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2006 Events

• 3G World Congress & Mobility Marketplace 2006
  Speaker: Waishun Lo
  Date: December 4 - 7, 2006
  Location: Hong Kong, China
  
  On Dec 6, MPD principal Waishun Lo presented at the 3G World Congress & Mobility Marketplace 2006 in Hong Kong. Waishun participated on the panel, Strategic Summit II: Next Generation Service Providers and Alternative Telcos, alongside representatives from Google, Telemates, The Shosteck Group, Boingo Wireless, and Podvertiser.
  
  In his presentation, "From Rings to Riches: A New Model for Making Mobile Content Profitable," Waishun offers a new perspective of the emerging and fast-growing mobile content industry worldwide and examined various efforts to offer mobile content. Drawing from the experiences of telcos around the world now engaged in content delivery, Professor Lo uses MPD’s proprietary five-step framework to provide insights on the strategies of several successful and less so companies in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.
  
  For a copy of his presentation, email us.
  
• Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation
  Speaker: David Evans 
  Date: November 14, 2006
  Location: Washington University
  
  Home security systems with facial recognition, laundry machines that send text messages, telephones that pay for groceries - all are made possible by the incredible work of software platforms, the invisible engines that power industries as far reaching as PCs, PDAs and video games, mobile phones, digital media and web-based software such as Google and Ebay.
  
  But technology is only half of what makes these engines cool - the harder part is figuring out how to actually turn "cool" into cash. How many cutting-edge ideas fall away after failing to figure out how to make money?
  
  In this presentation, Invisible Engines author, David Evans, tells the story of the most vibrant software engines and how they transcended "cool" to become profitable fixtures in today's economy.
  
  Download the video presentation or learn more at Invisible-Engines.com.
  
• The MPD Dialogue Series: Invisible Engines
  Date: October 12, 2006
  Location: MIT Faculty Club, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA
  Participants: Executives representing Boston-area emerging software platform companies and venture capital firms 
  
  On the heels of the publication, Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries (MIT Press, September 2006), authors, David Evans, Founder of MPD, and Andrei Haigu, Principal at MPD, led a lively discussion about how software platforms make money and create value for consumers and business. They described how companies like DoCoMo, Google, eBay and Microsoft have been able to consistently defy conventional product design and pricing wisdom and simultaneously (and profitably) engage multiple customer groups.
  
• Modern Bankers Bankcard Seminar
  Date: June 28, 2006
  Organizer: Modern Bankers Magazine
  Location: Beijing, China
  
  On June 28, Modern Bankers Magazine and Market Platform Dynamics hosted the Bankcard Seminar in Beijing, China. The conference focused on the challenges and opportunities in the global payment industry and the implications for China.
  
  MPD’s David Evans delivered the keynote. In his presentation, Evans offered an overview of the disruption that has forced entrenched payment companies to consider new business strategies and opened the door to emerging ones. (Download his presentation here.) Evans also moderated the discussion that followed with leading executives and experts from the industry.
  
  Among the attendees, executives from major banks and institutions such as China UnionPay, China VISA, HSBC, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and emerging payment companies such as SmartPay, Alipay, YeePay, and Union Mobile Pay participated in the discussion.
  
  Modern Bankers Magazine is a publication of the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China.
  
• Electronic Payments Summit IV
  Date: June 14, 2006
  Organizer: UBS
  Location: New York, NY
  
  UBS hosted the Electronics Payments Summit on June 14th, 2006 in New York City. This event featured a series of diverse panels comprising money transfer services, processors, banks, card association, and numerous industry experts, who discussed key issues and future prospects for the electronic payments industry.
  
  MPD Founder, David Evans, participated on a panel: Key Changes Facing the Networks and Associations.  He addressed the changes in the competitive environment for card associations, other services and value that the associations can offer merchants and issuers, and whether networks/card brands can successfully compete with established players.
  
• 18th Annual Card Forum & Expo
  Date: May 21-23, 2006
  Organizer: SourceMedia
  Location: Hollywood, Florida
  
  SourceMedia’s annual Card Forum and Expo is one of the card industry’s largest events with over 750 attendees across all financial sectors. In addition to product and solution demonstrations, Card Forum also offers attendees a program that includes four detailed tracks: Credit, Debit, Pre-paid/Stored Value and Loyalty Marketing. The 2006 Forum took place from May 21-23 at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida.
  
  On the second day of the conference, MPD Founder David Evans opened the day with his keynote presentation, Growing Pains: What the Next Generation Wants from Cards. Evans presentation argued that if you want to understand the future of the payment industry, you need to look at what the under-40 crowd is doing. Drawing on a quarterly study of 4,000 Gen X and Gen Y-ers, Evans revealed the payment preferences of today's youth, showed how to win their loyalty to various payment platforms, and forecasted how technological devices will influence payment platforms in the future.
  
  Following Evans presentation, MPD hosted the Power Panel: Emerging Payment Technologies. Executives from FDC, Visa, MasterCard, and Chase, participated in the panel debate of the future of payment technologies, the tipping point for adoption by a critical mass of customers and how issuers and vendors can be successful implementers of new technology.
  
• CardTechSecureTech 2006
  Date: May 2-4, 2006
  Organizer: SourceMedia
  Location: The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
  
  CardTech/SecurTech (CTST) is an industry-wide conference on new and emerging products and solutions in the payments industry. During CTST, fifteen full-day workshops cover every aspect of token-based transaction and security technology and business strategy. The 2006 conference took place from May 2-4 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
  
  On the first day of the conference, Market Platform Dynamics hosted a day long workshop, Emerging Payment Technologies: Challengers, Contenders... MPD Founder, David Evans, acted as the Workshop’s advisor which included opening presentations by Evans and industry-expert Eric Dunn of Cardinal Ventures called Show Me the Money: A Payment Industry Overview - What VCs Are Funding and Steering Clear Of.
  
  Panels followed throughout the day including:
  - Payment Touch & Go: A Panel Discussion on Competing and Overlapping Form Factors - Contactless, Biometrics, Mobile
  - Making Technology Pay: A Panel Discussion on Efforts to Drive Acceptance of New Payment Technologies
  - X/Y Factor Panel Discussion: How Will the Under-35 Crowd Change the Payment Industry Landscape?
  - Panel Discussion on the Changing Ecosystems: Emerging Platforms That Are Disrupting the Payment World
  
  The workshop closed with a presentation by Win Derman, former Visa executive, on History Lessons: Payment Industry Technologies Change, Fundamentals Remain.
  
• The Lydian Roundtable
  Organizer: Market Platform Dynamics
  Date: March 31- April 2, 2006
  Location: Santa Fe, NM
  
  Almost three millennia ago, the Kingdom of Lydia revolutionized the payment industry of its time by minting gold coins. Lydian coins replaced the use of irregular slugs of metals that had to be inspected and weighed, not to mention old-fashioned barter. We believe that today the payment industry is going through another revolution. While not as dramatic perhaps, it is one that over the next decade may reshape how we pay for things around the world.
  
  The Lydian Roundtable assembles the world's most influential industry participants for a weekend of discussion, debate and shared insights. Participants include CEOs and entrepreneurs at the forefront of new payment technologies around the world, senior executives of the prominent players (themselves upstarts only a generation ago), as well as CEOs and senior executives from the Internet-based businesses that will be major players or stakeholders in the payment card industry of the future.
   
  For more information about the Lydian Roundtable, please email info@marketplatforms.com
  
• The MPD Dialogue Series: Payment Card Industry Futures - Mobile Commerce
  Date: February 9, 2006
  Location: MIT Faculty Club, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA
  Participants: Closed-door session for executives representing Boston-area emerging payment technology companies and venture capital firms
  
  This MPD Dialogue session featured MPD Chairman Richard Schmalensee, Dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, who moderated a discussion centered around mobile commerce. The discussion covered the moves being made by the leading mobile operators and mobile content providers around the world and the potential impact on the traditional payment industry landscape. Matt Catino, Co-founder and VP of Strategic Partners, SavaJe, an open operating system for mobile phones, and MPD expert Andrei Hagiu, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, shared their thoughts and perspectives.
  
  Download the briefing book here.
  
• The MPD Dialogue Series: Payment Card Industry Futures - The Global Adoption and Evolution of eWallets
  Date: January 11, 2006
  Location: Gramercy Tavern, New York, NY
  Participants: New York-area venture capital firms and emerging payment technology companies
  
  This Forum, called Payment Card Industry Futures: The Global Adoption and Evolution of eWallets, featured talks by Paying with Plastic author David S. Evans, ClickandBuy executive John BaRoss, and Harvard Business School Professor Andrei Hagiu. Their talks were followed by a discussion by executives representing several New York-area venture capital and emerging payment technologies.
  
  Download the briefing book here.