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Hosted by the Federal Reserve Payments System Development Committee
October 29-30, 2003    Washington, DC

Agenda

Day 1 — Wednesday, October 29, 2003

General Session
 8:45 a.m.

Opening of Conference
Louise L. Roseman

Director
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Welcome
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.

Vice Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

 9:00 a.m. The Payments System in Transition
Alan Greenspan

Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

 9:30 a.m. The Changing Payments Business
Richard M. Kovacevich

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Wells Fargo & Company

10:45 a.m. Consumer Choices and Priorities for the Next Generation of Payments Systems
Alan J. Lacy

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Sears, Roebuck and Co.

11:20 a.m. Corporate Priorities for the Payments System
Moderator:

Nick Viner
Senior Vice President and Director

Boston Consulting Group

Panelists:

J. Jay Fitzsimmons
Senior Vice President and Treasurer
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Mark G. Gibbens
Vice President and Treasurer
Lucent Technologies, Inc.

David K. Holland
Vice President and Treasurer
Cisco Systems, Inc.

12:45 p.m. Lunch
The Honorable Robert F. Bennett

United States Senate

Concurrent Sessions
2:15 p.m.
Stream A
Check Operations in a Check 21 World
Moderator:

Fred R. Herr
Senior Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Panelists:

Danne L. Buchanan
Executive Vice President
Zions Bancorporation

C. Grant Cole
Senior Vice President
Bank of America

Adam P. Coyle
President
Integrated  Payment Systems

Stream B
Growth in Electronic Payments: What Are the Opportunities and the Barriers
to Success?

Moderator:

Thomas P. Vartanian
Partner
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson

Panelists:

John R. Beran
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Comerica Incorporated

Joshua Peirez
Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
MasterCard International

Ronald A. Prill
President of Target Financial Services (Retired)
Target Corporation

 4:00 p.m.
Stream A
Business Implications of Declining
Check Use

Moderator:

Jack M. Stephenson
Director
McKinsey & Company

Panelists:

Mitch Christensen
Executive Vice President
Wells Fargo Services Company

Jim Pitts
Director
EDS Corporation

James A. Reuter
President
FirstBank Data Corporation

Stream B
Risk and Security Issues for the Next Generation of Payments Systems
Moderator:

Lee E. Manfred
Partner
First Annapolis Consulting

Panelists:

Robert A. Blackburn
Director
Citigroup

Ben Golub
Senior Vice President
Verisign, Inc.

John Shaughnessy
Senior Vice President
Visa U.S.A.

7:00 p.m. End of Day 1


Day 2— Thursday, October 30, 2003

General Session
8:30 a.m.

Welcome
Louise L. Roseman

Director
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

8:40 a.m. Federal Reserve Banks' Initiatives in the Payments System
Gary H. Stern

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

9:10 a.m. Trends in Technology
Austin A. Adams

Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Bank One Corporation

Concurrent Sessions
10:15 a.m.
Stream A
Process Improvements in Business Payments: Moving to Straight-
Through Processing

Moderator:

Sandy Kemper
Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer

Perfect Commerce, Inc.

Panelists:

Joan M. Hawker
Product Development Manager and Ford Credit
Assistant Treasurer

Ford Motor Company

Brad Larson
Assistant Treasurer
PETsMART, Inc.

Donald MacLeod
Executive Vice President
Wachovia Corporation

George F. Thomas
President
Electronic Payments Network

Stream B
Design of the Next Generation of Electronic Payments Systems
Moderator:

Jeetu Patel
Executive Vice President
Doculabs, Inc.

Panelists:

John C. Kline
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Union Savings Bank

Linda McLaughlin-Moore
Senior Vice President and Global Clearing Business Executive
J.P. Morgan Chase

Kevin Purcell
Senior Vice President
Wachovia Corporation

 
General Session
11:50 a.m. Innovations in Government Payments
Donald V. Hammond

Fiscal Assistant Secretary
United States Department of the Treasury

12:25 p.m. Major Themes from the Conference and Looking Forward
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.

Vice Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

 1:45 p.m. End of Conference

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