[AISWorld] CfA > First International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)

[Jan Ondrus]

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

First International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)
A roundtable in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 18 & 19, 2012
Abstract submission deadline: February  29, 2012

Sponsored by the Copenhagen Finance IT Region, the Department of IT
Management, Copenhagen Business School, and Financial Services Innovation
Centre, University College Cork

CASHLESS SOCIETY

For centuries, coins and bills were the only options to make purchases and
to transfer money between people and organizations. The second half of the
last century witnessed the introduction of plastic cards, Electronic Fund
Transfer, Internet banking, and pre-paid payment cards all aimed at making
payment more efficient. With advances in information technology a number of
new payment solutions has emerged, including premium SMS payments, M-PESA,
Pay Pal, Google Wallet, and Bit Coin, Flatter, and Square-Up. Many of these
innovations offer advantages in terms of costs, security, and convenience,
they also pose a number of challenges and risks related to, at least,
technical standards, data security, legal issues and consumer behavior.
Overall, these innovations are changing people’s perception and experience
of money and paying.
The innovation process in payments is promoted by different groups of
actors (such as financial institutions, start-up software companies,
merchants, and mobile operators) and by international governmental agencies
(for example the European Central Bank). Not only new payment solutions
attract a lot of attention in media and press, but they also trigger a
debate regarding the cashless society.

The development towards a cashless society affects our life. It will have
an impact on the actors in the payment eco-system, leading to a number of
both anticipated as well as unanticipated consequences on individual,
organizational and society level. These consequences are of critical
importance and need to be explored. We stress the importance of
investigating a cashless society from multiple perspectives, including
economics, technical, infrastructure, sociological, anthropological,
design, and information systems, to mention a few.

This roundtable will examine the consequences and impact of a cashless
society from multiple perspectives at different levels of analysis.
Specifically, topics of interest may include (but are not limited to) the
following:

- Cash in the future
- New payment solutions as disruptive technologies
- Social consequences of a cashless society
- Digitalization of money
- Changes in the payment eco-system
- Emerging payment business models
- Role of money and payments in society
- Economics of payments
- Emerging payment technologies, e.g. mobile payments, Bit Coin, Flatter
etc.
- Designing new payments and payments techniques, e.g. NFC, Bio metric
payments
- Integrity and privacy issues

Confirmed keynote speaker:

Professor Priya Raghubir from New York University Stern School of Business.
Her interests are in the areas of marketing research and in particular
consumer behavior, marketing strategy, and psychological aspects of prices
and money.

SUBMISSIONS
Abstracts for presentations are invited and should be not more than 2000
words. Please also provide a short (100 word) bio, with full contact
information including email addresses.

Abstracts are due February 29, 2012. Please email your abstract to
cashlessroundtable at gmail.com.
Acceptance decisions will be announced March 3.

If you have questions, please contact the Roundtable Chair Jonas Hedman (
jh.itm at cbs.dk).

The roundtable committee consists of Jonas Hedman (Copenhagen Business
School), Jan Ondrus (ESSEC Business School), Fergal Carton (University
College of Cork), and Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen (Aalto University).

ROUNDTABLE LOCATION
The roundtable will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, exact location is not
decided yet. A number of Hotel rooms will be booked in advance to a
discount price at SAS Radisson.
Roundtable website:
http://www.cfir.dk/Forside/Projekter/Fremtidenspenge/FirstInternationalCashlessSocietyRoundtable.aspx
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