ETA Announces Visa and Google Keynotes for “TRANSACT℠ 14: Powered by ETA”

January 8, 2014 – ETA announced today the keynote speakers for “TRANSACT 14: Powered By ETA,” the industry’s largest payments and technology event.

“We are honored to have top executives from Visa and Google as our keynote speakers to share their vision of payments industry opportunities,” said Jason Oxman, CEO of ETA. “With a near sold-out show floor, incredible networking, and speakers from every major global payments company, this is the one show where payments and technology converge.”

Elizabeth Buse is Executive Vice President, Global Solutions at Visa where she is responsible for implementing, managing and growing Visa’s wide range of solutions, including those for digital channels, processing services, information products and merchant sales and solutions, including CyberSource. Previously, she was Visa’s Group President for Asia Pacific, Central Europe, Middle East and Africa and prior to that was Global Head of Product for Visa Inc., leading all aspects of product strategy, development and management for Visa’s core and new products.

Ariel Bardin, VP of Product Management, Payments, Google Inc., is responsible for product strategy and business development for Google Payments. This includes products that allow Google properties to accept payments, third-party merchants to accept Google Wallet, and consumers to use Google Wallet online and in the real world. Previously, Ariel spent eight years as a leader in Google AdWords where he helped define, build, and launch many advertiser-facing features.

Buse and Bardin will deliver industry insights and expertise to the 4,000 payments technology and retail professionals in attendance, representing 1,000 companies and 24 countries. TRANSACT 14 is the world’s gathering place to make connections with the biggest players in the payments industry.

In addition to featuring these seminal keynote speakers, TRANSACT 14 includes an expanded selection of educational opportunities with 7 conference tracks, increased trade show floor hours, and unlimited industry networking opportunities. Our show will offer three full days of programming, culminating in the biggest networking party in payments, the TRANSACT Party at the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef Aquarium. These enhancements have been designed to showcase technical innovations in payments, provide ramp-up training for those new to payments, and provide a stage for networking and partnerships.

TRANSACT 14 will take place April 8 – 10, 2014 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Register today at www.electran.org/transact14.

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