Feb 2018
5 Mon
6 Tue
7 Wed
8 Thu 08:40 AM – 06:35 PM IST
9 Fri 08:40 AM – 05:15 PM IST
10 Sat
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Following rapid changes in the payments ecosystem in 2016, we are now witnessing consolidation in the markets and among players. There are new challenges including security of payment apps, reaching target audiences beyond those in first-tier cities, and addressing questions of standardization.
In its third edition (after Bangalore and Mumbai), 50p will address the following the topics to understand the spectrum of payments and the issues that concern all the stakeholders in this ecosystem.
Digital and electronic payments
Technology challenges
Interoperability of payment methods
Wallets, payment banks
Credit & debit cards, IMPS and contactless payments
Payments by design in infrastructure
Security and authentication
Building payment products and business models
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Technology challenges
Building products and business models
Investments and alternate lending methods
Grievance redressal, Security and Authentication
Regulation and policy
Banking
Building products and services:
Technology challenges
Security, authentication and scaling
History of banking
Payments space in India
Regulatory challenges
Technology challenges
You can also propose to teach workshops on the following topics:
If you are working on an area that is not listed above simply submit a proposal.
50p is a conference for practitioners, by practitioners. Submit a proposal to speak at 50p if you are:
We are inviting proposals for:
If your tech stack is closed source, you should consider proposing a talk explaining your choices in the first place; what options you considered (business-wise and technology-wise) before you made the decision to build your own solution; what is your specific use case that left you without existing options and necessitated you to build your own solution.
The criteria for selecting proposals, in the order of importance, are:
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No one submits the perfect proposal in the first instance. We therefore encourage you to:
The following guidelines will help you in submitting a proposal:
To summarize, we do not accept talks that gloss over details or try to deliver high-level knowledge without covering depth. Talks have to be backed with real insights and experiences for the content to be useful.
Selected speakers get a pass to the conference. We also pay an honorarium of Rs. 5,000 to each speaker, at the end of the talk as token of gratitude for taking the time to prepare and speak at the conference.
We do not provide free passes for speakers’ colleagues and spouses.
Limited travel grants are available for international and domestic speakers. We evaluate each case on its merits, giving preference to women, people of non-binary gender, and Africans. If you require a grant, request it when you submit your proposal in the field where you add your location. 50p is funded through ticket purchases and sponsorships; travel grant budgets vary.
50p is a community event with crowd sourced content. The curators of this conference are:
NIMHANS Convention Center
Hosur Road, Lakkasandra, Behind Bus Stop,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029
For questions on speaking proposals write to editorial@hasgeek.com. For information about tickets and sponsorships, write to info@hasgeek.com or call +91-7676332020.
Poorna V.
@poornavv
Submitted Dec 11, 2017
In the fast changing world, where money has moved from physical form to cloud, with millennials getting into the mainstream, technology changing everyday, physical stores being replaced with virtual ones, the way to pay and get paid, the way the commerce is conducted has drastically changed. Technology has shrunk the size of the globe, and brought people closer to each other surpassing all the boundaries, making the global commerce a common everyday phenomena. Internet and mobile has integrated Online and Offline world seamlessly, making Omni-channel commerce like “Buy Online Pickup/Return Instore”, “Order online, pay in store”, the way of life. With cash-less economy, changing the regulations and outlook of economy, the amount of payments happening digitally, across the globe is growing exponentially. This brings in the requirements for the payments system to be highly available, with higher reliability, and scale quickly to the growing needs of the global customers and the global markets.
This talk would explain the needs for highly available system that can autoscale, with greater throughput,
the technology choices that needs to be considered, how each of these would directly contribute to building highly scalable system, which will directly reflect on your topline and bottomline.
The flow of the talk would be:
Each of the above will be explained with:
Example of the technical Problem that was encoutered
How to identify the criticality??
a. What is business impact if this is not handled?
b. What is the customer impact?
The Solve
What options were discussed?
Why we choose the current solution?
Conclusion:
Highly Available Large Scale systems are not only about technical challenges. It is an extremely complex art. It is all about building trust as they form the basis of the digital economy.
Poorna Vaidyanathan is Engineering Manager at PayPal, with 12+ years of extensive Payments Platform experience. Poorna is currently focusing on re-architecting PayPal’s large scale Settlement Platform into a highly available platform with greater throughput. Poorna is highly passionate about Payments, constantly striving to simplify solutions, that would make Payments simpler for everyone.
Full Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poornavaidyanathan/
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