2009 Strategic Leadership Forum Wrap Up

The links below are to presentations from the 2009 Strategic Leadership Forum in New York City. The links include all of the presentations ETA has permission to publish.

Session I: The Shift in Payment Types

These sessions addressed the REAL story on the future of credit and debit against the myriad of new payment options entering the market.  What will become a dominant market force?  More importantly, how can you effectively assess these trends and position your company to profit?

Tracy Hampton, Visa Inc.

Tom Layman, Global Vision

Derek Lounsbury, Toys'R' Us

Brian McLoughlin, GRP Partners

Dan Rogers, Bling Nation

Session II: Enabling Technologies

Technology has driven electronic payments throughout its history, from the earliest days of the magnetic stripe and electronic authorizations.  But what does the future hold?  These sessions provided a strategic view of the enabling technologies that are expected to dominate the payments landscape in the next few years. 

Links to Live Demonstration Videos:

• ViVOtech
• Bling Nation
• Billing Revolution
  

Session III: Critical Issues in Risk Management

Payments companies that will survive and thrive in the new world order will be masters of effective risk management.  So what activities and risks should you prepare for? How do you focus on the realities, not the rhetoric? These informative sessions delivered key strategies for addressing: the risk factors and related budgetary impacts on effective data security; self-regulation - how we must define and manage our own future to avoid unwanted outside intervention; and the "big" threats, the ones that will imperil your business if not properly addressed.

John Mayleben Michigan Retailers Association

John Seddon, Deknatel Seddon & Associates, Inc.