Arianna Huffington, President & Editor in Chief, Huffington Post Media Group

Trailblazing-- Flipping a Traditional Industry on its Head

Just as Prepaid is redefining Payments, the Huffington Post is changing how news is reported and delivered. Arianna Huffington continues to transform New Media and how consumers consume information and making the most traditional of industries adjust how it does business. 
Arianna Huffington is the president and editor-in-chief of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of thirteen books.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.

In 2006 and again in 2011, she was named to the Time 100, Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.

Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

Scott Stratten, “UnMarketing”

Scott Stratten is the President of Un-Marketing. He is an expert in Viral, Social, and Authentic Marketing which he calls Un-Marketing. It’s all about positioning yourself as a trusted expert in front of your target market, so when they have the need, they choose you.
 Formerly a music industry marketer, national sales training manager and a Professor at the Sheridan College School of Business, he has been running his “UnAgency” for 8 years which has become the place companies like PepsiCo, Adobe, Red Cross and Fidelity Investments come to when they need help guiding their way through the viral/social media and relationship marketing landscape and was voted one of the top influencers on Twitter.  His clients’ viral marketing videos have been viewed over 60 million times even before YouTube existed.

His book “UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging” became a national best-seller before it was released, and recently a Globe and Mail #1 Business best-seller, National Post, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Amazon UK best-seller. It was also just named one of the top business books of the year by 1-800-CEO READ and one of the top 10 books of 2010 by Under30CEO.com. He was just named one of “America’s 10 Marketing Gurus” by Business Review USA.

"An eye-opener of why, and how, we need to start shifting our marketing weight from the broadcast leg to the dialogue leg.? Tom Moradpour, PepsiCo, International Marketing Director, Pepsi

Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer & Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company, 2006-2010; Best Selling author, "The Mirror Test"

Evolving your marketing and product – with a focus on how mobile marketing is changing the game

Jeff Hayzlett characterizes big thinking. As CMO, Mr. Hayzlett was responsible for the company's worldwide marketing operations including the design and implementation of all marketing strategies, investments, policies, and processes. He led the company's efforts for Strategy and Planning, Marketing Programs, Marketing Network Operations, Brand Development and Management,Business Development, and Corporate Sponsorships. He was also responsible for the company's Corporate Communications, Public Relations and Public Affairs organizations. Kodak's Board of Directors elected him a corporate vice president in October 2007.He has received numerous global marketing and business awards and honors, including the Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award for marketing. He was named "Business to Business Marketer of the Year" by BtoB Magazine and "Direct Marketer of the Year" by the University of Akron Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing. In 2008, Mr. Hayzlett was inducted into the College of Business Administration Direct Marketers Hall of Fame. In June 2009, he was awarded the prestigious "G.D. Crain Jr. Award for Marketing

Jeff Hayzlett asks the questions that most business managers are afraid to ask. And as Jeff points out, if you aren't willing to look at what's working and what isn't - and then take the necessary steps to fix them - well, you and your colleagues and employees are in for a tough ride. Hayzlett has built his career on having the ability to get his people to look up and pay attention to the problems at hand. Hayzlett will show your company how to thoughtfully yet aggressively evaluate, deconstruct, and then reconstruct your business.

Robert Richman, Zappos Insights

How to create companies that foster passion and superior customer service, and how that translates into loyalty from
employees and consumers

*Keynote speech followed by Executive Workshop!*
Hear the incredible story and management techniques behind Zappos' Business credibility that led to them being rated #1 rated in customer service, and the commitment to values that consistently lands Zappos in lists of the Top Places to Work.
THEN…

Learn the management techniques and principals behind Zappos' success straight from the source in an interactive session designed for senior-level executives. Zappos' revolutionary management and business approach has become a highly sought-after source of organizational culture. Prepaid Expo brings Zappos to Prepaid's leaders to help establish teams and businesses that create market changers. Zappos Insights was launched by Zappos CEO because he wants everyone to love their work. In an hour and half, you will learn how to change your business and build the team that will share your passions in your company's success.

Nick Bilton, lead technology writer/reporter for The New York Times, Design Integration Editor and the User Interface Specialist; author of I Live in the Future: & Here's How It Works.

How to anticipate the technologies (and payment methods!) the consumers of tomorrow will be using

Nick Bilton is a journalist, designer, UI specialist, technologist, author, hardware hacker, and researcher. He is currently the lead technology writer/reporter for The New York Times Bits Blog, and a reporter for the paper. Bilton has worked in numerous different industries within the context of design, research and development, technology, and storytelling – all with a focus on how technology is shaping our brains and our lives. His work in the R&D Labs includes exploring and prototyping content and interaction on futuristic flexible digital displays, a vast array of mobile applications and devices, Times Reader 2.0, print-to-mobile SMS, Semacode integration, data visualization, content in the living room, and context aware sensors. Bilton is also the co-founder, with Michael Young, of Shifd.com, a startup within the New York Times that helps people move content easily between multiple devices.

Bilton is the author of I Live in the Future &Here's How It Works. The book explores the effects our bite sized culture is having on our brains—looking at key research taking place in neuroscience and memory labs around the world. He also explores how technology will affect our culture, work, and brains when we look two to twenty years out.

Wayne Best, Chief Economist, VISA

What the world's geopolitical climate means for prepaid

As Head of Advisory and Information Services for Visa Inc., Wayne Best is the in-house chief economist and resident prognosticator for the trillion-dollar American payments industry. Combining a passion for business with an engineer's logic, Wayne has a knack for translating econometric analyses into plain English. In other words, he can explain and forecast the complex relationships between business and economic trends and the consumer's ability to spend, save, and pay down debt.

Because he stays close to the underlying dynamics of the business, Wayne offers a unique perspective on both industry and global trends and is frequently quoted in the media and appears on television. He also travels the world explaining the economic forces shaping the future, consulting with client executives and presenting at conferences from London to Singapore and throughout the U.S. Before joining Visa in 1990, Wayne worked as a consultant providing cost benefit analyses to the power industry. He holds an M.B.A. in management and a B.S. in nuclear engineering and has participated in the Kellogg School of Management Executive Program and the Stanford Executive Series.

Hamish Taylor, Former CEO, SAINSBURY BANK, FORMER CEO, EUROSTAR

How to achieve breakthroughs by looking outside your current environment

Coined the "master thief" based on transferring ideas and innovations between sectors, Hamish Taylor has led a fast track career through various high profile roles in the fields of Airlines/Airport, Transport, and Banking.

He began his career in 1984 with Procter & Gamble holding various brand management positions. In 1993 he became Head of Brand Management at British Airways and in 1997 moved to Eurostar UK as Managing Director. In 1999 he was appointed Chief Executive of Sainsbury's Bank and later became CEO for Vision UK. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and of the Chartered Institute of Transport. He chairs the EMEA advisory board for Emory University.