Folks, I wanted to bring to your attention the E-Payments 2001 Conference scheduled for this coming October 24-25 in Atlanta. The Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) has been conducting conferences focused on electronic and Internet payments since 1995. The EPF was organized under the auspices of CommerceNet, the Cross Industry Working Team (XIWT), and the Financial Servcies Technology Consortium (FSTC). More information is available at: > http://www.EPF.net/ E-Payments 2001 is an ad-hoc meeting, held annually for the payments community, by the community. EPF has consistently attracted the forward thinkers in computing, telecommunications, and business. These leaders attend the forum to discuss what cross-sector work needs to be done to maintain a steady growth curve in Internet commerce. Since the EPF is not aligned with any specific industry groups, its conferences can look broadly at new payment solutions without being encumbered by industry biases. This, in my mind, increases the value of these conferences for anyone who wants to broaden their understanding of key developments and trends in emerging payments. I will be chairing one of the sessions at E-Payments 2001, but I'm going to try to do something different for a payments conference. (Note: the description of my session on the EPF web site is out of date.) During my session, I am going to introduce perspectives from actual *users* of the current and emerging payment systems. Since the needs and requirements of business, individual and government payers and payees are so often overlooked during discussions of payments, it is perhaps not surprising that user adoption has been one of the problems plaguing new payment solutions. By bringing the voice of the user to this conference, I hope that industry attention will begin to focus more on solving user problems as opposed to payment system problems. If you, or someone you know, could speak about the needs of payment system users, I would very much like to hear from you. For those of you who can make it to E-Payments 2001, I look forward to seeing you there. Regards... -- ...Chuck Wade CommerceNet "Setting the business agenda for global electronic commerce" +1 508 625-1137 Office Phone/Voice Mail +1 309 422-9871 Fax Service http://www.Commerce.Net
