Volume 1, Issue 4
Deep Dive: The Shoponomics CEO Panel Edition
SPOILER ALERT 
After Steve Levitt's (Freakonomics) and Don Kingsborough's (PayPal) CEO panel on consumers and the adoption of new payments and commerce innovations, you'll never believe anything you hear ever again on what it will take for consumers to break their old habits and make the move to mobile (or whatever else you have up your sleeve).

This dynamic duo will be joined by Ed McLaughlin, Chief Product Officer for MasterCard, Dan Henry, CEO of NetSpend, Alex Rampell, CEO of TrialPay, and Troy Carrothers, Head of Financial Services at Kohl's, who will share the lessons they have learned (sometimes the hard way) when following the breadcrumbs that consumers drop along their buying and paying journey. We promise that after this 90-minute session, available only to Innovation Project 2013 delegates, you'll think very differently about how to motivate consumers to adopt your payments innovation.

The entire panel brief, including some of the most provocative questions ever posed to anyone on this topic, can be found here. (If you want to skip all that and just register, then by all means, click here.)
Reason Number 23 for why The Innovation Project 2013 Shoponomics CEO Panel is a must: Just when you think you have the whole consumer thing figured out and allocated oodles of money to act on those insights, some new information is released that has you scratching your heads. Such is the case with consumer behavior in stores with their phones over the holidays.

Yep, we know what you're saying. Give me an S-H-O-W-R-O-O-M-I-N-G - and what does that spell - well, not what consumers were doing in physical stores, it turns out...

Click here to see why MPD CEO Karen Webster is saying, "What the heck?!" and why you should be saying, sign me up!
Meet & Greet & Eat With The Crème De La Crème Of The Payments Innovators

The field of innovators who submitted awards for the 2013 PYMNTS Innovation Awards hit an all-time record. Okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch since this is only the second time we've done this. But still - getting 5x the number of submissions isn't too shabby by any measure. Matt Witheiler, Partner at Flybridge (and one of our awards judges) was pretty psyched too.

"The PYMNTS.com Innovation Awards is the premier event in the payments world, bringing together the fastest rising stars and highlighting the most revolutionary companies in the space," said Witheiler. "Across the 15 diverse categories featured in this year's awards, the winners are sure to include the hottest players in payments."

We're hustling like mad to work through this sea of payments innovation so that you, the PYMNTS.com community, can vote for who will walk away with the top honors on March 21st.

Request an invitation and join us!