FTC Announces Agenda, Panelists for Mobile Payments Workshop

Paper, plastic, or mobile? An FTC workshop on mobile payments
April 26, 2012

8:00 A.M. Registration 8:30 Welcoming Remarks
David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC 8:45 Mobile Payments: The Present and the Future
Carol Coye Benson, Managing Partner, Glenbrook Partners 9:15 Panel 1 – Opportunities and Challenges for Businesses and Consumers

Moderators: Andrew Hasty, Mobile Technology Program Specialist, Division of Financial Practices, FTC
Malini Mithal, Assistant Director, Division of Financial Practices, FTC

Panelists:

  • James Anderson, Group Head, Mobile Product Development, Emerging Payments Group, MasterCard
  • Kyle Enright, Head of Business Development, Payments, Google
  • Robin Leidenthal, Senior Leader Payment Solutions, Intuit, Inc.
  • Adam Levitin, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Lauren Saunders, Managing Attorney, National Consumer Law Center
  • John Valentine, East Coast Vice President, SCVNGR/LevelUp
10:45 Break 11:00 Panel 2 – Legal Landscape and Dispute Resolution

Moderators: Thomas Kane, Attorney, Division of Financial Practices, FTC
Patricia Poss, Chief, Bureau of Consumer Protection Mobile Technology Unit, Division of Financial Practices, FTC

Panelists:

  • Thomas Brown, Partner, Paul Hastings LLP and Adjunct Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley Law School
  • Marianne Crowe, Vice President, Payment Strategies, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • Jörgen Gren, Deputy Head of Unit, Policy and Coordination, Directorate-General for the Information Society and Media (DG-INFSO), European Commission
  • Michelle Jun, Senior Attorney, Consumers Union
  • Martine Niejadlik, Compliance Officer and Vice President, Customer and Merchant Support, Boku
12:30 P.M. Lunch 1:45 Mobile Payments Around the World

  • Brigitte Acoca, Administrator, Information, Communications and Consumer Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2:00 Panel 3 – Drilling Down: Fraud Mitigation and Data Security

Moderators: James Chen, Attorney, Division of Financial Practices, FTC
Manas Mohapatra, Attorney, BCP Mobile Technology Unit, Division of Financial Practices, FTC

Panelists:

  • Bob Dykes, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, VeriFone Systems, Inc.
  • Bradley Greene, Senior Business Leader, Mobile Product, Visa Inc.
  • Ryan Hughes, Chief Marketing Officer, Isis
  • Sarah Jane Hughes, University Scholar and Fellow in Commercial Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
  • Ben Milne, CEO and Co-Founder, Dwolla
3:15 Break 3:30 Panel 4 – Drilling Down: Privacy Issues

Moderator: Stacy Feuer, Assistant Director for International Consumer Protection, FTC
Katherine White, Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC

Panelists:

  • Mallory Duncan, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, National Retail Federation
  • Harley Geiger, Policy Counsel, Center for Democracy & Technology
  • Susan Grant, Director of Consumer Protection, Consumer Federation of America
  • Michael Spadea, Director, Promontory Financial Group, LLC
  • Pat Walshe, Director of Privacy, GSM Association
4:30 Closing Remarks
Jessica Rich, Associate Director, Division of Financial Practices, FTC

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