Eight Reasons You Can’t Miss TRANSACT If You’re a Payments Professional
TRANSACT – it’s the world’s biggest and most important event in payments technology. In eight weeks, over 4,000 payments technology industry professionals will attend the show, April 30-May 2, 2019 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. They’ll come from every corner of the payments ecosystem – large tech companies, the world’s top acquirers, banks, ISOs, payment facilitators, hardware manufacturers, software developers and integrated software vendors, resellers, cybersecurity firms, payment networks, fintechs, payments processors and more.
With eight weeks to go before this show, here are eight reasons that you need to be at TRANSACT:
1. The Show Floor
With 200+ exhibitors on the TRANSACT show floor, the keynote stage, session rooms, networking spaces and meeting suites, it’s the nexus of the payments ecosystem. Exhibitors include Worldpay, Wirecard, First Data, Visa, Mastercard, Paysafe, TSYS, Trustwave, ACI Worldwide, Verifone and many more. Further, 20% of exhibitors this year are new and first-time exhibitors. If you want to build connections across the payments ecosystem with big players, and the NEW opportunities reshaping payments, you need to be on the show floor. If you aren’t on the floor, you aren’t part of the conversation.
2. Impactful Speakers
From mobile payments and digital payments to mergers and acquisitions that are reshaping the payments industry, you’ll want to hear from these innovators, visionaries and sage payment executives that are changing the game. Jennifer Bailey, VP, Internet Services, Apple, leads with the opening keynote address. Executives from Google Pay, NCR and JetPay, TSYS and Cayan, Merchant Acquirers Group, and more will take the main stage and share their insights. Will you be there?
3. Land Deals While Networking
Elevate your networking game at TRANSACT. 40% of pre-registered attendees are C-Level and senior executives. Attendees will have ample opportunity to make those connections – from linking up on the links at the TRANSACT Golf Tournament, sponsored by Security Metrics, to the networking power hour, all-attendee party sponsored by Bank of America Merchant Services, and Google Pay opening reception. “[TRANSACT] is an opportunity for us to get in front of the people that we work with all year long,” Chelsie Cooper, Southeast Regional President at PaymentCloud, a fintech startup delivering software solutions to payments providers and merchants, told Transaction Trends at TRANSACT last year. “It’s this event that we count on every year for our business growth and the relationships that we keep.”
4. Education & SMB Business Summit
Delivering the latest industry intelligence, helping you communicate with your merchant customers, grow your business and stay ahead of the new developments in the marketplace is coded into the DNA of this year’s TRANSACT. This year’s educational tracks include 22nd Century Payments, sponsored by Mastercard, Payment Facilitators, sponsored by Discover Global, First Data, NMI and Worldpay, Integrated Payments, sponsored by RedHat, Risk, Fraud and Security, sponsored by ControlScan, ETA Law School, sponsored by AGG, Venable, and White & Case, and SMB Summit, sponsored by JD Power. New for 2019, the SMB Summit will feature an exclusive presentation of JD Power’s groundbreaking J.D. Power Merchant Services Satisfaction Study(SM).
5. Visa President’s Dinner & Awards Gala
The Visa President’s Dinner & Awards Gala is reimagined for 2019. This year’s gala will be taking place at the Mandalay Light Night Club. Join the payments industry’s top echelon for a night in an electric setting with payments visionaries and ETA Star Award winners!
6. Google Pay Opening Reception
It’s how it all begins: a celebration of payments innovation, powered by our friends at Google Pay. Be sure you are there to experience the #1 networking reception in payments on the biggest show floor in payments. Remember: you’ll need an TRANSACT badge to join this who’s who of payments technology leaders.
7. NexTen & Innovation
New for this year, ETA has partnered with Worldpay to bring the most promising startups in payments to TRANSACT. We’ll showcase them and their innovations on the show floor. If you’re ready to experience something brand new in payments, and connect with the next generation of technologies and leaders in payments, stop by the Worldpay Payments’ NexTen showcase on the TRANSCAT show floor. Click here to learn more.
8. Young Payments Professionals and Forty Under 40
These young entrepreneurs, leaders and innovators are changing payments through significant contributions every day. ETA’s Forty Under Forty and Young Payments Professional Scholars, sponsored by Discover Global, will be speaking on panels, honored in special ceremonies, at bespoke networking events and on the show floor. Connect with them – who knows, you might just find your firm’s next big leader, or meet your next business partner!
TRANSACT’s 4,000 attendees will come for myriad reasons. But they’ll all come to get business done and be part of payments’ most powerful network, from start to FinTech.
Click here to secure your spot to TRANSACT, April 30-May 2, 2019 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.