Venue
Crowne Plaza
Crowne Plaza, Salahuddin Road Deira - Dubai - UAE

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Event Date Wed Feb 21 GMT - Thu Feb 22 GMT (almost 7 years ago)
In your timezone (EST): Wed Feb 21 12:00am - Thu Feb 22 12:00am
Location Crowne Plaza
Salahuddin Road Deira - Dubai - UAE
Region EMEA
Details

Today contactless payments are rapidly gaining ground globally, driven by customer convenience and efficiency, this innovative mode of payment has opened up new dimension for daily transactions by consumers. Mobile wallets, online payment providers, near field communication (NFC) technology, have and continue to transform the space, allowing merchants to increase their point-of-sale transactions through customers making cashless payments, or using simple “Tap-and-Go” payment solutions.

Hence, we at Traicon will be hosting a two day educational platform known as the Digital Wallet Summit 2018, scheduled to take place on 21& 22 February in Dubai, UAE. The Digital Wallet summit will provide all the participating organizations with an excellent opportunity to meet, network, exchange ideas and come up with real-time solutions to some of the region’s most pressing issues.

We at Traicon request all the regional experts, government authorities, key stake holders involved in Digital Wallets and Fintech companies to actively participate in this summit that focuses on “Transforming the Middle East into a Leading Cashless Economy”.

Focused Industries:
• Bank Sector
• Govbernment Sector
• Digital Payments Sector
• Fintech Sector
• Mobile Network Sector
• Trensport Ticketing Sector
• Education Sector

Speakers

2018 Speakers

David Gyori
CEO of Banking Reports, Founding Member World Fintech Association

Jay Carpenter
Founder, Desert Blockchain LLC

Pavel Shoust
Executive Director, Russian Electronic Money and Remittance Association

David Martínez de Lecea
Head of Banking Middle East, Roland Berger

David Adams
Vice President – Issuing Products, Network International

Pankaj Kundra
Regional Head of Payments, Mashreq UAE

Ravi Kumar
Head Strategy & Innovation, Dubai Trade

Yousuf Mohammed Abdullah AlShaiba
Director of Smart Services Development Department, Ajman Municipality

Anshul Srivastav
Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer, Union Insurance

Vincent Wakaba
Head of Mobile Banking, Co-operative Bank of Kenya

Jon Matonis
Founding Director, Bitcoin Foundation, VP Corporate Strategy, nChain

Leonhard Weese
President, Bitcoin Association

Hoda A.Alkhzaimi
Director, Center of Cyber Security

Ajay Rathi
Senior Director Information Technology, Meraas Holding

Kumar Prasoon
Group CIO, Al Safeer Group

Sami Eltamawy
CTO & Co-Founder, insydo

Mark Pilkington
Chief Executive Officer, Kamal Osman Jamjoom Group

Paul Armstrong
Founder, HERE/FORTH

Hassan Mehdiasl
CEO and founder, AllPays

Mr. Khaled Al Ahli
Chief Executive, Eazy Financial Services B.S.C

Fawaz Ghazal
CEO and co-founder, Payment International Enterprise (PIE)

Daniel Romaidis
VP Business Development MEA, Wirecard Processing FZ LLC

Dr Nihal El Daly
Co-Founder & Head of Business Solutions, Axellerus Business Consultants

Paul Mahone
CEO, BitBoost Block GmbH

Ugur Sennaroglu
Head of Digital Product and Business Development, Garanti Bank

Paolo Lacche
COO, Crowdholding

Volodymyr Budanov
Chief Sales & Marketing, Wallet Factory

Erik Wilgenhof Plante
Head of Emerging Technology & Infrastructure, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

Udit Dhawan
CTO and Co-Founder, TRUSTLESS.AI

Sponsors & Partners

2018 Sponsors and Partners

OFFICIAL SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• Union of Arab Banks
• Electronic Money
• World Fintech Association
• Bitcoin Foundation
• Bitcoin HK\Roland Berger
• Al Safeer
• Here/Forth
• Home-grownbrands.net
• Axellerus
• Bitboost

OFFICIAL STRATEGIC SPONSOR:
• PwV

OFFICIAL GOLD SPONSOR:
• Trustless.ai

ASSOCIATE SPONSOR:
• Network
• Mashreq

EXHIBITOR:
• Wallet Factory

KEYNOTE:
• CH

RESEARCH PARTNER:
• Oxford Business Group

BUSINESS COUNCIL PARTNERS:
• Greater Pheonix Economic Council

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Arabian-Gazette
• banking technology
• Bankless times
• Brave New Coin
• BTC Manager
• CoinFox
• Connected Life
• CDM
• CrowdFund Insider
• Eye of Riyadh
• Economic Journal
• Europes & Middle East Outlook
• Eventchain
• Eye of Dubai
• Fintechtime
• Fintech Australia
• Fintech Finance
• Market Inspector
• Mercator Advisory Group
• Middle East Business
• Payments & Fintech Lawyer
• Payments Journal
• Payments & Cards Network
• the Business Year
• UAEBusiness.com
• Voices of Leaders