NEWTON, Mass., March 16, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paydiant co-founder Chris Gardner will participate in a panel discussion about the future of mobile commerce at the Innovation Project 2015 taking place March 18-19 at the Sanders Theater in Memorial Hall on the campus of Harvard University.
Hosted by PYMNTS.com, The Innovation Project 2015 looks at the dynamic ecosystems of mobile, social, software, advertising, retail, business, search and social and how they influence and impact the future of payments and commerce.
Gardner will participate on a panel titled From Payments to Commerce. Moderated by Liz Claman of Fox Business News, the session will discuss the best ways to enable mobile for the next generation of commerce experiences and reveal how innovators are meshing data, digital and payments to drive commerce forward worldwide. Gardner will be joined on the panel by executives at a number of key players in the mobile payment and commerce space including Chase Paymentech, Vantiv, NACHA, First Data and PayAnywhere.
From Payments to Commerce
Wednesday, March 18th 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
- Kim Fitzsimmons – US President, Chase Paymentech
- Dave Sapenaro – First VP and COO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Stephen Stout – SVP, Global Head of Strategy, First Data
- Jan Estep - president and CEO, NACHA
- Tracy Metzger – CIO, PayAnywhere North American Bancard
- Charles Drucker – President and CEO, Vantiv
- Melissa Smith – CEO and President, Wex
- Tony Catalfano – President and CEO, Worldpay US
About Paydiant
Paydiant is the provider of a cloud-based, white label mobile payment, cardless ATM access, offer redemption and loyalty platform that enables merchants, banks, and payment processors to deploy and manage their own mobile payment and ATM access solutions under their own brand and on their own terms. Based on a patented, cloud-based transaction processing platform, the Paydiant solution enables the key stakeholders in the payments value chain – retailers, banks and payment processors – to control the next generation of payment solutions. The company recently agreed to be acquired by PayPal.
For more information about Paydiant, visit www.paydiant.com and follow us on Twitter @Paydiant.
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