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Join David Adams, Senior Vice President, Network International, Craig Brackenbury, Director, Product Management, MPGS and Deepak Achar, Director, Omni-Channel Payments, Mastercard, as they discuss the dramatic acceleration of innovative embedded payment solutions. With smart devices and customer demand moving the goalposts and payment technologies changing from multi-device acceptance to Tap on Phone systems, the payment industry is evolving to provide enriched solutions for specific customer needs.

Damla Taskin, VP of Product Management at MPGS, shares her hot takes on the hot topics at Money 20/20, the number one payments industry event in Las Vegas. With critical insights on how to build your business in 2023, Damla talks to the challenges and opportunities facing the global payments industry, and how simplification of the checkout experience can help fight fraud and optimize CX, with KYC, COF and network tokenization top of the agenda.

Developers are the vanguard of evolution in payment technology, shaping the world like modern day magicians. We talk with our new product manager Luke Rynne Cullen about his unconventional journey into development, the importance of communication and empathy in technology, and the value of staying connected to the wider developer community via social media.

Everyone’s online nowadays, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s paying the same way. We’re delighted to welcome Adrian Burgess, Head of Strategic Growth for our partner PPRO, as well as Sadeek Varachia, our Director of Product Management, to talk about the need for alternative payment methods when a one-size-fits-all approach won’t cut it.

EMV 3DS 2.0 is here, promising 10-times the data points per transaction. But what does that mean for the payments industry? We discuss the endless opportunities offered by richer data, such as increased consumer confidence, acceptance, payments flexibility, and more. Joining us are industry experts Mark Hey, Nathan Franks and Scott Paterson.

For women’s history month we talk women in tech with Kim Simon, SVP of Business Operations, a 25+ technology veteran. From following her passion to finding a role model, she shares how she was there for a global team that never sleeps, the true value of continuous learning, and why you should follow what you love, without limits.

For this women’s history month meet Saima Sadiq, a TechWomen 100 award winner and a champion for women in entering the technology industry. Saima Sadiq shares her thoughts on the endless possibilities for women thinking of a career in technology.

Mountains of payment data are created every day, but we barely scratch the surface of its full potential. We talk to Geoff Brown, Director of Data Enablement and Analytics, about how structuring and understanding this data can unleash the true power of payments – honing products, driving loyalty, and telling stories.

Open Banking is the key to competition in the banking industry, allowing third parties to offer innovative financial services at low cost and with global reach. We look at how fintechs are offering competitive payment options to give customers speed, flexibility and control of their finances based on the freedom offered by Open Banking.

John Conneely, Product Manager, MPGS talks about how Support Driven Development in the early stages of product deployment can give support teams the key tools they need for efficient product scaling with customer-centred satisfaction.

With peak shopping season on the way we explore the challenges and changes retail will be facing this year. How will merchants handle the demands of consumers and dangers of fraud, all while juggling new digital channels at the busiest time of year?

Human-centered thinking is at the heart of Mastercard’s strategy. From concept, to validation, to iteration, and back again we explore Design Thinking and working towards the right answer with our own industry expert David Budzevski, VP of Product Management.

Mastercard SVP Martijn van Os and AEVI CEO Mike Camerling talk about the thinking, the technology and the unique partnership that’s helping simplify omnichannel payments on a global scale.