Moscow. The Forum is dedicated to the analysis of the industry’s challenges in Russia, CIS and globally. The conference and exhibition will offer innovations and networking for banks, operators, retailers and governments.
The Smart Card Alliance's first event devoted to NFC. The NFC Solutions Summit 2012 will be a comprehensive American showcase for the burgeoning technology of Near Field Communication. The conference will cover the state of this promising technology, developments in new NFC devices and add-ons, the status of the growing NFC ecosystem, the promise of NFC-enabled payments and other popular applications, NFC implementation, and American and international market forecasts.
NFC Payments Europe is back for its second year, with another lineup of speakers representing key players in the NFC industry, including Citi, Barclaycard, O2, BNP Paribas, iZettle, Visa Europe, Vodafone, Clinton Cards, La Caixa, Landesbank Berlin and Telefonica Czech Republic.
It's billed as the industry's most focused NFC payments event. Topics will include: Understanding the wallet wars and the critical success factors that will keep certain wallets ahead of the crowd; evolving bank and MNO business models for 2012; creating critical mass by incentivizing consumers to migrate to NFC payments; and tapping into NFC marketing by using the power of proximity marketing, loyalty and couponing.
The NFC Congress 2012, held in Hagenberg, Austria, is in its 5th year. Organizers have dedicated a session to mobile payment, in which big players present the future of the application. Other topics of the conference will include transport ticketing, software development, testing and security. In addition to business and applications sessions at the conference, the NFC Congress 2012 will include an exhibition.
Over three days in the "NFC city" of Nice, French Riviera, the NFC World Congress will unite again all the NFC value-chain players to consolidate and amplify the momentum of the contactless market
Among the new features in 2012 for this international exhibition and conference will be increased NFC experiences “live” on-site and in downtown Nice, a full day dedicated to exclusive “add-ons,” and a larger space to host 70 exhibitors shared with the co-located Word e-ID Congress.
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