Developing market-specific strategies to leverage mobile and NFC technology to lay the foundation for mobile payments and bring increased value.

When: December 1st & 2nd, 2009 TORONTO

Summary:

The objective of this year’s ThinkTank is to discuss key opportunities and potential challenges on what can be done while en-route to significant commercial seeding of NFC capable devices in Canada.

What are the emerging business models? How do they impact the role of traditional value-chain players? What additional benefits can be driven through convergence of location of an end-user, targeted mobile marketing and information on their response to specific promotions?

Here is what last year’s participants said about the event…

“A great initiative to open up the dialogue among Industry leaders” –Elayne Milles \ Director of Marketing & Communications \ EnStream

“Congratulations on a very successful inaugural Canadian Mobile Payments Think Tank event! Thank you for… rounding up such a great group of leaders to discuss where we are and where we need to go to make this a reality” –Jeff McLaughlin \ EVP Mobile Strategy \ Monitise Americus

“Really enjoyed round table discussions, interesting participants… hope you have follow-up sessions” – Chelsie McKnight \ Product Manager & Strategic Planning \ Telus

ThinkTank Founding Members

Rogers	VeriSign	Telus	Research In Motion
Sasktel	EnStream	BlueSky Capital	Inside Contactless
RBC	Monitise	MasterCard	TCU Financial Group
Interac	Nokia	Carta Solutions	Vancity enviro Visa
VISA	Venyon	Citi Cards Canada	Giesecke & Devrient