The 7th International PLUS Forum “Cards, Payments and Mobile 2016” will be held by the PLUS Journal on June 7-8, 2016 in Moscow. The event is dedicated to the analysis of the current state and prospects for the payment industry development in Russia and globally.

It is for the seventh time already that the Forum will bring together representatives of all market participants, such as the financial sector players, telecom and transportation operators, retailers, solution providers, and relevant government agencies. This year, their special interest to the Forum is driven by the new economic conditions where most players, both large and small, have already managed to fundamentally update or even change their previous business strategies.
The Forum participants will share their experience in choosing and implementation of their strategies for staying in business and supporting it, building new retail banking and payment business models better adopted to the new realia.

Of special attention is the PLUS-Forum Conference Programme. The agenda of each session is driven by specific challenges of time and generates special interest of the market players:
- Russian payment industry in the new environment: where are we going toæ
- Banks and their competitors: promising models for financial retail development.
- Bank in a changing technological environment: from the smartphone to blockchain.
- IT in the bank: from the tools to the development strategy.
- Security and cybercrime fighting. The challenges of the 21st century.
- Advanced and innovative solutions and initiatives. Payment, transport, and social applications in modern infrastructure.
- Marketing and loyalty in the payment industry.

The list of PLUS-Forum speakers stands out particularly this year. The Steering Committee has invited a number of special guests to the conference. For some of them delivery of their reports in Russia will be the first experience. Among them:
- Judah Levine, Mondato CEO, to report on “Reverse innovation - implementing emerging markets innovation in developed markets”.
- Robert Heinz, SHC owner and CEO, to report on “Direct debit with guaranteed payment”
- Samuel Blackwell, Research Analyst, RBR, with his presentation “Payment card issuing and acquiring in Europe, 2016”.
- Ursula Schilling, Director for Business Development within the Chip Card and Security Division of Infineon Technologies AG, will dwell on “Turning gadgets and wearables into payments devices”.
- Laszlo Csercsa, VP Sales EMEA, SmartDisplayer Technology, will analyze the benefits of “Display Cards for secure online banking”

We are glad to inform you that the following organizations have recently joined the PLUS-Forum as Sponsors and Partners: SOVIT, Nexgo, UCS, ALLIOTH, VisionLabs, TIM CONNECT, PAX, The third sense, Compass Plus, Verifone.

More detailed information about the event can be found at the official website of PLUS-Forum.

We invite speakers and vendors to take part in the event! 

The Conference language is Russian, with simultaneous translation into English. More information about the event can be found on the official web page of the 7th International PLUS-Forum “Cards, Payments and Mobile 2016”. 

Alongside with the conference, at the most representative annual exhibition Russian and foreign companies will present their specialized business solutions, equipment and technologies and share the information about their successful projects and plans for the nearest future. 

The event is increasingly growing in popularity among the market participants. According to the organizers, over 1200 specialists in total are expected to attend the 7th International PLUS-Forum “Cards, Payments and Mobile 2016”. 

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Online registration for the PLUS-Forum is open.