Monday, April 29 & Tuesday, April 30 | 9:00am – 4:00pm | additional fee

The Electronic Transactions Association University (ETAU) is designed for your professional growth and success! Each class will address key facets of the industry that are necessary for expanding your knowledge and expertise. Classes are designed to meet your needs whether you work for an ISO, financial institution, processor, vendor or service provider.

During the 2013 ETA Annual Meeting & Expo pre-conference in New Orleans, you will benefit from live, instructor-led, interactive classes. All of ETA’s content is developed by experienced industry professionals, so you can be sure that what you’re learning is relevant and timely. You can apply what you have learned immediately, giving you and your company a competitive edge.

Tuesday, April 30 | 8:30am – 4:30pm | additional fee | VIEW AGENDA >>

ETA’s Compliance Day is your opportunity to get critical information on compliance, learn about new standards, card company rules and mandates, and speak one-on-one with experts from the card brands and other compliance space entities to get the answers to your questions. Learn how to more fully comply with industry requirements and provide higher quality service and assistance to clients and merchants in an increasingly complex and competitive regulatory environment.

Who Should Attend: Chief compliance officers from sponsoring banks, directors of underwriting and risk / transaction review, processors, ISOs, third-party service providers, software and gateway providers.

Tuesday, April 30 | 8:30am – 4:30pm | additional fee | VIEW AGENDA >>

The Investment Community Forum is a one-day conference designed to bring the payments industry together with the investors and investment companies that can help fund the innovation and entrepreneurial energy that drive the future of payments. If your company might benefit from meeting with a group of interested investment firms, or you simply want to get some insight into how they make their investment decisions, please register for this exciting event.

We’ve gathered some of the most successful investors active in the payments space, backed up by top executives from some of the best companies in our business, who will make the case as to why investors should seriously consider electronic payments as a key part of their investment strategies.

Tuesday, April 30 | 7:30am – 5:00pm | additional fee | VIEW AGENDA >>

Breakthrough Business and Technology Solutions that Transform Payment Processing and Accelerate Adoption

For the first time ever, the Electronic Transactions Association and Strategic Solutions Network, the creators of the industry-renowned Mobile Contactless Payment Innovations series of events, have partnered to fill a crucial need in the mobile arena and present Mobile Payment Innovations 2013.

Participants have the exclusive opportunity to hear actionable business information that can be applied to your organization, today. A speaker faculty representing a cross section of players within the ecosystem helps attendees to understand how the industry effectively works together to facilitate mobile payment adoption and demonstrates the latest strategic, sustainable business opportunities available via the mobile channel. Faculty members present their candid insights and experiences from a thought leadership perspective, rather than using the summit as a platform to deliver commercial presentations and simply sell their products.

Reserve your place and be part of this unprecedented event where everyone in the mobile payments and commerce space will collaborate and determine how to grow their businesses in 2013.

Tuesday, April 30 | 8:30am – 4:30pm | additional fee | VIEW AGENDA >>

ETA’s EMV Day, sponsored by MasterCard Advisors will help industry participants prepare to implement EMV in the US. Acquirers, ISOs and VARs are uniquely positioned to facilitate this transition and combat counterfeit fraud.

During the one day session, MasterCard Advisors will address key topics designed to educate and prepare attendees to effectively plan for EMV implementation. Focus areas include:

• EMV fundamentals
• Terminal type selection
• The Durbin effect on EMV debit routing
• Acquirer resource optimization and EMV terminal rollout planning
• Key success factors for EMV implementation

– POI roadmap requirements
– EMV terminal management
– Terminal certification testing and test tools
– Merchant on-boarding

After attending this full-day session, your knowledge base will include critical success factors to manage your organization’s EMV implementation, as well as a roadmap and financial model to guide EMV terminalization investment and deployment by merchant category and geography.

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