Middle East ATMs
Middle East ATMs 2007 was held in Dubai on 3rd and 4th December 2007.
This first ever dedicated Middle East ATM conference, which also addressed countries in North Africa and other surrounding regions, was jointly organised by RBR and ATMIA.
A detailed programme is shown below - a pdf brochure can be downloaded here.
DAY ONE - Monday 3rd December, 2007
8:00 Registration and coffee
8:45 Word of welcome and opening remarks
9:00 ATM network management challenges and best practice in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Ahmed M. Anwar, Senior Manager, Head of Product Division, Al Rajhi Bank)
9:30 The Iranian ATM market (Ahmed Karimisefat, IT Manager, Bank Sepah)
10:00 Integrated use of delivery channels to provide the ultimate banking experience in UAE (Omar Asghar, Vice President & Marketing Director, Mashreqbank)
10:30 Coffee & exhibits open
11:00 ATM developments in Turkey (Sertaç Özinal, CEO, BKM)
11:30 EMV migration of a UAE ATM network (Samer Soliman, Head Business Development and Relationship Management, Network International LLC)
12:00 Lunch & exhibits open
13:30 Beating the risk of card fraud at the ATM (Phylippa Smithson, EMEA Marketing Mgr Software and Security, NCR and Fadi Chehayeb, CIO, National Bank of Kuwait)
14:30 Protecting your investment - How to secure the ATM channel (Klaus Nilles, Regional Sales Director Middle East, Wincor Nixdorf and Emirates Bank)
15:15 Coffee and exhibits open
15:45 Branch transformation in Saudi Arabia (Mohammed Al Sabban, Business Development Manager, National Commercial Bank and Mike Foster, Business Development Manager, Diebold Intl)
16:30 Payment system implementation success stories across the Middle East (Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili, Senior Consultant & EVP Customer Care, Hightech Payment Systems Morocco)
17:00 The future of the ATM (Brian Quarrie, VP, First Data Middle East)
17:30 Closing remarks, refreshments and exhibits open
DAY TWO - Tuesday 4th December, 2007
8:00 Registration and coffee
8:45 Opening remarks
9:00 Remote retail banking channels in Egypt (Joman Salama, First Vice President, Information Technology Group Head, Arab Banking Corporation)
9:30 How did Iran's Bank Saderat become one of the largest ATM deployers in the region? (Mohamad Reza Mahmoudian, Director of Statistics and Programming, Bank Saderat)
10:00 Outsourcing of ATM and debit card management in the Middle East (Mohamed Abdallah Mousa, General Manager, Euronet Middle East and Africa)
10:30 Coffee Break and exhibits open
11:00 The Iraqi Dinar - a whole new banknote series in just 12 weeks (Mohamad Al Basha, Sales Director, De La Rue Worldwide OEM)
11:30 Title TBC (Shadi A. Eideh, Senior Manager, e-Channels, Retail Banking, Qatar National Bank)
12:00 Lunch & exhibits open
13:30 Manufacturing ATMs in the Middle East and forecasting the need for such ATMs in Iran (Ali Sharifi Zarchi, ATM Project Manager, Hatef Banking Systems Co and Afshin Kiani, Assistant Director, Payment Systems Dept, Central Bank of Iran)
14:15 Migration of a UAE ATM network from OS/2 to Windows (Issa Keshek, Regional Director Middle East, Level Four and Customer)
15:00 Coffee & exhibits open
15:30 Overview of the key trends in ATM security (Graham McKay, Executive Director, ATMIA Europe)
16:00 Overview of ATM Trends in the Middle East and Africa (Mark Glover, Associate, Retail Banking Research)
16:30 Closing Remarks
