TRANSACT Tech San Francisco to Bring Top Payments, Software, Merchant Services Players Together
10-19-2018
ETA will bring together top executives from banking, payments and FinTech companies at TRANSACT Tech San Francisco on November 1, 2018 for at the Wells Fargo Connections Center. This one-day event will explore how software services are changing the way key ecosystems players – processors, banks and hardware manufactures – serve their merchants and channel partners.
Kicking-off the event is Secil Watson, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Solutions for Business at Wells Fargo.
“Customer expectations are changing rapidly, and pace of change in technology is accelerating,” Watson told ETA ahead of her keynote. “Yet we still have cash and checks. What can we learn from today’s customer experiences to build a better payments ecosystem for tomorrow?”
The agenda will touch on key trends and insights essential to making the most of the burgeoning software market in payments.
“In the last five years, in particular, the payments industry has been experiencing an acceleration of new market entrants,”Irv Henderson, CEO of talech, told ETA . “As software continues to disrupt the industry, TRANSACT Tech San Francisco is a great forum to learn how key technology trends and companies are driving this change.”
Sessions include:
- The Future of Payments – Taking the Long View will address the future of payments as banks and processors contemplate expansion beyond merchant services, featuring Irv Henderson, CEO, talech; and Andy Dresner, Head of Payments Strategy Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co; Brian Mahony, Chief Strategy Officer, Elavon.
- Integrated Payments Services and Banks will provide perspectives on how banks are engaging software providers in their next generation service offerings, featuring Rushi Patel, Co-Founder, Homebase; Jim Stahley, SVP, Wells Fargo; and Derrick Carpenter, SVP Product, Portfolio & Integrated Payments, Bank of America Merchant Services.
- Integrated Payments Services and Processors will discuss the relationship between processors and software providers in expanding services beyond payment processing, featuring Peter Osberg, SVP, U.S. Product & Worldwide Integrated Payments, EVO Payments International; Bodhi Chodhuri, SVP Product Deliver, Open Edge; Leo Rocco, SVP Product & Engineering, First Data; and Jake West, Director, Business Development, Vend.
- The Evolution of Hardware Solutions in Payments with Joe Mach, President North America, Verifone; Chip Kahn, Founder & CEO, Boomtown; and Brad Giles, SVP Marketing & Sales, Ingenico; Mark Schulze, Co-Founder, Clover and VP Business Development, First Data, will explore how hardware manufacturers are addressing key shifts in the expectations.
- Data and the Business Owner with Peter Shenk, Director of Partnerships, Womply; Brad Hawley, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; and John Waldman, Founder & CEO, Homebase, will explore how the effective use of data can serve a multitude of purposes in the payments industry.
- The Future of P2P Payments will consider the opportunities of P2P products for merchants and consumers with Amy Zirkle, VP Industry Affairs, ETA; Jamie Armistead, VP, Zelle; and Vikram Modi, Senior Business Leader, Visa; Carol Grunberg, Head of Key Accounts, Ant Financial.
- Investing in Payments includes veteran investors discussing payments trends with Dan Rosen, Commerce Ventures; Sean Minnihan, Nomura Global; and Tommaso Zanobini, Deutsche Bank.
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About ETA
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) is the world’s leading advocacy and trade association for the payments industry. Our members span the breadth of significant payments and fintech companies, from the largest incumbent players to the emerging disruptors in the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries around the world. ETA members make commerce possible by processing approximately $56.75 trillion annually in purchases and P2P payments worldwide and deploying payments innovation to merchants and consumers.
ETAs membership spans the breadth of the payments industry to include independent sales organizations (ISOs), payments networks, financial institutions, transaction processors, mobile payments products and services, payments technologies, and software providers (ISV) and hardware suppliers. For more information, visit electran.org.
