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Airlines & travel companies are paying Billions of Dollars eeach year to collect payments. With an increasing shift of bookings to the online channel, as well as to mobile, will these costs increase or decrease? Will these changes in payment channels increase fraud?  To address these questions and other payment-related costs for the travel industry, the 8th annualAirline & Travel Payments Summit (ATPS) will be held in San Francisco on 3rd & 4th of December 2014, co-Hosted with UATP. It will offer three conference tracks in a single conference: 1) Payments Track; 2) Fraud Track; & 3) Travel Agency & OTA Track. Scroll down to see the event agenda.


Registration rates from $749 USD (Airlines, OTA's & Travel/Hospitality Providers) and $1,399 USD (Industry Providers/Financial Services).
 

ATPS WORLDWIDE 2014 SUMMARY AGENDA

Note: For the full detailed agenda, click on the "Agenda in PDF" box below.


Pre-Day - Tuesday, 2nd of December

13.30 - 17.00:
Pre-Event Workshop: Payments for Online Travel (For Travel Agencies/OTA’s. Participants from other merchants, such as airlines, which sell travel online are also encouraged to participate.)

19.30 - 21.00:
Welcome Cocktail Reception sponsored by GlobalCollect




Summary Agenda Day One - Wednesday, 3rd of December

Note: For the complete agenda, click on the "Full Agenda in PDF" box below.

08.00 - 09.00:
Registration, Breakfast & Networking sponsored by CardinalCommerce

09.00 - 10.30:
Opening Conference Sessions:

The State of the Airline & Travel Industry: what payment & fraud executives need to know!
• Ralph Kaiser, President & CEO, UATP

Case Study: How Emirates is using mobile payments to drive more sales
• Viju Varma, Manager E-commerce Systems & Operations, Emirates
• Kirstian Gjerding, CEO, CellPoint Mobile

Digital Currencies – Bitcoins, Litecoins and Dogecoins: The CheapAir experience
• Jeff Klee, CEO, CheapAir

10.30 - 11.00:
Coffee Break & Networking sponsored by CellPoint Mobile


11.00 - 12.30:
Breakout Sessions:
Session I. Payments Track 
Session II. Fraud Track
Session III. Travel Agency & OTA Track

12.30 - 14.00:
Lunch & Networking sponsored by CitiFX


14.00 - 15.30:
Breakout Sessions (Payments, Fraud & Travel Agency/OTA Tracks)

15.30 - 16.00:
Coffee Break & Networking sponsored by Ethoca

16.00 - 17.00:
The Ai Lions' Den
The Lions' Den is a showcase of new products & services in which companies are given 5 minutes to pitch their payment or fraud prevention-related innovation live & unrehearsed to our board of industry executive "Lions." The Lions' Den is consistently an audience favourite at Ai's events.

Pitching Companies:
• Sandra Fienberg, Cuallix
• Akif Khan, Bitnet
• Tony Ashe, Nx Systems
• Jennifer Howard, Kount
• Rei Carvalho, Emailage

17.00 - 18.00:
Networking Cocktail sponsored by Jumio

Summary Agenda Day Two - Thursday, 4th of December

Note: For the complete agenda, click on the "Full Agenda in PDF" box below..

08.30 - 09.30:
Breakfast & Networking sponsored by iPayables


09.30 - 10.30:
Breakout Sessions (Payments Track & Fraud Track)

10.30 - 11.00:
Coffee Break & Networking sponsored by Travel FraudGuard

11.00 - 11.30:
Priceline Case Study: Using Google Wallet to drive sales & conversion
• Fabiola Carcamo, Mobile Product Director, Priceline
• Steve Klebe, Business Development, Google Payments

11.30 - 12.00:
Case Study: Driving sales through innovation - from Facebook & Twitter to instalments, the KLM payments story
• Malin Lindstrand, Manager E-Payments, KLM
• Bert Zwanepol, Manager E-Payments, KLM

12.00 - 12.40:
Closing Panel Discussion: What will travel payments look like in 2020? What do travel retailers need to do and know now to prepare for the future of payments?
Closing Keynote:
• Vivienne Grace, Sector Head Airline Sales, Datacash
Panellists:
• Wendy Ward, VP Marketing, UATP   
• Brian Carroll, Manager Credit Card Billing & Receivables, Southwest
• William Sallurday, Director of Business Development, 41^st Parameter

13.00 - (approximately) 20:00:
Optional Post-Event Napa Valley Wine Tour to Francis Ford Coppola Winery sponsored by 41st Parameter
(Note: Limited to first 150 conference participants to register for the tour. So register now by modifying your conference registration!)