Mastercard is excited to offer access to a complimentary thought leadership series for Acquirers in the US Market through Mastercard Digital Safari platform. Mastercard’s innovation experts and industry leaders will provide actionable insights on key trends in innovation across topics surrounding the merchant partner lifecycle, including prospecting, onboarding, servicing, optimization, and retention.

What is the Acquirers Innovation Speakers Summit?

The Acquirers Innovation Speakers Summit is a virtual offering of three (3) days speaker sessions, a curated view of the global payments and technology landscape and immediate and actionable insights into strategies and technical choices to reimagine digital transformation. Gain access to actionable insights from leading experts and reimagine your own digital transformation plans.

Recordings will be available (in the Digital Safari platform) to all registered Clients upon completion of the Summit until December 31, 2024.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

The Acquiring Innovation Speakers Summit

Change and a constant need to adapt to evolving business models and harness new technologies to deliver better solutions to merchants and their end customers has always been at the heart of the payment acceptance industry.

The payment landscape today is a fascinating combination of a decades-old solution (the payment card) overlaid with multiple generations of technology and business evolution across in-store and ecommerce retail. This evolution is accelerating faster than ever with the emergence of Digital Wallets, Generative AI, Embedded Payments, Security and Fraud prevention along with a constantly evolving consumer expectation of Next-generation experiences.

During the program we will unpack key trends and curate their impact on the acquiring industry such as:

Generative AI
How this technology has become an essential part of new commerce infrastructure and its application to drive efficiency across sales, marketing and customer operations.

Embedded Finance
Payments have evolved from just the acceptance and processing of the payments to much more software and vertical-driven solutions that ultimately results in a far less cumbersome and more seamless and frictionless experience for the end customer.

A2A Payments
A2A payments are accelerating in certain global markets (e.g. pix - Brazil; upi - India) but remains slow in markets such as the US. Launched in 2023 FedNow looks to be years away from changing consumer payments choice, partly due to instant payments challenges with fraud.

Digital Omnichannel Payments and Next-gen digital experiences
Consumers now expect less friction in their purchasing experiences and rate convenience and speed as key preferences. The lines of omnichannel acceptance will continue to blur across card present and card not present environments, leading to unified online, mobile, and in-store experiences.

Payment Orchestration Platforms
Payments orchestration platforms provide retailers with one solution to manage multiple payment flows, payment providers and payment methods. They allow merchants to offer customers a wider range of payment options, while simplifying the payment process on the back end. Payments orchestration platforms typically integrate with a wide range of payment providers, including credit card processors, alternative payment methods, digital wallets, real-time payment services, payment gateways and acquiring banks.

Join us to gain expert insights on the Acquiring industry and evolving merchant and consumer needs. All our talk tracks are focused on explaining and curating these topics and key trends for an Acquiring audience and helping you to bring your payments strategy to the next level.

TERM:

The Acquirers Innovation Speakers Summit takes place the week of October 14-18 using our online video conferencing platforms.  The sessions will take place from 11 am ET to 2 pm ET (8 am PT to 11 am PT) and include leading speakers from academia and industry.  A specific agenda for the sessions will be published by early September.

The sessions will be available  for all employees at your company once you enroll.  If you are unable to attend one of the sessions live, the recordings will be available in the Digital Safari platform until December 31, 2024.

FEES: The total fee for the Acquirers Innovation Speakers Summit is Three Hundred Thousand Dollars (US $300,000). Mastercard and your company are parties to an Incentive Agreement, effective as specified in such agreement. Mastercard will contribute $300,000 from the Merchant Incentive Fund to provide access to the Summit for all employees at your company. For avoidance of doubt, any access to additional speaker series or access to other features of the Digital Safari platform will be subject to a separate written agreement between the parties.

Please review the Terms and Conditions and then complete the Enrollment Form to receive access to the Acquirers Innovation Speakers Summit . Upon submission of the Enrollment Form, you will receive additional details on accessing the Digital Safari platform and the details for each session.

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