It’s that time of year again. The Cards and Payments Show, Ecommerce Show, Retail Show, Fintech show and whatever other show that can be bolted on, is once again being promoted as Seamless.
Held over two days at the Dubai World Trade Center, Seamless is one of the only opportunities in the region for buyers and sellers to get together to understand the state of retail and online shopping and inevitably – because it is 2018 – blockchain and fintech and probably cryptocurrency as well.
Headlining the Ecommerce conference part of the event will be:
- Faraz Khalid, CEO – Noon
- Ronaldo Mouchawar, CEO – Souq
- Paul Coby, CIO – John Lewis Partnership.
For some reason, the Retail part of Seamless Dubai 2018 features exactly the same Keynote speakers – but perhaps that is just an oversight from the guys running the website.
On the payments side of things, the promoted speakers are:
- Roberto Mancone, MD, Global Head Disruptive Technologies – Deutsche Bank
- Shivani Siroya, CEO & Founder – Tala
- John Biggs, East Coast Editor and Tech Contributor -TechCrunch
Alongside the various conference streams will be the Seamless Dubai 2018 exhibition. Usually this is where the real business is done by smaller hungrier companies that don’t have the international enterprise pull of the big brands, though here too are the same faces and same names – a small amount of companies who have decided to invest in Ecommerce and Retail in the region.
Somewhere in the middle of the Ecommerce and the retail and the payments sections, there will be the local payment gateways that enable online shopping in the region. Companies like Payfort, Paytabs which have connectors and plugins for popular commerce platforms like Shopify and Magento.
Seamless is run by Terrapin, more information can be found here.