PYMNTS Innovation Project 2013PYMNTS Innovation Project 2013

Happy New Year!

Leeann — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:48:46 +0000

Dear Colleagues-

Happy New Year!

I hope you’ll start the new year by joining me at The Innovation Project™, which is taking place on March 20-21 at Harvard University’s Annenberg Hall and Science Center. Over those two days, 500 hand-selected senior executives from across the payments, commerce, and mobile ecosystems will start a number of thought-provoking conversations about how to go about the challenging job of executing and igniting innovation in commerce through five unique modules:

1. Through a series of interactive keynote sessions with external thought leaders like:

Warren Buffet (the Oracle of Omaha and early investor in American Express)
Al Gore (former VP of the USA, Google Board member, and author of The Future (publication date January 2013)
Eric Ries (entrepreneur and author of The Lean Start Up)
Steve Levitt (economist and author of Freakonomics)
Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School professor and author of Architecture of Innovation)
Raj Date (finance professional and second in command at the CFPB)
Russell Simmons (entrepreneur, music mogul, and prepaid pioneer)

Among others now being confirmed, each of the celebrated individuals will be each be paired with CEOs and C-level executives in a series of 90-minute, thought-provoking roundtable sessions. For example, Al Gore will use the thesis of his new book, The Future, and the digitization of commerce to start a dialogue about the implications these changes will have on our global future. This mega-entrepreneur will be paired with the CEO of a payments network who will be announced at the end of January.

2. Through the ThinkAThon where 15 teams will compete to craft an approach to solving five of the toughest problems in payments/commerce, with each of those teams presenting their approaches to a panel of judges (including Beverly Anderson/EVP at Wells Fargo, Liza Landsman/Managing Director at Blackrock, Scott Thompson/CEO of Shoprunner and formerly CEO of PayPal (to be confirmed) and Tim Attinger/Head of Strategy at Blackhawk) who will brutally evaluate their chances of success and award the winners the title of “Master Payments Guru.”

3. Through the Innovator Expo where 40 fresh and new innovators in the commerce space will demo their innovations at the Science Center and will have their innovations rated by the delegates based on what they see and experience culminating with a cash grant from PYMNTS.com to be awarded to the “Most Innovative.”

4. Through the celebration of innovation and the innovators who brought it to life at the 2013 PYMNTS.com Annual Innovator Awards dinner where we will award a Lifetime Achievement Award to a very special innovator in payments, and induct three people into the Payments Hall of Fame.

5. Through a series of experiential demos and commerce showcases where delegates will be given the chance to interact with innovation in real time via a series of Innovation Showcases where delegates can actually kick the tires on the innovation they read about but may have never experienced.

And that’s just the beginning.

Those conversations and interactions will continue both on and offline, throughout the year, just like commerce is happening now. Interactions online will be via PYMNTS.com and a number of new interactive features that will allow us to capture the insights coming out of these two days and extend them to those in our PYMNTS.com community, and offline in a series of smaller, more focused off-the-record roundtable discussions that build on what was discussed in March. So, The Innovation Project is much more than a “one and done” conference; it is truly a project where the innovation elite gather annually to spark the conversations and initiatives that will change the future of the multi-trillion dollar commerce ecosystem. And where traditional “sponsorships” give way to annual memberships to convene this powerful community to challenge the conventional wisdom about what will it will take to transform the future of commerce.

While there are clearly tons of conferences with the perfunctory panels and high profile keynotes, there are none that assemble the sector’s most senior players to take the conversation about innovation in commerce to an entirely different level – one that creates a mechanism for engaging internal and external thought leaders to shape the future of innovation throughout the year. The Innovation Project was developed to fill that void, offering what many describe as a “Davos-like” experience to the topic of innovations in commerce – creating, sharing, and celebrating innovations in commerce with the sector’s most elite innovators.

We are both thrilled and humbled that the industry’s innovation elite have lined up to participate, each being offered an opportunity to share in this unique two-day experience in a way that best highlights the role that their innovation in payments and commerce has reshaped the way in which merchants and consumers interact around the shopping experience. We hope to see you at The Innovation Project and to have you help us all rethink the future of commerce, in real time.

For more information, please visit theinnovationproject2013.com.

Kind regards,
Karen Webster
CEO Market Platform Dynamics

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