Verifone Retail Payments Conference 2017 | Bond Dealers of America | 13 September 2017 | Don CeSar Hotel 3400 Gulf Blvd St Pete Beach,, Florida

Join us Wednesday, September 13th through Friday, September 15th 2017 at the Don CeSar Beach Resort in beautiful St. Pete Beach, Florida for the 13th annual Verifone Retail Payments Conference (VRPC). VRPC is a non-sales, invitation-only event for retail and hospitality customers where over 180 attendees for 120+ retailers gather to discuss the latest payment industry trends, hear from merchants like you on best practices as well as other keynotes led by top industry experts.

Keynote Speaker

Brian Solis
is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts and keynote speakers on digital transformation, innovation, experience design, culture 2.0 and digital Darwinism.

2017 Speakers

Kristina Allenback
Kristina is the Chief Information Officer for REEDS Jewelers, Inc.

Brian Backer
Brian Backer is Director of Enterprise Architecture focusing on mobile payments.

George Baker Sr.
Entrepreneurial, practical, and a visionary.

Jeff Baskin
Jeff Baskin is the EVP, Strategic Solutions for Radius Networks

Mark Beresford
Mark Beresford has over 20 years consulting experience in the financial services industry of which over 15 years are in the payments sector.

Paul Bernicchi
Paul Bernicchi works for the United States Postal Service’s Engineering Systems group and manages rapid development and technical solutions in USPS locations across the United States and its territories

Charl Botes
Charl has been working in the Payment Card Industry for the past 20 years.

Olabisi Boyle
Olabisi Boyle is the Senior Director - Internet of Things (IoT) - Global Vertical Lead for Connected Car.

Clint Cady
Clint Cady is the Director of Payments at W. Capra Consulting Group.

Jeff Cashman
Jeff Cashman serves as Manhattan Associates' senior vice president of business development.

Lloyd Cato
Lloyd Cato is Vice President, Merchant Sales & Solutions at Visa Inc.

Mariam Dombrovskaja
Mariam Dombrovskaja has served as Shopkick's VP of Retail since 2014.

Drago Dzerve
Drago Dzerve has been working with merchants for more than a decade building fit for purpose payment solutions.

John Gelinne
John Gelinne is a Director in Cyber Risk Services for Deloitte Advisory in the U.S. and is a part of the Resilient practice that helps clients prepare, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.

Kersten Gorski
Kersten Gorski is the Director of Deployment Services and Cashless Systems for McDonald’s IT USA. In this role,

Kersten Gorski
Kersten Gorski is the Director of Deployment Services and Cashless Systems for McDonald’s IT USA. In this role,

J.J. Kieley
The US/LAC Payments Consulting Group (PCG) is responsible for providing payment processing and product-related technical expertise and support to American Express merchants,

Perry Kramer
Perry Kramer is a leader in retail information technology, with more than 20 years of extensive experience across several types of retailers, including department stores and specialty retailers.

Perry Manous
I am a technology executive with experience leading software development, quality assurance and business process teams. I am a leader who closely partners with the business domain to iron out strategies, roadmaps and priorities

Brett McDowell
Brett McDowell is the Executive Director of the FIDO Alliance, the organization he helped establish in 2012 to remove the world’s dependency on passwords through open standards for strong cryptographic authentication.

Grady Milhon
Grady Milhon is a 18 veteran of the wireless industry, with positions spanning Customer Care, Network Engineering and Information Technology.

Bryan Penny
Bryan Penny is currently Vice President, Payment and New Markets for Nordstrom, supporting the all Payments functions companywide, as well as the launch of our credit card offerings in Puerto Rico and Canada. Prior to his current role, Bryan served as Vice President Vendor and Project Manager from 2012 – 2014 and Vice President, Accounting and Controller for the Bank from 2007 – 2012. Prior to joining Nordstrom, Bryan held various accounting and operations roles at Quark Software, First Data and Edison Brothers Stores.

en Peck
Jen is a Manager of Application Development for Retail Payment Technology at Starbucks HQ in Seattle

Pat Polillo
Mr. Pat Polillo has more than 33 years of technical and payments experience in the Retail Industry.

Raymond Pucci
Raymond Pucci is Associate Director of Research Services at Mercator Advisory Group in Boston, which delivers research and insight into the electronic payments industry.

Tom Rogers
Tom has more than thirty years experience in the payments industry managing the development and delivery of payment solutions designed to meet the needs of merchants and their customers.

William Smith
William is the co-founder of Euclid and currently serves as the company’s Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer.

Jeff Wakefield
Jeff Wakefield is the Vice President Americas Sales Enablement responsible for insuring the sales teams are properly trained and prepared to successfully sell Verifone solutions.

Keith Wilson
Keith Wilson is Global Head of Digital & Integrated Payments for the Discover Global Network.

2017 Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Direct Source

Level 10

Gold Sponsors

Ens

Hughes an Echostar Company

Powervar Solution for the power quality

Silver Sponsors

Aci Universal Payments

Alipay

Apg Cash Drawer

Aurus

Bank of America

Chetu

Coalfire

Discover Global Network

Fis