Cards & Payments Middle East is the region’s number one payments conference and exhibition.’
For the past 16 years it has grown to delivers the biggest scale, best audience and most engaging event. Cards & Payments is an experience. It’s fun. It’s memorable and it’s our goal to make it the most valuable few days of the year.’
Commerce is constantly evolving and technology continues to transform the way consumers, businesses, citizens and governments connect, shop, buy and transact.’
Future purchases will be dominated by connected devices that will provide seamless transactions whilst generating exponential amounts of data. Smart devices will anticipate customer’s needs and save them time by purchasing products for them.’
This year the event includes a dedicated Big Data one day workshop before the main event on the 30th May for those who want to expand their big data understanding and skills.’
TOPICS INCLUDE
- Commerce disruption
- Predictive analytics
- Fintech
- Blockchain
- Contactless payments
- Tokenization
- Authentication
- Biometrics
- Wearables
- Financial inclusion
- Social payments
- P2P
- Remittances
- Invisible payments
- B2B
- BLE
SPEAKERS INCLUDE
- Network International and Emirates NBD, Abdulla Qassem, Group COO / Chairman
- Saudi Hollandi Bank, Dr Bernd van Linder, Managing Director
- Santander, Rodrigo Kuri, Managing Director, Bank of the Future
- MIT, David Rose, award-winning entrepreneur, author of ‘Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things‘ and instructor
- Barclays and Mayor of London Derek White, Global Chief Design & Digital Officer/’
London Technology Advisor - Copenhagen Business School, Expert on Cashless Society and Future Payments’ Prof. Jonas Hedman, Associate Professor
- ‘Big Data: Using SMART Big Data, Analytics and Metrics to Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance’ Bernard Marr, Best- Selling Author
- Qatar Islamic Bank, Gopi Krishnan, CIO
- Gyft, Vinny Lingham, CEO & Founder
- Rabobank, Michael Dooijes, Global Head of Innovation
- YellowPepper, Serge Elkiner, CEO & Founder
- Sucharita Mulpuru, Vice President, principal analyst, Forrester Research, author, ‘The State of Retailing Online’
- Network International, Bhairav Trivedi, CEO
- Souqalmal, Ambareen Musa, CEO
- Bridg, Moussa Beidas, Co-Founder and CEO
- Habib BanK, Faiq Sadiq, Group Head of Payment Services
- umbrella, Sergey Yusupov, Co-Founder
- WorldRemit, Alix Murphy, Senior Mobile Analyst
- Fintricity, Alpesh Doshi, Founder
- Kraken Austin Alexander, Head of Business Development
- Bitoasis, Ola Doudin, CEO & Founder
- Careem, Karl Magnus Olsson, MD & Founder
- dopay, Brad van Leeuwen, Chief Partnerships Officer
- Rakuten, Erik Mierhoff, CSO
- Bank of America, Minakshi Srivastava, Vice President
- Gemalto, Fran’ois Chaffard, Director Banking Solutions & Services
- Spire Payments, Nigel Dean, Global Marketing Director
- International Smart Card (QiCard), Dr. Hasan Alkhatib, CTO
Pocopay, Linnar Viik, Co-founder