This week David Birch has been in Australia speaking to both students looking at entering the payment industry and academics working in payments about the future of payments. The week started with a hike to Dangar Falls in Armidale’s outback followed by a drinks reception and networking. The next day, Read more…
This week, David Birch has been in New Zealand with fellow Provoke Management Speaker Brett King where they have been presenting at Payments NZ’s annual conference The Point. “The pandemic, climate change, geopolitical conflicts and digital transformation are having a compounding socio-economic impact that’s being felt globally, including right here Read more…
This week David Birch has been in Cambridge where he attended an exhibition on money and then gave the closing keynote at Cambridge Wireless’ International Conference. David went to The Fitzwilliam Museum’s exhibition entitled “Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest” with his good friend Diane Coyle: The Fitzwilliam Museum describes the exhibition Read more…
Last week David Birch was in Las Vegas for the US edition of Money 20/20. He gave a keynote in the stream on gambling and adult services talking about the identity problem and what new approaches we might look at to support payments innovation in those (large) sectors. He was Read more…
Wow, what a busy week it’s been here at 15Mb! 4 speaking engagements, 3 conferences and plane journeys, 2 countries and 1 very tired David Birch 🙂 SIBOS is an annual global financial services conference taking place at a different location each year. What with the pandemic getting in the Read more…
A super busy day in London yesterday for David Birch who started the day over at Syon Park with his Consult Hyperion hat on at the Payment Leader’s Summit where he first had a Fireside chat with his good friend, Nathalie Oestmann entitled: ‘Payments in the Metaverse: Fact or Fiction’. Read more…
David Birch spoke about identity and the data economy today during his closing keynote over at County Hall, London for the Transunion Future Summit 2022: Pursuing Growth in the Next Normal. So far, the 2020s have been unpredictable, volatile, disruptive and unsettling on many levels — not least in the Read more…
Last week, David Birch was in Kazakhstan at First Credit Bureau’s Conference: Persona Non Data. David gave a presentation on Digital Identity and the Data Economy. Data is everything these days. Globally, the trend towards data management is driving the customer journey, investing in data protection, improving expertise, and changing Read more…
This week, David Birch has been in New Zealand delivering roundtables, presentations and workshops to banks, Digital Identity NZ and Payments NZ. His presentation on “Identity in the Metaverse” to the lovely people who attended Digital Identity NZ’s roundtable was a particular highlight: A fantastic presentation from David Birch, a global Read more…
This week, David Birch was speaking in Singapore where he delivered a presentation during the Future of Finance Session at the Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit 2022. David’s session was entitled “New Finance in the Metaverse Era” and it covered: What exactly is the Metaverse? What infrastructure does the metaverse need Read more…