Industry expertise roundtable meeting on Mobile Payments in Belgium 30/8 10H.
Initiated by Agoria ICT, Agoria Banking Club, LSEC-team and Mobilemonday Brussels
If you wish to particpate and feel like you have a word to say about mobile payment click on link here Background:
Needless to explain that with the high speed developments of the Mobile industry, the fast expansion of Iphone, Ipad, Android and their linked application stores, the window for mobile payments is re-appearing. This time in a high speed internet multimedia phone format, with or without NFC, a variety of possible mobile payment options are entering the market : direct debit from bank accounts, topping up virtual accounts, through the traditional credit card facilities, newly appearing operators and models, payments through mobile operators, walled garden application stores and payment facilities in applications, ….
Up until today, thanks to different Belgian originating companies and our Belgian expertise abroad, we have been recognized for our expertise in this domain on a worldwide scale. Both systems and transactions of electronic payments and the security of financial transactions such as e-banking and multi-factor authentication have been excellent examples.
Today, we are facing a market fragmentation and a multitude of appearing schemes, that could be challenging for a wider market adoption, challenging for international interest and setting new standards through future developments.
Considering the current developments, technological and market breakthroughs, it is our opinion that in order to benefit of the window of opportunity for all players, it is worthwhile for all active participants to jointly discover mutual ways for further development and continue to lead this market as international experts.
Our objective of such a gathering will be :
1. To bring various different active players around the table, exploring different schemes and discovering strengths and weaknesses
2. To prepare an international public gathering, and widening the discussions on an international level, but at the same time exposing our expertise internationally
3. To discover mutual technological and market challenges, such as mobile security, user interfacing and market adoption and prepare follow-up actions such as research and business development activities
4. To understand the interest or need for further activities bringing financial services, telecommunications and IT-industries together
During this roundtable discussion, we would like to invite all participants to shortly present their activities and market vision, potential challenges and ideas
