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Presentation:
As Managing director of Tunz, Jan will introduce the concept of E-money as a service and present the latest innovations in payment such as crowd funding, loyalty payments or mobile commerce.

About Jan Van Wijnendaele:
He has a background of over 12 years in the telecom industry working for Proximus and Belgacom and has been active in mobile financial services for the last 6 years. He has held several sales, marketing and strategy management positions. Since 2006 he has lead the development of mobile payments in Belgium. He was in charge of the m-payments strategy at Belgacom and has launched services such as Mobile Parking and Mobile Bus Ticketing and launched PingPing in 2009 in Belgium. PingPing is currently one of the most advanced mobile payments services in Europe. In June 2010, he joined Tunz.com as commercial director. Tunz.com is a European e-money institute offering e-money and mobile payments services in a whitelabel business model. Tunz.com is running multiple mobile payments and ewallet services for its customers in Europe. Since August 2011, he is managing director at Tunz.com. He has a master degree in industrial engineering (Ghent) and a master degree in organisational management (Brussels).

About Tunz:
The company was created in January 2007 by Jean Zurstrassen and Grégoire de Streel, the co-founders of Skynet and Keytrade Bank. The team of Tunz.com is composed of experienced people coming from different industry domains such as the Internet, Telecommunications and Banking sector. Thanks to this unique mix of competence and experience, Tunz.com is clearly identified as a specialist in the domain of Mobile Payments in Europe. For more information about Tunz don't hesitate to visit their website

Presentation:
Barcodes 2.0. The challenge for trusted b2c data:  How are we going to ensure trusted data to the consumers? What is the impact of mobile scanning? What is going to happen in mobile commerce?

About Jan Somers:
He started his career in the Brussels Parliament, became advisor to Minister W. DEMEESTER in the Flemish Government and became later on active in the European Shoe Industry Confederation, in BABM (Belgian Association for Brand Manufacturers) and ECR Belgium.  The fusion of GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg and ECR Belgium in July 2007 brought Jan SOMERS to GS1 Belgilux as Deputy CEO and ECR Manager. Hehas been CEO of GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg since January 2010.

About GS1 Belgilux:
The objective of the organization is to implement the GS1 standards globally in order to improve the effectiveness and the quality of the value chain. In the Belgilux, 5.000 companies from different sizes and from over 20 sectors are member of GS1.

Presentation:   Bram is going to discuss how social media  and mobile communication can be used  to increase revenue while bringing  consumers to the retail floor. The consumer behaviour is changing rapidly, influenced by the use of web based information. Let's hear from Bram how retailers should use online marketing and mobile communication to stay in the race.

About Bram van Ast: Bram is a recognized retail marketing specialist. He started his career at IBM Netherlands working for 15 years in various sales and management positions. Surfing on the latest trends in technology and marketing, he founded TeamForce Web Solutions a web software company. He recently  set up Bazoon Marketing services, a full-service marketing agency. 

About Bazoon Marketing Services:  Bazoon is an off-line and online marketing agency based in Oosterhout, Netherlands. The company handles the customer's marketing activities from strategy to implementation in a result driven way. With over 25 years of business experience, the company ranks as a first class agency. For more information about Bazoon Marketing Services visit their website http://www.bazoon.nl/ 

Presentation: Cloud technology is changing the retail landscape.  Real time visibility across retail operations, seamless sales channels, instantly scalable solutions have helped make retailers more adaptable and competitive in these tougher economic times. And that is not even taking into account the lower cost of ownership cloud and SaaS systems can deliver. This presentation will highlight why the future trend of retail is skewed to cloud technology and why it will become more prevalent and important for retailers in the coming years.

About Ian Tomlinson: He is both prescient and insightful, and is the founder and CEO of Cybertill. Ian spotted a unique business opportunity by utilising technology, and importantly, he was able to follow through by establishing a company that has created a niche for itself in what is an extremely competitive market.

The practical application of technology to solving business issues is Ian’s forte.  Not only did his company harness the availability and affordability of broadband internet to create the world’s first hosted EPoS (electronic point of sale) system for retailers in 2001, but along the way managed other notable firsts such as; being the first ‘web based’ application in the world that could connect and process a printer directly, a necessity for retailers to print receipts! Cybertill also developed ‘partial page requests’ for hosted applications which are now employed by many websites and all this was before the term ‘cloud based computing’ was been coined.

Cybertill’s EPoS system is provided as a managed service, but Cybertill has worked with its retail clients to move them beyond their expectations of technology and to transform their businesses.  The application of Cybertill to many smaller businesses has been quite radical, and has levelled the playing field for them, enabling them to become multi-channel businesses with a modest financial outlay and little or no IT skills.

A straight-talking Mancunian with sound judgment and humour, Ian is grounded and even-tempered and has the ability to see how technology can make a practical difference to retailers and the wider world.  He is able to convince others to work with him by being a hands-on leader.  He is practical and goal-driven and, whilst determined to see his vision through, he leaves space for others to develop.  He is authoritative but consensual and always keen to learn from the experience of others.

About Cybertill: Cybertill is the UK’s leading retail systems provider. Cybertill pioneered cloud computing solutions in the retail sector, as the first provider of an EPoS solution over a broadband connection. Today, Cybertill remains the only true cloud computing EPoS solution providing technology that helps retailers trade in store, online and over the phone, all in real time and completely seamlessly.

Presentation: Change and standardize your POS IT infrastructure; benefits for the modern retailer
The modern retailer has to face the challenge of different services to their customers and multiple entry points for interaction, forcing a change on the way the IT infrastructure reacts and adapts to those requirements. How can a retailer support this change while securing SW investments from recent years? Reviewing the benefits of standardization, in the short and mid-term are part of this presentation.

 

About Carlos Serratos: Carlos Serratos is the Manager of the Pre Sales department and the regional design center for Epson's EMEA region. He is a world citizen and true globe trotter, involved in a wide range of technologies, markets and solutions. Some of those projects involve applications for Fiscal printing solutions and banking branch automation. Most recently he has been working on value propositions for cloud based retail applications, ecological communication and technology standardization.